Montreal
Groups that are part of the CAIA network agree with the basis of unity but organize their activities and actions in an independent manner.
Chapters/Indigo campaign bookmark (Bilingual/Quebec version - .PDF).
(english below)
Manifestons pour dénoncer l’odieux massacre perpétré à Gaza par Israël
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DIMANCHE 28 DÉCEMBRE 2008, 13h00
Square Norman Bethune
Angle des rues Guy et de Maisonneuve
(métro Guy-Concordia)
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http://www.tadamon.ca/post/2244
Réagissons contre le massacre que le régime d’apartheid israélien vient de perpétrer à Gaza.
Au moins 200 Palestiniens ont été tués lors de la récente attaque d’Israël sur la bande de Gaza, et davantage de sang pourrait être versé, car cette attaque se poursuit.
Il s’agit du plus important massacre commis à Gaza depuis son occupation illégale par Israël en 1967. De nombreuses victimes sont des civils, et leur nombre continue d’augmenter.
L’opération de l’armée israélienne, baptisée « Opération plomb durci »,
rappelle des incursions antérieures à Gaza caractérisées par des attaques
aveugles sur des secteurs peuplés de civils, des détentions massives, de
violentes démolitions de maisons et autres formes de punitions collectives
contre le peuple palestinien.
De plus, cette manifestation dénoncera l’appui total du gouvernement
canadien à Israël, illustré par le renforcement bilatéral des liens sur
les plans militaire, politique et économique. Ce nième massacre exécuté à
Gaza se déroule avec la complicité officielle du Canada à l’égard du siège
illégal qu’Israël impose à Gaza et des sanctions continues que subissent
les civils de Gaza. Depuis deux ans, la bande de Gaza subit la violence
quotidienne de la vaste catastrophe humanitaire causée par les lourdes
restrictions pesant sur l’accès aux ressources énergétiques, à la
nourriture et aux médicaments. De fait, Gaza est la plus vaste prison en
plein air du monde.
À l’heure actuelle, nous ne pouvons que réaffirmer le plus fermement
possible notre engagement à continuer de mobiliser tous nos amis et alliés
des autres mouvements sociaux progressistes, afin de répondre à l’appel
lancé par plus de 170 groupes de la société civile palestinienne visant
une large campagne de boycottage, de désinvestissement et de sanctions
contre Israël.
Comme le Père Miguel D'Escoto Brockman, président de l’assemblée générale
des Nations Unies, l’a déclaré dans son récent discours : « Il y a plus de
vingt ans, nous, aux Nations Unies, avons repris l’initiative de la
société civile lorsque nous avons convenu que des sanctions étaient
nécessaires pour assurer des moyens de pression non-violents sur l’Afrique
du Sud afin qu’elle mette fin à ses violations. Aujourd’hui, peut-être que
nous, aux Nations Unies, devrions envisager de suivre la voie d’une
nouvelle génération de la société civile, qui demande une campagne
non-violente de boycott, de désinvestissement et de sanctions afin de
faire pression sur Israël pour qu’il mette fin à ses violations. »
Gens de conscience, demain, joignez-vous à nous pour manifester votre
solidarité avec les Palestiniens de Gaza et exiger la fin de l’apartheid
israélien.
organisé par :
Solidarité pour les droits humains des Palestiniens (SDHP) et Tadamon!
Tadamon! (« solidarité » en arabe) est un collectif montréalais qui
apporte sa contribution solidaire aux luttes pour l’autodétermination,
l’égalité et la justice au Moyen-Orient et dans les communautés de la
diaspora, à Montréal et ailleurs. Tadamon! mène actuellement des campagnes
politiques au Canada, dont la campagne visant le boycott, le
désinvestissement et les sanctions contre l’État d’apartheid israélien.
http://www.tadamon.ca/
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* Demonstration: Solidarity with Gaza commemorate Palestinian victims of Israeli massacre in Gaza
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28th, 13h00, 2008
Norman Bethune Square
corner: Guy & de Maisonneuve
(metro Guy-Concordia)
Montreal, Quebec
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http://www.tadamon.ca/post/2244
In response to the latest massacre of Palestinians executed by the Israeli
apartheid regime.
At least 200 Palestinians have been killed in the latest Israeli assault
on the Gaza Strip, while the threat for further bloodshed still hands
heavily over the skies in Palestine as the current Israeli assault over
Gaza continues.
This is the single largest massacre in Gaza since Israel illegally
occupied Gaza in 1967, many among the dead are civilians and the numbers
keeps mounting.
Israel's military operation "Cast Lead" has echoes of previous Israeli
raids into Gaza that have been characterized by indiscriminate attacks on
civilian population centers, mass detentions, violent house demolitions
and other forms of collective punishment against the Palestinian people.
Additionally this demonstration will address the Canadian government's
total support towards Israel, best exemplified increased bilateral
military, political and economic links.
Israel's latest massacre in Gaza occurs with official Canadian complicity
towards Israel's illegal siege and ongoing sanctions over the civilian
population in Gaza. Over the past two years the Gaza Strip has been
undergoing the daily violence of a wide-ranging humanitarian catastrophe
triggered by severely reduced access to energy, food, and medicines. In
effect, Gaza is the world's largest open air prison.
At this moment, we can only reaffirm our commitment in the strongest
possible terms to continue mobilizing friends and allies in other
progressive social movements to respond to the call by over 170
Palestinian civil society organizations for a comprehensive campaign of
boycott, sanctions and divestment (BDS).
As H.E. Father Miguel D'Escoto Brockman, President of the United Nations
General Assembly state in a recent speech: "More than twenty years ago we
in the United Nations took the lead from civil society when we agreed that
sanctions were required to provide a nonviolent means of pressuring South
Africa to end its violations. Today, perhaps we in the United Nations
should consider following the lead of a new generation of civil society,
who are calling for a similar non-violent campaign of boycott, divestment
and sanctions to pressure Israel to end its violations."
Join us on the streets tomorrow as people of conscience to stand in
solidarity with the Palestinian people of Gaza and an end to Israeli
apartheid.
organized by:
Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) and Tadamon!
Tadamon! (Arabic for “solidarity”), is a Montreal-based collective which
works in solidarity with struggles for self-determination, equality and
justice in the ‘Middle East’ and in diaspora communities in Montreal and
beyond. Tadamon! ongoing political campaigns operating in Canada,
including the campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions against
Israeli apartheid state. http://www.tadamon.ca/
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Tadamon! Montreal
tel: 514 664 1036
email: info[at]tadamon.ca
Massacre memorial for Sabra and Shatila
from the Montreal Mirror.
by Christopher Hazou
Twenty-five years ago this week, the Israeli army surrounded the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila in Beirut and sent in their Christian Phalangist allies. Over the next two days, between 800 and 2,000 Palestinian civilians were butchered in a scene of carnage that shocked much of the world.
This Saturday, Sept. 22, at 1 p.m., the Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine commemorates this sombre anniversary by protesting outside of the Indigo bookstore downtown (corner Ste-Catherine and McGill College), where they will call on Chapters/Indigo majority shareholder Heather Reisman and her husband Gerry Schwartz to end their support of so-called “lone sol-diersâ€â€”young Jews who emigrate to Israel alone to join the military.
“This is about direct support to the Israeli army,†says Ehab Lotayef, a member of the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid, another participating group. “The history of the Israeli army and what it represents is not consistent with the educational message that their bookstores should be advocating.â€
It will be the 25th such protest against Chapters/Indigo in Montreal since they began in December, with similar demonstrations taking place in Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria and Winnipeg. For more info, visit www.cjpp.org
Commemorating the Qana Massacre.
25 juillet 2007 | معتمد Israel, Boycott
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PICKET: Boycott Israeli Apartheid!
Saturday, 28 July 2007, 1pm - 3pm
Indigo Bookstore, north-west corner of St. Catherine & McGill College
(McGill Metro)
Join us on Saturday, 28 July to remember the second Qana massacre in 2006, and to support the growing boycott against Israeli apartheid.
On July 30th, 2006, Israel’s airforce bombed the town of Qana in southern Lebanon, hitting a three-story apartment block in which Lebanese refugees fleeing the bombardments had taken shelter. The building collapsed under Israeli bombs, burying the people inside and killing many, including at least 16 children.
Human Rights Watch denounced Israel’s action as a war crime, noting a consistent failure on the part of Israel to distinguish between civilians and combatants in its 34-day assault on Lebanon last summer.
Over ten years previously, in 1996, Israel shelled Qana during its “Grapes of Wrath†military assault on Lebanon. Israel hit a United Nations compound where some 800 Lebanese civilians had taken refuge from the Israeli bombardment. According to the UN, 106 civilians were killed and many injured.
A investigation conducted by the UN concluded that “it is unlikely that the shelling of the United Nations compound was the result of gross technical and/or procedural errors†on the part of the Israeli military.
Israel must be held accountable for its war crimes in Lebanon, Palestine & throughout the Middle East. Join us on Saturday, July 28th to remember the 2nd Qana massacre, and to support the growing boycott movement targeting Israeli apartheid. Israel’s destabilizing role in the Middle East will never end until the unsustainable, unjust apartheid system, on which Israel is based, falls.This special picket to remember the Qana massacre is part of a biweekly picket of the downtown Montreal Chapters/Indigo bookstore. A Canada-wide boycott of Chapters/Indigo bookstore was launched in December 2006 to oppose the support that Heather Reisman and Gerry Schwartz, the company’s majority shareholders, give to Israeli apartheid.
Reisman and Schwartz have established a fund called “the HESEG Foundation for Lone Soldiersâ€, a program of financial support for former ‘lone soldiers’, non-Israelis who fight in the Israeli military, in defense of apartheid and occupation. Israeli ‘lone soldiers’ participated in last year’s military attack on the people of Lebanon.
At its peak, HESEG will distribute up to $3M a year to provide scholarships and other benefits to former ‘Lone Soldiers’ who remain in Israel.
As long as the majority shareholders maintain financial links to HESEG, this campaign calls on everyone to stop buying from Chapters, World’s Biggest Bookstore, SmithBooks, Coles, the Book Company and Indigospirit.
More information about the boycott of Indigo/Chapters in Canada:
* Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid Toronto: Resource Page.
More information on the Qana Massacre in Lebanon:
* BBC: Qana makes grim history again
* Massacre in Sanctuary; Eyewitness, Robert Fisk.
* Electronic Lebanon: Human Rights and Development
More information about the international movement of
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israeli apartheid:
* Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Against Israel Campaign.
* Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign.
* Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel PACBI.
2 June to 9 June: Week of Action against Israeli Occupation and Apartheid
May 30th, 2007 | Posted in Solidarity, Boycott, Israel
Three actions, part of a rising global campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israeli apartheid, are taking place in a week of action building up to an international day of action on Saturday, June 9th.
Actions organized by: Coalition against Israeli Apartheid-Montreal, Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine, Palestinian and Jewish Unity (PAJU) and the Jewish Alliance Against the Occupation.
June 9th marks the 40th anniversary of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and the Golan heights. This anniversary takes place just after the 59th anniversary of the creation of the state of Israel through the expulsion of over 750 000 indigenous Palestinians from their homeland and the establishment of an exclusive, colonial state in historic Palestine.
Saturday, 2 June, 1pm to 3pm
Picket: Boycott Indigo Bookstore against Israeli Apartheid
Indigo Bookstore, NW corner of Ste. Catherine & McGill College (McGill Metro).
More information: Tadamon! Montreal
Tuesday, 5 June, time TBA
Picket and outdoor film screening: Boycott of 2nd Israeli film festival
(sponsors include Israeli Consulate and the Quebec-Israel committee)
Cinema du parc, 3575 Parc Ave. (Place des arts metro)
More information: CAIA-Montreal
Wednesday, 6 June, 4:30pm
Rally: Canada - Stop subsidizing Israeli Apartheid through the Jewish National Fund (JNF)
at Jewish National Fund (JNF) fundraising dinner with Alan Dershowitz
Queen Elizabeth Hotel, 900 Boul. Réné Lévèsque O. (Peel or Bonaventure Metro)
More information: Palestinian and Jewish Unity and the Jewish Alliance Against the Occupation (JAAO), tel. 514-961-3928
Friday, 8 June, 1 pm to Saturday, 9 June, 1pm
24-Hour Info-Fair: “40 years of occupation, 59 years of apartheidâ€.
Dorchester Square, corner of Peel and Réné-Lévèsque (Peel or Bonaventure Metro)
More information: Coalition pour la justice et la paix en Palestine
Saturday, 9 June, 1pm
Demonstration: “40 years of occupation, 59 years of apartheidâ€.
gather at corner of Peel and Réné Lévèsque (Peel or Bonaventure Metro)
More information: Coalition pour la justice et la paix en Palestine