Actions and Callouts

My Right To Live, To Choose, To Be ~ A evening with ASWAT, Palestinian Queer Women’s Group / Awareness and Fundraising Tour / THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 4, 7pm - toronto women’s bookstore, 73 harbord st. / we regret our bathroom is not wheelchair accessible donations welcomed! You are invited to a reading and awareness evening with the amazing Rauda Morcos and Samira Saraya, members of ASWAT - Palestinian queer women's group. They will be reading text from Aswat's new book that details personal stories about the lived realities of Arab queer women's lives.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7th, 2008 / 8pm. 5-10$ / La Sala Rossa, 4848 St. Laurent, Montreal, Quebec - A cultural event within the ongoing Artists Against Apartheid concert series uniting ground-breaking artists from Montreal in solidarity with the growing international movement against Israeli apartheid.

URGENT CALL FOR SUPPORT: Early this morning, police raided a land protection site in Brantford that was being held by grassroots activists from Six Nations. Currently, 3 people are in jail with at least 5 more surrounded by cops. The are asking that support come to the site in the way of people, and supplies.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Walk4Justice (a 4,700-kilometre trek from Vancouver to Ottawa) Arrives in Toronto to Raise Awareness About Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women.

(August 27, 2008) Hundreds of Indigenous women have been murdered or gone missing in Canada over the last decades. These tragic deaths received little public attention
until Amnesty International took the unprecedented step of investigating a host
country, Canada. The organization linked the disproportionate levels of violence
experienced by Indigenous women to governmental polices and called the situation a

This Labour Day -- March for Palestine! Labour for Palestine, a network of rank and file activists involved in promoting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israeli Apartheid across Canadian unions will march once again in this year's Labour Day parade. More Canadian unions are joining the call to boycott Israeli Apartheid, including the Canadian Union of Postal Workers which passed a boycott resolution this year. Come out to support those important RESOLUTIONS!

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Date: Monday September 1 at 9:30 am

What: Information Picket / When: Monday, August 25 @ 6pm / Where: Miles Nadal Center, south-east corner of Bloor/Spadina

Dear Friends and Allies:

The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs has selected Toronto as a 'test market' for a million dollar re-branding campaign. The 10-month 'Brand Israel' campaign is being launched this coming Monday, August 25th at the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Center in downtown Toronto.

US CAMPAIGN TO END THE OCCUPATION - We've been asking Motorola CEO, Greg Brown, and Vice President for Investor Relations, Dean Lindroth, to explain why Moto is supporting apartheid policies in Israel for months now - they have failed to give us a substantial answer and now it's time to put our money where our mouths are by Hanging Up On Motorola. After a year of research and polite engagement, the US Campaign to End the Israeli occupation is officially launching a consumer boycott against Motorola until they stop profiting from Israeli apartheid policies.

http://www.palestinecampaign.org/Index5b_petition.asp?m_id=1&l1_id=3&l2_id=17 / Please sign and circulate the PSC petition below, already signed by among others: Harold Pinter, John Pilger, Miriam Margolyes, Mike Leigh, Benjamin Zephaniah, Emma Thompson, Ilan Pappe, Nigel Kennedy, Juliet Stevenson, Bella Freud, Mark Thomas, Keith Sonnet, Tony Benn, Michael Rosen and more…

1948 – 2008
60 Years of Palestinian Catastrophe (Nakba) Must End
End Israeli Occupation

**Please forward widely** Labour for Palestine, the labour committee of the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA), is proud to announce that a significantly revised and expanded edition of "Labour for Palestine: A Reader for Unionists and Activists" is now available for purchase.

The first edition of this 135-page book has become the essential handbook for rank-and-file activists involved in union solidarity with Palestine. It was sold out soon after its launch in March 2007.

I write to ask you to join us in helping hundreds of Palestinian students in the Gaza Strip reach their universities abroad. Since June 2007, Gaza's borders have been closed, trapping 1.5 million people – including hundreds of talented young people accepted to universities abroad but prevented from reaching their studies.