Month: November 2012

Mark the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People in Vancouver

Canada Palestine Association is pleased to announce that Cindy and Craig Corrie, the parents of the late Rachel Corrie, the American student who was brutally killed by an Israeli military bulldozer, will be speaking in Vancouver on November 29th as part of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinians. The Corries, who spoke on the same occasion here in 2003, will update us on their lawsuit against the Israeli government. They will be joined by our special guest singer and songwriter David Rovics and the Gram Partisans.

Time: 7PM Thursday, November 29th, 2012
Doors open 6:30 pm

Place: SFU Downtown Harbour Centre, Fletcher Challenge Theatre, 515 W. Hastings, Vancouver

Admission by donation ($10 suggested) • All proceeds to The Rachel Corrie Foundation

Info at www.cpavancouver.org or email cpavancouver@gmail.com

Join Facebook event

Listen to a recent interview (Nov 20, 2012) with the Corries on Voice of Palestine, Vancouver

See or print the poster
See or print the leaflet
See Video 1 and Video 2 of the event

EMERGENCY CALL-OUT: PROTEST ISRAEL’S DEPUTY AMBASSADOR – WAR CRIMINALS’ REPRESENTATIVES NOT WELCOME!

Protest Jason Kenney and Israel’s Deputy Ambassador Eliaz Luf!

Former Tory Cabinet Minister Stockwell Day also showed up to support Israeli war crimes.

Wednesday, November 21
7:00 PM – Outside Temple Sholom
7190 Oak Street, Vancouver (Oak and 55th)
Facebook Event
See video1, video2, video3, video4
Report and pictures.

While Israel’s bombing attacks have so far killed over 143 Palestinians in the occupied, besieged Gaza Strip, the Israeli Deputy Ambassador to Canada, Eliaz Luf, is coming to Vancouver in order to promote, defend and support Israeli war crimes. He will be joined by Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, expressing the Canadian Government’s support for Israeli war crimes.

Israel is besieging a people and continuing an illegal military occupation, while strafing civilians with hundreds of airstrikes. Since November 14 the Israeli military has continuously attacked Gaza with drones, Apache helicopters, F-16 fighter jets, naval vessels and artillery. On the seventh day of this attack the death toll in Gaza rises to over 143 with over 800 injured. While calls have arisen around the world for a military embargo of Israel, Canada’s government has not only failed to condemn the attacks, but instead has affirmed that it “stands with Israel” as the Israeli army continues its deadly campaign against Palestinians in Gaza.

Kenney has been one of the Harper Government’s loudest cheerleaders for Israel while ramping up deportations and anti-migrant legislation targeting migrants and refugees; he has also been central in attacks on Arab and Palestinian community organizations in Canada.

COME OUT WEDNESDAY TO TELL ELIAZ LUF THAT WAR CRIMINALS AND THEIR REPRESENTATIVES ARE NOT WELCOME HERE! TELL JASON KENNEY THAT HE DOES NOT SPEAK FOR US!

Questions? Gaza@vancouverforpalestine.org

WHEN: 12:30 – 1:30pm Thurs, Nov 22

WHERE: Multipurpose Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues (6476 North West Marine Drive)
UBC – Unceded Musqueam territories

Since Wednesday, November 14, Israel has been brutally bombarding Gaza. Over 1300 places have been bombed. More than 100 Palestinians have died, over 600 are injured, and the death toll is rising rapidly. Israel has called on 75,000 reservists and is gathering its tanks and forces at the border to prepare for a ground incursion, which could take place in as little as 36 hours according to the ultimatum issued by the Israeli government.

Join us on unceded Musqueam land for a panel discussion and critical dialogue to address the recent Israeli attacks on Gaza, global solidarity movements, and resistance against colonialism and occupation. Our speakers include Hanna Kawas, the chair of Canada Palestine Association and host of Voice of Palestine. He will discuss international complicity in the attacks and siege on Gaza, and the Canadian role in particular. Khaled Barakat is a Palestinian writer and community activist. He will discuss the history of resistance and struggle in Gaza. This event will be facilitated by Razan Abu-Remaileh, a Palestinian activist and student who is taking First Nations Studies and Women’s Studies at UBC. She will make connections between Indigenous struggles in Canada and Palestine.

*FREE*

RSVP here! Facebook
See pictures from the meeting and the Gaza “Die-In” at UBC
See Video

2 PM – Sunday November 18 2012
Vancouver Art Gallery (Robson Side)
Hornby and Robson St – Vancouver
Invite all your friends on facebook
See: Video for the Rally and another Video
Israel’s attack on Gaza continues as Israeli officials continue to threaten a “ground invasion,” while the Canadian government expresses its utmost support for the ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza, which has so far killed over 30 Palestinians. Dozens of bombing raids continue daily.

In Vancouver and hundreds of cities around the world, voices have risen in the streets in solidarity with Gaza and the Palestinian people under Israeli fire.
The transnational Palestinian Youth Movement has called upon people around the world to come back to the streets on SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18. Join us on the Robson Side of the Vancouver Art Gallery at 2 PM on Sunday. As Israel threatens to “escalate,” our resistance and solidarity must escalate!

PLEASE NOTE: OUR EARLIER DEMO FACEBOOK PAGE WAS REMOVED BY FACEBOOK – PLEASE SPREAD THE NEW PAGE FAR AND WIDE!
See video of the Vancouver Thursday night march and read report at the Media Co-Op.

Call from PYM:

In an effort to amplify our outrage against Operation Pillar of Defense and support the people of Gaza, the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) urges all members and allies to demonstrate, protest, and hold sit-ins in as many cities as possible on SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18th. Let the world hear our indignation to end this brutal invasion! .

We urge all people of conscience from around the world to take to the streets and protest against this heinous offensive being launched by the imperialist Zionist state against the people of Gaza. We implore you to stand up and resist this reprehensible act of aggression against our people. Do not let one more Palestinian life be lost.

Stand with our people in Gaza as they heroically sacrifice their lives and remain at the forefront of our struggle for liberation, return, and justice. We must continue to amplify our voices in praise and support, for their unwavering and steadfast resistance against this vile Zionist attack that indiscriminately annihilates Palestinians.

It is the time to harness the revolutionary power that has kept our resistance alive, despite our darkest moments, and that now lives in the hearts of our Arab brothers and sisters fighting for dignity. Their struggle is not isolated from nor has ever forgotten the Palestinian struggle for liberation and return. Without their sacrifices, we would not have approached a new, powerfully re-positioned Arab world that is morally and physically reinforcing renewed efforts of Palestinian resistance against Zionism’s intolerable imperialist assault on the Arab nation. Our hunger for justice and freedom can only be nourished by exercising our legitimate right to resist.

This offensive is being carried out right now, today, with the complicity of our silence, with the support of our governments and international institutions, and is part and parcel of the global imperialist system that wreaks havoc and destroys other communities throughout the world.

Declare loud and clear, that we will no longer be bullied into non-existence and complicity. Let us not wait for this offensive to escalate and be remembered as another Palestinian massacre, like those we have born witness to since 1948. It is our duty and time to uplift the banner of justice, until return and liberation to all of historic Palestine.

5 PM – Thursday November 15 2012
Vancouver Art Gallery (Robson Side)
Hornby and Robson St. – Vancouver
The Facebook event was deleted in another attempt to silence the support for Palestine.
See video: IDF Bombing Gaza, Solidarity @ Vancouver Nov15 2012
Read report at the Media Co-Op
And some photos on facebook: