April 2018 – Canada Palestine Association

April 17, 2018: Mark Palestinian Prisoners Day, Boycott HP Picket
5-6:30 pm, Best Buy, 798 Granville St.(at Robson), Vancouver
Facebook Event
April 17 marks Palestinian Prisoners Day, a day commemorated since 1979 when Palestinians remember their friends and family members held in Israeli prisons. And the large numbers of incarcerated Palestinians affect almost every family – currently over 6000 prisoners in total, including 450 administrative detainees (no charge or trial) and hundreds of child prisoners.
Join us to mark Palestinian Prisoners Day and to say #BoycottHP, Technology of Israeli Apartheid, Technology of Israeli Oppression!
Co-organized by: Canada Palestine Association, BDS-Vancouver Coast Salish Territories, ILPS Canada and YCL-Vancouver

April 10, 2018: Film Screening of Radiance of Resistance
Facebook Event
Doors open at 7pm. Film starts at 7:30pm
Tickets: $10 General, $8 Seniors/Students,
Location: The Cinematheque 1131 Howe Street
The new film, Radiance of Resistance tells the story of Janna Ayyad (9 years old), and Ahed Tamimi (14 years old), who live under Israeli military occupation in Nabi Saleh, Palestine. Janna Ayyad has been called the youngest journalist in Palestine. Ahed (now 17) is one of many Palestinian children unjustly incarcerated in an Israeli Prison for opposing colonial occupation on her land and was recently sentenced to 8 months in prison.
Co-organized by: Canada Palestine Association, BDS-Vancouver Coast Salish Territories and Young Communist League-Vancouver

Friday, April 6 at 4:30 PM – 6 PM
CBC Plaza, 700 Hamilton St., Vancouver
Facebook Event

On March 30, 2018, Israeli military forces callously killed 17 unarmed Palestinian protestors and injured hundreds more in Gaza. The protestors were part of the Great Return March as well as marking Land Day.
Canadian government officials have not uttered any word to condemn this massacre, let alone apply any sanctions. Canadian media, including the CBC, have tried to obscure Israel’s crimes by talking about “clashes” and “confrontations” and “rioting”. However, the Israeli military themselves admitted in a tweet that they later deleted: “everything was accurate and measured, and we know where every bullet landed.” Israeli media has shown multiple pictures of Israeli snipers lined up on earth embankments, ready to fire at civilians. Which they did, shooting people kneeling in prayer and shooting others in the back as they were moving away from the border.
We demand that Israel be held accountable for these continued crimes against the Palestinian people; it is only because of the lack of action and complicity from Western countries that Israel acts with such impunity!

We acknowledge that this event takes places on the unceded territories of our indigenous brothers and sisters.

Organized by: Canada Palestine Association and BDS Vancouver – Coast Salish territories
Endorsed by:
SAFE Vancouver: Solidarity Against Fascism Everywhere
UBC Social Justice Centre
The Talon UBC
ILPS Canada
Young Communist League-Vancouver
StopWarCa – Vancouver Coalition for Justice & Peace
Canada Philippines Solidarity for Human Rights
Frente para la Defensa de los Pueblos Hugo Chavez-Suroeste de Canada
SANSAD – South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy
Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights – UBC
Communist Party of British Columbia
Colour Connected Against Racism UBC
Youth For Palestine Canada – YFP
Independent Jewish Voices Vancouver/ Independent Jewish Voices Canada
Justice for Palestinians, Calgary
TSSU Social Justice and Solidarity committee