Check out our new video documenting 20 years of Vancouver activists coming out to protest the Jewish National Fund and its pivotal role in dispossessing the Palestinian people.
#StoptheJNF – Continue the Campaign
20 years of Vancouver protests #StoptheJNF
Posted by Canada Palestine Association on Monday, January 14, 2019
Check out our new video documenting 20 years of Vancouver activists coming out to protest the Jewish National Fund and its pivotal role in dispossessing the Palestinian people.
#StoptheJNF – Continue the Campaign
20 years of Vancouver protests #StoptheJNF
Posted by Canada Palestine Association on Monday, January 14, 2019
New Article in Palestine Chronicle on updates for Ballet BC campaign.
The Canadian BDS Coalition sent the following letter on December 18, 2018 to:
Pablo Rodriquez, Federal Minister of Heritage
Ambassador Deborah Lyons, Canadian Ambassador to Israel
Kennedy Stewart, Mayor of Vancouver
Valérie Plante, Mayor of Montreal
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Open Letter from Canadian BDS Coalition to Government of Canada, Cities of Vancouver and Montreal
We have become aware that you are listed as one of the official sponsors of the CanaDanse Festival, being held in Israel in January 2019.… Read more
New Article in Palestine Chronicle on updates for Ballet BC campaign.
The Canadian BDS Coalition sent the following letter on December 18, 2018 to:
Pablo Rodriquez, Federal Minister of Heritage
Ambassador Deborah Lyons, Canadian Ambassador to Israel
Kennedy Stewart, Mayor of Vancouver
Valérie Plante, Mayor of Montreal
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Open Letter from Canadian BDS Coalition to Government of Canada, Cities of Vancouver and Montreal
We have become aware that you are listed as one of the official sponsors of the CanaDanse Festival, being held in Israel in January 2019.… Read more
Open Letter to Ballet BC Board of Directors
November 4, 2018
Attn: Linda Brown
President and Chair, Board of Directors, Ballet BC
Attn: Cheryl Stevens
Vice-President, Board of Directors, Ballet BC
Dear Ms. Brown, Ms. Stevens and Board of Directors:
We would like to draw your attention to an ongoing campaign regarding Ballet BC’s involvement in the CanaDanse Festival in Israel in January 2019, along with 2 other dance companies.… Read more
Open Letter to Ballet BC Board of Directors
November 4, 2018
Attn: Linda Brown
President and Chair, Board of Directors, Ballet BC
Attn: Cheryl Stevens
Vice-President, Board of Directors, Ballet BC
Dear Ms. Brown, Ms. Stevens and Board of Directors:
We would like to draw your attention to an ongoing campaign regarding Ballet BC’s involvement in the CanaDanse Festival in Israel in January 2019, along with 2 other dance companies.… Read more
Press Release – Thousands call on Ballet BC to Not Perform in Israel
#NotOurAmbassadors
Update Oct. 31, 2018 – New article in Mondoweiss about the campaign, with the names of the other 2 dance companies involved finally released
Oct. 21, 2018
Earlier this month, BDS Vancouver activists launched a campaign after learning that Ballet BC was planning to perform in Israel in January, 2019.… Read more
Press Release – Thousands call on Ballet BC to Not Perform in Israel
#NotOurAmbassadors
Update Oct. 31, 2018 – New article in Mondoweiss about the campaign, with the names of the other 2 dance companies involved finally released
Oct. 21, 2018
Earlier this month, BDS Vancouver activists launched a campaign after learning that Ballet BC was planning to perform in Israel in January, 2019.… Read more
BC Attorney General David Eby finally responded to two of the initiating groups on an Open Letter, regarding BC government liquor stores carrying Israeli wines in violation of international humanitarian laws. Mr. Eby refused to meet with representatives of the 30 groups who sponsored and endorsed the letter, and insisted again to focus solely on the “customers’ right to make choices”.… Read more
BC Attorney General David Eby finally responded to two of the initiating groups on an Open Letter, regarding BC government liquor stores carrying Israeli wines in violation of international humanitarian laws. Mr. Eby refused to meet with representatives of the 30 groups who sponsored and endorsed the letter, and insisted again to focus solely on the “customers’ right to make choices”.… Read more
So, after a five and a half month wait, the CBC Ombudsman Office finally produced their review of our complaint about biased coverage and specifically their change of specific wording in their March 30th coverage of the Land Day Massacre.
Not surprisingly, they exonerated themselves and concluded they are not “beholden” to any interest group and the coverage did not violate CBC policy.… Read more
So, after a five and a half month wait, the CBC Ombudsman Office finally produced their review of our complaint about biased coverage and specifically their change of specific wording in their March 30th coverage of the Land Day Massacre.
Not surprisingly, they exonerated themselves and concluded they are not “beholden” to any interest group and the coverage did not violate CBC policy.… Read more
Please sign the Petition
An Open Letter to Ballet BC regarding their Performances in Israel
By Marion Kawas
October 2, 2018
John Clark, Executive Director
[email protected]
Dear Mr. Clark:
As a young child, my mother took me to see The Nutcracker; when I became a mother, I did the same with my daughter and took her to a Ballet BC production of The Nutcracker, a tradition I was hoping to repeat soon with my granddaughter.… Read more
Please sign the Petition
An Open Letter to Ballet BC regarding their Performances in Israel
By Marion Kawas
October 2, 2018
John Clark, Executive Director
[email protected]
Dear Mr. Clark:
As a young child, my mother took me to see The Nutcracker; when I became a mother, I did the same with my daughter and took her to a Ballet BC production of The Nutcracker, a tradition I was hoping to repeat soon with my granddaughter.… Read more
The progressive Palestinian movement has always maintained that Zionism and anti-Semitism are two faces of the same coin and that they often feed off each other. Opposition to both is based on opposition to racism and on a principled and solid belief that human rights should be applied equally and universally to all human beings regardless of their nationality, color or religion.… Read more
The progressive Palestinian movement has always maintained that Zionism and anti-Semitism are two faces of the same coin and that they often feed off each other. Opposition to both is based on opposition to racism and on a principled and solid belief that human rights should be applied equally and universally to all human beings regardless of their nationality, color or religion.… Read more
Update: Our public response to David Eby’s brief reply and refusal to meet with representatives.
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Update on new endorsers of Open Letter:
Vancouver & District Labour Council
Vancouver Peace Council
Victoria Social Justice Coalition
NDP Socialist Caucus
Independent Jewish Voices Victoria
The following letter, signed by 26 groups, was hand delivered to BC Attorney General David Eby’s office, during a picket to say “End Complicity in Israeli Occupation and War Crimes!”… Read more
TELL DAVID EBY TO END COMPLICITY IN ISRAELI OCCUPATION AND WAR CRIMES!
Picket Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018 at 1:30 pm
2909 W. Broadway, Vancouver
David Eby, BC’s Attorney General, is responsible for the provincial Liquor Distribution Branch. For many years, there has been an ongoing local campaign to call for a boycott of Israeli wines, many of them produced in the Occupied Territories, which are being sold in our publicly owned BC Liquor Stores.… Read more
TELL DAVID EBY TO END COMPLICITY IN ISRAELI OCCUPATION AND WAR CRIMES!
Picket Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018 at 1:30 pm
2909 W. Broadway, Vancouver
David Eby, BC’s Attorney General, is responsible for the provincial Liquor Distribution Branch. For many years, there has been an ongoing local campaign to call for a boycott of Israeli wines, many of them produced in the Occupied Territories, which are being sold in our publicly owned BC Liquor Stores.… Read more
