With great sadness, we have learnt of the passing of long-time CPA member Betty Beeching. Betty and her late husband John were stalwarts of Palestinian activism for many decades, and their East Vancouver living room was the hub of meetings and receptions. The banner in the photo collage was hand-made by Betty for one of our first fund-raising committees, set up after the 1982 Israeli aggression on Lebanon. She and John represented a model of activism that we all wanted to achieve in our later years. She was an inspiration to everyone, and we send our condolences to all of her family.
Author: cpaadmin
Aug. 14 Webinar: Canada’s Complicity in Palestinian Dispossession
Hanna Kawas discusses Canada’s complicity in Palestinian dispossession and how it enables settler colonialism at home and abroad.
Hanna Kawas is a Palestinian activist, writer, and journalist who was born in Bethlehem, Palestine. He is the chairperson of the Canada Palestine Association (cpavancouver.org) and was cohost of Voice of Palestine (voiceofpalestine.ca); he has been active in anti-war struggles and support work for liberation movements. He has presented to conferences and workshops at UBC, SFU and Kwantlen and has also been invited to speak in classrooms across Greater Vancouver.
Sat, August 14, 2021, 12:30 PM PDT (2:30 pm CDT, 3:30 pm EDT)
Online, please register here: eventbrite.ca
Recommended Reading
https://cpavancouver.org/…/2011/01/birthright_denied.pdf
https://mondoweiss.net/…/why-we-oppose-canadas-bid-for…
Sponsors:
Peace Alliance Winnipeg,
Geopolitical Economy Research Group
Palestine Solidarity: An Inter-Generational Dialogue
Tuesday, August 3 –
4 pm Pacific, 7 pm Eastern
A moderated, dynamic and inter-generational discussion of the history, current challenges and prospects for the Palestine solidarity movement in Canada.
Speakers: Hanna Kawas (Canada Palestine Association); Charlotte Kates (Samidoun); Bruce Katz (Palestinian and Jewish Unity); Moe Alqasem (Palestinian Youth Movement); Aiyanas Ormond (BDS Vancouver – Moderator)
Organized by Canada Palestine Association and BDS Vancouver – Coast Salish Territories. Endorsed by the Canadian BDS Coalition, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network and Just Peace Advocates
Register to join on Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/palsolidarity
Facebook Event Page
The event’s video
SAVE SILWAN: VANCOUVER
SATURDAY, JULY 3, 2021 AT 1 PM
750 Hornby St, Vancouver, BC V6Z 2H7, Canada
Facebook Event
VANCOUVER, WE WILL NOT STOP. After the assassination of Nizar Banat by the PA, the destruction of the Rajbi shop in Silwan and the ongoing attempts to ethnically cleanse Sheikh Jarrah, Silwan, Beita, Gaza, Sbeih mountain, our voices need to be louder than ever. The PA and the Zionist regime are roadblocks to Palestinian liberation and are funded with your taxpayer dollars via arms sales & military police training. We’re demanding an end to Canadian complicity in Palestinian genocide. Bring your kuffiyehs and masks for some calls to action. Our voices bring visibility to our political campaigns, they compliment organizing change. Our fight never ends, we need to use the momentum and need your support.
Organized by:
BDS Vancouver – Coast Salish Territories
Canada Palestine Association
Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM)- حركة الشباب الفلسطيني
Queers Against Israeli Apartheid Vancouver
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
Videos of the event courtesy of Devin Gillan.
Boycott Tour, July 18, Vancouver
Report on the Boycott Tour from Samidoun.
Come out on Sunday, July 18 for a BOYCOTT TOUR for Palestine in downtown Vancouver! We will gather first at the ZIM Shipping offices in Vancouver to protest ZIM, apartheid Israel’s oldest and largest shipping company. ZIM is the target of the global #BlockTheBoat campaign and this protest is in solidarity with workers around the world (and in Prince Rupert) who have respected community pickets and/or themselves refused to handle ZIM’s cargo profiteering from Israeli occupation.We will then go to the BC Liquor Store to protest the sale of Israeli wines, made on stolen and illegally occupied Palestinian and Syrian land in the West Bank and Golan Heights. The Boycott Tour will proceed to highlight other corporations complicit in Israeli war crimes and colonialism, from HP to Teva to SodaStream.Bring your banners, chalk, signs and creative love for Palestine!
July 18, 2 pm, 1130 W. Pender, Vancouver
Facebook Event
This event is taking place on the unceded and occupied territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) peoples. The organizers stand in full solidarity and support of Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination and with the ongoing movements to defend land, water and Indigenous peoples from plunder and settler colonialism.Event organized by the Vancouver #BlockTheBoat organizers
New article in Mondoweiss about how Dubai Ports World tried to suppress support for Block The Boat in Prince Rupert, BC. UAE company cracks down on ‘Block the Boat’ picket line in Canada – Mondoweiss
