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Protest Israeli War Crimes!
Thursday July 3rd
5:30 pm sharp
Vancouver Public Library
Robson Street Steps
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This event is taking place on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples.
Since mid-June Israeli war crimes in Palestine have escalated, allegedly in response to the disappearance and death of 3 teenage Israeli settlers. However, this latest attack is part and parcel of the illegal occupation of Palestinian land and ongoing Israeli war crimes.
According to international media sources, in just one night Monday June 30 to dawn on Tuesday July 1 at dawn, the Israeli army carried out more than 34 air strikes against different areas in the Gaza Strip, in particular densely populated refugee camps. Additionally, in a sweeping offensive, Israeli Occupation Forces have kidnapped and detained more than 600 Palestinians, including women and children.
Red Sparks Union, the Boycott Israeli Apartheid Campaign, and the Revolutionary Student Movement are calling a rally and street theatre to protest this latest round of war crimes enacted against the Palestinian people.
End Israeli War Crimes Now!
No Canadian Government Support for Israeli War Crimes!
Boycott Israeli Apartheid!
Free All Political Prisoners Now!
Media Contact: 604 315 8766
info@redsparks.org

Photos by Susan Stout: Photo 1 Photo 2 Photo 3 Photo 4 Photo 5 Photo 6 Photo 7
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A talk by Kobi Snitz of Boycott from Within and AATW
Sunday, April 13, 7 pm at the Unitarian Church of Vancouver, 949 W.49th Ave.(Oak and 49th).

Kobi will speak about support by Israelis for the Palestinian popular struggle, reviewing a decade of Israeli involvement in the Palestinian popular struggle and half a decade of support for BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) from Inside Israel (despite Israeli legislation making advocates of BDS subject to lawsuits by companies that anticipate possible future financial damage as a result).

As Kobi points out, “These efforts have historical roots which not coincidentally are largely unknown. As it isolates itself from a world increasingly critical of its destruction of Palestinian society, Israel also isolates itself from significant parts of Jewish history. ”

Donations will be accepted to help fund nonviolent activism in Beit Ummar, one of the villages where Kobi regularly participates in demonstrations.

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Kobi’s talk is sponsored by: Independent Jewish Voices–Vancouver and the Social Justice Committee of the Unitarian Church of Vancouver.

Endorsed by: BIAC, Building Bridges–Vancouver, CPA (Canada-Palestine Association www.CPAVancouver.org ), CBG (Canadian Boat to Gaza), ISM–Vancouver (International Solidarity Movement), SFSC (Seriously Free Speech Committee), UNJPPI (United Network for Justice and Peace in Palestine/Israel)

Contact: Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta, ( 604-444-4690 ), MaxineKL@shaw.ca

Sunday, April 6, 2014, 5 pm,
Four Seasons Hotel (W. Georgia and Howe St.), Vancouver, B.C.

On April 6, 2014, the Jewish National Fund JNF Pacific Region is holding its annual “Negev Gala Dinner”. The JNF is publicly claiming to be enhancing the environment and aiding underprivileged youth, this year in conjunction with Canadian Friends of Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem (also built on stolen Palestinian land). Meanwhile, they are working to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian Bedouins from the Negev region, most recently under the infamous Prawer Plan. “The bill is another nakba,” MK Taleb Abu Arar said, talking about the Prawer Plan and referring to the events of 1948 when Israel was established. “It’s based on hatred and racism.”

The Bedouin village of Al Araqib in the Negev has been destroyed for the 66th time by Israeli and JNF paramilitary forces (as of March 12, 2014), but the Palestinians of the village refuse to surrender, many of them returning time and time again to rebuild. March 30th is also Palestinian Land Day and the villagers of Al Araqib are a moving example of the Palestinians’ enduring attachment to their land.
More info at: Stop the JNF

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Organized by:
Canada Palestine Association
Endorsed by:
Boycott Israeli Apartheid Campaign (Vancouver)
Canadian Boat to Gaza
Independent Jewish Voices, Vancouver

Israeli Apartheid Week – Vancouver

2014 marks the 10th year that Israeli Apartheid Week has been marked.

Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) seeks to raise awareness about Israel’s apartheid policies towards the Palestinians and to build support for the growing Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign. Reflecting the global grassroots rejection of Israel’s military and political aggression, IAW was held in more than 200 locations in 2012 and more than 150 cities in 2013.

All of the events below are taking place on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples.

VANCOUVER SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:

February 28 – March 2: PALESTINIAN FILMS AT JUST FILM FESTIVAL:
Langara College
The People and the Olive: Saturday, March 1, 2:30
The Lab: Sunday, March 2, 1:30
Al Helm: Martin Luther King in Palestine: Sunday, March 2, 3:00
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March 6: TOWARDS OUR LIBERATION: WOMEN LEADING ANTI-IMPERIALIST MOVEMENTS – SURREY
7pm, Fir 128 Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey
Speakers: Coni Ledesma; Nahla Abdo; Leila Khaled (video message); Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz
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March 7: TOWARDS OUR LIBERATION: WOMEN LEADING ANTI-IMPERIALIST MOVEMENTS – VANCOUVER
7pm, Room 1700, SFU Vancouver, 515 W Hastings St
Speakers: Coni Ledesma; Nahla Abdo; Leila Khaled (video message); Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz
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March 9: ISRAEL’S WAR ON AFRICAN ASYLUM SEEKERS
2 pm. Room 1700, SFU Vancouver, 515 W Hastings
Speaker: David Sheen, writer and journalist
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From March 10-14. SPHR-UBC will hold events, tabling and activities at the University of British Columbia campus focusing on joint struggle and cross-movement solidarity. Follow SPHR UBC at Facebook page for details. Save the date for March 13 for an important campus event!