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CPA 2023 Year in Review – Forward to Return and Liberation!

Canada Palestine Association in Vancouver had another busy year in 2023, particularly during the last 3 months as we joined with forces all over the world to demand an end to the Israeli genocide in Gaza. From boycott campaigns (Scotiabank, Israeli wines) to Nakba75 to presentations with our indigenous brothers and sisters to weekly demos/rallies/marches/ since Oct. 7: all these actions were done to keep the voice and struggle of the Palestinians alive.
We closed out the year by joining with other allies in multiple local events (collage below) and by recommitting to uphold Palestinian liberation and to bring an end to the settler colonialist ideology of Zionism, that has unleashed so much death and destruction on the Palestinian people.

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Photo/Video Highlights from Vancouver Nov. 18 Rally/March

Thousands were out again in downtown Vancouver on Nov. 18 to demand #CeasefireNow and an end to the genocide in Gaza. Free, free Palestine! (Cover photo by Michael YC Tseng)

Brief video clip of BDS Vancouver rep at the rally/march calling out Scotiabank for its complicity in Israeli war crimes, as the largest foreign investor in Elbit Systems. #ShutElbitDown

Photo Gallery Week of Action: Shame on ScotiaBank, #ShutElbitDown


Check out these highlights from the week of action to denounce Scotiabank for being the largest foreign investor in Israeli arms company Elbit Systems. Activists from Montreal to Vancouver to BC’s Fraser Valley were out on the streets to demand that Scotiabank stop investing in Israeli war crimes. We know Scotiabank is feeling the pressure; in Montreal, they called the police for the picket and in Vancouver (for the second time) the branch mysteriously closed early before the activists’ arrival.

Vancouver, Sept. 23 (photos Michael YC Tseng)

Montreal, Sept.21

Coverage on social media, including Kuffiya, Palestine Online and NorthStar:

https://thenorthstar.media/scotia-bank-benefits-from-weapons-battle-tested-on-palestinians-lebanese-and-syrians/

And be sure to send your letter to Scotiabank demanding they stop investing in Israeli war crimes! Tell Scotiabank to Divest Now from Elbit Systems – Action Network

Shame on Scotiabank, #ShutElbitDown Picket

Saturday, September 23, 2 pm
1750 Manitoba St., Vancouver (False Creek Branch)

Join us on September 23 to highlight the complicity of Scotiabank in funding the killing of Palestinians.
Scotiabank is the largest foreign investor in the Israeli arms company Elbit Systems; their asset fund has invested half a billion dollars in an arms company whose weapons are routinely used to rain death and destruction on Palestinians.

We join with the Canadian BDS Coalition groups and other allies to demand that Scotiabank divest immediately from Elbit! 

Cosponsored by BDS Vancouver, Canada Palestine Association, Canadian BDS Coalition, ILPS Canada and Samidoun.

FB event page: Shame on Scotiabank, #ShutElbitDown Picket | Facebook

Stay tuned for coverage of other flash pickets during the Week of Action!