Category: Events

April 17: Rally and Speak-Out for Freedom for Palestinian Political Prisoners! – Vancouver

Tuesday, April 17, 2012
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
CBC Building, 700 Hamilton St (Hamilton and Georgia), Vancouver

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Nearly 5,000 Palestinian political prisoners are held in jails in Israel, including 170 children and 6 women. 310 prisoners are held – without charge or trial – under administrative detention.… Read more

Join the Palestine Contingent at the Community March Against Racism

Since March 9, 25 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza by Israeli bombs and weaponry – and Israel threatens more to come. This attack on Gaza is backed up by US arms and money, and full-fledged Canadian diplomatic and political support. While Ehud Barak pledges that “this round in the Strip is still far from over,” the Canadian government has nothing to say, except for Jason Kenney’s condemnation of Palestinian and solidarity activists lifting the cover from Israeli racism through Israeli Apartheid Week events and John Baird’s pledge of friendship with Israel.… Read more

Co-op Radio programmers are marking Israeli Apartheid Week IAW during March 2012, including four shows on Voice of Palestine: March 6, 13, 20 and 27. For more details stay tuned to: Upcoming Shows… Read more

Thursday, Feb. 16, 5:00pm until 6:30pm
CBC building, 700 Hamilton St, Vancouver, BC

Join us for a VIGIL and PROTEST for Khader Adnan, Palestinian prisoner on the 61st day of his Hunger Strike, protesting his arbitrary detention without charge. We will stand outside the CBC building to highlight Khader Adnan’s invisibility – and the invisibility of the Palestinian voice – on CBC and in Canadian media.… Read more

The Campaign to End the Blockade of Gaza – Canada’s Role

Vancouver event

Please join us to hear
Ehab Lotayef give his firsthand account of the Freedom Waves to Gaza which took place in November, when Irish and Canadian boats tried to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza.
A poet and activist from Montreal, Lotayef was on board the Canadian boat, the Tahrir, when it was seized by the Israeli navy in international waters.… Read more

Saturday, December 10. 7.30 p.m.
Unitarian Church 949 West 49th Ave, Vancouver
Vancouverites Karen DeVito and John ‘Max’ Soos last month experienced two very different aspects of Israel’s control over Palestine.
Karen was one of 27 people on two boats of the Freedom Waves, the Canadian Tahrir and the Irish Saoirse, who were forcefully taken from international waters to an Israeli prison for attempting to break the blockade of Gaza.… Read more

The Freedom Flotilla II: what happened and what’s next?
Let us welcome back the B.C. delegates from the Freedom Flotilla – Stay Human, as they tell the story of the Canadian Boat—the “Tahrir”

When: Friday August 5, 2011. Doors open at 7:00pm. Presentation to start at 7:30
Where: Unitarian Church. Hewett Centre.  Near the north-east corner of  49th & Oak, Vancouver

Five B.C.… Read more

Date: Saturday, July 2nd, 2011
Time: 2:00pm
Location:CBC Plaza – In front of the CBC at Georgia and Hamilton)

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Authorities in Greece have stopped flotilla boats from sailing

Greek and Canadian governments complicit in Gaza blockade

You might have already heard the news coming from Greece that the Tahrir together with the US ship have been prevented from leaving the Greek port and that one Canadian has been threatened with being arrested.… Read more