Category: Events

Upcoming and past events organized or sponsored by the Canada Palestine Association.

Events in support of Palestinian Prisoners in Vancouver

April 17, 2018: Mark Palestinian Prisoners Day, Boycott HP Picket
5-6:30… Read more

April 17, 2018: Mark Palestinian Prisoners Day, Boycott HP Picket
5-6:30 pm, Best Buy, 798 Granville St.(at Robson), Vancouver
Facebook Event
April 17 marks Palestinian Prisoners Day, a day commemorated since 1979 when Palestinians remember their friends and family members held in Israeli prisons. And the large numbers of incarcerated Palestinians affect almost every family – currently over 6000 prisoners in total, including 450 administrative detainees (no charge or trial) and hundreds of child prisoners.
Join us to mark Palestinian Prisoners Day and to say #BoycottHP, Technology of Israeli Apartheid, Technology of Israeli Oppression!
Co-organized by: Canada Palestine Association, BDS-Vancouver Coast Salish Territories, ILPS Canada and YCL-Vancouver

April 10, 2018: Film Screening of Radiance of Resistance
Facebook Event
Doors open at 7pm. Film starts at 7:30pm
Tickets: $10 General, $8 Seniors/Students,
Location: The Cinematheque 1131 Howe Street
The new film, Radiance of Resistance tells the story of Janna Ayyad (9 years old), and Ahed Tamimi (14 years old), who live under Israeli military occupation in Nabi Saleh, Palestine. Janna Ayyad has been called the youngest journalist in Palestine. Ahed (now 17) is one of many Palestinian children unjustly incarcerated in an Israeli Prison for opposing colonial occupation on her land and was recently sentenced to 8 months in prison.
Co-organized by: Canada Palestine Association, BDS-Vancouver Coast Salish Territories and Young Communist League-Vancouver

Solidarity Vigil with Palestine – Denounce Land Day Massacre

Friday, April 6 at 4:30 PM – 6 PM
CBC Plaza, 700 Hamilton St., Vancouver… Read more

Friday, April 6 at 4:30 PM – 6 PM
CBC Plaza, 700 Hamilton St., Vancouver
Facebook Event

On March 30, 2018, Israeli military forces callously killed 17 unarmed Palestinian protestors and injured hundreds more in Gaza. The protestors were part of the Great Return March as well as marking Land Day.
Canadian government officials have not uttered any word to condemn this massacre, let alone apply any sanctions. Canadian media, including the CBC, have tried to obscure Israel’s crimes by talking about “clashes” and “confrontations” and “rioting”. However, the Israeli military themselves admitted in a tweet that they later deleted: “everything was accurate and measured, and we know where every bullet landed.” Israeli media has shown multiple pictures of Israeli snipers lined up on earth embankments, ready to fire at civilians. Which they did, shooting people kneeling in prayer and shooting others in the back as they were moving away from the border.
We demand that Israel be held accountable for these continued crimes against the Palestinian people; it is only because of the lack of action and complicity from Western countries that Israel acts with such impunity!

We acknowledge that this event takes places on the unceded territories of our indigenous brothers and sisters.

Organized by: Canada Palestine Association and BDS Vancouver – Coast Salish territories
Endorsed by:
SAFE Vancouver: Solidarity Against Fascism Everywhere
UBC Social Justice Centre
The Talon UBC
ILPS Canada
Young Communist League-Vancouver
StopWarCa – Vancouver Coalition for Justice & Peace
Canada Philippines Solidarity for Human Rights
Frente para la Defensa de los Pueblos Hugo Chavez-Suroeste de Canada
SANSAD – South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy
Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights – UBC
Communist Party of British Columbia
Colour Connected Against Racism UBC
Youth For Palestine Canada – YFP
Independent Jewish Voices Vancouver/ Independent Jewish Voices Canada
Justice for Palestinians, Calgary
TSSU Social Justice and Solidarity committee

Georgia Straight Announcement.

Videos of the rally (thanks to Devin Gillan who produced all the following videos at this event, except for the Barabari TV video):

https://www.facebook.com/devin.gillan/videos/10155567622572239/

https://www.facebook.com/devin.gillan/videos/10155567614727239/

Dr. Ramzy Baroud and the Palestinian Narrative

Wednesday, February 28 at 6:30 PM – 9 PM
Simon Fraser University
515… Read more

Wednesday, February 28 at 6:30 PM – 9 PM
Simon Fraser University
515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 5K3
Facebook Event

Location: room 1700, SFU Harbour Centre. Both the building and room are wheelchair accessible.
Co-sponsored by SFU’s Institute for the Humanities, Canada Palestine Association, Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies – SFU, SFU School for International Studies, and Independent Jewish Voices Canada.
This event will take place on the unceded Coast Salish territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples.
Event is FREE and open to the public.

DR. RAMZY BAROUD AND THE PALESTINIAN NARRATIVE

Gaza-born Palestinian author discusses the Palestine Chronicle, his forthcoming book: The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story, and the urgent need to situate Palestinian refugees back at the center of the Palestinian discourse. His talk will also cover contemporary issues facing the Palestinian liberation movement.

ABOUT THE BOOK

This is a history of modern Palestine like no other: built from the testimony of people who have lived through it. Ramzy Baroud here gathers accounts from countless Palestinians from all walks of life, and from throughout the decades, to tell the story of the nation and its struggle for independence and security. Challenging both academic and popular takes on Palestinian history, Baroud unearths here the deep commonalities within the story of Palestine, ones that draw the people together despite political divisions, geographical barriers and walls, factionalism, occupation, and exile. Through these firsthand reports—by turns inspiring and terrifying, triumphant and troubled—we see Palestine in all its complexity and contradictions, ever vibrant in the memories of the people who have fought, physically and otherwise, for its future. A remarkable book, The Last Earth will be essential to understanding the struggles in the contemporary Middle East.

SPEAKER

Ramzy Baroud is a journalist, author and editor of Palestine Chronicle. His latest book is The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story (Pluto Press, London). Baroud has a Ph.D. in Palestine Studies from the University of Exeter and is a Non-Resident Scholar at Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, University of California Santa Barbara. His website is www.ramzybaroud.net.
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UBC SPHR Presents: Dr. Ramzy Baroud, A Palestinian Story
Thursday, March 1 at 4 PM – 6 PM
UBC Liu Institute for Global Issues
6476 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver, British Columbia

Cosponsored by UBC Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights, UBC Social Justice Centre and The Talon
Facebook Event

Emergency rally for Palestine: Defend Al-Quds/Jerusalem

All out for Palestine!!
Friday, Dec. 8, 5 pm
US Consulate, 1095 W. Pender,… Read more

All out for Palestine!!
Friday, Dec. 8, 5 pm
US Consulate, 1095 W. Pender, Vancouver, BC

In an atrocious move that has been 70 years in the making, Trump has declared moving the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. This is an escalation on a conflict that’s costing Palestinian lives on a genocidal level. It overturns decades of pseudo-attempts at the peace process and is yet another iteration of the colonial project of sewing sectarianism in the region to justify imperialist wars.

Palestinians have called for 3 days of rage and demonstrations at US Embassies everywhere. It’s a moral imperative for the international community to reject US aggression on Palestine. We demand the government of Canada to condemn Trump’s decision to move Israeli capital to Jerusalem and to withdraw its support for Israel.

FB event

Co-hosted by: Canada Palestine Association and StopWarCa – Vancouver Coalition for Justice & Peace.

This rally takes place on the occupied, unceded traditional territory of the Coast Salish peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.