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24 Hour Fast and Day of Action in Solidarity with Palestinian Prisoners, Vancouver

24 Hour Fast and Day of Action in Solidarity with Palestinian Prisoners… Read more

24 Hour Fast and Day of Action in Solidarity with Palestinian Prisoners
Fasting: 9pm Monday August 17 to 9pm Tuesday August 18
Leafleting: Join us between 12pm and 5pm on Tuesday, August 18 at Broadway Skytrain Station
Facebook Event

Responding to the urgent call of Palestinian prisoners for support in the face of an escalation of violence and repression by the Occupation and the Israeli Prison Authority, solidarity activists in Vancouver – Coast Salish Territories will be engaging in a 24 hour fast and day of action.

There are currently 5750 Palestinian prisoners in the Occupation Jails, including 401 administrative detainees, 25 women and 164 children. All of these Palestinians are jailed for resisting the occupation!

Participate in the Fast! Pledge to fast from 9pm Monday August 17 to 9pm Tuesday August 18 and collect donations for Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network from family and friends. Contact aiyanas.ormond@gmail.com if you want to join the fast.

Pledge a faster or make a donation! You can make a donation directly to Samidoun or make a cash donation to a faster. All funds will be used for educational and advocacy work in solidarity with Palestinian Prisoners.

Join us between 12pm and 5pm on Tuesday, August 18 at Broadway Skytrain Station to help raise consciousness of the situation of Palestinian prisoners by leafleting, gathering signatures and talking to the public. This will include gathering support for the recently launched BDS Vancouver campaign for boycott and divestment from security firm G4$.

Organized by: Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network with Canada Palestine Association, BDS Vancouver – Coast Salish Territories, and Alliance for People’s Health

End the Siege – Free Palestine

Rally to Commemorate 2014 Gaza Massacre and the Media Complicity
Wednesday,… Read more

Rally to Commemorate 2014 Gaza Massacre and the Media Complicity
Wednesday, July 8, 2015 at 5:30pm
CBC – Corner of Hamilton & Georgia St
Facebook Event
“Operation Protective Edge”, the most recent Israeli massacre of Gazans, began on July 7, 2014 and ended on August 26, 2014. Over 2,200 Palestinians were killed, the vast majority civilians, by 6,000 air strikes and over 50,000 tank and artillery shells, four times the explosives used in Operation Cast Lead. According to Mary McGown, Chair of the UN Human Rights Council Commission on Gaza “the extent of the devastation and human suffering was unprecedented and will affect generations to come”.

We cannot allow this episode in 67 years of brutal occupation and violence to be forgotten.

Please join us.

Current organizers and endorsers: Boycott Israel Apartheid Campaign, Canada Palestine Association, CanPalNet, Independent Jewish Voices, United Network for Justice and Peace in Palestine and Israel.

Picket the Jewish National Fund JNF Dinner & its Honouree John Baird

Sunday, June 7, 2015, 5pm
Four Seasons Hotel (W. Georgia and Howe St.) Vancouver… Read more

Sunday, June 7, 2015, 5pm
Four Seasons Hotel (W. Georgia and Howe St.) Vancouver
New – Great photos of the picket at Facebook Event

No Greenwashing Apartheid! No Charity Status for the JNF!

In a classic “greenwashing apartheid” move, the Jewish National Fund (JNF) Pacific Region is holding its annual Negev dinner to raise funds to build a park in Sderot, a “green lung” they claim. At the same time, not far away, the Bedouin village of Al Araqib in the Negev/Naqab has been destroyed more than 80 times by Israeli and JNF paramilitary forces, but the Palestinians of the village refuse to surrender, returning time and time again to rebuild (more info at stopthejnf.org).
The JNF also notes in its publicity for the event that the park will “honour the memory of the 66 soldiers who were killed during Operation Protective Edge”, better known as Israel’s horrific aggression on Gaza last summer.
And equally fitting is the guest speaker that the JNF is honouring for the evening, John Baird, who signed the infamous January 18, 2015 Memorandum of Understanding as one of his last acts as Canada’s Foreign Minister that committed to develop “a coordinated, public diplomacy initiative both bilaterally and in international and multilateral fora to oppose boycotts of Israel, its institutions, and its people within three to six months”. This is the same John Baird that in an address to another 2012 JNF dinner explained to the audience, “Why Israel holds such a special place in my heart.”

Organized by: Canada Palestine Association, email info@cpavancouver.org
Endorsed by: Independent Jewish Voices-Vancouver

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Conference on Christian Zionism

Seeking the Peace of Jerusalem:
Overcoming Christian Zionism in the Quest… Read more

Seeking the Peace of Jerusalem:
Overcoming Christian Zionism in the Quest for Justice

April 23rd – 25th
St. Mary’s Kerrisdale Church, Vancouver, B.C.

Upcoming conference presented by Canadian Friends of Sabeel (CFOS)
Co-sponsored by:
Anglican Church of Canada,
Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA),
Presbyterian Church in Canada
United Church of Canada

This conference includes action workshops on the Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions campaign and Authentic Christian Pilgrimage, as well as education workshops on the history of Christian Zionism and its local and international impacts.

Jim and Jeanie from Strathdee Music will be leading the Thursday evening worship service in song.

For complete and updated conference details visit CFOS website
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Vancouver marks Palestinian Land Day 1976-2015‏

On March 30, 1976, thousands of Palestinians marched in towns and villages… Read more

On March 30, 1976, thousands of Palestinians marched in towns and villages across the Galilee region, in the north of present-day Israel, to protest Israel’s expropriation of vast tracts of Palestinian land. In coordination with the Israeli military, some 4,000 police officers were dispatched to brutally quell the one-day general strike. At the end of the day, six Palestinian citizens of Israel were killed by state security forces.
In Vancouver, Canada, on April 3, 1976, local Palestinians added their voices to the outcry over the killings and Israel’s policies of land confiscation (Check out this link). Since that time, Land Day has become a significant event for Palestinians as they commemorate not only their attachment to, and struggle for their homeland, but also to protest continuing Israeli ethnic cleansing against Palestinians.
As Ali Abunimah pointed out in an article on the Electronic Intifada:
“Day of the Land – or Land Day – marked a turning point as the first mass mobilization by Palestinians within Israel against internal colonialism and land theft. Its commemoration is a reaffirmation that the Palestinians who remained in the areas on which Israel was declared in 1948 are an inseparable part of the Palestinian people and their struggle.”

In recent years, Land Day has also been marked by global Days of Action on Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions BDS. This year, Vancouver again joins in with Land Day activities by leafleting at a local university campus to highlight Air Canada’s role in supporting Israeli Apartheid and war crimes through its contracting with state owned Israel Aerospace Industries.
As the BDS Vancouver-Coast Salish campaign leaflet states –
“Air Canada recently signed a maintenance agreement for its B787 jets with Israel Aerospace Industries IAI, a military defense company wholly owned by the government of Israel. IAI is the subject of boycotts across Europe and is well-known for its drone technology and production. It is truly shameful that Air Canada is “outsourcing” its maintenance work to this Israeli defense company that is directly responsible for the deaths of Palestinian civilians.”
The campaign also started an on-line petition to Air Canada’s CEO, that set a target of 1000 signatures by Land Day, a target that was met and exceeded. And global support continues to increase as more groups and individuals are outraged by Air Canada’s open complicity with Israeli war crimes.

We call on all supporters of the Palestinian peoples’ struggle for liberation world-wide to join the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel. The Western governments have proven over the last seven decades that they are the ones empowering Israeli war crimes; and we certainly can’t count on the Arab regimes, who rather than using their vast resources to challenge Israeli aggression, are busy trying to solidify their own dictatorships and suppress liberation movements across the Arab world.

Canada Palestine Association-Vancouver
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Details of Land Day Leafleting
** March 30: Palestinian Day of the Land **
Boycott Israeli Apartheid – Boycott Air Canada

Leafleting at Simon Fraser University
Burnaby Mountain campus
@ convocation hall near Bennett Library entrance
Monday, March 30
11:30 – 1:30pm