Category: Events

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

The Historical Context of the Palestinian Maps: Fact and Fiction

Speaker: Dr. Hani Faris
Adjunct Professor, UBC Department of Political… Read more

Speaker: Dr. Hani Faris
Adjunct Professor, UBC Department of Political Science

Friday, January 24, 2014, 7:00pm
Rm. 1700, SFU Harbour Centre
515 West Hastings St.

In fall 2013, the Palestine Awareness Coalition posted four maps on Vancouver`s TransLink buses and SkyTrain stations entitled Disappearing Palestine. This ad campaign received wide attention & media coverage at both the provincial & national levels.

The Zionist organization StandWithUs attacked the maps and the Coalition, called on Advertising Standards Canada (ASC) to remove the ads &, together with other Israel lobby groups, threatened to take the Coalition & TransLink, Vancouver’s public transportation authority, to court. When threats did not work, StandWithUs ended up initiating a counter ad featuring three maps.

Dr. Hani Faris, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia, President of the independent American think tank Trans Arab Research Institute (TARI), & internationally recognized expert on the Palestine-Israel conflict will comment on the historical context of the maps.

Questions? Please contact palestineawarenesscoalition@gmail.com. Sponsored by the Palestine Awareness Coalition. Endorsed by Boycott Israeli Apartheid Campaign, Building Bridges Vancouver, Canada Palestine Association, Independent Jewish Voices – Vancouver, Seriously Free Speech Committee
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DON’T BUY SODASTREAM! Protest in front of London Drugs

Sodastream Boycott Campaigns are growing around the world, an attempt … Read more

Sodastream Boycott Campaigns are growing around the world, an attempt to pressure Israel to obey international law and respect Palestinian human rights. Here in Vancouver we are asking London Drugs to remove these products from their shelves. Our next protest will be:

SATURDAY DECEMBER 21, 2-3 P.M.
In front of LONDON DRUGS, 525 W Broadway, Vancouver
BROADWAY JUST WEST OF CAMBIE

Solidarity Notes Labour Choir will be singing

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SodaStream is an Israeli company whose main factory is situated in the West Bank near the settlement of Ma’ale Adumim, under conditions of military occupation, outside the internationally recognized borders of Israel. Israeli companies operating in the West Bank enjoy cheap land and water confiscated from the indigenous Palestinian owners; a captive Palestinian labour force under severe restrictions of movement and organization; vast tax incentives; and lax regulation of labour and environmental protection laws.

The International Court of Justice, the U.N. General Assembly, and the UN Security council all agree that Israel is occupying the West Bank in violation of international law that forbids the colonization of occupied land by citizens of the occupying power. Despite all the talk of peace negotiations, construction of new homes in these illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank jumped by 70% in the first half of 2013 over the same period in 2012. These homes are built for the exclusive use of Jews.

This demonstration is part of the Canada-wide SodaStream boycott campaign of the Canadian Boycott Coalition for Justice in Palestine and Israel. The primary strategy of the coalition is to support the member groups in their efforts to call for boycotts of goods produced in Israeli settlements (colonies) in the occupied West Bank. For more info, see: Canadian Boycott Coalition for Justice in Palestine/Israel. To join the coalition, contact Tyler@ijvcanada.org

The Vancouver event is endorsed by the Boycott Israeli Apartheid Campaign, the Canada Palestine Association, the Canada-Palestinian Support Network, Independent Jewish Voices (Vancouver), and the United Network for a Just Peace in Palestine and Israel.

Videos from previous picket in front of LONDON DRUGS Nov 3, 2013: Boycott SodaStream – Vancouver Protest Nov 3 and Solidarity Notes Serenade SodaStream Display – Boycott Now!

Interview with Tyler Levitan from the Canadian Boycott Coalition on the campaign against Sodastream.

International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, 2013

Gaza in Crisis: Eyewitness Reports
Friday, November 29th, 2013, 7PM
SFU… Read more

Gaza in Crisis: Eyewitness Reports
Friday, November 29th, 2013, 7PM
SFU Harbour Centre, Fletcher Challenge Theatre
515 W. Hastings, Vancouver
Guest speakers – Eva Bartlett, human rights activist and journalist who lived for extended periods in Gaza
Kevin Neish, a Victoria activist and Mavi Marmara survivor who just returned from Gaza
Admission by donation ($5-10 suggested)
Organized by: Boycott Israeli Apartheid Campaign, Canada Palestine Association, Gaza’s Ark and Independent Jewish Voices
For more info, email: info@cpavancouver.org or ijv-vancouver@ijvcanada.org
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Please join our Facebook Event
Video 1, Video 2

Other events in British Colombia for Eva Bartlett:

Comox
Date/Time: Tues, Nov 26, 2013 7 – 9:30 pm
Where: Comox United Church, 250 Beach Drive, Comox, BC
Sponsored by: Mid-Islanders for Justice & Peace in the Middle East-Comox Valley
Admission: by donation
Contact Info: Judy Goldschmidt 250-331-9391 judy.goldschmidt@gmail.com

Victoria
Date/Time: Tues, Nov 27, 2013 7 – 9:30 pm
Where:David Strong Building C118, University of Victoria, Victoria BC
Sponsored by: IJV, Victoria Chapter and Social Justice Studies, U of Victoria
Admission: by donation
Contact Info: Corey Levine, 613-230-4501, cmjlevine@gmail.com

Nanaimo
International Day of Solidarity With the Palestinian People
Thursday, November 28th, 2013, 7PM
First Unitarian Fellowship Hall on Townsite Rd @ Millstone, Nanaimo
Admission by donation
Organized by Mid-Islanders For Justice & Peace in the Middle East & Co-sponsored by KAIROS Nanaimo

PROTEST AGAINST WAR CRIMINAL EHUD BARAK

Monday, September 30 – Gather at 5:00 pm
Four Seasons Hotel, 791 W … Read more

Monday, September 30 – Gather at 5:00 pm
Four Seasons Hotel, 791 W Georgia, Vancouver
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Former Israeli Prime Minister and Defense Minister Ehud Barak is coming to Vancouver on September 30 as the honoured guest of a $500/plate dinner. Barak is responsible for, among other notorious actions:
– ordering Operation Cast Lead, the assault on Gaza that killed over 1300 Palestinians0
– attacking the Gaza Flotilla in June 2010
– launching last November’s attacks on Gaza
– maintaining the siege on Gaza
– expanding the construction of the Apartheid Wall
– multiple assassinations of Palestinian political activists and leaders

Barak’s responsibility for these and other actions make clear that he is a war criminal and our message must be heard loud and clear. The organization hosting Barak, the Bon Mot Book Club, is the same organization that hosted $500/plate dinners for Dick Cheney and Pervez Musharraf in 2011. The people came out to the streets to say WAR CRIMINALS NOT WELCOME – it is time to say this clearly again!

Organizing Groups To Be Announced (including Boycott Israeli Apartheid Campaign, Canada Palestine Association, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network and more)

Protest the Vancouver JNF Event

Where: across from Temple Sholom (Oak St. between W 56th and 57th Ave)
When:… Read more

Where: across from Temple Sholom (Oak St. between W 56th and 57th Ave)
When: 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept 29, 2013

The Jewish National Fund (JNF) is hosting Gilad Shalit in his first visit to Canada. Also in attendance will be the former Conservative minister Stockwell Day. The event will raise funds to develop an area of Canada Park in honour of captive Israeli soldiers, past present and future.

Canada Park is built on land of three Palestinian villages whose inhabitants were driven out in 1967 – Imwas (the biblical Emmaus), Yalu, and Beit Nuba

It was originally funded by Canadians who weren’t told what their money was being used for, but now we have no excuse to say “we didn’t know.”

The JNF has a long and ongoing history of using trees to “greenwash” their part in the dispossession of Palestinians both inside the borders of Israel and from territories that Israel illegally occupies

See more info on the JNF.

Please join us to protest the JNF and its actions: Independent Jewish Voices, Boycott Israeli Apartheid Campaign, Canada Palestine Association and Gaza’s Ark