Category: Events

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

Join the Palestine Contingent at the Community March Against Racism

Join the Palestine Contingent at the Community March Against Racism

Since… 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.

TAKE ACTION!

PROTEST the attacks on Gaza and Israeli apartheid and racism: Join the Palestine Contingent at the Community March Against Racism, Sunday, March 18. Gather at Clark Park in Vancouver (14th and Commercial) at 1:45 PM and join the Palestine contingent with Palestinian flags and banners!

The attack on Gaza is only the most latest manifestation of Israel’s war on the Palestinian people – from the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948, to the ongoing denial of millions of Palestinian refugees’ right to return home, to the institutionalized racism and discrimination practiced against Palestinians in Israel, to the military occupation of the West Bank and its checkpoints, Apartheid Wall, land confiscation and home demolitions, to the mass imprisonment of thousands of Palestinians, to the ongoing siege of Gaza. Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) is one international tool called for by the Palestinian movement to isolate Israel until it ends its ongoing racism, apartheid and war crimes.

As part of the struggle to confront Israeli apartheid and racism and support Palestinian rights, we also confront Canada’s own settler colonial reality, including racism, oppression, violence against indigenous people, exclusion and targeting of refugees and immigrants, criminalization and incarceration.

The Community March Against Racism in Vancouver commemorates the International Day for the Elimination of Racism, which marks the anniversary of the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre in South Africa when police opened fire on hundreds of South Africans protesting against Apartheid’s passbook laws. It is an occasion to march against racism in Canada, against Israeli apartheid, and for liberation and justice for Palestine and our communities.

The Arab, Palestinian and Muslim communities in Canada continue to be targets for racism, both here and in Palestine. As Gaza is under attack, as Palestine is under attack, and as communities here are under attack, it is urgent that we join together in solidarity and resistance with No One Is Illegal – Vancouver and numerous communities to stand together to confront and challenge apartheid, racism and oppression.

Join us!

Palestine Contingent called by the Boycott Israeli Apartheid Campaign (Vancouver), the Canada Palestine Association, and Samidoun. To endorse, join the contingent, or for more information, please contact us at boycottapartheid@gmail.com.
Multilingual posters and flyers here

Vancouver VIGIL for Khader Adnan-Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike

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

This vigil comes in response to an urgent call for international solidarity from Randa Adnan, Khader Adnan’s wife, and Jihad Adnan, Khader Adnan’s father. Khader Adnan is a Palestinian political activist, baker, husband and father who is being held in administrative detention by the Israeli occupation military forces. Administrative detention is detention without charge, based only on secret evidence, indefinitely renewable by military judges.

His hunger strike has now lasted 61 days. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have called for Khader Adnan to be charged or released. Thousands of people around the world have called for his release. In Palestine, dozens have been injured as protests calling for his release were attacked with tear gas and rubber bullets.

Despite these calls, an Israeli military appeal upheld Khader’s administrative detention on Monday. He has still not been – and will not be – charged with any crime. Khader Adnan is demanding the end of administrative detention in Palestine.

And here in Canada, Khader Adnan’s case has been missing from the Canadian media – ignored and silenced – while the Harper government parades its unconditional support of Israel (and its illegal settlements, land confiscation, and detention without charge).

Khader Adnan has been on hunger strike since December 17, 2011, when he was seized from his home in Arraba outside Jenin in the occupied West Bank of Palestine by Israeli soldiers Before entering his house, soldiers used the driver that takes Khader’s father to the vegetable market, Mohammad Mustafa, as a human shield by forcing him to knock on the door of the house and call out Khader’s name while blindfolded. Khader Adnan was tortured and abused – and has never been charged with any crime.

For more information on Khader’s case: http://samidoun.ca/2012/02/urgent-heed-randa-adnans-call-military-court-rejects-khader-adnans-appeal-in-de-facto-death-sentence/

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

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

Vancouver… 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. Freedom Waves is part of an ongoing global solidarity movement challenging the blockade of Gaza and working for the freedom for Palestine.
Introduction by Libby Davies

When: Saturday Feb 18th 7pm
Where: Alice McKay room
Vancouver Public Library
350 West Georgia

admission free
This talk is part of national tour organized by the Canadian Boat to Gaza and sponsored by Canadian Union of Postal Workers, Canadian Arab Federation, Canadian Peace Alliance, The Council of Canadians and Independent Jewish Voices

Organized by the Vancouver Committee of the Canadian Boat to Gaza
Contact: 778-­870-­2448

Local endorsers: ADALA- the Canadian Arab Justice Committee, Alex Atamanenko, Boycott Israeli Apartheid Committee, Building Bridges, Canadian Palestine Association, CanPalNet, Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights, Stopwar, The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Unitarian Church – Social Justice Committee, Vancouver District Labour Council, Westcoast Sheen, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, World Peace Forum

For events in Nanaimo and Victoria, please visit calender of events on Canadian Boat to Gaza website.

Running the Blockade and Harvesting the Olives in Palestine

Saturday, December 10. 7.30 p.m.
Unitarian Church 949 West 49th Ave, Vancouver… 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.
John was a volunteer harvesting olives in the West Bank and observed first hand the abusive treatment of Palestinians by the Israeli military. As a mental health care professional he heard from colleagues about the toll this abuse takes on ordinary Palestinians, including children.
Come hear their stories on International Human Rights Day, Saturday, December 10.
Sponsors: Vancouver Committee of Canadian Boat to Gaza and Unitarian Church Social Justice Committee.
Info 604 312 3488.