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Vancouver Events 4 Palestine, Defense Fund

Legal Defence Fund
The unprecedented harassment of our community and supporters is increasing daily; we are setting up a defence fund to assist the youths that have been targeted by police and arrested at recent pro-Palestine actions, one of whom is a minor. We are also hoping to legally challenge the City of Vancouver and the Vancouver Police for their racist intimidation. Donations to the fund can be sent by etransfer to cpavancouver@gmail.com

Oct. 26th in Squamish:  Squamish-All out for Gaza Vigil | Facebook

 Fundraising by Tamam Restaurant, Oct. 29, 1-5pm: Tamam: Fine Palestinian Cuisine (@tamamfinepalestiniancuisine) • Instagram photos and videos

Vancouver Stands with Palestine

On October 9, over 500 people came out in the Vancouver rain to show their support with the Palestinian people and to highlight they will not be intimidated by the biased disinformation coming from Western politicians and the media. Multiple speakers at the rally, which was followed by a march thru the downtown, emphasized that the Palestinians have been struggling against a vicious settler colonial project for 75 years and that this is the root of the ongoing violence. Many also called out the hypocrisy of Canadian officials who have fastidiously ignored Palestinian suffering through the decades, and are now rushing to see who can be more pro-Israel as it commits additional war crimes in Gaza.

The action was clear: We Stand with Palestine, and Our Voices will Never be Silenced!!
(Photos courtesy Michael YC Tseng)

Harsha Walia

Hanna Kawas

Khaled Barakat

Edward Said: Special from Alternative Radio

Entitled Palestine: Memory, Inequality & Power, Alternative Radio has waived the fees for our supporters to download and listen to this show highlighting a 2003 lecture by Edward Said. This never-before-broadcast marks the 30th anniversary of Oslo and the 20th anniversary of Edward Said’s death on September 25, 2003.

As a Palestinian intellectual, Said brought his anti-colonial critique to bear on what he called “The Question of Palestine,” revealing Zionism as a colonial ideology and the Western liberal support of this as a part of its colonial heritage. He was one of the first to publicly criticize the Oslo Accords and said one month after the signing of Oslo in 1993 that it was “an instrument of Palestinian surrender, a Palestinian Versailles”.

Also, check out our coverage of Vancouver’s 2019 meeting honouring Edward Said. Book launch: “Culture and Resistance” by Edward Said and David Barsamian – Canada Palestine Association (cpavancouver.org)

PDF of Said’s lecture: SAIE036-MemoryInequalityPower (alternativeradio.org)

Shame on Scotiabank, #ShutElbitDown Picket

Saturday, September 23, 2 pm
1750 Manitoba St., Vancouver (False Creek Branch)

Join us on September 23 to highlight the complicity of Scotiabank in funding the killing of Palestinians.
Scotiabank is the largest foreign investor in the Israeli arms company Elbit Systems; their asset fund has invested half a billion dollars in an arms company whose weapons are routinely used to rain death and destruction on Palestinians.

We join with the Canadian BDS Coalition groups and other allies to demand that Scotiabank divest immediately from Elbit! 

Cosponsored by BDS Vancouver, Canada Palestine Association, Canadian BDS Coalition, ILPS Canada and Samidoun.

FB event page: Shame on Scotiabank, #ShutElbitDown Picket | Facebook

Stay tuned for coverage of other flash pickets during the Week of Action!