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Photo Gallery Oct. 13: All Out 4 Palestine!

Despite all the intimidation from politicians, the mayor, the police and the media, Vancouver showed up for Palestine tonight! Over one thousand people came out on short notice to demand freedom and justice for Palestinians, as yet another genocide is happening in real time in Gaza.

The rally included indigenous supporters and a broad cross-section of Vancouverites that rejected the dominant narrative trying to demonize all pro-Palestine support. It was also one of the most heavily policed pro-Palestine rallies in Vancouver history, the cops even brought their canine unit (for what purpose other than intimidation of an already traumitized community, we’re not sure).

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

Photo Gallery Week of Action: Shame on ScotiaBank, #ShutElbitDown


Check out these highlights from the week of action to denounce Scotiabank for being the largest foreign investor in Israeli arms company Elbit Systems. Activists from Montreal to Vancouver to BC’s Fraser Valley were out on the streets to demand that Scotiabank stop investing in Israeli war crimes. We know Scotiabank is feeling the pressure; in Montreal, they called the police for the picket and in Vancouver (for the second time) the branch mysteriously closed early before the activists’ arrival.

Vancouver, Sept. 23 (photos Michael YC Tseng)

Montreal, Sept.21

Coverage on social media, including Kuffiya, Palestine Online and NorthStar:

https://thenorthstar.media/scotia-bank-benefits-from-weapons-battle-tested-on-palestinians-lebanese-and-syrians/

And be sure to send your letter to Scotiabank demanding they stop investing in Israeli war crimes! Tell Scotiabank to Divest Now from Elbit Systems – Action Network

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!

Photo Gallery from Vancouver Events to say Shame on Scotiabank and #ShutElbitDown

 Vancouver activists were out on the streets on July 22 to say Shame on Scotiabank and #ShutElbitDown. Scotiabank is the largest foreign investor in Israeli arms company Elbit. Although usually open on Saturdays, the Scotiabank branch we marched to was mysteriously “temporarily closed” when we arrived to tell Scotiabank they have Palestinian blood on their hands.
We joined with BDS Vancouver, Samidoun Vancouver, Masar Badil and Bayan Canada to Stand With Palestine and denounce Canadian complicity in Israeli war crimes. (Photos by Michael YC Tseng)

New article on Al Mayadeen English: Activists vow to #ShutElbitDown | Al Mayadeen English

And there was moving and important testimony at the July 18th Vancouver meeting “Stopping Israel’s Killer Drones”. Drone survivors and activists spoke about the horrific human cost of Israel’s use of armed drones, and there was an update on the campaign to demand Scotiabank divest from Elbit Systems.

More info here: Canada’s Scotiabank is funding Israeli war crimes
And be sure to send your letter to Scotiabank demanding they stop investing in Israeli war crimes! Tell Scotiabank to Divest Now from Elbit Systems – Action Network

Highlight reel from July 22 Action: