VANCOUVER EMERGENCY PROTEST FOR GAZA, PALESTINE

Saturday, July 12
2:00 PM
CBC Building, Hamilton and Georgia Sts.
Vancouver,… Read more

Saturday, July 12
2:00 PM
CBC Building, Hamilton and Georgia Sts.
Vancouver, Unceded Coast Salish Territories

This event is taking place on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples.

GAZA IS UNDER ATTACK! Over 100 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed – including over 22 children – and hundreds wounded at the hands of Israeli missiles, bombs and fighter planes since Tuesday. While Palestinians are dying, Stephen Harper has once again reiterated his unconditional support of Israel, and MPs from across the Canadian political spectrum have been silent and complicit as the massacres continue.

Protests are being organized in cities around the world to respond to the ongoing assault on Palestine and the Palestinian people, including the bombing of Gaza and the killing of over 100 Palestinians by occupation forces; the murders of Palestinians (including 16-year-old Muhammad Abu Khdeir, murdered brutally by Israeli settlers) and ongoing settler and military brutality; the mass arrests of over 900; and the raids, attacks, tear-gassing, invasions and closure that Palestinians are being subjected to.

Join us in Vancouver to stand in solidarity, to chant and rally together and break the silence and the deception being put forward by mainstream media!

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Protest Israeli War Crimes!

Protest Israeli War Crimes!
Thursday July 3rd
5:30 pm sharp
Vancouver Public… Read more

Protest Israeli War Crimes!
Thursday July 3rd
5:30 pm sharp
Vancouver Public Library
Robson Street Steps
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This event is taking place on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples.
Since mid-June Israeli war crimes in Palestine have escalated, allegedly in response to the disappearance and death of 3 teenage Israeli settlers. However, this latest attack is part and parcel of the illegal occupation of Palestinian land and ongoing Israeli war crimes.
According to international media sources, in just one night Monday June 30 to dawn on Tuesday July 1 at dawn, the Israeli army carried out more than 34 air strikes against different areas in the Gaza Strip, in particular densely populated refugee camps. Additionally, in a sweeping offensive, Israeli Occupation Forces have kidnapped and detained more than 600 Palestinians, including women and children.
Red Sparks Union, the Boycott Israeli Apartheid Campaign, and the Revolutionary Student Movement are calling a rally and street theatre to protest this latest round of war crimes enacted against the Palestinian people.
End Israeli War Crimes Now!
No Canadian Government Support for Israeli War Crimes!
Boycott Israeli Apartheid!
Free All Political Prisoners Now!
Media Contact: 604 315 8766
info@redsparks.org

Photos by Susan Stout: Photo 1 Photo 2 Photo 3 Photo 4 Photo 5 Photo 6 Photo 7
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Support From Within: Israeli Participation in the Palestinian Struggle – from demonstrations to BDS, from Matzpen to Anarchists Against the Wall (AATW) – and the legacy of the Bund”

A talk by Kobi Snitz of Boycott from Within and AATW
Sunday, April 13, 7 pm … Read more

A talk by Kobi Snitz of Boycott from Within and AATW
Sunday, April 13, 7 pm at the Unitarian Church of Vancouver, 949 W.49th Ave.(Oak and 49th).

Kobi will speak about support by Israelis for the Palestinian popular struggle, reviewing a decade of Israeli involvement in the Palestinian popular struggle and half a decade of support for BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) from Inside Israel (despite Israeli legislation making advocates of BDS subject to lawsuits by companies that anticipate possible future financial damage as a result).

As Kobi points out, “These efforts have historical roots which not coincidentally are largely unknown. As it isolates itself from a world increasingly critical of its destruction of Palestinian society, Israel also isolates itself from significant parts of Jewish history. ”

Donations will be accepted to help fund nonviolent activism in Beit Ummar, one of the villages where Kobi regularly participates in demonstrations.

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Kobi’s talk is sponsored by: Independent Jewish Voices–Vancouver and the Social Justice Committee of the Unitarian Church of Vancouver.

Endorsed by: BIAC, Building Bridges–Vancouver, CPA (Canada-Palestine Association www.CPAVancouver.org ), CBG (Canadian Boat to Gaza), ISM–Vancouver (International Solidarity Movement), SFSC (Seriously Free Speech Committee), UNJPPI (United Network for Justice and Peace in Palestine/Israel)

Contact: Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta, ( 604-444-4690 ), MaxineKL@shaw.ca

Dr Mazin Qumsiyeh on Palestine Today and In the Future

Monday. April 7, 2014, 7:00pm
Rm. 1700, SFU Harbour Centre, 515 W. Hastings… Read more

Monday. April 7, 2014, 7:00pm
Rm. 1700, SFU Harbour Centre, 515 W. Hastings
A live recording of the full speech
Video clips of the speech

Free Admission

Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh was born to a Palestinian Christian family near Bethlehem. As well as being Palestinian, he has U.S. citizenship and served on the faculty of both Duke and Yale Universities where he taught and did research in genetics before returning to Palestine to do the same work at Birzeit and Bethlehem Universities.

Dr. Qumsiyeh serves as chairman of the board of the Palestinian Center for Rapprochement Between People and coordinator of the Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements in Beit Sahour. He is author of several books, including Sharing the Land of Canaan: Human rights and the Israeli/Palestinian Struggle (2004) and Popular Resistance in Palestine: A history of Hope and Empowerment (2011) and is a prolific writer for journals and newspapers.

He served on the Steering/Executive Committees of a number of groups including Peace Action, the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, the Palestinian American Congress, Association for One Democratic State in Israel/Palestine, AcademicsForJustice.org, and BoycottIsraeliGoods.org. He was the organizer of and the Palestine speaker for the Wheels of Justice Tour, which was sponsored by many national groups, including the Fellowship of Reconciliation.

Dr. Qumsiyeh will talk to us about the current situation and share his vision of a future for all the people who live in the land of Canaan. How can Canadians help to bring about a new situation of peace and justice?
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Endorsed by: Boycott Israel Apartheid Campaign, Building Bridges Vancouver, Canada Palestine Association, Gaza´s Ark, Independent Jewish Voices, Seriously Free Speech Committee, United Network for Justice and Peace in Palestine and Israel.

Picket the JNF! Mark Palestinian Land Day!

Sunday, April 6, 2014, 5 pm,
Four Seasons Hotel (W. Georgia and Howe St.),
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Sunday, April 6, 2014, 5 pm,
Four Seasons Hotel (W. Georgia and Howe St.), Vancouver, B.C.

On April 6, 2014, the Jewish National Fund JNF Pacific Region is holding its annual “Negev Gala Dinner”. The JNF is publicly claiming to be enhancing the environment and aiding underprivileged youth, this year in conjunction with Canadian Friends of Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem (also built on stolen Palestinian land). Meanwhile, they are working to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian Bedouins from the Negev region, most recently under the infamous Prawer Plan. “The bill is another nakba,” MK Taleb Abu Arar said, talking about the Prawer Plan and referring to the events of 1948 when Israel was established. “It’s based on hatred and racism.”

The Bedouin village of Al Araqib in the Negev has been destroyed for the 66th time by Israeli and JNF paramilitary forces (as of March 12, 2014), but the Palestinians of the village refuse to surrender, many of them returning time and time again to rebuild. March 30th is also Palestinian Land Day and the villagers of Al Araqib are a moving example of the Palestinians’ enduring attachment to their land.
More info at: Stop the JNF

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Organized by:
Canada Palestine Association
Endorsed by:
Boycott Israeli Apartheid Campaign (Vancouver)
Canadian Boat to Gaza
Independent Jewish Voices, Vancouver