[Imc-beirut] Montreal | Demonstration: Sunday! Solidarity with Gaza

[Tadamon!]

* Demonstration: Stand with Gaza!
End Israeli apartheid!

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SUNDAY, JANUARY 4th 12h30
carré Cabot: corner St. Catherine and Atwater
(metro Atwater)
Montreal, Quebec
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http://www.tadamon.ca/post/2313

Air strikes continue to pound Gaza, as Palestinians in the hundreds are been 
killed high level Israeli officials have labeled the offensive an "all-out 
war", while from Beirut to Cairo major protests have swept across the Middle 
East and cities internationally in solidarity with the Palestinian people.

Around the world a protest movement in opposition to Israeli apartheid is 
quickly growing and in Montreal we are calling on you to join the movement in 
solidarity with Gaza.

It is estimated that over 350 Palestinians have been killed in the latest 
Israeli offensive, the majority civilians, while local hospitals in Gaza are 
unable to cope with additional casualties or the hundreds who have been 
critically wounded in the Israeli bombardment.

Protesters in Montreal will also gather at the Egyptian Consulate to deliver a 
letter to Egyptian President Mubarak denouncing the Egyptian government's 
collusion with Israeli authorities in maintaining a complete closure on Gaza 
throughout the past year. As Israel bombards Gaza the Egyptian government 
refuses to open the Gaza border crossing into Egypt to allow for humanitarian 
aid to enter the besieged Gaza Strip.

According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, Israeli strikes on Gaza 
were launched in order "to cause maximum casualties in the climax of daily 
activities ... [explaining] the high number of victims killed or wounded in a 
few minutes," during a military attack that is one of the bloodiest since 1948.

As protests internationally call for an immediate ceasefire and an end to 
Israel's ongoing military siege on the Gaza Strip, Israel continues to ignore 
international appeals for calm continuing the assault with support from the 
U.S. and active complicity from the Conservative government in Canada.

In recent years both the governments in Quebec and Canada have heightened 
bilateral relations with Israel increasing bilateral economic, military and 
political links. This fall the Liberal government of Jean Charest inked a 
bilateral trade deal with Israel, standing in stark contrast to the growing 
international calls for an economic boycott of the Israeli government in light 
of ongoing Israeli war crimes in Palestine.

Over the past two years the Gaza Strip has been undergoing the daily violence 
of a wide-ranging humanitarian catastrophe triggered by severely reduced access 
to energy, food, and medicines. In effect, Gaza is the world's largest open air 
prison.

At this moment, we can only reaffirm our commitment in the strongest possible 
terms to continue mobilizing friends and allies in other progressive social 
movements to respond to the call by over 170 Palestinian civil society 
organizations for a comprehensive campaign of boycott, sanctions and divestment 
(BDS).

Join us on the streets in Montreal in solidarity with the Palestinian
people of Gaza and to call for an end to Israeli apartheid.

* organized by
Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) and Tadamon! Montreal

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Tadamon! Montreal
tel: 514 664 1036
email: info[at]tadamon.ca

Tadamon! [« Solidarité! » en arabe], est un collectif d'activistes montréalais, 
solidaire des luttes pour l'autodétermination, l'égalité et la justice au 
Moyen-Orient et dans les communautés de la diaspora à Montréal et ailleurs. 
Tadamon! participe activement à plusieurs campagnes politiques au Canada, dont 
la campagne de Boycott, sanctions et désinvestissement (BDS) contre l'État 
d'apartheid israélien. Tadamon! est un groupe de travail du GRIPQ-Concordia et 
du GRIPQ-McGill. http://www.tadamon.ca/

Tadamon! (Arabic for "solidarity"), is a Montreal-based collective which works 
in solidarity with struggles for self-determination, equality and justice in 
the "Middle East" and in diaspora communities in Montreal and beyond. Tadamon! 
ongoing political campaigns operating in Canada, including the campaign for 
boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israeli apartheid state. Tadamon! is 
a working group of QPIRG-Concordia and QPIRG-McGill. http://www.tadamon.ca/

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