Saturday Jan 10 @ 1 pm
Vancouver Art Gallery
For info email
vancouver.gazaprotest@gmail.com
Nearly 1000 people have came out in the midst of snowstorms on Monday Dec. 29th and January 3rd to show our solidarity with the people of Gaza. With the ground invasion starting this week and a growing number of fatalities, our ongoing support for the people of Palestine - along with millions of other people of conscience worldwide - is critical.
Demonstrations across Canada this weekend were held in Winnipeg, Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton, Windsor, London, Hamilton, as well as Montreal and Toronto where 10,000 people gathered in each city. With further actions being planned globally, please come out for a 3rd rally (rain, snow or shine!) to demonstrate your outrage and our collective humanity in response to the latest massacre of Palestinians.
TAKE ACTION!!!
The latest crisis is the single largest massacre in Gaza since Israel illegally occupied Gaza in 1967, many among the dead are civilians and children and the numbers keeps mounting. Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, has stated that, "the operation will last as long as necessary". Israel's latest massacre in Gaza occurs with official US and Canadian complicity towards Israel’s illegal siege and ongoing sanctions over the civilian population in Gaza. 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.
1) Email the prime minister, foreign affairs minister, and leaders of the opposition. Visit:
www.cjpme.ca
2) Respond to biased media coverage. Visit
http://letgazabeheard.wordpress.com to send sample emails to the BBC, CNN, and Fox News regarding their biased coverage and use those template letters to send to Canadian media outlets.
ENDORSING ORGANIZATIONS
Adala - Arab Justice Committee, Al-Awda - Vancouver, Boycott Israeli Apartheid Campaign, Canadian Arab Federation - National, Canada Palestine Association - Vancouver, Canadians Against War, Canadian Islamic Congress BC, Canadian Muslim Union
Canpalnet, Code Pink Women for Peace (local chapter), Independent Jewish Voices (Canada), Indigenous Action Movement, Jews for a Just Peace - Vancouver, No One Is Illegal - Vancouver, Palestinian Islamic League - Canada, Salaam - Vancouver
Siraat Collective, Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights - University of British Columbia, StopWar Coalition, Muslim Canadian Federation - Vancouver, Students for a Democratic Society (UBC), The Organizing Centre for Social and Economic Justice
Vancouver Socialist Forum, Voice of Palestine - Vancouver
Contributed by blackandred on Mon, 2009-01-05 20:19
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The rally went really well. There was a turn up of around 200-250 (if not more!) in pouring rain with police standing by.
I myself stayed for about 45 minutes before I had to give in. But I got to yell along on some of the slogans, and it was certainly positive to see that more people were joining in when I was leaving.
I'm sending the pictures I took. They are not as good as they could be, mainly because of the rain and because they're taken on a cell phone.
People included all sorts of activists and progressive movements, and also a new politician (who was boo'ed out because he was not pro a one-state solution for Palestine but was talking of mutual respect). Elderly, students, kids and couples. I saw them all there.
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