[antiwar-van] Jan 3- End the Siege on Gaza, Protest Israeli War Crimes

[Harsha]

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END THE SIEGE ON GAZA! PROTEST ISRAELI WAR CRIMES !

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Saturday Jan 3 @ 1 pm
Vancouver Art Gallery (Robson side - (corner Hornby)

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Hundreds came out in the rain, sleet and snow on Monday Dec 29th to show
our solidarity with the people of Gaza. We're mobilizing again for
Saturday Jan 3rd, 1pm at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Please come out rain,
snow or shine to demonstrate your outrage and our collective humanity in
response to the latest massacre of Palestinians.

*** Article (including 34 photos) from Dec 29th protest:
http://www.straight.com/article-177783/protesters-rally-vancouver-against-israel%3F%3Fs-gaza-attacks

*** Video from Dec 29th protest:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TATYHJiLOL4

*** Jan 3rd rally on facebook - pls spread the word!
http://www.new.facebook.com/event.php?eid=40496549671&ref=mf#/event.php?eid=55411002744


At least 300 Palestinians have been killed and over 1400 injured in the
latest Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip, while the threat for further
bloodshed still hangs heavily as air strikes continue. This is the single
largest massacre in Gaza since Israel illegally occupied Gaza in 1967,
many among the dead are civilians and the numbers keeps mounting. The
Israeli state shows no sign of halting its assault anytime soon as they
have begun to amass tanks and ground assault military vehicles on the
border with Gaza. 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. In effect, Gaza is the world’s largest open air prison.

Join us in Vancouver as people of conscience to stand in solidarity with
the Palestinian people of Gaza and to demand an end to the siege of Gaza
and Israeli apartheid.


** Organized by various Palestine solidarity groups.
For more information email vancouver.gazaprotest at gmail.com

** ENDORSED BY:
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)
Jews for a Just Peace - Vancouver
No One Is Illegal-Vancouver
Palestinian Islamic League - Canada
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


* Gaza massacres must spur us to action by Ali Abunimah, The Electronic
Intifada, 27 December 2008
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10055.shtml

* Live from Palestine: The rains of death in Gaza
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10058.shtml