[Bloquez l'empire!] sunday: OPPOSE THE ISRAELI APARTHEID WALL

[Mary Foster]

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Awareness-raising picket in Montreal
SUNDAY, AUGUST 21, 2005
1pm-3pm
Corner of McGill College and Ste-Catherine
(metro McGill)
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Picket will include flyers, speeches, and a replica of the Israeli Apartheid
Wall.

Organized and endorsed by the Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine
(CJPP) and The International Solidarity Movement-Montreal (ISM).


Montreal-area activists will continue their campaign against Israel's
Apartheid
Wall this Sunday with an awareness picket in the heart of downtown Montreal.
The picket will include a replica of the Apartheid Wall. Montreal's action
will
be in solidarity with the ongoing resistance to the construction of the
Apartheid Wall in the towns and villages of Palestine itself.

Currently, three Montrealers are in occupied Palestine, participating in
actions against the wall organized by grassroots Palestinian organizations.
Members of Montreal's International Solidarity Movement (ISM) have
participated
in actions against the Wall, and for the free movement of Palestinians,
since
2002, with Montreal delegates witnessing actions in cities like Nablus and
Qalqilya, as well as villages such as Biddu, Jayyous and Bil'in.

While the removal of illegal Jewish-only settlements in Gaza captures
international headlines, the Israeli government continues to illegally
confiscate land in the West Bank, including around Jerusalem, with the
building
of the Wall. The international attention on the long-overdue removal of
Gaza's
illegal settlements has allowed the Israeli authorities to entrench their
settlements on the West Bank, as well as to draw attention away from the
daily
popular resistance by Palestinians to the Wall.

In May of this year, Uday Mofeed, 14, and Jamal Jaber, 15, were shot dead
while
protesting against the Wall in the village of Beit Liqya (see
http://stopthewall.org/latestnews/913.shtml). This past Friday, August 12,
500
villagers protested against the Apartheid Wall in Azzoun, where 9 youth were
shot with rubber-coated bullets by Israeli soldiers (see
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2005/08/13/azzoun-burns-2/). One youth, 16
year-old Siad, remains unconscious in a Nablus hospital.

Since construction of the Wall began in the summer of 2002, Palestinians
have
consistently resisted their further dispossession. If completed, the entire
Apartheid Wall network, including the Jordan Valley, will de facto annex
some
47% of the West Bank. The Wall isolates Palestinian communities into
bantustans, enclaves and military prisons, while cutting off villagers from
their fields and groves. The Apartheid Wall is part of a strategy of the
ethnic
cleansing of Palestinians by the Israeli state.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled the Apartheid Wall illegal on
July 9, 2004, and demanded its dismantlement. However, the Canadian
government
showed its complicity with the policies of the Israeli government by
abstaining
at a UN vote to condemn the illegal Apartheid Wall (150 nations voted to
oppose
the Wall).

Sunday's picket will be in solidarity with ongoing Palestinian resistance to
the Apartheid Wall, and will also endorse the four demands of the
Palestinian
Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign: 1) The immediate cessation of the
building of the Wall; 2) The dismantling of all parts of the Wall and its
related zones already built; 3) The return of lands confiscated for the path
of
the Wall; 4) The compensation of damages and lost income due to the
destruction
of land and property in addition to the restitution of land. According to
the
Grassroots Campaign: "These calls are firmly grounded in the context of the
struggle against Israeli Colonization, Apartheid and Occupation, and for
Palestinian rights and self-determination."

We further call on the Canadian government to adhere to the July 9, 2004 ICJ
ruling to dismantle the Wall by actively opposing the Apartheid Wall and
demanding compensation to those harmed by it.


--> For more information about the Montreal action against the Wall, or to
contact Montreal delegates currently participating in actions against the
Wall
in Palestine, please contact 514-848-7583 or e-mail ism-montreal at resist.ca

--> For more information about the Apartheid Wall and Palestinian resistance
to
it, consult:
http://www.stopthewall.org
http://www.palsolidarity.org
http://www.thewallmustfall.ca

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ISM-MONTREAL
514-848-7583
ism-montreal at resist.ca
http://www.ismcanada.org