[Bloquez l'empire!] Saturday: Montreal Against the Wall! Oppose the Israeli Apartheid Wall (October 8, 1-3pm)

[Jaggi Singh]

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Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 01:20:58 -0700 (PDT)
From: ISM Montreal <ism-montreal at resist.ca>

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MONTREAL AGAINST THE WALL!

-> OPPOSE THE ISRAELI APARTHEID WALL

-> SOLIDARITY WITH THE “FENCE INTIFADA”

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Awareness-raising picket in Montreal
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 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. Join us!

Organized and endorsed by The International Solidarity Movement (ISM)-Montreal, 
The Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine (CJPP), Solidarity for 
Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR)-Concordia, SPHR-McGill, The Canadian Palestine 
Foundation of Quebec, Palestinian and Jewish Unity (PAJU) and Canadians for 
Justice and Peace in the Middle East.


Montreal-area residents will continue their campaign against Israel's Apartheid 
Wall this Saturday with an awareness picket in the heart of downtown Montreal. 
The picket will include a replica of the Apartheid Wall. Montreal's action is 
in solidarity with the ongoing resistance to the construction of the Apartheid 
Wall in the towns and villages of Palestine itself in what has been dubbed the 
"fence intifada".

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 recent removal of illegal Jewish-only settlements in Gaza captured 
international headlines, the Israeli government continues to illegally 
confiscate land in the West Bank, including around Jerusalem, with the building 
of the Apartheid 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 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/).

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).

Saturday'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 Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall 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, 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

-> The MONTREAL AGAINST THE WALL pickets will continue this fall and winter. 
Pickets will also take place on November 12 (as part of the International Week 
Against the Apartheid Wall) and December 10 (International Human Rights Day).

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