[Bloquez l'empire!] Palestine Solidarity Picket - Saturday, June 3

[aaron at resist.ca]

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End the starvation of the Palestinian people!
No to Israeli apartheid!
Tear down the Wall!

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Information picket in Montreal
Saturday, June 3
2-4pm
Corner of Ste-Catherine and McGill-College (metro McGill)
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-->Join us for an information picket to raise awareness about the ongoing
resistance to Israeli apartheid policies in Palestine.  We will be
distributing flyers and making speeches in downtown Montreal.  Bring your
banners, placards, and friends!

On June 3, 2006, we will be joining similar protests in Israel and other
countries to demand an end to Israel’s imposed starvation of the
Palestinian people.  In Tel Aviv, a march is being held by a coalition of
groups including Gush Shalom, Coalition of Women for Peace, Ta'ayush,
Hadash,  Balad,  Israeli Coalition Against House Demolitions, Alternative
Information Center, Coalition of Students, Artists Without Walls, Bat
Shalom, Banki, and Yesh Gvul.

End the starvation of the Palestinian people

In late January, the Palestinian people went to the polls to
democratically elect a new legislature.  The day after the new Hamas
legislature was sworn in, the Canadian government cut off all aid money to
the Palestinian Authority.  Many other governments, including the USA and
Israel, followed in tow.  The reason given by the Harper government to
withdraw this aid money was that the new Hamas-led government had not
addressed the concerns raised by Canada and others concerning
non-violence, the recognition of Israel, and acceptance of previous
agreements and obligations (Canadian International Development Agency –
Update: Canadian Aid Programs in the West Bank and Gaza).

However, Harper and the Canadian government turn a blind eye to the fact
that the Israeli army continues to kill hundreds of civilians per year,
ethnically cleanse Palestinians from their homelands to make way for
settlements and highways, and defies numerous international laws. 
Instead, the aid that has been cut has resulted in some of the worst fuel,
medicine, and food shortages that the Palestinians have ever seen.

As Dov Weisglass, an advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, put it
to the Israeli media, “The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but
not to make them die of hunger."  We condemn this deliberate campaign of
starvation and terror against the entire Palestinian population.  The
resistance will not be crushed.

Tear down the apartheid wall!

Ehud Olmert, Israel’s new Prime Minister, has declared that he hopes to
set Israel’s final borders by the year 2010.  The borders will be set not
according to the internationally recognized Green Line of 1967, but rather
they will follow the illegal apartheid wall.  Now more than ever, we must
follow the courageous example being set by Palestinian villages such as
Bil’in, who have been engaged in non-stop resistance to the wall for more
than a year.

End the Occupation!  No Justice, No Peace!

Organized by the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) – Montreal

For more information, contact ism-montreal at resist.ca