[IPSM] OTTAWA: Monday November 29th: JUSTICE, DIGNITY & SELF-DETERMINATION for Palestinians!

[Stefan Christoff]

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Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 20:24:59 -0500
From: Palestinian Refugees - Montreal <refugees at riseup.net>


JUSTICE, DIGNITY & SELF-DETERMINATION for Palestinians!
A demonstration in solidarity with the Palestinian resistance
to Israeli occupation and against the deportation of
Palestinian refugees from Canada

{As part of the Ottawa "NO to BUSH" mobilization for Justice - Freedom &
Equality throughout the duration of Bush's Ottawa visit. This is a
child-friendly march. For full calendar of events and details visit:
http://www.nowar-paix.ca <http://www.nowar-paix.ca}

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MONDAY NOVEMBER 29th @ 2pm
Gathering Point: Lawn of the Supreme Court
301 Wellington St. - OTTAWA
{Corner of Kent & Wellington}
Details for Buses from MONTREAL & TORONTO below
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Justice, Dignity & Self-Determination is a march to express solidarity and
support for the ongoing Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation and
against the deportation of Palestinian Refugees from Canada.

On the United Nation's International Day of Solidarity with the
Palestinian people and on the eve of George W. Bush's first visit to
Ottawa, the Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees and
Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) are calling on people to
march in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for dignity and
self-determination.

The Bush administration continues a long legacy of U.S. administrations,
which have provided full economic and military backing for the illegal
Israeli occupation, attacking international efforts to force the Israeli
government into withdrawing its troops from occupied Palestine and
dismantling its illegal settlement colonies. The U.S. and Israel were
among only a hand-full of countries who voted against the implementation
of the recent International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling at the UN, that
Israel must dismantle the Apartheid Wall in the West Bank, which annexes
Israel's settlement colonies in Palestinian lands and forces two million
Palestinians into an open air prison, in violation of the Palestinian
people's right to self-determination.

The Canadian government, headed by Paul Martin, stands complicit in the
U.S. support for the illegal Israeli occupation policies, which have seen
over three thousand Palestinians, the majority of them civilians, killed
by Israeli occupation forces during the past four years. The Canadian
government's involvement in the attacks on the rights of Palestinians
stretches from its complicity with the brutal Israeli occupation to the
ongoing efforts of Citizenship and Immigration Canada to deport 100
Palestinian refugees from Canada.

This march also aims to highlight the local struggle for
self-determination of Palestinian refugees in Canada, who are fighting
against deportation, detention and for their STATUS. It is critical to
illustrate our solidarity with local communities on the front-lines of
struggles for social justice, such as Palestinian refugees in Canada, who
have already been forced by the Canadian government to live underground or
take sanctuary in churches to escape deportation to the violence of the
illegal Israeli occupation and the violence, poverty and persecution which
defines daily life in the 56-year-old Palestinian refugee camps of
Lebanon.

Join us on the streets of Ottawa, in opposition to the policies of terror,
violence and occupation inflicted on the people of Palestine, and in
solidarity with the local struggle against the deportation of Palestinian
refugees from Canada!

Join us in Ottawa! JUSTICE for Palestine!

---> BUSES FROM MONTREAL TO OTTAWA:
Leaving from Montreal to Ottawa: Monday November 29th @ 9:00 AM

LOCATION: Hall Building of Concordia University (1455 de Maisonneuve
West) ONE BUS WILL RETURN TO MONTREAL ON MONDAY Nov 29th @ 6:30 PM AND
THE OTHER BUS WILL RETURN TO MONTREAL ON TUESDAY Nov 30th @ 7:30PM

Price: $10-15 donation, 5$ donation students / unemployed Reserve a seat
in advance by contacting: 514-591-3171 / refugees at riseup.net


---> BUSES FROM TORONTO TO OTTAWA:

Leaving from Toronto to Ottawa: Monday November 29th @ 6:15 AM
LOCATION: Ryerson University (corner of Victoria and Gould)
Tickets: $40, $25 students / unemployed

Purchase tickets in advance at one of the following locations:
-> Toronto Women's Bookstore - corner Harbourd & Spadina.
-> Uprising Bookstores - Kensington Market.
-> York University OPIRG, Ontario Public Interest Research Group

Reserve a seat in advance by contacting: palestinianrefugees at yahoo.ca

This demonstration will demand from the Canadian government:

1) To respect its international legal obligations by upholding and
implementing the ICJ ruling that Israel dismantles the Apartheid Wall and
by demanding that Israel ends its illegal occupation and settlement of
Palestinian lands.

2) To stop the deportation and regularize the status of all Palestinian
refugees in Canada.

In Solidarity,
the Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees
Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR)
514 591 3171 / refugees at riseup.net / refugees.resist.ca / www.sphr.org

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