[IPSM] Friday! DEMONSTRATION in Solidarity with Palestine - Refugee Camps Are No One's Home

[No One is Illegal Montreal]

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Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 01:30:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: Palestinian Refugees - Montreal <refugees at riseup.net>


DEMONSTRATION! - REFUGEE CAMPS ARE NO ONE'S HOME!
Tear Down the Apartheid Wall in Palestine!

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FRIDAY MAY 6th, 6pm
Gathering Point: Guy & de Maisonneuve
(Metro Guy Concordia)
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Bring your signs, banners, flags, and other symbols of Palestinian
resistance!

This is a call for your solidarity and participation in a demonstration 
organized by the Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugee 
and the International Solidarity Movement in Montreal. This demonstration 
aims to highlight the Palestinian struggle for self-determination in 
Montreal, Palestine and throughout the world.

In Montreal and throughout Canada upwards of 100 Palestinian refugeeS 
continue to face deportation from Canada at the hands of Citizenship and 
Immigration Canada. For over 2 years, those Palestinian refugees facing 
deportation have continued to organize collectively against deportation, 
detention and for their status, actively engaging in political campaigns 
in Toronto, Montreal & Vancouver with the support of thousands of people 
across the country and the world. The struggle against Palestinian 
deportations continues within the context of a larger movement of 
immigrants and refugees throughout Canada, who are standing up to the 
racist policies of Citizenship and Immigration Canada.

In Palestine the struggle against Israeli occupation, colonialism and for 
liberation continues on a daily basis. The Israeli state continues the 
construction of the Apartheid Wall in Palestine, this past February 2005, 
Ariel Sharon's government approved the final route of the wall. Upon final 
approval, Israeli occupation forces have moved forward with the wall's 
construction at a tremendous speed, Palestinian villages such as Biddu, 
Beit Surik, Bil'in, Rafat, and Hebron have seen the total devastation of 
their agricultural and residential lands during the past month, but 
resistance is on the rise in Palestine.

The time for international solidarity with the Palestinian struggle 
against Israeli occupation and the ongoing construction of the Apartheid 
Wall is now! Repeated calls from occupied Palestine for international 
support and solidarity have been sounded and here in Montreal we plan to 
take the streets in solidarity.

The Canadian government remains both complicit and also actively engaged 
with the war against Palestinians at home and abroad. At home Immigration 
Canada continues its policy of deportation of Palestinians back to both 
occupied Palestine and the war-torn Palestinian refugee camps of Lebanon. 
Abroad the Canadian government remains a silent partner in the ongoing 
colonization of Palestine. Recently the Canadian government refused to 
vote in favor of a resolution at the United Nations to condemn the Israeli 
Apartheid Wall, illustrating clearly the Canadian government's complicity 
with ongoing Israeli occupation and colonialism, which is destroying 
Palestinians lives.

We must stand united with Palestinians in Montreal and in Palestine in 
their struggle for self-determination, justice and dignity! We will take 
the streets of Montreal in solidarity with Palestinians in Canada who are 
struggling for status and in Palestine who continue to resist the 
Apartheid Wall and Israeli occupation.

Down with the Apartheid Wall!
Stop the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees from Canada!

In Solidarity,
the Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees
the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) - Montreal

Info: 514 398 3323 / refugees at riseup.net / http://refugees.resist.ca

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