[pr-x] Left Film Night - Friday, July 31, 8:00 pm - Land Defenders From Secwepemc to Palestine

[Kimball Cariou]

    Left Film Night: Land Defenders From Secwepemc to Palestine

Friday, July 31, 8 pm

Outdoor Left Film Night: Resisting Colonialism & Displacement From 
Secwepemc to Gaza

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The second outdoor Left Film Night is at Woodland Park (705 Woodland 
Drive,one block east of the Centre for Socialist Education, 706 Clark 
Drive, Vancouver). Bring your folding chairs or blankets, face masks and 
sanitizer, and please be respectful of social distancing measures.

  Hosted by Young Communist League-Vancouver, Canada Palestine 
Association, and Communist Party of Canada- UBC Club.

Short Film Festival Featuring Empire Files on Palestinian Struggles & 
Tiny House Warriors Secwepemc TMX Resistance Mini-Doc

About the Struggles:

  Free Free Palestine

  For 72 years, the Palestinian people have been fighting for 
recognition of their own state in the image of their national 
aspirations. Throughout this time, the Israeli apartheid state has 
organized the deadliest raids, in total violation of human rights and in 
total violation of international law.

Today, Palestinians continue to struggle against ongoing displacement 
from their homelands. Currently, more than 5,248,000 live in refugee 
camps because Israel denies Palestinians the right to return. In 
contrast, more than 375,000 Israeli settlers are implanted in about 150 
settlements in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Syrian Golan, an 
unacceptable breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention.

In the face of ongoing colonization and increasing imperialist 
aggression, Palestinians resisting this violence have been persecuted by 
the Israeli state. There are now approximately 5000 Palestinian 
political prisoners in Israeli jails, including many children. Amidst 
the COVID-19 crisis, Palestinian political prisoners face even more 
threats to their safety and health, which is continuing to be neglected 
by the Israeli apartheid state. In fact, Israel has gone as far as 
raiding and shutting down Palestinian Testing Clinics in East Jerusalem, 
while arresting activists providing testing kits to people, though 
knowing that overcrowded living conditions can lead to a rapid spread of 
the virus. The Israeli siege of the Gaza strip and West Bank have turned 
these territories into open-air prisons, in which people have already 
been kept in lockdown conditions prior to the COVID-19 crisis, and are 
now facing even greater danger being one of the most densely populated 
places in the world where the virus can spread at a very fast rate. Now 
more than ever, we need to oppose Israel’s siege and settlements, where 
Palestinians face violent oppression, imprisonment and death.

Despite this however, Imperialist countries, most notably the United 
States, have done everything in their power to increase Israel’s 
stronghold on Palestinian lands-- doing what they can to impede 
Palestinian self-determination. Recently, Donald Trump proposed his 
supposed “deal of the century”, which is nothing more than a plan for 
ongoing occupation. Trump’s plan, backed by Benjamin Netanyahu, aims to 
cede control of the eastern border with Jordan to Israel, while also 
proposes to place the Palestinian capital on the eastern outskirts of 
Jerusalem rather than East Jerusalem itself, ultimately strengthening 
Israeli settlements while disempowering Palestinians and their right to 
sovereignty

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The Tiny House Warriors Description from their Website: “Our Land is 
Home is a part of a mission to stop the Trans Mountain pipeline from 
crossing unceded Secwepemc Territory. Ten tiny houses will be built and 
placed strategically along the 518 km Trans Mountain pipeline route to 
assert Secwepemc Law and jurisdiction and block access to this pipeline. 
The pipeline is one of the most serious threats to our Territories.

We have never provided and will never provide our collective free, prior 
and informed consent – the minimal international standard – to the Trans 
Mountain Pipeline Project.
The Tiny House Warrior movement is the start of re-establishing village 
sites and asserting our authority over our unceded Territories. Each 
tiny house will provide housing to Secwepemc families facing a housing 
crisis due to deliberate colonial impoverishment. Each home will 
eventually be installed with off-the-grid solar power.”

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End the silence. Fight in solidarity with Palestinian and Indigenous 
peoples. Support all Land Defenders. From Secwepemc to Palestine, 
Liberation is a constant Struggle!

This event takes place on the traditional, unceded, occupied territories 
of the səlil̓wətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and 
xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations. In acknowledging this, we must be in 
solidarity with the struggles of the peoples of the territory in which 
we occupy.



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