[tadamon-l] [Montreal] Picket! Chapters/Indigo: Remember the 2006 Qana Massacre, SATURDAY, JULY 28th.

[Tadamon!]

Remember the 2006 Qana Massacre in LEBANON.
Boycott Israeli Apartheid! Picket Indigo/Chapters!

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SATURDAY, JULY 28th, 1pm - 3pm
Chapters/Indigo Bookstore
North-West corner of St. Catherine & McGill College
[McGill Metro]
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On July 30th, 2006, Israel's air-force bombed the town of Qana in southern 
Lebanon, hitting a three-story apartment block in which Lebanese refugees 
fleeing the bombardments had taken shelter. The building collapsed under 
Israeli bombs, burying the people inside and killing many, including at least 
16 children.

Human Rights Watch denounced Israel's military action as a "war crime", noting 
a consistent failure on the part of Israel to distinguish between civilians and 
combatants in its 34-day assault on Lebanon last summer.

Over ten years previously, Israel shelled Qana during the "Grapes of Wrath" 
military assault on Lebanon. In 1996, Israel hit a United Nations compound 
where an estimated 800 Lebanese civilians had taken refuge from the Israeli 
bombardment. An estimated 106 civilians were killed and many injured according 
to the UN.

A investigation conducted by the UN concluded that "it is unlikely that the 
shelling of the United Nations compound was the result of gross technical 
and/or procedural errors" on the part of the Israeli military. In short the 
attack on Qana was a targeted military attack on Lebanese civilians.

Israel must be held accountable for its war crimes in Lebanon, Palestine & 
throughout the Middle East region. Join us on Saturday, July 28th to remember 
the 2nd Qana massacre, and to support the growing boycott movement targeting 
Israeli apartheid. Israel's destabilizing role in the Middle East region will 
never end until the unsustainable, unjust apartheid system, on which Israel is 
based, falls.

This special picket to remember the Qana massacre is part of a weekly picket of 
the downtown Montreal Chapters/Indigo bookstore as part of a national boycott 
campaign.

A Canada-wide boycott of Chapters/Indigo bookstore was launched in December 
2006 to oppose the support that Heather Reisman and Gerry Schwartz, the 
company's majority shareholders, give to Israeli apartheid.

Reisman and Schwartz have established a fund called "the HESEG Foundation for 
Lone Soldiers", a program of financial support for former 'lone soldiers', 
non-Israelis who fight in the Israeli military, in defense of apartheid and 
occupation. Israeli 'Lone Soldiers' participated in last year's military attack 
on the people of Lebanon.

At its peak, HESEG will distribute up to $3M a year to provide scholarships and 
other benefits to former 'Lone Soldiers' who remain in Israel.

As long as the majority shareholders maintain their financial links with HESEG, 
this campaign are calling on everyone to stop buying from Chapters, World's 
Biggest Bookstore, SmithBooks, Coles, the Book Company and Indigospirit.


---> For more information about the boycott of Indigo/Chapters in Canada...

* Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (Toronto)
Resource page: www.caiaweb.org/indigoboycott


---> For more information on the Qana Massacre in Lebanon...

* BBC: Qana makes grim history again
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5228554.stm

* Massacre in Sanctuary; Eyewitness, Robert Fisk.
http://www.robert-fisk.com/articles18.htm

* Electronic Lebanon: Human Rights and Development
http://electronicintifada.net/bytopic/455.shtml


---> More information about the international movement of Boycott, Divestment 
and Sanctions against Israeli Apartheid...

* Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (Toronto)
Resource page: http://www.caiaweb.org/indigoboycott


---> More information about the international movement of Boycott, Divestment 
and Sanctions against Israeli Apartheid...

* Palestine Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
Against Israel Campaign: http://www.bds-palestine.net

* Palestinian grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall
Campaign: http://www.stopthewall.org

* Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel: 
http://www.pacbi.org


---> For more information:

* the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid.
email: bdsmontreal at gmail.com
tel: + 514 941 9792

* Tadamon! Montreal.
email: tadamon at resist.ca
tel: + 514 664 1036
web: http://tadamon.resist.ca

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