[tadamon-l] [Montreal] Sixty years of nakba; Sixty years of apartheid: SATURDAY MAY 10th.

[Tadamon!]

* Sixty years of nakba; Sixty years of apartheid
Boycott Israeli Apartheid!

join the Boycott Apartheid bloc in the
CJPP demonstration to mark the 60th year of the NAKBA

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SATURDAY, 10 MAY 2008, 1pm
Dorchester Square
(Peel & René-Lévesque)
Montreal, Quebec
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http://tadamon.resist.ca/index.php/post/1365

* To join the bloc, look for the "Boycott Israeli Apartheid" banner, where 
we will assemble before the march begins.

* To endorse the "Boycott Apartheid Bloc", send the name of your group to 
tadamon[at]resist.ca.

This is an open call to all allies to join a 'Boycott Apartheid Bloc' to
support the march on Saturday, 10 May, organized by the Coalition for
Justice and Peace in Palestine (CJPP), marking the 60th year of the Nakba.

The creation of the state of Israel in Arab lands in 1948 was a 
catastrophe of enormous proportions, unleashing a colonial project of 
destruction and displacement which continues unabated to this day. It 
involved the levelling of villages, and the displacement of some 750 000 
Palestinians from their homeland.

Sixty years later, Palestinian refugees remain in refugee camps and 
scattered around the globe, forbidden to return because they are non-Jews, 
while Palestinians living under the control of the Israeli state face 
systematic and institutionalized discrimination under an apartheid-like 
system. Palestinians under occupation in the West Bank witness the ongoing 
colonization and the ghetto-ization of their land, and those living in 
Gaza live under a brutal siege.

Settled and supported by Europe and North America, Israel has from its 
beginning served as a regional foothold for western imperialism. Israel's 
violent attack on Lebanon in the summer of 2006, wrecking havoc on the 
delicate internal stability of that country, is only one of the more 
blatant manifestations of a neo-colonial regional agenda played out in 
part through Israel.

In July 2005, 170 Palestinian civil society organizations called on allies 
around the world to boycott Israel until it complies with international 
pressure by:

1. Ending its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands and 
dismantling the Wall;

2. Recognizing the fundamental rights of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of 
Israel to full equality; and

3. Respecting, protecting and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees 
to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN resolution 
194.

Since then, people around the world have been building an international 
campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israeli apartheid. 
In Montreal and across North America, student movements, networks of 
artists, and labor movements are joining the boycott.

On 10 May, Tadamon is calling on all allies to join a "Boycott Apartheid 
Bloc" in support of the CJPP march. The contingent will give a clear 
message that Montrealers back the international campaign to boycott 
Israeli apartheid and will no longer tolerate Canadian support for the 
violent and oppressive state of Israel.


Tadamon!
http://tadamon.resist.ca / tadamon at resist.ca / 514-664-1036

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