[tadamon-l] [Montreal] Saturday! Break the Siege on Gaza! Picket at Indigo Bookstore...

[Tadamon!]

* Break the Siege on Gaza!
boycott Israeli Apartheid & it's supporters...

---> Picket at Indigo Bookstore:

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23rd: 1pm - 3pm
St. Catherine St., west of McGill College - metro Peel

International day of action in solidarity with the people of Gaza 
initiated by the Popular Committee Against Siege - Gaza City...

* part of the cross-Canada boycott campaign
against Indigo/Chapters bookstores.

http://tadamon.resist.ca/index.php/post/1187

Gaza Strip remains under siege. Until today Israel continues to impose 
collective punishment on the 1.5 million Palestinians of Gaza, who face 
chronic shortages of electricity, fuel, food and basic necessities in the 
context of an ongoing campaign of military violence executed by the 
apartheid state of Israel.

Israel's sanctions, unilaterally imposed on Gaza, are enforced through an 
illegal military occupation, that in recent months has lead to the total 
closure of all entry and exit points into Gaza. UN officials recently 
observed that the "situation has deteriorated into a full-fledged 
emergency because of the cutoff of vital supplies for Palestinians." As a 
result of Israeli actions, Gaza has become a giant prison.

Canada stands complicit in the ongoing campaign of starvation, military 
violence and terror directed at the people of Gaza.

Canada's Conservative government has developed an international reputation 
as the most pro-Israeli government in the world, standing against 
Palestinian human rights and self-determination at all moments possible, 
within the United Nations and through the growing bilateral relations with 
the apartheid state of Israel.

As the Canadian supported and Israeli imposed siege on the Gaza Strip 
continues it is essential for people internationally to support the 
growing international campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions 
against Israeli apartheid to support the demands of the July 2005 
grassroots appeal: full equality for Arab citizens of Israel; an end to 
the occupation and colonization of the West Bank and Gaza; and the 
implementation of the right of return and compensation for Palestinian 
refugees pursuant to UN resolution 194.

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 defence 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.

Organized by the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid & Tadamon!
supported by the Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine (CJPP)...

* Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid: http://caiaweb.org/

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

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