[tadamon-l] Montreal: Remembering Sabra and Shatila. Friday September 19th.

[Tadamon!]

* Remembering Sabra and Shatila: End Israeli Apartheid!

Picket to support the international campaign
for boycott, divestment and sanctions!

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19th 12h00
Indigo Bookstore
corner of St. Catherine & McGill College
(metro McGill) Montreal, Canada
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http://tadamon.resist.ca/post/1664

September 2008 marks the twenty-sixth anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila 
massacre in which over two thousand Palestinian refugees lost their lives 
in Beirut, Lebanon.

Palestinian and Jewish Unity (PAJU), Solidarity for Palestinian Human 
Rights (SPHR) and Tadamon! are calling on people to mark this anniversary 
by participating in the weekly picket outside Indigo bookstore in downtown 
Montreal, as part of the Canada-wide campaign to boycott Chapters/Indigo 
bookstore whose majority shareholders are key supporters of Israeli 
apartheid in Canada.

In September 1982 Israeli forces under the command of Ariel Sharon, 
provided logistical support for Lebanese right-wing militias who carried 
out the brutal massacre of thousands of Palestinian civilians in Sabra and 
Shatila. Israeli forces blockaded the civilian refugee camps as armed 
militiamen invaded, launching a brutal attack on Palestinian civilians.

Until today no Israeli or Lebanese military commanders or officials behind 
the massacre have been held accountable for the crimes against humanity 
committed in Sabra and Shatila.

In 2008, Israel's brutality against the Palestinian people continues, as 
apartheid policies grip millions of Palestinians living under Israeli 
military occupation in the West Bank and Gaza. In the past year Israel has 
maintained a military siege on Gaza, launching systematic attacks on 
civilians, leaving hundreds of Palestinians dead and an entire population 
starved of basic resources.

A boycott campaign targeting Chapters/Indigo was launched in December 2006 
to target the majority shareholders of Indigo/Chapters, Heather Reisman 
and Gerry Schwartz, who established the "HESEG Foundation for Lone 
Soldiers", a program of financial support for former 'lone soldiers', 
non-Israelis mercenaries who fight in the Israeli military. Israeli 'lone 
soldiers' participated in the 2006 devastating military attack on the 
people of Lebanon and continue to enforce the illegal occupation of the 
West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Across Canada a growing number of people are supporting the Boycott 
Chapters/Indigo campaign in the context of the international campaign to 
push for boycott, divestment and sanctions against the apartheid state of 
Israel.

---> for more information visit:

* Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions Against Israeli Apartheid
http://tadamon.resist.ca/index.php/campaigns/boycott-divestment-and-sanctions-against-israeli-apartheid

* 1982 Massacre at Sabra and Shatila - 
http://electronicintifada.net/bytopic/145.shtml


---> for information on the picket contact:

* Palestinian and Jewish Unity (PAJU)
514 961 3928 / http://www.pajumontreal.org

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

* Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR)
http://www.sphr.org/

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