[van-announce] Feb. 18: The Blockade of Gaza and Canada's role - with Ehab Lotayef; Introduction by Libby Davies

[Charlotte Kates]

 February 18: Blockade of Gaza and Canada’s
role<http://www.boycottisraeliapartheid.org/2012/february-18-blockade-of-gaza-and-canadas-role/>
*Israeli navy steals Canadian boat – The blockade of Gaza & Canada’s role*

*Saturday, 18 February, 2012 – 7:00 – 10:00 PM*
*Alice McKay Room-Vancouver Public Library – 350 West Georgia*
*Vancouver, BC*

Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/events/196604000434927/

*Ehab Lotayef*

*Poet and activist from Montreal*

*Introduction by Libby Davies*

Ehab Lotayef will give his firsthand account of the Freedom Waves to Gaza
which took place in November, when Irish and Canadian boats tried to break
the Israeli blockade of Gaza.

A poet and activist from Montreal, Lotayef was on board the Canadian boat,
the Tahrir, when it was seized by the Israeli navy in international waters.
Freedom Waves is part of an ongoing global solidarity movement challenging
the blockade of Gaza and working for the freedom for Palestine.

Admission free

Organized by the Vancouver Committee of the Canadian Boat to Gaza.

This event is part of a cross-Canada tour organized by the Canadian Boat to
Gaza and sponsored by Independent Jewish Voices (IJV), the Council of
Canadians, the Canadian Peace Alliance, the Canadian Arab Federation.

Local endorsers: ADALA- the Canadian Arab Justice Committee, Alex
Atamanenko, Boycott Israeli Apartheid Committee, Building Bridges, Canadian
Palestine Association, CanPalNet, Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights,
Stopwar, The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Vancouver District
Labour Council, Westcoast Sheen, Women’s International League for Peace and
Freedom, World Peace Forum

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Charlotte L. Kates     charlotte.kates at gmail.com