[van-announce] Sun, Nov. 18 - NEXT VANCOUVER PROTEST FOR GAZA!

[Razan A.R.]

*Please Forward Widely!*

EMERGENCY RALLY: GAZA UNDER ISRAELI ATTACK!

2 PM - Sunday November 18 2012
Vancouver Art Gallery (Robson Side)
Hornby and Robson Sts - Vancouver
Invite all your friends: http://www.facebook.com/events/380401652040888/

Israel's attack on Gaza continues as Israeli officials continue to
threaten a "ground invasion," while the Canadian government expresses
its utmost support for the ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza, which has
so far killed over 30 Palestinians. Dozens of bombing raids continue
daily.

In Vancouver and hundreds of cities around the world, voices have
risen in the streets in solidarity with Gaza and the Palestinian
people under Israeli fire. See video of Thursday night march:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K56TNz_xi1U&feature=youtu.be. The
transnational Palestinian Youth Movement has called upon people around
the world to come back to the streets on SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18. Join us
on the Robson Side of the Vancouver Art Gallery at 2 PM on Sunday. As
Israel threatens to "escalate," our resistance and solidarity must
escalate!

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Call from PYM:

In an effort to amplify our outrage against Operation Pillar of
Defense and support the people of Gaza, the Palestinian Youth Movement
(PYM) urges all members and allies to demonstrate, protest, and hold
sit-ins in as many cities as possible on SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18th. Let
the world hear our indignation to end this brutal invasion! .

We urge all people of conscience from around the world to take to the
streets and protest against this heinous offensive being launched by
the imperialist Zionist state against the people of Gaza. We implore
you to stand up and resist this reprehensible act of aggression
against our people. Do not let one more Palestinian life be lost.

Stand with our people in Gaza as they heroically sacrifice their lives
and remain at the forefront of our struggle for liberation, return,
and justice. We must continue to amplify our voices in praise and
support, for their unwavering and steadfast resistance against this
vile Zionist attack that indiscriminately annihilates Palestinians.

It is the time to harness the revolutionary power that has kept our
resistance alive, despite our darkest moments, and that now lives in
the hearts of our Arab brothers and sisters fighting for dignity.
Their struggle is not isolated from nor has ever forgotten the
Palestinian struggle for liberation and return. Without their
sacrifices, we would not have approached a new, powerfully
re-positioned Arab world that is morally and physically reinforcing
renewed efforts of Palestinian resistance against Zionism’s
intolerable imperialist assault on the Arab nation. Our hunger for
justice and freedom can only be nourished by exercising our legitimate
right to resist.

This offensive is being carried out right now, today, with the
complicity of our silence, with the support of our governments and
international institutions, and is part and parcel of the global
imperialist system that wreaks havoc and destroys other communities
throughout the world.

Declare loud and clear, that we will no longer be bullied into
non-existence and complicity. Let us not wait for this offensive to
escalate and be remembered as another Palestinian massacre, like those
we have born witness to since 1948. It is our duty and time to uplift
the banner of justice, until return and liberation to all of historic
Palestine.


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Charlotte L. Kates     charlotte.kates at gmail.com