New report details Palestinian plight
Middle East Times by John Zarocostas.
Photo: Israeli military demolishing Palestinian homes in Gaza.
Geneva: The economic and social situation of workers in the occupied Palestinian territories has deteriorated alarmingly, with the Gaza Strip the most severely affected, according to an International Labor Organization report published Thursday.
Movie addresses Israel’s role in Sabra-Shatila massacre
Agence France Presse (AFP). Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Photo: Stefan Christoff. Shatila refugee camp in Beirut.
Palestinians press for action on rebuilding Nahr al-Bared
Daily Star. Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Photo: Mary Ellen Davis. Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in ruins.
BEIRUT: Palestinian refugees across Lebanon staged rallies on Tuesday to mark the first anniversary of the conflict at the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp during which they stressed the need to reconstruct the camp and realize their right to return to [...]
Photos: Solidarité sans frontières, marche du 4 mai 2008
Sixty Years of Nakba: Sixty Years of Resistance!
May Actions Against Israeli Apartheid in Montreal.
Join in Actions & Events taking place in Montreal throughout the month of
May 2008, which marks sixty years of struggle against Israeli apartheid.
Israel is suppressing a secret it must face
How did a Jewish state founded 60 years ago
end up throwing filth at cowering Palestinians?
by Johann Hari, the Independent, Monday, April 28th.
When you hit your 60th birthday, most of you will guzzle down your hormone replacement therapy with a glass of champagne and wonder if you have become everything you dreamed of in your youth. [...]
Nadine Gordimer: Stand against Israel’s apartheid too
Open letter, Dr. Haider Eid, 25 April 2008
Following is an edited open letter from Gaza lecturer Dr. Haider Eid
to Nobel Prize-winning South African author Nadine Gordimer…
I am a Palestinian lecturer in Cultural Studies living in Gaza. I happen to also have South African citizenship as a result of my marriage to a citizen of that [...]
Artists Against Apartheid III
bridges from South Africa to Palestine…
THURSDAY, MAY 8th, 8:30pm
Doors: 8-15$
La Sala Rossa, 4848 St. Laurent
Montreal, Quebec
Egypt police shoot two Africans trying to cross into Israel
Haaretz. April 20th, 2008.
Photo: Egypt/’Israel’ border.
Egyptian police shot and wounded two Africans, from Mali and Kenya, who tried to slip over Egypt’s desert frontier into Israel on Sunday, security sources said.
Lebanon: Nearly 300 people killed or wounded since 2006
Daily Star by By Anthony Elghossain. Saturday, April 5th, 2008
Photo: Beirut 2006.
BEIRUT: Nearly 300 people have been killed or injured in South Lebanon by unexploded ordnance dropped by Israel just before the cease-fire that halted the 2006 summer war, and more than half of the areas originally contaminated by cluster bomblets have yet to be [...]
Middle East Popular Education Project
Quebec April 2008. Tadamon! & l’Association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante (ASSÉ) present…
A popular education initiative in Montreal emerging from social justice networks struggling against racism, war and occupation from the Middle East to Montreal…
Monday, April 21st 12Noon, Cégep Bois de Boulogne
student-run café: le Caféinné
Solidarity with Indigenous Political Prisoners incarcerated by Canadian Government
Palestinian grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, April 12th, 2008.
Photo: Northern Ontario graffiti on Trans-Canada highway.
Israel Escalates War Crimes inside the Gaza Strip
Palestinian Center for Human Rights. April, 12th, 2008
Image: Ben Heine. Stop the Siege on Gaza!
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) escalated its war crimes in the Gaza Strip disregarding the lives of civilians, who are paying the price of this escalation. Last Friday, 9 Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip. Seven of the victims, including 6 [...]
A different vision for Israel
Toronto Star. Apr 12, 2008. by Stuart Laidlaw.
Photo: Graffiti on the Apartheid wall in Palestine.
Diana Ralph grew up in a progressive Jewish family in postwar America. Her father’s work as a lawyer at the Nuremberg war crime trials, when she was still an infant, cemented his support for the state of Israel.
But when his daughter, [...]
Apartheid: from South Africa to Palestine
opening panel at Study in Action…
THURSDAY, APRIL 17th, 6:30pm
De Sève Cinema
1400 de Maisonneuve West
Concordia University, Library Building
(metro Guy-Concordia)