Picket to support the international campaign
for boycott, divestment and sanctions!
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19th 12h00
Indigo Bookstore
corner of St. Catherine & McGill College
(metro McGill) Montreal, Canada
http://tadamon.resist.ca/post/
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/
* 1982 Massacre at Sabra and Shatila -
http://electronicintifada.net/
---> 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@resist.ca / 514 664 1036
* Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR)
http://www.sphr.org/
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