* Demonstration: Solidarity with Gaza
commemorate Palestinian victims of Israeli massacre in Gaza
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28th, 13h00, 2008
Norman Bethune Square
corner: Guy & de Maisonneuve
(metro Guy-Concordia)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
In response to the latest massacre of Palestinians executed by the Israeli
apartheid regime.
At least 200 Palestinians have been killed in the latest Israeli assault
on the Gaza Strip, while the threat for further bloodshed still hands
heavily over the skies in Palestine as the current Israeli assault over
Gaza continues.
This is the single largest massacre in Gaza since Israel illegally
occupied Gaza in 1967, many among the dead are civilians and the numbers
keeps mounting.
Israel's military operation "Cast Lead" has echoes of previous Israeli
raids into Gaza that have been characterized by indiscriminate attacks on
civilian population centers, mass detentions, violent house demolitions
and other forms of collective punishment against the Palestinian people.
Additionally this demonstration will address the Canadian government's
total support towards Israel, best exemplified increased bilateral
military, political and economic links.
Israel's latest massacre in Gaza occurs with official Canadian complicity
towards Israel's illegal siege and ongoing sanctions over the civilian
population in Gaza. Over the past two years the Gaza Strip has been
undergoing the daily violence of a wide-ranging humanitarian catastrophe
triggered by severely reduced access to energy, food, and medicines. In
effect, Gaza is the world's largest open air prison.
At this moment, we can only reaffirm our commitment in the strongest
possible terms to continue mobilizing friends and allies in other
progressive social movements to respond to the call by over 170
Palestinian civil society organizations for a comprehensive campaign of
boycott, sanctions and divestment (BDS).
As H.E. Father Miguel D'Escoto Brockman, President of the United Nations
General Assembly state in a recent speech: "More than twenty years ago we in
the United Nations took the lead from civil society when we agreed that
sanctions were required to provide a nonviolent means of pressuring South
Africa to end its violations. Today, perhaps we in the United Nations should
consider following the lead of a new generation of civil society, who are
calling for a similar non-violent campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions
to pressure Israel to end its violations."
Join us on the streets tomorrow as people of conscience to stand in
solidarity with the Palestinian people of Gaza and an end to Israeli
apartheid.
organized by:
Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) and Tadamon!
Tadamon! (Arabic for 'solidarity'), is a Montreal-based collective which works
in solidarity with struggles for self-determination, equality and justice in
the "Middle East" and in diaspora communities in Montreal and beyond. Tadamon!
ongoing political campaigns operating in Canada, including the campaign for
boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israeli apartheid state.
http://www.tadamon.ca/
in California with People of Gaza
BAY AREA:
1) Sunday Dec. 28: Emergency Demo in SF. Meet at Market and Powell at 12PM.
2) Monday Dec. 29: Silent Vigil at Feinstein's Office (Montgomery and Market) 5PM. Bring candles, posters, banners; wear black. Rain or Shine.
3) Tuesday Dec. 30: Rally in front of Israeli Consulate (456 Montgomery St.) 5PM.
SoCAL:
1) Sunday Dec. 28: Emergency Demo for Gaza in Anaheim 512 S. Brookhurst St. between Orange Ave. & Broadway, 2 PM.
2) Tuesday Dec. 30: Rally in front of Israeli Consulate (6380 Wilshire Blvd.) 4:30PM.
CARAMA
Coalition of Arabs and Muslims in America
Arizona Chapter
Urgent Announcement
Please distribute widely
Protest the “Israeli” massacre in Gaza
Condemn the U.S support to the Zionist state
Tomorrow
Sunday, December 28 2008
2pm-4pm
1 E Camelback Rd
Phoenix, AZ 85012
Corner of Camelback and Central
Downtown Phoenix
Protest will be held in front of
The Anti Defamation League “ADL” building
The Zionist lobby organization and “Israel” biggest defenders and ally in Arizona
Sponsored by
CARAMA-Coalition of Arabs and Muslims in America/Phoenix Chapter
SJP-Student for Justice in Palestine/ASU
Al-Awda-the right of return organization/ Phoenix Chapter
Almahdi Foundation/Tempe
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 27th, 2008 Toronto Canada
Stop the Massacres, Let Gaza Live
Last night Israel announced the end of the blockade of Gaza and this morning they bombed over 280 Gazans to death and wounded over 700, and the threat of further killings still hangs heavily over the skies of Palestine as the current Israeli assault over Gaza continues.
This is the single largest massacre in Gaza since Israel illegally occupied the area in 1967. The numbers of dead are mounting, especially as the already limited medical supplies are running out due to the brutal siege of Gaza since 2005.
This is a war crime on an industrial scale.
We call on the federal opposition parties to ask the Harper Government to condemn the Israeli massacre of the Palestinian people in Gaza .
There will be a demonstration outside the Israeli Consulate in Toronto
Where: 180 Bloor Street West
When: 2:00 p.m. on Sunday 28th December 2008.
Supported so far by:
Canadian Arab Federation
Palestine House
Women in Solidarity with Palestine (WSP)
Islamic Society of York Region
Not In Our Name (NION): Jewish Voices Opposing Zionism
Somali Canadian Diaspora Alliance
Muslim Association of Hamilton
International Jewish anti-Zionist Network – Toronto
Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid
Niagara Palestinian Association
Al-Huda Lebanese Muslim Society
Hamilton Coalition Against the War
Palestinian Association of Hamilton
No War - Paix
Yosher
Independent Jewish Voices
Iraqi Canadian Society
NECEF
Educators for Peace and Justice
Teachers for Palestine
Stop the Massacre of Palestinians!
Tuesday, December 30: National Day of Action
Emergency Demonstrations on Tuesday, December 30 and other days (listed below)
The ANSWER Coalition, Muslim American Society Freedom, Free Palestine Alliance, National Council of Arab Americans, and Al-Awda, International Palestine Right to Return Coalition are calling for Tuesday, December 30 to be a National Day of Action to show solidarity with the Palestinian people in Gaza and to demand an immediate end to the murderous attacks carried out by the Israeli military against the people of Gaza.
In Washington, D.C., there will be a demonstration at the State Department at 4:30 pm. Demonstrations will also be held in cities around the country. See below for an initial list. If there is a demonstration in your city, email the details to info@answercoalitio n.org so it can be posted on the ANSWER Coalition website and listed in any future emails.
Hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza have been massacred and wounded today as Israel has launched a massive bombing campaign against the people of Gaza. The bombing rampage took place as thousands of Palestinian children were in the streets on their way home from school. Palestinian parents were running frantically in the streets looking for their children as U.S.-provided F-16s and Apache helicopters rained down more than 100 bombs and missiles on Gaza.The U.S.-backed Israeli Occupation Force destroyed every security station in Gaza. AFP reported: "There was no space left in the morgue and bodies were piled up in the emergency room and in the corridors, as many of the wounded screamed in pain."
Because of the U.S.-backed Israeli blockade and strangulation of the people of Gaza for the past 18 months there is little or no medicine to treat the wounded, electricity for hospitals, or food or clean water for much of the population.
An Israeli military spokesperson said, "The operation is 'only just beginning'." The Israeli Defense Ministry said in a statement: "The action will continue and will widen as much as is demanded according to the evaluation of the situation by the high command of the army."
Take Action:
- Demonstrations Across the Country
- Send a letter to the State Department and Congress
Washington, D.C.
Tuesday, December 30
4:30 pm
State Department: 22nd St & C St NW
Contact: 202-544-3389 x14, dc@answercoalition. org
San Francisco
Tuesday, December 30
5:00 pm
Israeli Consulate:456 Montgomery St.
Contact: 415-821-6545, answer@answersf. org
Los Angeles
Tuesday, December 30
4:30 pm
Israeli Consulate: 6380 Wilshire Blvd.
Contact: 213-251-1025, answerla@answerla. org
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In Anaheim, CA (Orange County):
Sunday, December 28
2:00 pm
512 S. Brookhurst St. (between Orange Ave. & Broadway)
Initiated by a coalition with a large number of groups
New York City
Tuesday, December 30
5:00 pm
Israeli Consulate: 800 2nd Ave (b/w 42nd and 43rd Sts)
Contact: 212-694-8720, nyc@answercoalition .org
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Sunday, December 28
2:00-4:00 pm
Gather at Rockefeller Center
March to the Israeli Consulate: 800 2nd Ave (b/w 42nd and 43rd Sts)
Initiated by Al-Awda New York
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Tuesday, December 30
5:00 pm
Federal Building: 299 E. Broward Blvd.
Contact: 954-707-0155, FtLauderdale@ answerfl. org
Chicago
Details to be announced
Contact: 773-463-0311, answer@chicagoanswe r.net
Boston
Details to be announced
Contact: 857-334-5084, boston@answercoalit ion.org
Seattle
Saturday, January 3
12:00 noon - 2:00 pm
Westlake Park: 4th and Pine
Initiated by Voices of Palestine
Contact: general@voicesofpal estine.org
Toronto
Sunday, December 28
2:00 pm
Israeli Embassy Consulate: 180 Bloor St. West
Initiated by a number of local organizations
If there is a demonstration in your city, email the details to info@answercoalitio n.org so it can be posted on the ANSWER Coalition website and listed in any future emails.
Send a letter to the State Department and Congress: Join with people around the country and around the world who are demanding an end to U.S. aid to Israel. This is an urgent situation and we must all act now. You can send a letter with our easy click and send system demanding an end to U.S. aid to Israel. Without U.S. aid, the Israeli military attacks, siege and blockade of Gaza could not be continued. Click this link now to send a letter to the State Department and elected officials in Congress.
You can help to support this important organizing effort by making a financial contribution today. Click here to donate online, where you can also find information on how to contribute by check.
Free Palestine Alliance Statement: To read a statement from the Free Palestine Alliance, click here.
Emergency Protests to Stop the
Attacks on Gaza
The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation has compiled the following list of events taking place in the United States and Canada to protest Israel's attacks yesterday on the occupied Gaza Strip. If you know of an event that is not included, please send the details to us by clicking here. Inclusion of an event does not imply endorsement by the US Campaign. Below the list of events is our action alert from yesterday with suggested steps that you can take to protest these attacks. CALIFORNIA Anaheim Sunday, December 28, 2:00 pm Los Angeles Tuesday, December 30, 4:30 pm San Francisco EMERGENCY ACTION! STOP THE ATTACK ON GAZA Silent Vigil at Feinstein's Office Co-Sponsored by Direct Action to Stop the War; the Middle East Children's Alliance; Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism; SF Women in Black Tuesday, December 30, 5:00 pm Contact: 415-821-6545, answer@answersf.org DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washington, DC Friday, January 9, 12:00PM FLORIDA Fort Lauderdale Tuesday, December 30, 5:00 pm Chicago Details to be announced MASSACHUSETTS Boston Wednesday, December 31, 2:00PM Details to be announced MINNESOTA Protests at Senator Amy Klobuchar and Congressman Keith Ellison's offices Tuesday December 30th No "holding their feet to the fire" but instead hold them accountable. U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar Minneapolis Rochester Office Moorhead Office Iron Range Office Keith Ellison office Minneapolis office is located at: NEW YORK New York City Monday, December 29, 5:00PM Tuesday, December 30, 5:00 pm OHIO Columbus Sunday December 28th - 5:00 PM Toronto Sunday, December 28, 2:00 pm WASHINGTON Seattle |
As of this writing, Israeli Air Force attacks today on the occupied Gaza Strip killed an estimated 200 or more people and injured hundreds more. These Israeli attacks come on top of a brutal siege of the Gaza Strip, which has created a humanitarian catastrophe of dire proportions for Gaza's 1.5 million Palestinian residents by restricting the provision of food, fuel, medicine, electricity, and other necessities of life.
While the scope of civilian casualties in today's attacks is not yet clear, it is unmistakable that Israel carried out these attacks with F16 fighter jets and missiles provided by the taxpayers of this country. From 2001-2006, the United States transferred to Israel more than $200 million worth of spare parts to fly its fleet of F16's. In July 2008, the United States gave Israel 186 million gallons of JP-8 aviation jet fuel. Last year, the United States signed a $1.3 billion contract with Raytheon to transfer to Israel thousands of TOW, Hellfire, and "bunker buster" missiles.
In short, Israel's lethal attack today on the Gaza Strip could not have happened without the active military and political support of the United States. Therefore, we need to take action to protest this attack and demand an immediate cease-fire.
1. Contact the White House to protest the attack and demand an immediate cease-fire. Call 202-456-1111 or send an email to comments@whitehouse.gov. 5. Organize a local protest or vigil and tell us about it by clicking here.
TAKE ACTION
2. Contact the State Department at 202-647-6575 or send an email by clicking here.
3. Contact your Representative and Senators in Congress at 202-224-3121 or find contact info for your Members of Congress by clicking here.
4. Contact your local media by phoning into a talk show or writing a letter to the editor. To find contact info for your local media, click here.
6. Sign our open letter to President-Elect Obama calling for a new U.S. policy toward Israel/Palestine and find out other steps you can take to influence the incoming Administration by clicking here.
30 seconds for Gaza - please...
On Saturday, Dec. 27th, Israel killed over 230 Palestinians, and wounded over 400. In a press statement, Canada's minister of foreign affairs excused Israel's attack as "self defence." Please click on the link below to tell our Canadian political leaders that the madness in Gaza has gone on far too long. Canada must call for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire. Please do this for the sake of Gaza and its people.
Please click here to go to our email submit form.
EMERGENCY RALLIES PROTEST ISRAELI BOMBING MASSACRE IN THE GAZA STRIP
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Yesterday about mid-morning local time, the Israeli Air Force despatched more than 100 tonnes of bombs in 60 or more F-16 fighter aircraft and attacked the civilian population of the Gaza Strip. Today they continued bombings in the vicinity of Beit Hanoun. At latest report, more than 300 people were killed and at least 900 wounded. Although the Rafah Crossing was opened to take cases to Egyptian hospitals, continued Israeli shelling has rendered such medical assistance impossible, leaving the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip once again to fall back entirely on their own resources.
Although the Israeli Air Force and government claimed to be targeting "only" Hamas police and security installations, the overwhelming majority of the casualties are civilians and this is clearly an act of collective punishment in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 and all other norms of international law, justice or morality.
Coming forward as CONCERNED CITIZENS AND RESIDENTS OF HALIFAX, we denounce the Israeli government's latest brutal acts and join in the call already raised around the world for an immediate ceasefire to stop the bombing. We also demand the lifting of the inhuman siege of the Gaza Strip that Israel has maintained with the full support of the United States, Canada, the European Union and a number of Arab governments.
We also deem unacceptable the outrageous response of the Canadian foreign minister, Lawrence Cannon, to yesterday's events. First and foremost, he blames the present situation on the home-made rockets being fired by Palestinian resistance forces against their occupier. Then he does not fail to echo His Master's Voice --- in Washington DC --- that Israel should only try to avoid killing civilians!
We, the concerned citizens and residents of Halifax, demand:
1. an immediate end to this latest massacre, comprising a ceasefire by Israeli forces and an end to the bombing; and
2. lifting the siege of Gaza, including resumption of full flow of aid and supplies into the Gaza Strip, the reopening of the Rafah Crossing as an international boundary and permission/access for aid workers, journalists and internationally protected persons to come and go in and out of the Gaza Strip.
There will be two actions in Halifax Nova Scotia today:
Action #1:
DALHOUSIE STUDENT UNION BUILDING
12 noon
Sunday Dec 28
Action #2:
Victoria Park (across from entrance to Public Gardens)
corner South Park & Spring Garden Road
2 pm
Sunday Dec 28
Organisations immediately supporting this series of emergency protests include:
Canada-Palestine Association
Palestine Solidarity Society
For information about further actions against this latest atrocity by the Israeli government against Palestinians, contact:
Concerned Citizens and Residents of Halifax
concernedcr_hfx@yahoo.ca
(902)431-0498 or (902)488-3461
28 December from 14.00 to 16.00 hours.
NEW ZEALAND PROTEST IN AUCKLAND CITY DOWNTOWN AT THE U.S. CONSULATE
We are small Palestinian community in new Zealand, trying to express our anger and feeling of injustice about the crime happening in Gaza
There is a protest for what has been happening in Gaza. Please see details below and try your best to come.. We need to support Gaza in these tough times as much as we can.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Time: 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Location: U.S. consulate (bottom of Queen Street)
Street: Customs Street, East.
SANTITA': FERMATE IL GENOCIDIO DEL POPOLO PALESTINESE
Emergency Demonstration
Sunday 28 December 2.00 pm
Where: Anaheim - 512 S. Brookhurst St. between Orange Ave. & Broadway
Organized by: Al-Awda Orange County, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego Chapters, Free Palestine Alliance, Palestinian American Womens Association, National Council of Arab Americans, Arab Community Center of the Inland Empire, General Union of Palestinian Women, Palestine Aid Society, Palestine American Congress, ANSWER Coalition, International Action Center, Campaign to End 'Israeli' Apartheid, Islamic Shura Council of Southern California, Women in Black Los Angeles.
Washington, D.C.
Tuesday, December 30, 4:30 pm
State Department: 22nd St & C St NW
Contact: 202-544-3389 x14, dc@answercoalition.org
San Francisco
Tuesday, December 30, 5:00 pm
Israeli Consulate:456 Montgomery St. Contact: 415-821-6545, answer@answersf.org
Los Angeles
Tuesday, December 30, 4:30 pm
Israeli Consulate: 6380 Wilshire Blvd.
Contact: 213-251-1025, answerla@answerla.org
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In Anaheim, CA (Orange County):
Sunday, December 28, 2:00 pm
512 S. Brookhurst St. (between Orange Ave. & Broadway)
Initiated by a coalition with a large number of groups
New York City
Tuesday, December 30, 5:00 pm
Israeli Consulate: 800 2nd Ave (b/w 42nd and 43rd Sts)
Contact: 212-694-8720, nyc@answercoalition.org
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Sunday, December 28, 2:00-4:00 pm
Gather at Rockefeller Center
March to the Israeli Consulate: 800 2nd Ave (b/w 42nd and 43rd Sts)
Initiated by Al-Awda New York
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Tuesday, December 30, 5:00 pm
Federal Building: 299 E. Broward Blvd.
Contact: 954-707-0155, FtLauderdale@answerfl.org
Chicago
Details to be announced
Contact: 773-463-0311, answer@chicagoanswer.net
Boston
Details to be announced
Contact: 857-334-5084, boston@answercoalition.org
Seattle
Saturday, January 3, 12:00 noon - 2:00 pm
Westlake Park: 4th and Pine
Initiated by Voices of Palestine
Contact: general@voicesofpalestine.org
Toronto
Sunday, December 28, 2:00 pm
Israeli Embassy Consulate: 180 Bloor St. West
Initiated by a number of local organizations
If there is a demonstration in your city, email the details to info@answercoalition.org so it can be posted on the ANSWER Coalition website and listed in any future emails.
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