CUPE > [Stop-spp-action] REMINDER: June 16th: Israeli Apartheid on Trial - Bil'in vs. Green Park and Green Mount International‏‏

abla abdelhadi <abla_a76@hotmail.com> · Mon, 15 Jun 2009 02:57:20 +0000

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<DIV class=EC_EC_MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'"><STRONG>***Please circulate widely and don't miss this opportunity to learn about and support this historic lawsuit!!!***</STRONG></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=EC_EC_MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights - Ottawa and&nbsp;Students Against Israeli Apartheid - Carleton&nbsp;present:</SPAN></DIV>
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<P class=EC_EC_MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'"><STRONG><FONT color=#ff0000 size=3>ISRAELI APARTHEID ON TRIAL - BIL'IN vs. GREEN PARK AND GREEN MOUNT INTERNATIONAL</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></P>
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<P class=EC_EC_MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'"><STRONG><FONT color=#ff0000 size=3>Palestinian village sues Canadian corporations for illegal Israeli settlements</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></P>
<P class=EC_EC_MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'"><BR>CROSS CANADA TOUR</SPAN></P>
<P class=EC_EC_MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">********<BR><STRONG>Lecture -- Presentation<BR>Tuesday June 16th<BR>7:30 PM<BR>1140 Desmarais Building, University of Ottawa<BR>55 Laurier Avenue<BR>Ottawa, ON<BR></STRONG>********<BR><BR>featuring:</SPAN></P>
<P class=EC_EC_MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">MOHAMMAD KHATIB -- member of the Bil'in Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements<BR>EMILY SCHAEFFER -- Israeli lawyer<BR><BR>Bil’in is a Palestinian village that is struggling to exist. It is fighting to safeguard its land, its olive trees, its resources… its liberty. <BR><BR>In a landmark lawsuit, the farming village of Bil'in is charging two Canadian companies for violating both international and Canadian domestic law, by acting as agents for Israel, constructing buildings and other residences in the West Bank, internationally recognized as an illegally occupied territory. </SPAN></P>
<P class=EC_EC_MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</SPAN></P>
<P class=EC_EC_MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">Since 2005, Bil'in has been non-violently demonstrating against the building of settlements and the separation wall on their land. Bil'in has become an internationally celebrated symbol of Palestinian popular resistance to the ongoing construction of the Israeli apartheid wall. In constructing the wall, Israel will annex and colonize almost 60% of Bil'in's land. In some areas, the wall towers over eight metres high and is fortified by armed military watchtowers.</SPAN></P>
<P class=EC_EC_MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</SPAN></P>
<P class=EC_EC_MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">Bil'in will be presenting it's case against Canadian companies, Quebec-based Green Park International and Green Mount International, June 22nd to 25th, 2009 in Montreal. According to Bil'in village, "[We] claim protection under the Fourth Geneva Convention... which prohibits an occupying power from transferring its civilian population into territory it has occupied as a result of war."<BR><BR>In April 2009, Israeli soldiers killed Bassam Ibrahim Abou Rahme, a Palestinian activist from Bil'in. News on Bassam's passing spread quickly throughout the world, sparking international solidarity actions and condemnations of the killing of another Palestinian protester by the Israeli army.<BR><BR>Bassem was the 18th Palestinian to have been killed by the Israeli army during popular demonstrations against the apartheid wall. A video that captures the killing is linked at <A href="http://www.tadamon.ca/";><SPAN style="COLOR: blue">www.tadamon.ca</SPAN></A> in which you can see that Bassam was attempting to calm the Israeli soldiers at the moment the shooting occurred.<BR><BR>The Fourth Geneva Convention, as well as Canada's own Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act, prohibit occupying forces from establishing settlements at the expense of indigenous populations. In the West Bank, the Israeli authorities have intensified its ethnic cleansing efforts especially in the Jerusalem area, through house evictions, systematic killings, detentions, settlement building and the construction of the apartheid wall. Through an elaborate control system of more than 600 military checkpoints and hundreds of military orders of house demolitions, land confiscation and blockades, Israel is actively creating facts on the ground that is rendering any peaceful settlement of the conflict impossible.<BR><BR>Facing this painful reality, the Palestinian people must continue and develop their pop
ular resistance to protect their basic rights to life and freedom and realize their aspirations of a peaceful future, like the rest of the world.<BR><BR>This event is endorsed by: </SPAN></P>
<P class=EC_EC_MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights</SPAN></P>
<P class=EC_EC_MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">Students Against Israeli Apartheid</SPAN></P>
<P class=EC_EC_MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">Canadian Union of Postal Workers</SPAN></P>
<P class=EC_EC_MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">Canadian Palestinian Educational Exchange </SPAN></P>
<P class=EC_EC_MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">Not in Our Name: Jewish Voices Opposing Zionism</SPAN></P>
<P class=EC_EC_MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">Independent Jewish Voices - Ottawa</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #444444; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'"><BR><BR>********<BR>To make a donation to the Bil'in village tour of Canada, send a cheque to:<BR><BR>Aide Médicale pour la Palestine<BR>5722, rue St. Andréhttp://www.bilin-village.org/";><SPAN style="COLOR: blue">www.bilin-village.org<BR></SPAN></A><BR>National Post: Palestinian village sues Canadian contractors&nbsp; <BR><A href="http://bilin-village.org/english/articles/press-and-independent-media/Palestinian-village-sues-Canadian-contractors";><SPAN style="COLOR: blue">http://bilin-village.org/english/articles/press-and-independent-media/Palestinian-village-sues-Canadian-contractors<BR></SPAN></A><BR>CBC report about legal proceedings in Quebec - Canada (October 7, 2008)<BR><A href="http://bilin-village.org/english/videos/6351-CBC-report-about-legal-proceedings-in-Quebec-Canada-10-07-2008";><SPAN style="COLOR: blue">http://bilin-village.org/english/videos/6351-CBC-report-about-legal-proceedings-in-Quebec-Canada-10-07-2008<BR></SPAN></A><BR>Photo Gallery of Bil'in village non-violent resistance:<BR><A href="http://www.bilin-village.org/english/photos/";><SPAN style="COLOR: blue">http://www.bilin-village.org/english/photos/</SPAN></A><BR><BR>A letter from Mohammad Khatib honouring slain Palestinian Bassam Ibrahim Abou Rahme <BR><A href="http://www.bilin-village.org/english/articles/different-look/His-name-was-Basem";><SPAN style="COLOR: blue">http://www.bilin-village.org/english/articles/different-look/His-name-was-Basem</SPAN></A><BR><BR>Photo
s: Solidarity with Bil'in in Montreal<BR><A href="http://www.tadamon.ca/post/3545";><SPAN style="COLOR: blue">http://www.tadamon.ca/post/3545</SPAN></A><BR><BR>Palestine: Bil'in international conference closing statement<BR><A href="http://www.tadamon.ca/post/3432";><SPAN style="COLOR: blue">http://www.tadamon.ca/post/3432</SPAN></A><BR><BR>It takes a village: Montreal's ties to illegal Israeli settlement<BR>Hour (Montreal)<A href="http://www.hour.ca/news/news.aspx?iIDArticle=17239";><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><BR>http://www.hour.ca/news/news.aspx?iIDArticle=17239</SPAN></A></SPAN> </DIV><br /><hr />We are your photos. Share us now with  <a href='http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9666045' target='_new'>Windows Live Photos.</a></body>
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