Concert annuel de soutien à Tadamon!

DIMANCHE 27 MAI, 20h
LA SALA ROSSA
4848 St-Laurent
Entrée: $5-15

Joignez vous à Tadamon! Montréal pour leur concert annuel de soutien.
Face à la situation tragique au Liban et dans la région, Tadamon ! Montréal rappelle que ce concert permettra de maintenir un travail durable de solidarité, qui ne s’exprime pas seulement en temps de guerre mais dans la durée et sur le terrain. Nous restons également ouvert à toute aide quant à notre travail d’information, nos campagnes politiques et nos liens avec les personnes œuvrant pour la justice sociale au Liban..

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By Rami Zurayk, 1 May 2007, Scoop

Much of the land in South Lebanon has remained unfarmed this year. In  spite of the active de-mining efforts deployed by the UN and by local NGOs, it has been difficult to plough, sow and harvest, as only a fraction of the million and a half Israeli cluster bombs have been removed. These bombs were sown by the Israelis in August 2006, in the last 72 hours of the war, and after a cease fire was agreed upon in the UN Security Council. Now why would the Israelis do something like that? (Lire la suite…)

By Will Youmans, The Arab American News, 2007-03-17

Beirut after the summer attack by Israel (Photo: Tadamon!)

Activists calling for ending financial support for Israel welcomed a victory at a university in Washington, DC. The faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences at Howard University voted overwhelmingly to call on the university’s board of trustees to divest from Israel.

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By James Bowen, Ha’aretz, April 13, 2007

The apartheid wall in Palestine – modern version of the Irish Pale?

In the late 19th century, changes in Ottoman law created a new class of large landholders, including the Sursuq family from Beirut, which acquired large tracts in northern Palestine. A similar situation had long existed in Ireland, where most land was controlled by absentee landlords, many of whom lived in Britain.

The 1880s, however, initiated dynamics that led the two lands in different directions. In 1882, the first Zionist immigrants arrived in Palestine, starting a process that subsequently led to the eviction of indigenous tenant farmers, when magnates like the Sursuqs pulled the land from under their feet, selling it to the Jewish National Fund. (Lire la suite…)

By Stephen Brook, Friday April 13, 2007, MediaGuardian.co.uk

The National Union of Journalists has voted at its annual meeting for a boycott of Israeli goods as part of a protest against last year’s war in Lebanon. Today’s vote was carried 66 to 54 – a result that met with gasps and a small amount of applause from the union delegates present.

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Belgium’s Defense Minister said last week that he would act to extract payment from Israel for the removal of cluster bomb fragments that the Israel Defense Forces fired into Lebanese territory during the Second Lebanon War.

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Some 100 Syrians and Golan Heights residents marched Saturday to the office of the International Red Cross to mark Arab Detainees Day.

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130 U.K. Physicians Call for a Boycott of the Israeli Medical Association and its expulsion from the World Medical Association.

In a letter appearing in the Guardian on April 21, 2007, prominent UK physicians have called for a boycott of the IMA and its expulsion from the WMA. The letter follows:

“…..Persistent violations of medical ethics have accompanied Israel’s occupation. The Israeli Defence Force has systematically flouted the fourth Geneva convention guaranteeing a civilian population unfettered access to medical services and immunity for medical staff. Ambulances are fired on (hundreds of cases) and their personnel killed. Desperately ill people, and newborn babies, die at checkpoints because soldiers bar the way to hospital. (Lire la suite…)

Turning the pages of De Niro’s Game, one is transported to the war-torn streets of Beirut in the midst of Lebanon’s 15-year civil war, a tragic reality of flying bombs and bullets. A debut literary work from Montreal author Rawi Hage, who conveys this era of Lebanon’s turbulent history through the experiences of a pair of youths from Beirut, childhood best friends growing to adulthood in the political quagmire of civil war.

“De Niro’s Game started as a short-story,” Hage explains at a café in Montreal’s Côte-des-Neiges district. “Initially I wanted to write a piece about an incident that I remember of some kids who started playing Russian roulette after watching The Deer Hunter, which screened in Beirut at the beginning of the war in the 1970s. Guns were available everywhere in Beirut so kids starting playing.”

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This year’s US State Department annual report on human rights practices in Israel identifies discrimination against Palestinian citizens in most spheres of their lives.

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