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More Dishonest Rhetoric from Honest Reporting Canada

3 mars 2012 | معتمد Independent Media, Canada, Palestine, Quebec

Tadamon! Collective 2012. More Dishonest Rhetoric from Honest Reporting Canada

Photo A protester flies the Palestinian flag at the start of the regular protest n the village of Nil’in to demonstrate against land confiscation and the separation wall.

In a recent piece entitled “The Apartheid Myth: HRC Responds to Tadamon!”, Honest Reporting Canada (HRC) took issue with a letter written by Jewish members of the Tadamon! collective. HRC’s principal contention is that the letter (“Don’t Conflate Judaism with Zionism,” Wednesday, January 12, 2012) in the McGill Daily “recycled the tired Israeli Apartheid canard” while putting forth compensatory rhetorical arguments that “lack[ed] in substance.”

This disingenuous tactic of dismissing factual arguments critical of Israel as “canards,” so as to avoid the responsibility of earnestly responding to their content, is both cowardly and insincere. While Tadamon! offered specific examples of several Israeli laws and policies (out of the thirty or so) that discriminate against Palestinians, HRC offered no comment on these legal instruments of apartheid. Furthermore, HRC’s response is filled with inaccuracies and dubious statistics, most of which are themselves “recycled” from questionable sources.

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CKUT radio: International Women’s Day special on Under the Olive Tree

29 février 2012 | معتمد Canada, Culture, Palestine, Quebec

toward Women of diverse origins — Femmes de diverses origines 2012 actions/events

Palestinian women prisoner being released, Ramallah, Palestine 2/10/2009. ActiveStills

    Thursday, March 1
    11h-12h at 90.3fm in Montreal
    globally at http://www.ckut.ca/

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Israeli Apartheid Week Montreal 2012

14 février 2012 | معتمد Events, Politics, Solidarity, Boycott, Canada, Culture, Palestine, Quebec, Tadamon!
    Israeli Apartheid Week Montreal. March 5-13th 2012

8th annual Israeli Apartheid Week featuring inspiring conferences, workshops, film screenings, demonstrations, and cultural events to raise awareness around the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israeli apartheid.

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Against the expansion of the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement

10 février 2012 | معتمد Economy, Boycott, Canada, Palestine, Quebec, Tadamon!
    Tadamon! collective statement, February 2012.

    Photo: Israeli apartheid wall in Occupied Palestine.

Last fall, the Conservative government announced plans to expand the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement (CIFTA), a set of policies that serves to further legitimize Israeli occupation and apartheid, and deepen Canadian corporate and state involvement in Israeli racism and colonialism.

CIFTA, which took effect in January 1997, covers geographical areas over which Israel maintains military control (the West Bank and Gaza), and does not respect internationally-recognized borders. As such, it effectively legitimizes Israeli territorial control over all of Palestine. Furthermore, a portion of the trade covered in CIFTA (particularly in the agricultural sector) is the result of illegal settlement activity and production in industrial zones in the West Bank settlements. A failure to distinguish between Palestinian goods produced in the occupied territories reinforces the colonial logic that such production is Israeli economic activity, and arguably provides support for the expansion of its colonies.

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CKUT radio: Voices from Egypt

20 janvier 2012 | معتمد Egypt, Independent Media, Palestine, Quebec
    listen/download interview series from independent journalist Lillian Boctor

Photo: Hossam el-Hamalawy Thousands chant against SCAF and the army on Friday night in Tahrir Square.

Interview series from independent journalist Lillian Boctor examining the situation facing post-Mubarak Egypt produced for broadcast on CKUT community radio in Montreal.

As the first anniversary of the January 25 uprisings approaches, the Voices from Egypt interview series aims to highlight grassroots voices that provide perspective, ideas and context to post-Mubarak Egypt and in the ongoing transition and revolutionary period. Examining the current political winds and push from grassroots movements on the left to implement the revolution’s call for social and economic justice, challenge the repression by the ruling military council and create a new, democratic and equitable Egyptian society.

Tadamon! collective presents the following interviews for download from various independent media websites in an attempt to share information, news and analysis on the contemporary struggles in Egypt today that have dropped from the international media headlines.

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Tadamon! Pamphlet on Political Prisoners

28 décembre 2011 | معتمد Egypt, Prisoners, Canada, Palestine, Quebec, Tadamon!

download Tadamon! popular education document at political prisoners pamphlet

Drawing by Molly Fair via Just Seeds for Certain Days: Political Prisoners Calendar

Popular education pamphlet created for recent Montreal event, on 10/12/2011, entitled “Political Imprisonment and State Impunity”, drawing attention to political prisoners all around the world from the Philippines, to Colombia, to Egypt, to Palestine and in both Canada and the US. Please download, print, distribute this PDF document that details specific campaigns and struggles involving political prisoners fighting for freedom on different corners all around the world.

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Against Political Imprisonment and State Impunity

8 décembre 2011 | معتمد Egypt, Events, Prisoners, Canada, Palestine, Quebec

Panel discussion and vigil on political prisoner struggles around the world.
photo Palestinian boy views photos of Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails.

    Saturday, December 10, 2011
    13h-16h panel discussion / food
    16h-17h vigil / protest ending at US consulate in Montreal.
    St James United Church
    463 Ste-Catherine west
    métro McGill, Montréal, Québec
    facebook event

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Montreal: Solidarity protest to support Tahrir Intifada

19 novembre 2011 | معتمد Egypt, Events, Solidarity, Quebec, Tadamon!

emergency Montreal protest for solidarity for struggle for democracy in Egypt.

    Saturday, Nov. 19, 16h
    Egyptian Consulate
    1000 rue De La Gauchetiere O.
    (metro Bonaventure)
    Montreal, Quebec

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Call for Solidarity with Egypt

12 novembre 2011 | معتمد Egypt, Events, Prisoners, Canada, Quebec
    call for Solidarity with Egypt: Defend the Revolution!

    Saturday, November 12, 2011
    3pm la Place du Peuple
    métro Square Victoria
    at Occupy Montreal
    in front of the statue
    Montreal, Quebec
    info facebook event

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Rally: Solidarity for Palestine at Occupy Montreal!

9 novembre 2011 | معتمد Events, Solidarity, Canada, Palestine, Quebec, Tadamon!

Emergency Palestine solidarity rally in collaboration with Occupy Montreal/Occupons Montréal to denounce Israeli military raid on Freedom Waves flotilla to Gaza.

    Sunday, November 13, 13h
    La Place du Peuple
    Occupy Montreal/Occupons Montréal
    Métro Square-Victoria
    Montreal, Quebec
    info via facebook event

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