A Prisoners Justice Day Benefit for the Saneyah Relief Centre in Beirut, Lebanon
Wednesday August 9th doors open at 7pm, films will start right away
Sala Rosa 4848 St. Laurent
$5 or donation of a book for book to prisoners
Books 2 Prisoners asks for books on wide range of subjects including health, self-help, sexuality, black history, women’s issues,aboriginal issues, politics, psychology, philosophy, resource manuals, some law books, plus an array of novels.
A Benefit Concert for the Sanayeh Relief Center in Beirut, Lebanon
Tadamon! Montreal, in collaboration with local musicians and artists, presents a benefit concert in solidarity with the people of Lebanon.
Thursday August 10th, 8pm
Café Esperenza (5490 St. Laurent)
By Donation (a fundraiser for the Sanayeh Relief Center in Beirut)
An evening of film and discussion in solidarity with The Coalition to Boycott World Pride Jerusalem 2006
Ussama Abu el-Sheikh writing from Shatila refugee camp,
Beirut, Electronic Lebanon, 6 August 2006
I just wanted to express that this war reinforced my ideas that what we need is a collective solution for everyone, not individual solutions such as are offered here and there. Just as being “educated” will not replace my loss of identity…
My name is Usama Abu el-Sheikh, and I am from Tabaria, Palestine. I am of course a refugee and have never been to my hometown in Palestine though I learned about it from my grandparents and I read some books about it. I have never been to Tabaria, but I am Tabarian, and will remain so, as I am from Shatila too and will remain so. Although I always dreamt of corresponding with my country and my hometown to see if I still have relatives there, I was unable to because there is no mail between Lebanon and the State of Israel. Ironically, only the missiles of Hizbullah can be sent to Israel. We are not allowed to return, but the missiles go where we cannot. But how can you send love to Tabaria with a missile?
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MacKay focuses on humanitarian aid, refuses to condemn Israeli aggression
Cornwall, 4 August 2006 — A delegation of community members from Ottawa, Gatineau, the Cornwall area and Montreal calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Middle East was refused the opportunity to speak to the Conservative caucus for 15 minutes this afternoon.
CORNWALL, Ont. (CP) – Protesters accused Prime Minister Stephen Harper of toeing the American line on the Middle East conflict, as they rallied Friday outside the site of the Conservative caucus meeting.
About 80 people, mostly from Montreal, urged Harper to call for an immediate ceasefire in the region. So far, the Conservative government has supported a ceasefire only as long as certain conditions are met, such as a halt to attacks by both Hezbollah and the Israeli army.
“I’m astounded at the injustice of Harper’s position in terms of unconditionally supporting Israel when at this point in time the civilian death count is over 900,” said Jordan Topp, who has taught in Lebanon and has friends there.
“People have been killed across the country in Lebanon, and it’s not what he’s called a ‘measured’ response.”
Mayssoun Sukarieh writing from Beirut, Live from Lebanon, 5 August 2006
Electronic Lebanon
They were working in the fields, to save what is left from the season while Israel constantly targets fruit trucks and convoys all over Lebanon.
They were men and agricultural workers.
They were workers having a break after a long day of peach and plum picking, resting to continue their day of work that extends to the night.
They were men, thirty-three of them, who died because they were working at a time when we are supposed to be all sitting home scared or demonstrating against the resistance as the enemy wishes.
Mass Demonstration in MONTREAL:
Fundraising Effort for Sanayeh Relief Center in BEIRUT.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 6th, 1pm
Parc Lafontaine, Montreal
[north side at the corner of Rachel & De La Roche]
Tadamon! is organizing a grassroots fundraising effort to coincide with Sunday’s Montreal demonstration in solidarity with Lebanon and Palestine. Tadamon! members will be collecting funds for the Sanayeh Relief Center during the march. Sanayeh Relief Centre is an initiative of Samidoun, a Beirut-based, grassroots coalition born out of the July 2006 attack on Lebanon.
Letter delivered by delegation to Peter MacKay and Josée Verner
4 August 2006
Dear Conservative Party Members of Parliament,
We, residents and organisations of Cornwall, Gatineau, Montreal and Ottawa, are here to express our outrage at your government’s unconditional support for Israeli military aggression in Lebanon, as well as in the occupied Gaza Strip.
QUEBEC mobilises for justice and peace in Lebanon and Palestine….NOW!
SUNDAY 6 August at 1pm
Gathering point: Parc Lafontaine (corner of De La Roche and Rachel)
Lebanon is being destroyed. In the name of its right to exist and its security Israel is devastating Lebanon. Bombarded from the air, sea and land Lebanon is being transformed into a land of blood and flames.
