MOUVEMENT ANARCHISTE DU CANADA/CANADIAN ANARCHIST MOVEMENT-MONTRÉAL:

VENDREDI-SOLIDARITÉ AVEC BIL'IN/FRIDAY-SOLIDARITY WITH BIL'IN:

De le groupe Tadamon à Montréal/From the Tadamon group in Montreal.

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Montreal: vendredi! solidarité avec Bil'in friday! solidarity with Bil'in]:‏


Hi friends,here is a modest action we are doing in Montreal this Friday, to commemorate Bassem's death, and to begin mobilizing support for the Bil'in lawsuit in Canada.

Just to give some context, there has been an ongoing campaign in the bds framework to boycott chapters-indigo books because of their connections to the Israeli army.

in solidarity,

aaron (english below) *

Montréal : À bas le mur d'apartheid israélienen mémoire du militant palestinien Bassam Ibrahim Abou Rahme.

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VENDREDI 8 MAI à 12h00

Librairie Indigo

au coin de Sainte-Catherine & McGill College

(métro McGill)

Montréal, Canada

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http://www.tadamon.ca/post/3450

Bil'in, un village palestinien de Cisjordanie, est maintenant reconnuinter nationalement comme un symbole de la lutte populaire palestinienne contre la construction du mur d'apartheid israélien. Depuis 2005, les villageois organisent des manifestations chaque vendredi, avec la participation active de militants israéliens et internationaux, en opposition avec la colonisation israélienne et l'annexion des terres palestiniennes.

En avril 2009, des soldats israéliens ont tué Bassam Ibrahim Abou Rahme, un militant palestinien de Bil'in. La nouvelle de la mort de Bassam s'est vite répandue partout dans le monde, provocant des actions de solidarité internationale et la condamnation du meurtre d'un autre militant palestinien par l'armée israélienne. En effet, Bassam est le 18e palestinien a avoir été tué par l'armée pendant une manifestation populaire contre le mur.

Il y a un lien vers un vidéo montrant l'assassinat à www.tadamon.ca . On y voit Bassam essayant de calmer les soldats au moment où ils tirent sur lui. À Montréal, nous organisons une action pour commémorer la mort de Bassamet pour montrer notre solidarité avec les manifestations hebdomadaires quiont lieu à Bil'in, ainsi qu'avec leurs luttes contre le mur illégal d'apartheid israélien.

Le mur d'apartheid, qui a été déclaré illégal par la Cour internationale de justice en 2004, est une des stratégies d'occupation israélienne des territoires palestiniens. Grâce à la construction du mur, Israël va annexer et coloniser près de 60% des terres de Bil'in. Le village de Bil'in a entrepris une bataille légale au Canada en en tamantune poursuite, à la Cour supérieure du Québec, contre Green Park International et Green Mount International, deux compagnies enregistrées au Québec.

Selon Bil'in « les deux compagnies construisent illégalement des résidences et d'autres bâtiments sur les terres du village et ces terreset les défendeurs sont soumis aux règles et obligations de la loi internationale, parce que la Cisjordanie est un territoire occupé ...Bil'in réclame la protection de la Quatrième Convention de Genève ...laquelle interdit à une force occupante de transférer sa population civile dans un territoire occupé suite à une guerre.»

Le village de Bil'in désire ainsi obtenir un ordre de la cour canadienne d'arrêter immédiatement les construction illégales, réclame des dommages et intérêts punitifs et d'autres dédommagements inclus dans la plainte. Cette manifestation en solidarité avec Bil'in et en mémoire de Bassam Ibrahim Abou Rahme a lieu dans le cadre de la campagne internationale pour le boycott, le désinvestissement et les sanctions (BDS) contre Israël et de la campagne contre les librairies Indigo/Chapters à travers le Canada.

La campagne de boycott contre Indigo/Chapters a été lancée en décembre 2006, visant les actionnaires majoritaires de Indigo/Chapters, Heather Reisman et Gerry Schwartz, qui ont créé la Fondation HESEG pour les Soldats solitaires, un programme d'appui financier pour les «soldats solitaires», ou les mercenaires non israéliens qui quittent leur pays pour s'enrôler dans l'armée israélienne. Les «soldats solitaires» israélien sont participé à la guerre dévastatrice contre le peuple libanais en 2006 et continuent de renforcer l'occupation illégale de la Cisjordanie et de la Bande de Gaza. Partout au Canada, de plus en plus de gens appuient la campagne de boycott contre Indigo/Chapters, dans le cadre de la campagne internationale pour encourager le boycott, le désinvestissement et les sanctions (BDS) contre l'État d'apartheid israélien. cette manifestation est organisée par:

Palestiniens et Juifs unis (PAJU)

Solidarité pour les droits humains en Palestine (SPHR)

Tadamon! Montréal.

--- * Montreal: Protest Israeli apartheid wall Solidarity with Palestine!action to remember Palestinian activist Bassam Ibrahim Abou Rahme.

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FRIDAY MAY 8 12h00

Indigo Bookstore

corner of St. Catherine & McGill college

(metro McGill)

Montreal, Canada

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http://www.tadamon.ca/post/3450

Bil’in, a Palestinian village in the West Bank, has become an internationally celebrated symbol of Palestinian popular resistance to the ongoing construction of the Israeli apartheid wall. Since 2005, villagers have led weekly protests, with the active participation from both Israeli and international solidarity activists, in opposition to illegal Israeli colonization or annexation of Palestinian land.

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. Bassem was the 18th Palestinian to have been killed by the Israeli army during popular demonstrations against the apartheid wall.

A video thatcaptures the killing is linked at www.tadamon.ca in which you can see that Bassam was attempting to calm the Israeli soldiers at the moment the shooting occurred. In Montreal we are holding a protest to commemorate Bassam's death and to show our continued solidarity with the ongoing weekly protests in Bil'in and the wider struggle against Israel's illegal apartheid wall.

The apartheid wall, which was ruled illegal by the International Court of Justice in 2004, is one element of the ongoing Israeli military occupation of Palestine. In constructing the wall, Israel will annex and colonize almost 60% of Bil'in’s land. Bil'in is currently engaged in a legal battle in Canada, as the village recently filed a lawsuit in Quebec Superior Court against Green Park International and Green Mount International, two companies registered in Quebec.

According to Bil’in village “the two companies are illegally constructing residential and other buildings on the village’s lands and that its land and the defendants are subject to the rules and obligations of international law because the West Bank is occupied territory ... Bil’in claims protection under the Fourth Geneva Convention ... which prohibits an occupying power from transferring its civilian population into territory that it has occupied as a result of war.”

Today Bil’in village is seeking an immediate order from the Canadian court stopping the illegal construction, punitive damages and other relief asset out in the claim. This protest in solidarity with Bil'in and to commemorate Bassam Ibrahim Abou Rahme occurs within an international campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel and the Canada-wide boycott campaign against the Chapters/Indigo bookstore.

A boycott campaign targeting Chapters/Indigo was launched in December 2006 to target the majority shareholders of Indigo/Chapters, Heather Reismanand Gerry Schwartz, who established the HESEG Foundation for Lone Soldiers, a program of financial support for former ‘lone soldiers,’ or non-Israeli mercenaries who leave their country to fight in the Israeli military. Israeli ‘lone soldiers’ participated in the devastating 2006 war on the people of Lebanon and continue to enforce the illegal occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

Across Canada a growing number of people are supporting the Boycott Chapters/Indigo campaign as part of the international campaign to push for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against the apartheid state of Israel.

organized by:

Palestinian and Jewish Unity (PAJU)

Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR)

Tadamon! Montreal

--- Tadamon! Montreal

tel: 514 664 1036

email: info[at]tadamon.ca

web: http://www.tadamon.ca/

ANARCHISM/CANADA:

A MEDLEY OF CANADIAN ANARCHIST NEWS:

Lots of things are always happening across Canada anarchy-wise. Here's a medley of some of the latest announcements. events and appeals:

MONTREAL:

As previously reported here at Molly's Blog No One is Illegal-Montreal held a picket at Les Plais de Congres in Montreal yesterday. Just as the demonstration was breaking up the police attacked. NOII-Montreal is calling for even more people to join them for tomorrow night's picket to demonstrate that the police cannot intimidate dissent. This is their statement:

"Police attacked at the end of the anti-racist picket and speak-out against the Bouchard-Taylor Commission on Tuesday night, organized by No One Is Illegal-Montreal. Four people were arrested; three were released but one person still faces charges. We call on all friends and allies to attend the second scheduled picket and speak-out against the Commission this Thursday, November 29, at 6:30 pm (please note the new time) at the Palais des Congres (corner of Viger and de Bleury, near Metro Place D'Armes). We encourage you to attend in large numbers, to show that we will not be intimidated by police violence, and to continue to denounce the racist, xenophobic and sexist basis of the Bouchard-Taylor Commission."

MONTREAL(2):

TADAMON APPEAL:

Call for Financial Solidarity: Annual Appeal for Supporters of Tadmon:

"Throughout the past year Tadamon ! , a volunteer-run collective of social justice organizers based in Montreal, has maintained an unique and important presence on the forefront of political organizing in North America in solidarity with struggles for social and economic justice in Lebanon and the Middle East. Today, Tadamon ! is calling for your financial solidarity in order to sustain our important work by becoming an annual supporter. Concretely we are asking for individuals, groups and organizations to commit an annual donation of between $20-$100 dollars which will be directed towards our ongoing work. Tadamon!'s current fund raising goal is to confirm $2,000 in donations by January 1st, 2008. Please help us reach this goal by contacting us to become a financial supporter and passing the word on to others.

Tadamon! calls for your financial support in order to cover the growing overhead costs related to our political campaigns, events and actions. Your financial support will be directly funneled into our organizational expenses which include printing costs, office materials. website, telephone messaging service, event advertising,etc..

Tadamon! has organized multiple ground-breaking events including politically-charged lectures, dynamic cultural nights, front-line political actions and grassroots popular education efforts in the Montreal area. Tadamon!'s work has successfully pushed the boundaries of political debate in Canada concerning the Middle East while fueling grassroots organizing in Montreal and throughout Canada in support of social justice and human rights in the region.

In response to the 2006 Israeli attack on Lebanon, Tadamon! played a central role in organizing multiple demonstrations, political actions and events in direct collaboration with multiple Lebanese community organizations and social justice groups in Montreal, with the aim to build popular opposition to the Conservative government of Canada's implicit support for the deadly Israeli attack on Lebanon.

Your donation will benefit Tadamon! Montreal's ongoing work and campaign directed at building solidarity between movements for social and economic justice from Montreal to the Middle East. Tadamon!'s ongoing political campaigns operating in Canada, including the campaign for boycott, sanctions and divestment of the apartheid Israeli state and the campaign to challenge the listing of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization by the Canadian government.

In order to become a supporter of Tadamon! please fill out the details requested below. In becoming a supporter of Tadamon! you will automatically receive postal updates concerning our ongoing work, while ensuring that our important work continues in a sustainable and long-term fashion. Please send us the following details: *full name,*telephone contact. *email contact, *mailing address, *committed amount for annual donation to Tadamon!...

You can send written checks to the following address. Be certain to include the important contact information above in the mailing:

Tadamon! Montreal

c/o QPIRG McGill

3647 University St.

Montreal, Quebec

H3A 2B3

Canada

http://tadamon.resist.ca

KINGSTON, ONTARIO:

CALLING ALL KINGSTON-AREA ANARCHISTS, ANTI-AUTHORITARIANS:

The following is an announcement of a new anarchist website servicing the area of Kingston, Ontario:

"A new website (http://kingston.roadnetwork.org ) focusing on anarchist and anti-authoritarian relevant groups, campaigns, projects, institutions and media in the Kingston area has been created. there are also regional links. if we haven't included something that ought to be on that site (ie are in harmony with the points of unity) please send an email to kingston@roadnetwork.org .

This is an initiative of the Revolutionary Ontario Anarchist Development (ROAD) Network collective in Kingston. The points of unity of the ROAD Network are posted on the website. The purpose of ROAD Kingston is to help facilitate anarchist communications and networking through the website and coordinating encounters between anarchists in the area. More on this in the future. Check out the page and feel free to register as a subscriber and/or contributor. once approved you can add content to the blog as well.

ROAD Kingston

http://kingston.roadnetwork.org

Molly Note: Molly really has to interject here. The ROAD has certainly developed considerably since it was the "Rural" Ontario Anarchist Development Network. A couple of years back it allowed itself to be used as a cat's paw by one of the Maoist sects/cults who wanted to draw people here to Winnipeg to oppose some urban military training exercises being held here. Molly went ballistic on that one, trying to discourage any and all from following such a "call". Not that it isn't worthwhile to oppose militarism, but a simple rule of thumb should apply. NEVER be seen in association with any Leninist organization that isn't willing to cover its presence with enough bullshit to leave it undetectable. That eliminates EVERY Maoist organization on Earth. It lets a few Trots and the "real commies" past the screen. THESE people don't try and cover an essentially religious impulse with political window-dressing. To put it plainly, allying with commies is EQUAL in the public eye to allying with Nazis. The only real difference is that the general public assumes that the death toll was the same while, in fact, communist governments have murdered close to ten times as many victims in the last century as fascist ones have. Being seen with as being buddy-buddy with Leninist cultists should be seen as being the equivalent of soiling your pants in public, and the only thing that you should be thankful for is that the general public doesn't realize that your friends are worse than Nazis. They merely think they-and you- are the same. As it was a few members of the travelling rent-a-riot did show up, totally oblivious to how silly they looked "in costume" on streets that they would risk their lives in walking about in the dark. Nothing much happened. They got herded by the commies(mooooo!), and some actually participated in real anarchist events here. In any case ROAD has matured considerably since that time, and I doubt that they'd be so naive today. Anyways, back to more pleasant matters.

BRITISH COLUMBIA:

What follows is a report of an event held out in the "dreaming west" last weekend. this certainly was a much happier event than drawing naive young people to a political tourist event in Winnipeg, and it will probably have much more long term benefit.

"This weekend 14 people gathered at Ron and Sheila's on Denman Island for the first meeting of the BC Anarchist Writers; Group. This is not the "official name"-Black Ink has also been suggested. We ranged in age from mid-twenties to mid-sixties. We hailed from various places on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands as well as Vancouver and the Kootenays. As well as BC, our backgrounds and experiences ranged from Illinois, Alberta, Newfoundland, Toronto and Montreal. We were poets, essayists, journalists, historians, song-writers, playwrights, performance artists, zinesters, film-makers, Surrealists, chapbook publishers and radio pirates.

Most of us had never met before, so much of our time was spent in getting acquainted, sharing ideas, zines, and other publications. There was a lot of preliminary discussion about interests, directions and ideas. People wanted to stay in touch and share projects, not just by email, but to mail out our writings for comment and support. We had a really enjoyable time together, much laughter, sharing of fine food and wine. We planned our first public event- an evening of reading, film, music and performance in the Denman Island Community Centre. About 35 people showed up-usual for such a small place- and it went on for four hours. Afterwards, we all agreed that the evening had been a great success and plan to have more of these in other parts of the province.

After a leisurely Sunday breakfast we headed over to Tree Frog radio, and a number of us went on air. Hugging everyone goodbye we headed back to our respective homes in anticipation of the next gathering.

In Solidarity,

Larry.

Molly's usual last word: The other day I was reading an exchange on the LibCom site about "deghettoizing anarchism". A lot of the posts were really and truly "despairing", but I think that the posters approached the whole matter from a rather limited historical perspective. I am almost certain that the really pessimistic posts originated from people who came out of "subcultural anarchism" and are reacting, like a reformed alcoholic, to same. Not that anarchism shouldn't aim to be "popular" and escape all identification with "purchasable identity". Both Larry and I, however, come from a different generation. Over 35 years ago we became anarchists, and we have seen the movement expand and diversify in way that younger people may not appreciate. Today it is possible to form a "writers' group" in a tiny segment of one province. Thirty five years ago this might have been a project for the whole bloody country. What I don't think younger people appreciate is just how much anarchism has grown over the last few decades and how diversified it is now. One wag on LibCom stated that there "is no anarchist movement". He was wrong. There is ! It is not restricted to a travelling freak-show that responds mindlessly to Maoist manipulation. As Molly has emphasized over and over on this blog, younger anarchists are becoming increasingly practical and are creating real institutions that go far beyond a juvenile,empty and fruitless "post-leftist temper tantrum". The anarchist movement today exists ! , and it is far more diverse than some pessimists might think. There will be no "revolution" in the little time left to Molly on this Earth, but I think that it is entirely possible that I may live to see the situation in Spain today replicated across most of the developed world (and some of the developing countries), where up to 5% of the population is influenced by anarchist ideas. This may seem "tiny", but it is actually real political power to advance the cause of freedom. It all depends upon the skill of anarchists and how they approach their work.