Request for support of the Canadian Boat to Gaza
Both Farooq and Kevin are also co-organizers of a new campaign to
send a Canadian Boat to Gaza.
Please consider endorsing the campaign - donations are also very
welcome!
You are encouraged to visit the web site
and endorse the campaign:
http://canadaboatgaza.org/cms/sites/cbg/en/statement.aspx
http://canadaboatgaza.org/cms/sites/cbg/fr/statement.aspx
Canadian Boat to Gaza - sailing Fall 2010: canadaboatgaza@gmail.com
Bateau Canadien pour GAZA - naviguera l'automne 2010: canadaboatgaza@gmail.com |
Victoria
CAIA member on Free Gaza flotilla attacked by Israel click
to see link
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[CLICK
TO SEE] CAIA-Victoria
Journalist's reports from the 2009/10 - Code Pink
Gaza Freedom March
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Victoria Activities
Calendar of Events and Meetings
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| CAIA Victoria members hold a general meeting the first Monday of each
month at 7 PM.
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Michael Keefer Book Tour
September 24, Friday
Victoria Place and time to be announced. |
Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Eyewitness
Account
June 24, Thursday at 7 pm 
BCGEU Hall - 2994 Douglas Street
Admision by donation - proceeds to aid the Palestinian people
Sponsored by Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid - Victoria
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Slingshot Hi Hop - DVD screening
May 13th at CAMUS Bookshop. 7p.m.
Slingshot Hip Hop braids together the stories of young Palestinians
living in Gaza, the West Bank and inside Israel as they discover Hip
Hop and employ it as a tool to surmount divisions imposed by occupation
and poverty. From internal checkpoints and Separation Walls to gender
norms and generational differences, this is the story of young people
crossing the borders that separate them.
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“Healthcare in the
West Bank and Gaza: Examining the impact of war on a civilian population”
Alice Rothschild- the author of "Broken
Promises, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and
Resilience" and cochair of Jewish Voice for Peace, Boston.
Wednesday, April 7, 7p.m.
Social and Human Development Building, Room
A 240, University of Victoria
Admission by Donation.
Sponsored by: Department of U.Vic. Social Justice Studies,
Victoria Peace Coalition, Coalition Againt Israeli Apartheid.
Alice Rothschild - Medical Director of the Women’s Community
Health Center in Cambridge, Mass. from 1977-1979, co-founder of ther
Urban Woman and Child Health, Inc. in Jamaica Plain, Mass. Through
her involvement in the Boston Workmen’s Circle, a progressive
secular Jewish organization, Alice turned much of her non-medical focus
to understanding the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and its relationship
to US foreign policy and American Jewry. She co-founded and co-chairs
Visions of Peace with Justice in Israel/Palestine, now American Jews
for a Just Peace – Boston and co-organized the AJJP Health and
Human Rights Project.
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Lecture by Nadia Abu-Zahra
The struggle for unity:Walls,
checkpoints, and fragmentation in Palestine
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Friday, March 19, 11:00am-12:20pm
Camosun College Lansdowne Campus, Young 211
Nadia Abu-Zahra is a professor at the University of Ottawa who has
written extensively on mobility, human security, and militarisation.
Her forthcoming book, Restricting Freedom, will be published by Pluto
Press (with Adah Kay).
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Israeli Apartheid Week March
1 - 8
A BOLD PROPOSAL TO END THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN
IMPASSE
Presentation by Ali Abunimah -
Palestinian-American journalist, author and activist and co-founder
of the Electronic Intifada.
March 4 - 7 to 9 pm, Vertigo Room, Student
Union Building, University of Victoria
Supported by Students Againist War-U. Vic, Coalition Against Israeli
Apartheid, Solidarity for Palestine Human Rights , Jews for a Just
Peace, Goods for Cuba, Bernard-Boecker Foundation, Victoria Peace Coalition,
Canadian Palestine Assoc., Canadian Palestine Assoc., KAIROS.
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Nadia Elia: Talk on Boycotts
Divestments & Sanctions Feb. 5th at BCGEU, 2994 Douglas St - 8 PM.
She spent three years as a war journalist documenting the impact of
war on Arab women’s lives before joining the academic ranks.
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GAZA
FREEDOM MARCH - held December 27, 2009-January 4, 2010
Eye-witness account! By Brandon DeLyzer
The Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid-Victoria sponsored a University
of Victoria, journalism student, Brandon DeLyzer, to join the Gaza Freedom
March. Brandon will report back to us in Victoria, with a personal account
and photos:
BCGEU HALL, Sunday January 17, 2010 2:00pm- 4p.m.,
2994 Douglas Street, Victoria
CAMOSUN: Wednesday January 20, 11:00am-12:20pm, Lansdowne
Campus, Paul Building, Room 107
UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA: Friday, January 22, 6.00p.m.,
off the SUB Upper Lounge on the main floor, Room B110b
Entrance by Donation.
Sponsored by: Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid.Victoria (Justice for
Palestinians), Jews for a Just Peace, Island Solidarity Centre Society,
Goods for Cuba, Students Against War, Victoria Students for a DemocraticSociety. |
December 6, Sunday at BCGEU Auditorium, 2994 Douglas ST.
Celebrate the 61st anniversary of the Universal
Declaration on Human Rights, and take action to promote
and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms across the globe.
There will be a special time of remembrance of disappeared and murdered
women in Canada.
2pm to 5pm Global Human Rights Reports
Admission by donation; refreshments available
5 pm: Philippine Dinner (vegan choice included)
$10 - $15 sliding scale
Live entertainment with music by Nedjo Rogers, poetry by Theresa Wolfwood,
and a cultural presentation from the Victoria Philippines Solidarity
Group.
Art display, Fair Trade Sale, Information and Action tables. Info: bbcf@bbcf.ca
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November 30 Chapters at Douglas
and View Streets 6:30 pm
Picket to protest the book
signing by Margaret Atwood. She supposedly promotes peace in the
Middle East but is appearing at a venue where the owners provide
finances for Israeli Lone Soldiers.
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