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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1pm-3pm Corner of Ste-Catherine and McGill College Montreal-area activists will be joining demonstrations and actions around the globe as part of the International Week Against the Apartheid Wall, organized by the Palestinian grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall campaign, and supported by the Montreal Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine. For the fourth time this year, Palestine solidarity activists will be gathering downtown with a replica of the Apartheid Wall. This Saturday's activity will also involve speakers, street theatre and music. Since construction of the Wall began in the summer of 2002, Palestinians have consistently resisted their further dispossession. If completed, the entire Apartheid Wall network, including the Jordan Valley, will de facto annex some 47% of the West Bank. The Wall isolates Palestinian communities into bantustans, enclaves and military prisons, while cutting off villagers from their fields and groves. The Apartheid Wall is part of a strategy of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by the Israeli state. Saturday's picket will be in solidarity with ongoing Palestinian resistance to the Apartheid Wall, and will also endorse the four demands of the Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign: 1) The immediate cessation of the building of the Wall; 2) The dismantling of all parts of the Wall and its related zones already built; 3) The return of lands confiscated for the path of the Wall; 4) The compensation of damages and lost income due to the destruction of land and property in addition to the restitution of land. These calls are firmly grounded in the context of the struggle against Israeli Colonization, Apartheid and Occupation, and for Palestinian rights and self-determination. Montreal organizers further call on the Canadian government to adhere to the July 9, 2004 ICJ ruling to dismantle the Wall by actively opposing the Apartheid Wall and demanding compensation to those harmed by it. For more info: ism-montreal@resist.ca 514-848-7583 http://www.stopthewall.org |