r/canadaleft • u/eric_is_a_tool CLICK THIS FOR CUSTOM FLAIR • Oct 17 '23
Sub Announcement CanadaLeft supports Palestinian liberation! Free Gaza! Free Palestine!
Upcoming actions
National March on Ottawa Saturday Nov 25 !
What you can do?
Donate!
If you can afford it, consider donating to the many charities doing heroic work in Gaza!
- Palestine Red Crescent Society https://www.palestinercs.org/en
- Palestine Children's Relief Fund https://www.pcrf.net/
- Medical Aid for Palestinians https://www.map.org.uk/
- Anera https://www.anera.org/who-we-are/
- Doctors Without Borders https://www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/
A full vetted list of charities by Build Palestine here
Take action!
Organize or join up with one of the many groups that are taking a stand against war, colonialism, genocide, and apartheid!
- Check out Palestinian Youth Movement's Facebook Instagram Twitter Email list to keep up with upcoming protests
- Are you a member of a progressive organization? Organize or team up for an action like a march or sit in or protesting your MP or blocking a weapons manufacturer! Check out Shut it down for Palestine for some (US centric) info!
- Ceasefire Now is a coalition of progressive groups calling for a ceasefire, you can check out their signatories for groups near you! https://ceasefirenow.ca/who-we-are
- Call or email your MP
- Sign the petition to tell the Canadian government to call for a ceasefire!
- Check out BDS Canada
- Get the word out about any upcoming actions!
Originally prompted by the horrible news of the Israeli Occupation Forces bombing a hospital in Gaza, killing 500, we have seen the horrific murder of over 11,000 (and counting) civilians in Gaza and will no doubt see countless more due to the siege preventing food, water, medicine, fuel, electricity, internet, etc from reaching the populace. The CanadaLeft mod team reaffirms our unflinching solidarity and support for the people of Palestine and especially Gaza at this time. We are seeing yet another textbook case of a settler-colonial project genociding a people for their land the same way it has been happening on Turtle Island.
Thankfully, it's great to see the outpouring of support by the majority of users of /r/CanadaLeft, but we would like to make it very clear to the minority that we will not tolerate people spreading Zionist myths and lies about the origin of Israel, its countless war crimes, its Apartheid system, and its active genocide against Palestinian people.
If you are someone uninformed or someone naively "both sides"-ing this conflict we urge you to get educated. There's plenty of resources available, such as, Human Rights Watch's report on Israel's Apartheid, Abby Martin's coverage of Palestine: Palestine 101, Inside Palestine's Refugee Camps or the in-depth reading lists of Decolonize Palestine and the Palestinian Youth Movement.
If you want to stay informed on developments as they happen, you can follow:
- Electronic Intifada
- Quds News Network
- Mondoweiss
- Al Jazeera
- BBC Channel 4
- Mohammed El-Kurd (writer based in Jerusalem)
This post will try to keep up to date with upcoming events!
🇵🇸 🇵🇸 End the genocide! End Apartheid! Free Palestine! 🇵🇸 🇵🇸
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u/Red_Boina Fellow Traveler Oct 18 '23
FYI for demonstration information people should follow the Palestinian Youth Movement's facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/Pal.Youth.Movement). They are the ones coordinating in coalition with local groups (SPHR, etc) demontrations in Canada.
There were several emergency demos today, several ones are planned for tomorrow but they also share ones that are planned more medium term.
Don't feel too bad if you miss ones called last minute (like today): there will be more, and usually the ones called a couple days in advance bring out a shitload of people: eg the one in Montreal last friday.
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u/ChantillyMenchu Turtle Island > Canada Oct 17 '23
Thank you! Enough is enough. We can no longer collectively and individually be silent in fear of repercussions. We have to be loud and proud of our solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸
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u/Bangoga Oct 18 '23
This is so appreicated. The spread of misinformation, the normalization of casual and overt racism and straight up dehumanization on other canadian subreddits makes alot of us feel unsafe. My father moved out of the states after 9/11 due to the treatment that was faced by alot of immigrants there.
I do not want to see global powers repeat the same mistakes.
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u/eric_is_a_tool CLICK THIS FOR CUSTOM FLAIR Oct 18 '23
The Islamophobia has been disgusting, solidarity comrade ✊
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Oct 18 '23
The amount of people on this site spreading Zionist propaganda and accusing anyone who opposes colonialism and genocide of being a Hamas supporter is disgusting and absurd. Good to see some real Solidarity here!
Free Palestine! 🇵🇸
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u/Locke357 Oct 23 '23
I'm so grateful for this sub and others like it, help me feel like there's still empathy alive in this world
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u/PuddingFeeling907 May 24 '24
The no thanks app is an awesome resource to see which companies support zionism
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u/BeeOk1235 Aug 13 '24
just got banned from r/canada for participating in a blatantly brigaded by hasbara trolls thread on the side of being against genocide.
apparently being against genocide is "trolling with slap fights" despite you know, simply posting facts about the ongoing genocide and the history of palestine.
r/canada is a psyop straight up. it is foreign interference. these craven ghouls happily propagate disinformation while silencing dissent based in reality.
fucking eh. jfc lord tundering jaysus. what a fucking disgusting subreddit mod team.
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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '23
Happy to finally see this in writing 🇵🇸 🇵🇸, even if under the circumstances of such devastating news.