Struggle for Palestine continues to build

 

We need more of it, but to sustain ourselves it’s important to recognize our victories. Activism works when enough of us participate.

Justin Trudeau cancelled a meeting with the Italian Prime Minister. Chrystia Freeland failed to show at a $750 plate fundraiser. Arms firms’ operations were slowed in many cities. Palestine solidarity protesters accomplished these and other feats over the past week.

In the previous weeks Trudeau backed out of a Winnipeg fundraiser, Vancouver’s port was shuttered for half a day and a minister was forced out of the BC cabinet due to protests. Over the past five months dozens of politicians’ offices have been occupied while ministers and MPs have been heckled hundreds of times by anti-genocide activists.

Alongside a slew of targeted actions, there have been hundreds of large-scale demonstrations against Canada’s complicity in Israel’s violence. In Montreal there have been mass protests 23 weekends in a row. The smallest march was around 1,000 and the biggest 50,000. In most other major cities, the dynamic has been similar with basically every Canadian city witnessing its largest ever Palestine solidarity demonstrations.  (more...)

Struggle for Palestine continues to build