On Monday, dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators blocked the entrances to a Scarborough-based manufacturing plant that they say provides equipment to Israel’s military, while demanding a total arms embargo on Israel from the Canadian government.
“We want an arms embargo, and we want a permanent ceasefire,” said Aminah Sheikh, an organizer with Labour for Palestine and a Scarborough resident. More than 100 peaceful demonstrators blocked morning-shift workers from entering the TTM Technologies plant early Monday morning.
“We want an end to the Nakba, which means ‘catastrophe,’ an end to the ongoing displacement, an end to the siege, and an end to Israeli apartheid.”
Organizers said they were responding to a call from Palestinian workers and trade unions asking to block the flow of weapons to Israel. “We’re responding as workers, as people in solidarity with Palestine, as Palestinians who are part of this community. But also as people with a conscience, who refuse to witness a genocide and do nothing,” said Rachel Small, an organizer with World BEYOND War Canada, which is part of a global movement that seeks to “abolish the institution of war,” according to their website
According to a press release by World Beyond War, TTM Technologies produces printed circuit boards that are exported to Israeli defense contractor Elbit Systems and are “slated for use in F-15 and F-16 fighter jets, and other military equipment.” (more...)
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