Palestine solidarity activists called on Thursday for peaceful civil disobedience to pressure the Canadian government to implement an arms embargo and economic sanctions against Israel, among other demands.
“We call on citizens to organize in peaceful disobedience,” said Tatiana Harker, a member of the Montreal-based group Palestine Vivra, during a news conference in Ottawa. “Our ports and airports cannot continue feeding the slaughter of Gaza and supporting an ethno-state imposed on the Indigenous people of that land.”
They also called on Canadian unions to act “so that the oxygen the Canadian government gives to Israel is cut off wherever workers have the power.”
It came on the fourth day a week-long vigil on Parliament Hill, where activists are reading the names of children in the Gaza Strip killed in the ongoing Israeli military campaign widely condemned as a genocide.
More than 20,000 children — roughly two per cent of the territory’s children — have been killed since October 2023, according to data cited by groups including Save the Children. The true number is likely much higher as thousands are missing and presumed buried under rubble. (more...)
Palestine solidarity activists call for civil disobedience as week-long vigil continues in Ottawa
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