From Tadamon
Call to support the first major student union in Quebec or Canada to back the international campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions on Israel…

Montreal May 2008: Across the world grassroots movements struggling in opposition to Israeli apartheid are marking the 60th year of the Palestinian Nakba (”catastrophe”) – 60 years of dispossession, ethnic cleansing and exile for Palestinians resulting from the creation of the state of Israel.

A grassroots response in opposition to Israeli apartheid is growing throughout the world sparked by an appeal launched by Palestinian civil-society organizations in 2005 for an international campaign directed at the government in Israel, a campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions. This critical campaign is modeled on a successful international campaign similar in nature that played a critical role in bringing an end to the apartheid regime in South Africa.

Today students in Quebec are now joining the international boycott campaign in large numbers including L’Association pour une Solidarité Syndicale Étudiante (ASSÉ), an important Quebec-wide student federation representing over 42,000 students.

April 2008: Sign on Statement and Appeal for Solidarity

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We the undersigned organizations congratulate the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) for joining the international boycott of Israeli apartheid. We call on workers and labour unions worldwide to join CUPW in creating a strong and effective labour movement in solidarity with struggles against Israeli apartheid and violence.

At the national convention of CUPW, representing over fifty thousand workers across Canada, a strong majority of delegates voted for a resolution in support of the international campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israeli apartheid.

Marking the first time a country-wide labour union in North America has voted to participate in the global campaign against apartheid in Palestine, CUPW's resolution represents a critical juncture for the involvement of North American labour in this campaign. International support for CUPW's resolution - which recognizes the Palestinian people's inalienable rights, including the right of return - could prove key to shoring up this victory.

In Canada, CUPW has been at the forefront of campaigns against privatization and deregulation of postal services in Canada, while maintaining a proud history of international solidarity. During the South African apartheid years, CUPW played a lead role in labor solidarity with South African workers, engaging in concrete actions such as the refusal to handle mail from South Africa.

CUPW has now joined the international campaign against Israeli apartheid, committing itself to "support the international campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions until Israel meets its obligations to recognize the Palestinian people's inalienable right to self-determination and fully complies with the precepts of international law including the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and lands as stipulated in UN Resolution 194."

We are proud to announce the Anti-apartheid and Palestinian non-violence movement speaking tour that will begin in New York on March 3rd 2008 and will end on the west coast in Seattle on March 20th. Director and cinematographer, Shai Carmeli Pollak, and non-violence trainer and activist, Mansour Mansour, will be addressing audiences in 13 cities across the country about the movement in Palestine and Israel against the Israeli occupation, wall and apartheid. In addition, in most cities Shai's movie will be screened, "Bil'in Habibati", about one village's non-violent protest against the apartheid wall and the relationship that the Israeli filmmaker (Shai) develops with villagers.