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March 12: Resistance Culture: An Evening of Spoken Word, Poetry and Art

February 16, 2012 in Features, Upcoming Events

MONDAY, MARCH 12 Resistance Culture: An Evening of Spoken Word, Poetry and Art 7:00 pm, InterUrban Gallery, 1 East Hastings St., Vancouver (suggested donation $10, no one turned away for lack of funds) Featuring: Remi Kanazi, Palestinian poet from New York  Special guests including Indigenous poet Kat Norris and the Palestinian children’s art exhibition,  A [...]

March 5: Canada and Israel: Allies in apartheid, allies in colonialism

February 16, 2012 in Features, Upcoming Events

Canada and Israel: Allies in apartheid, allies in colonialism A free public forum featuring: Glen Coulthard Dana Mohammed Olwan Mike Krebs Monday March 5th 7 pm @ SFU Harbour Centre 515 W. Hastings Street, Vancouver Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/368923696468778/ On a recent trip to Israel, Canadian foreign minister John Baird stated that ‘Israel has no greater friend in [...]

Vancouver Emergency VIGIL and PROTEST for Khader Adnan – Palestinian prisoner on 61st day of Hunger Strike

February 16, 2012 in Features, Upcoming Events

Thursday, February 16 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM CBC Building, Hamilton and Georgia Sts., Vancouver Facebook event:  https://www.facebook.com/events/179203568849907/ Please forward WIDELY! Join us for a VIGIL and PROTEST for Khader Adnan, Palestinian prisoner on the 61st day of his Hunger Strike, protesting his arbitrary detention without charge. We will stand outside the CBC building to highlight [...]

No Love on Valentine’s: Palestine Activists protest Lavan’s Tainted Love

February 14, 2012 in Actions, BIAC News, Features, Past Events

Palestinian rights activists took to the streets of Vancouver on Sunday, February 12, 2012 for an early Valentine’s Day greeting to Lavan Vancouver, bringing hearts, balloons, flowers – and the Apartheid Wall of No Love.

Against the expansion of the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement

February 14, 2012 in BIAC News, Features, Statements and Articles

Last fall, the Conservative government announced plans to expand the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement (CIFTA), a set of policies that serves to further legitimize Israeli occupation and apartheid, and deepen Canadian corporate and state involvement in Israeli racism and colonialism.

BIAC endorses campaign of non-cooperation with Canadian spy agency

February 14, 2012 in BIAC News, Features, Statements and Articles

The Boycott Israeli Apartheid Campaign – Vancouver endorses the Campaign of Non-Cooperation with CSIS launched by the People’s Commission Network in Montreal, and endorsed by over 70 organizations based in Canada.