[KWPeace-groups] Please retweet + This Sat. Nov 27 stand up for Palestinian children's rights in Waterloo

[Tamara Lorincz]

Hello KW peace,

There is a solidarity action for Palestinian children this Saturday at Waterloo Public Square at 11am. Please see details below.

To see some pictures from our actions outside the offices of Liberal MP Bryan May in Cambridge, Green MP Mike Morrice in Kitchener and Liberal MP Bardish Chagger in Waterloo, please check out these tweets and I'd be grateful if you could retweet them.  

Please retweet: 
https://twitter.com/TamaraLorincz/status/1462971431046860802   
AND
https://twitter.com/TamaraLorincz/status/1462973205199659017 
AND 
https://twitter.com/TamaraLorincz/status/1462975064538853380

Dwyer, Mary and I were joined by Lee, Brooklyn and Clint. We met with MPs' staff. It was really windy and cold and we couldn't stand outside long.

Thanks,
Tamara

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CANADA, STAND UP FOR PALESTINIAN CHILDREN'S RIGHTS
NOVEMBER 29 IS UNITED NATIONS DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE
Join us on November 27 at Waterloo Square at 11:00am to call on the Canadian government to send a Special Envoy to Palestine-Israel to investigate the treatment of Palestinian children subjected to Israeli military arrest and detention.
 
WATERLOO REGION - Palestinian children growing up in the Occupied Palestinian Territories live under Israeli military occupation. Their day-to-day reality includes home and school demolitions, water rationing, the loss of family land, checkpoints and military gates, night raids, detentions, and imprisonment. It's time for Canada to stand up for Palestinian children's rights.
In 2018 a group of Canadian Members of Parliament went to Palestine to see the situation of Palestinians living under Israeli military rule.  One of the recommendations of the group upon their return was that the Government of Canada sends a Special Envoy to investigate the situation of Palestinians living under Israeli military rule. Today we are renewing that call.  
As part of a network dedicated to pursuing human rights in the Middle East, we are inviting you to help us renew that call and ask the Special Envoy to specifically look into the treatment of Palestinian children being arrested, harassed, and often tortured.   
Please join us at Waterloo Square in Uptown Waterloo for this Public Witness Event to learn more about the practice the Israeli soldiers arresting and putting Palestinian children in Israeli detention. 
If you have any questions please contact:
Kathy Bergen
bergenkathy at gmail.com


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