[KWPeace-groups] Change: March for Gaza/Palestine & Peace at 11am Kitchener Farmers Market on Sat!

[Tamara Lorincz]

Hello everyone,

There is a march for Gaza/Palestine & Peace at 11am Kitchener Farmers Market on Saturday. 

I will do the march in Kitchener tomorrow and NOT go to the Waterloo Public Square at 2pm.

Today, three of us went to MP Chagger's office to deliver a letter to call for a ceasefire and for an end to Canada's weapons exports to Israel and support of Israeli apartheid. 

Saturday is the Global Day of Action for a Ceasefire. 

Sign the parliamentary e-petition: https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4649 

Have a good weekend,
Tamara

-----Original Message-----
From: Tamara Lorincz 
Sent: November 3, 2023 12:31 PM
To: 'Peace and Social Justice Group Organizers in Kitchener-Waterloo' <groups at kwpeace.ca>
Subject: Today & Saturday! Join me at MP Bardish Chagger's office to deliver letter on Fri Nov 3 at 3pm & join me for a vigil for Gaza on Sat Nov 4 at 2pm

Hello KW peace friends,

Today, Friday, November 3rd, I am going to bring a letter and the statements from VOW, CJPME and IJV calling for a ceasefire and an end to the arms transfers to Israel to Member of Parliament Bardish Chagger at 3pm at her constituency office located at 100 Regina St. I will wait outside with banners and then whoever shows up we can go up as a group around 3:10. 

You can sign the letters before we go inside. I will also take a group photo with the Palestine and peace banners outside her office. 

It is an outrage that Canada is not calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and continuing to send weapons to Israel to prolong the war. Israel has killed 8,796 Palestinians including 3,600 children. The IDF has also wounded more than 22,000 Palestinians including 7,000 children: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/1/there-are-thousands-more-wounded-palestinians-cross-into-egypt-from-gaza   

Feel free to share. This will be a short action but we can meet for a quick coffee/tea afterward at Café 22 if you like. 

There is also a parliamentary e-petition with over 89,000 signatures, let's get it to 100,000 signatures, ceasefire now and foster the conditions for a lasting peace, please sign it here: https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4649

*In solidarity with the global day of action for a ceasefire in Gaza and peace in the Middle East this Saturday, November 4, I will stand in the Waterloo Public Square at 2pm with my banner for Palestine and for peace. I cannot go to the big rally in Toronto. https://twitter.com/TamaraLorincz/status/1720438340636311852 

Thanks,
Tamara

PS. Her office closes at 4pm so that's why we have to go earlier.

Resources to share below:

" Israel-Palestine war: Mounting evidence suggests Israel may be ready to ‘cleanse’ Gaza"
By Jonathan Cook
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-palestine-mounting-evidence-israel-ready-cleanse-gaza  
Middle East Eye                                                                                                                                                                                                 1 November 2023 
All the signs are in place that Israel is once again seriously considering a massive ethnic cleansing operation, conducted at lightning speed and with US and Canadian assistance...

VOW statements: https://vowpeace.org/
IJV: https://www.ijvcanada.org/gaza-on-the-brink-ceasefire-now/ 
CJMPE: https://www.cjpme.org/phone_for_ceasefire