We call on people of all Palestine & Israel: backgrounds to join us in this campaign. Where should Canada stand? Among the individuals and organizations It is the responsibility of all people in Canada to insist on the inviolability and universality of who have endorsed this statement are: Clayton Bagwell (sawmill electrician), Union Bay, BC human rights. As such, and compelled by our government's failure to meet its obligations to the Ursula M. Franklin (Companion of the Order of Canada, FRSC) Palestinian people, we call for an immediate change in Canada's Middle East policy. Anton Kuerti (musician) Dionne Brand (writer) Naomi Klein (journalist) Meyer Brownstone (OXFAM-Canada, "chair emeritus") While proclaiming that all peoples in the region have a right to security, Brian McLeod (Iqaluit) Faye Blaney (Aboriginal Women's Action Network) successive Canadian governments have condoned Israel's Libby Davies (MP) George Heyman (President, BC Govt and Service Employees Union)* Denise Nadeau (Vancouver Non-Violent Training Collective) systematic violation of the Palestinian population's basic Judy Rebick (New Political Initiative)* Kikelola Roach human right to live free of military coercion and violence. Gaik Cheng Koo (Anti-racist action committee) CUPE Toronto District Council South Asian Women's Centre, Montreal David Fennario (playwright-performer) Collective punishment, land expropriation, home demolitions, extra-judicial killings and the Salome Lukas (Women Working with Immigrant Women)* daily humiliation of an entire population provide fertile soil for the growth of brutality and the Murray Dobbin (author)(Council of Canadians)* Anita Fast (Christian Peacemaker Team Volunteer)* Mary Zarowny (Sisters of St. Ann, Victoria) perpetration of atrocities. Continuing military occupation is the root Dr. Margaret J. McGregor Paul Puritt Canadian Labour Congress cause of the present spiral of violence between the Palestinian Wayne Madden (Fort McMurray, Alberta) Arnold Itwaru (Director Carribean Studies, University of Toronto)* Madeleine Parent and Israeli populations. Reverend Margaret Marquardt (Anglican Church)* Himani Bannerji (professor,York)* G.C. Germain, St. John's Ruth Birn We urgently demand that the Canadian government assume its international responsibilities Peggy Askin (Calgary Lab. Council)* regarding the illegal Israeli occupation of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem. William Cleveland (professor Middle East History, SFU) Rape Relief David Diamond (artistic director, Headlines Theatre) We call on the Canadian government to publicly and Gary Cristall (cultural worker) Susan Howard-Azzeh (Al-Awda, Niagara) unequivocally demand the immediate and unilateral withdrawal Anne Roberts (chair, Journalism Dept., Langara College) Josee Vanasse, Conseillere syndicale (CCMM, CSN)* Veterans Against NuclearArms of all Israeli military forces from the Palestinian Territories Alex Kerner (President, Student Administrative Council, U of T)* Jewish Youth Against the Occupation occupied in June 1967 and the dismantlement of illegal David Cadman (Pres., Soc. for Promoting Enviromental Conservation)* Native Youth Movement (Victoria) Elen Ghulam settlements. Elizabeth Sterken (Director, INFACT Canada) Anne-Marie Brun Giancarlo Rizzo Mike Krebs (Anti-Poverty Committee)* We demand the Canadian government uphold the provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention Mariusz T.Wesolowski regarding civilian populations under military occupation (enacted following the atrocities of Amina Sherazee (counsel, Canadian Arab Federation) Will Cullen (ex-Army/peacekeeper) World War II). We call on the Canadian government to respond to Israel's Jean-Simon Diallo Kerri Sakamoto (writer) continuing non-compliance with the rule of law by Anthony Pare (Chair, Integrated Studies in Education, McGill)* joining the international community in the censure Nettie Wild (film-maker) Evangelia Tastsoglou (sociology professor, St. Mary's University)* and sanction of the illegal Israeli occupation and Jamelie Hassan (artist) Women's International League for Peace and Freedom-Canada section colonization of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and Louise Leask (Virden, Manitoba) Woodrow W. Coward, Lt.Col (retired) East Jerusalem. John Dirlik Paul Tetrault Christine York (translator) In so doing, we affirm the universality of our Valentina Mendoza (UBC medical faculty) Penticton Chapterof the Council of Canadians basic human rights, and protest their selective Susan B. Boyd (law faculty, UBC) Marcus Youseff (writer, teacher) application by the Canadian government. Cassin Elliott (Youth Driven)* Alex Boston (David Suzuki Foundation)* Ontario Coalition Against Poverty End the occupation NOW! canpalnet Bill Saunders (President, Vancouver and District Labour Council)* Cynthia Flood (author) Canada–Palestine Support Network Evert Hoogers (National Union Rep., Can. Union of Postal Workers)* Svend Robinson (MP) www.canpalnet.ca Pam Frache (President, CUPE local 1281) Ken Luckhardt (International Department Canadian Auto Workers)* Suresh Bhalla Nick de Pencier (film maker) This ad, appearing simultaneously in the Vancouver Georgia Straight and the Toronto Now, is paid for by individual NOWAR/PAIX contributions from signatories of the statement initiated by Canpalnet. We invite you to add your name to these signatories, to And hundreds and hundreds more. Check out http://canpalnet.ca/stmt.html for a complete list contact us with comments and questions, and to send donations to broaden and to continue the campaign to end the Israeli of signatories. occupation. Contributions should be made out to: Canpalnet. Mail to: 123 North Sea Avenue, Burnaby, B.C. V5B 1K4. To add your signature, and for comments and questions, e-mail: [email protected] *for identification purposes only