Events Happening Around the World

Second Annual Commemoration of the Israeli attack on Gaza

1400 Dead-Gaza we will not forget!

During the months of December/Janaury 2010/11, events are scheduled around the world to commemorate the deadly Israeli war on Gaza in 2008.We will update this list regularly to showcase these events. Please e-mail support@breaksiege.com with details of your event and pictures ( if any).

Kuala Lumpur-Malaysia:

Date:26th of December 2010
Event: Flashmob/freeze scene

By Azra Banu:
On 27th Dec 2008, Gaza was brutally attacked by Israel, leaving 1400 dead & countless others injured. Lives lost, destroyed, shattered. Reduced to ruins, Gaza remains in this state, cruelly denied the dignity of rebuilding itself.

Viva Palestina Malaysia in remembering the people of Gaza & all of Palestine put up a freeze scene depicting just a tiny fragment of life under the horrific occupation by Israel.
In no way could we even begin to capture what it means to be a people dispossessed, robbed, looted, forced out. Israel has stripped itself of all sense of decency & dignity. And yet the Palestinians remain unbroken, their spirit soar high, their courage legendary. And today, on the anniversary of the attack on Gaza, they are joined by thousands across the world as we stand in solidarity and say,
“Gaza, We Will Not Forget.”

Watch the video here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R56dOxzbk9w

Global day to break Israeli Siege

Saturday, June 2010

This list will be updated on a regular basis to showcase all events happening on the Global Day to Break Israeli Siege ~Saturday, June 5, 2010. To add your event, please email support[at]breaksiege.com with the details!

• Cairo – (see below)
• Toronto – (see below)
• Beirut – (see below)
• Dublin – (see below)
• Malaysia – (see below)
• Berlin – (see below)
• Duisburg -Germany (see below)
• Charlotte-North Carolina (see below)
• Manama (Details TBA)

Beirut:

Transport and dock workers unions telethon!

Help spread the BNC’s call for action to dock workers unions to boycott uploading/offloading any Israeli ships and airplanes.

When? Saturday, June 5th 2010

Contact details: breaksiege2010@gmail.com

Toronto (see below Emergency Flotilla Protest):

Street Action – Saturday

Protest – Saturday

Cairo:

• BDS action in front of Starbucks.Bring Palestinian and Turkish flags!

Help boycott Starbucks and raise awareness about BDS

When? Saturday, June 5th 2010

Where: Starbucks-Nadi El-Seid ( Shooting club)

What time: 6pm ( To be confirmed)

Contact details: support[at]breaksiege.com

• Protest to lift the siege on Gaza and truly open the Rafah crossing!

June5th has been announced as a Global Day of action to break the Israeli siege on Gaza. This comes at a time when the Egyptian system went to great lengths in hindering the entrance of aid and individuals through the Rafah crossing.It also greatly limits the materials allowed to enter through the crossing, which reveals  the falsity of the claim that the Rafah border has been opened!

The demands are to end the siege completely, open Rafah borders permanently and allow all supplies to enter from Egypt and not pass through Israel.

This saturday is an international day of action to break the illegal siege of Gaza. The boat MV Rachel Corrie should be entering “troubled waters”, where the FREEDOM FLOTILLA MASSACRE happened on monday. The Irish government is demanding no harm come to her and her crew and they reach their destination, the port of Gaza. Let us all rise with them, all in our local spots, united together by our anger and rage, together we can break this siege…

Dublin Mass Demonstration

Where: Garden of Remembrance

What time: 2pm

Organized by: Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC)

Kuala Lumpur-Malaysia:

• ٍSolidarity Demonstration for Flotilla!

Where: Outside US Embassy in front of the Tabung Haji in Jalan Tun Razak.

When: Friday June 4th

What time: 2pm

• BDS action:Awareness Program and Call for Boycott

When:Sunday, June 6th

What time: 11 am

Where: Jalan Bukit Bintang in front of McDonalds

Organized by: Viva Palestine Malaysia

Berlin:

Demonstration

When: Saturday June, 5th

What time: 12 o’clock

Where: Starting at Hermannplatz

Duisburg:

Demonstration

When: Friday June, 4th

What time: 6pm

Where: Lifesaver-Brunnen,Königstrasse, Duisburg-Mitte.

Charlotte-North Carolina:

We will demonstrate in front of Caterkiller in solidarity with the Freedom Flotilla taking humanitarian aid to Gaza. This day also marks the 43rd anniversary of Israel’s Six Day War in 1967 against Palestine & her neighbors.

When: Saturday, June 5th

Where: Caterpillar
9000 Statesville Rd
Charlotte, NC
(protest at corner of WT Harris Blvd & Statesville Rd)

What time: 1:00 PM

Sponsored by Action Center For Justice; Al-Awda Charlotte; CODEPINK Charlotte; Students For A Democratic Society – UNCC; Charlotte 4 Palestine; ISO Charlotte; Charlotte Movement For A Democratic Society; & others.

Following events have also been announced as Flotilla Emergency Protests on Saturday, June 5th :

• Flotilla Emergency Protest: Auckland (NZ)
• Flotilla Emergency Protest: Barcelona
• Flotilla Emergency Protest: Eugene (OR)
• Flotilla Emergency Protest: London
• Flotilla Emergency Protest: Derry ( UK)
• Flotilla Emergency Protest: Edingburgh
• Flotilla Emergency Protest: Montreal
• Flotilla Emergency Protest: Muenster
• Flotilla Emergency Protest: Northfield (MN)
• Flotilla Emergency Protest: Philadelphia
• Flotilla Emergency Protest: San Francisco
• Flotilla Emergency Protest: Toronto
• Flotilla Emergency Protest: Waterford

Source: http://gazafreedommarch.org/cms/en/flotilla/protest.aspx