Newsletter 🍉 VanGran4Pal Community Newsletter This post was imported from Mailchimp. Some formatting may have been lost in translation. **Neighbours and Friends, ** It’s been a week of important developments in the struggle for Palestinian liberation. We are taking our cue from voices on the ground in Palestine as we take in the news that
Newsletter 🍉 VanGran4Pal Community Newsletter This post was imported from Mailchimp. Some formatting may have been lost in translation. **Neighbours and Friends, ** Bisan tells us “700,000 people are stuck between death and leaving, under a dome of fire and rockets” in the midst of the “most horrific, dire conditions since the beginning of the
Newsletter 🍉 VanGran4Pal Community Newsletter This post was imported from Mailchimp. Some formatting may have been lost in translation. **Neighbours and Friends, ** We come to you this week grieving the people who were killed in Israel’s attack on Nasser Hospital. This attack killed five more journalists, who dedicated their lives to sharing the truth.
Newsletter 🍉 VanGran4Pal Community Newsletter This post was imported from Mailchimp. Some formatting may have been lost in translation. **Neighbours and Friends, ** We’ve been grieving heavily this week. With our whole hearts, we honour every journalist who has been martyred. We honour every mother, father, daughter and son of Palestine. There are no words.
Newsletter 🍉 VanGran4Pal Community Newsletter This post was imported from Mailchimp. Some formatting may have been lost in translation. **Neighbours and Friends, ** We’re sending this newsletter edition slightly ahead of schedule because there are some really important actions we want to bring to your attention, including some taking place this evening and tomorrow. Right
Newsletter 🍉 VanGran4Pal Community Newsletter This post was imported from Mailchimp. Some formatting may have been lost in translation. **Neighbours and Friends, ** It was so lovely to meet some of you at our Free Coffee Free Palestine social and we are so grateful for you showing up. We look forward to staying connected! If you
Newsletter Our social tomorrow - venue change! This post was imported from Mailchimp. Some formatting may have been lost in translation. **Neighbours and Friends, ** We hope you can join our Sunday 13th July (tomorrow!) Free Coffee Free Palestine social - we are just emailing to make sure you’re all aware of the venue change to Mount
Newsletter 🍉 VanGran4Pal Community Newsletter This post was imported from Mailchimp. Some formatting may have been lost in translation. **Neighbours and Friends, ** This week we want to discuss a couple of important moments that unfolded and gave us optimism in the steadfastness and growth of public support for Palestine, even in the face of extreme
Newsletter 🍉 VanGran4Pal Community Newsletter This post was imported from Mailchimp. Some formatting may have been lost in translation. **Neighbours and Friends, ** It’s been a long week. Tensions escalate, things get worse, and somehow daily life goes on. Work stress, family obligations, even moments of joy feel tinged with unreality. Life at the core
Newsletter 🍉 VanGran4Pal Community Newsletter This post was imported from Mailchimp. Some formatting may have been lost in translation. **Neighbours and Friends, ** Welcome back to another edition of our community newsletter. Thanks so much for reading along with us and staying engaged. You showing up truly matters and we are motivated by the 700 of
Newsletter 🍉 VanGran4Pal Community Newsletter This post was imported from Mailchimp. Some formatting may have been lost in translation. **Neighbours and Friends, ** This is an urgent community call to action. Israel’s blockade of food and aid is starving babies to death. Our collective voices, right now, will have an impact. Pick up your phone
Newsletter 🍉 VanGran4Pal Community Newsletter This post was imported from Mailchimp. Some formatting may have been lost in translation. **Neighbours and Friends, ** We want to begin by saying that we are grieving the Lapu Lapu day tragedy and our hearts are firmly with anyone suffering or struggling to cope. This has been unimaginable for our
Newsletter 🍉 VanGran4Pal Community Newsletter This post was imported from Mailchimp. Some formatting may have been lost in translation. **Neighbours and Friends, ** As we head into this last weekend before the election, our thoughts are with the community members who will be most affected by its outcome, and with the people of Palestine, who have
Newsletter 🍉 VanGran4Pal Community Newsletter This post was imported from Mailchimp. Some formatting may have been lost in translation. **Neighbours and Friends, ** We come to you this week fresh off some unseasonable good news for progressives in Vancouver. Pro-Palestine candidates Sean Orr (COPE) and Lucy Maloney (OneCity) swept the municipal city council byelection in a
Newsletter 🍉 VanGran4Pal Community Newsletter This post was imported from Mailchimp. Some formatting may have been lost in translation. **Neighbours and Friends, ** This week we want to talk to you about the federal election that is coming up for Canada. We are living in perhaps the scariest and most divided time that most of us
Newsletter 🍉 VanGran4Pal Community Newsletter This post was imported from Mailchimp. Some formatting may have been lost in translation. **Neighbours and Friends, ** In the last edition we concluded our intro by repeating the refrain “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”. This has since been demonstrated by the detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian
Newsletter 🍉 VanGran4Pal Community Newsletter This post was imported from Mailchimp. Some formatting may have been lost in translation. **Neighbours and Friends, ** Firstly we want to highlight that our action update this week is an economic boycott everyone can very easily do and it’s happening TODAY - scroll down for details! This week, we
Newsletter 🍉 VanGran4Pal Community Newsletter This post was imported from Mailchimp. Some formatting may have been lost in translation. **Neighbours and Friends, ** This Valentine’s Day our hearts, as always, are with the people of Palestine and all those suffering from oppression and displacement. We’ve got a lot of great local events going on
Newsletter 🍉 VanGran4Pal Community Newsletter This post was imported from Mailchimp. Some formatting may have been lost in translation. **Neighbours and Friends, ** We are so glad to have you with us for this week’s edition as we cover news, updates and our strategy going forwards. We’ll now be back to our biweekly schedule
Newsletter 🍉 VanGran4Pal Community Newsletter This post was imported from Mailchimp. Some formatting may have been lost in translation. **Neighbours and Friends, ** We took a week off from the newsletter schedule over this winter break and spent that time resting and recuperating. It is important to honour the blessings we have in our lives as
Newsletter 🍉 VanGran4Pal Community Newsletter This post was imported from Mailchimp. Some formatting may have been lost in translation. **Neighbours and Friends, ** This holiday, like the last, is tinged with grief and anger. Our thoughts are with the people of Palestine who continue to face relentless attacks by Israel and its backers. But while the
Newsletter 🍉 VanGran4Pal Community Newsletter This post was imported from Mailchimp. Some formatting may have been lost in translation. **Neighbours and Friends, ** Welcome to another edition of the newsletter! Thank you for being here. We were inspired to see over a hundred Jews and allies occupy the Confederation building on Parliament Hill in Ottawa this
Newsletter 🍉 VanGran4Pal Community Newsletter This post was imported from Mailchimp. Some formatting may have been lost in translation. **Neighbours and Friends, ** We’re starting with some good news today from the newsletter of the folks over at CJPME: _“The International Criminal Court (ICC) has finally issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and
Newsletter 🍉 VanGran4Pal Community Newsletter This post was imported from Mailchimp. Some formatting may have been lost in translation. **Neighbours and Friends, ** Thanks for being a steady, committed and conscientious community. We’ve got lots of upcoming events to share and hope the events are an opportunity for more of us to get to know
Newsletter 🍉 VanGran4Pal Community Newsletter This post was imported from Mailchimp. Some formatting may have been lost in translation. **Neighbours and Friends, ** Sometimes it’s hard to find words to begin this little newsletter. Somedays we’re speechless/enraged/heartbroken over what the people of Gaza are being made to suffer day-after-day. That it is