Login Register
Your pictures on the Indymedia-Quebec Téléthon Anti-Sanctions
Advanced Search
RSS Feed for this Album View Slideshow View Slideshow (Fullscreen)

Random Image

HPIM0930.jpg

Date: 06/01/2006 Views: 867

Your pictures on the Indymedia-Quebec

1. Project Fly... 2. Quelle... 3. Journées de... 4. Rassembleme... 5. Téléthon... 6. Forum... 7. Solidarity ... 8. Solidarité ... ... 202. Marche...

Téléthon Anti-Sanctions

Un téléthon ayant pour thème « assez de sanctions! » a eu lieu le 28 avril 2010 à Montréal en soutien à Abousfian Abdelrazik. Plus de 150 personnes de partout au pays ont répondu à l'appel à faire un don à Abdelrazik, tout en sachant que leur geste les rendait passibles de poursuites pénales au fédéral.

***

A sanctions-busting telethon was held in support of Abousfian Abdelrazik in Montreal on 28 April 2010. More than 150 people from across the country responded to the appeal to donate to Abdelrazik, though they were aware that they risked federal prosecution by doing so.

Background:
www.peoplescommission.org/en/abdelrazik

Video:
http://www.rabble.ca/rabbletv/program-guide/2010/04/features/sanctions-busting-telethon-abousfian-abdelrazik-success

Date: 05/05/2010
Owner: Jaggi
Size: 20 items
crowd
 
 

crowd

The live telethon event in Montreal took place at a cultural centre in Montreal's Little Burgundy neighbourhood.

Date: 05/05/2010
Views: 101
preparing
 
 

preparing

Date: 05/05/2010
Views: 142
thermometer
 
 

thermometer

During the evening, the sanctions-busting barometer continued to rise, indicating the pressure as more and more people decided to break the sanctions.

Date: 04/28/2010
Views: 198
room
 
 

room

Marie-Eve Lamy and Aaron Lakoff co-hosted the telethon

Date: 05/05/2010
Views: 142
silde show
 
 

silde show

Because Abdelrazik’s name appears on the 1267 list, he is subject to financial sanctions.

Date: 05/05/2010
Views: 159
Phones update
 
 

Phones update

Phone table update: in the end more than 150 people participated in this nonviolent direct action.

Date: 04/28/2010
Views: 208
phone lines
 
 

phone lines

Telephone operators were overwhelmed with calls from all parts of the country.

Date: 05/05/2010
Views: 165
phones intense
 
 

phones intense

Phone lines continued busy throughout the evening.

Date: 05/05/2010
Views: 68
Norman
 
 

Norman

Norman Nawrocki kicked off the evening of performances with his classic, The Real Terrorists.

Date: 05/05/2010
Views: 145
map at beginning
 
 

map at beginning

As calls came in, the locations of callers were added to a map of Canada.

Date: 05/05/2010
Views: 136
maria
 
 

maria

Project Fly Home's Maria Forti gives an overview of the 1267 regime and why it is important to stand up to it.

Date: 05/05/2010
Views: 160
map
 
 

map

People called in from Vancouver to Halifax; from BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Yukon and Nunavut.

Date: 05/05/2010
Views: 157
kids
 
 

kids

Meanwhile, in the kids' corner, young sanctions-breakers took part in a variety of their own activities.

Date: 05/05/2010
Views: 146
Jou Jou
 
 

Jou Jou

Fabulous story-teller Jou Jou Turenne was among the brilliant performers of the evening.

Date: 05/05/2010
Views: 161
kader
 
 

kader

Recently released from his own virtual prison - four years of church sanctionary, Kader B also took part in the evening.

Date: 05/05/2010
Views: 150
Ehab
 
 

Ehab

Montreal poet and activist Ehab Lotayef read from his new book, To Love a Palestinian Woman.

Date: 05/05/2010
Views: 144
food
 
 

food

The evening featured a free community dinner.

Date: 05/05/2010
Views: 144
aboud at ckut
 
 

aboud at ckut

CKUT 90.3 FM Radio broadcast live onsite, shown here interviewing Brian Aboud from Project Fly Home.

Date: 05/05/2010
Views: 143
Al and Jess Blair
 
 

Al and Jess Blair

Superb folk-singer sisters Al and Jess Blair

Date: 05/05/2010
Views: 144
abdelrazik
 
 

abdelrazik

Abdelrazik and interpreter. The sanctions mean that it is illegal for any Canadian to provide funds to him.

Date: 05/05/2010
Views: 139
 
Page: 1
Powered by Gallery v2.2