A Call-Out to All from a Canada-wide coalition of citizen and labour organizations called Arms Embargo Now
Posted June 12th, 2024 on Niagara At Large
WELLAND, Ontario. – On Thursday, June 13, constituents will gather at Liberal MP Vance Badawey’s riding office in Niagara Centre to demand his support for a full and immediate arms embargo on Israel.
The #ArmsEmbargoNow demand, first published on May 7th, has been endorsed by more than 400 Palestinian associations, labour unions, faith institutions, human rights and environmental organizations, and community groups across Canada.
Forty-two parliamentarians from the Liberal, NDP and Green parties have now signed-on to an abbreviated version of the statement, which acknowledges the catastrophe Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza has caused, and calls on the Canadian government to immediately suspend all trade in arms and military technology with Israel.
Constituents will bring a copy of the statement to the riding office for Mr. Badawey to sign; emphasizing the imminent danger to Palestinian lives in Gaza, they will encourage him not to delay a moment longer before joining his colleagues in doing the right thing.
The action will be one of more than 35 other visits to MPs offices in ridings across the country on Thursday, from Whitehorse, Yellowknife, and Fort McMurray to Saint John, New Brunswick and Antigonish, Nova Scotia as part of a national June 13 #ArmsEmbargoNow Day of Action.
Last week, Israel carried out a military operation in the Nuseirat refugee camp that freed four Israeli captives and killed more than 270 Palestinians, including at least 64 children.
The attack injured some 700 others.
The scale of the massacre once again underscored the disproportionate and indiscriminate nature of Israel’s eight month-long military assault on and siege of Gaza and the abhorrent devaluing of Palestinian life in which the Canadian government is complicit as long as it continues to engage in the arms trade with Israel.
(This Thursday, June 13th), constituents will urge Vance Badawey to do everything in his power as an elected representative to put an end to that complicity, and to back the call for a two-way arms embargo on Israel now.
WHEN: Thursday, June 13th at 4:00 pm.
WHERE: Outside Niagara Centre MP Vance Badawey’s constituency office at 136 East Main Street, Welland.
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