**(Organize a picket in your own neighbourhood and let us know about your action. Update: Ban Israeli Wine rally also happening on Sat May 9th 3-5pm at the BC Government Liquor store. 209 Anderson St, Nelson.)
Lets pressure the provincial government to finally end its complicity in war crimes. Selling Israeli wines is actively aiding and abetting a state committing genocide.
For Nakba78, join us to demand that the BC Government immediately deshelve Israeli wines. Eighteen years of war profiteering off Palestinian and Arab dispossession is shameful!
May 15, 4 pm
BC Liquor Store, 1520 Commercial Dr., Vancouver
(After the picket, join the Nakba78 Rally at Grandview Park at 5:30 pm)
Our first campaign launch in 2008 coincided with Nakba60 and that connection was the foundation of our public statement. The statement, endorsed by a wide variety of both local and international groups, read:
“On this 60th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, the Israeli government has announced plans to ‘rebrand’ its 60 years of dispossession and ethnic cleansing. Here in B.C., the focus of this ‘rebranding’ is the promotion of wines under an Israeli label in B.C. liquor stores…
We say 60 years of ‘rebranding’ is enough; 60 years of dispossession, exile and the destruction of a whole nation are enough. Send this message to the Israeli government, and to our local and national politicians.”
May 2008 Picket
More info here: https://cpavancouver.org/boycottisraeliwines-campaign/
