Great photo and video highlights from the rally and march in “Vancouver” to mark Palestinian Prisoners Day. The prisoners are our compass and they are supported by all of the Palestinian national collective.
Check out clips of the speech by CPA chair where he details how a million Palestinians, 20% of the population in the West Bank and Gaza, have been through the Israeli jail system.
(Photos from @horizontal.deer, video from CPA Instagram)
“Palestinians, both in Palestine and those among the diaspora, and their allies observed Palestine Land Day March 30th. It was the 50th commemoration of the 1976 murder of six people protesting the State theft of land in Galilee. Israel chose the same date to pass in its Knesset the ‘Death Penalty for Terrorists Law’, an infamous, one-sided statute codifying capital punishment (for some) while providing only limited recourse to appeal, or commutation. Worse, the “Gallows Law” is expected to apply equally to Palestinian children.
Hanna Kawas is chairperson of Vancouver’s Canada-Palestine Association. He’s too a long-time radio journalist whose program, Voice of Palestine had been a beacon for the city’s diaspora community, and others facing both Canadian state repression, and media marginalization…CPA will be front and centre this Friday, April 17th in Vancouver, at Creekside Park for Palestinian Prisoners’ Day.”Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Hanna Kawas, John Helmer April 7/15, 2026
Let us take it to the streets this 17th of April to send a message that we will not forget our prisoners.
Free all Palestinian Political Prisoners
Friday April 17, 2026, 6:30 pm
Creekside Park, 1455 Quebec Street, Vancouver
Great Teach-in on Canadian Complicity on Palestine: Challenging it with Boycott *Note the homemade Palestinian flag on the wall that was used in 1976 for the first local Land Day protest
From Venezuela to Palestine, from Cuba to Iran, from Beirut to Sanaa, the people of the global south can and will defeat US imperial aggression and Zionism!
