Join @art_bymariam Arabic Calligraphy Ink Painting Workshop as part of Gaza Remains the Story. Participants will be led in creating a beautiful keepsake for Palestine, with ink painting techniques, to write Palestine in Arabic 🎨
Registration is open! Head to the link in our bio to sign-up.
📆: Saturday May 16 2026
🕙: 2:30-4:30PM
📍: 825 E Hastings St
Gaza Remains the Story is open May 15-18 2026 for various programming as well as self and guided tours all weekend. Check out @alawdavancouver for more info! 🇵🇸
#freepalesti̇ne #artexhibit #calligraphy #painting
🚨ALL OUT FOR PALESTINIAN PRISONERS’ DAY 🚨
🗓 Friday April 17, 2026, 6:30 pm
📍 Creekside Park, 1455 Quebec Street, Vancouver
”The one who resists is the one who has the final say and determines what should and should not be done. Resistance is the title of dignity. Anything else is a slaughter of dignity” — Georges Abdallah
Palestinian political prisoners are at the heart of the liberation struggle, and are the leadership of the liberation movement. Inside Zionist prisons, resistance factions continue political education, collective action, and hunger strikes. Prisoners persist as the leaders of the movement not despite their incarcertion, but precisely because of the political clarity forged by their position within the occupations’ legal system and prison walls.
This year, Palestinian Prisoners’ Day carries a new urgency: On March 30, the Knesset passed a genocidal execution law targetting Palestinian prisoners. War criminal Benjamin Netanyahu voted in favor, and Itamar Ben-Gvir celebrated the laws passing by donning a noose pin and opening a bottle of champagne on the Knesset floor.
This law legalizes the execution of Palestinian prisoners convicted of resistance, with executions to occur by hanging within 90 days of sentencing. This law applies to Palestinians tried in military courts in the West Bank and civil courts in Jerusalem, 1948 Palestine, and Gaza, while settler violence is exempt. This law also attempts to block the success of prisoner exchanges by excluding those with severe sentences from future deals.
Their prisons could not break the prisoners’ movement, so they seek new methods. But they will never succeed. The British executed three Palestinian revolutionaries in 1930, and the movement continued to grow. Now, in 2026, the movement will grow and strengthen too.
The occupation calculates in isolation and fear. We disrupt their calculations by mobilizing, by honouring the prisoners’ steadfastness and leadership with action.
Let us take it to the streets this 17th of April to send a message that we will not forget our prisoners. We are an organized opposition. Silence is not an option.
Free all Palestinian Political Prisoners 🇵🇸
Come on out—browse some goodies—give em a new life—and give your support to Palestinian families in need by doing so!!!
This coming Tuesday and Wednesday at the Caf in Emily Carr 🍉 11:30am - 4:00pm.
Pay what you can and remember the value of where it’s going ❤️💚🤍🖤
Join us for a film screening of Liway, an award-winning story of a young mother imprisoned under Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos Senior. Based on true events, Liway portrays director Kip Oebanda’s childhood experience growing up in a prison camp under the regime — and a mother who used story-telling to protect her child.
We will be fundraising in support of the Speaking Tour of peasant farmer activist, Ka Daning, from the Philippines. Ka Daning is a survivor of state violence under Martial Law and the leader of KMP (Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas), the largest farmers association in the country. He will be visiting the Metro Vancouver area in late May 2026 to discuss the fight for the essential rights to land and basic social services and aid amidst government corruption and repression of their advocacy work.
Details
🍿 Popcorn for sale
🗓 April 11, 2026
🚪 Doors open: 5:15 PM
📽 Screening begins: 5:30 PM
📍 Reliance Theatre | Emily Carr University of Art & Design
520 E 1st Ave, Vancouver, BC
Tickets: Tinyurl.com/liwayfundraiser
The next meeting of the Maktaba study group will be on Thursday, April 2nd at 6:30 pm at 1803 East 1st Ave.
While our focus is on the US and Zionist assaults against Iran, Lebanon and Iraq and the steadfast resistance defending the region against the imperialist-zionist forces, Palestine continues to face constant aggression as the occupation kills, wounds, arrests, tortures, starves, and displaces Palestinians on a daily basis. Like the Iranian leadership that firmly places Palestine at the centre of the struggle, and H*zbollah that defends against expansionist Zionist plans to turn south Lebanon into another Gaza, we need to ground ourselves in the firmly-rooted call for revolutionary struggle and national liberation at the heart of the conflict, which is Palestine.
To help us in this task we’ll be reading and discussing two articles. The first offers a glimpse into the founder of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement, Fathi al-Shiqaqi, whose uncompromising commitment to liberation was undeterred by imprisonment or exile. The second is a recent call for a revolutionary articulation of total liberation written by a group of Palestinian and Arab thinkers.
See you there. Link in bio for readings
Join us for a panel discussion addressing the urgent need for UBC to sever institutional ties with israeli universities that uphold the apartheid regime in Palestine and the importance of advocating for the Apartheid Free Communities movement. Doors open at 6pm and the event starts at 6:30pm.
This event features author Gabor Maté, anthropologist Maya Wind, and activist Jeeda Musleh in a panel moderated by scholar Jasbir Puar.
DINNER PROVIDED!!
Join us for a casual chat and dinner with Nada Elia where we will be talking about her book Greater than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine along with other topics of interest. Happening at:
Rennie Hall
Monday at 6:45PM
This event is in partnership with Read for Our Lives reading group and is a precursor to her talk at SFU Harbour Centre the next day at 6pm.
No RSVP needed please bring your friends and loved ones. Everyone is welcome!
“Atrocity Inc: How Israel sells its destruction of Gaza” will be our first film in the Apartheid Awareness Movie Nights series.
In an exclusive new documentary, Max Blumenthal rips the cover off the media deceptions and atrocity hoaxes Israel pushed in the last two years of Genocide.
🎥🎬🎥🎬
📍Vancouver, BC
🎬 Emily Carr University: Rennie Hall
📆 Mar 19
⏰ Doors open 6:30- Movie starts at 7 pm
🎟️ Free. Drop in.
📍Vernon, BC
🎬 Vernon Library- 2800 30th ave
📆 Mar 19
⏰ 6- 9 pm
🎟️ Free. Drop in.
📍Regina, SK
🎬 2161 Rose St.
📆 Mar 26
⏰ 6:30- 8 pm
🎟️ Free. Tix in @apartheid.free.communities bio.
The Apartheid Awareness Movie Nights is one of the initiatives of AFC that aims at spreading awareness about the concept of Apartheid through film. There will be a focus on the Apartheid in South Africa, the Apartheid in Turtle Island, and the Apartheid in Palestine.
Join SFU CCMS, UBC Centre for India and South Asia Research at @ubcsppga , UBC Queer and Trans Fascisms Research Cluster at @grsj_ubc , @ubc_mes , and @ubc_asia for a book talk by the renowned Palestinian feminist scholar, Nada Elia.
Nada Elia speaks to the questions and contentions of global anti-colonial struggle and Palestinian feminist practices by elaborating from her books Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts (2023), Palestine and Feminist Liberation (2025), and Falastiniyyat: A Century of Palestinian Feminisms (forthcoming). Palestine and Feminist Liberation will be available for purchase at the event from Iron Dog Books.
Date and Time: Tuesday, 24 March at 6:30 to 8 PM PDT - Doors Open at 6 PM
Location: SFU Harbour Centre, Labatt Hall Theatre (1700)
Register via the link in CCMS' bio!
Iran: How did we get here? Where do we go from here?
In collaboration with AFMI, a new collective of faculty and students, FLAME (Freedom and Liberation for All ‘Middle East’), will be hosting Dr. Shokoufeh Sakhi to discuss the unfolding imperialist war in Iran. Come learn and discuss with us!
RSVP is required for this event. Dinner and snacks will be provided!
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“Flame” is the translation of aatashe del which means the flame within, also the name of a book about Iranian anti-war activists during the Vietnam War.
Dr. Shokoufeh Sakhi is an independent scholar and researcher and is currently a member of the Pathologies of Solitude research network, a project hosted at Queen Mary University, London. She has a doctorate in political science from York University, with a specialization in political theory and Levinasian radical phenomenology of ethics.
In the 1980s she spent eight years in Iranian prisons, two of them in solitary confinement. She acted as Executive Committee Director (2013-2014) of the Iran Tribunal Foundation investigating the Iranian state's crimes against humanity in the 1980s. She also testified as an ex-political prisoner at the Iranian People’s Tribunal hearings held at The Hague (2012).
Among many documentaries, she participated in The Tree That Remembers, an award-winning NFB documentary film on the experiences of Iranian political prisoners in the first decade after the 1979 revolution.
She is the author of "Ethical-Political Praxis: Social Justice and the Resistant Subject in Iran" in Iran's Struggle for Social Justice (2017), "A Taste of Mortadella" and "Iran Tribunal: Justice in Making" in Voices of a Massacre (2020).
APARTHEID AWARENESS MONTH CALENDAR at ECUAD!
The best way to find hope in the midst of an overwhelming and uncertain political climate is to connect with others and learn together! Join students and faculty at Emily Carr for varied events to unpack the concept of apartheid. The events are spread throughout the month of March and April. Everyone is welcome! Looking forward to seeing you!
***MARCH 23rd CORRECTION AND CLARIFICATION:
5PM: “I am Gitxsan” film screening in Rennie Hall
6:30PM: Guest speaker Nada Elia discussing her book, “Greater than the Sum of Our Parts” in Rennie Hall
*”Organization Means Commitment” @afmi.van political study will be moved to 6:30PM Monday, MARCH 30th in Rennie Hall
