FLOTILLA SUPPORT

Three members of our community, and three amazing organizers, have left NL and are headed to Gaza with the flotilla on the Women’s Boat. We are working hard to support them and to use the energy and media from their voyage to spur on our own organizing and get more people involved. This table will work on efforts already underway and brainstorm new ways to support our friends on the flotilla and bring their message of an arms embargo, end to the siege, and end to the genocide loudly home.

LETTER-WRITING CAMPAIGNS

We will have a table dedicated to pursuing letter writing and phone zap organizing. We are hoping to get more and more and more people to flood the mailboxes and voicemails of our elected representatives both at the federal, provincial, and municipal level, to do all they can to enforce a two-way arms embargo with Israel, lay sanctions on Israel, and commit to the principles of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions.

BDS AND THE THURSDAY STRIKE

We will have a table that will be a place to organize around and discuss both BDS at a local level (for example, Sobeys continues to sell produce from Israel) as well as the larger movement. This will also be an opportunity to learn about Thursday Strike actions that have been proposed by Gaza journalist Bisan Owda and develop ways to promote and support it.

CANVASSING

At this table we will have a mini-workshop on canvassing and the development of canvassing materials for people to hand out. Put your knowledge, marketing and design skills, and passion to use to help us get the word out beyond us.

We will end the night with grabbing some fliers and going out to drop some fliers in a few mailboxes in the surrounding neighbourhood. The more people participating the merrier.