I announce that I will sit at Place des Fleurs-de-Macadam in Montreal for 4 days, from August 8 to 11, for an awareness-raising action and a call to collective action in support of the martyred Palestinian people. During these 4 days and 4 nights, I will stop eating and drinking to express my determination in this act of conscience and my solidarity with those who are deprived of food. I invite you to join me over these 4 days to collectively express and make visible our willingness to help the people of Palestine, especially on Saturday, August 9, starting at 6:00 PM for a collective vigil of support. You can each bring a candle to hold lit with you.
Stéphane Chalmeau, simple citizen and human.
Deaths from famine have begun. For months, we have been witnessing the massacres from a more or less distant perspective, on our social media, in newspaper articles, or on television news. But today, it is hunger that has begun to kill. After 4 months of blockade, preventing food, water, and medicine from reaching the Gaza Strip. If we continue to be mere spectators, in a few weeks, perhaps two million people will have lost their lives. With no possibility of turning back. Forever, we will have watched them die on our screens. And for all of us, it will be the beginning of the end. Because after a first televised genocide, what will prevent the scoundrels of this world from committing a second one? Then a third? After all, it’s the first time that hurts the most. Our current chance to preserve our humanity in the face of this heinous massacre is to take action, to come together, to express ourselves, to fight. Through small or large gestures, but clearly directed: we want humans, innocent men, women, and children, to be able to live, to eat and drink. There is only one solution to hunger: let the trucks loaded with food and medicine circulate and distribute their goods. Then, in a second step, let us officially recognize the people of Palestine and their right to live in safety and legitimacy like all peoples, in peace like all peoples; including the people of Israel, of course.
