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<\/a><\/p>\nThe rallying call to end the oppression brought over 10,000 protesters to the streets of Montreal on Saturday January 10th.\u00a0\u00a0 Comprised of all stripes and backgrounds \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Palestinian, Jew, First Nations<\/a>, and pro-peace supporters of all ethnicities and languages, males and females, children and grandparents – protesters demanded an end to the violence in Gaza.<\/p>\n The death toll is nearing the one thousand mark, and this includes hundreds of innocent women and children, all killed by Israeli bombs and ground troops. The atmosphere within the rally was angry, and many of the protesters carried images of recently killed Gazan children, or facsimiles thereof:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Protesting a total failure on the part of humanity to protect its most vulnerable, the march put oppressive forces that disregard innocent human life into the spotlight, such as the Israeli government<\/a> and Hamas.\u00a0 Both organizations are pro-war, and both use indiscriminate violence such as rockets and bombs aimed at random populations to attack each other. The rally was dubbed as “pro-peace”, and many of protesters brought their own children in a show of solidarity with the children of Gaza.\u00a0 Many of the banners and other protest props were strongly in favour of peace.<\/p>\n Indeed one group of theatre activists even assembled their own “love-in” bed, reminiscent of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s honeymoon at Montreal’s stately Queen Elizabeth Hotel<\/a>.\u00a0 On May 26, 1969, the newlyweds started a week-long “bed-in”, demanding that the world “Give peace a chance”.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n