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Don’t miss “Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk” by Sepideh Farsi at the Toronto Palestine Film Festival. We’re thrilled to co-present this screening on Saturday, September 27 at 5:00 pm.

Get your tickets at www.tpff.ca

Description:
At the beginning of the genocide, Iranian-exiled director Sepideh Farsi naively sought a way into Gaza to cover the unfolding genocide. In the course of her failed mission, a contact connected her with acclaimed Palestinian photographer and poet Fatma Hassona. While the two had differing views on religion, Middle East politics and exile, their curiousity of each other’s lives resulted in an unlikely friendship over the course of their regularly scheduled glitchy video calls. Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk offers an intimate, first-hand perspective on life under genocide in Gaza, through the video calls between Sepideh and Fatma. Tragically, Fatma was killed with her family, in a targeted Israeli airstrike on her home on April 16, 2025 – just one day after she celebrated the announcement of the film’s selection at Cannes. Combining raw immediacy with deep humanity, the film portrays daily life during the genocide through the eyes of a young Palestinian caught in a lifetime of Israeli military aggression and siege.

A letter demanding that the Israel Premier Tech cycling team not be allowed to participate in the Grand Prix de Montréal race to be held on September 14, 2025 was delivered by bailiff to the office of Mayor Valerie Plante on Friday, September 5.

Sylvan Adams – (a close friend of the criminal Benjamin Netanyahu) – the owner of the Israel Premier Tech racing team (formerly known as Israel Start-Up Nation)  has referred to himself as a “self-appointed ambassador at large for the State of Israel” and has indicated that Israel–Premier Tech cyclists are also seen as ambassadors for the country.  

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Just Peace Advocates co-founder and board member wrote to two Collegium Ramazzini leaders, on behalf of Friends of Sabeel North America. These letters, sent to Philip Landrigan and Andrea Vicini, are posted here. You can learn more about these circumstances by watching the webinar: “GAZA: What to do when your organisation turns a blind eye to injustice,” and hearing London Leslie, a Collegium Ramazzini fellow, speak to this issue.

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