[antiwar-van] Justin/ Squeege in/ Rainbow Refugee committee

[No One is Illegal-Vancouver]

On Thursday, November 18, 2004, the jury found Justin Goodman guilty of
all three counts: assisting escape from lawful custody, assault on a peace
officer, and obstruction of a peace officer. Crown counsel said that the
obstruction charge would be stayed, as it was an alternative.

Justin's sentencing date is Thursday, December 2, 2004, at 9:00 am,
British Columbia Supreme Court, 800 Smithe Street, Vancouver.

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Queer Refugees Need Your Help!

  The Rainbow Refugee Committee
  a group which supports queer refugees and refugee claimants,
  presents:

  A Community Theatre and Forum

This event is being held to educate about the plight of LGTB refugees,
their challenges in accessing welfare, and to highlight the needs for
short term emergency housing.  There will be a skit performed by queer
refugee claimants and a Q&A.  All sympathetic community members are
encouraged to attend.

  Thursday December 2nd 7-9pm
  St. John's United Church
  1401 Comox St.

  rainbowrefugee at yahoo.com


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Pan and Squeegee-in
                        Against the Liberals!
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                        Friday, December 3rd
                       <11:30  -panhandling->
                       < 1:00    -squeegee- >
                   999 Canada Place, Pan Pacific Place
                 (We will meet out front at both times)

The Anti-Poverty Committee is calling a demonstration against the BC
Liberals and their Safe Street Act. Solicitor General Rich Coleman has
been invited by the Vancouver Board of Trade on behalf of the BC Institute
of Justice to speak on ‘The future of law enforcement in BC’

It is fitting that the Vancouver Board of Trade, who aggressively lobbied
for the Safe Street Act, invite Rich Coleman who was formerly in charge of
throwing tens-of-thousands of people off welfare. The Liberals are very
proud to be lap dogs to business. The public campaign to get the Safe
Streets bill passed was financed by big business and embraced by the
Liberals.

When government and their business partners meet to toast their
achievements in social cleansing, we should be there to ruin their power
lunches!

We will meet at 11:30 am in the front of Pan Pacific. We will then head up
to the registration and aggressively panhandle the people who are paying
one hundred dollars to attend. When the lunch ends at 1:30 we will meet
them coming out of their parking lot with squeegees in hand.

We will be encouraging delegates from the BC Fed convention to join us in
solidarity. Their function ends at 1pm. and we will set up an ‘information
squeegee’ for them out front of Pacific Place.

For more info on the Safe Street Act and other APC campaigns, visit our
website, apc at resist.ca


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The No One is Illegal campaign is in full confrontation with Canadian
colonial border policies, denouncing and taking action to combat racial
profiling of immigrants and refugees, detention and deportation policies,
and wage-slave conditions of migrant workers and non-status people.

We struggle for the right for our communities to maintain their
livelihoods and resist war, occupation and displacement, while building
alliances and supporting indigenous sisters and brothers also fighting
theft of land and displacement.