[antiwar-van] BUILDING RESISTANCE: A SERIES OF EVENTS

[harsha at riseup.net]

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BUILDING RESISTANCE TO
OCCUPATION AND DISPLACEMENT
A series of panels around Vancouver to raise awareness about the War at
Home and the War Abroad from the perspectives of those affected and those
working for local and global change.
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These events are focused on the impacts of the War at Home and the War
Abroad and will highlight the links between communities displaced from the
South due to imperialist policies of the G8 such as war and neo-liberal
development, and the criminalization they face as immigrant and refugee
communities. We assert and draw inspiration from indigenous struggles for
sovereignty on this land and celebrate the diverse ways communities are
resisting - from the Philippines to Colombia, from Palestine to Turtle
Island.


WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 25TH @ 2-4 PM
SFU CAMPUS IN MBC 2296 (BEHIND QUAD BOOKS)
A brief opening by Wolverine- Secwepemc Elder defending the Skwelkwek'welt
Protection Centre against expansion by Sun Peaks Resort for the past four
years and armed defender at the Gustafsen Lake Standoff in 1995. Wolverine
spent 5 years in prison for resisting attempts by the RCMP to deny
Secwepemc traditionalists the ability to hold Sundances. By the end of the
siege, RCMP had fired 77,000 rounds of ammunition at the Ts'peten
Defenders. To date there has been no judicial inquiry.

Followed by panel:
* Stefan Christoff
* Fatima Jaffer
* Jagdeep Singh Mangat
* Debbie Krall
* Harjap Grewal
For information contact sasa-1 at sfu.ca


FRIDAY FEBRUARY 27 @ 4-6 PM
ROOM 214/216 IN SUB AT UBC
* Splitting the Sky
* Harsha Walia
* Stefan Christoff
* Carlo Sayo
For information: 604-822-1421 / ubccolourconnected at yahoo.ca / SUB 245E


FRIDAY FEBRUARY 27 @ 6:45 PM
PALESTINE CENTER 1874 KINGSWAY (@ VICTORIA)
* Amanda Nahanee
* Tami Sadeghi
* Splitting the Sky
* Victor Porter
* Stefan Christoff
For information call 604-719-8149 or noii_van at hotmail.com



* STEFAN CHRISTOFF: activist and writer with No One is Illegal-Montreal &
International Solidarity Movement and has recently returned from refugee
camps in Lebanon and Jordan.

* FATIMA JAFFER: activist and journalist working on local and global
change. She co-coordinates the Vancouver Custody and Access Support and
Advocacy Association and is a founder and former coordinator of the South
Asian Women’s Centre in Vancouver and BC Coalition of South Asian Women
Against Violence.

* JAGDEEP SINGH MANGAT: member of South Asian Youth Alliance and social
justice advocate.

* DEBBIE KRULL: Cree Metis 3rd generation of the stolen generations;
executive board member of the United Native Nations Local 111 Vancouver
East Branch, co-founder of the Anti Poverty Committee, member of the
Organisers Training Group & of the Native Solidarity Network.

* HARJAP GREWAL: local activist working on refugee rights and media
democracy projects.

* SPLITTING THE SKY: listed as the #1 American political prisoner by the
UN after involvement in Attica prison revolt. He became the Eastern
Regional coordinator for the American Indian Movement and as the Sundance
Chief at Gustafsen Lake, he supported an armed defensive stance against
RCMP in 1995.

* HARSHA WALIA: community activist and writer working with
immigrant/refugee rights and aboriginal sovereignty struggles.

* CARLO SAYO : founding member of the Filipino-Canadian Youth Alliance
(FCYA). Since 1995, FCYA has been educating, organizing and mobilizing
Filipino youth around the Lower Mainland around the issues of forced
migration, racism, unemployment and immigration.

* AMANDA NAHANEE: from the the Squamish and Nisga'a nation and has been
involved with the Native Youth Movement since 2000. She was also an
indigenous youth ambassador in Taiwan in 1996 and 1997.

* TAMI SADEGHI: long-time activist in Iran and Vancouver, current
coordinator of Iranian Federation of Refugees, an extremely active and
involved organization fighting for their rights.

* VICTOR PORTER: Latino community activist working and organizing with
MOSAIC.


These events are being organized by No One is- Illegal Vancouver in
conjunction with South Asian Youth Alliance, UBC Colour Connected, UBC
Social Justice Center, Palestine Community Center, and International
Solidarity Movement with the kind support of SF-PIRG and SANSAD.

For general info contact harsha at riseup.net