[antiwar-van] For Immediate Release: Day of Action Against the Occupation of Iraq!

[Kira Koshelanyk]

Mobilization Against War and Occupation            MAWO

For Immediate Release
Date: July 23rd, 2004


Day of Action Against the Occupation of Iraq!
US/UK OUT OF IRAQ!
SELF-DETERMINATION FOR ALL OPPRESSED NATIONS!

Saturday July 24, 3pm
Vancouver Art Gallery
(Georgia and Howe)

On July 24th 2004 Mobilization Against War and Occupation (MAWO) will take 
to the streets with the Vancouver anti-war movement to expose the lie that 
the occupation of Iraq is over. The rally will take place at 3pm at the 
Vancouver Art Gallery. From there, participants will march to the US 
consulate. Protestors in Vancouver will join in solidarity with people in 
Iraq and all over the world as part of the global anti-war movement to 
demand US/UK Out of Iraq and for self-determination for people in all 
oppressed nations.

160 000 US, UK and Coalition troops are still stationed on the ground in 
Iraq. The people of Iraq are seeing no real difference between the previous 
Coalition Provisional Authority under the foreign occupying troops and their 
new “sovereign” interim government. MAWO challenges that if anything has 
changed in the month since the “handover” it has been for the worse for the 
people of Iraq.

Nasim Sedaghat, a MAWO organizer explains: “Just this last week there was an 
air strike on Fallujah by US forces which was endorsed by the Iraqi interim 
government. What kind of government endorses a foreign power bombing its own 
people?”

Kira Koshelanyk, MAWO Co-Chair, explains the event: “We will protest in 
solidarity with the Iraqi people. They are maintaining the resistance 
against war and occupation in their country with every day struggle that 
inspires the anti-war, anti-occupation movement around the world. We have to 
focus on war and occupation now more than ever. Also, we need to make the 
essential link to the demand of self-determination for all oppressed 
nations, including Iraq.”

The rally program will feature speakers from many different communities from 
the lower mainland with representatives from the United Muslims Association, 
the Peace and Justice Commission of the Anglican Church, and the Pakistani 
Canadian Muslim Association. Other speakers will represent the Indigenous 
community, youth and student leaders and organizers from Vancouver and a 
guest speaker from the Korean Student Movement Against War.

THE WAR IS NOT OVER!
THE OCCUPATION IS NOT OVER!
US/UK OUT OF IRAQ!
SELF-DETERMINATION FOR ALL OPPRESSED NATIONS!


Contact:
Kira Koshelanyk 778 881 6156
Shannon Bundock 778 891 1470

More info: www.mawovancouver.org

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