[antiwar-van] Reminder: MON NOV 28 - EMERGENCY Picketline! Canada Out of Kandahar!

[shannon bundock]

**** URGENT REMINDER! ****

***Please forward widely***
 
Emergency picket line actions!
Protest the death of Canadian Soldier Braun Scott
Woodfield and demand: 
 
CANADA OUT OF KANDAHAR!
END THE OCCUPATION OF AFGHANISTAN NOW!
STOP THE CANADIAN WAR DRIVE!
CALL FOR AN INDEPENDENT PUBLIC INQUIRY INTO THE
OCCUPATION OF AFGHANISTAN!
 
Monday November 28th
12noon to 1pm
Canadian Forces Recruitment Centre
1070 W. Georgia St.

AND

Monday December 5
12noon to 1pm
Canadian Forces Recruitment Centre
1070 W. Georgia St
 
Organized by: 
Mobilization Against War and Occupation (MAWO)
www.mawovancouver.org
info at mawovancouver.org
604-322-1764

(see press release below)
 
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 26, 2005
 
Media contact:  Kira Koshelanyk 778-881-6156
 
BC mourns Canadian Soldier Killed in Afghanistan
Vancouver Anti-War coalition organizes picket lines to
demand: “Bring the Troops Home Now!”
 
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TWO Emergency Picket Lines Against the Canadian
Occupation of Afghanistan 
and the Death of Canadian Soldier Braun Scott
Woodfield
 
Monday November 28
12noon to 1pm
Canadian Forces Recruitment Centre
1070 W. Georgia St

AND

Monday December 5
12noon to 1pm
Canadian Forces Recruitment Centre
1070 W. Georgia St
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On Thursday November 24th one Canadian soldier was
killed and four were wounded when the armoured vehicle
crashed and rolled off the road during a “routine
patrol” on the main highway 45 kilometres northeast of
Kandahar in Southern Afghanistan. The Lower Mainland’s
anti-war coalition Mobilization Against War and
Occupation (MAWO) responds, demanding an end to the
Canadian occupation of Afghanistan and to bring the
troops home now.
 
The death of 24-year-old Pte. Braun Scott Woodfield,
who was born in Victoria, has brought the reality of
the Canadian occupation home to the Woodfield family
and to people in BC and across Canada. Adding to this
blow was the injury sustained by another BC man, 30
year old Cpl. Shane Dean Jones of White Rock, BC.
Braun Scott Woodfield has been the eighth Canadian
soldier to be killed since the Canadian occupation of
Afghanistan began in October 2001.
 
In response to the death of Woodfield, Lieutenant
General Marc Dumais, of Defense Headquarters’ overseas
operations, remarked, "There are significant risks
involved in these operations.” This comment echoes
Canadian Defense Minister Bill Graham’s October 13th
statement, “when we move our troops to the Kandahar
region
 it will actually be more in the line of a
combat mission.”
 
Premier Gordon Campbell added to these Defense
Department statements, saying that Woodfield “died
serving a grateful nation and continuing the proud
legacy of Canadian soldiers who have served honourably
in the pursuit and protection of peace around the
world."
 
In response to these government statements around the
tragic death of Braun Woodfield, Kira Koshelanyk,
co-chair of the Lower Mainland’s anti-war coalition
Mobilization Against War and Occupation (MAWO) issued
a statement on November 25th. Koshelanyk stated, “The
Department of Defense, the federal government, and
even the provincial government explain very well that
a Canadian soldier has tragically died. But they do
not explain why.” 
 
Koshelanyk explained, “If the Canadian occupation
serves a ‘grateful nation’, then why is Kandahar a
‘combat mission’? Canada is not a ‘peacekeeping’ force
in Afghanistan and the Afghan people oppose the
Canadian occupation as a force of destruction against
them and their country. We place the blame for the
death of Braun Woodfield squarely on the shoulders of
the Canadian government.”
 
In the wake of Braun Woodfield’s death, Mobilization
Against War and Occupation continues its call for an
Independent Public Inquiry into the Canadian
occupation of Afghanistan to open debate across Canada
about why billions of taxpayers dollars are being
pumped into the government of Canada’s war drive. 
 
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