[antiwar-van] REMINDER: 3pm AUG 26: RALLY & MARCH - Canada Out of Afghanistan! US/UK Out of Iraq! Israel Out of Lebanon!

[shannon]

*please forward widely*

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SEE BELOW FOR PRESS RELEASE CONDEMNING THE SHOOTING
DEATH BY CANADIAN SOLDIERS OF A 10YR OLD AFGHAN BOY
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Mobilization Against War & Occuption (MAWO)
August 26 - RALLY & MARCH! 
 
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NO MORE CASUALTIES OF THE CANADIAN WAR DRIVE!
CANADA OUT OF AFGHANISTAN

US UK OUT OF IRAQ
ISRAEL OUT OF GAZA AND LEBANON

End Israeli Attacks on Gaza and Lebanon!
Self-Determination for Palestine 
and All Oppressed Nations!
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3pm - Sat Aug 26
Vancouver Art Gallery 
(Robson St & Howe St)

End Canada's Criminal Occupation of Afghanistan! 
Bring all Troops Home Now!
Call for an Independent Public Inquiry 
into the Canadian War Drive!


Organized by: 
Mobilization Against War & Occupation (MAWO)

http://www.mawovancouver.org
604 322 1764
info at mawovancouver.org


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NEWS ITEM: For Immediate Release

Media Contact: Shannon Bundock, MAWO Co-Chair 
778-891-1470

VANCOUVER: Mobilization Against War and Occupation
(MAWO) condemns 28th Canadian military death and
shooting death of 10 year old  Afghan boy; holds
weekend rally to demand:

NO MORE CASUALTIES OF THE CANADIAN WAR DRIVE!
CANADA OUT OF AFGHANISTAN NOW!

VANCOUVER: On Tuesday August 22nd, the 28th Canadian
military death in Afghanistan was followed mmediately
by the shooting death of a 10 year old Afghan child by
a Canadian solider. As warnings ring through the 
Canadian media of the Afghan ‘backlash’ that the
Canadian occupation forces fear in response to the
killing of this child, Vancouver anti-war,
anti-occupation coalition Mobilization Against War and
Occupation (MAWO) calls for a demonstration on
Saturday August 26th to demand: “No more casualties of
the Canadian war drive! Canada out of Afghanistan
now!”

Corporal David Braun of CFB Shilo, Manitoba was killed
just outside of Kandahar Afghanistan in the late
afternoon of Tuesday August 22nd in a bombing attack
on a Canadian military convoy.

The attack came one day after the Canadian military
killed more than 72 Afghan people in the farmlands
surrounding Kandahar. According to Lt.-Col. Omer
Lavoie, who took over as Canada's battle group
commander in Kandahar the same day as this major
battle, these deaths constituted “an extremely 
big blow (to the Taliban's) combat effectiveness."

“In less than 24 hours since this so-called extremely 
big blow to the Afghan resistance one Canadian soldier
has been killed and at least 5 have been injured in
attacks in the same region,”
said MAWO Co-Chair and protest organizer Shannon
Bundock.

“Canada is at war against the people of Afghanistan.
This makes 8 Canadian military deaths this month
alone.”

“The murder of an innocent 10 year old Afghan boy is a
sign of the desperation and panic in the Canadian
occupation forces in Afghanistan because of their
failure to take control over Southern Afghanistan,” 
Bundock continued. “Too many lives have been lost to
this war and occupation mission that has brought only
blood, death, and destruction to the people of
Afghanistan.

Canada is part of the problem in Afghanistan – that’s
why we are demanding the immediate withdrawal of all
Canadian forces from Afghanistan now.”

Saturday’s protest will also focus on opposing
Israel’s invasion of Lebanon and Gaza and will demand
the immediate withdrawal of all occupation forces 
from Iraq. Speakers will condemn and oppose Israel’s
ongoing attacks on the people of Lebanon in violation
of the ‘ceasefire’ agreement signed on August 14th.
While laying siege to Lebanon, Israel has continued
their raids and attacks on the people and
infrastructure of the Gaza Strip, including sweeping
house demolitions, targeted assassinations, missile
attacks on civilians, and kidnappings of government
ministers – marked this week by last Saturday’s
abduction of Palestinian Deputy Prime Minister Nasser 
Shaer.

The demonstration will also condemn the US/UK
occupation forces record breaking month of death and
destruction in Iraq – more than 3,500 people died in
Iraq in July alone, with more than 110 deaths each day
raising the average of daily deaths by 9% since June
and more than 50% since the beginning of the year.

“Everywhere that the US, Canada, and Israel put hteir
‘boots on the ground’ we find war, occupation, death,
and destruction,” concluded Bundock. 

“The vast majority of people in Canada share interests
with the people of Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon and
Palestine. We do not gain anything from 
the slaughter of the Afghan, Iraqi, Lebanese, and
Palestinian people or the occupations of their lands.
We stand, rally, march and join with them in 
demanding: CANADA OUT OF AFGHANISTAN! ISRAEL OUT OF
LEBANON AND PALESTINE! US/UK OUT OF IRAQ! HANDS OFF
THE MIDDLE EAST! STOP THE CANADIAN WAR DRIVE!”

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