[antiwar-van] EMERGENCY RALLY- Oct 10- Harper in Vancouver!

[Harsha]

THE HARPER WELCOMING COMMITTEE INVITES YOU TO DINNER WITH THE PRIME MINISTER!

No Money for Militarization, Demanding Justice for the People!

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TUESDAY OCTOBER 10, 2006 @ 5 pm
GATHER: NE CORNER OF COLOMBIA AND KEEFER
CHINATOWN MONUMENT FOR CHINESE RAILWAY WORKERS
Food will be served. We will be outside awhile, so join us when you are able.
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[The Harper Welcoming Committee is an adhoc committee supporting justice,
dignity, and self-determination for our communities from Coast Salish
Territories to Afghanistan.

Endorsers (as of date): Association of Chinese Canadians for Equality and
Solidarity Society, Indigenous Action Group, Hospital Employees Union,
Canadian Muslim Union, StopWar.ca, Downtown Eastside Residents
Association, Philippine Women Centre of B.C, Vancouver Status of Women, No
One Is Illegal-Vancouver, BC Latin American Collective, Iranian Federation
of Refugees, Grassroots Women, Canadian Network for a Democratic Nepal,
B.C. Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines, Haiti Solidarity BC,
Justicia for Migrant Workers BC, Al-Awda (Palestine Right of Return)
Vancouver, Anti Poverty Committee, Canada-El Salvador Action Network,
Siraat, Bolivia Solidarity Committee, CIPO-Van y La Otra Campagna de
Abajo, Filipino Nurses Support Group, Salaam Vancouver, Group of Relatives
and Friends of Political Prisoners in Mexico, La Otra Vancouver (The Other
Campaign Vancouver), La Surda Latin American Collective, SIKLAB (Overseas
Filipino Workers), Ugnayan Ng Kabataang Pilipino Sa Canada (Filipino
Canadian Youth Alliance), Latin American Connexions, Block the Empire
Victoria

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is visiting Vancouver on Tuesday October 10
for a dinner organized by businessman Johnny Fong geared towards
increasing trade, business, and investment with China. Although presented
as a “direct dialogue with Vancouver’s Chinese Canadians”, a number of
community-based Chinese-Canadian organizations and other grassroots groups
have of course not been invited to this dinner. So we have decided to
invite ourselves!

Over the past year, the Harper government has implemented cuts to women’s
advocacy and equality rights work, has failed to implement a universal
childcare program, has provided no funding to support the “health-care
wait-time guarantee”, and has cut over $7 million in affordable housing
funding across Canada. Meanwhile Harper is supporting the corporate
agenda, including expansion of exploitative guest worker programs and
increasing privatization and colonization of indigenous lands. An expanded
$1.4 billion budget is going towards a larger police force and beefing
border security across Canada, with a total of $16 billion over two years
towards National Defence. Harper has been building an aggressive and
destructive military occupation of Afghanistan and the "War on Terror" is
a clear pretext for increased Western economic and military domination in
the Middle East.

Clearly, the policies of the Harper government aim to increase the
economic gains of Canada's elite at the cost of increased impoverishment
and repression of our marginalized communities, and the loss of lives and
freedom of those abroad.

On October 10th, don't be silent, be in the street!!
Bring your banners, placards, noisemakers and join us in sending a
resounding no to Harper's war at home and abroad.
TROOPS OUT OF AFGHANISTAN! HOMES NOT BOMBS!

To endorse or for more information: 778-552-2099 or karmatropolis at yahoo.ca