[antiwar-van] Tomorrow: (Van) Emerg. Picket! 22 Afghans Killed, 2 Cdns Dead-Canada Out Now!

[Kira Koshelanyk]

:::EMERGENCY PICKET PROTEST AGAINST CANADA’S DEADLY
OCCUPATION OF AFGHANISTAN!:::

CANADIAN DEATH TOLL IN AFGHANISTAN OCCUPATION RISES TO
42
22 AFGHANS KILLED ARIAL BOMBINGS IN LAST 24 HRS!
STOP THE BOMBING OF AFGHAN PEOPLE NOW!

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

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Emergency Picket Protest Action
THURSDAY OCTOBER 19
4PM-5PM
Canadian Armed Forces Recruitment Center
(1070 W Georgia – on Georgia St near Thurlow, downtown
Vancouver)

Organized by: Mobilization Against War & Occupation
(MAWO)  ||  www.mawovancouver.org
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Saturday October 14th, 2006 was marked by the death of the 42nd Canadian 
soldier killed in Canada’s occupation of Afghanistan. Two more Canadian 
soldiers died when a Canadian convoy was attacked with rocket-propelled 
grenades and gunfire in southern
Afghanistan. Two other Canadian soldiers were injured in the battle.

The recent escalation of deadly combat facing Canadian troops in 
Afghanistan, especially since Operation Medusa in September, is coupled with 
a rising death toll for Afghan people. NATO forces admit the conservative 
estimate that AT LEAST 1500 Afghans have been killed by Operation Medusa 
alone in the last month. On Wednesday October 18th NATO occupying forces 
killed 22 civilians in 3 separate bombing raids in 3 separate villages in 
southern Afghanistan stating they were shooting rockets and dropping bombs 
hunting “Taliban” fighters. At 2am Wednesday morning whole houses were 
decimated and others blown apart while the devastated villagers cried in the 
streets “If the foreign soldiers were so smart that they knew there were 
Taliban here, why didn’t they see the women and children who were sleeping?” 
We must demand an immediate end to the bombing and attacks on Afghan people 
by the occupation!

The October 19th Emergency Picket Action will be organized as part of the 
5th Lower-Mainland-wide Student Week Against War & Occupation organized by 
MAWO & campus antiwar groups at universities, colleges and high schools. 
>From October 16th-27th students will be holding petition drives and 
educational events against Canada’s war drive in Afghanistan to say: NOT ONE 
MORE LIFE FOR THE CANADIAN WAR DRIVE!

MAWO is calling for the 22nd picket protest action at the Canadian Armed 
Forces Recruitment Center since the July 2005 announcement that Canada would 
be doubling
its forces in Afghanistan. On Thursday October 19th we will protest these 
deaths and the further destruction that is assured by the continuation of 
war and occupation.

BRING ALL TROOPS HOME NOW!
CANADA OUT OF AFGHANISTAN NOW!

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Mobilization Against War and Occupation (MAWO)
www.mawovancouver.org
e.  info at mawovancouver.org
t.  604-322-1764
f.  604-322-1763

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