[antiwar-van] UPDATED/TIME CHANGE: March 3- Celebrating Women's Struggles

[Harsha]

UPDATED with performers and speakers below. Pls also note TIME CHANGE from
6:30 pm to 6 pm.

We regret to inform you that Annette (So Ann) Auguste's planned speaking
tour in Canada has been postponed because her health does not permit her
to travel from Haiti at this time as part of the Canada-Haiti Action
Network’s speaking tour. Therefore she will be unable to perform at this
event, however this event will still honour her strength and convictions
in the struggle for justice for the Haitian people. We also pay tribute to
Pacheenaht Elder Harriet Nahanee, who died from pneumonia in St. Paul's
Hospital on Sat Feb 24. On January 24, 2007, despite her frail health,
Harriet was sentenced to 14 days at Surrey Pretrial Jail and it is
believed she developed pneumonia during her incarceration. She was
arrested on May 25,2006 for breaking an injunction brought about by the
construction company Kiewit and Sons and the BC Ministry of Transportation
at Eagleridge Bluffs in Squamish Territory.

In solidarity, Harsha and Andrea.


International Women’s Day: Celebrating Women’s Struggles

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Sunday March 4 at 6:00 pm
Rhizome Café
317 E. Broadway- corner Kingsway
All welcome.
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MUSIC, POETRY, PERFORMANCES, AND SPEAKERS


* Kat Norris
* Cecily Nicholson
* Coscuya-Annita McPhee
* Sarita Galvez
* Junie Desil
* Cara Ng
* Sara Kendall & Nadia Chaney
and others...

For more information contact
Andrea Pinochet: andrea_pinochet at hotmail.com or 604-773-5079
Harsha Walia: harsha at resist.ca or 778-885-0040


Although there is an assumption that gender equality has been achieved in
Canada, immigrant women, indigenous women, racialized women, single
mothers, poor and low-income women, and women with disabilities continue
to live on the fringes of our society. They struggle daily through the
brutal realities of violence, poverty, child apprehension, deportation,
precarious labour, lack of childcare support, and countless other human
rights violations which are a direct result of a colonial legacy and
neoliberal economic policies in Canada.

Meanwhile Canada’s aggressive and imperialist foreign policy has led to
military occupations and economic interventions that have killed,
displaced, and destroyed the lives of hundreds of thousands of women from
Haiti to Afghanistan. Despite the racist insistence that women in the
Third World need to be protected, the wars that have been justified under
the rhetoric of ‘women’s liberation’ have disempowered women further.

Yet women across the world continue to encapsulate the legacy of struggle
and from Six Nations to Chiapas to Palestine women are defining and
transforming liberation struggles. This IWD come celebrate with us as we
honour women’s struggles for self-determination and genuine equality for
themselves and their communities and pay tribute to those women- including
Elders So-Anne and Harriet Nahanee- who are at the forefront of global
struggles for justice and dignity.