[antiwar-van] WEDNESDAY Feb.20th - MAWO General Meeting & Calendar of Upcoming Antiwar Actions

[Kira Koshelanyk]

*Please Forward Widely*

MOBILIZATION AGAINST WAR AND OCCUPATION (MAWO)

Join in the upcoming meetings and events and get
involved to help organize within the anti-war movement
through a campaign of actions!

*~ CALENDAR OF EVENTS ORGANIZED OR ENDORSED BY MAWO ~*

((1)) Wednesday Feb. 20th ~ MAWO General Meeting
((2)) Thursday Feb.21st ~ Canada/NATO Out of
Afghanistan Picket Action
((3)) Wednesday Feb. 27th ~ MAWO Education Class
((4)) March 15/16 ~ International Weekend of Action Against War
((5)) Saturday March 29th ~ Antiwar Musical & Cultural Night
((6)) Upcoming Events Endorsed by MAWO
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((( 1 ))) WEDNESDAY February 20th
>>> MAWO GENERAL MEETING
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6:30pm
Britannia Community Center (1661 Napier St. @
Commercial Dr.)

Join MAWO to report back on last weekend’s 
Feb.17th antiwar rally, and to continue planning for the
Canada/NATO Out of Afghanistan picket action on
Feb.21st. We will also be organizing for a coming month of
antiwar actions, including the March 16th conference which
will be MAWO’s first time organizing an event across the
border!


((( 2 ))) THURSDAY February 21st
CANADA/NATO OUT OF AFGHANISTAN PICKET ACTION
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4:00PM
Canadian Armed Forces Recruitment Center
(1070 West Georgia)

The Canadian government and their Advisory Panel on
Afghanistan are attempting to continue their vicious
occupation of Afghanistan, which has killed ten’s of
thousands through direct air strikes and even more
through the destruction of infrastructure, such as
sanitation, homes, electricity, hospitals and water
supplies. As a vote in Canadian Parliament is coming
up to push Canada’s end date in Afghanistan from 2009
to 2011, people in Vancouver must come out to the
streets to demand:
“Canada Out of Afghanistan Now!”
“Independent Public Inquiry Now!” 

((( 3 ))) WEDNESDAY February 27th
>>> MAWO EDUCATION CLASS
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6:30pm
in the Large North Hall of Joe's Cafe
(Williams Street at Commercial Drive)

Join MAWO’s bi-weekly education class and participate
in comprehensive discussions on issues of war and
occupation that are impacting people around the world
and in turn, the antiwar movement. This week will
continue the recent classes on Iran:

> A balance sheet of the last year of US political and
military offensives toward Iran.
> Why the increased US military aggression on Iran?
> What are the political issues at stake?
> What are the tasks of the antiwar movement in
defending the Iranian people?

Speaker: Ali Yerevani, political editor of Fire This
Time newspaper


((( 4 ))) SATURDAY/SUNDAY March 15/16th 
>>> INTERNATIONAL WEEKEND OF ACTION AGAINST WAR
Marking the 5th Anniversary of the Invasion of Iraq
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ANTIWAR RALLY 
SATURDAY March 15th
12 Noon
Vancouver Art Gallery
(Georgia street at Hornby street)
Organized by: Stopwar.ca
Endorsed by: Mobilization Against War & Occupation

ANTIWAR CONFERENCE
“Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine: What We Have
Learned from the New Era of War & Occupation and What
are the Prospects for Building an Effective Anti-war
Movement”
SUNDAY March 16th
Seattle, WA – USA
Organized by: Mobilization Against War & Occupation and
International ANSWER

On Saturday March 15 hundreds of cities across the world
will take to the streets demanding an end to US aggression
and sanctions on Iran and an immediate end to the Iraq war,
five years after the US began its war on this Middle Eastern
country. The US/UK war on Iraq has already killed at least 1.2
million Iraqis, and now this war drive is threatening the people
of Iran with war. In Vancouver the StopWar coalition is organizing
a March and Rally that MAWO is fully endorsing and participating
in. Join social justice and anti-war activists in demanding an end
to all these wars, sanctions, and aggressions by Canada and the US.

Then on Sunday, March 16, MAWO organizers are catching a bus
down to Seattle, Washington for an anti-war conference! The main
speaker of this conference will be MAWO-co-chair and spokesperson
Alison Bodine, who is currently fighting a 2 year ban from Canada.
Alison is a US citizen and anti-war activist who was politically
targeted by the government of Canada in late 2007 and forced out
of the country for two years. MAWO will be joining American anti-war
activists from the International ANSWER Coalition in Seattle to host an
anti-war conference focusing on the catastrophes of war and
occupation as well as the domestic attacks by the governments of the
US and Canada against immigrants, refugees, non-status people, and
social justice and anti-war activists. This international conference
against war and occupation is the first of its kind organized by MAWO,
and information on buses with MAWO will soon be available to ensure
participants will be able to travel to Seattle. 


((( 5 ))) SATURDAY March 29th
>>> ANTIWAR MUSICAL & CULTURAL NIGHT
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Bringing together anti-war politics and music and culture, MAWO will be
joining talented musicians together with anti-war organizers and activists
for a cultural night of resistance! Local musicians will be spinning tracks
and combining the words of resistance with rhyme and rhythm! Come
join MAWO, local talent, and music lovers for this exciting event!

check www.mawovancouver.org for location and program
updates!


((( 6 ))) UPCOMING EVENTS ENDORSED BY MAWO
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>>> Refuge from Militarism? The Stories of War
Resisters in Canada
~ Saturday February 23rd – 5:00pm – 9:00pm
~ A Small World Shop & Gallery (2120 Commercial Drive)
~ Organized by Brad McCall (US War Resister)
~ BradMcCallWarResister at yahoo.com

>>> Celebrate International Women’s Day! Unite for
Women’s Rights!
~ Saturday March 1st at 6pm
~ Collingwood Neighbourhood House (5288 Joyce Street-
1 block South of Joyce Skytrain Station)
~ Organized by the Solidarity Coalition for a United
Latin America (SCULA)
~ scula_van at yahoo.ca 

>>> International Women’s Day 2008 “Women Unite
Against War & Poverty”
~ Saturday March 8th 
~ March from Thornton Park (Main Street Skytrain) at
11am
~ Rally at Victory Square (Hastings at Cambie) at 12pm
~ Info Fair at BCIT Downtown Campus (555 Seymour
Street) from 1pm – 4pm. 
~ Celebration at Trout Lake Community Center (3350
Victoria Drive) at 7pm
~ For more info contact the International Women's Day
Organizing Committee at 604-780-7604

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MAWO ~ Mobilization Against War & Occupation
Antiwar General Meeting & Upcoming Direct Actions
http://WWW.MAWOVANCOUVER.ORG
info at mawovancouver.org
P 604.322.1764 || F 604.322.1763
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