[antiwar-van] Updated: Panel w/Naomi Klein and local grassroots activists

[Harsha]

- save the date and please forward widely -


THE SHOCK DOCTRINE: THE RISE OF GLOBAL CAPITALISM
public panel with NAOMI KLEIN and local grassroots activists.

~ information is shock resistance. arm yourself ~

* Khaled Barakat is a Palestinian community poet, writer and activist,
editor of the Vancouver-based Arabic newspaper al-Shorouq, member of Al
Awda Palestinian Right of Return Coalition, and member of the Free Ahmad
Sadat Campaign.

* Erika Del Carmen Fuchs is a Latin American researcher and organizer with
Justicia for Migrant Workers BC, MST (Brazilian Landless Rural Workers
Movement), People’s Front in Defense of the Land-Atenco, the
Zapatistas/The Other Campaign, as well as other organizations in Brazil,
Guatemala, Mexico, Ecuador and local movements with migrants and
indigenous people.

* Harjap Grewal is an anti colonial and anti capitalist organizer working
on migrant justice through No One Is Illegal, issues in the South Asian
community, indigenous solidarity campaigns, advocacy in the DTES, and
building resistance to the 2010 Olympics, Security and Prosperity
Partnership Agreement, and Tar Sands.

* Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and
author of the New York Times and international bestseller, The Shock
Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism and No Logo: Taking Aim at the
Brand Bullies. She writes a regular column for The Nation and The Guardian
that is syndicated internationally by The New York Times Syndicate.

* Sam McKay is a councillor and spokesperson of Kitchenuhmaykoosib
Inninuwug (KI) in Northern Ontario. He was arrested and recently released
from jail along with five other KI leaders who established a camp against
mineral exploration on KI traditional lands. He will be in Vancouver,
Coast Salish Territories as a delegate to the Symposium of Indigenous
Human Rights and Environmental Activists.


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THURS JUNE 19
Door 6 pm, Panel 6:30 pm
Maritime Labour Centre, 1880 Triumph Street
(just south of Powell Street, just west of Victoria Drive)
vancouver, coast salish territories
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Suggested donation $10-20 (no one turned away). Funds raised to support
various Indigenous resistance, No one is Illegal, and anti Olympics
efforts.

Come early for seating (no tickets or reservations)
Panel, followed by Q/A, and book signing opportunity arranged by Naomi's
publisher and People's Co-op Bookstore.

For more information email harsha at resist.ca or 778 885 0040

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The greatest form of sanity that anyone can exercise is to resist that
force that is trying to repress, oppress, and fight down the human spirit
-Mumia Abu-Jamal