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

[Stephanie Smith]

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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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