[antiwar-van] Fw: *THIS WEEK!* "Be an Antiwar Activist!" Student Week Against War & Occupation #9

[aliyerevani]

--- On Sun, 11/16/08, Janine Solanki <janine_solanki at yahoo.ca> wrote:

From: Janine Solanki <janine_solanki at yahoo.ca>
Subject: [pr-x] *THIS WEEK!* "Be an Antiwar Activist!" Student Week Against War & Occupation #9
To: "project X" <project-x at lists.resist.ca>
Received: Sunday, November 16, 2008, 5:03 PM

**  Please Forward Widely  **

***  *  ***  *  ***  *  ***  *  ***  *
Student Week Against War & Occupation #9
‘BE AN ANTIWAR ACTIVIST!’
***  *  ***  *  ***  *  ***  *  ***  * 

* November 17th to 28th 2008
* Full Schedule Below 
 
Antiwar organizing is on the move at campuses in the Lower Mainland and
Vancouver Island! 

Mobilization Against War & Occupation (MAWO) is organizing with campus
antiwar groups, students unions and many individuals to bring students a
coordinated week of forums, discussions, debates and film showings on campuses
across the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island. 

Today, students in Canada face hardship with skyrocketing tuition fees,
devastation from student loans, rising debt and minimum wage jobs. All and all
students have been pushed below the poverty line, and a barrage of military
recruiters on campuses are falsely promising students prosperity if they join.
Here at home the government of Canada makes getting an education and decent work
difficult for young people. 

Abroad, the government of Canada is attacking our Afghan sisters and brothers,
young or old, students or scholars, workers or peasants with the excuse of
fighting terrorism and the Taliban. In Afghanistan, the reality of Canada’s
war drive means that young people are facing poverty and hopelessness that
forces them to work in inhuman conditions in order to survive. In the capital
city of Kabul alone, there is an estimated 50,000 to 60,000 street children.
Furthermore, what does a right to education mean, when the most basic rights are
being denied – the right to life, and more specifically the right to
self-determination for Afghanistan. In addition to disease, a lack of health
care, and infrastructure, air strikes and checkpoint shootings are regularly
killing young people in Afghanistan. One example is on November 3rd 2008 when
occupation forces bombed a wedding in Kandahar, killing at least 37 civilians,
including 23 children and youth. 
 
The reality of Canada’s brutal war in Afghanistan must develop a human
obligation in students across Canada to get involved in organizing against this
unjust and illegal war drive. Join an event on your campus to discuss this new
era of war and occupation that has caused misery and destruction in Afghanistan,
Iraq and Palestine as well as an impending war on Iran. If you haven’t gotten
involved yet please join MAWO and BE AN ANTIWAR ACTIVIST!

>>>>> Schedule of Events: 

1)>>> MONDAY November 17
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)
Forum, Film Showing & Discussion
3:30pm 
SW1 Building, room 2030

2)>>> TUESDAY November 18 
Simon Fraser University (Burnaby Campus)
Forum & Discussion
1:30pm 
Maggie Benston Center, room 2290
Organized by MAWO-SFU Club

3)>>> WEDNESDAY November 19
Capilano University
Forum & Discussion 
1:00pm 
Capilano Students Union Lounge, Maple Building
Organized by Social Justice Committee of the Capilano Students Union

4)>>> THURSDAY November 20
Langara College
Forum, Film Showing & Discussion
3:30pm 
Building B, room B246
Organized by Langara Students United Against War & Occupation

5) >>> THURSDAY November 20
University of Victoria
Forum, Film Showing & Discussion
7:00pm 
David Strong Building, room C108
Organized by MAWO UVic

6)>>> TUESDAY November 25
Douglas College (New Westminster Campus)
Forum, Film Showing & Discussion
3:00pm
Organized by Douglas Students Against War 

7)>>> THURSDAY November 27
University of British Columbia
Forum & Discussion
Students Union Building
Organized by Coalition Against War on the People of Iraq & Internationally
(CAWOPI) 


***  *  ***  *  ***  *  ***  *  ***  *  ***
MAWO ~ Mobilization Against War & Occupation
http://WWW.MAWOVANCOUVER.ORG
info at mawovancouver.org
P 604.322.1764 || F 604.322.1763



      __________________________________________________________________
Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to Yahoo!
Answers and share what you know at http://ca.answers.yahoo.com
---------------------------
Project-x at lists.resist.ca
https://lists.resist.ca/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/project-x
Project-X list:
initiated for the (re)building of the Left.


      __________________________________________________________________
Instant Messaging, free SMS, sharing photos and more... Try the new Yahoo! Canada Messenger at http://ca.beta.messenger.yahoo.com/
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.resist.ca/pipermail/antiwar-van/attachments/20081117/d91b4049/attachment.html>