[antiwar-van] Fw: *REMINDER: Saturday Nov.1st* MAWO Conference 'Imperialist Disaster'

[aliyerevani]

--- On Fri, 10/31/08, Janine Solanki <janine_solanki at yahoo.ca> wrote:

From: Janine Solanki <janine_solanki at yahoo.ca>
Subject: *REMINDER: Saturday Nov.1st* MAWO Conference 'Imperialist Disaster'
To: aliyervani at yahoo.ca
Received: Friday, October 31, 2008, 2:15 PM

Hi Ali,

Can you send this announcement on to the antiwar-van listserve?

in solidarity, Janine

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* Please Forward Widely * 

MAWO’s TENTH ANTIWAR CONFERENCE

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‘IMPERIALIST DISASTER’
War at Home ~ War Abroad ~ Economic Collapse
The Antiwar Movement and Beyond: How the New Era of War
& Occupation Brings Misery & Destruction for Humanity
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SATURDAY November 1
10:00am ~ 5:00pm
Britannia Community Centre
(Britannia Secondary School Cafeteria)
1661 Napier Street (at Commercial Dr)
Vancouver, BC

Workshops:
1)))  Worldwide Capitalist Financial Crisis, Militarism and the New Era of War
and Occupation
Speaker: Ali Yerevani, Political Editor of the Fire This Time Newspaper and an
organizer with Iranian Community Against War (ICAW).

2))) Five Years of the Antiwar Movement: Weaknesses, Strengths and Challenges
Ahead
Speaker: Nita Palmer, member of the Editorial Board of the Fire This Time
Newspaper, MAWO’s Secretary and a member of MAWO’s Executive Committee.

>From Afghanistan, to Iraq, and now towards Iran, our world today is defined by
war and occupation. In the Middle East, imperialist countries like the US,
Canada and the UK, as well as NATO have focused their war drive in pursuit of
new markets and resources. This war abroad comes hand in hand with a war at
home, where poor and working people are feeling the brunt of social service cuts
and where Indigenous nations are still fighting for their land, rights and
self-determination. 

Why does the US government consider 1.5 million Iraqi lives and the lives of
over 4,000 US soldiers a fair price to pay for holding onto their military
occupation of Iraq? Why is the government of Canada willing to spend $22 Billion
to maintain their illegal and brutal occupation of Afghanistan up to 2011? In
light of the current world wide stock market crash, it is clear that not only
does war bring misery and destruction for humanity, but it also cannot stave off
the banking financial crisis, economic collapse and coming worldwide recession
and stagnation that the capitalist economic system causes.  

As antiwar activists and peace-loving people, it is essential that we discuss
how the new era of war and occupation is fuelled by rival imperialist economic
competition. This conference coincides with MAWO marking five years of antiwar
organizing on October 29. This conference is an important event for reflecting
on the analysis of the current global situation and the past five years of
educating, mobilizing and organizing against war, and looking toward the future
of building antiwar and anti-imperialist organizing. 

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

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