[antiwar-van] *WEDNESDAY* MAWO forum: "Canada Day is War at Home, War Abroad"

[Kira Koshelanyk]

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MAWO Public Forum:
 
CANADA DAY IS WAR AT HOME, WAR ABROAD
Indigenous in Afghanistan, Indigenous in Canada:
Same Aspiration, Same Struggle, Same Liberation
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WEDNESDAY July 1
6:30pm
Joe’s Cafe ~ in the large North Hall
1151 Commercial Drive at William Street
Vancouver, BC
 
On July 1st, the government of Canada will be urging people to celebrate the “birthday” of Canada, with events and fireworks to the tune of “Oh Canada.” What is this celebration really about? For Indigenous nations, this is the day that the genocidal, racist state of Canada established itself on land stolen from them. This is not a day of celebration; this is a day of resistance for the nations which Canada is depriving of their self determination ~ from Indigenous nations at home, to the Indigenous Afghan people abroad.
 
Since the beginning of colonization hundreds of years ago, to the establishment of Canada, up to the current day, Canada’s colonial policies have and continue to strip Indigenous nations of their land, resources, rights and dignity. Now these colonial policies are extended to Afghanistan, where the government of Canada has conducted over seven years of a criminal and brutal war and occupation against the Afghan people.
 
Indigenous nations in Canada and the Afghan people are both facing war and occupation from the government of Canada, and are both in the struggle to resist colonial domination and to regain their rights to self determination. In this forum we will discuss the continuous bloody history of “Canada Day” and how we as peace loving people and antiwar activists must join the struggle of the Indigenous people of both Canada and Afghanistan to demand and end to the occupation of their land and to support their right of self determination.
 
Multimedia, Speaker and Discussion
 
Speakers:
>> Kerri Goodwin ~ Oji-Cree activist and executive committee member of Mobilization Against War & Occupation (MAWO)
>> Aaron Mercredi ~ Métis activist, organizer with the Indigenous Rights & Action Project & editorial board member of the First This Time newspaper
 
For poster click:
http://www.mawovancouver.org/materials/posters/090701forum.pdf
 
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