[antiwar-van] Dec. 8: Legal & Political Campaign Fundraiser for the Vancouver Committee to Defend Freedom of Expression!

[Tamara Hansen]

FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

Dec. 8: Legal & Political Campaign Fundraiser for the Vancouver
Committee to Defend Freedom of Expression!

Join the Vancouver Committee to Defend Freedom of Expression for their
Dance Party & Legal/Political Campaign Fundraiser!

Live Music & DJ’s
Dance Party
Delicious Dinner
Drink Specials

SATURDAY DECEMBER 8th
6:30pm
Chilean Housing Co-op
3390 School Ave. (Behind Safeway on Kingsway)
Vancouver, Canada

>> TICKETS are $15 in advance or $20 at the door. Tickets include full meal & cultural program

To buy your tickets call 778-889-7664 or e-mail
vancouverfreedomofexpression at gmail.com
> Can't make it? Donate to the campaign online at: www.stoppoliceassault.com

Featuring:
>>>DJ JOSE HERNÁNDEZ
&
>>>DJ CIENFUEGOS

Join the event on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/events/477806292270947/

See the fundraiser poster:
http://stopassaultonpoliticalactivists.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/121208vcdfe-fundraiser-poster.pdf

On Friday, August 31 over ten Transit Police and RCMP officers
participated in the assault, handcuffing, and forced removal of three
peaceful Fire This Time newspaper distributors from the Metrotown
Skytrain station. All three were released without charges later that
night and visited hospital emergency rooms with various injuries.

Since the assault, growing public outcry has led to the formation of
the Vancouver Committee to Defend Freedom of Expression. The committee
members include members of various political parties and
organizations, trade union members, as well as community members
outraged by the blatant attack on civil liberties and democratic
rights.

Thousands of people have also now read about the case in important
articles in the Vancouver Sun, The Province, and the Georgia Straight
print and online editions, as well as hearing interviews on many local
and national radio stations. The case has been covered by
international media around the world.

The BC Civil Liberties Association, Canada's oldest and most active
civil liberties group, has also taken up the case and written a letter
to Translink demanding an explanation for the assault:
http://bccla.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/20120920-Letter-Translink-Free-Expression.pdf

The Vancouver Committee to Defend Freedom of Expression is organizing
a legal defense fundraiser on Saturday December 8, 6:30pm at the
Chilean Housing Coop 3390 School Ave. (Behind Safeway on Kingsway) to
raise much needed money for the upcoming actions and legal expenses in
the growing campaign to defend the Fire This Time newspaper’s right of
distribution and all of our civil liberties including freedom of
expression and freedom of assembly. Please join us in this important
fight!

Vancouver Committee to Defend Freedom of Expression

STOP HARASSMENT & ASSAULT OF POLITICAL ACTIVISTS!
OPPOSE SUPPRESSION OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION!

FOR MORE INFO PLEASE VISIT:
http://www.stoppoliceassault.com
http://www.facebook.com/StopAssaultOnPoliticalActivists
http://www.youtube.com/firethistime

vancouverfreedomofexpression at gmail.com | 778-889-7664