[antiwar-van] *Friday Oct. 12* Legal & Political Campain Fundraiser - Defend Freedom of Expression!

[Kira Koshelanyk]

* Please Forward
Widely! *


Join the Vancouver
Committee to Defend Freedom of Expression for their first
LEGAL &
POLITICAL CAMPAIGN FUNDRAISER!



*** Live Music &
Poetry ***
*** Delicious Food
*** 

*** Film Showing
****



FRIDAY OCTOBER 12
7:30pm
Mount Pleasant
Neighborhood House
800 East Broadway
1 Block East of
Broadway and Fraser
Vancouver, Canada



>> Tickets are
$25 in advance or $30 at the door
To buy your tickets
call 778-889-7664 or e-mail vancouverfreedomofexpression at gmail.com



Join the event on
Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/events/436327756402569/



See the fundraiser
poster:
http://stopassaultonpoliticalactivists.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/121012-vcdfe-fundraiser.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 and executives, as well as community members outraged
by the blatant attack on civil liberties and democratic rights.



Fire This Time
members and supporters have also returned to both Metrotown and
Broadway Skytrain Stations to reassert their right to distribute.
Despite initial resistance by Translink supervisors, by standing
their ground, activists have been successful in distributing the
newspapers, leaving only when they had distributed every copy they
had brought.



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 also been covered by other
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 campaign is
growing and moving forward! A new website has been launched with all
of the campaign information and resources:
http://www.stoppoliceassault.com



The Vancouver
Committee to Defend Freedom of Expression is organizing a legal
defense fundraiser on Friday, October 12th, 7:30pm at the Mount
Pleasant Neighborhood House (800 East Broadway, 1 block East of
Fraser St.) for the upcoming actions and legal expenses in the
growing campaign to defend the Fire This Time newspaper and all of
our civil liberties and democratic rights. Please join us in this
important fight! We will win!



Vancouver Committee
to Defend Freedom of Expression



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



http://www.stoppoliceassault.com
http://www.facebook.com/StopAssaultOnPoliticalActivists
http://www.youtube.com/firethistime



vancouverfreedomofexpression at gmail.com
| 778-889-7664

 		 	   		  
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