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

[Kira Koshelanyk]

*Please Forward
Widely*



TONIGHT!



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 Neighbourhood House
800 East Broadway
1 Block East of Broadway and Fraser
Vancouver, Canada



>> Tickets are $25 in advance or
$30 at the door. Tickets include full meal and 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 Live Performances by:



SAVAGE ROCK – He has travelled the
world as part of Canadian champion breakdancing crew Now Or Never,
and will be performing a rare solo set that will definitely expand
what you thought was possible on a dance floor!



JOAQUIN ERNESTO – Co-op Radio host
and live encyclopedia of classic Latin-American songs from across the
continent. Representing Casa de la Trova.



SHAKEEL LOCHAN – One of the Fire This
Time newspaper distributors assaulted at the Metrotown Skytrain
Station, also and an amazing poet and spoken-word artist. 




ESTEA-ELEMENTS – The most skilled,
most positive, most incredible hip-hop on the microphone in Vancouver
today! 




And Special Guest Speakers:



TIM LOUIS: Former Vancouver City
Councillor, lawyer, and energetic supporter of social justice causes
around the world.



WILSON MUNOZ - Executive Committee
member of the Coalition Of Progressive Electors (COPE) and longtime
Latin-American community organizer



DAVID WHITTLESEY – Civil rights and
anti-war organizer in the United States beginning in the 1960's,
current organizer with the Free the Cuban 5 Committee – Vancouver



COLLEEN GLYNN – President of the
Richmond New Democratic Party and Executive Committee member of
Vancouver Communities in Solidarity with Cuba  




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 defence 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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