[antiwar-van] MAWO Calendar of Upcoming Antiwar Events and Actions

Sat Sep 15 11:32:40 PDT 2012

MAWO Calenda

* Please Forward Widely *

Mobilization Against War & Occupation (MAWO)

Vancouver, BC

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS & ACTIONS ORGANIZED BY MAWO

((( 1 ))) September 15 & 16 ~ Vancouver International Hip Hop 4 Peace
Festival!
((( 2 ))) September 25 ~ MAWO Forum: The Imperialist World-Wide Racist Campaign
Against Muslims & the

Anti-Colonial Awakening of the Masses 

((( 3 ))) October 6 ~ Int’l Day of Action MAWO Rally and
Petition Campaign: No War! No Sanctions!

((( 4 ))) MAWO Newsletter #40

((( 5 ))) Upcoming Events Endorsed and Supported by MAWO: 6th Annual
Women’s Housing March, Meeting of the Vancouver Committee to Defend Freedom of
Expression, Cuban 5 Tribunal 

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((( 1 ))) MAWO 8th Annual Vancouver International HIP HOP 4 PEACE FESTIVAL!

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PEACE! An Element of Hip Hop

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Back in Vancouver…

*** OBSESIÓN! ***

Pioneers of Cuban Hip Hop Direct from Cuba

>>> SATURDAY September 15 <<<

1-7pm

ALL DAY OUTDOOR SHOW

Vancouver Art Gallery

Robson at Howe Street, Downtown Vancouver, BC

>>> SUNDAY September 16 <<<

2-6pm

WORKSHOPS & FORUM

Neighbourhood House

5288 Joyce Street, Vancouver, BC

(1 Block South of Joyce Skytrain Station)

FREE & ALL AGES

All Events Are Drug & Alcohol Free

On September 15th and 16th Vancouver will host the 8th Annual Vancouver
International Hip Hop 4 Peace Festival! The Festival will be two days of
performances by local and international artists including MC’s, Breakers, DJ’s
and Graffiti artists, as well as workshops and a forum. This year welcoming
back to Vancouver OBSESIÓN! Pioneers of Cuban Hip Hop, direct from Cuba! 

Check the blog for updates, artist bios, and much more!

http://www.hiphopforpeace.blogspot.com

For poster click:

http://www.mawovancouver.org/materials/posters/12091516-mawo-hhf8.pdf

To join Facebook event:

http://www.facebook.com/events/148349371970240/

Watch the Hip Hop 4 Peace Festival youtube channel **Including the Hip Hop Fest
Promo video!**:

http://www.youtube.com/hiphop4peacefestival

Follow the Hip Hop 4 Peace Festival on twitter:

https://twitter.com/hiphop4peacevan/

((( 2 ))) MAWO FREE PUBLIC FORUM

>>  The Imperialist World-Wide
Racist Campaign Against Muslims & the Anti-Colonial Awakening of the Masses
– 

How 11 Years After 9/11 the US Lost the “War on Terrorism”

TUESDAY September 25

7pm

Joe's Cafe [In Large North Hall]

1150 Commercial Dr. at William St

Multimedia - speakers – discussion

Speaker: Ali Yerevani - Political Editor of Fire This
Time Newspaper and participant in the 1979 Iranian revolution

Organized by Mobilization Against War and Occupation (MAWO)

((( 3 ))) INT’L DAY OF ACTION: MAWO RALLY AND PETITION CAMPAIGN

On the 11th anniversary of the occupation of Afghanistan the United National
Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) in the U.S. has called for an International days of
action against wars at home and abroad from October 5-7. Mobilization Against
War and Occupation has endorsed this call and will be organizing for a rally
and petition campaign demanding: 

NO WARS! NO SANCTIONS! NO DRONE ATTACKS! BRING ALL THE TROOPS HOME NOW!

SELF-DETERMINATION FOR THE PEOPLE OF SYRIA AND IRAN!

NO TO RACISM, RAIDS, AND REPRESSION!  NO TO ISLAMOPHOBIA!

FREE BRADLEY MANNING NOW!

End the Occupations of Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine & Haiti!

Saudi and All Foreign Troops Out of Bahrain!

U.S., U.K., Canada, France, NATO, Hands Off Libya Now!

U.S. Hands Off North Africa & the Middle East!

Self Determination for Indigenous Nations & All Oppressed Nations!

SATURDAY October 6

1pm

Vancouver Art Gallery

Robson & Howe St.

Downtown Vancouver, Canada

To read the UNAC Call for Action click: http://nepajac.org/Oct7Call.pdf

((( 4 ))) MAWO Newsletter #40

Click to see MAWO’s #40 newsletter:

http://www.mawovancouver.org/materials/newsletters/newsletter40.pdf

((( 5 ))) Upcoming Events Endorsed and Supported by MAWO

>> 6th Annual Women’s Housing March

*** MAWO encourages peace-loving people and social justice advocates to attend
this event.  MAWO will participate strongly in the march ***

 SATURDAY September 15 

1:30 pm

Starts at Cordova and Columbia, just west of Main St.

Unceded Coast Salish Territories

* Homes for People, not Profit for Real Estate!

* Homes not Jails!

* Homes not Pipelines!

* Rent Control not Social Control!

Downtown Eastside Women Centre Power of Women Group

RSVP on FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/158557227605888/

Email: project at dewc.ca
or Phone: 778 885 0040

>> Meeting – Vancouver Committee to Defend Freedom of Expression

WEDNESDAY September 19

7:00pm

Joe's Cafe [In Large North Hall]

1150 Commercial Dr. at William St

On August 31, political activists were brutally assaulted by Transit Police and
RCMP officers while distributing Fire This Time a free, non-commercial, social
justice newspaper at Metrotown Skytrain Station. At a public forum and
organizing meeting on September 7th in response to these attacks an ad-hoc
committee was formed to defend Fire This Time and stop assault on all political
activists. This will be the second meeting of the committee to plan and organize
for unity and to fight back in defense of civil liberties and democratic
rights!

For a report from the September 7th public forum and organizing meeting about
the case: 

http://stopassaultonpoliticalactivists.wordpress.com

For videos of the assault: 

http://www.youtube.com/user/firethistime

Fire This Time Movement for Social Justice

http://www.firethistime.net

>> Cuban Five People’s Tribunal and Assembly

Breaking the Silence: Justice for the Five

September 21-23, 2012

Toronto, Canada

For more information about the Peoples’ Tribunal & Assembly, and to find
out details about registration, go to http://www.freethe5peoplestribunal.org
or contact the Organizing Committee at tribunal.five at gmail.com

>> International Day of Action – Free the Cuban 5
Now!

83rd monthly protest

Marking the 36th anniversary of the Air Cubana
flight bombing by terrorist Luis Posada Carriles

Friday October 5th

4 – 5pm 

U.S. Consulate (1075 West Pender)

Organized by the Free the Cuban 5 Committee - Vancouver 

www.freethe5vancouver.ca

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http://WWW.MAWOVANCOUVER.ORG

info at mawovancouver.org

P 604.322.1764 || F 604.322.1763

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