[antiwar-van] SEPT 26: Vancouver Committee to Defend Freedom of Expression – Meeting Tonight! UPDATE: Vancouver Sun & The Province Pick up the Case!

[Kira Koshelanyk]

Vancouver Committee to Defend
Freedom of Expression – Meeting Tonight! 

UPDATE: Vancouver Sun & The
Province Pick up the Case!

 

*** Check out the coverage of the
assault on Fire This Time in today's print editions of the Vancouver Sun and The
Province newspapers! *** 

 Also available online:

Civil liberties advocates again
question TransLink, September 26, 2012

http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Civil+liberties+advocates+again+question+TransLink/7300327/story.html

 

Civil liberties group wants probe
into police incident, September 26, 2012

http://www.theprovince.com/Civil+liberties+group+wants+probe+into+TransLink+incident/7300182/story.html


Vancouver Committee to Defend
Freedom of Expression

Public Meeting

Wednesday, September 26

7pm 

Joe’s Café (Large North Hall)

1150 Commercial Drive @ Napier Street



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. 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

 

Hundreds
of thousands of people have also now read about the case in important articles
in the Vancouver Sun, The Province, and the Georgia Straight printed and online
editions. The case has also been covered by media around the world!



Video evidence detailing the assault has also been viewed thousands of times on
the internet, despite the fact that the footage documenting the entire incident
was erased from the phone of one of the assault victims while in the hands of
RCMP officers. The videos are available at: www.youtube.com/firethistime



The campaign is growing and gaining momentum ! The Vancouver Committee to
Defend Freedom of Expression will meet to discuss the most recent developments
in the case and to organize for the upcoming actions in the growing campaign to
defend Fire This Time and of all our civil liberties and democratic rights.
Please join us in this important fight! We will win! 		 	   		  
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