[antiwar-van] *TODAY* US/Saudi Arabia Hands Off Yemen! Antiwar Rally & Petition Campaign

[Kira Koshelanyk]

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		Mobilization
		Against War & Occupation (MAWO)
	


	
		Monthly Antiwar
		Anti-Occupation Rally & Petition Campaign
	


	


	
	
		STOP BOMBING
		YEMEN!

U.S./SAUDI ARABIA HANDS OFF YEMEN!
	


	REPEAL INHUMAN &
	REPRESSIVE BILL C-51!


	


	


	FRIDAY July 24


	6:00pm


	Vancouver Art
	Gallery


	Robson Street at
	Howe Street


	Downtown Vancouver,
	Canada
	


	


	“War is killing
	every beautiful thing inside us and inside our country. It is
	heartbreaking to lose that feeling of safety, to be in constant
	worry about your loved ones, to live endless terror unable to even
	have the slightest mean of life. Life has become a bleak vision for
	us, something we fantasize about. And that is how it’s like to be
	in a war. The air vanishes and we can listen to our hearts beating
	heavily as the bombardment begins, and we wonder whether it’s our
	turn coming up to join the victims under the ruins.” - Layla M.
	Asda, 26 year old Yemeni masters student at the University of Sana'a
	


	
	With these few
	sentences a young Yemeni woman expresses what the Saudi-led war on
	Yemen feels like. For four months Saudi Arabia, with the backing of
	the U.S., has carried out a brutal, devastating and ongoing bombing
	campaign against the people of Yemen. Over 3,640 innocent Yemeni
	people have been killed and 17,302 injured in the war, according to
	the World Health Organization. 
	
	


	
	The people of Yemen
	are facing a humanitarian crisis. Alongside continuous bombing,
	Saudi Arabia, with the help of the U.S., has imposed an air, land
	and sea blockade on Yemen. The blockade has left Yemenis to suffer
	from severe shortages of food, water, fuel and medicines, with
	nearly 13 million Yemenis facing a food security crisis and 9.4
	million with little or no access to water.
	


	
	After so much war
	and destruction, the words of Layla are still strong in echoing the
	demands of the Yemeni people for an end to the war. “Peace is what
	we need. Our voices need to reach out. Yemenis want to see their
	country flourish with development, not with war. War indeed has
	changed Yemenis, but it taught them how to survive and to never give
	up their dreams.”
	


	
	With these words,
	MAWO calls on peace-loving people in Vancouver to stand with the
	people of Yemen and join us out on the streets to demand U.S./Saudi
	Arabia Hands Off Yemen!
	


	


	
		
			MAWO encourages
			all peace-loving people to join in also demanding:
		
	


	- U.S. & Canada
	Hands Off Syria!


	- No New U.S. War
	on Iraq!


	- No to
	Islamophobia!


	-
	U.S./EU/NATO/Canada: Hands Off Ukraine!


	
		- U.S. Hands Off
		Venezuela!
	


	- End the Blockade
	of Gaza!


	-
	Self-Determination for Palestine!


	- End the Blockade
	of Cuba!


	- Free Private
	Manning, Soldier of Humanity!


	- No to U.S.
	Drones!


	- U.S. and All
	Imperialists Out of Afghanistan Now!


	- U.S. Hands Off
	North Africa and the Middle East!


	-
	Self-Determination for Indigenous Nations and All Oppressed Nations!


	- Money for Jobs,
	Housing, Healthcare and Education, Not for War and Occupation!


	- No to War and
	Occupation! Yes to Self-Determination!


	


	


	Join Facebook event
	at: https://www.facebook.com/events/929226520474237/


	See poster at:
	http://www.mawovancouver.org/materials/posters/150724-MAWO-rally.pdf
		


	

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