[IPSM] International Women's Day - March 5th & Rally on March 8th

[dustin johnson]

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UPCOMING EVENTS IN VANCOUVER
- March 3, March 8: Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and Vancouver’s Downtown  
Eastside
- March 4: A view from Gaza
- March 5, March 8:  International Women's Day Conference and Rally
- March 11: Palestinian Arab Women Association Dinner


NEWS
- Oaxacan activist accepted as refugee (plus clarification letter)
- Non-status migrants and supporters are acquitted
- Grassy Narrows demands end to logging
- US Has Tortured "at Least 8" to Death

ARTICLES
- A new war, this time against Latino immigrants
- Former Braceros and Zapatistas Unite to End the System that Beats  
Them Down


Remembering Our Sisters
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
Events to mark International Women’s Day, 2006

Monument to  Ciudad Juarez is a video-installation and performance
inspired by the  violent assassinations, since 1993, of more than 300
women in the city  of Juarez, Mexico—a maquiladora city in the heart of
the free trade zone  between the U.S. and Mexico. The exhibit opens  
March
3, 2006 at Gallery  Gachet. Located at the border with the United  
States,
a “no ones and everyone’s  land,” Ciudad Juarez is a city of transit  
where
thousands of women  survive [by]dreaming of “paradise.” This impressive
artwork combines  ceramics, wood, ropes, fabrics, stones, corn  
tortillas,
and a video  projection where the desert, haunted by feminine  
silhouettes,
is a  metaphor of isolation, solitude, and uprooted identity.

Friday March 3 – Monument to Ciudad Juarez opening and performance by
Claudia Bernal at the Gallery Gachet, 88 East Cordova Street from  
7:00 to
10:00 p.m. The exhibit runs at Gallery Gachet from  March 4-April 2

Wed March 8, International Women’s Day, an event will take place at 119
West Pender Street from 4 pm - 7 pm. The event will focus on  some of  
the
art that commemorates the lives of the more than 65 women who have gone
missing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Sandra Moran, a Guatemalan
women’s rights activist, poet and musician will be among the performers.
She will bring greetings from the Guatemalan struggle against violence
against women.


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ISRAEL'S DISENGAGEMENT: A view from Gaza

After six months in the Middle East, photojournalist Jon Elmer will be
discussing the Gaza 'disengagement' and the shifting dynamics of the
Israel-Palestine conflict with photography and original reportage  
from  on
the ground in the Gaza Strip, West Bank and Jerusalem.

4 March in Vancouver, BC, Spartacus Bookstore, 319 West Hastings - 8pm


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Please join us for International Women's Day 2006
International Women's Day 2006:
Building Anti-imperialist Solidarity: Towards a Just and Lasting Peace

Sunday, March 5th, 10am-4pm:
Conference focusing on the current issues facing working class and
marginalized women internationally. Program will include roundtable
discussions and cultural workshops on:

o Women and war, occupation, and intervention
Resource people:
Angela Sterritt, International Indigenous Youth Conference
Reem Alnuieri, Palestine Arab Women's Association
Merryn Edwards, Grassroots Women

o Exploitation of women's labour
Resource people:
member of SIKLAB (overseas Filipino Worker's organization)
Adrianna, Justicia for Migrant Workers
Delanne Plouffe, Hospital Employees Union
Thi Vu, Grassroots Women

o Forced migration, immigration and trafficking of women
Resource people:
Harsha Wallia, No One Is Illegal
member of Philippine Women Centre of BC
Cecilia Diocson and Suzanne Baustad, Grassroots Women

o Privatization of women's basic needs (health, childcare,
education,transportation)
Resource people:
member of Bus Riders' Union
Sheila Farrales, Filipino Nurses Support Group
Ning Alcuitas, Grassroots Women

Conference will be held at the Russian Hall (600 Campbell, Vancouver).
Please confirm attendance. Lunch and on-site childcare available.  
Suggested
donation $5.


Wednesday, March 8th, 5:30 pm:
Rally and March
Meet at the Vancouver Public Library (Robson and Homer)
Speakers include representatives of: Native Youth Movement, Palestine  
Arab
Women's Association, SIKLAB, Hospital Employees Union, No One Is  
Illegal,
Grassroots Women, Bus Riders Union

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Palestinian Arab Women Association (PAWA) invites you to its first   
Dinner
Banquet in honor of International Women’s Day

History & Future of Palestinian women struggle for justice & liberation
Dr. Ghada Talhami (University of Lake Forest – Illinois)
Iraqi Poet Hayat Annahir
Dr. Sonera Tubani (University of British Columbia)
Music by Ziryab
Arabic Fashion Show

Saturday, March 11 at 6:30 pm
At the ROYAL HALL 2122 Kingsway St.,Vancouver
Ticket Price: $25
Childcare provided in a separate room at $5 per child under 10 years  
of age
For tickets & more information, please contact us at:
Pawaorg at yahoo.com Or via phone at: 604 779 1861




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