[mobglob-discuss] July 20th: Selling Security

[Harsha]

                    “SELLING SECURITY”

A public forum with films and speakers to discuss the climate of fear,
repression of civil liberties, racial profiling, and war-making in the
wake of the recent arrests of 17 young Muslim men. With film excerpts and
discussion with community advocates, media analysts, and academics.

THURSDAY JULY 20TH AT 6:00 PM
ROOM 2270, SFU HARBOUR CENTER, 515 WEST HASTINGS
For more information, contact No One is Illegal: 778-552-2099 or
noii-van at resist.ca

WITH FILM EXCERPTS from THREADBARE: Arshad Khan, 2005: In the summer of
2003, 23 Pakistani and one Indian man were arrested by Canadian law
enforcement under Project Thread, a purported anti-terror investigation.
The charges crumbled under scrutiny yet the men were quietly deported.
Threadbare is the story of these men.


SPEAKERS:

* JUDY HANAZAWA: “Enemy Aliens: Racial discrimination against Japanese
Canadians”. Judy is a member of the Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian
Citizens' Association Human Rights Committee involved with post-redress
community development.

* SUMAYYA KASSAMALI: “Multiculturalism, Racism, and the National
Imaginary”. Sumayya is a third-year student at UBC, active in her local
South Asian Muslim community, and involved in interfaith, anti-racist, and
antiwar activism.

* GARTH MULLINS: "Canada’s Spy Agency: From Red Scare to Terror Alerts".
Garth will be discussing the creation, development and history of CSIS as
it evolved through Cold War anti-communism; to spying on postal workers,
the peace movement, and anti-globalization activists; to its current role
in the war on terror. Garth is a member of Autonomy & Solidarity and is
working on a doctorate on communities intervening in capitalist
globalization.

* NAAVA SMOLASH: “Fear or Fact: Media Coverage of the Toronto Arrests”.
Naava is a Media Studies instructor at Malaspina University-College and a
doctoral candidate at Simon Fraser University focused on the intersections
between nationalism, race, and newspaper representations of bodies deemed
"the enemy within" the nation-state.

* ANGELA STERRITT "Vilification of Indigenous women in the Media and
Resistance to Racism and Sexism". Angela is a social justice advocate who
works specifically for the rights of Indigenous women and girls. She is
Gitxsan and Irish and lives and works on Coast Salish Territory. She has
spent over 10 yrs in radio broadcast media, as a researcher, producer and
critic of the mainstream media.