[mobglob-discuss] July 20: Selling Security

[Harsha]

                “SELLING SECURITY”

In light of the recent arrests of 17 young Muslim men, media
sensationalism and government statements have stirred public frenzy about
“homegrown terrorists”, revealing a shallow multiculturalism and
reinforcing the racialized national space of Canada. This discourse within
the context of the War on Terror further justifies an increasingly
aggressive and crusading police, security, and military apparatus both
within and beyond these borders. A critical perspective, rooted in the
historic and current reality about Canadian domestic and foreign policy,
is necessary to address the climate of paranoia, racism, repression, and
war-making. Join us for speakers, films, and discussion
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THURSDAY JULY 20TH AT 6:00 PM
ROOM 2270, SFU HARBOUR CENTER, 515 WEST HASTINGS
For more information, call 778-552-2099 or email noii-van at resist.ca

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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 Political Science and Women’s Studies
student at UBC and involved in interfaith, antiracist, and antiwar
activism.

* GARTH MULLINS: "Canada’s Spy Agency: From Red Scare to Terror Alerts".
Garth will be discussing the history of CSIS from Cold War anti-communism;
to spying on postal workers, the peace movement, and anti-globalization
activists; to the war on terror. Garth is a member of Autonomy &
Solidarity and 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 years in radio broadcast, as a researcher, producer and
critic of the mainstream media.