[mobglob-discuss] (Van) Sep 11 at 7 pm: In The Shadow of 9/11

[Harsha Walia]

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The STATUS Coalition invites you to a Symposium and Vigil:

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In the Shadow of 9-11:
>From Racialization to Security
Tuesday September 11 at 7 pm
SFU Harbour Centre (515 West Hastings)
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==> Opening by SUNERA THOBANI: Professor in the Women's Studies'
Department at UBC and a former president of the National Action Committee
on the Status of Women. She has been an outspoken critic on the War on
Terror, and is active on many feminist and anti-racist issues.

==> ALFONSO OSORIO: a Latino freelance journalist speaking on the
US-backed military coup of September 11, 1973 in Chile.

==> ALNOOR GOVA: preliminary findings from the study and report "The
Phenomenon Of Racial Profiling Via Post 9/11/01 Security Measures In
Canada".

==> INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE OF PEOPLE'S STRUGGLES: imperialism in the post
911 context of the "War on Terror"; which is terrorizing people of the
world, while criminalizing social resistance movements under the guise of
national security.

==> HARSHA WALIA: Two-Tiered Citizenship in Post 9/11 Canada, examining
historic apartheid systems of immigration and current criminalization of
migration through neoliberal agreements such as the SPP.

==> VANCOUVER STATUS OF WOMEN: "Racialization of Poverty", examining the
intensification of poverty experienced by Indigenous women & women of
colour as a result of current and historic social and economic policies.

... more to be confirmed...

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Followed by a Candle light Vigil
Vancouver Art Gallery
from 9:30 to 10:30 pm
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Commemorating the "9/11's" of resistance against occupation, racism, and
imperialism in Chile, Attica, South Africa, Gustafsen, Palestine, the
Philippines, Somalia, and all around the world


r e c l a i m i  n g     h i s t o r y    &    r e s i s t a n c e

9-11 should never be forgotten. One of them happened six years ago with
three thousand lives lost. The day has also become a landmark, dividing
the world between the war-ravaging US government and the people of the
world on the other. The "War on Terrorism" has led to terror in millions
of Iraqis and Afghanis whose lives and lands are being devastated by
foreign occupations; while in the name of 'national security' Muslim,
South Asian and Arab communities are increasingly being racially targeted
and resistance movements locally and globally are being criminalized
through unprecedented police and state powers.

There are also many other "9-11s" to commemorate, going back to 1973, with
a US-backed military coup in Chile. There was also September 11 of 1995
with the Gustafsen Lake siege (the largest Canadian paramilitary operation
in Canadian history); September 12, 1977 with the death of Steven Biko;
the crushing of the Attica Rebellion on September 13, 1971; the
"humanitarian intervention" in Somalia on September 14, 1992; the
September 16, 1982 Sabra and Shattila massacre of Palestinian refugees;
the September 21, 1972 declaration of martial law by US-backed Marcos
regime in the Phillipines; and many other unmarked days.

Organized by S.T.A.T.U.S. Coalition, a coalition of community-based
organizations in the Vancouver area belonging to movements and struggles
of the people of the Global South (Asia, Africa, Central and South
America, Middle East, the Caribbean region) and the struggles of such
migrant communities in Canada. We are: Al-Awda Vancouver, Association of
Chinese Canadians for Equality and Solidarity Society, Bolivia Solidarity
Committee, Canadian Network for a Democratic Nepal, Consejo Indigena
Popular de Oaxaca -Ricardo Flores Magon - Vancouver, Iranian Federation of
Refugees, Iranian Refugee B.C, La Surda Latin American Collective,
Justicia 4 Migrant Workers B.C, No One is Illegal, Salaam Vancouver,
Siraat, South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy, Vancouver Status
of Women.

For more information email saic at resist.ca or call 604-715-4816.