[mobglob-discuss] Reminder.. Sep 11 at 7 pm "In the Shadaw of 911"

[Harsha Walia]

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 Traditional Mothers Drum Group

==> JUNE CLEARSKY: Vancouver Status of Women "Racialization of Poverty"
Project examining the intensification of poverty experienced by Indigenous
women & women of colour as a result of current and historic social and
economic policies.

==> 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.

==> NING ALCUITAS: from the International League of People's Struggles and
Philippine Women Centre of BC on imperialism in the post 911 context of
the "War on Terror".

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

==> GORD HILL: Kwakwakawak'w artist and activist speaking on the history
of colonization of BC and indigenous resistance to Homeland Security since
1492.

==> 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.


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Followed by a Candle light Vigil
Vancouver Art Gallery
from 9:30 to 10:30 pm
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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.