[mobglob-discuss] Sunday! Selling National Insecurities (vancouver)

[Harsha Walia]

*please forward widely*


THE SELLING OF NATIONAL INSECURITIES

Under the rhetoric of "protecting citizens"; governments, international
bodies, and the corporate sector are rapidly intensifying security,
surveillance and anti-terror regimes at the national and global levels.

In light of the next SPP Summit in New Orleans in April 2008, join us for
a free public forum including SHORT FILMS and SPEAKERS to find out about
these developments and what you can do to challenge this expanding
industrial-complex.

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Sunday April 27
Films and Speakers from 6-7:30 pm
Followed by Discussion 7:30-8:30 pm
YWCA (733 Beatty Street, corner W. Georgia)
1 block from Stadium Skyrain Station
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SHORT FILMS...
"From Evacuation to Eviction" on the neoliberal agenda post-Katrina and
"Blackwater: Private Mercaneries from Iraq to New Orleans" on security
profiteering.

SPEAKERS...
* Introduction by Cynthia Oka: Cynthia is an anti-colonial no-border
activist and a Political Science student.

* Jon Elmer on "Global integration of national security and military
policies". Jon is a researcher, writer, and photojournalist specializing
in the Middle East, including Palestine, Lebanon, and Afghanistan.

* Hari Sharma on "The War on Terror Security Industrial Complex: Imperial
Crusading, Criminalization, and Profiteering". Hari is Professor Emeritus
of Sociology of SFU and President of South Asian Network for Secularism
and Democracy.

* Harsha Walia: "North American consequences of a post 9/11 Security
agenda leading to 2010". Harsha Walia is a local organizer, writer, and
researcher.

AND SOME GREAT SPOKEN WORD by Hari Alluri: anti racist spoken word artist
and activist.


Did you know that:

- In Canada, over $25 billion has been spent on security measures since 9/11?

- There are currently over 50 US employees and agents including from
Homeland Security and FBI stationed in Vancouver?

- As part of the Security and Prosperity Partnership Agreement, a series
of joint military exercises will be held in advance of the 2010 Olympics?

- A future world wide "Smart Cards" system is being tested on the Mohawk
and Cree communities?

- A $ 3.2 million maximum security prison "Guantanamo North" was built in
Ontario to detain Muslim detainees on secret evidence?

- Canada and Israel recently signed a pact to coordinate security and
anti-terror activities?

- There is a well-coordinated and growing network of global surveillance
that has become one of the most lucrative global markets?


Organized by No One is Illegal-Vancouver.
Visit: www.nooneisillegal.org
For more information, email noii-van at resist.ca or call 778 885 0040