[mobglob-discuss] Reminder: Sep 28 - Canada, US and War on Terror: From Afghanistan to Guantanamo

[Harsha Walia]

US, Canada and the War on Terror:
>From Afghanistan to Guantanamo

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Sunday September 28
2-4 pm
Room 7000 (take the elevators)
SFU Harbour Centre, 515 W. Hastings
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Join an afternoon discussion about current events in Afghanistan and in
Guantanamo Bay with:

* Charlotte Kates: Charlotte is a practicing lawyer currently working at
the Centre for Constitutional Rights in New York City as an Education and
Outreach Organizer on its project representing Guantanamo Detainees. She
is also the Co-Chair of the Middle East Subcommittee of the National
Lawyers Guild and a long time activist with New Jersey Solidarity
Activists for the Liberation of Palestine and Al-Awda The Palestine Right
to Return Coalition.

* Jon Elmer: Jon is a freelance writer and journalist specializing in the
Middle East and Canadian foreign policy.  He has been a correspondent for
Inter Press Service news agency and is currently co-authoring a book on
Canadian involvement in Afghanistan.  He has also heavily researched and
reported from the West Bank and Gaza Strip from 2003-2007.


Since 2001, US, Canadian and NATO forces have occupied Afghanistan in the
name of the War On Terror, killing and displacing thousands of Afghanis in
one of the world's largest humanitarian crises. In 2002, in part to
facilitate the occupation of Afghanistan and also of Iraq, the US detainee
camp Guantanamo Bay was opened up on US controlled territory in Cuba. The
Canadian government has refused to speak out against the illegal detention
and torture of Guantanamo detainees including of Canadian-born juvenile
Omar Khadr.

Seven years on, election campaigns are in full swing in the United States
and Canada with much rhetoric of 'change'. However in both the US and
Canada, Guantanamo is taboo and all major parties are silent on full troop
withdrawals from the Middle East. Regardless of the election outcome,
little will change for the millions of victims of the so-called War on
Terror, led by the governments of the US, Canada, and their allies.

Everyone is welcome to this event, for an urgently needed update and
discussion on US and Canadian roles on the War on Terror, from Guantanamo
to Afghanistan.


Organized by Boycott Israeli Apartheid Campaign. Endorsed by Stopwar.ca
and No One Is Illegal. For more information, email
boycottapartheid at gmail.com or call 604 719 8149 or 778 885 0040