[mobglob-discuss] Fw: [van-announce] Save the date: George Galloway speaks Nov. 22

[Paul Browning]

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From: Derrick O'Keefe
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 1:34 PM
Subject: [van-announce] Save the date: George Galloway speaks Nov. 22


*Please circulate widely*

George Galloway speaks:

Free Palestine, Free Afghanistan, Free Speech

Monday, November 22
7:30p.m. (Doors at 6.30.m.)
St Andrews Wesley United Church
(Corner of Burrard & Nelson Street, Vancouver)

Tickets: $15 / unwaged or low-income $10. Available soon at People's Coop 
Bookstore (1391 Commercial Dr.)

Come
and hear the person Jason Kenney and his office tried and failed to
prevent from speaking in Canada. George Galloway's Vancouver appearance
is part of a 10-day, 10-city pan-Canadian speaking tour.

Organized
locally by StopWar.ca Coalition. Co-sponsored by the Seriously Free Speech
Committee and UBC-Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights. For more 
information contact stopwar at resist.ca or call 604.737.1299.

Information


Eighteen months ago, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Jason
Kenney blocked then-British MP George Galloway from Canada, labeling him
a terror supporter and a national security risk. At the time, Galloway
was scheduled to appear in four Canadian cities on a speaking tour
called "Resisting War: from Gaza to Afghanistan."


Galloway and his supporters protested, saying the move was a crass
political attempt to silence criticism of Canadian foreign policy on
Afghanistan and Palestine. Weeks before the ban, Galloway had led a
humanitarian aid convoy to Gaza as part of an international campaign to
break Israel's illegal blockade.

Galloway and his
supporters were vindicated Federal Court Justice Richard Mosley issued
his
60-page decision on the matter. (Read more here:
http://www.rabble.ca/news/2010/09/what-galloway-court-decision-means-free-speech-canada).