[pr-x] Oppose NATO - Vancouver rally on Sat., March 30, 12 noon

[Kimball Cariou]

(Please forward widely)

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Oppose NATO, War, Interventions and Racism - Hands off Venezuela


Vancouver rally & march
Saturday, March 30, 12 noon
Seaforth Peace Park (Cornwall & Burrard, south end of Burrard Bridge)

Anti-war and anti-imperialist movements in the Vancouver area will rally 
on Saturday, March 30, to oppose the 70th anniversary summit meeting of 
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), being held this year in 
Washington, D.C.
Since its founding, the U.S.-led NATO (of which Canada has been a key 
member from the beginning) has been the world’s deadliest military 
alliance, causing untold suffering and devastation throughout Northern 
Africa, the Middle East and beyond. Hundreds of thousands have died in 
U.S./NATO wars in Iraq, Libya, Somalia and Yugoslavia. Millions of 
refugees risk their lives trying to escape the carnage that these wars 
have brought to their homelands, while workers in the 29 NATO 
member-countries are told they must abandon hard-won social programs in 
order to meet U.S. demands for even more military spending.
The NATO summit begins on April 4, the birthdate of Dr. Martin Luther 
King, who warned that every bomb that falls on other countries is a bomb 
dropped on our own cities. There is a deep-rooted relationship between 
militarism and the social, racial, economic and environmental injustices 
that impoverish billions and threaten our world.
Canadians have a particular responsibility to protest the NATO summit. 
This not a “peacekeeping” country. Canada has participated in many 
NATO-led wars, and today the pro-imperialist Liberal Government of 
Justin Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland loudly supports higher military 
spending and the expansion of NATO. Acting in the interests of 
transnational corporations, Canada is a vocal advocate of “regime 
change” strategies to overthrow the governments of Venezuela, Cuba, and 
other countries.
Every year NATO has held its summits, people around the world have 
organized massive protests: in Chicago (2012), Wales (2014), Warsaw 
(2016), Brussels (2017 & 2018) — and 2019 will be no exception, with a 
peaceful mass mobilization in Washington, D.C., and in many other cities 
across Turtle Island, including Vancouver.

The Vancouver rally on March 30 is organized by the Vancouver Peace 
Council, and endorsed by Venezuela Peace and Solidarity Committee of 
Vancouver. To add your organization as an endorser, please contact: 
vancouverpeacecouncil at lists.resist.ca

For more on the anti-NATO protests in Washington DC, visit 
http://no2nato2019.org/

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