[Stopwar-l] Reminder! Feb 15, 6pm VAG StopWar Demo

[StopWar]

February 15th, 2010
DO YOU BELIEVE IN TORTURE, WAR AND OCCUPATION?
THEFT OF INDIGENOUS LAND? 
THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT DOES!

Come out and be part of an anti-war and anti-militarization moving
spectacle.  This event is a festive and creative demand for the Canadian
government to respect and uphold human-rights, international law, the
right to self-determination and civil rights.  This event will also
feature Gold Medal Award ceremonies for human rights violations, war
mongering, and police brutality.

Meeting Point: Vancouver Art Gallery, Georgia side.

When:  Monday February 15th, 2010
Gathering at 6:00pm and leaving at 6:30pm

The 2010 Winter Olympic Games reveal the same consistent, predictable and
historical pattern of militarization and anti-democratic acts as  they
have everywhere that they are hosted.  StopWar is especially concerned
with the militarization of Vancouver and Whistler during the Games, with
its accompanying restrictions on the democracy and safety of our
community. Enormous resources, including one billion dollars of spending,
considerable military personnel and equipment, and countless thousands of
police and private security personnel are being deployed. The Games are
accompanied by the largest domestic military and security operation in
Canadian military history.  Featured among the identified “threats” to the
Games are domestic protest.

The Olympic Truce movement has similarly revealed the hypocritical and
rhetorical commitment of the Canadian government to peace that is
contradicted by action.  Despite Canada being in its 9th year of waging
war on the people of Afghanistan, the Canadian Olympic Truce is calling on
the world community “to cease hostilities during the Games and promote the
ideals of peace through sport”, however, Canada has no plans to cease
causing death and destruction in Afghan
society.  In an ironic twist of history, we remember that the 1980 Olympic
Games hosted by the Soviet Union were boycotted by over 60 countries,
including Canada, in protest of the Soviet occupation and war in
Afghanistan that had begun a year earlier in 1979.

Bring you costumes, signs, banners and musical instruments! 
Join us in calling attention to the Canadian governments disregard of
human rights, international law, the right to self-determination and civil
rights.  We call on the Canadian government to end the occupation, war
crimes, and human rights violations from Afghanistan to BC, to sign the UN
Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and to abide by
International law.  To bring aid not militarization to Haiti.  To bring
equity not militarization within Canadian communities.

Sponsored by: Stopwar.ca
For more information contact: Stopwar at resist.ca