[Stopwar-l] Upcoming Events

[StopWar]

This week-end is packed with Palestine solidarity events: medicine,
music, and more.

(1) FRIDAY, JANUARY 29TH UBC (WOODS 2), 6:30 PM 
The
courageous Norwegian emergency specialist, Dr. Mads Gilbert, worked in Gaza
under Israeli bombardment last January. and gives his eye-witness report
both Friday and Saturday.

(2) SATURDAY, JANUARY 30TH VANCOUVER PUBLIC
LIBRARY DOWNTOWN (ALICE MACKAY ROOM), 7:30 PM 
On Saturday, along with Dr.
Mads Gilbert, University of California professor of law George Bisharat
speaks on "Ending Israeli Impunity", and Joanne Naiman speaks on the new
efforts by members of Canada's parliament to suppress criticism of Israel
(see poster at bottom).

(3) SUNDAY, JANUARY 31ST LANGARA CAMPUS (WORLD
COMMUNITY FILM FESTIVAL), 3:00 PM 

 TELLING STRINGS is a one-hour
documentary produced by Anne-Marie Haller in Switzerland. She writes: "What
is necessary so that a culture - stuck in the threatening environment of
the Israeli State - may continue to develop itself?"
http://www.codev.org/filmfest/filmdetail.cfm?movieID=28 [1] On Sunday, a
film on the Jubran family, outstanding Palestinian musicians, and their
effort to preserve their culture as "citizens" of Israel - followed by a
panel with two Vancouver resident Palestinians, a film-maker and a
scientist, who both have connections to the Jubran family.  

For more
information go to the Canpalnet website:
http://www.canpalnet.ca/mambo/index.php [2]


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Public forum: ***Please note new date***:
CATASTROPHE IN HAITI

Haiti
needs solidarity to rise from the ashes

The catastrophe of the January
12th earthquake has been magnified by Haiti's social and political history.
Decades of foreign interference, including Canada's involvement in the
overthrow of Haiti's elected government in 2004, left the country devoid of
social and emergency infrastructure. Now the United States is orchestrating
a full-scale militarization of relief efforts. 

As Canadians join in
urgent relief efforts, how can we ensure genuine aid for Haiti's future?
Join us for a discussion with Stuart Hammond, who returned from a human
rights delegation to Haiti just four days before the earthquake, and other
recent visitors.

***Please note new date***: 

Friday February 5th, 7 pm
(free event)
Collingwood Neighborhood House 
5288 Joyce St. (one block
south of Joyce Skytrain)

Organized by: Haiti Solidarity BC
For more
information: 778 858 5179
To donate to Haiti, go to:
www.canadahaitiaction.ca [3]

 
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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 Indigenous Rights, and to abide by International law. To
bring aid not militarization to Haiti. To bring equity not militarization
within Canadian communities. 

Interested in participating in the
organization of this action? Please join us for our next organizing
meeting: Saturday January 30, Joe's Cafe, 1150 Commercial Drive

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

_You are
invited to attend ..._ 

ONE YEAR LATER - GAZA REMEMBERED

DATE 

Saturday,
January 30, 2010 7:30 PM 

(Doors open @ 7:00 PM) 

LOCATION 

Alice MacKay
Room  

Vancouver Public Library 

350 West Georgia St. 

Vancouver,
British Columbia V6B 6B1 

Speakers:
1. Dr. George Bisharat,
Professor of
Law
Hasting School of Law,
University of California

Professor Bisharat
studied law, anthropology, and Middle East studies at Harvard, and wrote a
book about Palestinian lawyers working under Israeli military occupation in
the West Bank.  He writes frequently on law and politics in the Middle
East, both for academic audiences and for major media sources in the U.S.
and abroad.

2. Dr. Mads Gilbert
Dr. Gilbert received his Ph.D from
Univesity of Iowa. He volunteered for an assignment for the Norwegian Aid
Committee (NORWAC) to provide emergency healthcare at al-Shifa Hospital in
Gaza during the 2008-2009 Israel onslaught (Operation Cast Lead), when
foreign journalists were denied entry.

3. Joanne Naiman 
Professor
Emerita, Department of Sociology, Ryerson University, Toronto 
Joanne
Naiman  taught from 1971-2004. She is the author of a number of academic
articles, and has been involved for many years in a variety of activist
organizations, including the anti-apartheid movement, as well as efforts to
preserve publicly-funded education in Ontario.

 

Links:
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[1]
http://www.codev.org/filmfest/filmdetail.cfm?movieID=28
[2]
http://www.canpalnet.ca/mambo/index.php
[3]
http://www.canadahaitiaction.ca/
[4]
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Vancouver+Public+Library%2C+350+West+Georgia+St.%2C+Vancouver%2C+British+Columbia+V6B+6B1+CA&utm_source=Vancouver+Muslim+Community+Centre+List&utm_campaign=b79067437f-One_Year_Later_Gaza_Remembered1_9_2010&utm_medium=email
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