[van-announce] Vancouver Events on Palestine/Iraq/ Defending Immigrants

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Subject: Vancouver Events on Palestine/Iraq/ Defending Immigrants



Vancouver Events on Palestine/Iraq/ Defending Immigrants
Calendar of Events:

March 15 - Antiwar Rally
March 16 - No One Is Illegal Conference on Defending Immigrant Rights
March 22/23 - Conference on Preventing Crimes AGainst Humanity
March 8 - Debating Arabs! Philosophers' Cafe - Debating Arabs in the Media
April 12 - Jenin Memorial: Jenin Jenin Film Showing & Reports from Delegates Returning from Palestine

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No One Is Illegal Vancouver Conference

A conference on Defending Immigrant Rights

SFU Harbour Centre - 515 West Hastings, room 1700
March 16, 12:30-5:30pm

No One Is Illegal -Vancouver is a coalition of groups and individuals committed to fighting for the rights of immigrants and refugees.

The Vancouver conference will include speakers, discussion and a report back from the National No One Is Illegal Conference in Montreal.

Phone: 604-682-3269 box 7051
noii_van at hotmail.com

No One Is Illegal - Vancouver
Basis of Unity

1. Canadian immigration policies serve to consolidate the development of Fortress North America, using free trade to open borders to capital, while promoting the
economic exploitation of the people whose free movement it regulates and limits. Therefore, we believe that a campaign for the regularization of non-status people
must do so in confrontation to the Canadian state, and its racist and colonial policies against immigrants, refugees and indigenous peoples.

2. Struggles for justice and the right to self-determination for immigrants, refugees and indigenous peoples are led by those communities and individuals and are
carried out on a daily basis. Those of us who participate in these struggles as allies do so with this understanding.

3. We acknowledge that the Canadian state is built on the displacement, dispossession and genocide of indigenous peoples, and that our campaign must recognize this
fact and be carried out accordingly, in solidarity with the struggles for self-determination and justice of indigenous communities.

4. We recognize that capitalism, patriarchy and racism are interconnected systems of oppression and domination that reflect and reinforce each other. These systems
must be eradicated. We aim to work together in a way that is consistent with this analysis. As such, we commit to working and debating in ways that are respectful
of the right to dignity, autonomy and self-determination of each person and of the communities of which they are a part.

5. We struggle for a world in which everyone can move freely, live and flourish in justice and dignity.

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International Day of Action

Saturday March 15th
Gather 12:00 p.m. Library Square - 1.30 p.m. Rally at Vancouver Art Gallery
Join us for ANOTHER INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION
To Say : "No to War on Iraq" & Stop the Israeli Occupation

12.00 p.m. Friday March 14th join us for a 24 hour vigil at the US Consulate, 1095 West Pender.
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Preventing Crimes Against Humanity: Lessons from A  
START DATE: 3/21/2003 
START TIME:  9:00 AM 
Please register online at www.aplconference.ca
$20 for students $50 regular fee (Lunch included for those register by March 18, 2003)

The two-day conference will address the question: How do you prevent crimes against humanity? It will focus on history of the Asia Pacific War (1931-1945) and
examine how the lessons learned from this terrible past are relevant today. The conference is organized to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the United Nations
Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
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April 8, 2003
Debating Arabs! Philosophers' Cafe
at Cafe Deux Soleil, 2096 Commercial Drive, Vancouver
Debating Arabs in the Media
Moderator: Riadh Muslih
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April 12, 6:00 pm
SFU Harbour Centre - 515 West Hastings
Fletcher Challange Room

65% of Jenin Refugee Camp was demolished in the 2nd week of April 2002.  150 houses were demolished while people were inside of them. Many bodies remain burried at
the Jenin Refugee camp as evidence to the Israeli genocide policies.
The Event will include Movie Showing, and reports back by Vancouverites who are now in Palestine as part of the International Solidarity Movement.

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International Solidarity Movement
Vancouver Chapter: www.ism-vancouver.org
International: www.palsolidarity.org



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