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

[ISM-Vancouver]

Vancouver Events on Iraq/Palestine/Defending Rights of Immigrants
Summary:
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Friday March 28th @ 8pm -Celebrate People's Resisitance Fundraiser
Saturday, March 29th @ 12:00 Noon - Anti-War Rally
Tuesday, April 8 @ 6:30 pm - TARIQ ALI - World Politics After Iraq
Saturday, April 12 @7:30 pm - Jenin Jenin Film Showing

DETAILS:
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Friday March 28th @ 8pm
Wise Hall on Adanac & Commercial Drive
Celebrate People's Resisitance Fundraiser
Poetry Music by the Joey Only & the Flying Folk Army, Music at the
fundraiser comes from South America, Palestine, and Iraq. Spoken word poetry
and other acts should be included. All proceeds go to Legal Defence of
Airport 3.
This is a fundraiser for Anti-Poverty Committee and No One is Illegal legal
defence fund. Three APC members are facing charges related to the escape of
Iranian deportee Kobra Natghi in January. A demo at the Vancouver Airport to
protest a deportation took an unexpected turn when the deportee came through
the airport. After some confusion the deportee ran out of the airport and
escaped. 3 APC members were arrested for allegedly helping the escape of
Kobra. Kobra was deported 2 days after her dramatic escape.
$5-20 sliding scale (no one will be refused entry)
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Saturday, March 29th @ 12:00 Noon - Anti-War Rally
Join millions around the world in denouncing the U.S.-led war on Iraq
Rally 12:00 noon - Vancouver Art Gallery - Music/Speakers
1:00 p.m. - March past the British and U.S. Consulates and return to VAG for
Wrap Up Speaker and more music
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Tariq Ali
World and Empire: World Politics after Iraq
St Andrews-Wesley Church
1012 Nelson at Burrard
Tuesday, April 8th
7:30 p.m. (Doors open at 6:30pm)
Born in Pakistan, educated at Oxford and now living in England, Tariq Ali
was active in response to the Vietnam and Gulf War. An editor of New Left
Review, he has written more than a dozen books on history and politics as
well as five novels. His latest book is The Clash of Fundamentalisms:
Crusades, Jihad, and Modernity.
Sponsored by: Ad hoc Tariq Ali Tour Committee
For further information cesapivan at yahoo.ca
Tickets $5 to $20 sliding scale are available at Little Sisters Bookstore,
Vancouver Status of Women, Coop Books, Spartacus Books and Women in Print.
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JENIN, JENIN
A film by Mohamed Bakri
Saturday, April 12, 7:30pm
SFU Harbour Centre, 515 W. Hastings, Fletcher Theatre
...raw...chilling...banned in Israel...this film includes testimony from
Jenin residents after Israel's April 2002 attack that ended in flattening
the center of the refugee camp....many Palestinian and international human
rights groups have charged Israel with war crimes in Jenin...the film shows
the bitter aftermath and the trauma in the Palestinian population from
Israel's military actions.
Presentations by International Solidarity Movement (ISM) volunteers recently
returned from the West Bank: Drew Penland, Gordon Murray, Carel Moiseiwitch;
Opening Remarks by Libby Davies, MP Vancouver East who visited Jenin in May
2002
Admission by donation. All proceeds from the evening will go to help
rebuilding the Jenin camp.
Sponsors: Arab Palestine Association, Canada Palestine Association,
International Solidarity Movement – Vanc., Palestine Solidarity Group
Endorsed by: Arab Democratic Assembly, Canpalnet, StopWar.ca
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International Solidarity Movement
Vancouver Chapter: www.ism-vancouver.org
International: www.palsolidarity.org

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