[van-announce] Cultural evening to unmask war on terror

[Grassroots Women]

> For immediate release
> 
> April 17, 2004
> 
> Cultural evening to unmask war on terror
> 
> (Vancouver, BC) - Are anti-terrorism laws being used to suppress dissent
> or are they being used to attack legitimate liberation movements, its
> leaders as well as political refugees? These and other impacts of the
> so-called "war on terror" will be unmasked Friday, April 23rd at 7pm at
> Vancouver's Café Rebelde at the Dogwood Centre, 706 Clark Ave. at E.
> Georgia, Vancouver.
> 
> Hosted by Grassroots Women and the B.C. Committee for Human Rights in the
> Philippines (BCCHRP), the program includes live music, food, speakers and
> poetry readings. The evening's focus will be a video presentation on
> exiled Filipino Professor Jose Maria Sison whose labelling as a
> "terrorist"  by the U.S., the European Union, Dutch and  Canadian
> governments has sparked worldwide attention.
> 
> The event is one of many more leading up to the "Laws, Labels and
> Liberation: The Case of Prof. Jose Maria Sison" international conference
> in Montreal, Quebec from May 28 to 30, 2004. The conference seeks to
> unravel the escalating tension between international human rights
> standards and anti-terrorism legislation passed in the name of national
> security. Professor Sison's unjust labelling will be the case study in the
> conference to be attended by a distinguished group of international
> speakers including Vancouver's Sunera Thobani who made international
> headlines after the Sept. 11 for her caustic remarks on the role of the
> U.S. in causing most of the world's conflicts.
> 
> Professor Sison, a renowned author and poet has been a political refugee
> in the Netherlands since 1987 after his release from prison for 9 years
> during the time of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos. He has served as chief
> political consultant to the National Democratic Front of the Philippines
> (NDFP)  who has been negotiating  a peace accord with the Philippine
> government for the past decade. 
> 
> Admission to the event is by donation and childcare can be provided. 
> For more information, contact:
> Rachel Rosen, Grassroots Women; tel. 604-682-4451; e-mail:
> grassrootswomen at telus.net
> Ted Alcuitas, BCCHRP; tel. 604-215-1905; e-mail: coy at telus.net
> 
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