[van-announce] [ISM-Vancouver] Vancouver Events-Jan 22, 25, 31 & Feb 2nd, 6th

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SUMMARY OF EVENTS:
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- Thursday, January 22, 7p.m.: PSG: Palestinian Resistance Movements, the 
culture of resistance
- Sunday, January 25, 7:00 pm: Stopwar: speaker: Suh Sung: Korea, US 
Militarism and the Danger of War in East Asia
- Saturday, Jan 31, 2:00pm : ISM- Eyewitness Reports by Three ISM Activists 
Returning from Occupied Palestine
- MONDAY FEBURARY 2, 12:00 Noon:  NOII RALLY- STOP THE LEGAL AID CUTS 
!!!JUSTICE FOR IMMIGRANTS AND REFGEES
- Friday February 6th, 7:00pm: CANPALNET- SPEAKER: LAURIE KING-IRANI- 
Co-founder of the Electronic Intifada and Electronic Iraq




EVENT DETAIL:
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PSG Class Series:

Topics: Palestinian Resistance Movements, the culture of resistance

Thursday, January 22, 7p.m.
Palestine Community Centre
1874 Kingsway, Vancouver

Free admission.

PSG is holding classes every second Thursday until the end of April, 
covering the following topics:

Feb. 5 - Palestinian Refugees, and the Right of Return.

Feb. 19 - Palestinians, 'citizenship' and the Israeli.

March 4 - Israeli Apartheid, the settlements, and the Apartheid Wall

March 18 - Israeli Capitalism, Palestinian Labour

April 1 - Palestinian Women's Resistance, Women Under Occupation.

April 15 - Water Resources, the environment and occupation.

April 29 - Political Prisoners: Palestinians in Israeli Jails.

Registration is $25 for the entire course or $5/class on a drop-in basis, no 
one turned away for lack of funds. For information on registration contact 
palsolidarity at yahoo.com or attend the first session.

The Palestine Solidarity Group (Vancouver) will be holding its 3rd annual 
anti-imperialist conference May 29-30, 2004.

www.palsolidaritygrp.org
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Korea, US Militarism and the Danger of War in East Asia
guest speaker: Suh Sung

Sunday, January 25, 2004
7:00 - 9:00pm
Maritime Labour Centre (111 Victoria Drive at Triumph)

Forum : Korea, US Militarism and the Danger of War in East Asia: A forum and 
discussion with special guest speaker Suh Sung

Professor Suh is the co-convenor of the International Symposium for Human 
Rights and Peace in East Asia, one of the most influential peace 
organizations in that region at the present time. He spent 19 years in 
prison under authoritarian South Korean regimes, from 1971 to 1990.

Born in Japan of Korean descent, Sung graduated from the Tokyo University of 
Education in 1968 and did graduate studies at Seoul National University 
where he became active in Korea's early democracy movement. In the spring of 
1971, the Korean military police abducted him and his brother and falsely 
charged him with being part of a "campus spy ring." The overturning of 
Korea's authoritarian regime in the late 1980s led to his release in 1990 
and he was granted a full pardon by recently retired South Korean president 
Kim Daejung.

Since his release, Sung has been a tireless advocate for other victims of 
state terrorism and an active campaigner for peace. He was appointed 
professor of comparative human rights in the law faculty at Ritsumeikan 
University in Kyoto, Japan in 1998 and is currently staying in Canada as the 
Lansdowne fellow of the Humanities Centre, University of Victoria.

Organized by the Education Committee of StopWar.ca
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Eyewitness Reports by Three ISM Activists Returning from Occupied Palestine

Saturday, Jan 31, 2:00 - 5:00 pm
Palestine Community Centre
1874 Kingsway (@ Victoria Dr.)


International Solidarity Movement would like to invite you to a Reception 
for Three Activists returning from Occupied Palestine

JOHANNA, LYNNE & MAXINE
with Eyewitness Reports - VIDEO - PHOTOS


More information:  www.ism-vancouer.org

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STOP THE LEGAL AID CUTS !!!
JUSTICE FOR IMMIGRANTS AND REFGEES

RALLY AT NOON
MONDAY FEBURARY 2, 2004
345 Robson Street

* Child friendly rally.  Bring banners and noise makers *

No One is Illegal-Vancouver is launching a campaign to oppose the imminent 
legal aid cuts by the provincial government. Out of the $83 million that is 
being cut in social services, 40% is to come by eliminating legal services 
for marginalized communities, including immigrant and refugees.
As of Feb 28, 2004, provincial funding for immigrant/refugee cases will be 
$0.

It is no coincidence that the government has eliminated funding while at the 
same time heightening the war at home against immigrants and refugees in the 
forms of increasing deportations, detentions, use of security certificates 
and racial profiling.

For more information contact
No One is Illegal-Vancouver
noii_van at hotmail.com/ 604- 715-4816

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SPEAKER: LAURIE KING-IRANI- Co-founder of the Electronic Intifada and 
Electronic Iraq

Friday February 6th -- 7 pm
SFU Harbour Centre
555 W Hastings, Rm 1700
Vancouver

Why do peace accords between Israelis and Palestinians fail? What prevents 
an agreement that brings about justice and peace?

Every day another peace plan in
ISRAEL/PALESTINE

Featuring
LAURIE KING-IRANI
•	Co-founder of the Electronic Intifada and Electronic Iraq
•	One of the team that attempted to indict Ariel Sharon for international 
war crimes

Friday February 6th -- 7 pm
SFU Harbour Centre
555 W Hastings, Rm 1700
Vancouver

Admission by donation (No-one will be turned
away for lack of ability to pay)

For further info:
www.canpalnet.ca/events
e-mail: support at canpalnet.ca

This forum is the first of a series sponsored by the Canada Palestine 
Support Network (canpalnet.ca), the Trade Union Committee for Justice in the 
Middle East, and Jews for a Just Peace. (jewsforajustpeace.com)

WATCH FOR
Forum #2: April 2004 – Democracy and Apartheid in Israel
Forum #3: May 2004 – The Politics of Anti Semitism

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