[van-announce] schedule change- FRI event

[No One is Illegal-Vancouver]

We are very exicted that Jason will be doing a community screening of his
film (currently playing at the Vancouver International Film Festival)...


* schedule change...please post widely *

THE ROOTS OF WAR
confronting the war and occupation at home...
A public event

==========================
Friday October 1, 2004
SFU Harbour Center, Room 1425
6:00 PM
=========================

6:00 PM: LEST WE FORGET

September 11, 2001, was immediately compared to Pearl Harbour in the
media, yet little consideration has been given to one of the most striking
continuities between the events: the unjust treatment of citizens deemed
enemies due to racist profiling and xenophobia. This intelligent and
timely film looks at the aftermath of the two events by investigating the
experiences of people of colour attacked or imprisoned since September
11th alongside stories of the Japanese internment during WW II.
While the focus is on interviews, it is also a moving performative
documentary exploring the feelings of those who, through no fault of their
own, suddenly find themselves denied fundamental human rights by their own
"homeland."


SPECIAL GUESTS FOR DISCUSSION AND Q AND A
* Jason DaSilva: director of Lest we Forget
* Joanne Bourget: Inuit activist who has been fighting state terrorism in
her territories and in the Gaza Strip, making the links between
Palestinian and North American indigenous resistance.


7:30 PM: Kahnesatake: 270 Years of Resistance

Alanis Obomsawin's (Abenaki Nation) film about the 1990 Oka crisis which
took place in Quebec when the municipality of Oka began to extend its golf
course to the sacred lands of the Kahnesatake, Mohawk Indians territory.
The film has won over 18 international awards and is a strong and powerful
narrative of Indigenous nations mounting resistance to colonialism. This
film also provides an important backdrop to understanding the current
situation unraveling in Mohawk territories for seven months as police/
military incursions and James Gabriel personal police force are being
legitimized with the stated purpose of "cracking down on organized crime"


-- 
No One is Illegal- Vancouver
noii-van at resist.ca
(604)682-3269 x 7149

The No One is Illegal campaign is in full confrontation with Canadian
colonial border policies, denouncing and taking action to combat racial
profiling of immigrants and refugees, detention and deportation policies,
and wage-slave conditions of migrant workers and non-status people. We
struggle for the right for our communities to maintain their livelihoods
and resist war, occupation and displacement