[van-announce] StopWar meet. tonight 6 p.m., Security Certificates rally, Palestine forum... (fwd)

[Stephanie Smith]

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Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 09:37:10 -0700
From: Derrick O'Keefe <sankara83 at hotmail.com>


Friends,

Today's StopWar general meeting will start at 6p.m. at
the Maritime Labour Centre (111 Victoria Dr.) The
later start time is to allow everyone to participate
in an important day of action against Security
Certificates organized by No One Is Illegal.

Details are included below, along with a notice about
an important forum by a new student groups at SFU in
support of Palestinian rights.

We hope you can join us this evening, we have a number
of activities to plan for over the summer months,
including a major forum on Haiti June 17, our
participation in festivals such as Under the Volcano
and the Pride Parade, as well as banner drops,
educational forums and more.

Derrick O'Keefe
Co-Chair, StopWar.ca

***

NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION AGAINST SECURITY CERTIFICATES!

WEDNESDAY JUNE 8 RALLY AND MARCH @ 4:30 PM
GATHER AT VANCOUVER ART GALLERY (ROBSON SIDE)

*** WITH SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCES ***

*** and speaker Waleed Rabia: founder of Al Muajaha
("Confrontation"), Iraq's first independent media
project initiated one week after the war that is
associated with the IndyMedia Center. Waleed was also
a subproducer for the BBC, an embedded journalist with
the Iraqi resistance forces from Northern to Southern
Iraq, and liaison for internationals in Iraq such as
Voices of Conscience, Iraq Solidarity Project, Big
Noise Films, Naomi Klein, and others.

This action is part of a pan-Canadian day to Stop
Secret Trials in Canada. Canada’s Secret Trial Five
are five Muslim men whose lives have been torn apart
by accusations that they are not allowed to fight in a
fair and independent trial. All five men were arrested
under "Security Certificates," a measure of the
Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) that has
been described by Amnesty International as
"fundamentally flawed and unfair". Security
certificates and secret evidence reverse the
fundamental rule of innocent until proven guilty.

***

A reminder that the SFU Palestinian Human Rights
Committee (PHRC) will be hosting its first Palestine
event ever this Wednesday (June 8).

TOPIC: "Perspectives on Palestine: A Panel Discussion"

SPEAKERS: A Canadian-Palestinian originally from Gaza
(Eyad Alnuweiri), a Jewish activist from the Lower
Mainland (Lawrence Boxall), and an SFU grad
student who has worked in the West Bank (Ahseea
Ahmed).

WHERE: MBC (Maggie Benston Center) 2294-2296 (SFU
Burnaby Campus)

WHEN: 4:30pm sharp Wednesday June 8th