[van-announce] [Fwd: Reminder... Three upcoming events this week] (vancouver)

[harsha at resist.ca]

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Subject: [Noii-announce] Reminder... Three upcoming events this week From:
   "No One is Illegal-Vancouver" <noii-van at resist.ca>
Date:    Mon, November 14, 2005 1:40 pm
To:      noii-l at lists.resist.ca
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1) ZULA presents at RIME: No One Is Illegal! Benefit with Boxcar 5
2) Community Refugee Rights Forum: Tues Nov 15
3) Trade Agreements, Border Politics and Racist Vigilantes: Sun Nov 20



ZULA presents at RIME
No one is Illegal! Benefit with Boxcar 5
1130 Commercial Drive
Monday, November 14 at 9 pm (Restaurant opens at 5 pm)
Suggested 5-10$
contact: hey at zula.ca

BOXCAR 5 utilizes an intuitive, spontaneous approach to song writing. The
diverse musical backgrounds of the band members results in an eclectic
blend of folk, rock 'n' roll, blues, jazz, punk and classical.

RIME is a recently-opened, one-of-a-kind performance space & authentic
Turkish eatery. ZULA Productions presents creative music of all kinds.

All proceeds go to No One is Illegal!  ALSO AVAILABLE WILL BE: 2006
Certain Days Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar and award-winning
Leftturn Magazine with proceeds to support the work of No One is Illegal.


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COMMUNITY FORUM ON REFUGEE RIGHTS
FORO COMUNITARIO SOBRE LOS DERECHOS DE REFUGIOS
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Are you Facing an Upcoming Deportation?
Free public forum with legal advice from refugee advocates and activists
challenging repressive refugee laws. Translation available. Coffee and
refreshments.

Tiene Ud una orden de deportaction?
Tenemos un foro gratis con consejeria legal y la participacion de
defensores de los derechos de refugios. Traduccion disponible. Cafe y
refrigerios.

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Tuesday, November 15 @ 6PM
Collingwood Community Centre
5288 Joyce Street (Joyce Skytrain Station)
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With speakers:
* Shane Molyneaux (Immigration Lawyer)
* Harsha Walia (No One Is Illegal Vancouver)
* Imtiaz Popat (Salaam Vancouver, Rainbow Refugee Committee)
* Claudio Ekdahl (La Surda Latin American Collective)
* Fahimeh Sadeghi (Iranian Federation of Refugees)

There will also be resource people available to answer questions:
* Shirley Alvarez: Bridge Health Clinic
* MOSAIC: Refugee services
* Harjap Grewal: Downtown Eastside Residents Associaton (Social Assistance
and Housing)

Organized by: No One Is Illegal, La Surda Latin American Collective,
Iranian Federation of Refugees, Salaam Vancouver, Rainbow Refugee
Committee

Info: noii-van at resist.ca / 604-450-1680


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Time is Up for the Minutemen!
TRADE AGREEMENTS, BORDER POLITICS AND RACIST VIGILANTES
Sunday, November 20th, 2005 from 2 – 5 PM
SFU Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings

Join us in a discussion about groups like the Minutemen and the threat
they pose to our communities, the ways in which the "the war on terror"
legitimizes the actions of such groups, and the global neo-liberal
realities of migration.

* Rosalinda Guillen: migrated to Washington state where she picked crops
from the age of 10. Her tireless work resulted in the first-ever
collective bargaining agreement for farm workers in Washington and she
became NW Regional Director and National VP for United Farm Workers.

* Michael Vendiola: from the Swinomish Nation, and currently Ethnic
Student Center's coordinator at Western Washington University.

* Chinmoy Banerjee: former professor in the Department of English at SFU
and founding member of the BC Organization to Fight Racism in the 1980s
mobilizing against KKK violence.

* Lawrence J. Estrada: Associate Professor of Social Theory and
Comparative/Ethnic Studies at Fairhaven College and Director of American
Cultural Studies at Western Washington University.

* Mandeep Dhillon: organizer with No One Is Illegal Vancouver.


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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, while building
alliances and supporting indigenous sisters and brothers also fighting
theft of land and displacement.