[van-announce] (May 9) Global Apartheid: Fortress North America and the New World Border

[Harsha]

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          fortress north america and the new world border

                        [ film and panel ]

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Tuesday May 9th, 2006 -- 6:30 pm
at SFU Harbour Centre (515 W. Hastings St.)
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* FILM  -- "New World Border" (28 min) by Jose Palafox and Casey Peek.
"New World Border" documents the rise of human rights abuses along the
US-Mexico border since the implementation of border walls (such as
Operation Gatekeeper) that have been erected in populated areas throughout
the border region during the last decade. This documentary includes
interviews with immigrant rights organizers, testimony from immigrants,
analysis of 'free trade' policies, and discusses current efforts to build
a vibrant movement for immigrant rights."


* PANEL  -- Global Apartheid and the New World Border

JOAQUIN MURIETA [ SEATTLE ] is an organizer for the Latino Liberation
Movement in Seattle. He is a Xikano born to immigrant parents and like
many others, knows and feels the effect of US immigration policy on his
family and his community. The Latino Liberation Movement has recently
organized four student walkouts with seven high schools and two middle
schools as part of the increasing resistance opposing exclusionary and
racist US immigration policies which most recently brought over 2 million
people to the streets in coordinated demonstrations in over 100 US cities
on April 10.

JAGGI SINGH  [ MONTREAL ] -- a writer, independent journalist and activist
based in Montreal. He is an organizer with No One Is Illegal - Montreal,
Solidarity Across Borders and the International Solidarity Movement. He
has been active in organizing against capitalist globalization, as well as
current movements against war and racism, and for self-determination and
genuine solidarity.

SUNERA THOBANI [ VANCOUVER ]-- UBC Professor of Women's Studies. She is
past president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women
(NAC) and a founding member of the cross-Canada Researchers and Academics
of Colour for Equity (RACE) network. Her research focuses on
globalization, citizenship, migration and race and gender relations.

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         email: noii-van at resist.ca    phone: 778 552 2099
  No One Is Illegal - Vancouver    [ http://noii-van.resist.ca ]
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