[van-announce] Speaking Out in the Jaws of Poverty (Sat.2pm)

[Anti-Poverty Committee]

*please forward*

Speaking Out in the Jaws of Poverty
Saturday Feb. 10th @ 2pm
327 Carrall St. (off Hastings)

Indigenous women are most at risk of homelessness in British Colombia.

Join a panel discussion that analysis colonization, patriarchy and
capitalism as the driving forces behind poverty and homelessness. Come
together and organize and strengthen our collective movement for
sovereignty, equality and economic human rights!

Speakers will include representatives from Elders Council-Downtown
Eastside Women’s Center, United Native Nations, Vancouver Status of Women,
Indigenous Action Movement, Anti-Poverty Committee-Women’s group and Gord
Hill

Childcare and bus fare will be provided upon request.

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Protest Against Olympic ‘Countdown Clock’
Monday Feb.12th @ 12 Noon
Vancouver Art Gallery

On Monday February 12th, VANOC (Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee)
will begin a 3-year ‘countdown clock’ to the 2010 winter Olympics. Let’s
stand together and show the world there is NO TIME for the Olympics!

Speakers and drummers from Secwepemc, St’at’imc and Lil’wat, Native Youth
Movement, Anti-Poverty Committee, No One Is Illegal, DERA, Wild Earth,
SF-PIRG and others.

Join us in standing together to protest against homelessness, ecological
destruction, corporate invasion of native lands, huge profits for
corporations, massive public debt, increased police repression and all
other crimes brought about by the games.

Organized by the Anti-Olympic Coalition
antiolympics at hotmail.com




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The Anti-Poverty Committee is an organization of poor and working people,
who fight for poor people, their rights and an end to poverty by any means
necessary.  For more information on the Anti-Poverty Committee's on-going
campaigns, visit http://apc.resist.ca/home.  Contact us by e-mailing
apc at resist.ca or phoning 604-682-3276.

If you are able to donate financially to our legal defense or other
campaigns, deposits can be made directly into our account at any branch of
Vancity (account is listed under 'Anti-Poverty Committee).  Cheques or
money orders made out to the APC can be mailed to P.O. Box 1, 12 East
Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6A 1N1.

                           UNITED WE WILL WIN!