[van-announce] FW: [Info-Bureau] ILPS in Vancouver Conference: LAWS, LABELS AND LIBERATION (REVISITED)

Thu Feb 21 11:20:43 PST 2008

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Grassroots Women

1115B E. Hastings (entrance on Glen)

Vancouver, BC V6A 1S3

web: www3.telus.net/grassrootswomen

email: HYPERLINK "mailto:grassrootswomen at telus.net"grassrootswomen at telus.net

phone: 604-682-4451 (fax same #, please call first)

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Subject: [Info-Bureau] ILPS in Vancouver Conference: LAWS,LABELS AND
LIBERATION (REVISITED)

Participating organizations of the International League of Peoples' Struggle
(ILPS) in Vancouver present:

LAWS, LABELS AND LIBERATION (REVISITED)

A conference to expose and oppose the labeling of movements for national and
social liberation as terrorist organizations.

Sunday, March 16, 2008

9:30 AM – 5 PM

Vancouver Public Library (350 W. Georgia)

Alma VanDusen Room

Conference Background:

In the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and
the Pentagon, the Canadian government enacted legislation creating a list of
designated terrorist organizations and criminal code amendments making it a
criminal offense to support listed organizations. Similar legislation was
passed in the European Union, Australia and at the United Nations Security
Council all closely mirroring U.S. law.

The terrorist lists are part of an all out offensive against political
leaders and movements resisting neoliberal globalization, re-colonization
and imperialism, using the cover of the general state of concern over the
September 11, 2001 attacks. 

Internationally the case of Philippine revolutionary leader Professor Jose
Maria Sison stands as an outstanding example of how these lists are being
used to persecute immigrants, refugees and progressives who continue to
support the people's right to struggle for national and social liberation.  

In the context of mounting attacks on the movements for national and social
liberation, and as we approach the 5th Anniversary of the U.S. led invasion
and occupation of Iraq, there is an urgent need to reaffirm the right of
peoples to struggle for national and social liberation and to challenge the
laws and labels that seek to suppress these struggles. 

The International League of Peoples' Struggle has taken up this challenge
with the 2004 Laws, Labels and Liberation: the Case of Prof. Jose Maria
Sison conference and the 2006 Towards a Just and Lasting Peace conference.
Laws, Labels and Liberation (Revisited) continues this tradition of bringing
together people, organizations, communities and movements in support of
people's just struggles for national and social liberation in Canada and
around the world.

Conference Program:

The morning portion of this full day conference will focus on the case of
Professor Jose Maria Sison, the current Chairperson of the International
League of Peoples' Struggle, who has been placed on the Canadian, EU and
U.S. terrorist lists for his role as a leading voice of the Philippine
revolutionary movement.  We will hear about the case of Professor Sison and
draw lessons from the international campaign to defend him.

The afternoon portion of the conference focuses on the impact of the
terrorist labelling on struggles for national and social liberation from
Canada to Colombia and the Philippines to Palestine.  We will explore the
possibilities for uniting around and developing a campaign to expose and
oppose the terrorist list and other strategies of the Canadian state to
undermine support and solidarity for people's struggles for national and
social liberation

Confirmed Conference Presenters:

Professor Jose Maria Sison – ILPS Chairperson and Chief Political Consultant
to the National Democratic Front of the Philippines.

Professor Hari Sharma – Teacher, writer and board member of South Asian
Network for Secularism and Democracy.

Ning Alcuitas – Lawyer and Canadian representative to the International
Coordinating Committee of the ILPS.

Billie Pierre – Indigenous organizer and activist with the John Graham
Defence.

Roberto Carrasco – Community activist with solidarity ties to Cuba and Latin
America.

Khaled Barakat – Palestinian writer and organizer, active with the Free
Ahmad Sa'adat Campaign.

Jon Nieto – Vice-Chairperson of the BC Committee for Human Rights in the
Philippines. 

How to Register: 

Pre-registration is encouraged but not compulsory.  Suggested donation for
registration is $10, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.  To
register contact HYPERLINK "mailto:ilps_canada at shawcable.com"
\nilps_canada at shawcable.com

Organized by: Participating organizations of the ILPS in Vancouver (BC
Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines, Bus Riders Union, Filipino
Nurses Support Group, SIKLAB, Filipino Canadian Youth Alliance/ Ugnayan ng
Kabataang Pilipino sa Canada, Grassroots Women, Alliance for People's
Health, Group of Relatives and Friends of Political Prisoners in Mexico,
South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy), La Surda Latin American
Collective, Free Ahmad Sa'adat Committee. 

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