[van-announce] March 13-21: A Week of Resistance to War and Racism

[Derrick O'Keefe]

Please forward widelyA week of resistance to war and racism! 

1)    March 15 Rally and march reminder
2)    March 19 Picket of U.S. Consulate
3)    March 21 Anti-Racism march
4)    Forum against war and racism: March 13, 15 and 16

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1) Reminder: The March 15 World Against War day of action is less than one week away: 

Rally and March
This Saturday, March 15
12 Noon, Vancouver Art Gallery (Georgia side, at Hornby)

Music by Vancouver's legendary D.O.A.!

Organized by StopWar Coalition. 

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2) Picket the U.S. Consulate March 19

Also, on Wednesday, March 19, there will be a picket to mark the 5th anniversary of the war:

Picket
Wednesday, March
 19
11am to 1pm, U.S. Consulate (1075 W. Pender, at
Thurlow)

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3) March 21: MARCH AGAINST RACISM!

Join
us on March 21, International Day for the Elimination of Racism, to
show our communities collective strength in challenging ongoing racism.
Canadian multiculturalism is not enough!

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COMMUNITY MARCH
Friday March 21 at 1 pm
(Good Friday Holiday)
Meet at Clark Park on Commercial Drive and 14th
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==> Bring your children and family.
==> There will be food, water and snacks during the march.
==> Rest vehicles will accompany the march.
==> All welcome!

Events
organized and supported by a community network including No One Is
Illegal, Indigenous Action Movement, Komagata Maru Heritage Foundation,
Canadian Arab Federation, John Graham Support, Siraat Collective,
Association of Chinese Canadians for Equality and Solidarity Society,
DTES Elders Council, SIKLAB - Overseas Filipino Workers Organization,
Anniversaries of Change, International Indigenous Youth Conference
Secretariat, Canadian Muslim Union, Asian Society for the Intervention
of AIDS, Justicia for Migrant Workers, Al-Awda Vancouver, Salaam
Vancouver, Iranian Federation of Refugees, Cafe Rebelde Coalition,
VIRSA, Latin American Connexions, Hogans Alley Memorial Project,
Filipino
Nurses
Support Group, La Surda Latin American Collective, Indigenous Free
School, Communities for Laibar Singh, Canadian Network for Democratic
Nepal, Canada Palestine Association, Group of Relatives and Friends of
Political Prisoners in Mexico, South Asian Network for Secularism and
Democracy, Consejo Indigena Popular de Oaxaca Ricardo Flores Magon
(CIPO-Vancouver), Chetna Dalit Association, Philippine Women Centre of
BC, Coalition of South Asian Women Against Violence, Vancouver Status
of Women, The North Shore Women's Centre, Battered Women Support
Services,
Friends of Women
in the Middle East Society, Women Against Violence Against Women,
Grassroots Women, Canadian Union of Postal Workers, Hospital Employees
Union, Industrial Workers of the World, SFU Teaching Support Staff
Union, Vancouver District Labour Council, Canadian Union of Public
Employees - Local 1004, Gallery Gachet, Rhizome Cafe, New World
Theatre, Colouring Book Project, UBC Realities of Race, SFU Public
Interest Research Group, BC Committee for Human Rights in the
Philippines, StopWar.ca, Anti Poverty Committee, Politics Re-Spun,
Building Bridges to
Chiapas, Alliance of People's Health,
International Solidarity Movement Vancouver, SFU Interfaith Summer
Institute Community Consultative Committee, Vancouver District Labour
Council Young Workers Committee, Filipino-Canadian Youth Alliance, UBC
Students for a Democratic Society]]]

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4) Forums against war and racism – March 13, 15 and 16
 

March 13, Film and discussion on Laibar Singh and Migrant Justice

REFLECTING ON OUR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS – Understanding the Struggle of Laibar Singh and Migrant Justice

THURSDAY MARCH 13
6:30PM
VIVO MEDIA ARTS CENTRE
1965 Main Street, corner 4th Avenue
(formerly Video-Inn)

*6:30
pm: Film footage from the 2002 mass break-out from an Australian
detention centre, the 2003 occupation of the Immigration Minister’s
offices by non-status Algerians, and the December 2007 mass blockade at
Vancouver International Airport to stop the deportation of Laibar Singh.
*7:30
pm: The films will be followed by an open discussion for grassroots
activists and community organizers about the significance of migrant
justice resistance within our social movements. We hope to engage in a
dialogue about community organizing, direct actions, migrant justice
& communities of colour-based resistance and the relationship of
such movements within the broader struggle for social and economic
justice.

Sponsored by VIVO Media Arts.
Organized by Communities for Laibar Singh-Vancouver.
For more Information contact 604 779 7430.

Extensive background: http://supportlaibar.blogspot.com.

Communities
for Laibar Singh- Vancouver was formed in January 2008 to support the
campaign for Laibar Singh to permanently stay in Canada, to counter the
misinformation being circulated by various media outlets, and to
organize against the backlash against the South Asian community. We
came together primarily as people outside of the Punjabi and Sikh
communities, inspired by the strength and solidarity that has been
shown by those communities.

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March 15, Lecture by Maureen Webb on Rights Disintegration in the War on Terror

Lawyers Right Watch Canada, in collaboration with UBC Continuing Studies, are
 offering the third lecture in their free four-lecture series on International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.

Maureen
Webb, human rights lawyer and author of Illusions of Security: Global
Surveillance and Democracy in the Post 9-11 World (2007) will speak on;

‘Security Integration and Rights Disintegration in the War on Terror’

Saturday March 15th                                                                                  

Time:   7 - 9pm (doors open at
 6:00pm)                                                                     
Venue: Robson Square Theatre, 800 Robson St., Vancouver.

She
will examine how measures such as Project AO Canada (which left Maher
Arar and other Canadians exposed to torture), the Anti-Terrorism Act,
the Smart Border Agreement, the Security and Prosperity Partnership,
the Safe Third Country Agreement, the security certificates system,
global surveillance initiatives and the military mission in Afghanistan
have resulted in Canada violating international legal obligations to
refugees, immigrants, criminal suspects, prisoners of war and Canadian
citizens.

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March 16, Forum on building anti-war movements past and present

Vancouver Socialist Forum Presents:

Building Movements Against War
Past and Present Anti-war Activists Speak

A Free Public Forum, commemorating the 5th anniversary of the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq

Sunday March 16th 2008, at 3 pm
SFU Harbour Centre
515 West Hastings Street
(Hastings and Granville, downtown Vancouver)

With
StopWar co-chair Mable Elmore and Barry Sheppard, who was active in the
antiwar movement in the US during the 60s and 70s. Barry continues his
work as an author and activist based in San Francisco, and is a regular
contributor to Green Left Weekly. 

Organized by Vancouver Socialist Forum

For more information call: 604-779-7430
Email: vancouver_socialist_forum at yahoo.com




 

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