[van-announce] Updated! Feb 28- Why I Oppose 2010: Land, Displacement, Repression

[Harsha]

>>> Why I Oppose 2010: Land, Displacement, Repression <<<

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SAT FEB 28TH from 4:30 - 7 pm
706 Clarke Drive (between Hastings and Venables)
Right on #22 or any Hastings busline
* Dinner served at 4:30 and childcare on site
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We know you already know that mega-corporate industries like the 2010
Games and Tar Sands suck. But how does it affect displacement of peoples
from their land, their homes, their jobs, their communities. From
traditional Indigenous territories to urban ghettos, from migrant workers
to low-income families, thousands are being evicted or pushed out, and
once displaced many become cannon-fodder as precarious labour.

As intense policing and security measures (like 1000+ military personal in
Vancouver earlier this month for training exercises!) disproportionately
target the dispossessed, the ones with the wrong skin colour, the
undesirables, we rise in struggle against injustice. against the ongoing
occupation of this land. against the racist police state. against the
exploitation of displaced migrant workers. against gentrification and
so-called revitalization. For our dignity as the poor, the displaced, the
colonized.

Join us - our struggle is your struggle. Plus this event will be awesome,
informative, you'll meet other cool people and we will give you food :)

There will be rad speakers including:

*** JADA VOYAGEUR ***  youth member from Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation
(Alberta) who will be speaking about front-line struggles of and impacts
on Indigenous communities as a result of the Tar Sands “the most
destructive industrial project on earth”. Jada is also a member of the
newly formed Turtle Island Defenders of the Land network.

* Lynn Highway: Anishnabe Nation and has been active in anti-Olympics
resistance for several years. She also works in the DTES as an outreach
and support worker.

* Carol Martin: Nisga'a/Gitanyow and member of Downtown Eastside Elders
Council, Sweetgrass All Nations Healing Centre, and Native 2010
Resistance. Carol is a long-time advocate and grassroots voice for
Indigenous peoples and for women in the DTES.

* Erika Del Carmen Fuchs: Latin American organizer with Justicia for
Migrant Workers BC, MST (Brazilian Landless Rural Workers Movement),
People’s Front in Defense of the Land-Atenco, the Zapatistas/The Other
Campaign, as well as other  local movements with migrants and Indigenous
people.

* Harsha Walia: South Asian organizer and writer and member of No One Is
Illegal-Vancouver. She is also active in anti-2010 organizing as well as
other anti-racist, anti-colonial, and anti-capitalist struggles and works
in the DTES.

Organized by No One Is Illegal-Vancouver with the support of Native 2010
Resistance, Indigenous Free Skool, Tar Sands Free BC, Justicia for Migrant
Workers- BC, DTES Elders Council, Olympics Resistance Network, Alliance
for People’s Health.

For more info email noii-van at resist.ca or call 778 885 0040
Visit www.nooneisillegal.org