[van-announce] Save the date: George Galloway speaks Nov. 22

[Derrick O'Keefe]

*Please circulate widely* 

George Galloway speaks:

Free Palestine, Free Afghanistan, Free Speech

Monday, November 22
7:30p.m. (Doors at 6.30.m.) 
St Andrews Wesley United Church
(Corner of Burrard & Nelson Street, Vancouver)

Tickets: $15 / unwaged or low-income $10. Available soon at People's Coop Bookstore (1391 Commercial Dr.)

Come
 and hear the person Jason Kenney and his office tried and failed to 
prevent from speaking in Canada. George Galloway's Vancouver appearance 
is part of a 10-day, 10-city pan-Canadian speaking tour.

Organized
locally by StopWar.ca Coalition. Co-sponsored by the Seriously Free Speech 
Committee and UBC-Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights. For more information contact stopwar at resist.ca or call 604.737.1299.

Information


Eighteen months ago, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Jason 
Kenney blocked then-British MP George Galloway from Canada, labeling him
 a terror supporter and a national security risk. At the time, Galloway 
was scheduled to appear in four Canadian cities on a speaking tour 
called "Resisting War: from Gaza to Afghanistan."


Galloway and his supporters protested, saying the move was a crass 
political attempt to silence criticism of Canadian foreign policy on 
Afghanistan and Palestine. Weeks before the ban, Galloway had led a 
humanitarian aid convoy to Gaza as part of an international campaign to 
break Israel's illegal blockade. 

Galloway and his 
supporters were vindicated Federal Court Justice Richard Mosley issued 
his 
60-page decision on the matter. (Read more here: 
http://www.rabble.ca/news/2010/09/what-galloway-court-decision-means-free-speech-canada).