[van-announce] Updated: March 20: Community March Against Racism

[Harsha W.]

- please forward widely -

COMMUNITY MARCH AGAINST RACISM
Sunday, March 20th, 2011 at 2pm.
Waterfront Skytrain Station, Downtown Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories

WITH SPEAKERS AND PERFORMERS:

* Cease Wyss * Kalayaan Centre * Sid Tan * Riel Manywounds * Usman Majeed
* Hamoudi Gharib * Khaira workers campaign * Adriana Paz


* Watch our new 30-sec promotional VIDEOS by Isaac Oommen and Alejandro
Zuluaga.

Video 1: Self-determination and end all racist wars and occupations!  
Video 2: Freedom from police brutality, poverty, imprisonments, and
deportations!
Video 3: Defend Indigenous lands and communities!


All available at this link: http://noii-van.resist.ca/?p=3344


On March 20th, join us in a march to mark the International Day for the
Elimination of Racism and show our communities’ collective strength in
challenging racism.

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=199130026767653
Download pdf of flyers and posters: http://noii-van.resist.ca/?p=3171


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March 21, the International Day for the Elimination of Racism, marks the
anniversary of the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre in South Africa when police
opened fire on hundreds of South Africans protesting against Apartheid’s
passbook laws, killing 67 and wounding 186.

For centuries, communities have led countless courageous struggles against
racism and the many ways in which it manifests itself in our daily lives.
Although many would like to believe that racism no longer exists, we are
reclaiming the tradition of anti-racist marches to reveal the reality of
racism.

>From historic injustices - such as Japanese internment camps, residential
schools, and the Chinese Exclusion Act - to the current mass imprisonment
and impoverishment of Indigenous communities, racialized peoples, and
refugees under the guise of the War on Terror; Canadian corporate
development on Indigenous lands from the tarsands in Alberta to mining
operations in Guatemala; the expansion of exploitative migrant worker
programs; the tragedy of missing and murdered Indigenous women, and
military occupations from Afghanistan to Haiti - racism is an ugly truth
about Canada.

Join us on March 20th to confront racism while celebrating the dignity,
strength, and resilience of our communities.

- End individual and institutional racism, racial violence, and racial
profiling!
- Stop the theft of Indigenous lands and defend Indigenous communities!
- Self determination and end all racist wars and occupations!
- Freedom from police violence, imprisonments, and deportations!
- Living wages, healthcare, education, and housing for all!

To endorse the march or for more information email noii-van at resist.ca or
call 604.715.6990.

www.nooneisillegal.org