[van-announce] Fwd: It's Right to Rebel! Check out the blog and join us for the event April 15

[Charlotte Kates]

***Please Forward***

Check out the new blog for the It's Right to Rebel! campaign:

http://ilpsrighttorebel.wordpress.com/

And join us for the Event on April 15th at 2pm.  (Announcement below, new
speaker added)

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*It's Right to Rebel:
resisting criminalization of people's struggles at home and abroad*

SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 2PM
@ 601 KEEFER ST
(STRATHCONA COMMUNITY CENTRE)
Onsite childcare and light refreshments provided

*Speakers:*

Opening by former political prisoner *Angie Ipong*, who spent 6 years in
prison for her work in solidarity with peasants and Indigenous people
in the Philippines.

*Dr. Merry Mia Clamor* is Director of Health Education and Training for the
Council for Health and Development, which supports Community Based Health
Programs throughout the Philippines, and is one of the Morong 43,
progressive health workers imprisoned for 10 months in 2010 on trumped up
charges.

*Gord Hill* is an Indigenous activist, organizer and artist based in
occupied Coast Salish Territory, and author of the 500 Years of Resistance
comic book.

*Charlotte Kates* is an activist with SAMIDOUN - Palestinian Prisoner
Solidarity Network, the Boycott Israeli Apartheid Campaign, and a
member of the National Lawyers Guild International Committee.

*Jose Figueroa* is a refugee and father of 3 who has been threatened with
deportation and deemed a "national security threat" for his involvement
with the FMLN in El Salvador over 20 years ago.
*Steve Da Silva *is a contributor to BASICS community newspaper (Toronto),
and Vice-Chairperson of the International League of
People's Struggles - Canada.

Our Challenge:

Repression of people’s struggles has always been part of Canadian State
policy, though the ideological cover has changed over time.  In
the 19th Century overt racism and white supremacy were mobilized to justify
genocidal state violence and terrorism against Indigenous
people, for example against the 1885 Northwest Rebellion and the state
sanctioned lynching of it’s leaders.  In the 20th Century while the
racist colonial policies persisted, anti-communism became the cover for
Canadian interventions – for example against the nascent Soviet
Union and in Korea – and suppression of struggles of workers and oppressed
people at home.  Since the attacks of September 11, 2001 the
"war on terror", labeling of people's struggles as 'terrorism', has become
a main propaganda tool of the Canadian State - used to justify
occupation of Afghanistan; support for Israeli occupation and aggression;
and surveillance, harassment and criminalization of Indigenous people's
movements, immigrant communities and activists inside Canadian borders.

Our challenge is to figure out how we can expose and oppose the particular
ideological framework currently mobilized by the imperialist states – the
‘war on terror’ – while building our own positive position that not only do
people have a right to rebel against imperialism but that in the context of
the systemic structural violence of the system it is right to rebel!

Organized by: Alliance for People`s Health, Canada PhilippinesSolidarity
for Human Rights, SAMIDOUN - Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, and
the International League of People`s Struggles - Canada.

Fore more information, email: allianceforpeopleshealth at gmail.com



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Charlotte L. Kates     charlotte.kates at gmail.com