[van-announce] Sun. July 22: Vancouver Reportback from the Solidarity Delegation to Gaza

[Charlotte Kates]

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*Resistance, Refugees, Rights and Return: <goog_1149385055>*
*REPORTBACK FROM THE VANCOUVER DELEGATION TO
GAZA<http://www.vancouver2gaza.org/2012/07/16/july-22-vancouver-reportback-from-the-delegation-to-gaza/>
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*Sunday, July 22*
*7:00 PM*
*Room 1700, Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre, 515 W. Hastings St,
Vancouver*

http://vancouver2gaza.org/ + vancouver2gaza at gmail.com

Resistance, Refugees, Rights and Return, the Vancouver Delegation to Gaza,
composed of 9 Vancouver-based activists, traveled to Gaza in June 2012. As
part of our delegation, we met with health work, refugee rights, BDS,
women's, students, labour and youth organizations with a goal of building
links between progressive movements here and the Palestinian revolutionary
left. Read delegates reports' at Vancouver2Gaza <http://vancouver2gaza.org/>
and This Tiny Globe <http://thistinyglobe.wordpress.com>.

The delegation worked to foster people-to-people solidarity between the
participants, activists organizing for justice in Palestine and engaged in
decolonization, international solidarity, and other relevant organizing to
witness the impact of occupation and colonization, and the Palestinian
liberation movement, making personal connections and building links with
organizations on the left in Palestine. Delegates observed the ongoing
resistance of the Palestinian people, assessed concrete solidarity needs on
the ground, and the Palestinian people's commitment to liberate their land
and achieve the rights they have been denied for over 64 years.

Delegates speaking at the event include: *Khaled Barakat (delegation
coordinator), Brian Campbell, Kathy Copps, Charlotte Kates, Aiyanas Ormond,
Martha Roberts and Jase Tanner*. The delegates work with numerous
organizations including the Boycott Israeli Apartheid Campaign, Alliance
for People's Health, Seriously Free Speech Committee, Samidoun Palestinian
Prisoner Solidarity Network, International League of People's Struggles,
among others. For more biographical information about delegates, please
visit vancouver2gaza.org.

Come hear the delegates' experiences, and the voices of those with whom
they met and built ties, and discuss how we can build upon and develop
organizing strategies to challenge Canadian complicity in the
dispossession, oppression and occupation of Palestinian people and land.

For more information on the delegation, its participants, or to invite a
member to report back, please see: http://vancouver2gaza.org/ +
vancouver2gaza at gmail.com



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Charlotte L. Kates     charlotte.kates at gmail.com