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

[Charlotte Kates]

*Resistance, Refugees, Rights and Return:*
*REPORTBACK FROM THE VANCOUVER 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
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/> (being updated) and This Tiny
Globe <http://thistinyglobe.wordpress.com>.

We will be holding a community reportback in Vancouver on July 22, and in
the meantime, will be producing blogs, videos, and a written report
documenting our experience.

The delegation will 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.

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