Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories

Uprisings: Panel with out of town and local speakers on growing resistance

6:30pm
Monday April 18 2011

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Monday April 18 at 6:30 pm at GCBC (Grandview Calvary Baptist Church)
1803 East 1st Ave (just east of Commercial Drive)
Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories
By donation $0-10 sliding scale
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Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=137436339660562
Free parking at the corner of 1st and Victoria
Regrettably, this venue is not accessible as the lift up the stairs recently broke.

* Mostafah Henaway is a Scarborough-born Egyptian based in Montreal where he is a community organizer with the Immigrant Workers Centre and active with the Tadamon! Collective which works in solidarity with struggles for self-determination, equality and justice in the Middle East especially Palestine, Lebanon, and Egypt.

* Warner Naziel and Mel Bazil are part of the grassroots Lhe Lin Liyin Wet'suwet'en resistance against the Enbridge Pipeline and Tar Sands gigaproject, including but not limited to strip mining, pipelines, refineries, tankers and carbon markets. They organize and promote solidarity against all forms of colonization, environmental racism, violence against women, and social breakdown of communities.

* Amal Rana is a member of the South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy and Pakistan Action Network. She was born in Saudi Arabia where her parents moved as migrant workers from Pakistan. She will be speaking about the recent uprisings in Pakistan, from workers' rights to movements demanding an end to the war and occupation of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

* Ivan Drury is an elected member of the Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood Council board of directors and a researcher-organizer with the Carnegie Community Action Project. His community organizing is local in practice but is part of an international struggle against gentrification and all other economic, political, cultural, and violent processes that displace and oppress people where they live.

* Dawn Paley is a journalist and researcher who organizes with the Vancouver Media Co-op and has reported from throughout Latin America, most recently from northeast Mexico.

For more information email hwalia8@gmail.com or call 778 885 0040. Endorsed by: Streams of Justice, No One Is Illegal-Vancouver, South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy, Boycott Israeli Apartheid Campaign, Pakistan Action Network

accessibility info: Grandview Calvary Baptist Church's kitchen's entrance is at street level, which gives accessibility to washrooms, kitchen and lower hall.There are12 stairs up to the sanctuary (through the building), where the event will likely be held, and 11 external stairs to the sanctuary entrance. Unfortunately, there is no elevator and the internal stair lift, for access to the sanctuary, is not working at present. The women's washroom has a stall that can accommodate a wheelchair.
The washroom door opening is 86 cm, and the stall door is 61 cm