Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories

Community March Against Racism

Show our communities’ collective strength and courage in challenging racism and the many ways in which it manifests in our daily lives.

2:00pm
Sunday March 18 2012

Sunday, March 18th, 2012 at 2pm.
Starting at Clark Park (Commercial & 14th)
Ending at Grandview Park (Commercial & Charles)
Vancouver, Unceded Coast Salish Territories

Family-friendly festivities! Bring your neighbours, banners and drums!

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/386441891373362/
Download Poster colour or black & white. Flyer colour or black & white

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. Collectively, we join friends and allies around the world to mark this day. By speaking the truth about racism in Canada, we aim to wake up others to the need for a new anti-racist consciousness.

We know of the historic injustices this country was founded on, including the forced confinement of Indigenous children in residential schools and Japanese children in internment camps.

Today, institutional racism continues:
* Bailing out banks although communities of colour are disproportionately living in poverty
* Mass criminalization and incarceration under the new omnibus crime bill, human smuggling bill, and proposed anti-terror legislation
* Kenney’s restrictions on immigration and moratorium on family sponsorships while expanding exploitative temporary worker programs
* Crises of missing and murdered Indigenous women and colonial legacies in communities like Attawapiskat across these lands
* Corporate development on Indigenous lands from pipelines in Alberta and BC to Canadian mining operations across Africa and Latin America
* Involvement in military occupations from Afghanistan to Palestine

In our daily lives, racist stereotyping, profiling, silencing, marginalization, scapegoating and dehumanization permeates the media, education system, policing institutions, workplaces, and our relationships. And in the past few months we have been outraged at the white supremacist hate crimes of groups such as Blood and Honor in our very own neighbourhoods, and the general silence surrounding this horrific level of violence.

We encourage our friends and allies to be pro-active in countering racism, to strengthen our communities of solidarity and resistance, and to join us on March 18th to celebrate the dignity, strength, and resilience of our communities.

For more information email noii-van@resist.ca or call 778 885 0040
http://www.nooneisillegal.org