Speakers:

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

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.

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@gmail.com