FW: Updates and Video for Community March Against Racism
> Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 03:21:34 -0700
> To:
> From: eternity@islandnet.com
> Subject: Updates and Video for Community March Against Racism
>
> From: "Harsha W." <harsha@resist.ca>
>
> Dear friends and allies, A final reminder about the March Against Racism
> this Sunday March 18th at 2 pm, starting at Commercial and 14th. This is
> an annual march organized by No One Is Illegal, with a greater urgency
> this year to counter white supremacist groups such as Blood and Honour who
> have committed violent hate crimes in our neighbourhoods. There will be
> several contingents at the march: workers of colour, Indigenous elders,
> Downtown Eastside residents, Palestine activists, Latina/o refugees -
> come down with your group and community too! There will be food, kids
> activities, vehicles for people who don't want to walk the whole march,
> and powerful speakers and performers. Join us on March 18th to celebrate
> the dignity, strength, and resilience of our communities. Look forward to
> seeing you there, Harsha
>
>
> - Please forward widely -
>
>
> COMMUNITY MARCH AGAINST RACISM:
> Celebrate our courage!
>
> Sunday, March 18th, 2012 at 2pm.
> Starting at Clark Park (Commercial and 14th)
> Ending at Grandview Park (Commercial and Charles)
> Vancouver, Unceded Coast Salish Territories
>
> Family-friendly festivities! Bring your neighbours, banners and drums!
> Facebook RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/386441891373362/
> Multilingual posters and flyers here: http://noii-van.resist.ca/?p=4674
>
>
> * Marches in other cities and communities this year include Ottawa,
> Edmonton, Calgary, and unceded Traditional Splatsin Secwepemc Territory
>
> * NEW video from outside the Blood and Honour court case:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYa9cKAvgR4
>
> * Speakers and performers: * Aboriginal Front Door * Banyen Roots * BC
> High School Students Walk Out Organizing Committee * Dana Olwan * DTES
> Chinese Seniors Choir * Fran Smith * Kalayaan Centre * Kat Norris *
> Sojourners * Richard Marquez * Tria Donaldson * MC's Nassim Elbardouh and
> Harjap Grewal of No One Is Illegal Vancouver Coast Salish Territories
>
>
> * PRESS RELEASE FOR MARCH 18 COMMUNITY MARCH AGAINST RACISM *
>
> March 21 is marked every year as the International Day for the Elimination
> of Racial Discrimination to commemorate 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 at
> least 67 and wounding 186.
>
> According to Brian Peaslee, march organizer and member of No One Is
> Illegal, "Although we would like to believe that racism no longer exists;
> countless academic studies, statistics, and people's own lived experiences
> demonstrate that racism is alive and well."
>
> In Vancouver, Robertson de Chazal, Shawn Donald Finlay MacDonald, and
> Alastair Miller, three men with known links to the white supremacist
> neo-nazi group Blood and Honour, are being charged for a number of violent
> hate crimes. They include attacks on a Black man, a Latino man, and an
> Indigenous woman as well as dousing a Filipino man with gasoline and
> setting him on fire as he slept on a bench on Commercial Drive where the
> march is taking place. According to Statistics Canada, there has been a
> marked increase in reported hate crimes against communities of colour in
> the past few years.
>
> As march organizer and member of No One Is Illegal Nassim Elbardouh
> states, "Racism manifests itself in hate crimes, as well as institutional
> racism embedded in law and policy. The omnibus crime bill and omnibus
> refugee exclusion act will disproportionately incarcerate communities of
> colour. Minister of Deportation Jason Kenney continues to restrict
> immigration while exploiting migrant workers as cheap labour pools for big
> business, reminiscent of the days of the Chinese railroad workers and the
> Head Tax."
>
> "Indigenous lands and resources continue to be trespassed upon despite a
> clear rejection of environmentally-devastating corporate development such
> as the Enbridge Pipeline. The tragedy of missing and murdered women
> continues against the backdrop of a sham missing women's inquiry. At the
> global level, Canada continues its involvement in military occupations in
> countries such as Afghanistan. We are marching to make visible that these
> daily realities of colonial occupation, immigration controls, labour
> exploitation, corporate profiteering, discrimination, violence, poverty,
> and marginalization are marked and marred by racism," further states
> Elbardouh.
>
> -30-
>
>
>
> --
> Harsha Walia
>
> https://twitter.com/HarshaWalia
> https://www.facebook.com/nooneisillegal
> http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/author/dtes-power-women-group
>
> To:
> From: eternity@islandnet.com
> Subject: Updates and Video for Community March Against Racism
>
> From: "Harsha W." <harsha@resist.ca>
>
> Dear friends and allies, A final reminder about the March Against Racism
> this Sunday March 18th at 2 pm, starting at Commercial and 14th. This is
> an annual march organized by No One Is Illegal, with a greater urgency
> this year to counter white supremacist groups such as Blood and Honour who
> have committed violent hate crimes in our neighbourhoods. There will be
> several contingents at the march: workers of colour, Indigenous elders,
> Downtown Eastside residents, Palestine activists, Latina/o refugees -
> come down with your group and community too! There will be food, kids
> activities, vehicles for people who don't want to walk the whole march,
> and powerful speakers and performers. Join us on March 18th to celebrate
> the dignity, strength, and resilience of our communities. Look forward to
> seeing you there, Harsha
>
>
> - Please forward widely -
>
>
> COMMUNITY MARCH AGAINST RACISM:
> Celebrate our courage!
>
> Sunday, March 18th, 2012 at 2pm.
> Starting at Clark Park (Commercial and 14th)
> Ending at Grandview Park (Commercial and Charles)
> Vancouver, Unceded Coast Salish Territories
>
> Family-friendly festivities! Bring your neighbours, banners and drums!
> Facebook RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/386441891373362/
> Multilingual posters and flyers here: http://noii-van.resist.ca/?p=4674
>
>
> * Marches in other cities and communities this year include Ottawa,
> Edmonton, Calgary, and unceded Traditional Splatsin Secwepemc Territory
>
> * NEW video from outside the Blood and Honour court case:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYa9cKAvgR4
>
> * Speakers and performers: * Aboriginal Front Door * Banyen Roots * BC
> High School Students Walk Out Organizing Committee * Dana Olwan * DTES
> Chinese Seniors Choir * Fran Smith * Kalayaan Centre * Kat Norris *
> Sojourners * Richard Marquez * Tria Donaldson * MC's Nassim Elbardouh and
> Harjap Grewal of No One Is Illegal Vancouver Coast Salish Territories
>
>
> * PRESS RELEASE FOR MARCH 18 COMMUNITY MARCH AGAINST RACISM *
>
> March 21 is marked every year as the International Day for the Elimination
> of Racial Discrimination to commemorate 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 at
> least 67 and wounding 186.
>
> According to Brian Peaslee, march organizer and member of No One Is
> Illegal, "Although we would like to believe that racism no longer exists;
> countless academic studies, statistics, and people's own lived experiences
> demonstrate that racism is alive and well."
>
> In Vancouver, Robertson de Chazal, Shawn Donald Finlay MacDonald, and
> Alastair Miller, three men with known links to the white supremacist
> neo-nazi group Blood and Honour, are being charged for a number of violent
> hate crimes. They include attacks on a Black man, a Latino man, and an
> Indigenous woman as well as dousing a Filipino man with gasoline and
> setting him on fire as he slept on a bench on Commercial Drive where the
> march is taking place. According to Statistics Canada, there has been a
> marked increase in reported hate crimes against communities of colour in
> the past few years.
>
> As march organizer and member of No One Is Illegal Nassim Elbardouh
> states, "Racism manifests itself in hate crimes, as well as institutional
> racism embedded in law and policy. The omnibus crime bill and omnibus
> refugee exclusion act will disproportionately incarcerate communities of
> colour. Minister of Deportation Jason Kenney continues to restrict
> immigration while exploiting migrant workers as cheap labour pools for big
> business, reminiscent of the days of the Chinese railroad workers and the
> Head Tax."
>
> "Indigenous lands and resources continue to be trespassed upon despite a
> clear rejection of environmentally-devastating corporate development such
> as the Enbridge Pipeline. The tragedy of missing and murdered women
> continues against the backdrop of a sham missing women's inquiry. At the
> global level, Canada continues its involvement in military occupations in
> countries such as Afghanistan. We are marching to make visible that these
> daily realities of colonial occupation, immigration controls, labour
> exploitation, corporate profiteering, discrimination, violence, poverty,
> and marginalization are marked and marred by racism," further states
> Elbardouh.
>
> -30-
>
>
>
> --
> Harsha Walia
>
> https://twitter.com/HarshaWalia
> https://www.facebook.com/nooneisillegal
> http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/author/dtes-power-women-group
>
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