THE HARPER WELCOMING COMMITTEE INVITES YOU TO DINNER WITH THE PRIME MINISTER!
No Money for Militarization, Demanding Justice for the People! TUESDAY OCTOBER 10, 2006 @ 5 pm GATHER: NE CORNER OF COLOMBIA AND KEEFER CHINATOWN MONUMENT FOR CHINESE RAILWAY WORKERS
[The Harper Welcoming Committee is an adhoc committee supporting justice, dignity, and self-determination for our communities from Coast Salish Territories to Afghanistan. Endorsers (as of date): Al-Awda (Palestine Right of Return) Vancouver, Anti Poverty Committee, Association of Chinese Canadians for Equality and Solidarity Society, B.C. Committee for Human Rights in the Phillipines, BC Latin American Collective, Bolivia Solidarity Committee, Canada-El Salvador Action Network, Canadian Muslim Union, Canadian Network for a Democratic Nepal, CIPO-Van y La Otra Campagna de Abajo, Downtown Eastside Residents Association, Filipino Nurses Support Group, Grassroots Women, Group of Relatives and Friends of Political Prisoners in Mexico, Haiti Solidarity BC, Hospital Employees Union, La Otra Vancouver (The Other Campaign Vancouver), Iranian Federation of Refugees, Justicia for Migrant Workers BC, La Surda Latin American Collective, Latin American Connexions, No One Is Illegal-Vancouver, Philippine Women Centre of B.C, Salaam Vancouver, SIKLAB (Overseas Filipino Workers), Siraat, StopWar.ca, Ugnayan Ng Kabataang Pilipino Sa Canada (Filipino Canadian Youth Alliance), Vancouver Status of Women]
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is visiting Vancouver on Tuesday October 10 for a dinner organized by businessman Johnny Fong geared towards increasing trade, business, and investment with China. Although presented as a “direct dialogue with Vancouver’s Chinese Canadiansâ€, a number of community-based Chinese-Canadian organizations and other grassroots groups have of course not been invited to this dinner. So we have decided to invite ourselves!
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