Community March Against Racism
Saturday March 23
Starts at 2 pm at Clark Park (Commercial Drive and 14th)
Vancouver, Unceded Coast Salish Territories

FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/470528346341308/?fref=ts

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

WATCH VIDEOS FROM LAST YEAR:

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. Every year we join friends and allies around the world to mark this day and to speak the truth about racism.

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We are thankful for being on the unceded Algonquin territory that this launch is taking place on, and for the inspiration that Idle No More and Indigenous communities provide us.

We honour all the Original peoples of Turtle Land and we honour the diverse lands of the Original peoples of Turtle Island on which we individually reside. We recognize the legacy of all Indigenous teachings across this continent and the world. We are committed to working in solidarity as allies with the Indigenous caucus and with the Original peoples of Turtle Island – in words and in actions – again colonization. We are committed to supporting the needs of your nations.

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South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy (SANSAD) invites you to a talk with

Dr. Deepa Kumar
Associate Professor of media studies and Middle East Studies, Rutgers University

Author of Outside the Box: Corporate Media, Globalization and the UPS Strike and Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire

Mar. 2 – 7:00 – 9:00pm
Rm. 1700
SFU Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver

The recent murder of an Indian settled in New York by pushing him in front of a subway train and the shooting of Sikhs in the Oak Creek Gurdwara in Wisconsin are not isolated incidents. Deepa Kumar places such incidents within the matrix of US policy and institutions.

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Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney was in Burnaby, B.C. this week. The minister told the crowd gathered at the Executive Hotel that his immigration crackdown — from marriage fraud to human smuggling and what he called the “abuse of Canada’s generosity” — is not driven by ideology or racism.

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by David P. Ball

http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/Federal-Politics/2012/11/10/Kenney-Visit/

Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney was in Burnaby, B.C. yesterday to explain changes to how would-be newcomers connect with employers in Canada, and to answer questions about the controversial Temporary Foreign Workers Program, which has come under scrutiny this week over 200 Chinese coal mine workers in B.C.

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