Come to the event that Dacyn and Simon have been organizing!
Forum on Peoples’ Struggles
Today (Friday), 4-6pm
Barber Centre Room 155
Although geographically in different regions on the globe, activists, indigenous peoples and citizens are facing very much the same struggles against increasingly repressive states and corporations. The same mechanism to suppress dissent has caused extrajudicial killings of journalists, and activists in the Philippines, as well as the arrest of Dr. G. N. Saibaba along with student leaders involved with the Jawaharal Nehru University protests in India. The same mechanisms are used by Canadian resource extraction companies to plunder land in the Philippines, India, and the Americas, while we turn a blind eye to this injustice. The same mechanisms to uproot indigenous communities have caused 40000 Lumads (indigenous peoples) in Philippines to be displaced, not to mention that the same displacement perpetrated by the state and its partners occurs to this day in the Americas.
In response to these struggles, and courageous resistance to repressive states and corporations presently happening around the world, the Revolutionary Student Movement – Vancouver chapter would like to inform students on campus about them, especially when these issues are not discussed in the lecture hall or reported widely in the media. We will be hosting a forum in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Room 155 on Friday March 4th 2016 from 4-6pm where a number of speakers will be giving some presentations about these global issues. Coffee will be provided at the event. Furthermore, panelists include:
– Eviatar Bach, of the UBC Social Justice Centre, who will speak on mining injustice.
– Lakhbir Khunkhun, of the East Indian Defence Committee (EIDC), who will speak on state repression in India.
– Representatives from RSM who will speak on what our organization does.
Join us for an informative afternoon of presentations, so that we may strengthen international solidarity for our global comrades.