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WAR RESISTERS
Pan-Canadian Day of Action - Sat.,
Sept. 13, to oppose deportations of US war
resisters. For
full details of local events and planning
meetings, visit
http://www.resisters.ca.
VANCOUVER,
BC
Afghanistan’s
Pipelines, VDLC Pizza Educational - Tue., Sept. 16, 6-7 pm, forum
on gas pipelines and energy
distribution in central Asia,
Maritime Labour
Centre, 1880 Triumph St., co-sponsored by
Council of
Canadians and Vancouver & District Labour Council.
Canada
Post 9/11, forum with speaker Sunera Thobani- Monday, Sept. 22, 7:30 pm,
Public Library Main Branch,
Alice McKay
room, hosted by Siraat Collective.
The
state of the media today, discussion on creating alternative media - Friday, Sept. 26, 7 pm, at Centre for
Socialist Education, 706 Clark Drive,
followed by
music & food, for info email bclac1998@gmail.com.
Palestinian
political prisoners conference - Sept. 27, 11 am-4 pm, SFU Harbour
Centre, 515
W. Hastings St., for info call Boycott
Israeli Apartheid Campaign, 604-220-0451.
COPE Nomination Meeting - Sunday Sept. 28, 2:30
pm, Ukrainian
Auditorium, 154 E. 10 Ave. (at Main).
Miguel
Figueroa Election Tour, hear the leader of the Communist Party of
Canada on the issues in the Oct. 14 election- Monday, Sept. 29, 7:30 pm, at the Centre for
Socialist Education,
706 Clark Drive. (For details of other
cross-Canada tour dates, call the
CPC campaign office, 416-469-2446.)
More
Power to You, conference organized by BC Citizens for Public Power - Oct. 4-5, 8 am to 4 pm, at SFU
Harbour Centre,
515 W. Hastings. Call 604-681-5939 for
details.
EDMONTON,
AB
Edmonton
Young
Communist League - meets regularly at Remedy Cafe,
8631-109 St., 5 pm on the second Friday each month. Discussion topics
and suggested readings on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=3559215104.
No
Olympics on Stolen Native Land!, panel with indigenous speakers on
issues related to the tar sands and the 2010 Olympic games - Sat., Sept. 27, location TBA.
Action opposing
2010 Olympic Spirit Train, Sept. 29, 1-8 pm
at WP Wagner
School (6310 Wagner Rd NW). For info, call Macdonald at
780-233-4992.
SASKATOON, SK
Political
discussion & beer, all welcome to join
Saskatoon CPC
members, third Monday of every month, in the
tv room at
Amigo’s, 632-10 St. East.
WINNIPEG,
MB
Manitoba-Cuba
Solidarity Committee annual general meeting - Mon., Sept. 22, 7 pm at the Workers
Organizing Resource Centre, 280 Smith St., mezzanine level. Info dlzack@shaw.ca.
Manitoba
Peace Council meeting - Sat., Sept. 20, 10 am, Workers Organizing
Resource Centre,
280 Smith St., mezzanine level. Info 792-3371.
TORONTO,
ON
Labour
Education Centre course: Globalization,
Imperialism and World Inequality, open to
all - September 2008, classes
at OISE UT. For cost and
other information, see http://www.laboureducation.org.
Support public health care - mass protest Sat., Sept. 27 11 am, at Metro Hall Square (Wellington
& John St.); for info call
Ontario Health Coalition 416-441-2502.
MONTREAL, QC
Anti-military recruitment protest -
Thursday,
Sept. 18, 5:30-7 pm, 1420
Ste.-Catherine O (Guy-Concordia metro),
organized by
Operation Objection, see http://www.antirecrutement.info
for details.