Friday, September 15, 2017 - 7:00pm
Shambhala Music and Performance Hall, Tenth Street Campus
Event Category:
Mir Centre for Peace
Described by Naomi Klein as "one of Canada's most brilliant and effective organizers," Vancouver activist, Harsha Walia will discuss the current global refugee crisis and its implications for Canada.
Walia is an author and activist trained in the law. She is the a co-founder of the migrant justice group "No One Is Illegal," author of award-winning book, Undoing Border Imperialism, and Project Coordinator at the Downtown Eastside Women's Center.
For the past two decades she has been involved in anti-racist, feminist, Indigenous solidarity, and anti-capitalist grassroots community organizing. Walia has made numerous presentations on race, gender and poverty to the United Nations and across campuses and media outlets in North America and Europe. Walia is a recipient of the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives "Power of Youth Award," and the Westender's "Best of the City in Activism Award." She has also been named "One of the most influential South Asians in BC" by the Vancouver Sun.
Some of the important questions Walia will consider include: what are the root causes of the refugee crisis and how is the Canadian government responding? What are the systemic barriers to inclusion, access, permanent residency and full rights and dignity for all migrants, refugees, and migrant workers in Canada? In the context of Canada's 150 and the myth of multiculturalism, how we do challenge systemic racism and exclusion?
Date: Friday, Sept 15, 2017
Time: 7 pm
Location: Shambhala Music and Performance Hall, Selkirk College, Tenth St Campus, 820 Tenth St., Nelson
Cost: $16 for general public/ $13 for students and seniors
Tickets: available at Otter Books in Nelson and at the door (cash or cheque only at both locations).
Come join us for this thoughtful and provoking lecture by one of the country's top change makers!