BC TILMA events on April 1st, 2009

[Stop TILMA!]

Please see the events below and spread the word!

VANCOUVER,
BC

FINANCIAL FOOLS DAY:
Empowering People's Movements Against Trade Agreements and Corporate
Power

Panel and Discussion
Wednesday, April 1st @ 6:30 pm
SFU Harbour Centre (515 W. Hastings St.) - Room 1800

*This is a free event.*

April 1st 2009 marks the date that the Trade, Investment and Labour
Mobility
Agreement (TILMA) between BC and Alberta will be fully implemented.
This
agreement, like NAFTA and many other free trade agreements around the
world,
serves to increase corporate power and the ability of financial
markets to
undermine efforts to protect communities, the environment and the
dignity of
people.

April 1st also marks the beginning of protests in the United Kingdom
against
the G20 and the global financial system. The current economic crisis
has
demonstrated to the world that the twisted logic of neo-liberal
economics
and "free trade" agreements is a recipe for disaster. At the same time
we
are still being told by elected officials that agreements like TILMA
are the
solution to the current economic crisis.

Join us on April 1st to learn more about TILMA, NAFTA, bilateral trade
agreements, corporate power and how people can continue building
resistance
to protect our communities and the environment.

Panel:

Gil Aguilar (Wilderness Committee)
- Will FTAs Protect the Environment? A look at Mexico and Canada.

Colleen Fuller (health policy researcher, writer and co-founder of
PharmaWatch)
- Neo-liberal agreements, corporate lawsuits and the healthcare
system.

Gord Hill (Olympic Resistance Network and No2010.com)
- Looking back to Seattle 1999 and forward to Vancouver 2010.

Proma Tagore (No One Is Illegal)
- Bilateral Trade Agreements: Canada displacing communities in the
Global
South.

Caelie Frampton (BC Stop TILMA Coalition)
- From NAFTA to TILMA: Re-examining trade agreements.

Myka Abramson (SFU Community Coalition)
- Budget Cuts and Privatization: Neo-liberalism in Education

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For more information please contact: 778.858.9647 or
hgr...@canadians.org
Organized by the Council of Canadians



GOLDEN, BC

TILMA awareness event. April 1st 2009 is when TILMA goes into full
effect in BC and Alberta, despite almost no debate in either
legislature on the impacts of this far reaching agreement. TILMA is
Gordan Campbell and Ralph Klein's sick joke to give corporations a
bill of rights over citizens, and it just happens to come into effect
and be signed on April Fools. Making Fools of us all!

Join the Council of Canadians Golden Chapter for the Funeral for
Democracy at 7:30pm in front of the Post office in Golden, followed by
the WAKE of Democracy at 8pm at the Lyric. We will have at LEAST 12
local musical acts playing back to back from 8pm until 2am.

This is a fundraiser for the local chapter of the Council of
Canadians, tickets will be sold at $10 each. We will sell this event
out.

Come dressed to show your respect for the Death of Democracy!

Musicians Include.....
Wakcutt, Infinity Solstice, Todd Menzies, Cold Technician, Tip the DJ,
Sarah Osadetz, Golden Drummers, M.B. Board, John Jenkins and many
more!!!!
Tickets $10 @ Jitas Cafe, Elite Nutrition, Bachus Books

Council of Canadians FBGroup
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2228697837&ref=nf