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Book Launch & Reading with Iraq War Resister Rodney Watson

Saturday, December 3                               Liberating Biblical Study: Scholarship, Art, and Action in Honor of the Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice
7:00 - 8:30pm
First United Church (in Room 6)
320 E Hastings St Vancouver


Rodney and others collaborated in a book co-edited by neighbour, friend and advocate for justice Laurel Dykstra.
Liberating Biblical Study: Scholarship, Art, and Action in Honor of the Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice

Join us for a reading with Rodney, Laurel, James Lloyd (graphic artist) and Bud Osborn.
Share some discussion and light refreshments.
Copies of the book available for purchase (cost $30).

Laurel has pledged a portion of the initial sales of the book to support Rodney.

Liberating Biblical Study is edited by Laurel Dykstra and Ched Myers

Liberating Biblical Study is a unique collaboration of pioneering biblical scholars, social-change activists, and movement-based artists. Well known and unknown, veterans and newcomers, these diverse practitioners of justice engage in a lively and critical conversation at the intersection of seminary, sanctuary, and street.

The book raises essential questions at another level: What is the role of art in social-change movements? How can scholars be accountable beyond the academy, and activists encouraged to study? How are resistance movements nurtured and sustained?


NEXT ORGANIZING MEETING

 WAR RESISTERS SUPPORT CAMPAIGN - Vancouver

TBA

First United Church Vancouver (Hastings & Gore)
320 E. Hastings St

Updates on the Campaign and how you can be involved. (meetings 2nd Tuesday of every month)





Keep Iraq war resister Rodney Watson in Canada!
 
 
Here is something you can do from home.
 
Please call or email the Immigration Minister, the Parliamentary Secretary to the minister and the Prime Minister.
 
Ask them to honour the will of parliament, and stop the deportation of Rodney Watson and the other war resisters.
 
Remind them that 64% of Canadians want U.S. Iraq war resisters to stay and that all three opposition party's immigration critics have called on the government not to use the summer recess to disregard the expressed will of Parliament.
 
The Right Hon. Stephen Harper
Phone: (613) 992-4211
E-mail: pm@pm.gc.ca
 
Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Jason Kenney
Call 613.954.1064 (Ministry office)
613.992.2235 (Parliamentary Office)
Or email him at: minister@cic.gc.ca or Kenney.j@parl.gc.ca
 
Parliamentary Secretary to Minister Kenney, Alice Wong
Call 604-775-5790 (Riding office)
1-877-775-5790 (Parliamentary Office)
E-Mail: WongA1@parl.gc.ca
 
Please cc the opposition party critics if you email Jason Kenney or Alice Wong:
Liberal party immigration critic Maurizio Bevilacqua: bevilacqua.m@parl.gc.ca
NDP immigration critic Olivia Chow: chow.o@parl.gc.ca
Bloc Québécois immigration critic Thierry St-Cyr: st-cyr.t@parl.gc.ca