Toronto Protest Rally Condemns Reprisal Hangings of Baloch, Kurds in Iran, Supports VBMP Long March

Press Release

Supports VBMP Long March for Enforced Disappearances in Balochistan

Toronto, November 10, 2013 – A joint protest rally by Baloch, Kurds, Al-Ahwazi Arabs, and progressive/liberal Iranians expressed their anger at the reprisal hangings of 16 innocent Baloch youth at the Zahedan prison by the Iranian clerics. The gathering of political activists expressed their solidarity with the long march by Voice for Baloch Missing Persons for the enforced disappearances in Balochistan.

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Mining in Occupied Territories: Baluchistan

Mining (in)Justice: At Home and Abroad
(conference)

Mining (in)justice: at home and abroad is a conference on the Canadian mining industry (including Tar Sands) set to take place in Toronto on the weekend of May 7-9, 2010. It will feature leaders in movements against Canadian mining companies both within and outside of Canada and provide space for growing our own movements in alliance with communities impacted by this industry.

WHAT: Conference on the Canadian Mining Industry
WHERE: Earth Sciences Building, University of Toronto (map)
WHEN: May 7-9, 2010
WHO: Impacted communities are coming from all over the world and within Canada. Hear speakers from Honduras, Guatemala, Carrier Sekani First Nation, Papua New Guinea, El Salvador, Ardoch Algonquin, Northern Ontario, Fort Chipewan, Mexico and more! Clayton Thomas Muller of the Indigenous Environmental Network is MCing the event!

All our welcome, and the event is free!