Upcoming Events: Asian Heritage Month
Published by Patrick May 11th, 2007 in Lower Mainland, Racially Visible Tags: Lower Mainland.Head Tax Families Society of Canada will mark the 60th anniversary of full rights and the vote for the Chinese in Canada. The Canadian Citizenship Act, which went into effect in the spring of 1947, defined the franchise as part of citizenship status.
- Time: 9AM, Saturday May 12, 2007
- Place: Memorial to Railway Workers and War Veterans Keefer and Columbia (NE corner), Vancouver
The Head Tax Families Society of Canada is today’s Canadians on a twenty-three year struggle for an inclusive redress with justice and honour for affected head tax families. Go to www.headtaxfamilies.org for more information.
- Movie Night: Thursday, May 24 7-9pm
- BCGEU HQ Auditorium, 4911 Canada Way, Burnaby
In celebration of Asian Heritage Month, the BCGEU Equity + Human Rights Committee is pleased to invite you to a night of film. (Light refreshments provided.) “The War Between Us” ~ a bittersweet drama about a Japanese-Canadian family and the internment of 23,000 West Coast Japanese Canadians during the Second World War and “Caught in Between” ~ a documentary about Japanese- and Muslim-Americans standing together for human rights, and the connection with the incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II and the current “War on Terrorism.”
- Meeting: Asian Canadian Labour Alliance
- Thursday, May 24, 5:30pm
- BCGEU HQ Auditorium
Asian Canadian union members are invited to join a meeting of the Asian Canadian Labour Alliance, before the film viewing. The Asian Canadian Labour Alliance provides a forum for Asian Canadian union members to connect, encourages the increased participation of Asian Canadian union members in the labour movement, and works to strengthen the relationship between labour and our Asian Canadian communities. A light meal will be provided for those attending this meeting. Please RSVP to Sarah Maglio at 604-291-9611 or sarah.maglio@bcgeu.ca by May 22. For more information about the Asian Canadian Labour Alliance, please contact Lorene Oikawa at 604-291-9611 or lorene.oikawa@bcgeu.ca