Indo Canadian Workers’ Association Annual Fair June 21 - Cloverdale
Published by Patricia June 20th, 2008 in Aboriginal, Human Rights, Racially Visible Tags: Temporarily disabled.* Ghadari Mela ((Revolutionary Martyr Festival) honouring the Sacrifices of South Asian revolutionaries
* Dedicated to the 100th birth anniversaries of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru
* In solidarity with current First Nations struggles
Media Release - June 17, 2008
Surrey: The Indo Canadian Workers’ Association is organizing its free annual fair on June 21, 2008 at the Cloverdale Millennium Park in partnership with the Bhagat Singh Memorial Foundation. The fair is organized every year in the memory of the Indian revolutionaries, who had sacrificed their lives to free their country from the colonial rule.
This year’s fair will be dedicated to the 100th birth anniversaries of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru. The three martyrs were hanged by the British government in 1931. The Indo Canadian Workers’ Association believes in their socialist ideology and respects their internationalist outlook.
The association will also organize a special exhibition of the pictures of the revolutionaries who had dedicated their lives to the struggle for social justice and equality.
A special calendar dedicated to the history of Indo Canadian struggle that was issued by the association earlier this year will also be distributed during the event.
Since June 21 is the National Aboriginal Day of Canada, our association will bring a resolution to condemn the abuse of the natives in the residential schools and encourage the people to denounce the continuous exploitation of the First Nations.
Besides, entertainment by the folk singers from Punjab, the event will provide an opportunity to the people to buy progressive literature and books from the stalls being set up by different groups.