Oppose NATO, War, Interventions and Racism - Hands off Venezuela

Anti-war and anti-imperialist movements in the Vancouver area will rally on Saturday, March 30, to oppose the 70th anniversary summit meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), being held this year in Washington, D.C.
Since its founding, the U.S.-led NATO (of which Canada has been a key member from the beginning) has been the world’s deadliest military alliance, causing untold suffering and devastation throughout Northern Africa, the Middle East and beyond. Hundreds of thousands have died in U.S./NATO wars in Iraq, Libya, Somalia and Yugoslavia. Millions of refugees risk their lives trying to escape the carnage that these wars have brought to their homelands, while workers in the 29 NATO member-countries are told they must abandon hard-won social programs in order to meet U.S. demands for even more military spending.
The NATO summit begins on April 4, the birthdate of Dr. Martin Luther King, who warned that every bomb that falls on other countries is a bomb dropped on our own cities. There is a deep-rooted relationship between militarism and the social, racial, economic and environmental injustices that impoverish billions and threaten our world.
Canadians have a particular responsibility to protest the NATO summit. This not a “peacekeeping” country. Canada has participated in many NATO-led wars, and today the pro-imperialist Liberal Government of Justin Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland loudly supports higher military spending and the expansion of NATO. Acting in the interests of transnational corporations, Canada is a vocal advocate of “regime change” strategies to overthrow the governments of Venezuela, Cuba, and other countries.
Every year NATO has held its summits, people around the world have organized massive protests: in Chicago (2012), Wales (2014), Warsaw (2016), Brussels (2017 & 2018) — and 2019 will be no exception, with a peaceful mass mobilization in Washington, D.C., and in many other cities across Turtle Island, including Vancouver.

The Vancouver rally on March 30 is organized by the Vancouver Peace Council, and endorsed by Venezuela Peace and Solidarity Committee of Vancouver. To add your organization as an endorser, please contact: vancouverpeacecouncil@lists.resist.ca

For more on the anti-NATO protests in Washington DC, visit http://no2nato2019.org/