Webinar:
U.S./Israel/Canada Hands Off Iran!
Thursday February 26
4pm PT / 5pm MT / 6pm CT / 7pm ET / 8pm AT
Register at: tinyurl.com/CWPJN-Iran-Webinar
While the US government continues their dangerous threats of war on Iran and military buildup in the region, join the Canada-Wide Peace and Justice Network to discuss the importance of Iran’s sovereignty and self-determination in the face of imperialist aggression.
Featured speakers:
Mona Ghassemi
President of the Iranian Canadian Congress (ICC). Mona has been key in researching and preparing many of ICC’s statements in defence of democratic human rights in Canada in the context of the ongoing genocide in Palestine
Phil Wilayto
Writer, speaker and organizer based in Richmond, Virginia. Founding member of the Virginia Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality, and editor of The Virginia Defender newspaper. Author of “In Defense of Iran: Notes from a U.S. Peace Delegation’s Journey through the Islamic Republic”
Zafar Bangash
Director of the Institute of Contemporary Islamic Thought and author of several books. For four decades, he has been on the editorial board of Crescent International, a Canadian magazine that specializes in Iranian and Middle East affairs. He has visited Iran many times including the war front during the Iraq-Iran war and was the first to report on Iraq’s use of chemical weapons. He served on the Steering Committee of the Canadian Peace Alliance
Ken Stone
Ken Stone is a veteran anti-war activist in Hamilton, Ontario. He’s Treasurer of the Hamilton Coalition To Stop The War, Coordinating Committee Member of the Canada-Wide Peace & Justice Network, and Executive Member of the Sovereignty Support Movement for West Asia. He comments regularly on Press TV and RT. In April, 2016, Ken travelled to Damascus to observe the Syrian parliamentary elections and wrote a booklet, entitled “Defiant Syria”
Janine Solanki
Antiwar and social justice organizer based in Vancouver, Canada. Chair of Mobilization Against War and Occupation (MAWO), Coordinator of Metro Vancouver United for Palestine, and Coordinating Committee member of the Canada-Wide Peace & Justice Network
Organized by Canada-Wide Peace & Justice Network (CWPJN)