AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
SOUTH ASIAN PEOPLE’S UNITY:
“Securing South Asia for the Peoples of South Asia”
April 23-26, 2009
University of Toronto Law School (for most sessions)
 
The current geopolitics of South Asia threatens a regional and global war that can devastate the countries and peoples of the region. This conference of activists aims to build the unity of the peoples across borders who alone can stop such wars. Speakers and activists from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal as well as from Canada, the US and the UK will discuss people’s common struggles against poverty, militarism, insecurity, and racism, and the women’s movements in the region.
 
Abid Hasan Minto, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of Pakistan has been invited to be the Keynote Speaker for the Opening.
 
The panels will cover Imperialism and South Asia, Violence and the South Asian State, Canada-SA Labour Solidarity, Special Discussions on Sri Lanka and Kashmir, and Neo-liberalism and Resistance.
 
The conference will conclude on April 26th
with the
2nd annual Faiz Peace Festival
held in coordination with the
first International Festival of Poetry
of Resistance, Toronto
 
 
This conference is organized jointly by the South Asian Peoples Forum,  the Ghadar Heritage Foundation, the Association of Indian Progressive Study Groups (AIPSG), and is co-sponsored by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, Canada, and the South Asia Programs at York University and the University of Toronto.
 
For registration, program and contact information please visit www.sapf.ca (and keep checking back) or call 416-856-7212, 416-399-7602