Irwin Cotler will be speaking at different times over three days, at a Legal Conference of the Canadian Bar Association, on August 13, 14 and 15 and at the Wosk Center on August 15th from 7:30-9:15pm.

We will be gathering for a series of protests on those dates at various times and locations. I will update this list when we have more information. You may also check out the Cannabis Culture forums for further information at:

http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=1130915

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The large protest will be on August 15th from 7:30-9:15pm outside of the Wosk Auditorium, located at 950 W. 41st Ave downtown Vancouver.

We are calling on the public to join us in this peaceful protest. Feel free to bring signs & instruments, wear costumes and be as creative as you wish!

This a protest over Canadian Rights and Freedoms but also Sovereignty. After Signing off on my own extradition order to face a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years to life in a US federal prison for allegedly watering some medical marijuana plants, Cotler has now signed off on the US warrants which have allowed the US authorities to perform a drug raid on 3 Canadians, Marc Emery, Greg Williams and Michelle Rainey who are facing extradition to the USA for allegedly filling cannabis seed orders for US customers. These alleged offenses took place in Canada! Marc, Michelle and Greg are now in the same boat I am in. We all face a 10 year mandatory minimum to life sentence in a US Federal Prison and our faces are being fast tracked through the Canadian courts at the request of the US authorities. We all now have less than 2 years to fight for our freedom here in Canada and we can't do it alone! We need the support of the Canadian public in showing their collective outrage about these injustices. Please join us if you can.

Below this email is the information on Irwin Cotler's visit to Vancouver.

Thank you! Love & freedom, Renee Boje rboje@hotmail.com 604-929-7966 http://www.reneeboje.com

FROM SECURITY TO SOCIAL JUSTICE

Canadian Jewish Congress, Pacific Region and Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver present the Honourable Irwin Cotler, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada. Talk to follow by a Q&A period featuring a panel of B.C. Federal Cabinet Ministers. Monday August 15, 7:30-9-15pm, Wosk Auditorium (950 W. 41st Ave). Free admission, info 604-257-5101.

And Irwin Cotler is also speaking at different times over three days, at a Legal Conference of the Canadian Bar Association, on August 13, 14 and 15.

http://www.cba.org/CBA/News/2005_Releases/2005-07-24_cotler.aspx

Federal Justice Minister Irwin Cotler will take part in a question and answer session with members of the Canadian Bar Association at the 2005 Canadian Legal Conference, Aug. 15 at 12:15 p.m. in Vancouver.

Justice Minister Cotler will deliver an address to members and then take questions from the floor as part of a dialogue at this year’s conference, which runs Aug. 14-16. The session will be followed by a news conference with the Minister.

Minister Cotler will also address the a Sunday session presented by the CBA's International Development Committee and the Department of Justice, entitled "Media and the Rule of Law" on Aug. 13. Minister Cotler will be joined by a number of notable panelists, including Ed Ratushny, President of the International Commission of Jurists Canada and John Stackhouse, Editor of the Globe and Mail's Report on Business. Chief Justice of Canada Beverley McLachlin will address the CBA Council on Saturday, Aug. 13.

Minister Cotler will also bring greetings to the Opening Plenary Session on Sunday afternoon, Aug. 14. Canada's Ambassador to the United Nations, Allan Rock, will deliver the keynote address on "The United Nations at a Crossroads: Why Canada Believes Now is the Time for Change" at the session.

The Justicia Award, sponsored jointly be the Department of Justice, the Law Commission of Canada, and the CBA for outstanding media coverage of the law will be presented at the Awards Luncheon on Saturday, Aug. 13. This year's winners come from a field of 32 entries from national and regional broadcast and print media. The winner of the CBA and DOJ National Law Student Essay Competition will be announced at the CLC Closing Luncheon on Tuesday, Aug. 16. A ceremony to mark the transfer of the Chain of Office of the Association President from outgoing President Susan McGrath of Iroquois Falls, Ont. to Brian Tabor of Halifax also takes place at the Tuesday event.

Sessions are open to accredited media. Most programs take place at the Vancouver Convention Centre and the Fairmont Waterfront. A Media Centre is located in the Vancouver Convention Centre, 999 Canada Place, Room 20, 2nd level. Accreditation may be obtained by contacting the CBA National Office in Ottawa at (613) 237-2925, ext. 146/155 until Aug. 11. The Media Room will be open on Friday, Aug. 12 beginning at noon, until Tuesday, Aug. 15 at noon. The Media Centre can be reached at (604) 647-7408.

The Canadian Bar Association is dedicated to improvement in the law and the administration of justice. Some 34,000 lawyers, law teachers, and law students from across Canada are members.