Syria Support Movement solidarity with the Syrian people
Thursday, Dec. 12
7:30 pm
1L11 Lockhart Hall
University of Winnipeg
Winnipeg, MB
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/510908552828529/
Internationally-acclaimed independent journalist, Vanessa Beeley, will tour Canada lecturing on the theme, “Canada’s Dirty War Against Syria: the White Helmets and the Regime-Change-War Billionaires.”
CANADA & SYRIA
Two successive governments of Canada, those of Stephen Harper and Justin Trudeau, have been an integral part of the US coalition for regime change and economic sanctions against Syria since 2011. The Trudeau government has donated at least $4.5 million to White Helmets since 2016 and has resettled about 250 White Helmets members and their families in Canada.
ABOUT VANESSA BEELEY
Vanessa Beeley is an independent journalist and photographer who has worked extensively in the Middle East, on the ground in Syria, Egypt, Egypt, Iraq, and Palestine, while also covering the conflict in Yemen since 2015. In 2017, Vanessa was a finalist for the prestigious Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism which was won by the much-acclaimed Robert Parry that year. In 2018, Vanessa was named one of the 238 most respected journalists in the UK by the British National Council for the Training of Journalists. In 2019, Vanessa was among recipients of the Serena Shim Award for uncompromising integrity in journalism. Vanessa contributes regularly to Mint Press News, Russia Today, UK Column, The Last American Vagabond, Sputnik radio, 21st Century Wire, and many other independent media outlets. You can support her work at her Patreon account. https://www.patreon.com/vanessabeeley
Tour stops include Hamilton, Toronto, Mississauga, Ottawa, Montreal, Regina, and Winnipeg.
Thanks to the Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War for initiating her Canadian tour.
