From info at psp-spp.com Wed Aug 1 12:49:24 2007 From: info at psp-spp.com (PGA-Bloc Montreal) Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 15:49:24 -0400 Subject: [Bloquez l'empire!] =?windows-1252?q?!!!_Manifestons_et_perturbo?= =?windows-1252?q?ns_la_rencontre_de_Bush_et_du_PSP_a_Montebello=2C?= =?windows-1252?q?_Qc=2C_du_19_au_21_ao=FBt=2E_=28Nouvelles_infos?= =?windows-1252?q?=29?= In-Reply-To: <7afd97440708011245n70a72b9bo91cb6ed8d1edd275@mail.gmail.com> References: <7afd97440708011244l1a55027brddda97ad1e2b4d04@mail.gmail.com> <7afd97440708011245n70a72b9bo91cb6ed8d1edd275@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <7afd97440708011249k15e526f2k40112a8a1e8604ae@mail.gmail.com> 1er ao?t 2007 ? SVP, diffuser largement www.psp-spp.com - info at psp-spp.com [Lire cet appel pour les plus r?centes informations sur les manifestations a Montebello (mise ? jour pour le 19 et 20 ao?t), le transport, les consultas ? venir, le show b?n?fice, les brigades festives et plus?] --> Mobilisons et manifestons contre George Bush, Stephen Harper et Felipe Calderon a la rencontre du Partenariat pour la s?curit? et la prosp?rit? (PSP). <-- 19 AU 21 AO?T 2007 MONTEBELLO, QUEBEC (Entre Ottawa et Montr?al) En peu de mots, le ? Partenariat pour la s?curit? et la prosp?rit? (PSP) ? conjugue les politiques destructrices n?olib?rales de l'Accord de libre ?change nord-am?ricain (ALENA) aux tactiques de peur et de parano?a associ?es aux politiques de ? s?curit? nationale ?, tout en demeurant fid?le aux traditions colonialistes et ultra capitalistes qui sont ? l'origine de ces mesures. ? propos du PSP: http://www.psp-spp.com/?q=fr/node/35 ::::: JOURN?ES D'ACTION ? MONTEBELLO ::::: Deux journ?es d'action contre la rencontre de Bush, Harper et Calderon et le PSP auront lieu les dimanche 19 ao?t et lundi 20 ao?t. ** DIMANCHE 19 AO?T ? R?sistance cr?ative et ?ducation populaire contre le PSP ** Le dimanche 19 ao?t sera une journ?e de r?sistance cr?ative et festive et d'?ducation populaire sur le PSP dans les environs de Montebello. Nous invitons les groupes d'affinit? ? organiser des actions autonomes suivant les param?tres de r?sistance cr?ative et aux autres individus ? se joindre ? une action collective festive et d'?ducation populaire. Les d?tails sur cette journ?e seront pr?cis?s sous peu. Du transport est pr?vu pour le 19, aller-retour ou aller seulement (voir section transport et h?bergement plus bas). ** LUNDI 20 AO?T ? Actions de perturbation contre le PSP** Nous appelons tous les groupes d'affinit?, organisations et individus ? mobiliser massivement pour la principale journ?e d'action contre Bush, Harper, Calderon et le PSP qui aura lieu lundi le 20 ao?t. Les actions commenceront ? MIDI (*notez le changement d'heure*) au Ch?teau Montebello o? a lieu la rencontre (ou le plus pr?s possible de Montebello). Montebello est un village touristique situ? entre Montr?al et Ottawa, sur l'autoroute 148 en bordure de la Rivi?re des Outaouais. Des cartes de la r?gion, incluant le village de Montebello, se trouvent ? cette adresse : http://www.psp-spp.com/?q=en/image/tid/18 ::::: TRANSPORT ? R?SERVEZ VOS PLACES ! ::::: Montr?al : Du transport de Montr?al ? Montebello est organis? pour les 19 et 20 ao?t. Pour r?server votre place dans les autobus, ?crivez ? transportmontebello at gmail.com . SVP, r?server le plus t?t possible et AVANT LE 12 AO?T. Plus d'information ? : http://www.psp-spp.com/?q=fr/node/96 Autres villes: Du transport est ?galement organis? ? partir d'Ottawa (transportottawa at gmail.com ), Qu?bec (autobusquebec at gmail.com ) et Toronto (bushbus2007 at gmail.com). ::::: H?BERGEMENT ::::: Un lieu d'h?bergement ? de base ? sera mit ? la disposition des manifestantEs dans les environs de Montebello. L'h?bergement sera donc disponible pour les personnes qui veulent participer aux deux journ?es d'action des 19 et 20 ao?t ou pour ceux et celles qui souhaitent arriver quelques jours ? l'avance pour planifier des actions et faire de la sensibilisation. Plus de d?tails bient?t. ***** Les actions contre Bush, Harper, Calderon et le PSP sont organis?es par des militantEs anticapitalistes, pour l'action directe, pour la justice sociale au Qu?bec et en Ontario ? le BLOC AMP qui agit sous les principes de base du r?seau de l'Action Mondiale des Peuples (AMP) ( www.agp.org). Ottawa et Montr?al ? de chaque c?t? de Montebello via l'autoroute 148 ? agissent comme bases organisationnelles pour les manifestations, incluant les manifestations et actions locales. ****** Des AFFICHES, TRACTS et d'autre materiel de mobilisation et d'?ducation populaire a t?l?charger, imprimer et distribuer sont disponibles ? : http://www.psp-spp.com/?q=fr/taxonomy/term/5 PLUS D'INFORMATION ::::: CONSULTA, 12 AO?T ::::: Une derni?re consulta d'organisation et de planification est pr?vue pour le DIMANCHE 12 AOUT, de midi a 17h, a la salle R-M 110 a l'UQ?M (315, Ste-Catherine est, pr?s de St-Denis). Pour plus d'information: http://www.psp-spp.com/?q=fr/node/139 ::::: ACTIONS CONTRE LE PSP A MONTREAL (14 et 16 ao?t) ::::: Dans le cadre de la Semaine Nationale d'action contre le Partenariat pour la s?curit? et la prosp?rit? (PSP) du 13 au 17 ao?t, deux actions auront lieu a Montr?al, contre le CN et le Service canadien de renseignement de s?curit? (SCRS): -> 14 AO?T, MIDI ? CN: Cessez vos poursuites racistes! ? la Garre centrale de train (m?tro Bonaventure) Soutenons les luttes autochtones pour la souverainet?, la dignit? et l'autod?termination sur l'?le de la tortue. Opposons-nous au racisme et au colonialisme du CN. Manifestons contre Bush, Harper, Calderon et le PSP. Pour plus d'information: http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2007/07/cn-cessez-vos-poursuites-racistes.html -> 16 AO?T, MIDI ? Manifestons contre le SCRS et le PSP, Square Dorchester (Ren?-L?vesque et Peel, m?tro Peel) Dans le cadre de la semaine d'actions contre le Partenariat pour la s?curit? et la prosp?rit? (PSP), le Rassemblement populaire contre l'injustice s?curitaire (RPCIS) vous invite ? une manifestation pour d?noncer le r?le du Service canadien de renseignement et de s?curit? (SCRS) dans la criminalisation, le harc?lement et le profilage des r?fugi?s, immigrants et sans-statut. Le SCRS nourrit la culture de la peur et de la suspicion que l'?tat utilise pour justifier l'expansion de la surveillance et du contr?le ? l'ordre du jour du PSP. Info: rpcis.mtl at gmail.com ::::: ASSEMBL?ES COMMUNAUTAIRES (1er, 4, 11 et 13 ao?t) ::::: Une s?rie d'Assembl?es communautaires auront lieu les 1, 4, 11 et 13 ao?t pour discuter des impacts du PSP, particuli?rement sur les immigrantEs, les migrantEs, les r?fugi?Es et les communaut?s autochtones. Pour plus d'information et pour les lieux et heures des assembl?es : http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2007/07/assembles-communautaires-pas-de-scurit.html ::::: SHOW B?N?FICE (9 ao?t) ::::: Un show b?n?fice pour les mobilisations ? Montebello contre le PSP avec le groupe f?ministe radical Genr'radical et le groupe Bernard et ses d?saccords! ? l'Aliz?e (900 Ontario est), 20h. Pour plus d'information : www.genrradical.org ::::: BRIGADES FESTIVES (11 ao?t) ::::: Le comit? info/?ducation populaire organise des Brigades festives dans diff?rents quartiers de Montr?al, pour faire de l'?ducation populaire sur le PSP. La premi?re brigade s'est tenue ? Parc Extension le 29 juillet dernier (voir les photos ? http://photos.cmaq.net/v/brigade-festif/) La prochaine brigade aura lieu dans C?te-des-Neiges le 11 ao?t. Plus d'information ?: http://www.psp-spp.com/?q=en/node/21 ----- Pour tout savoir sur le PSP et les mobilisations ? Montebello: www.psp-spp.com Pour toute autre information : info at psp-spp.com / 514-848-7583 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From info at psp-spp.com Wed Aug 1 12:50:36 2007 From: info at psp-spp.com (PGA-Bloc Montreal) Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 15:50:36 -0400 Subject: [Bloquez l'empire!] !!! Protest and disrupt Bush and the SPP in Montebello, Quebec this August 19-21 ! (Updated info) In-Reply-To: <7afd97440708011246w31a16dd7i99f45c7fbc128bdb@mail.gmail.com> References: <7afd97440708011246k5c72555cvc472b335def42c15@mail.gmail.com> <7afd97440708011246w31a16dd7i99f45c7fbc128bdb@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <7afd97440708011250t6b7ca549w58ff6d2f523e93ce@mail.gmail.com> August 1, 2007 -- Please post and forward widely www.psp-spp.com - info at psp-spp.com [Read below for basic info about protests in Montebello and Montreal, transportation, upcoming consulta, community assemblies, brigades festives and more ...] Mobilize and Protest against George Bush, Stephen Harper and Felipe Calderon at the meeting of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) AUGUST 19-21, 2007 MONTEBELLO, QUEBEC (Between Ottawa and Montreal) In brief, the "Security and Prosperity Partnership" (SPP) combines the destructive neo-liberal policies of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with the fear and paranoia of post 9-11 "Homeland Security" policies. The SPP is firmly rooted within a colonial and capitalist framework. About the SPP: http://www.psp-spp.com/?q=en/aboutthespp ::::: DAYS OF ACTIONS IN MONTEBELLO (August 19&20) ::::: -> Sunday, August 19 ? Creative resistance and popular education against the SPP August 19 will be a day of creative resistance and popular education against the SPP in the Montebello-area. We encourage affinity groups to organize autonomous actions within the framework of creative resistance, and call on individuals to join in a collective action of popular education. More details to come. Transport is planned for the 19th (return or one-way; more details under transport and housing below). -> Monday, August 20, NOON ? Protest and disruption of Bush, Harper, Calderon and the SPP We call on affinity groups, organizations and individuals to mobilize in large numbers for a main Day of Action against the meeting of Bush, Harper, Calderon and the SPP that will take place on MONDAY, AUGUST 20 AT NOON (please note the new time) at the Chateau Montebello (or as close as possible to Montebello). Montebello, Quebec is a tourist village between Ottawa and Montreal, on Highway 148, on the Ottawa River. MAPS of the region, including Montebello itself, are linked at: http://www.psp-spp.com/?q=en/image/tid/18 TRANSPORTATION to Montebello is being organized from Montreal for August 19 & 20; e-mail transportmontebello at gmail.com to reserve a space. Please reserve BEFORE August 12. More info about transportation at: http://www.psp-spp.com/?q=en/node/97 Transportation to Montebello is also being organized from Ottawa ( transportottawa at gmail.com), Quebec City ( autobusquebec at gmail.com) and Toronto (bushbus2007 at gmail.com ). ACCOMMODATIONS: A location for basic accommodations will be available for demonstrators in the Montebello-area. Accommodations will be available for people who wish to participate in both days of action, and also for those who want to arrive earlier to plan actions and awareness-raising activities in the Montebello-area. More details to come. POSTERS, FLYERS and other materials for download, printing and distribution are available at: http://www.psp-spp.com/?q=en/taxonomy/term/5 MORE INFORMATION: ::::: CONSULTA, AUGUST 12 ::::: A final planning and organizing CONSULTA is scheduled for SUNDAY, August 12 from 12-5pm in room R-M 110 at UQAM (315 Ste-Catherine East, near St-Denis). More info: http://www.psp-spp.com/?q=en/node/140 ::::: ACTIONS AGAINST THE SPP IN MONTREAL (August 14 & 16) ::::: As part of a National Week of Action Against the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) from August 13 to 17 there will be two actions in Montreal, against CN rail and the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS): -> AUGUST 14, NOON ? CN: Stop your racist lawsuits! Protest the Central Train Station (metro Bonaventure). Support indigenous struggles for sovereignty, dignity and self-determination on Turtle Island ... Oppose CN Rail's racism and colonialism ... Protest Bush, Harper, Calderon and the "Security and Prosperity Partnership" (SPP). More information: http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2007/07/cn-rail-drop-your-racist-lawsuits.html -> AUGUST 16, NOON ? Protest against CSIS and the SPP, Dorchester Square (Rene-Levesque and Peel, metro Peel). The People's Assembly against Security Injustice invite you to a demonstration to denounce the role of the Canadian and Security Intelligence Service (CSIS)in the criminalization, harassment and profiling of refugees, immigrants and non-status people. CSIS feeds a culture a fear and suspicion that the state uses to justify the expansion of surveillance and control on the agenda of the SPP. Info: rpcis.mtl at gmail.com ::::: COMMUNITY ASSEMBLIES (August 1, 4, 11 & 13) ::::: A series of COMMUNITY ASSEMBLIES to discuss the impacts of the Security & Prosperity Partnership (SPP), especially on immigrant, migrant, refugee and indigenous communities will take place in Montreal on August 1, 4, 11 & 13. More info: http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2007/07/community-assemblies-no-security.html ::::: BENEFIT SHOW (August 9) ::::: A benefit show with Genr'radical and Bernard et ses d?saccords! At L'Aliz?e (900 Ontario est), 8pm. More info: http://www.antipatriarcat.org/radical/ ::::: BRIGADES FESTIVES (August 11) ::::: The info/popular education committee is organizing "Brigades Festives" in local neighbourhoods, to raise awareness about the SPP. The first Brigade took place in Parc Extension this past July 29 (photos at: http://photos.cmaq.net/v/brigade-festif/) The next Brigade will be in C?te-des-Neiges on August 11. More details to be posted at: http://www.psp-spp.com/?q=en/node/21 ----- E-MAIL: info at psp-spp.com WEB: www.psp-spp.com TEL: 514-848-7583 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From aaron at resist.ca Wed Aug 1 17:27:16 2007 From: aaron at resist.ca (aaron at resist.ca) Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 17:27:16 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Bloquez l'empire!] CKUT Radio: A Mexican Perspective on the SPP Message-ID: <57103.66.130.75.225.1186014436.squirrel@mail.resist.ca> http://aaron.resist.ca/node/123 CKUT Radio: A Mexican Perspective on the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) Listen to an interview with Dr. Alejandro Villamar of the Red Mexicana de Accion Frente al Libre Comercio (RMALC). Recorded in Mexico City on July 20, 2007. -->To download or listen to the report, visit: http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=24087 While not widely known to the public in Canada, the USA, or Mexico, the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) seeks to harmonize the security, economic, and foreign policies of all 3 countries on the North American continent. As George W. Bush, Stephen Harper, and Felipe Calderon are preparing for the 3 summit of the "3 amigos", set to take place in Montebello, Quebec, August 20-21, numerous groups in social movements throughout the continent are also mobilizing against the SPP and all the policies that it seeks to implement. In this report, we hear from Dr. Alejandro Villamar of the RMALC (Red Mexicana de Accion Frente al Libre Comercio), an NGO doing popular education around the SPP (known as ASPAN in Spanish) in Mexico. Here he discusses the projected impacts that the SPP could have on workers, migrants, and the general Mexican public. For more information: www.rmalc.org.mx www.psp-spp.com www.ckut.ca aaron.resist.ca From abolissons at gmail.com Thu Aug 2 09:52:08 2007 From: abolissons at gmail.com (Commission populaire) Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 12:52:08 -0400 Subject: [Bloquez l'empire!] Aug 16: Denounce CSIS Abuse, Against the SPP Message-ID: <02dd01c7d525$a4be0010$8a33cdcd@CPQ18145226471> AUGUST 16TH, DENOUNCE CSIS ABUSE AND INCOMPETENCE! No security without justice and dignity! Against the SPP! ****************** Demo and Action against CSIS and the SPP Thursday, August 16th, 2007 at noon, sharp! Dorchester Square (Rene-Levesque and Peel), Peel metro ****************** As a part of the week of action against the Security and Prosperity Partnership (PSP), the People's Assembly against Security Injustice (PAASI) invites you to a demonstration to denounce the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) role in the criminalization, harassment, and profiling of refugees, immigrants and non-status people. Before, and increasingly since September 11th 2001, CSIS has contributed to creating a climate of suspicion, mistrust, and paranoia directed towards specific migrant communities. With the support of the Liberal and Conservative governments and under pressure from the US government, Canadian secret services have intervened in the selection of refugees, immigrants and visitors, creating incriminating and false files, and coercing refugees and permanent residents into spying on their own communities. The security certificate masquerade - with its secret evidence, confessions obtained under coercion and torture and media leaks - is a good illustration of the oppressive and illegal ways in which CSIS works. CSIS was created in the aftermath of the McDonald Commission that brought to light the criminal activities of the RCMP in the 1970's. The fiasco surrounding the Air India attack in 1984 was the coup de grace for the RCMP. Despite all this, the RCMP, along with CSIS, was heavily implicated by Judge O'Connor in the deportation and torture of Maher Arar. O'Connor recommended a further inquiry into the cases of El-Maati, Nouredine and Al Malki. In its short history, CSIS has infiltrated unions and has been involved in several scandals of its own. The SPP is an initiative of the American, Canadian and Mexican states, pushed by corporate interests formalized as the North American Competitiveness Council. These three states and the corporations behind them want to force the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) even further towards economic and security integration. In the short term, this means a series of sectoral agreements focusing on water, food security, transportation of goods, energy, and the environment, with the goal of harmonizing trade between Canada, the US, and Mexico. As in all free trade agreements, the circulation of goods and services is to liberalized while immigration, border controls, and labour are further restricted. The SPP goes further: it aims to create a "common security perimeter" around US, Canada and Mexico. In the ? Homeland Security ? era, this integrated security regime promises to usher us fully into the world of CSIS: security for the few and justice for no one, state control and surveillance, racial profiling, the rule of suspicion and fear. Specifically, this means biometrics, agreements on seasonal labour, collaboration on police training, integrated systems of electronic eavesdropping, shared data-banks of personal information, closer relations between security and intelligence forces in the three countries, borders patrolled by drones and sensors, and, of course, coordinated no fly lists. CSIS's exaggerated and racist "threat assessments" have already helped to prepare the ground for these developments. And its role, within the framework of a reinforced "Fortress North America," could become more important than ever. The People's Assembly against Security Injustice is made up of individuals and groups opposed to the security diversion, to the profiling of immigrant communities and to the repression of dissent. **** We also invite you to participate in the Day of Action against the SPP in Montebello, on Monday, August 20th. Details at www.psp-spp.com. **** INFO : rpcis.mtl at gmail.com ou 521-859-9023. BACKGROUND: On the SPP: www.psp-spp.com On CSIS and its impact: www.peoplescommission.org ACTION SUPPORTED BY: No one is illegal, People's Commission on Immigration Security Measures, Block the Empire Montr?al, the Immigrant Workers Centre, Solidarity across Borders and Tadamon! Montr?al. (Contact us at rpcis.mtl at gmail.com if you would like to add your name.) From abolissons at gmail.com Thu Aug 2 09:52:39 2007 From: abolissons at gmail.com (Commission populaire) Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 12:52:39 -0400 Subject: [Bloquez l'empire!] 16 aout : Denoncons les abus du SCRS, Contre le PSP Message-ID: <02e101c7d525$a587b8b0$8a33cdcd@CPQ18145226471> LE 16 AO?T, D?NON?ONS LES ABUS ET L'INCOMP?TENCE DU SCRS! Pas de s?curit? sans justice et sans dignit?! Contre le PSP! ****************** Manif-action contre le SCRS et le SPP jeudi, 16 ao?t 2007 ? midi pile ! Square Dorchester (Ren?-L?vesque et Peel), M?tro Peel ****************** Dans le cadre de la semaine d'actions contre le Partenariat pour la s?curit? et la prosp?rit? (PSP), le Rassemblement populaire contre l'injustice s?curitaire (RPCIS) vous invite ? une manifestation pour d?noncer le r?le du Service canadien de renseignement et de s?curit? (SCRS) dans la criminalisation, le harc?lement et le profilage des r?fugi?s, immigrants et sans-statut. Avant, mais surtout depuis septembre 2001, le SCRS a contribu? ? cr?er un climat de suspicion, de m?fiance et de parano?a dirig? contre certaines communaut?s migrantes. Avec l'appui des gouvernements lib?raux et conservateur et sous la pression des autorit?s ?tasuniennes, les services secrets canadiens interviennent dans le processus de s?lection des r?fugi?s, des immigrants et des visiteurs, ils cr?ent des dossiers incriminants et erron?s sur certaines personnes, ils menacent des r?fugi?s ou r?sidents permanents afin qu'ils espionnent leur propre communaut?. La mascarade des certificats de s?curit?, avec son lot d'irr?gularit?s (preuves secr?tes, t?moignages obtenus sous la pression et la torture, coulage dans les m?dias), repr?sente bien le fonctionnement ill?gal et r?pressif du SCRS. Il faut se rappeler que le SRCS a ?t? cr?? dans la foul?e de la Commission McDonald, qui avait mis au jour les activit?s criminelles de la GRC en termes d'enqu?tes et de renseignement dans les ann?es 1970. Le fiasco autour de l'attentat d'Air India en 1984 a ?t? le coup de gr?ce pour la GRC. Malgr? tout ?a, la GRC, comme le SCRS, a ?t? s?v?rement bl?m?e par le juge O'Connor en 2006 pour la d?portation et la torture de Maher Arar, alors que dans son rapport, il recommandait ?galement la tenue d'une enqu?te dans les cas El-Maati, Nouredine et Al Malki. Dans sa courte histoire, le SCRS a aussi infiltr? les milieux syndicaux et a ?t? ? l'origine de plusieurs scandales. Le PSP est une initiative des gouvernements ?tasunien, canadien et mexicain visant ? satisfaire les int?r?ts de compagnies et de puissants groupes de pression priv?s pr?sents au sein du Conseil nord-am?ricain pour la comp?titivit?. Ces trois ?tats et les acteurs corporatifs qui se cachent derri?re eux veulent pousser plus loin l'Accord de libre-?change nord-am?ricain (AL?NA) en faisant pression sur les politiques pour une int?gration ?conomique et s?curitaire renforc?e. ? moyen terme, une s?rie d' ententes sectorielles dans les domaines de l'eau, de la s?curit? alimentaire, du transport des biens, de l'?nergie, de l'environnement et autres visent ? harmoniser les ?changes entre le Canada, les ?tats-Unis et le Mexique. Comme dans tous les accords de lib?ralisation, la libre circulation des biens et services est accrue tandis que les politiques en mati?re d' immigration, de contr?le des fronti?res et de travail sont plus contraignantes. Le PSP va encore plus loin : son but est de cr?er un " p?rim?tre commun de s?curit? " autour des ?tats-Unis, du Canada et du Mexique. ? l'?re de la " S?curit? int?rieure ", ce r?gime s?curitaire int?gr? nous entra?nera certainement davantage dans le monde du SRCS : s?curit? pour certains et justice pour personne, contr?le ?tatique et surveillance. On parle, entre autres, d'ententes sur le travail saisonnier, de la biom?trie, de l'entra?nement policier, de syst?mes int?gr?s d'?coute ?lectronique, de banques communes de donn?es personnelles, de collaboration accrue entre les services de renseignement et de s?curit? des trois pays, de fronti?res patrouill?es par des drones et des sondes et, ?videmment, les listes d' interdiction de vol. Les " ?valuations de menace " exag?r?es et racistes du SCRS ont d?j? pr?par? le terrain pour ces d?veloppements. Le r?le du SCRS, dans le cadre du renforcement de la " Forteresse Am?rique du Nord ", s'en trouvera d'autant plus important. Le Rassemblement populaire contre l'injustice s?curitaire (RPCIS) est constitu? de groupes et individus oppos?s ? la d?rive s?curitaire, au profilage des communaut?s immigrantes et ? la r?pression de la dissidence. **** Nous vous invitons aussi ? participer ? la journ?e d'actions contre le PSP ? Montebello le lundi 20 ao?t, dont vous trouverez tous les d?tails au www.psp-spp.com. **** INFO : rpcis.mtl at gmail.com ou 514-859-9023. CONTEXTE : - Sur le PSP : www.psp-spp.com - Sur le SCRS et ces impacts : www.peoplescommission.org APPUY? PAR : Personne n'est ill?gal, Commission populaire sur les mesures de s?curit? en immigration, Bloquez l'empire Montr?al, le Centre des travailleurs et travailleuses immigrant-e-s, Solidarit? sans fronti?res, Tadamon ! Montr?al. From tadamon at resist.ca Sun Aug 5 20:19:46 2007 From: tadamon at resist.ca (Tadamon!) Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 03:19:46 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Bloquez l'empire!] Tadamon! Montreal: Opposez vous au Partenariat pour la Securite et la Prosperite. Message-ID: Tadamon! Montreal: Opposez vous au Partenariat pour la S?curit? et la Prosp?rit? http://tadamon.resist.ca/index.php/post/812 Tadamon! Montr?al vous encourage ? soutenir et vous impliquer dans les mobilisations populaires contre le sommet ? Partenariat pour la S?curit? et la Prosp?rit? ? (PSP) qui aura lieu ? Montebello au Qu?bec, entre le 19 et 21 ao?t o? le pr?sident des Etats Unis Georges Bush, le Premier Ministre canadien Stephen Harper, et le pr?sident mexicain Felipe Calderon se rencontreront. Le ? Partenariat pour la S?curit? et la Prosp?rit? ? (PSP) est une initiative politique qui renforcera encore plus l'agenda ?conomique n?olib?ral du ? Libre-?change ? et de la ? S?curit? Nationale ? d?finis par le pouvoir d'Etat en Am?rique du Nord, afin d'?tablir ? la Forteresse Am?rique du Nord ?. Des initiatives pour opposer et protester contre le sommet du ? Partenariat pour la S?curit? et la Prosp?rit? ? ? Montr?al et partout au Canada sont indiqu?s ci-dessous. Tadamon! Montr?al soutient ces mobilisations populaires pour opposer le Sommet du PSP ? Montebello parce que la logique ?conomique n?olib?rale corporatiste de l'agenda PSP s'appliquera aussi sur les populations du Moyen Orient. Les chefs d'?tat qui y participeront, le pr?sident George Bush, le Premier Ministre canadien Stephen Harper et le pr?sident mexicain Felipe Calderon sont des inconditionnels d?fenseurs de la guerre raciste contre le ? terrorisme ? qui a provoqu? destructions et morts au Liban, en Palestine, en Irak et dans la r?gion du Moyen Orient. Opposez vous au ? Partenariat pour la S?curit? et la Prosp?rit? ? ! Solidairement, Tadamon! Montr?al ---- 1er ao?t 2007: Lire cet appel pour les plus r?centes informations sur les manifestations a Montebello (mise ? jour pour le 19 et 20 ao?t), le transport, les consultas ? venir, le show b?n?fice, les brigades festives et plus... Mobilisons et manifestons contre George Bush, Stephen Harper et Felipe Calderon a la rencontre du Partenariat pour la s?curit? et la prosp?rit? (PSP). * 19 AU 21 AO?T 2007 MONTEBELLO, QUEBEC (Entre Ottawa et Montr?al) En peu de mots, le ? Partenariat pour la s?curit? et la prosp?rit? (PSP) ? conjugue les politiques destructrices n?olib?rales de l'Accord de libre ?change nord-am?ricain (ALENA) aux tactiques de peur et de parano?a associ?es aux politiques de ? s?curit? nationale ?, tout en demeurant fid?le aux traditions colonialistes et ultra capitalistes qui sont ? l'origine de ces mesures. ? propos du PSP: http://www.psp-spp.com/?q=fr/node/35 ::::: JOURN?ES D'ACTION ? MONTEBELLO ::::: Deux journ?es d'action contre la rencontre de Bush, Harper et Calderon et le PSP auront lieu les dimanche 19 ao?t et lundi 20 ao?t. * DIMANCHE 19 AO?T - R?sistance cr?ative et ?ducation populaire. Le dimanche 19 ao?t sera une journ?e de r?sistance cr?ative et festive et d'?ducation populaire sur le PSP dans les environs de Montebello. Nous invitons les groupes d'affinit? ? organiser des actions autonomes suivant les param?tres de r?sistance cr?ative et aux autres individus ? se joindre ? une action collective festive et d'?ducation populaire. Les d?tails sur cette journ?e seront pr?cis?s sous peu. Du transport est pr?vu pour le 19, aller-retour ou aller seulement (voir section transport et h?bergement plus bas). * LUNDI 20 AO?T - Actions de perturbation contre le PSP. Nous appelons tous les groupes d'affinit?, organisations et individus ? mobiliser massivement pour la principale journ?e d'action contre Bush, Harper, Calderon et le PSP qui aura lieu lundi le 20 ao?t. Les actions commenceront ? MIDI (*notez le changement d'heure*) au Ch?teau Montebello o? a lieu la rencontre (ou le plus pr?s possible de Montebello). Montebello est un village touristique situ? entre Montr?al et Ottawa, sur l'autoroute 148 en bordure de la Rivi?re des Outaouais. Des cartes de la r?gion, incluant le village de Montebello, se trouvent ? cette adresse : http://www.psp-spp.com/?q=en/image/tid/18 ::::: TRANSPORT - R?SERVEZ VOS PLACES ! ::::: Montr?al : Du transport de Montr?al ? Montebello est organis? pour les 19 et 20 ao?t. Pour r?server votre place dans les autobus, ?crivez ? transportmontebello at gmail.com . SVP, r?server le plus t?t possible et AVANT LE 12 AO?T. Plus d'information ?: http://www.psp-spp.com/?q=fr/node/96 Autres villes: Du transport est ?galement organis? ? partir d'Ottawa (transportottawa at gmail.com ), Qu?bec (autobusquebec at gmail.com ) et Toronto (bushbus2007 at gmail.com). ::::: H?BERGEMENT ::::: Un lieu d'h?bergement ? de base ? sera mit ? la disposition des manifestantEs dans les environs de Montebello. L'h?bergement sera donc disponible pour les personnes qui veulent participer aux deux journ?es d'action des 19 et 20 ao?t ou pour ceux et celles qui souhaitent arriver quelques jours ? l'avance pour planifier des actions et faire de la sensibilisation. Plus de d?tails bient?t. Les actions contre Bush, Harper, Calderon et le PSP sont organis?es par des militantEs anticapitalistes, pour l'action directe, pour la justice sociale au Qu?bec et en Ontario - le BLOC AMP qui agit sous les principes de base du r?seau de l'Action Mondiale des Peuples (AMP) ( www.agp.org). Ottawa et Montr?al - de chaque c?t? de Montebello via l'autoroute 148 - agissent commebases organisationnelles pour les manifestations, incluant les manifestations et actions locales. Des AFFICHES, TRACTS et d'autre materiel de mobilisation et d'?ducation populaire a t?l?charger, imprimer et distribuer sont disponibles ?: http://www.psp-spp.com/?q=fr/taxonomy/term/5 PLUS D'INFORMATION ::::: CONSULTA, 12 AO?T ::::: Une derni?re consulta d'organisation et de planification est pr?vue pour le DIMANCHE 12 AOUT, de midi a 17h, a la salle R-M 110 a l'UQ?M (315, Ste-Catherine est, pr?s de St-Denis). Pour plus d'information: http://www.psp-spp.com/?q=fr/node/139 ::::: ACTIONS CONTRE LE PSP A MONTREAL (14 et 16 ao?t) ::::: Dans le cadre de la Semaine Nationale d'action contre le Partenariat pour la s?curit? et la prosp?rit? (PSP) du 13 au 17 ao?t, deux actions auront lieu a Montr?al, contre le CN et le Service canadien de renseignement de s?curit? (SCRS): -> 14 AO?T, MIDI - CN: Cessez vos poursuites racistes! ? la Garre centrale de train (m?tro Bonaventure) Soutenons les luttes autochtones pour la souverainet?, la dignit? et l'autod?termination sur l'?le de la tortue. Opposons-nous au racisme et au colonialisme du CN. Manifestons contre Bush, Harper, Calderon et le PSP. Pour plus d'information: http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2007/07/cn-cessez-vos-poursuites -racistes.html -> 16 AO?T, MIDI - Manifestons contre le SCRS et le PSP, Square Dorchester (Ren?-L?vesque et Peel, m?tro Peel) Dans le cadre de la semaine d'actions contre le Partenariat pour la s?curit? et la prosp?rit? (PSP), le Rassemblement populaire contre l'injustice s?curitaire (RPCIS) vous invite ? une manifestation pour d?noncer le r?le du Service canadien de renseignement et de s?curit? (SCRS) dans la criminalisation, le harc?lement et le profilage des r?fugi?s, immigrants et sans-statut. Le SCRS nourrit la culture de la peur et de la suspicion que l'?tat utilise pour justifier l'expansion de la surveillance et du contr?le ? l'ordre du jour du PSP. Info: rpcis.mtl at gmail.com ::::: ASSEMBL?ES COMMUNAUTAIRES (1er, 4, 11 et 13 ao?t) ::::: Une s?rie d'Assembl?es communautaires auront lieu les 1, 4, 11 et 13 ao?t pour discuter des impacts du PSP, particuli?rement sur les immigrantEs, les migrantEs, les r?fugi?Es et les communaut?s autochtones. Pour plus d'information et pour les lieux et heures des assembl?es : http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2007/07/assembles-communautaires -pas-de-scurit.html ::::: SHOW B?N?FICE (9 ao?t) ::::: Un show b?n?fice pour les mobilisations ? Montebello contre le PSP avec le groupe f?ministe radical Genr'radical et le groupe Bernard et ses d?saccords! ? l'Aliz?e (900 Ontario est), 20h. Pour plus d'information : www.genrradical.org ::::: BRIGADES FESTIVES (11 ao?t) ::::: Le comit? info/?ducation populaire organise des Brigades festives dans diff?rents quartiers de Montr?al, pour faire de l'?ducation populaire sur le PSP. La premi?re brigade s'est tenue ? Parc Extension le 29 juillet dernier (voir les photos ? http://photos.cmaq.net/v/brigade-festif/) La prochaine brigade aura lieu dans C?te-des-Neiges le 11 ao?t. Plus d'information ?: http://www.psp-spp.com/?q=en/node/21 ----- From tadamon at resist.ca Sun Aug 5 20:27:20 2007 From: tadamon at resist.ca (Tadamon!) Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 03:27:20 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Bloquez l'empire!] Tadamon! Montreal: Oppose the 'Security and Prosperity Partnership'! Message-ID: Tadamon! Montreal Oppose the 'Security and Prosperity Partnership'! http://tadamon.resist.ca/index.php/post/812/ Tadamon! Montreal is appealing to you to spread the word, support & get involved in the upcoming popular mobilization against the 'Security and Prosperity Partnership' (SPP) summit in Montebello, Quebec at which U.S. President George Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper & Mexican President Felipe Calderon will be meeting between August 19th & 21st. The 'Security and Prosperity Partnership' (SPP) is a political initiative that will further an agenda of neo-liberal economic 'free trade' and 'national security' as defined by state power in North America, building toward 'Fortress North America'. Grassroots initiatives to confront & oppose the upcoming summit surrounding the 'Security and Prosperity Partnership' in Montreal & throughout Canada are outlined below. Tadamon! Montreal is supporting the upcoming mobilization to confront & oppose the SPP summit in Montebello, Quebec because the neo-liberal corporate economic logic fueling the SPP agenda is also being forced on the people of the Middle East. The national 'leaders' who will be participating in the SPP summit, U.S. President George Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper & Mexican President Felipe Calderon are adamant supporters of the racist 'War on Terror' that has wrought destitution, destruction & deaths on the people of Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq & the entire Middle East region. Oppose the 'Security and Prosperity Partnership'! In Solidarity, Tadamon! Montreal ---- August 2007: Read below for basic info about protests in Montebello and Montreal, transportation, upcoming consulta, community assemblies, brigades festives and more ... Mobilize and Protest against George Bush, Stephen Harper and Felipe Calderon at the meeting of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) AUGUST 19-21, 2007 MONTEBELLO, QUEBEC (Between Ottawa and Montreal) In brief, the "Security and Prosperity Partnership" (SPP) combines the destructive neo-liberal policies of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with the fear and paranoia of post 9-11 "Homeland Security" policies. The SPP is firmly rooted within a colonial and capitalist framework. About the SPP: http://www.psp-spp.com/?q=en/aboutthespp ::::: DAYS OF ACTIONS IN MONTEBELLO (August 19&20) ::::: -> Sunday, August 19 - Creative resistance and popular education against the SPP August 19 will be a day of creative resistance and popular education against the SPP in the Montebello-area. We encourage affinity groups to organize autonomous actions within the framework of creative resistance, and call on individuals to join in a collective action of popular education. More details to come. Transport is planned for the 19th (return or one-way; more details under transport and housing below). -> Monday, August 20, NOON - Protest and disruption of Bush, Harper, Calderon and the SPP We call on affinity groups, organizations and individuals to mobilize in large numbers for a main Day of Action against the meeting of Bush, Harper, Calderon and the SPP that will take place on MONDAY, AUGUST 20 AT NOON (please note the new time) at the Chateau Montebello (or as close as possible to Montebello). Montebello, Quebec is a tourist village between Ottawa and Montreal, on Highway 148, on the Ottawa River. MAPS of the region, including Montebello itself, are linked at: http://www.psp-spp.com/?q=en/image/tid/18 TRANSPORTATION to Montebello is being organized from Montreal for August 19 & 20; e-mail transportmontebello at gmail.com to reserve a space. Please reserve BEFORE August 12. More info about transportation at: http://www.psp-spp.com/?q=en/node/97 Transportation to Montebello is also being organized from Ottawa ( transportottawa at gmail.com), Quebec City ( autobusquebec at gmail.com) and Toronto (bushbus2007 at gmail.com ). ACCOMMODATIONS: A location for basic accommodations will be available for demonstrators in the Montebello-area. Accommodations will be available for people who wish to participate in both days of action, and also for those who want to arrive earlier to plan actions and awareness-raising activities in the Montebello-area. More details to come. POSTERS, FLYERS and other materials for download, printing and distribution are available at: http://www.psp-spp.com/?q=en/taxonomy/term/5 MORE INFORMATION: ::::: CONSULTA, AUGUST 12 ::::: A final planning and organizing CONSULTA is scheduled for SUNDAY, August 12 from 12-5pm in room R-M 110 at UQAM (315 Ste-Catherine East, near St-Denis). More info: http://www.psp-spp.com/?q=en/node/140 ::::: ACTIONS AGAINST THE SPP IN MONTREAL (August 14 & 16) ::::: As part of a National Week of Action Against the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) from August 13 to 17 there will be two actions in Montreal, against CN rail and the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS): -> AUGUST 14, NOON - CN: Stop your racist lawsuits! Protest the Central Train Station (metro Bonaventure). Support indigenous struggles for sovereignty, dignity and self-determination on Turtle Island ... Oppose CN Rail's racism and colonialism ... Protest Bush, Harper, Calderon and the "Security and Prosperity Partnership" (SPP). More information: http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2007/07/cn-rail-drop-your-racist -lawsuits.html -> AUGUST 16, NOON - Protest against CSIS and the SPP, Dorchester Square (Rene-Levesque and Peel, metro Peel). The People's Assembly against Security Injustice invite you to a demonstration to denounce the role of the Canadian and Security Intelligence Service (CSIS)in the criminalization, harassment and profiling of refugees, immigrants and non-status people. CSIS feeds a culture a fear and suspicion that the state uses to justify the expansion of surveillance and control on the agenda of the SPP. Info: rpcis.mtl at gmail.com ::::: COMMUNITY ASSEMBLIES (August 1, 4, 11 & 13) ::::: A series of COMMUNITY ASSEMBLIES to discuss the impacts of the Security & Prosperity Partnership (SPP), especially on immigrant, migrant, refugee and indigenous communities will take place in Montreal on August 1, 4, 11 & 13. More info: http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2007/07/community-assemblies-no- security.html ::::: BENEFIT SHOW (August 9) ::::: A benefit show with Genr'radical and Bernard et ses d?saccords! At L'Aliz?e (900 Ontario est), 8pm. More info: http://www.antipatriarcat.org/radical/ ::::: BRIGADES FESTIVES (August 11) ::::: The info/popular education committee is organizing "Brigades Festives" in local neighbourhoods, to raise awareness about the SPP. The first Brigade took place in Parc Extension this past July 29 (photos at: http://photos.cmaq.net/v/brigade-festif/) The next Brigade will be in C?te-des-Neiges on August 11. More details to be posted at: http://www.psp-spp.com/?q=en/node/21 ----- From transportmontebello at gmail.com Mon Aug 6 20:10:26 2007 From: transportmontebello at gmail.com (Transport Montebello) Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 23:10:26 -0400 Subject: [Bloquez l'empire!] Transport Montebello! Reserver avant le 12 aout! Reserve before August 12! In-Reply-To: <5b35a7490708061858m16f6858i5bd094e33644d1d5@mail.gmail.com> References: <5b35a7490708061858m16f6858i5bd094e33644d1d5@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <5b35a7490708062010m1844aa7cu68db5c2a1314556@mail.gmail.com> [English below] Un message important de la part de Transport!Montebello!: S'organiser pour que le plus de gens possible puissent se rendre ? Montebello et manifester contre George Bush, Stephen Harper, Felipe Calder?n et le Partenariat pour la s?curit? et la prosp?rit? les 19-21 ao?t: DERNIER RAPPEL: SVP r?servez votre place pour le transport vers Montebello AVANT 10 heures du matin le 12 AO?T 2007. La prochaine consulta d'organisation aura lieu dimanche le 12 ao?t 2007, de midi ? 17 heures. Pour plus d'information, visitez : http://www.psp-spp.com/?q=fr/node/139 Afin que nous puissions bien nous organiser, nous devons avoir une id?e assez pr?cise du nombre de personnes qui ont l'intention d'aller manifester ? Montebello et qui auront besoin de transport soit par voiture ou par autobus. Nous vous encourageons fortement ? nous contacter ? l'adresse transportmontebello at gmail.com AVANT le 12 ao?t pour nous faire part de vos besoins de transport. Nous encourageons ?galement les groupes ? ADOPTER UN AUTOBUS, c'est-?-dire ? s'engager seul ou en collaboration avec d'autres groupes ? mobiliser et ? remplir un ou plusieurs autobus. Par exemple, il y a d?j? le Centre de travailleurs et travailleuses immigrant-e-s. Personne n'est ill?gal et Solidarit? sans fronti?res qui se sont engag?s ? remplir un autobus. Contactez-nous si vous ?tes en mesure d'adopter un autobus au nom de votre groupe. Si vous ou votre groupe organisez votre propre transport, tenez-nous au courant, de sorte que l'on puisse estimer le nombre de personnes pr?sentes aux manifs du 19 et du 20 ao?t. (Dites-nous quels jours vous serez ? Montebello, et laissez-nous un num?ro de t?l?phone cellulaire o? nous pourrons vous rejoindre, si possible). Vous pouvez r?server votre place de Montr?al ? Montebello en ?crivant ? l'adresse transportmontebello at gmail.com ou en nous t?l?phonant au 514 848-7583. Veuillez pr?ciser si vous voulez partir le 19 ao?t ou le matin du 20 ao?t. Pr?cisez ?galement si vous voulez rentrer ? Montr?al le 19, le 20 ou le 21 ao?t. Pour plus d'information: www.psp-spp.com Merci de votre collaboration! -- TransportMontebello! :::::::::: :::::::::: An important message from Transport Montebello: Organizing to get people to the protests against George Bush, Stephen Harper, Felipe Calderon and the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) from Montreal (August 19-21): FINAL REMINDER: Please RESERVE your spot on buses and cars to Montebello BEFORE 11am this August 12, 2007. The next planning consulta is Sunday, August 12, 2007 from noon-5pm; more details at: http://www.psp-spp.com/?q=en/node/140 In order for us to plan properly, we need to have an accurate idea of how many people are actually going to be getting on buses and cars to protest in Montebello. We strongly ENCOURAGE you and your groups to get in touch with transportmontebello at gmail.com BEFORE August 12 to let us know how many people are attending the protest, and need a ride. We also encourage you and your group to ADOPT A BUS, meaning you mobilize to fill one bus (up to 48 people) and, if possible, raise money towards a bus. For example, Solidarity Across Borders, No One Is Illegal and the Immigrant Workers Center are together mobilizing to fill at least one bus. Please get in touch if you're able to help fill one bus, or more. If you and your group are arranging your own transportation, let us know as well, so we can have an idea of how many people might be attending the protests on August 19 & 20 (let us know which day(s) you'll be in Montebello, and how we can get in touch by cellphone, if possible). Again, you can reserve transport to Montebello from Montreal by e-mail at: transportmontebello at gmail.com or by phone at 514-848-7583. Please specify if you wish to leave on August 19, or the morning of August 20. Also please specify if you wish to return on August 20 or 21. More info at: www.psp-spp.com Thanks for your cooperation! -- The organizers at Transport Montebello. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From christoff at resist.ca Mon Aug 6 21:13:04 2007 From: christoff at resist.ca (Stefan Christoff) Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 21:13:04 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Bloquez l'empire!] Radio Tadamon! Reflections on Lebanon War. Message-ID: * Radio Tadamon! Reflections on Lebanon War. http://tadamon.resist.ca/index.php/post/799 Listen to a special edition of Radio Tadamon! focused on commemorating the July 2006 Israeli military assault on Lebanon, a 34 day war that left over 1300 Lebanese civilians dead, large parts of the national infrastructure destroyed and southern Lebanon littered in over 1 million unexploded cluster bombs. This edition of Radio Tadamon! features multiple testimonies and reflections on the 2006 war on Lebanon recorded at a Montreal community commemoration event which attracted hundreds of participants from the Montreal region. Also this edition of Radio Tadamon! features a feature interview with May Hayder, a Lebanese community organizer in Montreal with Al-Hidaya Association who touches on a number of key issues regarding the current political turmoil in the Middle East, from the history of conflict between Israel & the Arab world, to the impacts of the 2006 Lebanon on the Lebanese Diaspora in Canada and finally to the designation of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization in Canada. ---> For more information concerning the Montreal community commemoration of the 2006 Israeli attack on Lebanon visit: * War on Lebanon: 1 Year Later http://tadamon.resist.ca/index.php/post/738 * CBC: Lebanese-Canadians mark one-year anniversary of Israeli bombing http://www.cbc.ca/cp/national/070711/n071183A.html [This radio report was produced for Radio Tadamon! by independent journalist Stefan Christoff.] ----------------------- From nooneisillegal at gmail.com Tue Aug 7 02:12:00 2007 From: nooneisillegal at gmail.com (No One Is Illegal Montreal) Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 05:12:00 -0400 Subject: [Bloquez l'empire!] AUDIO: Afghan refugees refuse deportation; Algonquins resist uranium mining; Montreal Community Assembly against the SPP (No One Is Illegal Radio, August 2007) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: LISTEN to the August 2007 No One Is Illegal Radio show at: http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=24164 The August 2007 edition of No One Is Illegal Radio includes: -- Afghan refugees refuse forcible removal from Norway: an interview with SVERRE PEDERSON, anti-racism activist in Oslo; -- The Algonquins of Sharbot Lake resist uranium mining and assert indigenous sovereignty: an interview with JENN TSUN, a dissident member of the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation; -- Community Assembly against the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP): presentations by FARHA NAJAH & NAZILA BETTACHE of No One Is Illegal-Montreal and RODERICK CALDERON of Siklab Migrant Workers Support Group More information below. LISTEN to the August 2007 No One Is Illegal Radio show at: http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=24164 -> AFGHAN REFUGEES REFUSE FORCIBLE REMOVAL FROM NORWAY: This past May and June, 45 Afghan refugees marched 650km from Trondheim to Oslo, to oppose the forced removal of Afghan refugees from Norway. While many refugees have been removed, others continue to struggle, both publicly and underground. According to Zahir Athari, one of the marchers: "The reality is that Afghan refugees are the scapegoat for a defeated war policy. It was claimed by the USA and partners that we will win the war and put every things in order in Afghanistan, now since after 5years not only nothing came to the order but also they are losing completely. The Norwegian government has to advertise Afghanistan as being safer and more democratic than Norway, and start to deport afghan refugees back, as quick as possible, to prove the claims and to justify its participation in that war on the Norwegian public view." Sverre Petersen, a supporter of the refugees and an anti-racism activist based in Oslo, provides context to the struggle against deportations and Fortress Europe in Norway. Background: http://www.asylmarsj.no/?language=en -> ALGONQUINS RESIST URANIUM MINING AND ASSERT INDIGENOUS SOVEREIGNTY: In the past several months, members of the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation and Shabot Obaadjiwan First Nation have resisted potential uranium mining on their unceded territories. A corporation called "Frontenac Ventures" have been testing for uranium for several years. Since June 28, the site of the mine has been blocked by an encampment that continues to this day. Jenn Tsun, a dissident member of the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation, provides background to the resistance near Sharbot Lake, Ontario. Background: http://wiinimkiikaa.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/residents-natives-protest-uranium-mine-300-participate-in-sharbot-lake-march/ -> NO SECURITY WITHOUT JUSTICE! NO PROSPERITY WITHOUT DIGNITY: COMMUNITY ASSEMBLY AGAINST THE SECURITY AND PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP This August 20-21, Stephen Harper, George Bush and Felipe Calder?n will be just 90 minutes from Montreal, in Montebello, Quebec, for a meeting of the so-called Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP). In brief, the SPP combines the destructive neo-liberal policies of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with the fear and paranoia of post 9-11 "Homeland Security" policies. The SPP is firmly rooted within a colonial and capitalist framework. As part of local popular education and mobilization efforts against the SPP, No One Is Illegal-Montreal has organized a series of community assemblies. From the first assembly on August 1st at UQAM in downtown Montreal, we hear presentations from Farha Najah & Nazila Bettache of No One Is Illegal-Montreal, providing background to the SPP, and from Roderick Calderon of the SIKLAB migrant workers support group, about policies such as the Live-in Caregiver Program, Filipino migration and displacement, and the local context in immigrant working class neighborhoods like Cote-des-neiges. Background: www.psp-spp.com & http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2007/07/community-assemblies-no-security.html LISTEN to the August 2007 No One Is Illegal Radio show at: http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=24164 This month's show was produced by members of the No One Is Illegal collective in Montreal, in conjunction with the CKUT Community News Collective (thanks to Roberto Nieto and Stefan Christoff). No One Is Illegal-Montreal is part of a worldwide movement of resistance, fighting for justice and dignity, and the right to self-determination for migrants, refugees and indigenous people. Our campaign is in public confrontation with the Canadian state, denouncing and taking action to combat racial profiling, police brutality, detentions and deportations, as well as opposing the displacement and genocide of indigenous peoples on Turtle Island. ----- noii-montreal at resist.ca 514-848-7583 http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com NOII-Montreal is a member of Solidarity Across Borders ( www.solidarityacrossborders.org ) and the Anti-Capitalist Network of Montreal (http://reseau-anticapitaliste.blogspot.com) Previous radio shows (May 2006-July 2007) are linked at: http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/search/label/No%20One%20Is%20Illegal%20Radio -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nooneisillegal at gmail.com Fri Aug 10 01:58:06 2007 From: nooneisillegal at gmail.com (No One Is Illegal Montreal) Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 04:58:06 -0400 Subject: [Bloquez l'empire!] lundi/Monday: Souper communautaire et session d'info :: Community dinner and information session (5347 Cote-des-neiges, 17h30) In-Reply-To: <52519.205.205.242.39.1186736179.squirrel@mail.resist.ca> References: <52519.205.205.242.39.1186736179.squirrel@mail.resist.ca> Message-ID: [English below] Pas de s?curit? sans justice! Pas de prosp?rit? sans dignit? Souper communautaire gratuit et Session d'information Une discussion communautaire sur le Partenariat nord-am?ricain pour la s?curit? et la prosp?rit? (PSP) et les cons?quences potentielles sur nos communaut?s montr?alaises, tel C?te-des-Neiges et les autres . =_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_= Lundi 13 ao?t ? 17 :30 5347 C?te-des-Neiges, 2i?me ?tage Centre communautaire de loisirs de la C?te-des-Neiges, m?tro C?te-des-Neiges =_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_= Souper gratuit, Projection de films, Pr?sentations, Garderie pour enfants, ((Traduction (fr-eng-esp) )) Discussion communautaire... Incluant une projecton de ? New World Border ?, un film qui examine la mont?e des violations des droits humains le long de la fronti?re entre les ?tats-Unis et le Mexique depuis l'implantation des murs -comme "Op?ration Gatekeeper"- qui ont ?t? contruits dans les r?gions frontali?res tr?s peupl?es depuis la derni?re d?cennie. .. --- Pr?sentations de : * MANDEEP DHILLON, Personne n'est ill?gal Montreal. * JOEY CALUGAY, Centre des Travailleurs et Travailleuses ImmigrantEs * RACHEL HEAP-LALONDE, Militante pour l'acc?s ? la sant? * ?MILIE BRETON, Bloquez l'Empire * Tadamon! Montreal. Joignez-vous ? nous pour un souper et une discussion communautaire sur le Partenariat nord-am?ricain pour la s?curit? et le prosp?rit? (PSP), un accord qui sera discut? prochainement ? un sommet des 'dirigeants' d'Am?rique du Nord, le pr?sident des ?tats-Unis, George Bush, le Premier Ministre Canadien, Stephen Harper et le pr?sident mexicain Felipe Calderon. Ce sommet sur le PSP aura lieu ? Montebello, Qu?bec, ? une heure de Montr?al, le 20-21 ao?t. Le PSP est un accord dont le but est d'?largir l'Accord de Libre-?change nord-am?ricain (AL?NA). Les programmes de 's?curit? nationale' et le contr?le de l'immigration nationale augmentent la s?curit? ? la fronti?re tout en for?ant des restrictions s?v?res sur le mouvement des ?tres humains. .. Cette session d'information examinera quels seront les effets du PSP sur nos vies quotidiennes dans C?te-des-Neiges, dans nos h?pitaux, nos lieux de travail, nos ?coles et plus encore. Cet ?v?nement examinera ?galement quels sont les effets du PSP sur les communaut?s marginailis?es et marqu?es par leur race, surtout les communaut?s des migrantEs et des r?fugi?Es avec des accusations institutionelles entourant la s?curit? nationale. Cet ?v?nement communautaire est organis? par le Centre des Travailleurs Immigrant, Personne n'est ill?gal et Tadamon! Montr?al. Pour plus d'information Contactez le Centre des Travailleurs et Travailleuses ImmigrantEs (CTI) au 514 342-2111 et par email iwc_cti at yahoo.com Pour r?server une place au service de garde pour enfants, contactez May au 514-738-2036 x. 403 :::::::::: :::::::::: No Security without Justice! No Prosperity without Dignity Free Community Dinner & Information Session A community discussion focused on the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) & the potential effects on our communities from Montreal's C?te-des-Neiges district & beyond... =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= MONDAY, AUGUST 13th, 5:30pm 5347 C?te-des-Neiges, 2nd floor Centre communautaire de loisirs de la C?te-des-Neiges, metro C?te-des-Neiges =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Free Dinner, * Film Screenings, * Presentations, * Childcare, * Community Discussion...! Including the screening of 'New World Border', a film examining the rise of human-rights abuses along with U.S.-Mexico border since the implementation of border walls - such as 'Operation Gatekeeper' - that have been erected in populated areas throughout the border regions in the last decade... --- Featured Presentations from: * MANDEEP DHILLON, No One is Illegal Montreal. * JOEY CALUGAY, Immigrant Workers Center. * RACHEL HEAP-LALONDE, Healthcare activist. * ?MILIE BRETON, Block the Empire. * Tadamon! Montreal. Join us for a dinner and information session on the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP), an agreement that will be discussed at an upcoming summit between the 'leaders' of North America, U.S. President George Bush, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and Mexican President Phillipe Calderon. This upcoming summit on the SPP is taking place just an hour outside of Montr?al in Montebello Quebec on August 20th-21st. The SPP is an agreement that is to expand the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), 'national security' programs and national immigration control increasing border 'security' while forcing serious restrictions on free movement of people... This information session will examine how the SPP will detrimentally effect our daily lives in C?te-des-Neiges; in our hospitals, workplaces, schools and beyond. This event will also address how the SPP affects racialized or marginalized communities, especially migrant or refugee communities, with ever growing institutional accusations surrounding 'national security'. This community event is organized by Immigrant Workers Centre, No One Is Illegal & Tadamon! Montreal. * For more Information Contact the Immigrant Workers Center (IWC): tel: 514 342 2111 email: iwc_cti at yahoo.com * To reserve free childcare, contact May at: 514 738-2036 x.403 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From transportmontebello at gmail.com Sun Aug 12 22:16:36 2007 From: transportmontebello at gmail.com (Transport Montebello) Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 01:16:36 -0400 Subject: [Bloquez l'empire!] Transport Montebello de/from Montreal : DERNIER APPEL/LAST CALL! In-Reply-To: <5b35a7490708122215k3adb85a2if6491324ddcbafbd@mail.gmail.com> References: <5b35a7490708122215k3adb85a2if6491324ddcbafbd@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <5b35a7490708122216t704f183dobd52ae42506a8ec6@mail.gmail.com> [SVP diffuser largement; please post and forward widely ...] DERNIER APPEL: Vous pouvez encore r?server votre place sur les autobus de Montr?al ? Montebello pour manifester contre Bush et le PSP... LAST CALL: Spaces still available on the buses to Montebello from Montreal to protest Bush and the SPP ... [English below] -- TRANSPORT MONTEBELLO! -- S'organiser pour que nous puissions nous rendre de Montr?al ? Montebello pour manifester contre George Bush, Stephen Harper, Felipe Calderon et le Partenariat nord-am?ricain pour la s?curit? et la prosp?rit? (PSP)... Il y a encore de la place dans les v?hicules qui se rendront ? Montebello (Qu?bec), les 19 et 20 ao?t prochain. Pour plus d'information ? propos des mobilisations, visitez le site: http://www.psp-spp.com Nous vous encourageons ? r?server votre place au plus tar d JEUDI le 16 AO?T ? MINUIT. Veuillez r?server votre place le plus t?t possible, afin que nous puissions nous organiser efficacement. -> Vous pouvez r?server votre place par courriel ? l'adresse transportmontebello at gmail.com ou par t?l?phone au 514-848-7583. (Nous sugg?rons toutefois de r?server par courriel si vous le pouvez, plut?t que par t?l?phone.) <- Lorsque vous nous ?crivez pour r?server votre place, veuillez indiquer la date de d?part souhait?e (le 19 ou le 20 ao?t) ainsi que la date de retour ? Montr?al (le 20 ou le 21). (Nous organiserons ?galement un nombre limit? de v?hicules qui pourront retourner ? Montr?al le 19 au soir, par contre nous encourageons les gens ? rester sur place pour le 20 ao?t, qui sera la journ?e principale d'action). Les voitures quitteront Montr?al le dimanche 19 ao?t ? 11 heures. Les autobus partiront le lundi 20 ao?t ? 8 heures, pour amener les gens ? la journ?e principale de manifestation ? Montebello. Pour les soirs du 19 et du 20, il y aura des espaces pour faire du camping. Veuillez amener une tente et un sac de couchage. D'autres d?tails viendront une fois que vous aurez r?serv? votre place. Nous demandons une contribution volontaire de $5 ? $15 afin de nous aider ? d?frayer les co?ts reli?s ? cette mobilisation (personne ne sera refus? faute d'argent). Les dons peuvent ?tre remis le jour m?me, ? bord des v?hicules ou des autobus. Si vous choisissez de faire un ch?que, veuillez le faire ? l'ordre de la "Convergence des luttes anti-capitalistes". Veuillez diffusez ce message largement (incluant les pages myspace, facebook, etc.), afin que soit la plus large possible cette importante mobilisation contre Bush et le PSP. Pour plus d'information: www.psp-spp.com :::::::::: :::::::::: LAST CALL!: Spaces still available on the buses to Montebello from Montreal to protest Bush and the SPP -- TRANSPORT MONTEBELLO! -- Organizing to get people to the protests against George Bush, Stephen Harper, Felipe Calderon and the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) from Montreal ... There are still spaces available on the vehicles to Montebello, Quebec, on August 19 and 20! More info about the protests available at: http://www.psp-spp.com We encourage you to reserve your spot BY THURSDAY, AUGUST 16 AT MIDNIGHT. Please reserve as early as you can, as it allows us to organize effectively. --> You can reserve your spot by e-mail at transportmontebello at gmail.com or by phone at 514-848-7583 (but it's best to reserve by e-mail, if you can). <-- When you reserve, please indicate clearly your preferred departure date ? August 19 or 20 ? and your preferred return date ? August 20 or 21 (we will arrange returns on August 19 as well, but encourage the biggest possible turnout for August 20). Vehicles leave from Montreal on Sunday, August 19 at 11am. Buses leave from Montreal on Monday, August 20 at 8am, for a main day of protest in Montebello. There will be basic outdoor camping-style accomodations available on both the nights of August 19 and August 20. Please bring a tent and sleeping bag if you intend to stay. More details after you confirm your spot. We ask for a donation of between $5-15 to help cover expenses. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Donations can be paid before boarding buses or cars. If you're writing a cheque, please make it out to "La Convergence des luttes anti-capitalistes". Please post and forward this e-mail widely, including to facebook, friendster, myspace and other sites, to encourage the largest possible turnout from Montreal to Montebello to oppose Bush and the SPP. Again, more info at www.psp-spp.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nooneisillegal at gmail.com Mon Aug 13 05:39:33 2007 From: nooneisillegal at gmail.com (No One Is Illegal Montreal) Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:39:33 -0400 Subject: [Bloquez l'empire!] !! Tuesday/mardi (12h): Oppose CN's racism and colonialism; Liberez le prisonnier politique Mohawk Shawn Brant! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [fran?ais ci-dessous] At the August 12, 2007 People's Global Action (PGA) Consulta to plan actions against the upcoming meeting of Bush/Harper/Calderon and the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), the following resolution was passed unanimously: "We call for the immediate release of Mohawk political prisoner Shawn Brant, without condition; we also re-iterate our support for the self-determination and sovereignty of the Mohawks of Tyendinaga." Tangibly, in Montreal, a picket will be held against CN RAIL this Tuesday, August 14 at NOON, at the Central Train Station (more details below). The picket will be denounce CN's racist lawsuits against Mohawk protesters, including Shawn Brant. We will publicly stand for Shawn Brant's immediate release from prison. http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2007/08/august-14-picket-and-demo-against-cn.html --- -- Support indigenous struggles for sovereignty, dignity and self-determination on Turtle Island ... -- Oppose CN Rail's racism and colonialism ... -- Protest Bush, Harper, Calderon and the "Security and Prosperity Partnership" (SPP) :::::::::::::::::::: TUESDAY, AUGUST 14th, NOON Picket and Demonstration Montreal Central Train Station metro Bonaventure (enter via the metro, or via the street at 895 de la Gaucheti?re West, between University and Mansfield) :::::::::::::::::::: ** Meet at the large departures/arrivals sign in the main lobby of the train station. Bring your banners, placards, flags and other symbols of dissent. ** -- We demand that CN Rail drop their racist lawsuits against Mohawk activists at Tyendinaga; -- We stand in support and solidarity with indigenous struggles for sovereignty and self-determination all over Turtle Island; -- We denounce CN Rail's role in the corporate North American Competitiveness Council and the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP). "When justice fails, block the rails!" CN Rail is a multi-billion dollar company, headquartered in Montreal, whose tracks and installations occupy native lands from ocean-to-ocean. CN Rail is currently pursuing multi-million dollar lawsuits against Mohawk activists from the community of Tyendinaga who are actively involved in the defense of their land. The Mohawks of Tyendinaga are demanding the return of the Culberston Tract, which was stolen from them in 1832. Recently a portion of the land was reclaimed, with the Tyendinaga community demanding that the Ontario government revoke the license legitimizing a private quarry operation that is literally removing land from the Culberston Tract. For more info, consult: http://ocap.ca/firstnations/tyendinaga/culbertson CN is threatening more lawsuits against other indigenous communities and activists who block CN rail lines. CN Rail and their executives are targeting indigenous community organizers who have effectively brought the issue of native sovereignty to the forefront. In the context of unsettled land claims, and the fact that their tracks sit on appropriated native territory, CN Rail's actions are colonial and racist. While CN uses the courts to attack native activists, their CEO -- E. Hunter Harrison ? is a member of the North American Competitiveness Council, a key promoter of the recently formed "Security and Prosperity Partnership" (SPP) between Canada, the United States and Mexico. The SPP continues the imposition of the neo-liberal North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), combined with paranoid "Homeland Security" policies. The SPP is an attack on all working and oppressed peoples, especially the indigenous peoples of "North America". The SPP leaders ? George Bush, Stephen Harper and Felipe Calderon -- will be meeting later this summer, from August 20-21, in Montebello, Quebec (just 90 minutes from Montreal). Join us on August 14 in Montreal, as we build towards the protests against Bush, Harper and Calderon in Montebello on August 20 (info: www.psp-spp.com) Organized and endorsed by: Block the Empire-Montreal (BLEM), Liberterre, No One Is Illegal-Montreal, La Rue Brique, Solidarity Across Borders, Tadamon! Montreal, La Pointe Libertaire and others (to add your group endorsement, please contact noii-montreal at resist.ca) -> Text of the flyer passed out at the picket against CN on July 1, 2007 in Montreal: http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2007/07/flyer-text-why-we-are-protesting.html -> "About the SPP" Background: http://www.psp-spp.com/?q=en/aboutthespp INFO: 514-848-7583, noii-montreal at resist.ca :::::::::: :::::::::: Le 12 ao?t dernier, lors de la Consulta du r?seau de l'Action mondiale des peuples (AMP) en vue de planifier les actions contre le Sommet de Bush, Harper, Calderon et du Partenariat pour la s?curit? et laprosp?rit? (PSP), nous avons adopt? ? l'unanimit? la r?solution suivante : ?Nous exigeons la lib?ration imm?diate et inconditionelle du prisonnier politique Mohawk Shawn Brant; en ce sens, nous voulons ?galement r?it?rer notre soutien ? l'autod?termination et aux luttes pour la souverainet? des Mohawks de Tyendinaga.? ? Montr?al, une ligne de piquetage contre la compagnie CN sera organis?e, et aura lieu ce mardi le 14 ao?t ? MIDI, ? la Gare centrale (plus de d?tails ci-dessous). Cette action d?noncera les poursuites racistes du CN ? l'endroit des militants Mohawks, dont Shawn Brant. Nous appuyons publiquement la lib?ration imm?diate de Shawn Brant. --- http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2007/08/14-aot-manifestation-contre-cn-et-le.html -- Appuyez les luttes autochtones pour la souverainet?, la dignit? et l'autod?termination sur l'?le de la Tortue -- D?noncez l'attitude raciste et colonialiste du CN -- Manifestons contre Bush, Harper, Calderon et le ? Partenariat pour la s?curit? et la prosp?rit? (PSP) ? :::::::::::::::::::: Le MARDI 14 ao?t, midi Manifestation Gare centrale de Montr?al M?tro Bonaventure (Entrez par le m?tro, ou par l'entr?e du 895 de la Gaucheti?re ouest, entre les rues University et Mansfield) :::::::::::::::::::: ** Point de rendez-vous ? l'enseigne D?parts/Arriv?es, dans le hall principal de la gare. Apportez vos banni?res, pancartes, drapeaux et autres symboles de protestation. ** -- Nous demandons que le CN abandonne ses poursuites en justice contre les militants Mohawks de Tyendinaga; -- Nous sommes en solidarit? et appuyons sans condition les luttes des peuples autochtones pour leur souverainet? et leur autod?termination, partout sur l'?le de la Tortue; -- Nous d?non?ons le r?le du CN dans le Conseil nord-am?ricain pour la prosp?rit? et le Partenariat nord-am?ricain pour la s?curit? et la prosp?rit?. ? Quand le CN attaque, on bloque la track! ? Le CN est une soci?t? priv?e multi milliardaire, dont le si?ge social se trouve ? Montr?al et dont les rails et installations occupent ill?gitimement les territoires des autochtones, d'un oc?an ? l'autre. Le CN poursuit actuellement en justice (pour plusieurs millions de dollars) plusieurs activistes Mohawks de la communaut? Tyendinaga (Ontario) qui sont activement impliqu?s dans la d?fense de leur territoire. Les Mohawks de Tyendinaga revendiquent le territoire de Culberson Tract, qui leur a ?t? vol? en 1832. R?cemment, une partie des terres a ?t? reprise et la communaut? de Tyendinaga exige que le gouvernement ontarien r?voque le permis l?gitimant l'exploitation d'une carri?re priv?e qui enl?ve, litt?ralement, la terre du Culberson Tract. Pour plus de renseignements, visitez : http://ocap.ca/firstnations/tyendinaga/culbertson Le CN menace d'engager d'autres poursuites contre des communaut?s et militant-e-s autochtones qui choisissent de bloquer les chemins de fer. Le CN et ses cadres ciblent les organisateurs communautaires autochtones qui ont remis ? l'ordre du jour l'enjeu des revendications territoriales non r?solues et la souverainet? des peuples autochtones. Dans le contexte des revendications territoriales non r?solues, et consid?rant que leurs chemins de fer se trouvent sur des territoires arrach?s aux peuples autochtones, les actions en justice du CN sont profond?ment racistes et colonialistes. Alors que le CN utilise le syst?me de justice pour attaquer les activistes autochtones, le PDG de la compagnie, E. Hunter Harrison, est membre du Conseil nord-am?ricain de la comp?titivit?, un acteur cl? du nouvellement form? Partenariat nord-am?ricain pour la s?curit? et la prosp?rit? (PSP), entre le Canada, les Etats-Unis et le Mexique. Le PSP poursuit le programme n?olib?ral impos? par l'Accord de libre ?change nord am?ricain (ALENA), mais y rajoute des politiques de ? s?curit? nationale ?. Le PSP est une attaque port?e contre les travailleurs et les travailleuses et toutes les classes opprim?es de l'Am?rique du Nord. Les leaders du PSP ? George Bush, Stephen Harper et Felipe Calder?n ? se rencontreront cet ?t?, les 20 et 21 ao?t prochain, au Ch?teau Montebello (Outaouais, Qc.), ? 90 minutes de Montr?al. Joignez-vous ? nous le 14 ao?t ? Montr?al, alors que nous poursuivons nos actions contre Bush, Harper, Calderon et le PSP ? Montebello, le 20 ao?t prochain (info: www.psp-spp.com ) Cette action est organis?e et endoss?e par : Bloquez l'Empire! ? Montr?al (BLEM), Solidarit? sans fronti?res, Liberterre, Personne n'est ill?gal-Montr?al, Tadamon! Montr?al, La Pointe Libertaire, La Rue Brique, et autres (pour associer le nom de votre groupe ? la liste des endossements, veuillez ?crire ? noii-montreal at resist.ca ) -> Texte du tract distribu? ? la manifestation du 1er juillet ? Montr?al : http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2007/07/texte-du-tracte-pourquoi-nous.html -> ? propos du PSP: un autre point de vue: http://www.psp-spp.com/?q=fr/node/35 INFO: 514-848-7583, noii-montreal at resist.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bloquezlempiremontreal at resist.ca Sun Aug 19 02:56:56 2007 From: bloquezlempiremontreal at resist.ca (bloquezlempiremontreal at resist.ca) Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 02:56:56 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Bloquez l'empire!] (lundi/Monday) CARAVAN(E) SUR/TO MONTEBELLO!!! (8h, Guy et de Maisonneuve, Montreal) Message-ID: From: PGA-Bloc Montreal [English below ...] LUNDI MATIN, 8 HEURES: CARAVANE VERS MONTEBELLO! (d?part au coin des rues Guy et De Maisonneuve. Soyez-y!) Lundi le 20 ao?t d?s 8 heures, une dizaine d'autobus et plusieurs voitures et autres v?hicules se rassembleront sur De Maisonneuve Ouest, entre les rues Guy et Bishop (m?tro Guy-Concordia), pour ent?mer une ?CARAVANE SUR MONTEBELLO?. Ce convoi fait partie des activit?s organis?es dans le cadre de la journ?e d'action de lundi, visant ? perturber la r?union Bush/Harper/Calderon et le Sommet du Partenariat pour la s?curit? et la prosp?rit? (PSP). Il reste encore une cinquantaine de places disponibles ? bord des autobus. Veuillez r?server en avance en ?crivant ? transportmontebello at gmail.com . Nous acceptons les r?servations toute la fin de semaine. R?servez maintenant pour vous assurez d'avoir une place! Nous encourageons toutes les personnes qui se rendront ? Montebello en voiture par leurs propres moyens ? nous joindre au coin des rues De Maisonneuve et Mackay, ? 8 heures lundi matin. Vous n'aurez ensuite qu'? suivre le convoi d'autobus jusqu'? Montebello. http://www.psp-spp.com :::::::::: :::::::::: MONDAY 8AM: CARAVAN TO MONTEBELLO!!! (corner of Guy and de Maisonneuve; Be there!) This Monday (August 20) at 8am, 10 or more buses, and just as many cars, will be gathering between Guy and Bishop, on de Maisonneuve Boulevard West (Guy-Concordia metro), to organize a convoy of vehicles on a "CARAVAN TO MONTEBELLO"; the caravan will join the main day of action on Monday to try to disrupt the meeting of Bush/Harper/Calderon and the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP). There are still about 50 spaces available on our buses this Monday. Please reserve beforehand at transportmontebello at gmail.com to be sure you get a spot! You can reserve all weekend. http://www.psp-spp.com We encourage everyone driving to Montebello to join us at the corner of Mackay and de Maisonneuve at 8am this Monday morning, to join our Caravan. Just follow the school buses all the way to Montebello and the Chateau. From bloquezlempiremontreal at resist.ca Sun Aug 19 02:57:06 2007 From: bloquezlempiremontreal at resist.ca (bloquezlempiremontreal at resist.ca) Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 02:57:06 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Bloquez l'empire!] Montebello is Fortress North America :: We will not be caged! :: Pourquoi nous manifestons :: Nous refusons d'etre mis en cage (PGA/AMP) Message-ID: From: PGA-Bloc Montreal [fran?ais ci-dessous ...] WHY WE ARE PROTESTING! Montebello, Quebec (August 19-21, 2007) -- George Bush, Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon are meeting behind steel fences and thousands of police at the Chateau Montebello, as part of the so-called "Security and Prosperity Partnership". They talk about "security" and "prosperity", but their agenda really means insecurity and misery for working and oppressed peoples in the Americas. In brief, the "Security and Prosperity Partnership" (SPP) combines the destructive neo-liberal policies of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with the fear and paranoia of post 9-11 "Homeland Security" policies. The SPP is firmly rooted within a colonial and capitalist framework. There is no mystery to the SPP agenda: murderous wars and occupations abroad; border militarization; increased detentions and deportations; attacks on indigenous peoples, the poor, migrants, and working people; ecological destruction; mega-projects in the service of corporate greed; and much more and worse. The SPP is described by its proponents as a "NAFTA 2.0", and is promoted and supported by corporations and their lobby groups, like the Canadian Council of Chief Executives. These corporate executives will actually be meeting privately with the summit leaders at the Chateau. The SPP reinforces the idea of "Fortress North America", whereby the rich and privileged live in gated communities and gentrified cities, protected by police and security, with easy movement for corporations; for the rest, there's border walls, reservations, detention centers, prisons, surveillance, and increased precarity. Today, with politicians and corporate leaders hiding behind police and 10-foot steel fences, and the rest of us excluded on the outside or forced into useless protest pens -- Montebello is Fortress North America. WE WILL NOT BE CAGED! When the Bush/Harper/Calderon meeting begins, a network of direct action, anti-capitalist, social justice activists from Ontario and Quebec, within the framework of the People's Global Action (PGA) Network, will try to disrupt the summit. We are not going to lobby the SPP leaders or governments to be nicer. We are not interested in negotiating the terms of our own misery, or to be bought off by crumbs. Justice and dignity is achieved through grassroots mobilizing, struggle and direct action, not the charity of corporations, rock-stars, politicians and NGOs complicit in a destructive system. Bush, Harper and Calderon deserve to be confronted directly. Our protests are rooted in our ongoing mobilizing efforts and day-to-day organizing: for indigenous sovereignty and self-determination, for immigrant justice and free movement, against deportations and detentions, against war and imperialism, for workers justice, against poverty, for ecological and environmental justice, for the liberation of all political prisoners, in solidarity with social justice movements worldwide. On January 1, 1994, the day that NAFTA took effect, the Zapatistas began an uprising in southern Mexico, declaring NAFTA a "death sentence" on indigenous peoples. With the SPP, the politicians, bureaucrats and corporations of North America have renewed their death sentence on all of us. The inspiration of the Zapatistas still resonates, 13 years later, as we make links between our struggles and issues, and unify to confront the SPP at Montebello, and beyond. This is just another beginning ... INFO: www.psp-spp.com -- www.agp.org -- info at psp-spp.com :::::::::: :::::::::: POURQUOI NOUS MANIFESTONS Montebello, Qu?bec (19-21 ao?t 2007) -- Stephen Harper, George Bush et le pr?sident mexicain Felipe Calder?n se r?unissent derri?re des barri?res d'acier et des milliers de policiers au ch?teau Montebello, dans le cadre du soi-disant " Partenariat pour la s?curit? et la prosp?rit? (PSP) ". Ils parlent de " s?curit? " et de " prosp?rit? ", mais leur programme en est un d'ins?curit? et de mis?re pour les classes ouvri?res et opprim?es de toutes les Am?riques. En bref, le " Partenariat pour la s?curit? et la prosp?rit? (PSP) " conjugue les politiques destructrices n?olib?rales de l'Accord de libre ?change nord-am?ricain (ALENA) aux tactiques de peur et de parano?a associ?es aux politiques de " s?curit? nationale ". Le PSP est un nouveau projet, mais il cadre parfaitement dans le programme colonialiste et capitaliste impos? aux peuples du monde depuis des si?cles. Le v?ritable programme du PSP n'est un secret pour personne : guerres meurtri?res et occupations militaires ? l'?tranger; militarisation des fronti?res et augmentation des d?tentions et des d?portations; attaques soutenues contre les peuples autochtones, les pauvres, les migrant-e-s et la classe ouvri?re; destruction de l'environnement; multiplication des m?ga projets au service de l'avarice des entreprises; et pire encore. Le PSP, d?crit par ses agents comme une ALENA version 2.0, est con?u et promu par des soci?t?s transnationales et les groupes de pression qui les soutiennent, comme le Conseil canadien de chefs d'entreprise. Ces " big boss " rencontreront les chefs d'?tat ici m?me au ch?teau, ? huis clos, ?videmment Le PSP renforce le principe de la " Forteresse Am?rique du Nord ", en vertu duquel les riches et privil?gi?s vivent reclus dans des communaut?s ferm?es et des villes gentrifi?es, prot?g?s par la police et des mesures de s?curit?, alors que le capital circule librement ? travers les fronti?res et que l'acc?s ? la main d'?uvre bon march? et aux ressources naturelles s'accro?t; pour tous les autres, il y a les barri?res et les fronti?res, les r?serves, les centres de d?tention, les prisons, la surveillance accrue et une pr?carit? g?n?ralis?e. Aujourd'hui, alors que les politiciens et les chefs d'entreprise se cachent derri?re des lignes de police et une barri?re d'acier de trois m?tres de haut, et que nous sommes exclus ? l'ext?rieur et pouss?s dans des " zones de manifestation ", Montebello est le symbole le plus ?loquent de cette Forteresse Am?rique du Nord. NOUS REFUSONS D'ETRE MIS EN CAGE Alors que Bush, Harper et Calder?n se r?unissent avec les grands capitalistes, un r?seau d'activistes anticapitalistes pr?nant l'action directe, provenant du Qu?bec et de l'Ontario, unis par les principes de l'Action mondiale de peuples (AMP), tenteront de perturber le Sommet. Nous ne demanderons pas aux chefs et agents du PSP, ni aux gouvernements, d'?tre plus gentils. Nous n'avons aucun int?r?t ? n?gocier les termes de notre mis?re ou ? ?tre achet?s avec des miettes. La justice et la dignit? s'obtiennent par la mobilisation de base, par la lutte et par l'action directe, pas par la charit? de riches philanthropes, de rock-stars ou de politiciens complices du syst?me de destruction. Bush , Harper et Calder?n m?ritent d'?tre confront?s directement! Nos manifestations et notre r?sistance s'enracinent dans l'organisation des luttes quotidiennes: pour la souverainet? et l'autod?termination des peuples autochtones des Am?riques; pour la justice, la dignit? et la libre circulation des migrant-e-s; contre les d?tentions et les d?portations; contre la guerre et l'imp?rialisme; pour la justice en milieu de travail; contre la pauvret?, pour la justice ?cologique; pour la lib?ration de tous les prisonniers politiques; et en solidarit? avec les mouvements de justice sociale partout dans le monde. En 1994, le jour de l'entr?e en vigueur de l'ALENA, les Zapatistes du Chiapas ont entam? un soul?vement dans le sud du Mexique, en d?clarant que l'ALENA repr?sente une " sentence de mort " pour les peuples autochtones. Avec le PSP, les politiciens, bureaucrates et entreprises nord-am?ricaines r?it?rent leur sentence de mort contre nous tou-te-s. L'inspiration des Zapatistes fais toujours ?chos, 13 ans plus tard, alors que nous lions nos luttes et nos pr?occupations, et nous unissons pour confronter le PSP, ? Montebello et au-del?. Nous sommes partout INFO: www.psp-spp.com -- www.agp.org -- info at psp-spp.com From parker at resist.ca Tue Aug 21 16:50:14 2007 From: parker at resist.ca (David W.) Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:50:14 -0000 Subject: [Bloquez l'empire!] Violence Continues Against Afro-Colombian Communities Message-ID: <4155.201.221.129.223.1187740205.squirrel@mail.resist.ca> VIOLENCE CONTINUES AGAINST AFRO-COLOMBIAN COMMUNITIES By David Parker Bucaramanga, Colombia August 21st, 2007 On June 21st, Luis Alberto, who I know better as ?Janio?, was walking back to his home in the Humanitarian Zone of El Tesoro when he was assaulted by five illegally armed paramilitaries, who tied him up for half an hour, kicking him and threatening to kill him, accusing him and other community members of being guerrillas. Now, two weeks later I wonder if Janio is, like me, still recovering from the shock of the event. I was not shocked so much by the events of Janio?s story, as it is the same violent tactics practiced against many other members of the communities who protect their ancestral lands, traditional livelihoods and the unique tropical rainforest they live in from agro-industrial development. I was shocked because this time I was living in the community with him and for the first time, this was a victim I knew personally. Janio, one of the best soccer players in El Tesoro, who would make me sing Canadian songs; who steered our boat down the winding river of Ca?o Claro, tributary of the Curvarad? river; who held on to me as we were tossed around a top an intercity jeep on pot-holed roads; who made me play soccer with the community and wouldn?t take no for an answer. The attack was preceded by a period of relative tranquility. One month earlier a group of 50 military passed by the barbed wire fence surrounding the resistance community, asking to enter and claiming three of the campesino men inside to be guerrillas ? members of FARC. But the assault and threats to Janio?s life was nothing new for the communities of Afro-descendants, indigenous and mestizos that continue to struggle against State-backed violence and persecution; it was one more event in a 10 year history of bloody warfare, which has decided the fate of thousands of campesinos, and the worlds richest zone of biodiversity, the jungle of Bajo Atrato Chocoano. FORCED DISPLACEMENT AND COMMUNITY RESISTANCE In the recent history of this region of Colombia, the lower Atrato river basin in Urab?, Choc? has seen massive State repression at the hands of concerted military and paramilitary forces, as well as terror tactics from the FARC, a guerrilla group operating in the region. In October of 1996 and through 1997, a coordinated campaign of military and paramilitary forces known as ?Operation Genesis? forcibly displaced around 4,000 Afro-descendants, indigenous and mestizo civilian populations from territories collectively titled to Afro-Colombian communities. By land, sea and air, legal and illegal armed forces practiced torture, selective and collective assassination, massacre, disappearances, threats, theft and arson as a means to empty the dense and humid jungles inhabited by peaceable communities under the pretext of guerrilla activity in the area. In 2000 and 2001, many community members, after suffering from fear, the loss of loved ones, hunger, and living in refugee camp conditions, decided to return to their land and create Peace Communities, only to find the development of agro-industrial mega-projects well underway. Urapalma S.A., the first of 12 private companies to operate in the region, with funding coming internationally from USAID (under the pretext of replacing illegal crops with sustainable agriculture and providing jobs for poor peasants) and nationally from FINAGRO and Fedepalma subsidies, had already sown 2000 hectares in the Curvarad? River basin with African Palm monocultres, with another 6000 hectares being cleared for the same purpose, all in the heart of the territories collectively owned by the communities of Curvarad?. By way of violence, armed forces had ?emptied? the land of its traditional and ancestral inhabitants, although many fled the violence by retreating into the dense jungle, living without a home and without lighting a fire, for fear of both guerrilla forces in the region and the paramilitary and military forces. The violence had cleared the way for heavy machinery to deforest the land, destroying the soil structure and poisoning waterways, to plant greenhouse grown African Palm trees in symmetrical rows that would later be harvested for mass production of palm oil for the world market. When new waves of incursions, assassinations, attacks and displacements occurred in 2001, the Afro-Colombian community councils of Jiguamiand? and Curvarad?, legally recognized governing bodies of the collective territories, created physically enclosed communities labelled as ?Humanitarian Zones? protected at first by Cautionary Measures to preserve the rights to life and physical integrity of community members, solicited by the Interamerican Commission of Human Rights on Nov. 7th 2002, and later by the Provisional Measures of protection of the communities decreed by the Interamerican Court of Human Rights on March 6th, 2003. According to the community members, no armed actors were allowed into the zones, since that would make them targets in the armed conflict. The Humanitarian Zones were more than Peace Communities because rather than claiming to be neutral, the community councils resisted the presence of all armed actors and demanded justice as victims of massive displacement, continuing violent persecution and fear tactics. They demanded the right to govern the lands that had been stolen by State forces and developed by private enterprises. With accompaniment in the communities by national and international participants, the resistance was mounted on three fronts; to maintain a presence in the Humanitarian Zones and uphold the observance of the Right to Life and Integrity; to denounce the atrocities to the world community and generate pressure on Colombia?s government to observe the Protective Measures declared by the Interamerican Court; and to proceed judicially with cases of fraudulently acquired land titles for palm plantations and investigation into systematic violations of human rights. Slowly, displaced community members have returned to their lands, and solidarity overcame fear. United by a common history, mestizo, indigenous and Afro-Colombians organized their new Humanitarian Zones as a non-violent resistance to State repression and capitalist development. The communities lived through years of threats, armed incursions into the zones, and continued assassination and disappearances, while direct solidarity and human rights organizations brought international attention to the crisis in Curvarad? and Jiguamiand?. The first Humanitarian Zones in the region were located on the Jiguamiand? River, but provided homes for community members of Curvarad? and Jiguamiand?, including the community council of both territories. Much of the Curvarad? river basin was already sown with African Palm monocultures and swarming with military, paramilitary, police and company employees. In 2006, the first Humanitarian Zone in Curvarad? was created in the midst of over 17,000 hectares (and growing) of palm plantations, by cutting down a a few hectares of palm trees and building the Humanitarian Zone of Andalucia. Since then, new Humanitarian Zones and Biodiversity Zones continue to be created in Curvarad?, including El Tesoro, created in October 2006. ETHNIC AND CULTURAL MEMORY Janio, his family and other familias living in El Tesoro and the other resistance communities of Curvarad? and Jiguamiand? are preserving vestiges of an ancient way of life in danger of extinction. Despite waves of colonization in Bajo Atrato, including attempts to develop a navegable waterway between the two oceans, and mining of gold, silver and other metals, The Atrato River and its tributaries have proved difficult for conquistadors, slave-traders and pirate voyages to colonize due to its difficult climate of dense jungle, torrential rains and labyrinthine rivers. The river names of Jiguamiand? and Curvarad? were known by the Embera, Waunana and Awa peoples, whose ancient way of life, survival and existence, meshed with African rituals and ancestrality when former African slaves bought their freedom and moved to the jungles of Choc? and Bajo Atrato, in search of land, simplicity, and their own methods of development. In the 1980?s, the cultural exchange developed with the arrival of mestizos, fleeing the violence that had left them landless in agrarian struggles from Cordoba to Sucre and Antioquia. Politics, skin colour and mentalities integrated and juxtaposed, but ultimately found harmony in principles of life and territory. In the 1990?s, the territories became the location and or route of passage for guerrillas of the Popular Liberation Army, EPL; later for the National Liberation Army, ELN, and finally for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC EP, who still exist there today. But the cruel military and covert paramilitary strategies of Brigade XVII of the National Army known as Operation Genesis, was directed not at the guerrillas but at the Afro-descendant, indigenous and mestizo civilian populations. STOLEN LAND FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Jiguamiand? and Curvarad? remained, into the 1990?s, one of the last of the unplucked gems of the Americas, having successfully resisted repeated attempts of colonization. The capitalist economic model was eventually imposed on the land and people beginning with Operation Genesis in 1996-97. The war against the civilian communities of Curvarad? and Jiguamiand?, begun in ?96, has continued on many fronts; military, judicial, political, psychological and technological. The objective, not only to appropriate the land from the communities, has also been to destroy cultural constructions and ancestral collective mentalities. The massive displacements, preceded by chains of threats, assassinations, tortures, pillages and hostage-taking, reveal a comprehensive plan of expropriation of territory, under the pretext of controlling insurgent groups, but they cannot hide the aggression against native communities and simultaneous protection of corporations who have taken these territories. The clear motive of the State-led violence, rather than quelling armed resistance, was targeting peasant communities in order to use lands for agro-industrial projects as part of an imposed economic development model. PLAN COLOMBIA AND IMPUNITY The palm oil industry currently developing in Bajo Atrato Chocano now with 27,000 hectares of palm plantation in the Cuenca of Curvarad? operated and owned by 12 corporations, figures prominently in government and State policy of economic development under the administration of President ?lvaro Uribe V?lez. Palm oil has traditionally been a highly profitable export used in foods and hygiene products, but the use of palm oil to make biodiesel and the expanding demand for biodiesel in the North as a ?green? energy has led Uribe to guarantee an export market of palm oil for biodiesel. He has pledged to increase palm plantation hectares from 175,000 in 2005 to 6 million, as part of State policy recognized in the U.S.-Colombian Free Trade Agreement and the U.S. backed Plan Colombia. The financial profiteers of palm oil production are the same for palm plantations in Colombia, Indonesia and Malaysia, three of the worlds biggest exporters; a handful of elite locals from each respective region and transnational corporations such as Unilever, Procter and Gamble, Henkel, Cognis and Cargill. In Colombia, Law 138 of 1994 sanctions palm oil production, by creating the ?Cuota de Fomento Palmero? to financially subsidize palm oil cultivators and encourage development, administered by Fedepalma. Meanwhile, Plan Colombia and the State strategy of Democratic Security has oriented the process of ?paramilitary remobilization?, a way of legalizing the history of paramilitary violence and bringing them impunity. Institutional impunity was officially created through Law 975 of 2005: ?Law of Justice and Peace?, which demobilizes paramilitaries, leaving criminals unpunished, instead linking them as ?employees? to the newly created agro-industrial projects being developed on land stolen through forced displacement. One example is the model of associative enterprises currently employed in agro-industrial projects such as cocoa, lumber, rubber and palm oil. Demobilized paramilitaries, displaced peasants and peasants work with a corporate investor interested in starting a business who ?acts as a tutor?. In Urab?, for the paramilitaries who do not demobilize, there continues to exist work opportunities, uniting forces with the military to control local populations in the municipalities of Riosucio, Barranquillita, Bel?n de Bajir?, Pavarand? and Mutat?. There are no guarantees of protection of the rights of victims, nor guarantees of returning properties and lands to their rightful owners. Furthermore, the palm plantations themselves are ?legalized? through fraudulent mechanisms, including purchasing land titles from landowners who could not have sold the land because they are deceased; drastically augmenting the size of land purchases on paper form 30 to 6000 hectares; inventing fake landowners, or buying land from people who don?t own any land. To secure international funding from USAID, the palm companies claim they are providing work opportunities for Afro-Colombians by substitution illicit crops (coca and marijuana) with a profitable legal alternative, a fraudulent lie puppeted even by President Uribe V?lez. The Colombian State judicial apparatus only aggravates and confuses the problem, by ignoring the many pending investigations and not recognizing the systematic nature of the human rights violations, instead treating each case individually and unconnected. In effect, different levels of State and government provide guarantees for private enterprise, while persecuting civilians and violating human rights; all of which is legislated by transnational capital. RESISTANCE FOR LIFE, LAND AND DIGNITY The communities of Curvarad? and Jiguamiand? have faced remarkable adversity, from massacres and forced displacement to the appropriation of their land and impunity for the criminals, yet have shown incredible resilience. The crimes perpetrated are of such a systematic nature that they can only be understood as crimes against humanity. It has led to a profound deterioration of ethnic and cultural identity. Furthermore, the crimes, committed in a very fragile ecosystem with the world?s highest levels of biodiversity and rainfall, have created irreversible deterioration of the environment. These atrocities have been done in order to install an exclusionary development model, a capitalist model fundamentally opposed to the ethnic communities? values of life, natural rhythms and sacred relationships to the environment, human life and the eternal. A testament to the resilience of their traditional way of life has been their ability to create an authentic democracy in the midst of armed conflict. Resistance has been their only option for the reconstruction of truly democratic self-determination. Peace Communities turned into Humanitarian Zones: communities chose, rather than to be neutral, to demand justice. Their method of organizing is to construct concrete guarantees for their life, liberty of thought and land. Internal and international mechanisms of protection and justice are in place to preserve a community, a way of life, an ecosystem and a principle of basic human value and dignity. www.pasc.ca -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Violence Continues Against Afro-Colombian Communities.rtf Type: application/octet-stream Size: 31045 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Violence Continues Against Afro-Colombian Communities.rtf Type: application/octet-stream Size: 31045 bytes Desc: not available URL: From aaron at resist.ca Thu Aug 23 19:11:40 2007 From: aaron at resist.ca (aaron at resist.ca) Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:11:40 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Bloquez l'empire!] Stop Canadian Killer Mines in Mexico! (photos and audio in en. and fr.) Message-ID: <14856.66.130.75.225.1187921500.squirrel@mail.resist.ca> http://aaron.resist.ca/node/127 Stop Canadian Killer Mines in Mexico! -->To view photos from a street theatre action in Montreal with the Frente Amplio Opositor and the Optative Theatrical Laboratories, visit: http://photos.cmaq.net/v/fao/ -->To hear an interview in English on the situation in Cerro San Pedro recorded in Mexico city, visit: http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=24033 -->To hear an interview in French on the situation in Cerro San Pedro recorded in Mexico city, visit: http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=24403 Cerro de San Pedro is a historically and ecologically important site in the state of San Luis Potosi, Mexico, that is threatened with destructions by the illegal mining practices of Canadian company Metallica resources. Despite their supposed commitments to environmental responsibility, CIBC is one of the largest investors in Metallica Resources. On August 23, 2007, a delegation of activists from Cerro de San Pedro who are visiting Montreal to raise awareness about their struggle, teamed up with local allies in the Obtative Theatrical Laboratories to perform a street theatre action outside CIBC's head offices in Montreal to illustrate their plight. For more information on the Frente Amplio Opositor (FAO) and the campaign to oppose Metallica Resources' mine in San Pedro (in spanish), visit: http://www.angelfire.com/rebellion2/antimsx