[Bloquez l'empire!] !!! Protest and disrupt Bush and the SPP in Montebello, Quebec this August 19-21 ! (Updated info)

Wed Aug 1 12:50:36 PDT 2007

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 désaccords!
At L'Alizée (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 Côte-des-Neiges on August 11. More details to be
posted at: http://www.psp-spp.com/?q=en/node/21

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E-MAIL: info at psp-spp.com
WEB: www.psp-spp.com
TEL: 514-848-7583
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