[Bloquez l'empire!] Aug 16: Denounce CSIS Abuse, Against the SPP

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AUGUST 16TH, DENOUNCE CSIS ABUSE AND INCOMPETENCE!
No security without justice and dignity! Against the SPP!

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Demo and Action against CSIS and the SPP
Thursday, August 16th, 2007 at noon, sharp!
Dorchester Square (Rene-Levesque and Peel), Peel metro
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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 Montréal, the Immigrant Workers Centre, Solidarity across
Borders and Tadamon! Montréal. (Contact us at rpcis.mtl at gmail.com if you
would like to add your name.)