[Bloquez l'empire!] Tadamon! Montreal: Oppose the 'Security and Prosperity Partnership'!

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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

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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 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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