[IPSM] [WEDNESDAY AUGUST 1st - 6:30 PM] :: Public Assembly - Oppose the SPP!

[nbetta at po-box.mcgill.ca]

-- NO SECURITY WITHOUT JUSTICE! NO PROSPERITY WITHOUT DIGNITY!
STOP THE SPP! --

A Series of Community Assemblies to discuss the impacts of the SECURITY 
& PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP (SPP), especially on immigrant, migrant, 
refugee and Indigenous communities.

FIRST ASSEMBLY:

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Downtown - PUBLIC ASSEMBLY
Wednesday, AUGUST 1ST
6:30p.m. UQAM, room AM 050 (Pavillon Hubert Aquin)
400 Ste-Catherine East (Metro Berri-UQAM)
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Translation and Childcare available.

-- Come hear about:
* The devastating effects of the SPP on Indigenous communities across
"North Amerika"
* The impact of the SPP on Border control, Immigration policy and Migrant
communities
* The relationship between the SPP, "national security" and racial profiling
* The effects of the SPP on temporary and migrant workers programs

-- Also:
* clips from "Kanehsatake: 270 years of resistance", by Alanis Obomsawin;
"Continuous Journey" by Ali Kazimi; "The New World Border"...and more.


NEXT ASSEMBLIES:

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St-Laurent - Outdoor Gathering
Saturday, AUGUST 4TH
1p.m. to 5p.m.
Parc Toussaint-Louverture
De Maisonneuve (between Ste-Dominique and Sanguinet)
(Metro St-Laurent)
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Park Extension - Outdoor Gathering
Saturday, AUGUST 11TH
1p.m. to 5p.m.
Athena Park, Jean Talon (corner Bloomfield)
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Cote Des Neiges - PUBLIC ASSEMBLY
Monday, AUGUST 13TH
6:30PM
Cote-Des-Neiges Community Centre
5437 Rue Cote-Des-Neiges
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Organized by:
No One Is Illegal Montreal, The Immigrant Workers Centre and
Tadamon!Montreal.

For more information, contact:
Tel: 514 691-0471 or 514 342-2111
Email: noii-montreal at resist.ca
Visit: http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com,
http://resist.ca/~stopspp, www.psp-spp.com

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BACKGROUND:

**The Security and Prosperity Partnership is an agreement signed between
Canada, the U.S. and Mexico in 2005.

**The Security and Prosperity Partnership will function through hundreds
of changes in the areas of security and border laws, refugee and
immigration laws, migrant and temporary worker programs, and trade and
energy resource exploitation. This includes policies already in effect
such as the expansion of temporary worker programs to exploit low paid
labour, the arming of Canadian border agents in August 2007, the
co-ordination of no-fly lists and the use of biometrics. These changes
will increase the displacement of our Indigenous sisters and brothers
across North America, increase the profiling and criminalizing that
immigrants and refugees experience, worsen the conditions of immigrant,
migrant and non-status workers and make the borders increasingly 
difficult to cross for the original peoples of these lands and those 
searching for a dignified existence.

**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.

**Because the SPP announces itself as a "dialogue based on shared 
values," it is secretive process, subject to no formal public scrutiny 
or open debate.

**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 capital between
borders; for the rest, there's border fences, detention centers, 
prisons, surveillance, and increased precarity.

**Indigenous and migrant communities have entire histories of 
colonialism and resistance that have shown the dangers of such 
agreements between governments and companies -- agreements which have 
pushed them off our lands, forced them into poverty, forced them to 
migrate and yet controlled their movement. The powers behind the SPP's 
of today were the East India Company, the Hudson Bay Company and the 
Encomenderos of the past. They are the same powers that created the 
Chinese Head Tax and NAFTA.

**Join us in a series of community assemblies to discuss the ways in 
which the SPP may affect you, your family members and friends and how 
we can work together to defend our rights against the agenda of 
corporate greed.

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GET INVOLVED!
MOBILIZE AGAINST THE SPP SUMMIT IN MONTEBELLO!

This August, protests are being organized by anti-capitalist social
justice activists in Ontario and Quebec, within the framework of the
People's Global Action (PGA) Network. With organizing hubs in Ottawa and
Montreal, on either end of Montebello on the Highway 148, we are 
preparing to resist the upcoming SPP meeting.

There will be activities from August 19-21, with a call for a 
convergence on Montebello (or as close as possible to Montebello) on 
3pm on MONDAY, AUGUST 20. An anti-capitalist camp will be set up in the 
Montebello region in early August, as a convergence space for activists 
who want to gather early to plan popular and actions.

To get receive more information or get involved in organizing efforts
(popular education, mobilization, logistics, transportation, fundraising
and more:

TEL: 514-848-7583 EMAIL: info at psp-spp.com
WEBSITE: www.psp-spp.com
EMAIL LIST: Subscribe by visiting:
https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/psp

In Solidarity with social justice movements worldwide,
WE DEMAND:

**Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination in the Americas
**Immigrant justice and free movement
**An end to deportations and detentions
**An end to war and imperialism
**Workers justice
**An end to poverty
**Ecological and environmental justice
**The liberation of all political prisoners