From seinforma-l at lists.resist.ca Fri Nov 7 08:48:27 2008 From: seinforma-l at lists.resist.ca (Seinforma Canada News/Noticias Seinforma Canada) Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 08:48:27 -0800 (PST) Subject: Seinforma News/Noticias Seinforma English-Espanol Message-ID: <1993.67.55.19.93.1226076507.squirrel@mail.resist.ca> Seinforma Canada Headlines/Titulares Seinforma Canada English Services/Servicios en Espanol PARAMILITARY-DRUG DEALER PRESIDENT FOREVER? The implications of the presidential re-election in Colombia How is it possible in a democracy for an electoral and constitutional amendment to be illegal due to the connection of illegal votes among their honorable members and for a presidential reelection to be legal? http://www.seinforma.ca/latinamericareeleccioneng.html --------- Seinforma Canada Special Series: War correspondents Reporting Feelings from the Front Line Javier Espinosa: ?Human beings are above news? Javier Espinosa, a correspondent for the Spanish newspaper El Mundo has witnessed Rwanda's tragedy, the Yugoslavian war, the Lebanon war, Iraq, the United States intervention in Haiti, the Pinochet case in Chile, the Chiapas conflicts, and the intifada in Palestine. He has been awarded three times the Bayeux-Calvados War Correspondents Prize. http://www.seinforma.ca/serieshumanbeingeng.html ------- SECOND ITINERANT SHOW OF CARIBBEAN CINEMA ? CUBA , NOVEMBER 2008 Caribbean cinema in honor of kids It will be dedicated to all the girls, boys and teenagers of the region who will get to know the customs and values of their nations through films, documentaries and animated films translated into every area language. http://www.seinforma.ca/eventscinecaribenoeng.html ------- Clara Anah?, we are still looking for you Chicha Mariani, founder of ?Mothers of Plaza de Mayo?, is already very old. She wants to be alive for meeting her granddaughter again after her disappearance 32 years ago. Let?s make it reach Clara Anah?! http://www.seinforma.ca/latinamericachichaeng.html ------ ESPANOL: PRESIDENTE NARCO-PARAMILITAR PARA SIEMPRE? Las implicaciones de la reelecci?n en Colombia ?Como es posible, en una democracia, que una reforma electoral y constitucional sea ilegitima por vinculaci?n de votos ilegales en sus honorables miembros y, en consecuencia, una reelecci?n presidencial sea leg?tima? http://www.seinforma.ca/latinoamericareeleccionesp.html ------ Series Especiales Seinforma Canada: Corresponsales de Guerra Reportan Sentimientos desde el Frente Javier Espinosa: ?La noticia est? por debajo del ser humano? Corresponsal de El Mundo, de Espa?a, Javier Espinosa ha recorrido con sus cr?nicas el genocidio de Ruanda, la guerra en Yugoslavia, la guerra del L?bano, Irak, la intervenci?n de Estados Unidos en Hait?, el caso Pinochet en Chile, los conflictos de Chiapas, Palestina, Egipto y el Magreb, entre otros. Ha recibido en tres oportunidades el Premio Bayeux-Calvados. http://www.seinforma.ca/serieshumanbeingesp.html ------ SEGUNDA MUESTRA ITINERANTE DE CINE DEL CARIBE - CUBA NOVIEMBRE DE 2008 Cine caribe?o en honor de la infancia Estar? dedicada a las ni?as, ni?os y adolescentes de la regi?n, quienes conocer?n las costumbres y valores de sus naciones a trav?s de filmes, documentales y animados traducidos en los idiomas de la zona. http://www.seinforma.ca/eventoscinecaribenoesp.html ------ 32 A?OS BUSCANDO A SU NIETA DESAPARECIDA Clara Anah?, te seguimos buscando Chicha Mariani, fundadora de "Madres de Plaza de Mayo", ya est? muy vieja pero no pierde la esperanza de reencontrarse con su nieta. Ayud?mosle a localizarla! http://www.seinforma.ca/latinoamericachichaesp.html --- Visit www.seinforma.ca Thank you for your support www.seinforma.ca/donations.html Gracias por su apoyo www.seinforma.ca/donaciones.html From seinforma-l at lists.resist.ca Fri Nov 7 09:13:45 2008 From: seinforma-l at lists.resist.ca (Seinforma Canada News/Noticias Seinforma Canada) Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 09:13:45 -0800 (PST) Subject: World Peace Forum Vancouver November 8,9, 11 English Services Canada Message-ID: <2003.67.204.54.19.1226078025.squirrel@mail.resist.ca> English Services Canada Posted by Writers Against War An invitation of Poets Against War World Peace Forum part I "(...) The World Peace Forum Seminar on the 90th Anniversary of WW1 takes place in the midst of a world wide economic crisis of the capitalist system that is condemning countless millions of working people and the poor to permanent unemployment and the depths of poverty and despair (...)" (Vancouver November 8, 9, 11, 2008) Don Currie, Chair, Canadians for Peace and Socialism Associate Member: Canadian Peace Congress November 5, 2008 Dear friends Some Lessons of the Past As WPF participants discuss the factors leading to WW1, that killed 20 million human beings and the post-war path that led a mere 21 years later to the outbreak of WW2 that killed more than 50 million human beings, it is worthwhile to remind ourselves that these wars were not individual events, but culminating events preceded by intense inter-imperialist rivalries. Opportunities arose that if seized upon, could have prevented these greatest of all human calamities from happening. Part of our discussion must include why such opportunities were ignored and why the instigators of war prevailed over the overwhelming desire of the people for peace. The answer to that question must be sought for in the systemic origins of war in our time. WW1 marked the beginning of the modern era of imperialism, an era of intense inter-imperialist rivalry among finance capitalist monopolies, integrated with the state, vying for dominance over global markets, resources and labour. Imperialist rivalries become so heated that competitive military blocs and alliances are created and devastating wars and aggressions occur. That is why it is correct to say that movements for peace were and are in content, anti-imperialist movements. Because imperialism is an anarchic, contradictory aggressively competitive system, composed of dominant and subordinate imperialist states, the very instability of the system means it is possible for individual or groups of countries to periodically break out of its orbit, defeat it, and abandon it for something better. What that something better should be is another dimension to our discussion beyond the scope of this Teach In but I would argue it is imperative that it be discussed and in depth and I would recommend it be considered as the theme of the next WPF Teach In. Some Lessons of the Present The U.S. Presidential Elections The people of the United States in electing Barak Obama President have opened up new opportunities for advancing the cause of peace and global disarmament. Those opportunities must be seized upon. The relinquishing by U.S. imperialism of its global enterprise is far from over, but the people of the United States in voting for change have said to their elite and chauvinistic classes, that they will no longer support them uncritically in that project. The people of the United States have voted in support of President elect Obama?s promise of reforming the economy, withdrawing from war, and forging a new multi-lateral relationship with other countries. That is an opening for the peace and disarmament movement of our country to give voice to what we believe that new relationship should be to advance the cause of peace. The present US-Canadian government relationship based on military interoperability of Canadian and US armed forces via NATO, NORTHCOM and NORAD and subordination of Canadian foreign and trade policy to NAFTA and SPP agreements would have to be at the centre of such a re-evaluation and recasting of relations. The Canadian Peace Congress at its recent Winnipeg Convention decided to campaign for Canadian withdrawal from NATO as the first step in shifting Canada away from support of US imperialist wars, to a foreign policy of peace and disarmament. Peace and the Global Economic Crisis The World Peace Forum Seminar on the 90th Anniversary of WW1 also takes place in the midst of a world wide economic crisis of the capitalist system that is condemning countless millions of working people and the poor to permanent unemployment and the depths of poverty and despair. The crisis is the logical outcome of an entire era of neo-liberal global theft by leading imperialist states led by the U.S.A. of the work, resources, wealth, savings and property of the labouring and oppressed masses of the world. Nothing is being done by the leading capitalist governments including our own, to stop the thieves. Everything is being done by the G7 to sanctify and perpetuate their enterprise. The November 20th Meeting of the G20 will do likewise. Government support for the banks and inaction on behalf of the victims of the economic crisis confronts the peace movement with the obligation to propose economic programs of peace at the centre of which must be the demand to cut arms budgets and to spend on job creating projects, maintenance of income programs and protection of our public health, education and pension programs. .... part II to follow, with *Arms Budgets are the Ruination of Economies. *Prevent World War Three *Foreign Military Bases ? Outpost of Imperialist Aggression. *FMB?s and the Cause of Peace Summarized --- Visit www.seinforma.ca Thank you for your support www.seinforma.ca/donations.html Gracias por su apoyo www.seinforma.ca/donaciones.html