[Stopwar-l] events & news update

Sat Mar 20 14:03:17 PDT 2010

Greetings StopWar friends and supporters!

In this
update:

1.Anti-Racist Action: Stand against the White Pride March by
Neo-Nazis
Sunday March 21, 11 am
Vancouver

2. Vancouver War Resisters: On
the anniversary of the Iraq War: Veteran Resisters Speak Out
Sunday March
21st, 1:00 PM 
Maritime Labour Centre

3. Annual Vancouver Outlook Lasagna
Supper
Sunday, March 21, 6 PM
Ben Chud Auditorium, Peretz Centre, 6184 Ash
St., Vancouver, BC

4.  8,000 Drums Ceremony
Sunday, March 21,
1:00pm
Grandview Park, Vancouver

5. World Water Day Events
Sunday, March
21

6. Yves Engler Book Launch: "Canada and Israel: Building
Apartheid"
UBC: Monday, March 22, 2010, 6:00pm
W2: Wednesday, March 24,
2010, 7:00pm

7. Dr. Juan R.I. Cole "Palestinian Statelessness as the Crux
of the Mideast Crisis"
7:30 pm, Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Simon Fraser
University, Surrey

8. AN OPEN LETTER from SFPIRG

9. News
Items

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1. 

ANTI-RACIST ACTION: Stand against the White Pride March by
Neo-Nazis 

Sunday March 21 at 11 am.
Assemble at Braid Skytrain Station in
New Westminster. 

 Dear friends and supporters,

 Historically most of the
Canadians have considered themselves to be more or
 less free of racial
prejudice. Although we have the Canadian Charter of
 Rights and Freedoms
but this majority Canadian conception has been
 challenged so many times
historically and in recent years. The words like
 racism, hatred and
discrimination are no strangers to the people belonging
 to visible
minorities who are now living here for more than 100 years. For
 the first
time in over 10 years, neo-nazis are attempting to hold a "white
 pride"
march in the streets of Vancouver. This "White Pride March"will take
 place
on Sunday, March 21st, which is also the International day for the

elimination of Racial Discrimination. Anti-Racist and Civil Liberties
groups
 are seeking for more detailed information but it appears that the
"White
 Pride"event will start from/near the Sky Train station, New
Westminster at
 11.00 AM on 21st March. Different organizations and
individuals have also
 planned a Multicultural Pride march in direct
opposition, at the same time
 and location. This is going to be a FUN,
SAFE, POSITIVE protest event.
 (Please join facebook group, Down with
Neo-Nazis Vancouver, unceded Coast
 Salish
territories.)

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo# [2]!/group.php?gid=

347520048200">2. 

VANCOUVER WAR RESISTERS

  War Resisters Support
Campaign - Vancouver

 - please post, embed and forward widely -

 Vietnam
Veteran and Academy Award-nominated author of "Born on the Fourth of July"
Ron Kovic sends a message of support to U.S. Iraq War resisters in Canada
on the 7th Anniversary of the illegal invasion and occupation of
Iraq:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqs6U2tk7kI [3]

 Kovic is also
calling on Parliament and the Canadian people to support Bill C-440 to
compel the Harper government to let war resisters stay.

 War Resisters
Support Campaign * http://www.resisters.ca/ [4] * 416.598.1222

 For more
updates on the campaign for Bill C-440 (war resisters bill)
visit:
http://www.letthemstay.ca/ [5]

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Sunday March 21st
 1:00 PM
 Maritime Labour Centre, 1880 Triumph St.,
Vancouver

 ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE IRAQ WAR: VETERAN RESISTERS SPEAK
OUT

 Seven years ago, millions of people around the world protested the
illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq. Over 100,000 Iraqi civilians have
died as have thousands of US and other soldiers - all for a war based on
lies. While Bush and Blair, the architects of this crime walk free, Iraq
war resisters are still being jailed for their opposition to the war.

Join veteran US soldiers and war resisters Ron Kovic, Rodney Watson and
Jeremy Hinzman for an interactive discussion on the campaign to allow US
Iraq war resisters to stay in Canada.

 Live from Los Angeles: Ron Kovic 

Ron Kovic served two tours of duty during the Vietnam War. He returned home
wounded and became an anti-war activist. Ron Kovic is the author and
subject of the book and film, Born on the Fourth of July.

 Live from
Vancouver: Rodney Watson 
 Rodney Watson completed his tour of duty in
Iraq. He came to Canada when he was stop-lossed and ordered to return to
Iraq. He has been forced into sanctuary in First United church in Vancouver
to avoid deportation. 

 Live from Toronto: Jeremy Hinzman
 In January
2004, Jeremy Hinzman became the first Iraq War resister to come to Canada
He was a U.S. soldier in the elite infantry division, the 82nd Airborne. He
served in a non-combat position in Afghanistan and came to Canada when he
learned he was going to be deployed to Iraq.

 Presented by the Vancouver
War Resisters Support Campaign 

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3.  

OUTLOOK 

CANADA'S PROGRESSIVE JEWISH MAGAZINE 

FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE. PLEASE POST, ANNOUNCE OR DISTRIBUTE  

_ANNUAL __VANCOUVER__
__OUTLOOK__ LASAGNA SUPPER_ 

_SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 2010__, __6 PM_ 

_Ben
Chud Auditorium, Peretz Centre, __6184 Ash St.__, __Vancouver__, __BC_ 

_Outlook: __Canada__'s Progressive Jewish Magazine_ has been publishing
continuously since 1962. It offers a unique selection of political and
cultural features, reflecting its distinct Jewish humanist view of the
world. It upholds the values of peace, social justice and democracy the
world over.  

PROGRAM: 

_For the intellect ...._ 

MARK ARNOLD, Toronto
lawyer and Canadian Legal Counsel for the Palestinian Village of Bil'in
(West Bank), will speak on, "Litigating War Crimes in Canada--the Case of
Bil'in."  

_For the soul ..._ 

Argentinian-Canadian mezzo-soprano

FABIANA KATZ accompanied by  

Stephen Smith 

_And for the palate ..._

Our usual delicious LASAGNA SUPPER! 

Cover charge $20 per person

Please indicate Meat or Vegetarian 

Free underground parking.

Reservations or information: (604) 324-5101; cjoutlook at telus.net [6]

6184 Ash Street, Vancouver, BC V5Z 3G9 

Ph. 604-324-5101
cjoutlook at telus.net [7] www.vcn.bc.ca/outlook [8]

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4. 
3rd Annual
8,000 Drums Ceremony
March 21, 2010

Start Time: Sunday,
March 21 at 1:00pm
End Time: Sunday, March 21 at 3:00pm
Where: Grandview
Park
 1200 Commercial Drive, East Vancouver

An Indigenous gathering where,
around the world, 8000 drums,
on this same day, share prayer and honor
songs, from different nations, 
not only, for our people's social,
physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health
 but also for our earth,
environment, water and human rights.

Each year, we end with the A.I.M.
song and the Women's Warrior Song for our Missing and Murdered
Women.

Everyone is welcome to bring their drum "> 

5.  

WORLD WATER DAY
EVENTS 

UNBOTTLE IT!; CELEBRATION OF PUBLIC WATER 

SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 2PM 

SPEAKERS, SPECIAL AWARDS, MUSIC BY LOCAL BAND HEADWATER 

GRANDVIEW PARK
ON COMMERCIAL DRIVE (AT CHARLES) 

Come and show your support for keeping
our water public, promoting tap water and getting rid of plastic bottles.

Find out how New Westminster School District banned bottled water.

SUNDAY MARCH 21, 6PM: FREE SCREENING OF THE FILM "ADDICTED TO PLASTIC"

CAFE DEUX SOLEILS, 2096 COMMERCIAL DRIVE 

Organized by the Vancouver
Council of Canadians (www.vancouvercouncilofcanadians.ca [10]) 

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6. 

YVES ENGLER BOOK LAUNCH: "CANADA AND ISRAEL: BUILDING
APARTHEID"
Canadian author and political activist, Yves Engler, will be at
UBC on
 March 22nd and at W2 on March 24th discussing his most recent
book

 UBC:
 Date: Monday, March 22, 2010
 Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
 Location:
UBC Woodward Library, Room 6
 Street: 2198 Health Sciences Mall

 W2:

Date: Wednesday, March 24, 2010
 Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
 Location: W2
Community Media Arts Society Perel Gallery
 Street: 112 West Hastings St

This book is the first critical primer about Canada's ties to Israel.
 It
is a devastating account of Canadian complicity in 20th and 21st
 century
colonialism, dispossession and war crimes. The book documents
 the history
of Canadian Christian Zionism, Lester Pearson's important
 role in the
United Nations negotiations to create a Jewish state on
 Palestinian land,
the millions of dollars in tax-deductable donations
 used to expand Israeli
settlements in the West Bank and the Canadian
 Security Intelligence
Service ties to Israel's Institute for
 Intelligence and Special Operations
(Mossad).

 Despite most Canadians' strong desire for this country to be an
honest
 broker and peacekeeper in conflicts around the world, Canada's
foreign
 policy has become the most pro-Israel in the world, says Yves
Engler.

 "Stephen Harper's government has taken Canada's foreign policy,
which
 was always at least 80 per cent pro-Israel and moved it to 99.9 per

cent pro-Israel at a time when the most right-wing government in the

history of Israel is in power," said Engler. "I believe most Canadians

will be shocked to read how one-sidedly pro-Israel Canada has been and
 is
today."

 Engler argues that while both Liberal and Conservative
governments
 have taken one-sided pro-Israel foreign policy stances, the
current
 Harper government foreign policy is the most pro-Israel in the
world.

 "Our foreign policy towards Israel flouts both the Canadian
Charter of
 Rights and Freedoms and international law," said Engler, author
of The
 Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy, which was nominated for the

2009 Mavis Gallant Award for non-fiction. "Canadians of good
 conscience
need to, first, understand and then act to change what is
 being done in
our name."

 Praise for Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid:

 "Yves
Engler's meticulously researched volume refutes, for anyone who
 still
believes it, the myth that Canada is or ever has been an honest
 broker in
the Middle East. Reading Engler's work leaves one with the
 inescapable and
sad conclusion that the essence of Canadian policy has
 always been support
for the establishment and continued dominance of
 an expansionist Zionist
state in the territories that now comprise
 Israel, Gaza, and the West
Bank. As a former Zionist youth leader, I
 thank Engler for setting the
record straight and can only lament our
 country's historical and ongoing
contribution to the tragedy
 enveloping the long-suffering peoples of the
Promised Land, Arab and
 Jewish."
 -- Gabor Maté, Physician and author of
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts:
 Close Encounters With Addiction.

 Praise
for Engler's Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy:

 "Yves Engler's
penetrating inquiry yields a rich trove of valuable
 evidence about
Canada's role in the world."
 -- Noam Chomsky

 Praise for Yves Engler:

"Yves became a foreign-policy expert by working as a night doorman in

Montreal...He's in the mould of I. F. Stone, who wasted no time with

politicians, who all have an agenda, but went instead straight to the

public record."
 -- Rick Salutin, Globe and Mail

 Former Vice President of
the Concordia Student Union, Yves Engler has
 published three previous
books: The Black Book of Canadian Foreign
 Policy (Shortlisted for the
Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction in the
 Quebec Writers' Federation
Literary Awards); Playing Left Wing: From
 Rink Rat to Student Radical; and
(with Anthony Fenton) Canada in
 Haiti: Waging War on The Poor Majority. 

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 7. 

The Centre for the
Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures and
 the World
Literature Program Simon Fraser University present:

 DR. JUAN R.I. COLE
"PALESTINIAN STATELESSNESS AS THE CRUX OF THE MIDEAST CRISIS"

 7:30 pm,
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
 Westminster Savings Credit Union Lecture Theatre
Simon Fraser University,
 Surrey Campus Central City Mall, Surrey

Student-Faculty Session with Dr. Juan R.I. Cole 11:30am-12:30pm,
Wednesday,
 March 24, 2010 Simon Fraser University, Burnaby Campus Academic
Quadrangle,
 Rm. 6229

 Dr. Juan R. I. Cole is the Richard P. Mitchell
Collegiate Professor of
 History at the University of Michigan. A
distinguished historian,
 translator, and public commentator, Professor
Cole has authored or
 translated eighteen influential books, including,
most recently, Engaging
 the Muslim World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) and
Napoleon's Egypt: Invading
 the Middle East (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). A
frequent guest on the Lehrer
 News Hour, Nightline, Charlie Rose,
Countdown, Democracy Now, and the
 Colbert Report, he received the James
Aronson Award for Social Justice
 Journalism in 2005 for his commentary on
contemporary Islamic movements.

 This event is FREE and open to the
public.
 Please remember to register for the student-faculty session by
emailing
 ccsmsc at sfu.ca [11]

 For further information:
http://www.sfu.ca/ccsmsc; [12]
 http://students.surrey.sfu.ca/arts/wl [13]

--
 Adala - Canadian Arab Justice Committee is a Vancouver-based
advocacy
 organization working to build the capacity of interested
Canadians to better
 respond to the media and policy makers and to promote
fair coverage and
 balanced decision-making. Adala is a member organization
of the Canadian
 Arab Federation.

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8. 

*please forward and post widely* Show your Support for SFPIRG

If
you have been supported by SFPIRG and/or support the work of SFPIRG, please
take a moment to make your voice heard on our endorsement page today
(http://iheartsfpirg.ca/?p=13 [14]). If you have already done so, please
accept our sincerest thanks! So far, more than 170 students, groups,
professors and other individuals have signed on to show their support!

 AN
OPEN LETTER from SFPIRG in response to planned "coup d'etat" and failed fee
referendum 

March 2010 

On February 10, a group of students intentionally
disrupted SFPIRG's Annual General Meeting as part of a larger agenda to
take down the organization. The agenda was later revealed in a blog
(vanmaren88.blog.ca [15]) written by two of the attending students, Sam
Reynolds [16] and Jonathon Van Maren . According to the blog, two students

"Sam Reynolds and Robert Lutener…began formulating plans to orchestrate a
coup d'etat _[the wording has since been changed to 'action']_ against the
group. They worked hard to solicit support from like minded people, such as
Jonathon Van Maren…organizing on Facebook in complete secrecy." 

Directly
after the AGM, Van Maren presented a motion at the SFSS board meeting to
put SFPIRG fees to referendum this March. The motion did not pass and the
board decided that a petition by 5% of the student body was needed. (see
Peak Article:  _Fervent student-group debate erupts during board meeting_
[17]) The group did not obtain the necessary amount of student signatures
for the petition to be successful during this election period. 

SFPIRG
welcomes open and constructive dialogue about our work and structure.
However, we do not consider the ill will and secretive method of organizing
used by this group of students as representative of SFU's student body in
general. SFPIRG was established through student organizing in 1981 as an
autonomous organization specifically mandated to advocate for social and
environmental justice. This means we work to empower student leadership in
affecting change towards the full respect of human rights and environmental
sustainability. 

SFPIRG offers a wide range of resources which include a
Social Justice Lending Library; a bike tool co-op; and workshop trainings
on anti-oppression, consensus decision-making, facilitation and creative
media. In addition SFPIRG has the popular Action Research eXchange (ARX)
program, which allows students to apply and develop their research skills
in the real world through partnerships with community organizations. SFPIRG
is home to a number of student-organized action groups on campus including
Climate Change, Ancient Forests, Voice for Animals, and Letters for the
Inside (a research initiative that helps prisoners access information to
facilitate their rehabilitation process). 

SFPIRG further supports local
and on-campus initiatives to achieve social and environmental justice
through donations, including in the areas of housing and homelessness,
indigenous rights, welfare of women and children, community health, and
others. Students who wish to attend social and/or environmental justice
conferences or organize action groups can also apply to us for funding
support. 

Students are integral at every level of SFPIRG - as board
members, workers, volunteers and service users. We operate using consensus,
a democratic practice that requires everyone's voice and active consent in
the decision-making process and outcome. We have three part-time staff to
coordinate resources, provide organizational continuity, and mentor student
organizers. We also have 5 to 7 paid student positions in any given
semester. 

Similar to The Peak [18] and CJSF [19], SFPIRG is funded by a
student levy. Full time students pay $3.00 and part-time students pay $1.50
each semester. In November 2007, the newly formed Graduate Student Society
voted on all student fees and SFPIRG received 71.3% votes in favour of
continued funding. Any student who doesn't support SFPIRG can request a
refund of their levy during the fourth week of the semester. We publicize
this information at the start of each semester. 

The students who came to
disrupt our AGM have accused SFPIRG of withholding information and being an
undemocratic "exclusionary ideological clique". We want to respond to these
charges. At the AGM, we provided a detailed annual report [20] of all our
work in 2008-2009. We also provided copies of our financial statements,
which according to the BC Societies Act, we are not required to audit. No
charges, complaints or concerns have ever arisen about SFPIRG's financial
systems. All of these documents are available on our website. [21] 

On
February 10th, SFPIRG proposed several bylaw changes to guarantee annual
board elections and outline the nominations process and voting on
candidates at future AGMs. Currently elections occur only when there are
more people interested than there are positions. The proposed amendments
would have created a nominations process and an opportunity for members to
vote on board candidates at annual elections. They were publicized on our
website three weeks prior to the AGM. We respect the outcomes of the voting
process at our AGM, where they did not pass in large part due to the
disruption we experienced. Our next nominations round for the board will be
this summer. 

We find it hypocritical for a small group of students
plotting in secrecy and abusing the platform of democracy to try and remove
a critical space of leadership development, social responsibility and
empowerment for all students. SFPIRG has championed social and
environmental justice at SFU for the past 29 years and we believe the
majority of students at SFU share our values around human rights and
sustainability. We are surprised by the forcefulness of anti-community
sentiment amongst the small group of students organizing against us.
Interconnection between campus and community - both of which contextualize
and shape students' lives - _is _essential for genuine democracy. Students
do not exist in a vacuum and the campus is meaningless without the multiple
civic spaces that we inhabit in our daily lives. 

If you have concerns or
questions, _come talk to us_. Show your support for SFPIRG by signing this
statement of endorsement [22] and visit www.iheartsfpirg.ca [23] for more
ways to get involved. 

In solidarity with you for a more just, sustainable
and meaningful world, 

Simon Fraser Public Interest Research Group

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9. 

NEWS ITEMS 

Click the link below to watch a video recording of
Malalai Joya's talk in front of a packed audience, while in Vancouver on
her book tour in 2009. She is a fearless woman, and her book, _A Woman
Among War Lords_ is worth a read. The video aired on Shaw Community Cable
TV. 

http://www.pasifik.ca/node/13399 [24]
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Court Allows Torture Suit Against 
Former Defense Sec't
Rumsfeld

_1ST TIME IN __U.S._ history that court allows torture
suit
against current or former Cabinet Secretary

CHICAGO - Federal Judge
Wayne R. Andersen issued an historic ruling today allowing a suit charging
former Defense Secretary with authorizing torture.

Rumsfeld asked the
court to dismiss the case because he is a high-placed governmental official
and argued that he was immune from suit even for allegations of torture.
Mr. Rumsfeld also argued that due to his position, the Constitution
permitted him to order interrogation techniques that are widely considered
by human rights experts to be torture. The Court rejected both of Mr.
Rumsfeld's arguments and held that high-placed placed cabinet officials can
be held personally liable if they authorize the use of torture.

WHILE MANY
PREVIOUS CIVIL SUIT ATTEMPTS TO PROSECUTE BUSH-ERA CABINET OFFICIALS FOR
AUTHORIZING TORTURE HAVE FAILED, THE SUIT BROUGHT BY CHICAGO-BASED LOEVY
AND LOEVY ATTORNEYS AT LAW, _DONALD VANCE AND NATHAN ERTEL V. DONALD
RUMSFELD, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND UNIDENTIFIED AGENTS,_ WILL NOW
PROCEED TO DISCOVERY AND A TRIAL.

Donald Vance, a Navy veteran, accuses
U.S. forces in Iraq of imprisoning him without charges for over three
months in 2006, and torturing him during much of that time. Vance, a
private security employee at the time of his arrest in Baghdad, named
former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as a defendant for his role
in overseeing the military prison system in Iraq.

Rumsfeld allegedly
issued orders allowing torture techniques which allowed Vance to be
subjected to extreme sleep deprivation, interrogation for hours at a time,
held in an extremely cold cell without adequate clothing or blankets, and
periodically denied food and water for long periods of time. During
virtually Vance's entire three month imprisonment at the notorious Camp
Cropper near Baghdad International Airport, he was held in solitary
confinement in a continuously lit, windowless cell. 

"PLAINTIFFSALLEGE
THAT IN AUGUST 2003 RUMSFELD SENT MAJOR GEOFFREY MILLER TO IRAQ TO REVIEW
THE UNITED STATES PRISON SYSTEM," read Andersen's decision. "PLAINTIFFS
CLAIM THAT RUMSFELD INFORMED MAJOR MILLER THAT HIS MISSION WAS TO
'GITMO-IZE' CAMP CROPPER. THESE ALLEGATIONS, IF TRUE, WOULD SUBSTANTIATE
PLAINTIFFS' CLAIM THAT RUMSFELD WAS AWARE OF THE DIRECT IMPACT THAT HIS
NEWLY APPROVED TREATMENT METHODS WERE HAVING ON DETAINEES IN IRAQ. BASED ON
THESE ALLEGATIONS, WE CONCLUDE THAT PLAINTIFFS HAVE ALLEGED SUFFICIENT
FACTS TO SURVIVE RUMSFELD'S MOTION TO DISMISS ON ACCOUNT OF A LACK OF
PERSONAL INVOLVEMENT ACCEPTING AT THIS STAGE THAT THESE TREATMENT METHODS
WERE IN FACT USED, WE CONCLUDE THAT A COURT MIGHT PLAUSIBLY DETERMINE THAT
THE CONDITIONS OF CONFINEMENT WERE TORTUROUS."

An employee of Shield Group
Security (SGS) at the time of his arrest, Vance and a co-worker, Nathan
Ertel, suspected their employer of paying of local sheiks for influence in
obtaining government contracts and of other illegal dealings. To combat the
suspected illegal activity, Vance and Ertel became unpaid informants to the
FBI in Chicago and U.S. officials in Iraq. When SGS officials threatened
Vance's and Ertel's lives, they arranged for U.S. military forces to rescue
them. But after a few hours of interrogation and then rest at the U.S.
embassy, the U.S. imprisoned Vance and Ertel, beginning their nightmarish
imprisonment without habeus corpus. 

Once they were in U.S. custody, low
level bureaucrats invoked the unprecedented powers Rumsfeld had given them
to imprison Mr. Vance and Mr. Ertel as "persons of interest" to the United
States. Three months of interrogation followed, in which Mr. Vance was
physically abused and denied the right to counsel, the right of access to
the courts, and any legitimate process to challenge his illegal detention.

Pdf copies of Judge Andersen's ruling and the suit against Rumsfeld can
be found at:
http://chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display/89143/index.php
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FROM
THE CANADIAN PEACE ALLIANCE: IT'S STILL A WAR BUDGET.
  March 5, 2010 The
Conservative's 2010 Budget still represents an unprecedented increase in
defence spending, says the Canadian Peace Alliance, Canada's largest peace
network. While there is a small decrease in the amount previously allocated
to the military under the Canada First Defence Strategy, overall defence
spending continues to go up.

 "This is still a war budget," said Christine
Jones, co-chair of the Canadian Peace Alliance. "While the Harper
government wants Canadians to tighten their belts, the military gets
billions more each year."

 The Budget reduces annual defence spending by
$525 million in 2012 and $1 billion annually after 2012, but this is an
insignificant change to the Canada First Defence Strategy, which allocates
$490 billion in
 military spending by 2025.

 "The Conservatives are giving
20 billion annually to the arms dealers rather than to Canadians who are
reeling from the economic crisis", said Derrick O'Keefe, co-chair of the
CPA. "Worse still, the Budget figures don't include the costs of
'incremental funding' such as the war in Afghanistan, which has already
cost Canadians more than $20 billion."

 The Canadian Peace Alliance calls
on the Government of Canada to redirect money earmarked for the military to
be used for much needed social and environmental programs.

  For more
information call Sid Lacombe, Coordinator, Canadian Peace Alliance at
416-333-7567 (cell) or 416-588-5555 (office) 

Links:
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[1]
https://lists.resist.ca/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/stopwar-delegates
[2]
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo
[3]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqs6U2tk7kI
[4] http://www.resisters.ca/
[5]
http://www.letthemstay.ca/
[6] mailto:cjoutlook at telus.net
[7]
mailto:cjoutlook at telus.net
[8] http://www.vcn.bc.ca/outlook
[9]
mailto:csiaction at gmail.com
[10]
https://mail.canadians.org/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.vancouvercouncilofcanadians.ca
[11]
mailto:ccsmsc%40sfu.ca
[12] http://www.sfu.ca/ccsmsc;
[13]
http://students.surrey.sfu.ca/arts/wl
[14]
http://iheartsfpirg.ca/?p=13
[15]
http://vanmaren88.blog.ca/2010/02/11/party-at-the-pirg-7987371/
[16]
http://samreynolds.ca/
[17] http://www.the-peak.ca/article/21024
[18]
http://www.the-peak.ca/
[19] http://cjsf.ca/
[20]
http://iheartsfpirg.ca/?p=12
[21] http://sfpirg.ca/
[22]
http://iheartsfpirg.ca/?p=13
[23] http://iheartsfpirg.ca/
[24]
http://www.pasifik.ca/node/13399
[25]
http://chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display/89143/index.php
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