[tadamon-l] Tadamon! Montreal: Oppose the 'Security and Prosperity Partnership'!

[Tadamon!]

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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