[tadamon-l] Radio Tadamon! Protests: Israeli Apartheid / SPP

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* Radio Tadamon! Protests: Israeli Apartheid / SPP
http://tadamon.resist.ca/index.php/post/863

This edition of Radio Tadamon! brings you to the streets, from the ongoing 
demonstrations throughout Canada calling for a boycott of Indigo/Chapters 
bookstores due to their support for Israel, to the major demonstrations in 
Montabello, Quebec surrounding the North American trilateral summit in August 
2007.

A national boycott campaign targeting the Indigo/Chapters bookstore is rooted 
in opposition to the support for Israel from the company.s majority 
shareholders of the company Heather Reisman and Gerry Schwartz, established the 
controversial "HESEG Foundation for Lone Soldiers", a program of financial 
support for former 'lone soldiers', non-Israelis who fight in the Israeli 
military, in defense of apartheid and occupation. Israeli 'lone soldiers' 
participated in the 2006 military attack on Lebanon and participate in the 
enforcement of the military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip of 
Palestine.

This edition of Radio Tadamon! also will focus on the demonstrations against 
the Security and Prosperity Partnership, the SPP, a North American trade and 
security initiative aimed at developing greater integration of trade and 
security policies from Mexico to Canada, a development of NAFTA, the North 
American Free Trade Agreement, a trade treaty widely unpopular amongst labor 
unions, indigenous communities and left social activists.

The Montabello summit included multiple session between the North American 
leaders on "deeply integrating" more than 300 areas of policy -- including 
health, safety, and environmental standards -- between Canada, the U.S. and 
Mexico. The summit also focused on foreign policy & the War on Terror, where 
the leaders of North America, Prime Minster Stephen Harper of Canada, Mexican 
President Filipe Calderon & US President George Bush focused on Latin America 
and the Middle East.

This edition of Radio Tadamon! features interviews with,

Mohan Mishra of No One is Illegal Toronto
Ralph Gerstenburger of the Canadian Labor Congress
Yvonne Bobb Toronto-based Social Justice Activist
Liisa Schofield of the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid
Nazila Bettache No One is Illegal Montreal
Sawsan Kalache Tadamon! Montreal
Freda Guttman Montreal Artist
Rose-Marie Whalley of Older Women Live (OWL)

This edition of Radio Tadamon! was produced by Tania Tabar, Maha Sultan & 
Stefan Christoff...


* Information on the Security & Prosperity Partnership visit:
http://www.integratethis.org / http://www.psp-spp.com

* Information on the campaign to boycott Indigo/Chapters visit:
http://www.caiaweb.org / http://tadamon.resist.ca

Radio Tadamon! is produced for broadcast on CKUT Radio in Montreal & internet 
distribution through the Rabble Podcast Network & the Electronic Intifada...

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