[van-announce] ACTION ALERT: DEMONSTRATE AGAINST PAUL MARTIN - SATURDAY

[Murray Dobbin]

Dear social activists  -- and all those not fooled by Paul Martin...

ACTION ALERT: DEMONSTRATE AGAINST PAUL MARTIN
                           SATURDAY, MAY 31
                                  12:00 TO 1:30
                           WESTIN BAYSHORE    

Paul Martin will be appointed our next prime minister in February next 
year, at the latest, and then will call an election to get his own 
mandate to govern the country. What will follow is four more years of 
what Martin already did to the country: more attacks on the poor, more 
tax cuts for the rich, more free trade, continental integration with the 
US, taking Canada into a military partnership with the New (and old) 
American Empire with Star Wars II - and much, much more.

In recognition of the threat that Paul Martin poses to Canadian 
sovereignly and democracy a group has begun forming across the country. 
It is - for now - called the Campaign to Expose Paul Martin. We launched 
our campaign in Charlottetown last Saturday with a spirited 
demonstration and the postering of the down town with posters announcing 
"Warning: Paul Martin is Hazardous to Canada's health" (the poster is 
attached).

Martin is in town for the next in series of Liberal leadership debates. 
The debate starts at 1:00 and goes until 3:00. (You have to have a 
ticket to get in and be a Liberal member to get a ticket.)

There is no formal group organizing this campaign in Vancouver - yet. 
Hopefully that will change in the next two weeks or so.

Right now we need to rely on the various email lists and other 
word-of-mouth methods to get people out.  Coming out of this 
demonstration, I hope we can formally organize a small group to 
co-ordinate future demos and action.

Feel free to use your imagination in making your own placards.  
Hopefully there will be fact sheets to hand out - but if you want to run 
off a few dozen yourself (it is also attached), we can be sure.

Any group of two or more who would like to take on postering arojnd the 
Westin to welcome the hudreds of Liberal attending - please consider 
this authorization as full fledged member of  the campaign.

Please send this out as widely as possible...

The Campaign to Expose Paul Martin
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