[van-announce] Updates on Events and Actions on the SPP

[Harsha]

a more comprehensive calender is at http://noii-van.resist.ca

- pls forward -

AUGUST 20TH CONTINENTAL DAY OF ACTION ! (UPDATED INFO)
Monday August 20th
* 3 pm at Canada Place: Meet at Waterfront Station entrance on Howe
Street, corner Cordova.
* 5 pm at Burrard Skytrain Station: Meet in open park area just north of
Skytrain entrance on Burrard Street, corner Dunsmuir.
* This march will later converge with the antiwar/anti spp demo being
organized at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
See you there!


REMINDER: COMMUNITY FORUM ON THE SPP
Saturday August 11 @ 2 pm
Fireside Café, 13593 King George Hwy, Surrey
King George and 108 (Right next to Gateway Skytrain).
FREE! WITH SPEAKERS AND PRESENTATIONS


PANEL ON RESISTING THE SECURITY AND PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT
Thursday August 16th at 7 pm at Rhizome Cafe, 317 East Broadway
* Kat Norris: Coast Salish Indigenous Action Movement
* Fred Muzin: President of Hospital Employees Union
* Member of La Otra Campagna (The Other Campaign) Vancouver
* Garth Mullins is a doctoral candidate working on communities intervening
in capitalist globalization
* others tbc


The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) was founded
in March 2005 at a summit of the Heads of State of Canada, the US, and
Mexico. SPP is not an official treaty; it is not an official law;
therefore it has been able to escape any public scrutiny. The major drive
behind the SPP is a CEO-based organization, which is the only official
advisory group to governments on the SPP.

The SPP is a NAFTA-plus-Homeland-Security model and will involve the
harmonization of over 300 areas of regulations, including: integration of
the military and police, expansion of temporary worker programs as a means
of ensuring low wages, coordination of no-fly lists, expedited resource
extraction particularly oil and water on unceded indigenous territories,
and harmonization of health and environmental regulations to lower
standards and development of a North American alternative to the Kyoto
Protocol.

There is no doubt that the SPP will bring greater insecurity and misery:
murderous wars and occupations abroad; border militarization; increased
detentions and deportations; attacks on indigenous peoples, the poor,
migrants, and working people; ecological destruction; and mega-projects in
the service of corporate greed.

To read more on the SPP visit: http://noii-van.resist.ca/?page_id=102

For more information or to get involved: email scrapspp at gmail.com or
call 778 885 0040.