[van-announce] Mon Sep 24: The Struggle Against the SPP Continues!

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The Struggle Agains the SPP Continues!

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MONDAY SEPTEMBER 24TH from 6:00-8:00 PM
SFU HARBOUR CENTRE, 515 WEST HASTINGS
ROOM 1600
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Short movie and speaking presentations followed by open discussion and
strategizing...

* Slideshow and short films straight from Montebello!
* Excerpts from Film "A View from the Summit" on the FTAA protests in
Quebec City in 2001
* Speakers on the impacts of the SPP and continental organizing against
the SPP from Kanada to Mexico.
* Open discussion and strategizing on the Campaign to Scrap the SPP!

August 20th was a continental day of action against the Security and
Prosperity Partnership Agreement. In Montebello, approximately 2000-4000
protestors converged in Montebello Quebec to oppose the Security and
Prosperity Partnership Agreement and the meeting of Harper, Bush, and
Calderon. Vancouver was documented as having the largest protest outside
of Montebello, with approximately 600 people demonstrating their
resistance throughout the day in a series of actions.

The struggle against the SPP did not start on August 20th, nor should it
have ended on August 20th. The continental day of action was simply one
manifestation of a larger ongoing movement for justice and
self-determination as we resist the ongoing impacts of the SPP through our
daily struggles.

Join us in short films, brief presentations, and open discussion on
continuing the campaign to Scrap the SPP!

For more information, email noii-van at resist.ca or call 778 885 0040
www.nooneisillegal.org

BACKGROUND

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.

The SPP is a continuation of ongoing capitalist and colonial policies-
including that of the Canadian government’s- and 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.