Confront Rice and the "Security" Partners
Ottawa Anarchists, 19.02.2007 18:35
February 23rd, 2007 - 9:30 AM - 125 Sussex Dr. - Lester B. Person Building
(#3 OC Transpo)
"Security" and "Prosperity" Partership Ministers meeting in Ottawa. Confront Condoleeza Rice, Peter Mackay, Stockwell Day, US secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff and others!
"Security" and "Prosperity" Partership Ministers meeting in Ottawa on
Friday Feb 23rd!
Get on bus #3 and confront Condoleeza Rice, Peter Mackay, Stockwell Day, US secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff and others!
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9:30am
Friday, February 23rd, 2007
Department of Foreign Affairs (Lester B. Pearson Building)
125 Sussex Drive
Take Bus #3 (leaving Rideau Centre at 9:05, 9:15, 9:25)
Bring Placards, Banners and Noise-makers!
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Next Friday, 23 February, the "Security and Prosperity Partnership"
ministers from Canada, the United States and Mexico will be meeting in
Ottawa. These are the leaders who have done so much for the "security and prosperity" of indigenous people of the Americas; have greatly added to the tip-top happy security of Muslim, Arab and migrant communities through the introduction of such measures as "Safe Third Country", special registration, "anti-terror" laws, and the use of the security certificate; are busy securing Afghanistan for the prosperity of others; are furthering plans for the construction of a border wall between Mexico and the USA while continuing to enforce policies which result in death and injury to thousands of migrants each year ; they have done such a fantastic job in raising the security and prosperity of Iraqis (655,000 securely dead since the beginning of the invasion, as of last Lancet study) ... and they are here to plan for much more !
Among expected participants are US Secretary of State Condeleeza Rice and Michael Chertoff, secretary of Homeland Security. These two are responsible for the continued imperialist drive in Iraq - including the worst year of violence since the occupation began almost 4 years ago – and the continued war at home, increased arrests, continued policies of torture and indefinite detention.
Mexican Secretary of the Interior Francisco Javier Ramirez Acuña will also be present to defend the policies of their government, which has enforced brutal measures against the people of Oaxaca, who have been beaten, killed, injured and forced into hiding. The people of Oaxaca have been consistently resisting this repression, and defending their right to self-determination.
Also expected are Peter Mackay, whose ideas of security and prosperity seem to have been borrowed from his close ally, the apartheid state of Israel, and Stockwell Day, whose ignorance and arrogance in his horrific policies are typified in the way he has dealt with the almost 80-day hunger strike of Mohammed Mahjoub, Hassan Almrei, Mahmoud Jaballah - playing with their lives because they have dared to ask for a tiny bit of dignity, using them as pawns in the "war on terror", that increasingly threadbare excuse for a particularly vicious and brutal expansion of North American economic and political interests in all corners of the world.
The 23 February meeting is a preparatory meeting to a meeting of the
Security and Prosperity Partnership, probably taking place in
Kananaskis, Alberta sometime between June 26-29.
For more information on this mobilization contact:
In Montreal - Block the Empire, 514-848-7583, 
bloquezlempiremontreal@resist.ca
In Ottawa - a_ottawa@mutualaid.org
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extra. extra: "Integrate This!" 22.02.2007 - 13:27 There is a local teach-in coming up about SPP @ the old Ottawa Tech High School building. It's being organized by Council of Canadians and it's called "Integrate This!". You can register online: http://www.canadians.org/integratethis/ ************************************ Integrate This! Teach-In (Council of Canadians) =Register for the Integrate This! teach-in The Integrate This! teach-in on March 31 and April 1, 2007, at Ottawa Technical High School (440 Albert Street, Ottawa), is fast approaching. The free event will bring together activists, academics, students, politicians, citizens and journalists from Canada, Mexico and the United States to challenge the big-business vision of North American integration contained in the Security and Prosperity Partnership – a vision that has yet to be debated anywhere but that will have major impacts on citizens across the continent. To make sure everything runs smoothly, we're asking people to register for Integrate This! in advance. Not only will it help us plan but it will get you into the teach-in quickly so you won't miss a thing. Confirmed speakers already include: * Judy Rebick, activist and founder of Rabble.Ca * Maureen Webb, human rights lawyer, activist and author of Illusions of Security: Global Surveillance and Democracy in the Post-9/11 World * Maude Barlow, national chairperson of the Council of Canadians * Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party of Canada * Dorval Brunelle, professor at the University of Quebec in Montreal and director of the Observatory of the Americas * Hassan Yussuff, secretary-treasurer of the Canadian Labour Congress * Peter Julian, NDP Member of Parliament (Burnaby-New Westminster) and NDP International Trade Critic And confirmed workshops include: * Scott Sinclair of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives on "Leaving NAFTA" * Janet Dench of the Canadian Council for Refugees on the "Smart Border Declaration" * Gordon Laxer of the Parkland Institute on "Energy Security and the SPP" * Janet Eaton of the Sierra Club of Canada on "Atlantica" * Sid Lacombe of the Canadian Peace Alliance on "The Home Front in the 'War on Terror'" * Roch Tasse of the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group on “The Security Agenda” * Murray Dobbin on TILMA Click here to register now for Integrate This! All it takes is a second and it guarantees you a spot at the teach-in. While it is a free event, and there will be registration at the door, registering now online is easier for everyone. For details and regular updates about teach-in panels, workshops, speakers and Friday night kick-off, please visit http://www.integratethis.ca. = http://www.canadians.org/DI/issues/guide/index.html
b> More on the event tomorrow 22.02.2007 - 18:12 Protest tomorrow info... Some information on the SPP protest tomorrow. Our media has been silent on it, although the CBC Radio did a brief 2 minute news brief. http://www.international.gc.ca/department/lbp_building/menu-en.asp Here's a very informative press release. lots of details http://www.ccnmatthews.com/news/releases/show.jsp?action=showRelease&searchText=false&showText=all&actionFor=636679 Here's a group that did a bit on Ottawa University's radio. Not much was said, other than that they'll be holding a 'fake' checkpoint/citizen search' enactment tomorrow morning in downtown Ottawa (Metcalfe & Slater - 8:30 AM) - they say they'll be filming, hope to get hold of the footage: http://yand.pbwiki.com/ The Council of Canadians will be setting up an SPP Information Station outside of the Lester B Pearson building twice tomorrow 9 to 11 a.m. and 3 to 4:30 p.m. Lester B. Pearson Building (DFAIT headquarters) 125 Sussex Drive Ottawa, Ontario Phone: (613) 233-2773 http://www.canadians.org/events/index.html#Feb23
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