Location:

l’Exode, Café du Cégep du Vieux Montréal, 255 rue Ontario (local 3.84)
(Métro Berri UQAM)

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Gail Shea Minister of Fisheries and Oceans was pied on Monday morning to protest the seal hunt. Gail Shea is doing all she can to open new markets since the EU ban, she just got back from China where she was peddling seal penises, seal pepperoni and baby seal fur. One person from her delegation commented that "The Chinese will eat anything", she commented that it was nice not having to deal with protests.

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Important press release from the Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East

Canada to withdraw its funding to UNRWA

(Montreal, Jan. 21st, 2010) - Last week, the government of Canada quietly announced it would discontinue its long-standing financial contributions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and redirect the monies to strengthen the judicial system of the Palestinian Authority and other food assistance programs. The news came out as UNRWA launched a special fundraising campaign to collect millions of dollars needed to support programs in the occupied Palestinian territories.

UNRWA provides assistance to 4.67 million Palestinian refugees scattered throughout the Middle East and administers programs in the areas of education, health and other social services in 59 Palestinian refugee camps.

[ action: link below to easily write to the federal parties.] [version française]

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[facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=178907089708]
[video-announcement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PEMPJh8ZCg]

UPDATED SCHEDULE OF EVENTS! The full schedule of events, during the Forum, including descriptions of panels, workshops, skillshares and speakers, is now online. Visit the website for full information: www.forumcontrelaviolencepoliciere.net
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Forum Against Police Violence and Impunity
January 29-31, 2010
Centre communautaire de Parc-Extension
419 rue St-Roch (métro Parc)

FREE. Welcome to all!
(No police, no corporate media)
Childcare available on-site.
Not completely wheelchair accessible;
please get in touch with access needs.
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- Credit : ThePhaedrus83
- Original complete speech (video) on IVAW Racism and War: the Dehumanization of the Enemy.

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January 1, 2010 - For months international, Israeli, and Palestinian activists have been planning the Gaza Freedom March. Organizers hoped an international delegation of 1300 activists from around the world would break the siege on Gaza by marching through Gaza to the northern border and through the Erez crossing, join the Israeli march. The Real News attended the Israeli side of the protest, and though the Egyptian government prevented the activists from entering Gaza, hundreds gathered to raise awareness of the desperate situation in Gaza a year after Operation Cast Lead. [transcript and TheREALnews here »»]

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVNNqrAW0iQ
Watch it & Spread it & Act

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More news about this here »»

The group Codepink in the Canadian delegation to Gaza

:: Video of the worldwide delegation before the UN



:: Video of the delegation from Canada and Quebec



:: Communication from the Canada/Quebec delegation
(inspired by Codepinks': Egypt says we can't go, but we're going regardless)

We are determined to break the siege

We will all continue to do all in our power to make this happen

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MONTREAL- December 10 2009- In response to a call sent out by the Olympics Resistance Network in Vancouver, more than two hundred anti-olympics protestors noisily disrupted the celebration of the passage of the Olympic Torch Relay in Montreal. The group, made up of indigenous solidarity activists and other groups and individuals affiliated with the Montreal chapter of Peoples Global Action (PGA), an international anti-capitalist movement, heckled and disrupted for several hours the planned activities of the celebration, despite a massive police presence and a tense atmosphere at Place Jacques-Cartier, in Old Montreal.

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While traveling to Vancouver, Canada to speak at the Vancouver Public Library at a benefit for community radio stations, Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman and her two colleagues were detained by Canadian authorities. Amy was questioned extensively about the speech she intended to give; their car was gone through by armed border guards, and their papers and laptop computers were scoured. The armed interrogators were particularly interested in whether she would be speaking about the upcoming Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.[rush transcript, video, audio»»]

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Ms. Juhasz' book "The Bush Agenda" gives a clear view how we got into the Iraq war and exposed the WTO and IMF "Chevron, Halliburton, Bechtel, Exxon for all to see.

Antonia Juhasz spoke on "A Game as Old as Empire" March 27, 2007 in Berkeley.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-gicMnta7Y

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Upcoming Events:

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 5pm
Art Auction: Creative resistance against the 2010 Olympics
Party begins at 5pm, auction from 7pm-10pm
3942 Ste. Emilie, corner/coin St. Augustin
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=182621237549
Presented by the Ste-Emilie Skillshare

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 6:30pm
No Olympics on Stolen Land Panel and Film Night
Featuring Indigenous speakers from the interior of “British Columbia” and films about Defenders of the Land and the Native Youth Movement.
De Sève Cinema, 1400 de Maisonneuve Ouest (metro Guy-Concordia)
Presented by the Indigenous Solidarity Committee and No One Is Illegal-Montreal
More details below …

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 6:30pm
Movie and Discussion Night: Resistance from Vancouver to Montreal
Includes excerpts from “Five Ring Circus” and other films
3600 University Avenue, room 112 (metro McGill)
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=184893838998
Presented by the Ste- Emilie Skillshare and Q-Team.

All culminating with:
PROTEST AGAINST THE OLYMPIC TORCH RELAY IN MONTREAL
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2009, please arrive at 5:30pm (sharp)
Corner of Notre-Dame est and Place Jacques Cartier, between St-Laurent & Gosford, métros Champ-de-mars or Place d’armes
Bring your noisemakers!!!
More details below …

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Obama, Harper and Copenhagen
November 27, 2009

BERMAN: There's no question that the announcement that we wouldn't be receiving a legally binding agreement coming out of Copenhagen was disappointing, especially given the urgency of addressing global warming. But at the same time [...]

It's very disappointing to see that not only is the Canadian government not successfully reducing global warming pollution, but they're not even trying.

BIO - Tzeporah Berman is the Executive Director and one of the Co-founders of PowerUp Canada. Tzeporah is also known for her work in the early nineties coordinating the largest civil disobedience protest in Canada’s history in Clayoquot Sound on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

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Source: www.onelawforall.org.uk

Several hundred joined a rally in London’s Hyde Park organised by One Law for All to show their opposition to Sharia and religious-based laws in Britain and elsewhere and to demand universal rights and secularism.

At the rally, over 20 speakers and performers exposed the discriminatory and brutal nature of religious laws.

The rally heard from people with direct experiences of Sharia law, including Iranian-born activist Sohaila Sharifi and Somali-born secularist Ismail Einashe.

Maryam Namazie, of One law for all
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOdEK4tZJpI

( see and hear the other speeches here )