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Support our "Surge for Peace"
   The letter (appended below) to Ottawa City Council comes from an Afghan woman MP who expresses her clear opposition to the use of Ottawa facilities for any military trade shows.

Malalai Joya is an elected Afghan Member of Parliament. However, in May 2007 she was barred from Parliament for three years because she had denounced the many foreign-backed warlords and drug barons who dominate her government. While the Afghan Parliament passed a law giving immunity to all Afghan's who have committed war crimes over the previous 25 years, it also passed a law saying that Afghan MPs could not criticise each other.

So it is permissible to have MPs in Afghanistan's parliament who are war criminals, but it is not permissible to have MPs in that Parliament who dare to risk death threats for merely criticising the presence of those war criminals. This is the democracy that Canada helped to install and is now protecting. Canada helped the US to replace Taliban warlords with other warlords from the "Northern Alliance" who killed tens of thousands of innocent civilians in Kabul alone during the 1990s.

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Lundi le 22 juin, à midi : Une manifestation en solidarité avec le village de Bil’in aura lieu devant la Cour supérieure du Québec, le premier jour des audiences en cour.

:: Le soir, 5 à 8, une délégation québécoise qui a visité récemment Bil'in (entres autres) fera une présentation (vidéo, etc.)

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Meanwhile, there is a new and more important question that the Montreal Police Brotherhood needs to answer which it conspicuously avoids addressing: how is it that the Brotherhood obtained full reports of the Quebec City police investigation and of the Crown Prosecutor’s decision? These documents have up until now been consistently denied to the public and to the Bennis family by the relevant authorities – including current Public Security Minister, Jacques Dupuis – under the pretence of being “confidential”. If they are confidential, how is it that the Montreal Police Brotherhood not only obtained them, but actually submitted them as part of their motion to have the coroner’s inquest quashed? It is reportedly to give the Brotherhood time to answer this question that the hearings originally scheduled for January 2009 were postponed to June 2009. It was during these hearings that the Brotherhood’s motion to quash the coroner’s inquest was to be heard. However, the Brotherhood’s legal team now presumably has to figure out how they will explain having obtained these documents.

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Journalists from Tele5 caught by surprise with hidden camera.

The 11th of December 2008, in the context of the protests in Madrid in solidarity with the events in Greece, where a boy was murdered by a police bullet, Tele5 broadcasts an item made with a hidden camera to criminalize social movements.

The item broadcasted was shorter than they expected because the journalists were discovered by surprise.

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On March 17th, two American journalists - Euna Lee and Laura Ling - were taken into custody by the North Korean military. The two women were reporting on the trafficking of women along the border with China.
The women were charged with "hostile acts" and illegally entering the country, then sentenced to 12 years of "reform through hard labor."

:: included here: quick links to know more, video, and cyberactions !

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Montréal, le 2 juin 2009

The evicted squatters want to show the elected officials of the southwest both their anger at the brutal eviction and their determination to obtain a building for the Autonomous Social Center (ASC).

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Devant l’hôtel Hilton Bonaventure (900, rue de la Gauchetière Ouest - Métro Bonaventure).

( Info pour la région de Québec: un autobus fera l’aller-retour Québec-Montréal le 8 juin.)

http://www.cmaq.net/fr/node/32685

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Interviews and audio from before, during and after the eviction (English & French)

PRESS RELEASE

4 pm, May 30th, 2009 - for immediate release. Riot squads brutally evicted the people occupying a building at the corner of St-Patrick and Atwater this afternoon. Yesterday night, about a hundred people took this building in order to set up the Autonomous social center in a permanent space. At the present time, everyone who was inside has managed to exit the building and to join the support demonstration. The demo, a few hundred people strong, has now taken to the streets.

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Point St. Charles – may 27th. This Friday May 29th will be a historical occasion as the first ever Autonomous Social Centre in Montreal will be throwing a large support demonstration to go occupy an abandoned building that will become its permanent space. The demonstration will start at 5:30 p.m. in Saint Gabriel Park, right outside of metro Charlevoix, and will proceed to reclaim the neighborhood as the festive crowd will find its way to the mystery building.

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EveryOne Group and civil society in democratic countries have taken up the appeal from the IRAQI LGBT association, based in London, which calls on activists and democratic citizens to take part in an international campaign to save the lives of 128 prisoners sentenced to death because they are homosexual.

According to the judicial and religious authorities, the prisoners will be murdered in groups of about 20 people. The first series of executions is imminent. »»

SIGN THE PETITION NOW: www.petitiononline.com/iraqgay/

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This Saturday April 4th, 2009, Starts at 13 h 30
Dorchester Square (Peel & René-Lévesque)

:: Read the announcement and see the poster »» (bilingual)

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An invitation from the Fédération des femmes du Québec, the Committee for Human Rights in Latin America  (CDHAL) and the Comité de solidarité avec les femmes de Ciudad Juarez

BARRIO TERRAZAS PERSONA NON GRATA

Friday, April 3, 2009 from 12h to 13 h

In Montréal :
Mexican Consulate in Montreal
2055, Peel, between Maisonneuve and Sherbrooke (Peel Metro).

:: Read the rest of this announcement (French) »»
:: Féminicides au Mexique, par le CDHAL

First paragraph (Teaser): A must see ! - In this video, a mother was not allowed to see her son after he was attacked from behind with his girlfriend and his head struck against a pole. He was not allowed to see a lawyer either.

Montreal, March 15, 2009 - During the 13th International Day against Police Brutality, the Montreal police force arrested 221 people. 189 have been fined for "illegal gathering". 32 are accused under the criminal code, many of which not adults.

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LET US KNOW !
If you were among those arrested, whether on criminal charges or in accordance with a municipal by-law (P-6) please let us know so that we can begin planning a collective legal contestation of all tickets issued. We would also like to support the work of the lawyer in charge of those being accused criminally. We need your *information* (Name, address, phone number, email, date of birth, event number, type of infraction). We also ask you to contact us if you have received a court summons.

(Please distribute widely to your networks)

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From all over Belgium, by bus, bike, taxi, public transport and even by walking, hundreds of activists came to NATO's headquarters in Evere, Brussels. They tried non-violently to enter the NATO terrain and seal gates, windows and doors. At the same time, the NATO has been symbolically buried during a farewell ceremony. Today, this burial is still a symbolic act, but the will to turn this symbol into reality is very high.

:: Pictures on http://www.vredesactie.be/gallery.php?gallery=25,0,0,60