Explanation :
  The Purpose of Bill C-484, is to amend the Criminal Code so that charges can be laid in all cases causing the death of an unborn child. The goal of the MP was, it seems, to make it particularly criminal to knowingly do violence to a pregnant woman and cause the death of the fetus. But, the way it is written, it grants a separate legal status to the fetus. Pro-life and certain religious conservatives hope to invoke the principle of this law in order to criminalize a doctor practising a voluntary abortion. Of course, as you can guess, the Conservative Party of Canada refuses to correct this private bill and votes massively For! Yet, if they did not have a hidden goal, Conservative MPs would simply amend it to make it state that it is a grave crime to knowingly harm a pregnant woman, period. - Michaël Lessard

=> Quebec's National Assembly reacted against this law

=> The Bloc and the NDP vote Against, but 27 Liberal MPs voted For

Info, Letter & Sign the online petition! (bilingual): www.fmsq.org/c%2D484/e/anglais.html
- Fédération des médecins spécialistes du Québec

March 3, 2008
by Malalai Joya, an Afghan MP currently appealing her suspension from the country's parliament. She spoke to rabble.ca editor Derrick O'Keefe.

After 9/11, unfortunately the United States and its allies like Canada pushed us from the frying pan into the fire, by putting in power the Northern Alliance criminals and warlords. As long as they follow this wrong policy, the situation in Afghanistan will become more disastrous.

Captain Eric H. May, the Internet intelligence writer, presents an informed opinion about the rape tape that has excited much controversy since appearing or youtube.

A young man, a student of journalism, is sentenced to death by an Islamic court for downloading a report from the internet. The sentence is then upheld by the country’s rulers. This is Afghanistan – not in Taliban times but six years after “liberation�? and under the democratic rule of the West’s ally Hamid Karzai.

:: article, more info and PETITION ! >>

The Independant UK
By Kim Sengupta, Thursday, 31 January 2008

Update: The NDP has passed, by a unanimous vote, the following motion: That this House condemns the proposed execution of the Afghan journalism student, Sayed Pervez Kambaksh, and calls on the Government of Canada to intervene with the government of Afghanistan to have all criminal proceedings against Sayed Pervez Kambaksh immediately abandoned.
[ 39:2 Hansard - 43 (2008/2/4) (1505) - Reported by the Canadian Press in Le Devoir ]

Why here on an Indymedia ?
Normally, we of course avoid commercial articles but, after a few days, I have reason to fear that "journalists" and reporters in Quebec (and maybe Canada) will let this young man in silence. A silent complicity considering the obvious reasons why the people have the right to know that "our Afghan ally" is murdering young journalists, feminists, human rights activists, etc. -Mic, Quebec-Indymedia member

Excerpts: On 18 October 2007, two thousand delegates at the national convention of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) decided in a nearly unanimous vote to demand the Government of Canada immediately withdraw the Canadian Forces from Afghanistan. (...)

Later on the same day, CBC, the Globe and Mail, and La Presse released the results of a jointly-commissioned poll conducted in Afghanistan by the Canadian research firm Environics. The Environics poll indicates a large majority of Afghans want the Canadian Forces to remain in Afghanistan.

by: Michael Skinner*

Gloria “Joy" Jopson-Kintanar has blamed Sison for the murder of her husband, Romulo Kintanar, on Jan. 23, 2003. She and another widow, Veronica Tabara, filed complaints against Sison early last year that served as grounds for the arrest of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder in the Netherlands on Tuesday.

Swastikas at Hunter Airfield, and a Rabbi on the Run

Escalating violence against Zapatista women and Zapatista grassroots communities in resistance. Two communiques by Zapatistas translated into English. For more information: http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx

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In our context of propaganda in Quebec and Canada, here are voices of Afghan women!

RAWA statement on the International Women's Days (March 8, 2007)

As long as the fundamentalists are in power, there will be no end to the oppressions and crimes against Afghan women [8 mars, 2007]

In the past few weeks, after Malalai Joya's return from a successful international tour and interview with a local TV station in Kabul, the warlords and criminals in the Afghan Parliament and Senate, tried hard to silence Joya and kick her out of the Parliament.

They have used one of her recent comments during an interview as a justification for their move. In the interview, she expressed that the Afghan Parliament is worse than an animal stable whose many members are the murderers and enemies of Afghan people.

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Afghan MP and Women’s Rights Activist Suspended by Canadian
Supported Warlord Government
Canadian Peace Alliance - May 23, 2007

Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s visit to Afghanistan comes just one day after Malalai Joya, an outspoken women’s rights activist and Member of the Afghan Parliament, was suspended. The pretext for her suspension was her description of the Afghan Parliament as no better than a ‘zoo’. But it was clearly aimed at silencing her criticism of the Afghanistan government.

The Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL) denounces the attempt of the police to brutally disperse the rally of APL-women commemorating International Women's Day.

Rape of the Judicial System, Rape of Nicole once again, and Rape of the Nation's Dignity and Sovereignty

"It's an utterly shameless act of collaboration of the Arroyo regime and the U.S. government."

This was the statement of Myrla Baldonado, spokesperson of Task Force Subic Rape (TFSR) on the stealthy transfer of custody of Daniel Smith from the Makati City Jail to the U.S. Embassy.