Indigenous Resistance on Film:
Fundraiser for No Olympics on Stolen Native Land West Cost Tour

Saturday, July 26th. First film at 6:30pm
Spartacus Books (684 Hasting Street- phone 604-688-6138)
Coast Salish Territory

* Suggested Donation of $5 - $8 (no one turned away)

* Snacks available

Mohawk Native News Publisher Kahentineta Horn has filed a formal complaint against Canada for a brutal assault at the Canada/US border. Canada has also attempted to serve charges against her presumably for resisting assault. Help and support is urgently required.

by James Turner - Tuesday, July 22, 2008

A man died Tuesday after being shocked with a Taser by Winnipeg police in a back lane behind a city home...The fatality in Winnipeg is the second Taser-related death in Canada this year. Jeffrey Marreel died June 23 in Norfolk County, about 130 kilometres southwest of Toronto, after being Tasered by Ontario Provincial Police...Since 2003, there have been 21 Taser-related deaths reported in Canada.

Fwd -

Wednesday, July 30, 2008
5:00pm
Vancouver Art Gallery

Tell Stephen Harper:
Bring Omar Khadr Back to Canada!

By MICHAEL PLATT - July 21, 2008

When you're a white-supremacist group struggling to bolster your foothold in a multicultural city, there's nothing like free cash to pique the interest of those looking to relocate their jackboots...To the disgust of those who don't subscribe to racial purity, Calgary's Aryan Guard is offering to cover the damage deposit of any white supremacist who will move to the city and join their cause.

By Richard Sanders, Editor, Press for Conversion!

During the lead up to Haiti’s 2004 coup, the Québec Association of International Cooperation Organizations (L’Association québécoise des organismes de coopération internationale - AQOCI) supported the campaign to oust Aristide’s elected government...Then, after the regime change, this coalition of several dozen large aid agencies not only ignored the newly-installed regime’s human rights abuses, it played a key role in quashing an effort by Montréal’s anti-war coalition (the Collectif Échec à la guerre) to expose Canadian complicity in the coup.

By Derrick O'Keefe - July 19, 2008

I find it refreshing and hopeful that there can still be popular oppositional campaigns that actually call things by their right names. Faced with an in-your-face capitalist as president, the French people have picked an in-your-face anti-capitalist as their favourite politician from the opposition camp.

Adapted from No One Is Illegal – Vancouver

The publication ban on Shawn Brant's preliminary hearing was lifted today in a Napanee Court, making crucial evidence available to public scrutiny for the first time. The preliminary hearing dealt with charges arising from Mr. Brant's participation in two highway and rail blockade[s] held by Tyendinaga Mohawks in 2007 to pressure the government to resolve longstanding land claim[s] and poverty-related grievances.

The food chain is under attack these days. Seems all the experts are clueless as to the reason. Maybe the answer is under their noses.

By Kevin Skerrett - Canada Haiti Action Network

There are times when the things that people say — or publish — can get people killed...On December 14, 2006, Rights and Democracy (R&D) — Canada’s best-funded "human rights organization" — may well have done exactly that when it published a news release about a crime spree in Haiti. Following a series of well-publicized kidnappings in Port-au-Prince, R&D published a statement ridiculing the recently elected Haitian government’s "policy of dialogue with violent gangs," and its supposed preference for "dialogue at the expense of justice"...The content of R&D’s text — blaming all of the kidnappings and other crimes on "armed gangs" from the capital’s poorest neighbourhoods — matched the ugly tone of Haiti’s right-wing elite-owned media.

Documents obtained by CBC News cast doubt on the RCMP’s sincerity in vows to get to the bottom of the Taser-related death of Robert Dziekanski, according to a civil rights group and the lawyer for Dziekanski’s family. The case...ignited international debate and led to a number of probes into the use of stun guns...

By Toni Solo - July, 16 2008

It may well be time to start taking NATO's role as an aspiring global enforcer of Western Bloc economic strategy more seriously. However true it may be to argue that it is still the United States government that makes the running, the US is less and less able to do so without the willing support of its allies. Their joint global military activity can well be interpreted as an effort to compensate for the growing discomfort they feel at the increasing power and influence of other countries like China and Russia, globally, and Iran and Venezuela regionally.

The goal of Freedom Network (Réseau Liberté - RL), says Paul Breton, the director of its international programs, is to assist the media in “countries in transition to democracy.” RL’s founder and CEO, Réal Barnabé, also stresses their noble sounding ambition to “promote press freedom in countries in transition, and in emerging countries,” such as “Iraq, Haiti, Kosovo [and] Bosnia.”

Left unmentioned is that these places have all been ravaged by wars, invasions and/or regime changes in which Canada and its allies have actively participated.