Marleau urged to reject security measure
By Laura Stradiotto, reposted from The Sudbury Star
Members and supporters of Sudbury Against War and Occupation are pressuring Sudbury MP Diane Marleau to vote against a bill they say is discriminatory.
Earlier this afternoon, 12 or 15 people -- members and supporters of Sudbury Against War and Occupation (SAWO) and other members of the community -- gathered in front of the office of Liberal MP Diane Marleau to demand that she vote against Bill C-3. A couple of members of the group presented our basic objections to this legislation, in English and French. These objections can be found in our media release from earlier in the week. One individual who had sent a letter to Marleau shared some of the content of a response she had received and talked about why she found it unsatisfactory. Another member read a statement against C-3 from the local representative of the Canadian Labour Congress, who was out of town and so could not attend herself. Here is the text of the statement:
On Friday, January 25th, at 1 pm, members and supporters of Sudbury Against War and Occupation (SAWO) and other members of the community will gather on the northeast corner of Elgin and Elm outside the office of Diane Marleau, Liberal MP for Sudbury, to seek an answer to the question of whether she supports two-tiered justice, indefinite detention, inadequate due process, and deportation to torture, or if she will stand up against them.
'It's such a fundamental violation of rights'; Protest calls attention to secret trials under Canada's anti-terror law
by Sudbury Star staff, October 22, 2007.
If Canadians knew the details of how their government is using unconstitutional legislation to treat immigrants, they wouldn't stand for it, activists protested during the weekend in Sudbury and cities across the country.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Scott Neigh
Telephone: 688-8694
Email: scott.neigh@hwcn.org
SUDBURY RESIDENTS TO PROTEST SECRET TRIALS
SUDBURY, ONTARIO, October 19, 2007 – Many Canadians like to think that we live in a place where governmental authorities cannot lock you up and throw away the key while keeping the charges and the evidence secret.
Many Canadians are wrong.
by Derrick O’Keefe, originally posted at Seven Oaks
In late June, as parliamentarians were packing up for the summer, Stephen Harper seemed to suggest a potential shift in his minority government’s approach to the war in Afghanistan. In a departure from months of rhetoric by government and military leaders about an open-ended or even decades-long extension of the military role, the Prime Minister stated that extending Canada’s mission in Kandahar beyond February 2009 would require “consensus” from all four parties in the House of Commons.
Manif de perturbation d'une parade militaire à vocation marketing. C'est qu'il est bien vu d'être guerrier en Amérique. Surtout si la guerre se passe très loin, en Afghanistan, pendant que l'occident mange. Fait à noter: la désinformation des médias de masse a atteint des sommets au lendemain de cette perturbation, pacifiste et incroyablement civile.
