Tadamon! Montreal: Oppose the 'Security and Prosperity Partnership'!

Oppose the 'Security and Prosperity Partnership'!

http://tadamon.resist.ca/index.php/post/812/

Tadamon! Montreal is appealing to you to spread the word, support & get
involved in the upcoming popular mobilization against the 'Security and
Prosperity Partnership' (SPP) summit in Montebello, Quebec at which U.S.
President George Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper & Mexican
President Felipe Calderon will be meeting between August 19th & 21st.

The 'Security and Prosperity Partnership' (SPP) is a political initiative that
will further an agenda of neo-liberal economic 'free trade' and 'national
security' as defined by state power in North America, building toward 'Fortress
North America'. Grassroots initiatives to confront & oppose the upcoming summit
surrounding the 'Security and Prosperity Partnership' in Montreal & throughout
Canada are outlined below.

Tadamon! Montreal is supporting the upcoming mobilization to confront & oppose
the SPP summit in Montebello, Quebec because the neo-liberal corporate economic
logic fueling the SPP agenda is also being forced on the people of the Middle
East.

The national 'leaders' who will be participating in the SPP summit, U.S.
President George Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper & Mexican
President Felipe Calderon are adamant supporters of the racist 'War on Terror'
that has wrought destitution, destruction & deaths on the people of Lebanon,
Palestine, Iraq & the entire Middle East region.

Oppose the 'Security and Prosperity Partnership'!

In Solidarity,
Tadamon! Montreal

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August 2007:

Read below for basic info about protests in Montebello and Montreal,
transportation, upcoming consulta, community assemblies, brigades festives and
more ...

Mobilize and Protest against George Bush, Stephen Harper and Felipe Calderon at
the meeting of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP)

AUGUST 19-21, 2007
MONTEBELLO, QUEBEC
(Between Ottawa and Montreal)

In brief, the "Security and Prosperity Partnership" (SPP) combines the
destructive neo-liberal policies of the North American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA) with the fear and paranoia of post 9-11 "Homeland Security" policies.
The SPP is firmly rooted within a colonial and capitalist framework.

About the SPP: http://www.psp-spp.com/?q=en/aboutthespp

::::: DAYS OF ACTIONS IN MONTEBELLO (August 19&20) :::::

-> Sunday, August 19 - Creative resistance and popular education against the
SPP

August 19 will be a day of creative resistance and popular education against
the SPP in the Montebello-area. We encourage affinity groups to organize
autonomous actions within the framework of creative resistance, and call on
individuals to join in a collective action of popular education. More details
to come. Transport is planned for the 19th (return or one-way; more details
under transport and housing below).

-> Monday, August 20, NOON - Protest and disruption of Bush, Harper, Calderon
and the SPP

We call on affinity groups, organizations and individuals to mobilize in large
numbers for a main Day of Action against the meeting of Bush, Harper, Calderon
and the SPP that will take place on MONDAY, AUGUST 20 AT NOON (please note the
new time) at the Chateau Montebello (or as close as possible to Montebello).

Montebello, Quebec is a tourist village between Ottawa and Montreal, on Highway
148, on the Ottawa River. MAPS of the region, including Montebello itself, are
linked at: http://www.psp-spp.com/?q=en/image/tid/18

TRANSPORTATION to Montebello is being organized from Montreal for August 19 &
20; e-mail transportmontebello@gmail.com to reserve a space. Please reserve
BEFORE August 12. More info about transportation at:
http://www.psp-spp.com/?q=en/node/97

Transportation to Montebello is also being organized from Ottawa (
transportottawa@gmail.com), Quebec City ( autobusquebec@gmail.com) and Toronto
(bushbus2007@gmail.com ).

ACCOMMODATIONS: A location for basic accommodations will be available for
demonstrators in the Montebello-area. Accommodations will be available for
people who wish to participate in both days of action, and also for those who
want to arrive earlier to plan actions and awareness-raising activities in the
Montebello-area. More details to come.

POSTERS, FLYERS and other materials for download, printing and distribution are
available at:

http://www.psp-spp.com/?q=en/taxonomy/term/5

MORE INFORMATION:

::::: CONSULTA, AUGUST 12 :::::

A final planning and organizing CONSULTA is scheduled for SUNDAY, August 12
from 12-5pm in room R-M 110 at UQAM (315 Ste-Catherine East, near St-Denis).
More info: http://www.psp-spp.com/?q=en/node/140

::::: ACTIONS AGAINST THE SPP IN MONTREAL (August 14 & 16) :::::

As part of a National Week of Action Against the Security and Prosperity
Partnership (SPP) from August 13 to 17 there will be two actions in Montreal,
against CN rail and the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS):

-> AUGUST 14, NOON - CN: Stop your racist lawsuits! Protest the Central Train
Station (metro Bonaventure). Support indigenous struggles for sovereignty,
dignity and self-determination on Turtle Island ... Oppose CN Rail's racism and
colonialism ... Protest Bush, Harper, Calderon and the "Security and Prosperity
Partnership" (SPP). More information:

http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2007/07/cn-rail-drop-your-racist
-lawsuits.html

-> AUGUST 16, NOON - Protest against CSIS and the SPP, Dorchester Square
(Rene-Levesque and Peel, metro Peel). The People's Assembly against Security
Injustice invite you to a demonstration to denounce the role of the Canadian
and Security Intelligence Service (CSIS)in the criminalization, harassment and
profiling of refugees, immigrants and non-status people. CSIS feeds a culture a
fear and suspicion that the state uses to justify the expansion of surveillance
and control on the agenda of the SPP. Info: rpcis.mtl@gmail.com

::::: COMMUNITY ASSEMBLIES (August 1, 4, 11 & 13) :::::

A series of COMMUNITY ASSEMBLIES to discuss the impacts of the Security &
Prosperity Partnership (SPP), especially on immigrant, migrant, refugee and
indigenous communities will take place in Montreal on August 1, 4, 11 & 13.
More info:

http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2007/07/community-assemblies-no-
security.html

::::: BENEFIT SHOW (August 9) :::::

A benefit show with Genr'radical and Bernard et ses désaccords! At L'Alizée
(900 Ontario est), 8pm. More info: http://www.antipatriarcat.org/radical/

::::: BRIGADES FESTIVES (August 11) :::::

The info/popular education committee is organizing "Brigades Festives" in local
neighbourhoods, to raise awareness about the SPP. The first Brigade took place
in Parc Extension this past July 29 (photos at:
http://photos.cmaq.net/v/brigade-festif/)

The next Brigade will be in Côte-des-Neiges on August 11. More details to be
posted at: http://www.psp-spp.com/?q=en/node/21

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