DEFEND THE TAHLTAN ELDERS AT ISKUT AND TELEGRAPH!
OPPOSE SHELL’S COAL BED METHANE DEVELOPMENT!
SUPPORT THE STRUGGLE TO PROTECT THE KLAPPAN SACRED HEADWATERS!

Rally and Court Support: Friday August 31 at 10 am- 1 pm. BC Supreme Court. 800 Smithe St., Vancouver

On Friday August 31, Shell Canada will be seeking an injunction in Vancouver’s BC Supreme Court to have the Elders of the Iskut and Telegraph communities forcibly removed and arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. This is the latest in the ongoing struggle to oppose Shell Canada’s Coal-bed Methane exploration project in the Sacred Headwaters of the Stikine, Skeena and Nass River watershed.

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SUNDAY AUGUST 19TH RALLY. 2 PM AT CITIZENSHIP OFFICE IN SURREY. 13450 102nd Avenue Surrey (between 134th and 135th Street), 1 block from Surrey Central Skytrain Station

FLOOD THE IMMIGRATION MINISTER’S OFFICE WITH CALL/FAXES/EMAIL TODAY!!!

* CALL (PREFERABLE): (613) 996-4974 or (519) 426-3400
* FAX: (613) 996-9749
* EMAIL: minister@cic.gc.ca and Finley.D@parl.gc.ca

[Click here for reportback on Toronto delegation in support of Laibar Singh]

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On August 20th Bush, Harper, and Calderon are meeting in Montebello, Quebec at a SPP Summit. Join us in rejecting the agenda of the SPP on this continental day of action!

IN VANCOUVER:

* 3 pm at Canada Place: Meet at Waterfront Station entrance on Howe Street, corner Cordova.
* 5 pm at Burrard Skytrain Station: Meet in open park area just north of Skytrain entrance on Burrard Street, corner Dunsmuir. [for those unable to make it earlier]
* This march will later converge with the antiwar/anti spp demo being organized at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Info: email scrapspp@gmail.com or call 778 885 0040

Abbottsford police and Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) officers have arrested Mr. Laiber Singh, a paralyzed Punjabi refugee claimant who has been in sanctuary since July 7 at Abbortsford Sahib Kalgidhar Darbar Gurudwara.

YOUR URGENT SUPPORT IS NEEDED AT THIS DETENTION REVIEW !!!
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 15 AT 10:30 AM – 1 PM. 300 WEST GEORGIA

The arrest was made late last night at MSA Hospital in Abbotsford, where Mr. Singh has been since Thursday August 9 on the advice of his physician. On Monday night at approximately 10 pm, close to 20-30 uniformed officers, border services agents, and undercover officers arrived at the hospital to arrest Mr. Singh. Temple President Swaran Singh Gill, who was with Mr. Singh at the time, was not allowed to make any phone calls, including to legal counsel, and was led to believe that he too would face arrest.

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NATIONAL WEEK OF ACTION TO TARGET THE SPP! AUGUST 10TH- AUGUST 16TH

VANCOUVER- DISRUPT THE NAFTA TRADE MINISTERS MEETING!
TUESDAY AUGUST 14TH AT 11:30 AM
1601 Bayshore Drive, cross street is 1 block east of Denman (Cordova St.
West and Georgia St. West both turn into Bayshore Drive)

Map: http://www.starwoodhotels.com/westin/property/area/directions.html?propertyID=1080&EPS_Directions_WI_1080_CAN

Canadian International Trade Minister David Emerson, U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab, and Mexico’s Secretary of the Economy Eduardo Sojo will be having a meeting of the NAFTA Free Trade Commission in Vancouver this week. NAFTA has become a symbol of the devastation, poverty, and repression created by neoliberal free trade agreements. This meeting comes just days before the Security and Prosperity Partnership Summit in Montebello Quebec, where Bush, Harper, and Calderon will be negotiating a NAFTA 2.0-plus-Homeland-Security agenda.

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