SAT FEB 28TH from 4:30 – 7 pm. 706 Clarke Drive (between Hastings and Venables) Right on #22 or any Hastings busline
* Dinner served at 4:30 and childcare on site

We know you already know that mega-corporate industries like the 2010 Games and Tar Sands suck. But how does it affect displacement of peoples from their land, their homes, their jobs, their communities. From traditional Indigenous territories to urban ghettos, from migrant workers to low-income families, thousands are being evicted or pushed out, and once displaced many become cannon-fodder as precarious labour.

As intense policing and security measures (like 1000+ military personal in Vancouver earlier this month for training exercises!) disproportionately target the dispossessed, the ones with the wrong skin colour, the undesirables, we rise in struggle against injustice. against the ongoing occupation of this land. against the racist police state. against the exploitation of displaced migrant workers. against gentrification and so-called revitalization. For our dignity as the poor, the displaced, the colonized.

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Mexico’s drug war fits into the rubric of the Security and Prosperity Partnership and the US security agenda by Carlos Fazio, La Jornada

One. In the days leading up to the arrival of the first package of US armament, intelligence software, and military consultancy under Plan Mexico, Felipe Calderon’s so-called “Operation Clean-up” takes on the appearance of a tribute to the White House and Capitol Hill.  Beyond the religious connotation of the “operation’s” name, which refers to a dualistic Christian discourse: good/bad, clean/dirty, the leader with “clean hands,” who declared himself an admirer of General Francisco Franco, seems to be carrying out a purification ritual.

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By LAURA CARLSEN, December 16 2008

In the first two years of the Felipe Calderon administration, Mexico has become a focal point in the violation of the human rights of immigrants even as it criticizes the treatment of Mexican migrants in the United States. The UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants Jorge Bustamante states the problem in no uncertain terms: “We are responsible for violations of the rights of Central Americans passing through Mexico, the same or worse as those of Mexicans in the United States.”
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Mike De Souza. Canwest News Service. Tuesday, December 09, 2008

OTTAWA – Oilsands production is releasing four billion litres of contaminated water into Alberta’s groundwater and natural ecosystems every year, according to a new national report that was immediately dismissed as “false” by the provincial government. The annual volume of water pollution in 2007 would have been enough to fill Toronto’s Rogers Centre, but could be stopped if the federal government started enforcing its Fisheries Act, the report says.
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George T. Baker, December 3, 2008. Times Colonist

PRINCE RUPERT — The Council of the Haida Nation says it has not been consulted about Enbridge Inc.’s plans to build an oil pipeline running from northern Alberta to Kitimat. CHN representative Robert Davis said the Haida Nation would never accept Enbridge’s plan even if it did consult. “The Haida Nation will certainly not accept tanker traffic where we would bear the burden of risk and oil spills in our waters. Our livelihoods would be jeopardized,” Davis said. “Many of our neighbour nations are equally concerned about impacts on their lands and water. We are willing to stand united to protect our waters.”

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