Dear peacemongers,
Whew, where did summer go?! I’m sorry I missed a chance to weigh in on the events at Montebello, but they were fairly well covered in the mainstream press. You can see the police provocateurs identified, if not unmasked, on youtube
Peace,
Chris
Homes Not Bombs is asking Canadians to send zucchini to Minister Peter McKay to say that Afghanistan needs food, not bombs. http://www.nowar-paix.ca/
The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty is holding an Anti-Poverty Day of Action on September 26.
Noam Chomsky in Ottawa to open the U of O’s Ottawa Cinema Politica September 7.
Toronto readers may be interested in an evening with Ariel Dorfman, hosted by PEN Canada.
You may remember a news item about a Alvaro Orozco, a young gay man from Nicaragua who was refused refugee status because he didn’t look “gay” enough. Earlier in August he went into hiding to avoid deportation and a campaign was started asking people to write the immigration minister in support. Alvaro’s blog mentions that there was to be a new decision of August 28, but after assiduous googling I still can’t find any newer information.
If you know of a community group or NGO in a developing country that could take advantage of the British Medical Association’s BMA/BMJ Information Fund, send them the following information.Cerro de San Pedro “threatened with destructions by the illegal mining practices of Canadian company Metallica resources.”
Dissidents arrested last week for protesting Burma/Myanmar’s repressive military government are on hunger strike because police have refused treatment for a protestor’s broken leg.
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A CalTech grad student created a search tool to detect the IP addresses of people who edit Wikipedia entries and found a few corporate dirty tricks, including by the company that produces voting machines.
FYI for US readers – everything you ever wanted to know about impeaching Bush and Cheney.- Albert Camus
Murray Dobbin on Stephen Harper’s “politically reckless” behaviour around the NAFTA leaders' Security and Prosperity Partnership summit.
Laurie Garrett (author of Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health) on “well-intended foreign meddling gone awry.”
Joanna Santa Barbara is a psychiatrist, peace worker and peace educator who has long been an inspiration to me. In October she and her family will move to New Zealand to contribute to the building of a network of sustainable villages. She recently held a workshop in which children envisioned what a sustainable village would be like.
Robert Fisk is no conspiracy theorist but is “increasingly troubled at the inconsistencies in the official narrative of 9/11.”
Joanne Mariner on the use of anti-terrorist legislation to put down social protests.
Holly Near on art and activism.
Krystalline Kraus on how the backlash against the poor kills “civil cities.”