**** RESIST THE SPP! ***
(please copy and post to all lists and contacts!)

[Note: For information on events in Montreal, Toronto & Ottawa, see under the National Week of Action below.]

See also No One is Illegal - Vancouver: Target the North American Competitiveness Council and Security & Prosperity Partnership!

For an excellent analysis of the SPP, see The Militarization and Annexation of North America

August 20th is a continental day of action to oppose the SPP, a highly
secretive agreement between US, Mexico, and Canada. The SPP is essentially
NAFTA-plus-Homeland Security, firmly rooted within a colonial and
capitalist framework. There is no doubt that the SPP will bring greater
insecurity and misery: murderous wars and occupations abroad; border
militarization; increased detentions and deportations; attacks on
indigenous peoples, the poor, migrants, and working people; ecological
destruction; and mega-projects in the service of corporate greed.

Leading up to August 20th, a wide range of educational events, actions, and
creative resistance is being planned by a growing network of groups and
individuals. Below are just some of the activities being planned, with
many more being planned and confirmed.

==> GETTING INFORMED AND GETTING INVOLVED!

There is a wide variety of educational materials available including
factsheets, zines, slideshow presentations on the SPP that have been
developed. We strongly encourage folks to get in touch if they would like
to access these materials and to share this information with your friends,
family, and groups. We are also happy to set up mini-information sessions
for interested groups, networks, and unions on the hugely significant
impacts of the SPP.

There is also ongoing organizing against the SPP- including outreach; a
series of creative resistance direct actions facilitated by newworld
theatre; coordinated actions across various cities; educational
forums and community meetings and more. If you are interested in getting
involved, there are weekly meetings on Tuesdays and lots more going on, so
please do not hesitate to get in touch. We continue to build a diverse
movement in resistance to the SPP and strongly encourage folks to get in
touch.

Contact information: scrapspp@gmail.com or call 778 885 0040
Info on the SPP: http://noii-van.resist.ca and http://psp-spp.com/?q=en

*** UPDATED CALENDER ***

Video Projections on the Impacts of the SPP
Sunday August 5th at 9 pm
Grandview Park, Commercial Drive
(more locations tbc over the next two weeks)

Sabe UD que es La Alianza de Seguridad y Prosperidad de America del Norte (ASPAN)? Educación política sobre el ASPAN en Español
Donde: Dogwood Centre (706 Clarke Drive), Vancouver
Hora: 6:30 PM
Dia: Jueves 9 de Agosto.
Con saludos fraternales. Comite organizador 20 de Agosto.

AUGUST 10TH - AUG 19TH
A WEEK OF CREATIVE RESISTANCE AGAINST THE SPP
pls stay tuned for details

"DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE SPP?" COMMUNITY FORUM
Saturday August 11 at 2:00 pm
Fireside Cafe, 13593 King George Hwy, Surrey
Corner King George and 108 (Right next to Gateway Skytrain)
Free Community Forum with Multimedia Presentations and Speakers

VISIT THE "STOP THE SPP CAMPAIGN" TABLE AT UNDER THE VOLCANO
Festival of Art and Social Change
Sun. August 12th (all day)
Cates Park, shuttles from Vancouver
http://volcano.resist.ca/transpo.html

NATIONAL WEEK OF ACTION TO TARGET THE SPP!
IN VANCOUVER - DISRUPT THE NAFTA TRADE MINISTERS MEETING!

TUESDAY AUGUST 14TH AT 11:30 AM
1601 Bayshore Drive, Vancouver, cross street is 1 block east of Denman (West Cordova St. and West Georgia St. both turn into Bayshore Drive)

Map:
http://www.starwoodhotels.com/westin/property/area/direction...

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.

Disrupt the Trade Ministers Meetings on Thursday and make it be known that wherever proponents of NAFTA or the SPP meet, they will be resisted by the people! All groups and individuals join together to demonstrate our indignation and resistance to this next attack on the interests of the people by those who think they are masters of our lives and destiny!

THIS ACTION IS PART OF A NATIONAL WEEK OF ACTION TO TARGET THE SPP! AUGUST 10TH - AUGUST 16TH

For information on other cities please visit:
http://noii-van.resist.ca/?p=460

EVENING TO RESIST THE SPP
PANEL ON RESISTING THE SECURITY AND PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT
Thursday, August 16th at 7:00 pm at Rhizome Cafe, 317 East Broadway, Vancouver
* Kat Norris: Coast Salish Indigenous Action Movement
* Fred Muzin: President of Hospital Employees Union
* Member of La Otra Campagna (The Other Campaign) Vancouver
* Garth Mullins is a doctoral candidate working on communities intervening in capitalist globalization
* others tbc

CONTINENTAL DAY OF ACTION TO OPPOSE THE SPP!
Monday August 20th - Oppose the SPP!
* 3:00 pm at Canada Place: Meet at Waterfront Station entrance on Howe Street, corner Cordova.
* 5:00 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.

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

Leading up to August 20th, grassroots groups and networks are organizing a national week of action to target the SPP and those behind the SPP - the corporate lobby behind the North American Competitiveness Council and government bodies such as security insitutions and trade departments.

We strongly encourage other cities and towns to join us in this national week of action, as well as to organize mobilizations on August 20th. For a list of corporate targets visit: http://noii-van.resist.ca/?p=438

Please get in touch to join us through email at: scrapspp@gmail.com. For more information visit: www.psp-spp.com or http://noii-van.resist.ca

OTTAWA

==> Saturday, August 11 at 12:30pm
Rally at Confederation Square War Memorial (top of Elgin @ Wellington)
Followed by Direct Action picket at a NACC building
Contact pgabloc@gmail.com or visit pga.roadnetwork.org

TORONTO

==> Tuesday August 14th
Picket CN Rail (details tba)
Please visit www.nooneisillegal.org for details or contact Toronto Stop
the SPP Committee at torontostopthespp@riseup.net

MONTREAL

==> Tuesday AUGUST 14, NOON - CN RAIL: Protest the Central Train Station
(metro Bonaventure).
Support indigenous struggles for sovereignty, dignity and self
determination on Turtle Island. Protest Bush, Harper, Calderon and the
"Security and Prosperity Partnership" (SPP).
More information: http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com

==> Demo and Action against CSIS and the SPP organized by People's
Assembly Against Security Injustice.
Thursday, August 16th, 2007 at noon, sharp!
Dorchester Square (Rene-Levesque and Peel), Peel metro
Info: rpcis.mtl@gmail.com or 521-859-9023.
Details at www.psp-spp.com

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SEMAINE PAN-CANADIENNE D'ACTIONS CONTRE LE PARTENARIAT NORD-AMÉRICAIN POUR LA «SÉCURITÉ» ET LA «PROSPÉRITÉ» (PSP)
DU 10 AU 16 AOÛT 2007

Le 20 août prochain marquera une journée continentale d'action contre le
PSP, un partenariat au caractère très secret, mis en place par les
gouvernements des États-Unis, du Mexique et du Canada. Le PSP, c'est
essentiellement une autre formulation des projets de l'ALÉNA (Accord de
libre-échange nord-américain), à laquelle on a ajouté le discours de la
«sécurité nationale». Les projets mis de l'avant par le PSP s'inscrivent
en continuité directe du contexte colonialiste et capitalise duquel ils
sont issus. Il n'y a pas l'ombre d'un doute que le PSP amènera davantage
d'insécurité et davantage de misère, que ce soit par le biais des
occupations et des guerres meurtrières menées à l'étranger, par la
militarisation des frontières, par une augmentation des déportations et
des détentions d'immigrant-e-s, par des attaques continues à l'endroit des
peuples autochtones, des personnes vivant dans la pauvreté, des
communautés migrantes, des travailleuses et des travailleurs ou,

finalement, par la destruction des écosystèmes ou par les méga-projets qui
ne servent que l'avarice des multinationales.

Comme avant-goût de la journée d'action du 20 août, des groupes et réseaux populaires organisent actuellement une semaine pan-canadienne d'actions visant à cibler le PSP ainsi que les individus et les groupes qui mettent de l'avant ce projet. On pense ici au Conseil nord-américaine de la compétitivité (un groupe sélect d'entreprises qui conseillent les États sur les mesures à prioriser dans le cadre du PSP) ainsi qu'à des agences gouvernementales responsables de la sécurité ou/et du commerce.

Nous invitons les groupes d'autres villes à se joindre à nous dans le
cadre de cette semaine pan-canadienne d'actions et les encourageons
fortement à se mobiliser pour le 20 août. Pour une liste de cibles pouvant
servir de source d'inspiration, visitez le site
http://noii-van.resist.ca/?p=438 (en anglais).

Pour nous rejoindre, écrivez-nous à l'adresse info@psp-spp.com .

Pour plus d'information, visitez: www.psp-spp.com ou
http://noii-van.resist.ca

MONTREAL

==> Mardi le 14 août à MIDI - QUAND LE CN ATTAQUE, ON BLOQUE LA TRACK:
piquetage à la Gare Centrale contre le CN (métro Bonaventure)
Appuyez les luttes autochtonoes pour la souveraineté, la dignité et
l'auto-détermination. Manifestez contre Bush, Harper, Calderon et le
«Partenariat pour la sécurité et la prospérité» (PSP).
Info: http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com

==> Manif'action contre le SCRS et le PSP (action organisé par le
Rassemblement populaire contre l'injustice sécuritaire)
Jeudi le 16 août 2007 à midi (pile!)
Rassemblement au Carré Dorchester (au coin des rues René-Lévesque et
Peel), près du métro Peel.
Info: rpcis.mtl@gmail.com ou 514 859-9023
Détails sur le site www.psp-spp.com

OTTAWA

==> Samedi le 11 août à 12h30
Rassemblement au Confederation Square War Memorial (au coin des rues Elgin
et Wellington) Le rassemblement sera suivi d'un piquetage d'action directe devant les
bureaux du Conseil nord-américain pour la compétitivité (NACC).
Info: pgabloc@gmail.com ou pga.roadnetwork.org

TORONTO

==> Mardi le 14 août (heure à confirmer)
Piquetage contre les chemins de fer CN (détails à confirmer)
Visitez le site www.nooneisillegal.org pour des nouvelles, ou contactez le
comité «Stop SPP» de Toronto à l'adresse
torontostopthespp@riseup.net .

VANCOUVER

==> Perturbez la réunion des Ministres du Commerce de l'ALENA!
Lundi le 13 août ou mardi le 14 août sur l'heure du dîner
Nous tentons encore d'obtenir plus d'information à propos de cette
réunion. Ne planifiez rien le 13 et le 14 août sur l'heure du lunch! Les
mises-à-jour et la confirmation de la date seront affichées sur le site
http://noii-van.resist.ca

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==> AUDIO ON THE SPP:

http://noii-van.resist.ca/?p=446

==> LEARN ABOUT THE CORPORATE LOBBY BEHIND THE SPP:

The North American Competitiveness Council (NACC) was launched as part of
the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) in June 2006. It is the only
formal advisory board to the SPP and is made up of 30 corporate leaders
from Canada, the U.S. and Mexico with ten advisors from each of the SPP
signatory states. A September 13, 2006 story in Maclean’s magazine
describes NACC as a “cherrypicked group of executives who were whisked to
Cancun in March by the leaders of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, and asked
to come up with a plan for taking North American integration beyond
NAFTA.”

Read more at: http://noii-van.resist.ca/?p=438

==> WHAT IS THE SPP?

The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) was founded
in March 2005 at a summit of the Heads of State of Canada, the US, and
Mexico. SPP is not an official treaty; it is not an official law;
therefore it has been able to escape any public scrutiny. The major drive
behind the SPP is a CEO-based organization, which is the only official
advisory group to governments on the SPP.

The real face of SPP is to further an agenda of corporate free trade,
border militarization, criminalization of migration, privatization and
theft of indigenous land and resources, repression in the name of national
security, impoverishment and displacement, and cooperation in war and
occupation.

The SPP is a NAFTA-plus-Homeland-Security model and will involve the
harmonization of over 300 areas of regulations, including: integration of
the military and police, expansion of temporary worker programs as a means
of ensuring low wages, coordination of no-fly lists, expedited resource
extraction particularly oil and water on unceded indigenous territories,
and harmonization of health and environmental regulations to lower
standards and development of a North American alternative to the Kyoto
Protocol.

Read more at: http://noii-van.resist.ca/?page_id=102