Movie Fundraiser for the Walk 4 Justice
Suggested Donation $5-$15. No one will be turned away.
Sept. 10 at 7:00pm
Jack Purcell Community Center
Indigenous Peoples’ Solidarity Movement – Ottawa (IPSMO)
All donations go to the Walk 4 Justice
Everyone Welcome!
Wheelchair Accessible
Poster: http://ottawa.indymedia.org/media/2008/09//8256.pdf

URGENT CALL FOR SUPPORT:

Early this morning, police raided a land protection site in Brantford, [Ontario] that was being held by grassroots activists from Six Nations. Currently, 3 people are in jail with at least 5 more surrounded by cops. The are asking that support come to the site in the way of people, and supplies...A callout for support has been sent from activists at Six Nations...What is needed most is a straightforward showing of support and a presence on site.

Communique by Olympics Resistance Network

The Olympics Resistance Network is primarily based in Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories and exists as a space to coordinate anti-2010 Olympics efforts. In doing so, we act in solidarity with other communities across "[British Columbia]" - particularly indigenous communities who have been defending their land against the onslaught of the Olympics since the bid itself. Our organizing is largely being done under the slogan of "No Olympics on Stolen Native Land", while creating an opportunity for all anti-capitalist, indigenous, anti poverty, labour, migrant justice, environmental justice, anti war, and anti colonial activists to come together to confront this two-week circus and the oppression it represents.

By Anthony Hall - August, 25 2008

A contemporary treaty to make the Grand River lands the site of a new prototype of intercultural cooperation and combined jurisdiction could serve as a beacon in a world hungry for some signals of enlightened good sense in the sharing of Earth's abundance...Here is a chance to move towards the Fourth World and away from the American Empire. If it proves impossible to apply the principles of treaty federalism even in North America's Grand River Valley, what chance is there to find acceptable compromises between antagonists in many other parts of the world where sovereignty, jurisdiction and ownership of natural resources are contested...

A mutant fish with two mouths was caught in northern Alberta, near the Canadian province's Athabasca oil sands...

Small community near Alberta [tar sands] has disproportionate number of bile duct disease...

[...T]hree environmental groups abandoned a nine year-old effort [August 19] to negotiate environmental responsibility in the [tar sands] region.

By Derrick O'Keefe and Melanie Raoul - Znet

David Emerson, Canada's foreign minister, attended the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympic Games and made it clear that he felt that this was not the appropriate time to talk about human rights, "We're no shrinking violet on [the human rights] issue but we don't see the Olympics as the venue to make that point"...Perhaps Emerson was concerned that the world would be impolite about Canada's human rights record when Vancouver hosts the 2010 Winter Games.

By ROBERT MATAS - Friday, August 22, 2008

Vancouver opening ceremony must help Harper government
"achieve its domestic and international branding goals," memo says.

Earlier this week, the pigs & the city of Guelph issued an ultimatum to us - leave your home or face a violent eviction. We have been living on abandoned prison land for the past year & when the pigs come to enforce the eviction Monday August 25th, we will all be left homeless & the connection with the land we have been building will be severed.

Nicole Visschedyk | Mercury Staff

City serves notice

Young people living off the grid instructed to move elsewhere.

Major Victory for Free Speech Rights

August 19, 2008, New York – A group of 52 local activists today announced a $2 million settlement in their lawsuit against the City of New York. The activists were illegally arrested on April 7, 2003 while protesting against the Iraq war in front of a military contractor's offices in midtown.

by Bill Tieleman | Straight Goods

"I firmly believe that ordinary British Columbians would not want their government to act in such a cruel manner, which is why this has been done so secretively." — Disability activist Dawn Steele

Young adults with serious developmental disabilities and an IQ even a point above 70 will be cut off from government help.

Unite Here's forays into community activism are what most set it apart from other unions. Photo: Unite Here

Hotel union strikes, rallies and demands social change; gets contracts

Dawn Paley

The International Criminal Court is sending Argentine attorney Luís Moreno to Colombia to investigate the extradition of paramilitary bosses from Colombia to the US.

I agree that: "it is ill advised to sacrifice the blood of our citizens for the terrorists in the White House..."

"I agree that: "a lost life is a lost life irrelevant whose it is.."

I agree that: "we cannot hear their cries.."

Inspired by the mobilizing on the West Coast, organizers across "Canada" have begun awareness-raising efforts. Building on the call from the West Coast for anti-capitalist and anti-colonial resistance to the Olympics, some organizers affiliated with the People's Global Action Bloc (PGA-Bloc) in Ontario and Quebec have begun mobilizing around "Resistance 2010", linking anti-Olympics efforts to organizing against the G8 and SPP, and the day-to-day systems and institutions of power and oppression they represent.