Please attend and forward to your contacts - Thanks!

The Siraat Collective presents a Forum on Profiling Terrorists with panelists:

Prem Rajah - Tamil Community Activist
Reem Alnuweiri - Palestinian Activist
Alnoor Gova - Researcher
Rahad Kurd - Researcher

at Gallery Gachet
88 E. Cordova Street, Vancouver
Wednesday, July 30th
at 7:30 pm

by Wallace Gilby Craig - Wednesday, June 25, 2008

SHUT your eyes and visualize today's Dirty Harry in action: Taser "deployed," a sizzling emission of electricity strikes like a serpent and stings like an adder...Another bad guy bites the dust. No fuss, no muss, on go the cuffs...Oops, the bad guy stops breathing and dies. That's life!...So be wary when a 21st century police officer stops your car or knocks on your door. He (or she) may be of the new breed, armed with a Taser and ready to use it if you become pugnacious.

July 21, 2008 | Intercontinental Cry

The Indigenous Municipality of Tilcara, in northern Argentina’s Quebrada de Humahuaca district, has ratified legislation that prohibits open-pit metal mining...

"...what Rome Resources cannot do in their country of origin, their subsidiary Uranio AG and Uranios del Sur, will attempt to do in...[Argentina]."

A group of activists blocked access to the Westin Bayshore marina on Wednesday, July 23 to protest the Pacific NorthWest Economic Region (PNWER) summit. In doing so, they prevented PNWER delegates from boarding a 190-person luxury boat tour of the Vancouver harbour. Approximately 10 people stood with a banner reading 'People Not Profit!' and prevented access to the luxury yacht though the public boardwalk.

"Despite what media pundits or columnists may wish to imply, the Mackenzie project and the Alaska gas pipeline are not competing projects. They are two phases of a comprehensive objective that will ensure a secure and stable energy supply for the future."

This alone makes clear the nature of this corporation. They should be earmarked for corporate campaigners against the SPP, 2010 Games and the tar sands themselves.

The Pacific Northwest Economic Region's Energy Horizons project today released a report by Idaho National Laboratory entitled The Cost of NOT Building Transmission. According to the study, if the top 5 projects are not built, it could lead to $55-85 billion in lost economic activity annually, and up to 60,000 jobs annually.

A public forum & discussion...
THE TAR SANDS IN BURNABY'S BACKYARD?
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Thursday, July 31st @ 6:30 pm
McGill Branch - Burnaby Public Library
4595 Albert St., Burnaby
(1 Block north of Hastings, near Willingdon)
Program Room

(This is a free event)

in the early morning of tuesday july 22nd 2008 a truck belonging to peter kiewit and sons parked off of victoria drive was lit on fire. kiewit is making a(nd) killing off of the development of the sea to sky highway.

Indigenous Resistance on Film:
Fundraiser for No Olympics on Stolen Native Land West Cost Tour

Saturday, July 26th. First film at 6:30pm
Spartacus Books (684 Hasting Street- phone 604-688-6138)
Coast Salish Territory

* Suggested Donation of $5 - $8 (no one turned away)

* Snacks available

Fwd -

Wednesday, July 30, 2008
5:00pm
Vancouver Art Gallery

Tell Stephen Harper:
Bring Omar Khadr Back to Canada!

by JEREMY HAINSWORTH - The Canadian Press

As paralyzed refugee claimant Laibar Singh marked one year in sanctuary yesterday, his supporters were concerned about visits by Canada Border Services agents to the Sikh temple where he has sought protection...Spokeswoman Harsha Walia said the unannounced visits are making the tradition of religious sanctuary meaningless.

By Macdonald Stainsby - July 14, 2008

For much of the last year, many of the anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian forces across Canada have started to work towards converging many of the bigger issues to take place in 2010 into a larger whole...Some of the issues included are: [t]he 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver/[Whistler], the next round of Security and Prosperity Partnership [SPP] negotiations to be held within Canada -- and the G8 Summit to be held in Ontario all during that same year. On many different levels these issues interlink and have an inherent connection with one another...Here I wish to make the case that what belongs as a major thread through all of these discussions is often absent among those of us trying to make these larger connections coherent in our organizing.

More information regarding Mori's situation below..

Also a reminder that Court Support is being requested! Please come to show your support at Mori's hearing, it is really important to have as many concerned members of our various communities present:

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Wednesday, July 16th
@ 9:30 am - 11:30 am
Federal Court Building

- please forward widely. EMERGENCY ACTION -

CONFRONT THEIR ECONOMIC REGION:
Demonstration Opposing the Pacific NorthWest Economic Region (PNWER)

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Sunday July 20th 5:00 pm
Westin Bayshore Hotel
1601 Bayshore Drive, Vancouver
(two blocks east of Denman and one block north of West Georgia)
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