*~SPARK IN ATHENS, FIRE IN TORONTO~**

Recognize the system as flawed and transform it!

What: Solidarity rally with the Greek uprising
When: THIS Friday Jan 9 at 12 NOON
Where: Outside the Consulate General of Greece at 365 Bloor St. E (at Sherbourne)

On January 3, 2008, in Toronto, thousands marched from Dundas Square to the Israeli consulate and then to the U.S. consulate. The thousands stood in solidarity with the hundreds of victims of Israeli oppression and against apartheid.

On about 48 hours notice, at least 120 rallied and marched in opposition to the siege and bombardment of Gaza in Hamilton today, letting fellow citizens hear their outrage through chants, leaflets and local media outlets. “Defend Gaza,” an ad-hoc committee formed to organize against the Gaza siege, called the event.

Hundreds of dead and thousands of injured, sacrificed on the altar of Zionist expansionism and fundamentalism.

There will be a Rally in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on Saturday January 3rd, 2009 from 1:45-4:00 pm at Dundas square, which is at the intersection of Yonge & Dundas, in front of the Eaton's Centre.

This will be to show our support and solidarity with Gaza and its inhabitants at this time of great peril. Israel is murdering civilians, with so far 400+ dead Gazan's.

Healing the Earth Radio explores the connections between many social and ecological issues. Motivated by a desire to foster more understanding, alliances, and effective action, the show interviews Native people defending their land and culture, environmental, local food, and peak oil activists, writers, lawyers, supporters of political prisoners, scientists, whistle-blowers, tree sitters, and many others who devote their lives to making things better.

There's a freeSkool launching in Hamilton, Ontario on January 3rd. Freeskool is a place where people who know a thing can meet with people who want to learn a thing. We’re all curious, clever people with a lot of knowledge and skills to share with each other. Freeskool is a way to learn without incurring crippling debt, to tap into all the knowledge already in our community.

In 1995, just before the Harris Government cut social assistance rates by 21.6%, the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty marched from the low-income community of Regent Park into affluent Rosedale. The impending welfare cut and Provincial tax breaks would soon transfer about $1 million a month from one community to the other. Replicated across Ontario, this vast transfer of wealth to the already wealthy was at the very heart of the ‘Common Sense Revolution’. Initiatives around poverty that ignore this continuing injustice are of very limited value.

In conjunction with Common Cause, the popular international anarchist discussion forum anarchistblackcat.org has now added a forum specific for for anarchists and those interested in anarchism in Ontario.

Like the other forums there a high level of discussion will be maintained through post-posting moderation according to a set of transparent rules.

In the world we're fighting for (one without property or exchange, without classes or money, without a coercive state) the things that typically compel people to work under capitalism will have lost their hold over us. Why then, we're often asked, would anyone engage in productive labour?

On various campuses, Hillel is launching campaigns to pull funding from PIRGs (Public Interest Research Groups) because of the strong stand taken by some PIRGs around the issue of Israeli Apartheid...Hillel at the University of Ottawa approached OPIRG Ottawa to endorse one of their events. OPIRG refused on the grounds that as a social justice organization, they cannot work with Hillel because of their support for Israel. In response, Hillel contacted the local media, who have joined in a smear campaign against OPIRG Ottawa...Now, the President of Ottawa University is threatening to pull funding from OPIRG Ottawa.

December 19, 2008

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Shoe-Rally: Free Muntazer Al-Zaidi, Shoe Bush Out of Baghdad, Harper Out of Kandahar

The City of Ottawa has now agreed to host the international CANSEC weapons show at the municipality's prime publically-funded facility, Lansdowne Park, between May 27 and 28, 2009...Among the more than 200 military firms flogging their wares inside the Ottawa Congress Centre at CANSEC 2008, were some of the world's biggest and most profitable war industries: BAE Systems, Boeing, Honeywell, L-3, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman...These six firms are prime contractors for many of the deadliest weapons systems ever made, including dozens of different bombers, fighter jets, bombs and missiles. Remarkably, these six corporate giants sold about US$100 billion worth of military equipment to the Pentagon in 2007, and their combined revenue from global military sales was $130 billion in 2006.

We didn't need another martyr

Solidarity with the Greek anarchist movement and with the victims of repression, international solidarity with all social struggles, in Greece and in the rest of Europe!

[Ontario Provincial Police] determined to escort garbage into the Edwards Street Landfill, but even after [the] arrest of 4 supporters, Six Nations activists refuse to remove [their] blockade. OPP violently arrest Six Nations man leaving the site.