[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[OPIRG-EVENTS] Ottawa mtg April 1 "Close Canada's Largest Weapons Fair"
There is an Ottawa meeting for folks who would like to take part in or
support the Homes not Bombs action - trying to Close Canada's Largest
Weapons Fair, CANSEC 2003, where you will find your "One-stop shopping
across the entire warfare spectrum."
Contact wrench_works@yahoo.ca for more info
>------------------------------
>Organizing Meeting:
>Tuesday April 1st at 7:00 p.m.
>123 Simard, University of Ottawa.
>--------------------------------
>
>There are two type of organizing that we must do
>
>1) Ottawa area participants must form their affinity groups. These are
groups of individuals who have an affinity in how they would like to
participate and do so together.
>2) As the call out indicates, there are many folks coming from different
cities. Ottawa, however, is the location of the action and so some support
must be organized here. Below is a list of support that must be organized
and progress on them so far. We are
>looking for groups or individuals who would like to organize any element
of this support:
>
>
>CANSEC task list for Ottawa groups
>- scouting (Some started)
>- food (needs to be organized)
>- jail and legal support (LSO has been approached to consider this)
>- scenario workshop and jail support registration night before
>- medical (Some work started)
>- billeting (A church has already been booked for sleeping)
>- translation (Needs to be organized)
>- public education and outreach in Ottawa (Some started)
>- prep workshops for Ottawa affinity group(s) (discuss at meeting)
>- Ottawa city council action(s) (discuss at meeting)
>- creating Ottawa action(s) (eg blockade? internal disruption??
>
>Please contact wrench_works@yahoo.ca if you would like to work on one of
these support tasks, or if a group you are part of would like to organize
one element. (For example, one church is doing the billeting.) Work >on
support can and has started before this meeting.
>
>
>-------------------Call for action--------------------
>
>Close Canada's Largest Weapons Fair
>CANSEC 2003, "One-stop shopping across the entire warfare spectrum."
>Thursday, April 10, Ottawa Congress Centre, 55 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa
>
>Join us for a series of nonviolent direct actions, including
>lockades, sit-ins, die-ins, attempts to conduct
>citizens' weapons inspections, and more.
>
>For further details contact Homes not Bombs, Ottawa,
>at (613) 237-0730 ext. 1, in Toronto at (416) 651-5800, in
>Hamilton at (905) 627-2696 or 526-7982, in Montreal at
>(514) 521-5252, in Kitchener-Waterloo at 745-9006, in
>Windsor (519) 258-1555
>
>A southern Ontario bus will leave on the morning of Wednesday, April
>9, returning the evening of Thursday, April 10. Return tickets $40
>includes food and overnight accommodation (if you
>cannot attend but would like to subsidize a bus seat
>or two, cheques can be made out to Homes not Bombs and
>sent to PO Box 73620, 509 St. Clair Ave. West,
>Toronto, ON M6C 1C0)
>
>WHAT IS CANSEC?
>CANSEC is the largest annual exhibition of the weapons of war and
>repression in Canada, hosted at the Ottawa Congress Centre in "an
>informative and entertaining environment." CANSEC
>represents the extent to which Canada profits from
>war, domestic repression and inhuman border policies,
>and how this axis of evil is used to protect the
>interests of the wealthy few.
>
>CANSEC exhibitors include the largest weapons firms in Canada's
>$5-billion-a-year war industry, including the branch plants of the
>U.S.' leading arms manufacturers, as well as companies
>devoted to producing ever more insidious technology of
>surveillance, infiltration, disruption and control.
>
>Hence, CANSEC is intended for everyone from warriors intent on
>bombing other countries into market submission to
>those who would spy on people from Arabic and/or
>Middle Eastern background here in Canada, those who
>are intent on producing further intrusive border
>mechanisms to halt the flow of immigrants and
>refugees, and those who would use night vision
>equipment, for example, to repress First Nations at
>Burnt Church trying to exercise control over their waters.
>
>Invitees include all NATO nations, as well as CSIS, the RCMP, Dept.
>of Fisheries and Oceans, War Dept. personnel and Canadian Forces,
>Transport Canada, Immigration, Parliamentarians,
>Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade,
>and Trade Team members who wish to sell weapons abroad.
>
>CANSEC promises one-stop shopping for "The requirements of the
>Canadian Forces, across the entire warfare spectrum
>and in recognition of the evolving battle space,"
>which includes space warfare, hi-tech command and
>control systems, and "interoperability" technology to
>become further embedded with U.S. forces.
>
>Iraq is the latest testing ground for new generations of weapons and
>weapons systems, such as Wescam's Predator targetting system, slated
>to be the "superstar" of the escalation. These weapons dealers will be
>eagerly watching what is taking place in Iraq as part of their sales
>campaigns for "the next one."
>
>Visit the website at www.cdia.ca and click on events for a complete
>List of companies involved at CANSEC and more details.
>Details on the show are at
>https://www.cdia.ca/newsite/webpages/Events/C.htm
>
>Stay in touch with Homes not Bombs via tasc@web.ca (and yes, one of
>these days we will have our own website, we're working on it!)
for more info contact wrench_works@yahoo.ca
this email was forwarded to you by:
Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT)
(A network of individuals and NGOs across Canada and around the world)
Email: ad207@ncf.ca Web: http://www.ncf.ca/coat
Press for Conversion!
Read the Jan. 2003 issue of our quarterly magazine on:
"Going to War: The American use of War Pretext Incidents"
http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue50/issue50.htm
Read the Oct. 2002 issue online: "Real Reasons for the Invasion of Iraq"
http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue49/issue49.htm
Our next issue will focus on U.S.-backed regime changes, wars, military
and CIA operations in the Middle East & North Africa since WWII.
To join our list serve on the Afghan and Iraq wars, the war on terrorism
and the criminalisation of dissent, send the message:
subscribe no_to_nato to <majordomo@flora.org>
To see the archives at http://www.flora.org/coat/forum/
Endorse COAT's online Global Appeal/Pledge of Nonviolence. About 17,000
people, from 122 countries have signed so far. The appeal/pledge is
available in 18 languages.
http://www.flora.org/coat/appeal/
If you'd prefer not to receive emails from COAT,
just respond to this email with REMOVE in the subject line.
-
This is the OPIRG-events@ox.org list. Participatory activist events only.
To unsubscribe, send email to opirg-events-request@ox.org, and put
"unsubscribe" in the body.
Archive at: http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/lists/html/opirg-events/