Please read SAIA’s Israeli Apartheid Week Endorsement Proposal and distribute freely.

“This year Apartheid Week [March 01-06, 2010] is in its sixth annual and will take place concurrently in over 40 cities worldwide, including Toronto, Montreal, New York, Philadelphia, Bay Area, Chicago, Washington, London, Oxford, and cities in South Africa. For more information about Israeli Apartheid week, please visit our website … The success of Israeli Apartheid Week depends on the support we receive every year from various groups across the city and in universities. Please let us know if you would like to be listed as an endorser of Israeli Apartheid Week (email your endorsement to saia@riseup.net). We would also very much appreciate it if you could forward the schedule of the week’s events to your members when the time comes to distribute the week’s call-out.”

The point is that being a U.S. client state is ultimately an impediment to maintaining societal and territorial integrity.

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Date: Mon Jan 11
Time: 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Location: 208N, North House

Speaker: Mariam Mufti
PhD Candidate in Political Science, Johns Hopkins University and Visiting Scholar, Centre for South Asian Studies

BREAK THE SIEGE ON GAZA! Two Million People Remain in the World’s Largest Open Air Prison

Gaza Freedom March in Toronto

DATE: Sunday, December 27, 2009, TIME: 1:00 pm.
PLACE: Israeli Consulate (180 Bloor St. W.)

Community and activist organizations in Toronto will be holding a rally to mark the one-year anniversary of the Israeli invasion and military assault on the Gaza Strip that left more than 1,400 dead. This rally is held in conjunction with the Gaza Freedom march

Initial list of Sponsors:
Gaza Freedom March (Toronto)
Palestine House Educational and Cultural Center
Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA)
Canadian Arab Federation (CAF)
Canadian Shia Muslims Organization (CASMO)
Toronto Coalition to Stop the War
Educators for Peace and Justice
Not In Our Name (NION): Jewish Voice Opposing Zionism
Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA-York)
Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA-UofT)
Labour for Palestine
Jewish Anti Zionist Network
Independent Jewish Voices
York Federation of Students
Venezuela We Are With You Coalition (CVEC)

El Militante – Bolivia – 2/3 para proclamar el socialismo.

Article on Evo Morales recent victory in presidential elections in Bolivia. [spanish]

Nadia Francavilla and Simon Docking perform Russian music for violin and piano on Tuesday, Dec. 1, at 8 p.m., Memorial Hall, UNB Fredericton.

Featured composers include Shostakovich, Pärt, Gliere, Schnittke and Gubaidulina; all of whom lived in the Soviet Union during the early 20th century.

There will be a pre-concert talk at 7 p.m. on the political environment that influenced the music featured. Tickets for this concert are $15 general admission, $12 seniors and $7 students, available at the door. For more information, email moth@unb.ca or call 453-4697.

Dr. Michael Parenti, a world renowned political scientist, will deliver a public lecture entitled “The Free Market: Its Myths and Madness” at the Kinsella Auditorium of McCain Hall at St. Thomas University campus on Wednesday, November 25. Dr. Parenti received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University

Tuesday, October 13, 2009.
1:30 PM at the UNB Bookstore

…do you know where your MP is?

Meet today at 12:15pm at MP Keith Ashfield’s office (23 Alison Blvd) to mark the 8th anniversary of the Afghanistan mission and tell Ashfield to bring the troops home now.

Speakers include: Jeff Brown, Shane Martinez, Faiz Ahmed, Dana Brown and Tracy Glynn.

Need a last minute ride? Email: info@frederictonpeace.org

The keynote address is scheduled for 7:00-9:00pm Friday night (Oct. 2); and symposium-presentations are scheduled for Saturday (Oct. 3). It is sure to be a great event.

Here is a report on and pictures from the Second Latin American Meeting of Worker-Recovered Factories that took place in Caracas on June 25-27.  Over two hundred workers gathered at the National Library to discuss the future of the occupied factories movement internationally.

On Sunday, May 31st, 2009 at around 10:00am, Dr. George Tiller was shot to death at the church he attended in Wichita, Kansas.

Dr. Tiller was an abortion provider, one of a very small number of doctors who provided late-term abortions. Dr. Tiller was a kind, compassionate, intelligent and gentle person who had the courage to go to work every day to provide abortion care to women with nowhere else to go. He endured constant threats and attacks on his physical safety, including being shot previously.

Dr. Tiller dedicated his life to helping women. He saved many, many lives. His murder is a blow to his family and friends, his community, the women he helped and those he had yet to help, and to the international pro-choice community. He will be greatly missed.

We wish to gather together peacefully to remember and honour Dr. George Tiller. We also stand together against the continued marginalization of women’s reproductive rights in New Brunswick. We stand in solidarity against this province’s illegal abortion policies and restrictions, and against our own Minister for Health, Michael Murphy, who has stated publicly that he is “not entirely comfortable” fulfilling his role as health minister because of his anti-choice views.

We wish to come together as peaceful pro-choice people, to remember and celebrate Dr. George Tiller, and to stand against the continued restrictions to abortion care. We insist on abortion on demand, no exceptions, no apologies. We will support women in their choices, we will stand in solidarity with abortion providers, clinic staff and volunteers, and we will not give in to threats, violence and terrorism.

Please join us for a peaceful vigil in Fredericton:
Saturday, June 6th,
beginning at 9:30pm
outside the Morgentaler Clinic in Fredericton (554 Brunswick Street).

Everyone is welcome. We will walk together to City Hall.

“Attitude is everything” – Dr. George Tiller.

Why Bush should be charged with war crimes

PUBLIC FORUM
Friday, May 22 at 7:00pm
Steelworkers’ Hall, 25 Cecil Street, Toronto
(south of College, east of Spadina)

Featuring:

Michael Mandel: Professor of international law, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, and author, How America Gets Away With Murder: Illegal Wars, Collateral Damage, and Crimes Against Humanity

Chuck Wiley: A 17-year veteran of the US military who refused to participate in the Iraq War, is currently seeking refuge in Canada, and is a member of the War Resisters Support Campaign

Others TBA

Join us for a public forum to hear international law experts and civil liberties campaigners explain the myriad of crimes committed by the Bush administration, and to find out how Bush could formally be charged with war crimes in Canada. Also find out how other US leaders‹including former US president Bill Clinton, who will appear with Bush on May 29‹could be charged with war crimes, too.

One week later, join us for a city-wide rally on May 29 – the day that Bush is slated to speak in Toronto – to demand that he be charged and arrested for war crimes.

From launching an illegal war on Iraq that has killed over one million people, to advocating torture at Guantánamo Bay and secret detention centres around the world, Bush has lots to answer for‹and should be held to account.

Don’t let Canada be a haven for war criminals. War criminals not welcome here!

Event on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=89123079461

Organized by
Toronto Coalition to Stop the War

The Toronto Coalition to Stop the War is Toronto’s city-wide anti-war coalition,
comprised of more than 70 labour, faith and community organizations, and a member of
the Canadian Peace Alliance. www.nowar.ca | info@nowar.ca | 416-795-5863

Please donate! Send a cheque or money order payable to TCSW Canada to:
TCSW, 427 Bloor St W, Box 13, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1X7

The Fredericton Peace Coalition, University Women’s Centre, NBRebELLEs and CUSO-VSO have surpassed their donation goal and raised a total of $2,362.10 for the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA). Most of those donations were raised at the 2009 3rd Annual RAWA Benefit in Fredericton (Photos, Gumbooting Video) while other donations were sent to us from folks far away as British Columbia. Thank you all who donated your money, time and energy to this year’s contribution to RAWA.

We would like to make one final appeal before sending our donations to RAWA. We are extending the deadline for donations until Friday, May 15. We will be sending the donation on Monday, May 18.

The reason for extending the deadline stems from recent tragic news involving women in Afghanistan. Women of Afghanistan are under attack for courageously fighting the new rape law. Sitara Achazai, a women’s rights activist and politician in the Kandahar Provincial Council was murdered in a target assassination on Sunday, April 12. On March 8, 2009, International Women’s Day, Sitara led a nationwide sit-in of 11,000 Afghan women in seven provinces who gathered to pray for peace.

When RAWA formed in 1977, RAWA was focused on involving an increasing number of Afghan women in social and political activities aimed at acquiring women’s rights and contributing to the struggle for the establishment of a government based on democratic and secular values in Afghanistan. Despite the suffocating political atmosphere, RAWA very soon became involved in meeting the basic needs of Afghans. RAWA runs schools, literacy courses, orphanages and health clinics. They help prostitutes and refugees. They take part in reconstruction of villages and aid in food distribution and income generation. RAWA is featured in the film A View from a Grain of Sand. You can order a copy online or borrow a copy from the Fredericton Peace Coalition.

If you would like to send a donation before May 15, please reply to this email or send an email to info@frederictonpeace.org and we will let you know how to drop off/send your donation.

You’re invited: on Saturday, May 9th, Fredericton’s NDP will host a BBQ and Karaoke fundraiser night at the Alden Nowlan House on 676 Windsor Street (UNB campus).

Welcome the arrival of Spring and Summer by supporting the NDP. The New Brunswick New Democratic Party is back in a big way! Donations are increasing and we have hundreds of new members and many new riding associations. Roger Duguay, leader of the NB NDP, is touring the province everyday, building alliances and support in communities all over New Brunswick.

Come out this Saturday night to support the Party and learn more about the new and improved NB NDP!

– *$5.00 at the door*

– *Open to the general public*

Who: Fredericton’s NDP

What: BBQ, Karaoke, and good times

When: Saturday, May 9th, 7pm- 12am

Where: Alden Nowlan House (UNB campus) 676 Windsor St.

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**!!!Roger Duguay (Leader, NB NDP) and John Carty (2004 and 2006 federal NDPcandidate for Fredericton) will both be in attendance.
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This Friday, workers will gather on Queens Park at 5pm for a Rally for the Right to Strike!
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Fredericton Book Launching:

Blowback – A Canadian History of Agent Orange and the War at Home

When: Thursday, April 16, 7pm
Where: Renaissance College, 811 Charlotte Street, Fredericton, NB

Join author Chris Arsenault, the Conservation Council’s David Coon and the Fredericton Peace Coalition’s Gloria Paul to discuss the book Blowback.

Blowback is the story of a war coming home; a story of the military and economic currents that allowed Agent Orange to blow through trees and into rivers in New Brunswick. More than anything, it’s a story of soldiers, civilians and local residents who blew back against the government and companies who poisoned them.

* Book signing will also occur at Westminster Books on Thursday, April 16 at 2:00 pm. Check out the book display in their window today!

Presented by Fernwood Publishing, the Conservation Council of New Brunswick and the Fredericton Peace Coalition.

Koffler Institute Room 108
569 Spadina Avenue
Toronto M5S 2J7

Speakers:
Leila Farsakh is assistant professor in political science at University of Massachusetts Boston. She holds a PhD from the University of London (2003), an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, UK (1990), and a BA from the University of Exeter in the UK (1989).

Robert Lovelace is a retired Chief of the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation. He is an Adjunct Lecturer in Global Development Studies at Queen’s University and a professor in Ecosystems Management at Sir Sandford Fleming College.

David McNally is Professor of Political Science at York University and author of four books, including Another World is Possible: Globalization and Anti-Capitalism. He is active with the New Socialists and the Popular Education and Action Project in Toronto.

Wednesday, March 4, 7pm: Gaza: Breaking the Siege
Walberg Building, Room 116
University of Toronto
184-200 College Street
Toronto M56 3E5

Leila El-Haddad is a freelance Palestinian journalist, media activist, and mother from Gaza who writes mainly for the Guardian Unlimited and Aljazeera English. She maintains the award-winning blog Raising Yousuf and Noor: diary of a Palestinian mother, which explores the complex relationships between the personal and political as she raises her children and negotiates displacement and occupation.

A summary.

Walberg Building, Room 116
University of Toronto
184-200 College Street
Toronto M56 3E5

Thaer Aliwaiwi was born in Palestine, 2nd year Student at the University of Toronto (Economics and Political Science).

Yafa Jarrar: is a member of the Peterborough Coalition for Palestinian Solidarity. She is currently finishing her degree in Politics and International Development Studies at Trent University.

Karolyn Givogue: is a mixed-race Mohawk activist, academic and artist who is rooted in Akwesasne. She is a founding member of the Decolonization and Anti-Racism Coalition (DARC), and an active member of the Peterborough Coalition Against Poverty (PCAP). She is currently finishing her Masters degree in Indigenous Studies and Canadian Studies at Trent University.

Monday, March 2, 7pm: Resisting Apartheid: Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
Library Building
Ryerson Univesity
LIB072
350 Victoria St.

“Omar Barghouti is an independent Palestinian researcher, commentator and human rights activist. He is a founding member of the Palestinian campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel to uphold international law and universal human rights. He holds a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Columbia University, NY. He contributed to the philosophical volume, “Controversies and Subjectivity” (John Benjamins, 2005) and to “The New Intifada: Resisting Israel’s Apartheid” (Verso Books, 2001). He advocates an ethical vision for a unitary, secular democratic state in historic Palestine.”

Shane Martinez, member of CAAE will debate a representative from the UNB Student Union live on-air Jan 23rd at 10 am. The main issue up for debate will be tuition fees. The SU will defend its position opposing the current tuition freeze, calling for higher tuition fees for everyone. Shane Martinez will present CAAE’s argument against high tuition fees.

Listen here online: http://www.chsrfm.ca/stream.php

Education is a right!