Here is an excerpt of the photo-reportage of the "No One Is Illegal" march that happened last sunday in the streets of Montreal, beginning the anti-WTO mobilization that will continue up to wednesday.

Click here to browse the complete sequence of pictures!

Voici un extrait du photo-reportage de la marche "Personne N'est Illégal!" qui s'est tenue ce dimanche dans les rues de Montréal, en préambule à la mobilisation anti-OMC qui se déroulera jusqu'à mercredi.

Cliquez ici pour visionner le reportage complet!

Civilians in distress in Iraq

La guerre : un outil de répression capitaliste

Pour Raymond Legault de la coalition Échec à la guerre qui a organisé les grandes manifestations de l'hiver et du printemps dernier contre la guerre en Irak menée par les États-Unis et ses alliés, la différence entre la dictature et la démocratie, c'est que dans la première on te dit de te fermer la gueule et dans la seconde, on te dit que tu peux toujours causer. La preuve, les manifestations n'ont pas empêché la guerre. Le militant participait à l'atelier "guerre et mondialisation" à l'UQAM, hier. L'Irak c'est le pétrole et les pétrolières subventionnent l'OMC. Et c'est l'OMC qui pousse les gouvernements à accroître leurs dépenses militaires. Pour imposer "la démocratie" en Irak, les États-Unis dépensent 4 miliards de dollars par mois. Une façon d'améliorer le produit intérieur brut du pays. Ce qui a déjà fait dire à un dirigeant de Lockheed Martin, première productrice d'armement aux États-Unis, que "lorsque je vois l'étoile du logo de notre compagnie, je vois l'une de celles du drapeau américain".

The war: a tool of capitalist repression.

For Raymond Legault from the coalition, Échec à la guerre ("Failure in the war") who organized the large manifestations in the winter and the spring against the war on Iraq threatened by the U.S. and its allies, the difference between a dictatership and democracy is that in the first one they tell you to shut up and in the second one they tell you to keep talking. The proof is that the demonstrations didn`t stop the war.
The activist participated in the workshop "War and Globalization" at UQAM, yesterday. It is Iraq`s oil that subsidizes the WTO. And it is the WTO that urges governments to increase their military expenditures. To impose "democracy" in Iraq, the United States military is spending about four billion dollars a month on the war, an unacceptable way of improving the gross domestic product of the country. A director of Lockheed Martin (the largest arms producer in the U.S.) said that when he sees the stars in his company`s logo, he sees them as stars of the American flag.

Avi Zer-Aviv was one of six human rights activists arrested by the Israeli army earlier this month for removing roadblocks in the villages of Iraq Bureen and Tell just outside Nablus.

Since July 1 the Israeli government has violated every recent agreement it has made by carrying out military invasions of Palestinian areas, implementing a campaign of abductions, opening fire on civilian areas without being provoked, imposing curfews and not relaxing its “draconian

Israel gets rid of another International Peace Activist: Ask yourself why Israel would want one less WITNESS and promoter of PEACEFUL solutions?

Traduit de l'espagnol par : Pierre Trottier

Serious moral and ethical questions are raised.