Le Bernard Landry dont nous nous rappelons est le Bernard Landry qui, à l’époque où il était Ministre des Finances en 1996, a piloté l’opération du fameux Déficit Zéro et son deux milliards de coupures dans les programmes sociaux. C’est le même social-démocrate qui de 1997 à l’an 2000, présida à une réduction totale de 20% des budgets de la Santé, de l’Éducation, de l’Aide Sociale et de l’Environnement.

En fait, vers 12h aujourd'hui le comité logement POPIR dans St-Henri est passé au feu, un feu très important qui a ravagé, je dirais, la totalité du POPIR.

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Devoted to human freedom, you must embrace even the freedom to express stupidity. So I can happily report that a week ago at this writing Thomas Friedman struck a mighty blow for freedom with one of the dumbest columns he has ever written, "Giving the Hatemongers No Place to Hide" (July 22, NYT), although his regular readers may not forgive my distinguishing this column from his regular output.

Thousands of transport trucks line the winding highways of Akkar, an impoverished region in northern Lebanon which borders Syria. Currently all land border crossings into Syria are shutdown to economic traffic, dealing a serious blow to Lebanon's already unstable economy. The Syrian government has publicly justified this border lockdown in the name of regional "security", as Syria is under intense international political pressure mainly from the U.S. to introduce tighter border controls. In Lebanon, the newly formed government and various unions representing impacted sectors, have painted the border crisis as an attempt to hit the country economically after the forced withdrawal of upwards of 15 000 Syrian soldiers from Lebanon in April 2005 and the recent election results.

 
An update from the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) mailing list:

1. For Immediate Release: Staying Arrested Together
2. Nablus Summer Campaign Programme: July 21st-28th 2005
3. A Family from Saida
4. Shoot First, Laugh After
5. What Every American Should Know about Israel/Palestine
6. At First Anniversary of ICJ Ruling on Israel's Illegal Separation Wall, Lawyers Challenge EU and UK over Inaction on Palestine
7. How Do You Like Your Blue-Eyed Boy: The Rally in Bil'in

Le 20 juillet les autorités américaine ont libéré Mohamed Cherfi suivant l'ordonnance émise la semaine dernière par un juge. Le gouvernement américain a finalement décidé de ne pas faire appel de cette décision.

 
An update from the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) mailing list:

1. Palestinian Gandhi Re-arrested - ACTION ALERT
2. Killing Salfit
3. Non-Violent Organizing Resumes in Salfit
4. UN Conference of Civil Society calls for boycott, divestment and sanctions!
5. All eyes on Gaza disengagement
6. Together, by Mansour

Confirming: The U.S. Army is conducting joint military exercises this month in Bulgaria and Romania as a key test of Pentagon plans to develop Eastern European bases as staging areas for fighting in the Middle East.

 
An update from the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) mailing list:

1. Daily killings by the IOF. Who will dry these mother's tears?
2. Tulkarem, An IOF Unilateral Change of Plans
3. For Immediate Release: Week of action in Salfit postponed due to assassinations and incursions
4. Abu Rabia was right, it was the beginning of something
5. Events in the West Bank village of Immatin
6. "Look at these children... How can a park be more important than a roof over their heads?"
7. Why Nino? Why now?
8. Women like Fatima give us hope

In Defense of Bloggers!
Khalid Jarrar has been taken into custody by the Iraqi mokhabarat, or secret service.

Police "get the message" via audio spotlight technology

Zero Option? - Why did they buy return train tickets to Luton? Why did they buy pay & display tickets for cars? The London bombers may have been duped into killing themselves so their secrets stayed hidden.

Au Maroc la paysannerie connait non seulement des problèmes économiques et sociaux graves mais elle est victime aussi parfois d'abus de pouvoirs qui chechent à l'extirper de ses espaces vitaux et lui faire perdre le peu de dignité qui lui reste .

SPECIAL FOOD ISSUE OF THE INDYPENDENT

For two years running, The Indypendent has won more awards for outstanding reporting from the New York Independent Press Association than any other paper. We are soliciting articles around the themes of problems of the global food production network and locally based alternatives.

In November 2003 Ahmed Abdel Majeed, a stateless Palestinian born and raised in Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp in southern Lebanon, was deported from Canada. The distance between Montreal and Lebanon stretches thousands of kilometers over oceans and continents, but is only a short distance in Ahmed’s eyes and living memory of an existence shaped by the daily struggle of statelessness.

Today Ahmed resides in Ein el-Hilweh, with an estimated 80 000 other stateless Palestinians in the country’s largest refugee camp located on the outskirts of the southern Lebanese city of Saida.

Dark clouds on EU's horizon: France reintroduces border controls within the European Union after last week's terrorist bomb blasts in London. "Ninety-eight percent of crimes can be tried, but there remain two percent that justice cannot settle. They are called state secrets."

The Pentagon has begun a massive program - whose budget dwarfs the 'Manhattan Project' to build the first atomic bomb - to install its own encrypted, private computer network designed to connect every HumVee, helicopter and human in the military.

Voici le compte-rendu de la dernière réunion du Comité de coordination temporaire du Forum Social Québécois, le 6 juillet dernier à Montréal.

En le lisant vous pourrez, notamment, prendre connaissance des différents comités de travail et des tâches concrètes à mener au sein de ces comités. Si vous souhaitez participer à ces travaux, nous vous invitons à nous contacter (i...@forumsocialquebec.net) afin de connaître les dates et lieux des prochaines réunions.

Pour plus d'efficacité et de transparence, le Comité a choisi de se doter d'une structure légale en enregistrant notre projet sous le nom de "Initiative vers un Forum Social Québécois".
Enfin, en complément du compte-rendu, vous trouverez ci-dessous quelques informations importantes suite à notre rencontre avec la directrice générale de l'AQOCI vendredi dernier.

Pour réflexion, nous vous invitons également à liredeux éditions de "Grain de sable", publication mensuelle d'Attac international, dont les Nos 520 et 521 traitent de l'avenir des forums sociaux (voir http://www.attac.org/indexfr/index.html)

Vous souhaitant bonne lecture et dans l'attente de vous rencontrer lors d'une prochaine réunion,

Solidairement,

Comité de coordination temporaire du Forum Social Québécois
5000, ave Henri Julien
Montréal (Qc) H2T 2E3
(514) 807-5974
i...@forumsocialquebec.net

So: MI5, MI6, Scotland Yard, The Special Forces and Branches, the Metropolitan Police, all the 'Bobbies' in the streets of London, Military, Air Force and/or 'Naval Intelligence' - and all other domestic and even the foreign 'security services' like the CIA and Mossad have been asleep on their watch?

Communiqué du comité local de la voie démocratque de Taroudant- sud du maroc-
HALTE A LA REPRESSION AU MAROC
HALTE A LA CRIMINALISATION DES MOUVEMENTS SOCIAUX
NON A LA RECIDIVE DE L'ETAT

 
Quote - BBC: "At half past nine this morning we were actually running an exercise for a company of over a thousand people in London based on simultaneous bombs going off precisely at the railway stations where it happened this morning, so I still have the hairs on the back of my neck standing up right now."