À chaque année, le 15 mars, il y a des manifestations contre la brutalité policière un peu partout dans le monde. Ce sera, cette année, la 10e journée du genre, et une marche est organisée à Montréal par le groupe anti-capitaliste COBP.

Depuis jeudi dernier, le discours public au Québec est marqué par une quasi-unanimité plutôt suspecte, en réaction au jugement prononcé par la Cour suprême du Canada qui a autorisé le port du kirpan par les adeptes de la religion sikh qui fréquentent les écoles publiques.

Celebrate Black History Month by Keeping Gary Freeman in Canada! Stop an Unjust Extradition to the United States!

[From http://www.freemandrum.org]
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TORONTO, FEBRUARY, 2006 -- It seems that Black History Month is an appropriate time to reflect on the case of one Douglas Gary Freeman (the former Joseph Coleman Pannell, Jr.), a 56-year-old African American man who has sitting in a Canadian jail for almost two years as he fights extradition to the United States.

[From http://www.freemandrum.org]
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Is it necessary to deny people their most elemental human rights to "guarantee" national security?

Detained for years without charge, held on secret evidence that the accused does not have access to, threatened with deportation and torture, this is the situation for five men from Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal. Within the next month, four of these five men will be transferred, far from their families, to an isolated wing of the Milhaven maximum security prison, just outside of Kingston, Ontario. This recent addition to the prison has been built specifically to house those detained under the controversial security certificates.

PUBLIC CONSULTATION
Thursday, 16 March, 7 pm
Atwater Library
1200 Atwater (corner Ste. Catherine; Atwater metro)

The PEOPLE'S COMMISSION is being launched to provide a means for our communities to examine the issue of "security certificates" and other immigration security policies in depth and identify ways to address the problem. A series of Public Consultations is taking place across Quebec and Canada in order to explain the project, seek public feedback, and encourage broad participation in the Commission. Come out and join in!

Consultation publique
Jeudi le 16 mars 2006, 19h00
Bibliothèque Atwater
1200, rue Atwater (coin Ste.-Catherine, métro Atwater)

La COMMISSION POPULAIRE est mise de l'avant afin d'offrir à nos communautés un moyen d'examiner la question des «certificats de sécurité» ainsi que les autres enjeux liés aux politiques de «sécurité » en Immigration et d'identifier des moyens de résoudre les problèmes qui en découlent.

US rulers are determined to seize exclusive domination of the Middle East. This is because of the importance of the region and its resources for the US "long war" to control the world. The aim of the “long war" is to prevent the rise of rival imperialist powers as well as crushing people’s resistance and revolution around the world. Both collusion and contention are always present amongst imperialists and recently European powers led by France and Germany have shifted temporarily to defend US moves in the region.

27 February 2005. A World to Win News Service. The US bears a large share of the responsibility for the violence between Shia and Sunni Moslems that has killed so many people in Iraq over the last week, and actually many months.

Comme tout le monde le sait probablement, les jeux olympiques de Turin sont maintenant lancés. Le soir de l’ouverture, une majestueuse cérémonie s’est déroulée afin de démarrer le spectacle sportif promptement. Comme il est de mise, le pays hôte, l’Italie dans ce cas-ci, se sert des olympiades pour se promouvoir. C’est ce qui se fit, mais pas sans avoir fait une erreur monumentale.