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Week of February 18th

From the Hamilton and Ontario Independent Media Centres
http://hamilton.indymedia.org -- http://www.ontario.indymedia.org

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Local News
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--Hamilton--

1. Love-in at Bayfront Park: Plans to use Hamilton's Bayfront Park for war
training by weapons toting reservists from the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry
are meeting with opposition from area peace groups and citizens who believe
parks should be weapons-free areas. TUESDAY FEBRUARY 26, 7:30 pm
http://hamilton.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=1127&group=webcas t

--Ontario--

1. UPDATE!!: Tory Leadership Race Demo>>Oakville>>Changed Feb 26 to Mar 4
http://ontario.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=7171&group=webcast

2. Ontario Common Front press release:
The Ontario Common Front is organizing loud and disruptive demonstrations
for the Tory Leadership Convention.
http://ontario.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=7140&group=webcast

3. VisionTV's "The Great Deception" Asks: On the morning of 9/11, what did
Bush know and when did he know it?

February 18th Program: What did George W. Bush and his administration know
on the morning of September 11th and when did they know it? Why did he
continue with his public relations event of reading stories with school
children after he had heard of the unprecedented attacks on the World Trade
Center? Why did he lie about when he first learned of the attacks?

Next Program (Monday, Feb 25th) -- The Final Segment in the Six Part Series:
"Moral and spiritual challenges that arise amidst fear and denial in a
propagandized society".
http://hamilton.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=972&group=webcast

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National News
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1. Indymedia Server for BC Down: Silencing Reports About Massive Protests?:
http://ontario.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=7169&group=webcast

2. Native activists face violent harassment in BC:

17 February, 2002 - Snowmobilers, using intimidation and racist verbal
attacks, harassed a young Secwepemc family living at Protection Center Site
5, near the Sun Peaks ski resort, and severely injured the family's dog.
http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=11700&group=webcast

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World News
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1. Police Given Order to Shoot at G8 in Genoa:

ROME - Italy's interior minister faced calls for his resignation on Saturday
after revealing he had ordered police to shoot any protesters who breached
security lines at the G8 summit in Genoa last year.
http://hamilton.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=1105&group=webcast

2. Italy Indymedia Raided: Indymedia Under Attack!
http://italy.indymedia.org/underattack/index.html

3. Colombia and the IMF: Policies that Worsen Problems (April Mobilization
to DC):
http://indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=139978&group=webcast

4. Ariel Sharon to Speak at AIPAC Conference in DC - April 21-23:

The architect of the massacres at Sabra and Shatila, the butcher of Kibya
and the current PM of Israel is set to address the bloated Israel lobby,
AIPAC, at their annual conference April 21-23 at the Washington Hilton and
Towers (1919 Connecticut Ave, NW), conveniently timed concurrently with the
mobilization against the SOA/WHISC and the IMF/WB.
http://nyc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=20530&group=webcast

5. Sept. 11 families say 'War, not in our names':
http://nyc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=20530&group=webcast

6. Report from the Kangaroo Court at The Hague:

What is perhaps most shocking, the prosecution has taken evidence
exonerating Milosevic and condemning NATO and, through the use of cheap
tricks, presented it as if it proved the opposite.
http://victoria.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=3052&group=webcast

7. White House Plan to Control Green House Gases Condemned by Environmental
Groups World Wide:

Between the Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Kert Davies, Climate Campaign
coordinator with Greenpeace USA, who explains why his group, and other
environmental organizations around the world, have condemned the Bush
administration's global warming proposal.
http://maritimes.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=1035&group=webcast

8. US drops pledge against using nuclear weapons against non-nuclear
nations.
http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=11684&group=webcast

9. Switzerland Indymedia SHUT DOWN!:

All began with publishing of a cartoon by Latuff where a jewish kid in
Warsaw ghetto says "i'm a palestinian". Fascist jewish AKDH association
attacked indymedia switzerland saying it is an "anti-Semitic" cartoon --
www.switzerland.indymedia.org is now shut off.
http://indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=136575&group=webcast

10. Anthrax cover-up?? Everything you need to know:
http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=138582
http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=138936
http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=139456
http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=139482

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Essays, Political Cartoons, and Editorials
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1. Latuff's most recent cartoon: Human Safari? Come to Israel!
http://ontario.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=7170&group=webcast

2. Latuff responds to Swiss IMC shutdown -- Cartoons and Paranoia (cartoon
and editorial):
http://ontario.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=7062&group=webcast

3. Latuff responds to raids on Italian IMCs:
http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=138765