Libya and France are ready to sign a 'nuclear accord', which makes the PNAC* group's warmongering threats concerning Iran, which - contrary to Israel - has signed the Non Proliferation Treaty* - all the more inhumane and a pack of hypocritical BS.

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.

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

[From http://www.freemandrum.org]
(Details on how you can help at the end.)

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]
(Details on how you can help at the end.)

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.

Con lleno total se llevo a cabo el Recital de Mujeres en Contra de la Guerra en Irak y en apoyo a las mujeres norteamericanas, este 4 de marzo en el Centro de Arte La Estancia. El evento, que sirvió de marco para la jornada de recolección de firmas en contra de la guerra, contó con la presencia de más de 200 mujeres y hombres de distintas organizaciones sociales como el Movimiento de Mujeres Clara Zetkin, Movimiento de Mujeres Manuelita Sáez, Fuerza Bolivariana de Mujeres, Inamujer, Trabajadoras de la Radio Nacional de Venezuela, Unión de Mujeres Negras, Colectivo Mujer tenía que Ser y el Foro Itinerante de Participación Popular, entre otras. Destacaron las intervenciones de Helena Salcedo, Presidenta del Circuito Radio Nacional de Venezuela, quien señaló la importancia de estar "alerta contra las amenazas y las agresiones del imperialismo, porque lo que pasa en Irak puede pasar mañana también aquí", Elena Linares, del Movimiento Clara Zetkin quien hizo un llamado a la cohesión del movimiento de mujeres y a estar atentas a la corrupción, Mercedes Aguilar, quien felicitó la a actividad en nombre del Inamujer y señaló que ya van recogidas más de un millón de firmas y Nora Castañeda, presidenta del Banco de la Mujer, quien dijo que este "banco, así como muchas otras instituciones del proceso revolucionario, es un instrumento del pueblo, de las mujeres, para la construcción del socialismo".

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.

27 February 2005. A World to Win News Service. Somebody’s knocking at the door! Who is it? If we don’t open up, they’ll break in! Is it American soldiers? They raid homes and terrorize children and the whole family. We’ve seen it on TV. They insult, beat and arrest the men…

"In Fallujah many women were killed. Seventy-two women were killed the same way, shot once in the head, and their only sin was they opened the door to their homes", said a witness at the International Tribunal on Iraq in Istanbul. But the men at the door might be just common thugs and criminals who break in and rape the women. None of this was common before the US invasion. An Iraqi woman at the Tribunal testified that from the day that Iraq was invaded, there has been growing violence against women and systematic denial of their rights. They have been kidnapped, raped and even hunted to be traded to foreign countries for the vast global prostitution network. An Iraqi woman told a journalist, "Kidnapping and raping women has become so widespread that every woman worries that she may become the next victim. Very few women are seen on the streets. It was not like that before the war, no! Many are frightened to step out of their home."

Since the invasion, especially in the southern city of Basra governed by US and British-backed Shia clerics, women have been pressured to cover their heads. Barbers have been warned not to shave men, and tailors have been told how women must be dressed. So many women have been driven out of their jobs, especially young women, that now only 10 percent work. "Honour killings" are increasing at an alarming rate all over Iraq, even in Kurdistan.

After last year’s approval of the new constitution and the establishment of an Islamic regime based on Sharia (religious law), the kind of things that were happening to Iraqi women in day to day life became enshrined in law.