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   The letter (appended below) to Ottawa City Council comes from an Afghan woman MP who expresses her clear opposition to the use of Ottawa facilities for any military trade shows.

Malalai Joya is an elected Afghan Member of Parliament. However, in May 2007 she was barred from Parliament for three years because she had denounced the many foreign-backed warlords and drug barons who dominate her government. While the Afghan Parliament passed a law giving immunity to all Afghan's who have committed war crimes over the previous 25 years, it also passed a law saying that Afghan MPs could not criticise each other.

So it is permissible to have MPs in Afghanistan's parliament who are war criminals, but it is not permissible to have MPs in that Parliament who dare to risk death threats for merely criticising the presence of those war criminals. This is the democracy that Canada helped to install and is now protecting. Canada helped the US to replace Taliban warlords with other warlords from the "Northern Alliance" who killed tens of thousands of innocent civilians in Kabul alone during the 1990s.

25 June 2009

PHILIPPINES. It is quite common these days to read from the newspapers violence being perpetrated by the communist New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) that most Filipinos no longer care as long they are not the poor victims.

* Desde El Libertario www.nodo50.org/ellibertario nos hemos sumado y estamos esforzándonos por divulgar esta iniciativa, que busca enfrentar al sicariato que está segando la vida de activistas sindicales en el país.

* El Libertario www.nodo50.org/ellibertario has joined this campaign and we’re trying to divulge this initiative in an attempt to confront the hired killers that are taking the lives of labor activists in this country.

Le 14 juin dernier des centaines de milliers de personnes provenant de tout les secteurs du mouvement social de Oaxaca se sont rejoins dans les rues pour commémorer la brutale répression qui a eu lieu le 14 juin 2006 dans le centre historique de Oaxaca contre le mouvement démocratique des professeurEs de la section 22 par le gouverneur fasciste Ulises Ruiz Ortiz du PRI (Partie Révolutionnaire Institutionnel) et 3500 effectifs de la police de l’État de Oaxaca.

Ronnie Kasrils
Pañestine Think Tank

Traducido por Andrés Prado para Rebelión