People for Peace/stop secret trials
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This page outlines People for Peace's involvement in the Campaign to Stop Secret Trials in Canada. See Campaign against Secret trials webpagefor background. See also Past Events, under May 12, 2006.
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Help now!
The detainees in Kingston are still struggling to get basic rights they previously enjoyed (phone access, canteen supplies): public pressure in the form of letter-writing, calling, faxing and e-mails is an effective way to show your support. You can find more information on How you can help now!
Camp Hope and Freedom Caravan
See Daniel James Hilton's great blog on London Commons for his reports from Camp Hope and the protests in Ottawa against secret trials.
See also Murrary Lumley's blog (includes the Freedom Caravan and Camp Hope logbook with different people's notes, as well as press articles), as well as more photos from Murray Lumley
Freedom Caravan in Pictures
A few press clippings and selected images from the Freedom Caravan:
 From the Belleville Intelligencer, June 7 (Jim Loney) |
 From the Belleville Intelligencer, June 8 (Nico Vicencio-Heap) |
 Brockville: Engaging a counter protestor in peaceful dialogue(his sign read "Canada must protect itself"). |
 Brockville: The counter protestor ended up agreeing that people should at least be charged if held in jail. |
 Brockville, in the rain (outside an MP's office). |
 Brockville, June 8. |
 Trenton, June 6. |
 Harper Wanted, Trenton, June 6. |
 Banner in Trenton, June 6. |
 Jim Loney and Don Heap in Brighton |
 Resting in a park in Brighton |
 Banners in Brighton |
 Caravaners aged 4 months to 80 years, in Brighton |
 The Raging Grannies in Napanee |
 Found advice in Napanee (actually, we enjoyed excellent advance planning by Matthew Behrens and the Homes Not Bombs team). |
 Lunch in Napanee park, June 7. |
 Millhaven penitentiary, June 7. |
 outside Millhaven penitentiary |
Freedom Caravan
Story also covered in part on the CBC's website news
The Freedom Caravan from Toronto to Ottawa in support of the Secret Trial Five and opposing Security Certificates has had an eventful first few days, as Freedom Caravaners stopped in (among other places) Peterborough, Port Hope, Coburg, Brighton, Trenton, Belleville, Napanee, Bath, the Millhaven Penitentiary and then Kingston (on the evening of Wednesday June 7), were we met with a crowd of 140 people from the "No-one is illegal" Campaign (Kingston). Thursday we continued to Gananoque and Brockville, and the Caravan continued on towards Ottawa on Friday and Saturday, in preparatation for a week of protests and vigils around the Supreme Court hearings of the Secret Trial cases.
We were privileged to have Jim Loney (from the Bagdad Christian Peacemaker Team) along with us for part of the Caravan, speaking passionately for freedom and against Security Certificates, as someone who knows what it means to be arbitrarily detained. We have had good media coverage, both local papers and radio, and the CBC and Radio Canada. The press, Raging Grannies and supporters from Kingston were with us Wednesday afternoon when we got as close as possible to the detainees at Millhaven, and heard from Jim Loney, from Ahmad Jaballah (who brought greetings from his father whom he had just visited inside -- on the 16th day of a hunger strike for better conditions), and from Don Heap, who recalled both opposing this bad "security" legislation when it was passed by Parliament 15 years ago, and the lessons he learned over 40 years ago from Martin Luther King Jr.'s marches in Alabama: people walking together for peace and justice can change things for the better.
Camp Hope runs June 11-16 in Ottawa, while the Security Certificate cases are before the Supreme Court. For more information, visit the Caravan site and the Campaign to Stop Secret Trials in Canada site.
Seen on CBC
The special coverage on the Freedom Caravan and the campaign against secret trials finalled aired Tuesday June 13 on the National 9 and 10 pm, repeated again at midnight (in the second part of the hour, with a brief mention of the Supreme Court hearings earlier in the show), see The National's webpage
