Sat Aug 11- Community forum on the SPP at 2 pm
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DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE SECURITY AND PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP? A FREE COMMUNITY FORUM
Ask yourself: Should governments and business leaders be allowed to single-handedly re-design the continent in ways that mostly benefit corporations? Should the public be denied access to this process and kept in the dark about the specifics of the secretive plans?
If you answered no, come out to learn about this NAFTA-plus-Homeland Security Agreement
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Saturday August 11 @ 2 pm Fireside Café, 13593 King George Hwy, Surrey King George and 108 (Right next to Gateway Skytrain). FREE! WITH SPEAKERS AND PRESENTATIONS!
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The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America is a highly secretive NAFTA-plus-Homeland agreement founded in March 2005 by the Heads of State of Canada, the US, and Mexico. SPP is not an official treaty; therefore it has been able to escape any public scrutiny. The major drive behind the SPP is a CEO-based corporate lobby organization.
The SPP is a NAFTA-plus-Homeland-Security model and will involve the harmonization of over 300 areas of regulations, including integration of the military and police forces as part of the "War on Terror"; loss of stable, unionized jobs with a shift towards more casual and temporary work creating more poverty and economic insecurity; coordination of no-fly lists and border harassment; expedited resource extraction particularly oil and water, including five time expansion of oil production at the tar sands in Alberta; and reduction in health and environmental regulations including a North American "alternative" to the Kyoto Protocol.
The SPP will bring greater insecurity and misery: murderous wars and occupations abroad; border militarization; increased detentions and deportations; attacks on indigenous peoples, the poor, migrants, and working people; ecological destruction; and mega-projects in the service of corporate greed.
The educational event on Saturday August 11th is a lead-up event to August 20th, a continental day of action to oppose the SPP when Bush, Harper, and Calderon will be meeting in Montebello, Quebec at a SPP Summit.
Contact: scrapspp@gmail.com or call 778 885 0040. For more information on the SPP, please visit www.nooneisillegal.org
