Sunday, August 6th, 2007 Update
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Please check http://noii-van.resist.ca frequently for updates or contact the Scrap SPP Campaign at scrapspp@gmail.com or call 778 885 0040
MOBILIZE AND PROTEST AGAINST THE SECURITY AND PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP
AGREEMENT!
August 20th is a continental day of action to oppose the SPP, a highly secretive agreement between US, Mexico, and Canada. The SPP is essentially NAFTA-plus-Homeland Security, firmly rooted within a colonial and capitalist framework. There is no doubt that 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.
Leading upto August 20th, a wide range of educational events, actions, and creative resistance is being planned by a growing network of groups and individuals. Below are just some of the activities being planned, with many more being planned and confirmed.
- UPDATED CALENDER ***
Video Projections on the Impacts of the SPP Sunday August 5th at 9 pm Grandview Park, Commercial Drive (more locations tbc over the next two weeks)
Sabe UD que es La Alianza de Seguridad y Prosperidad de America del Norte (ASPAN)? Educación política sobre el ASPAN en Español Donde: Dogwood Centre (706 Clarke Drive) Hora: 6:30 PM Dia: Jueves 9 de Agosto. Con saludos fraternales. Comite organizador 20 de Agosto.
AUGUST 10TH - AUG 19TH A WEEK OF CREATIVE RESISTANCE AGAINST THE SPP pls stay tuned for details
DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE SPP? COMMUNITY FORUM Saturday August 11 at 2 pm Fireside Cafe, 13593 King George Hwy, Surrey Corner King George and 108 (Right next to Gateway Skytrain) Free Community Forum with Multimedia Presentations and Speakers
VISIT THE STOP THE SPP CAMPAIGN TABLE AT UNDER THE VOLCANO Festival of Art and Social Change Sun August 12th all day Cates Park, shuttles from Vancouver http://volcano.resist.ca/transpo.html
NATIONAL WEEK OF ACTION TO TARGET THE SPP! August 10-August 16 across Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver, Montreal and more! IN VANCOUVER- DISRUPT THE NAFTA TRADE MINISTERS MEETING! we are still trying to get details on this meeting (it's all under wraps of course) but please do keep your lunch hours on Mon Aug 13 and Tues Aug 14th free!
EVENING TO RESIST THE SPP Thursday August 16th at 7 pm Rhizome Cafe 317 East Broadway
CONTINENTAL DAY OF ACTION TO OPPOSE THE SPP! Monday August 20th at 3 pm Canada Place (Waterfront Station)
- For those unable to make it at 3pm, please stay tuned for another
meeting spot for 5 pm so you can join the march!
==> GETTING INFORMED AND GETTING INVOLVED!
There is a wide variety of educational materials available including
factsheets, zines, stickers, and slideshow presentations on the SPP that
have been developed. We strongly encourage folks to get in touch if they
would like to access these materials and to share this information with
your friends,family, and groups. We are also happy to setup
mini-information sessions for interested groups, networks, and unions on
the hugely significantimpacts of the SPP.
There is also ongoing organizing against the SPP- including outreach; a series of creative resistance direct actions facilitated by newworld theatre; coordinated actions across various cities; educational forums and community meetings and more.If you are interested in getting involved, there are weekly meetings on Tuesdays and lots more going on, so please do not hesitate to get in touch. We continue to build a diverse movement in resistance to the SPP and strongly encourage folks to get in touch.
Contact information: scrapspp at gmail.com or call 778 885 0040 Info on the SPP: http://noii-van.resist.ca and http://psp-spp.com/?q=en
==> AUDIO AND VIDEO ON THE SPP:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Tlyc6EysAcY
http://noii-van.resist.ca/?p=446
==> LEARN ABOUT THE CORPORATE LOBBY BEHIND THE SPP:
The North American Competitiveness Council (NACC) was launched as part of
the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) in June 2006. It is the only
formal advisory board to the SPP and is made up of 30 corporate leaders
from Canada, the U.S. and Mexico with ten advisors from each of the SPP
signatory states. A September 13, 2006 story in Maclean’s magazine
describes NACC as a “cherrypicked group of executives who were whisked to
Cancun in March by the leaders of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, and asked
to come up with a plan for taking North American integration beyond
NAFTA.”
Read more at: http://noii-van.resist.ca/?p=438
==> WHAT IS THE SPP?
The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) was founded
in March 2005 at a summit of the Heads of State of Canada, the US, and
Mexico. SPP is not an official treaty; it is not an official law;
therefore it has been able to escape any public scrutiny. The major drive
behind the SPP is a CEO-based organization, which is the only official
advisory group to governments on the SPP.
The real face of SPP is to further an agenda of corporate free trade, border militarization, criminalization of migration, privatization and theft of indigenous land and resources, repression in the name of national security, impoverishment and displacement, and cooperation in war and occupation.
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, expansion of temporary worker programs as a means of ensuring low wages, coordination of no-fly lists, expedited resource extraction particularly oil and water on unceded indigenous territories, and harmonization of health and environmental regulations to lower standards and development of a North American alternative to the Kyoto Protocol.
Read more at: http://noii-van.resist.ca/?page_id=102
