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Date: 16 Mar 1998 09:01:18 -0500 Lundi 16 mars 1998 La polica a evacue ce matin l'eglise Sainte Jeanne-D'Arc occupee par les Un rassemblement devait se tenir aujourd'hui a midi a la Cite pour soutenir ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 16 Mar 1998 15:22:49 -0500 From vbarcenas@mac.com.mx Mon Mar 16 11:44:45 1998 Compa~eros y compa~eras: El 16 de febrero de 1996, el Gobierno Federal y el Ejercito Zapatista de En estos Acuerdos quedan plasmados los resultados de un dialogo nacional El 29 de Noviembre de 1996, la Comision de Concordia y Pacificacion Desde entonces, la condicion establecida, para poder llevar a la Desde Noviembre de 1996, y hasta el dia de hoy, muchos han sido los Aunado a esto, el Gobierno Federal busca desconocer y descartar el Hoy, ante la presion nacional e internacional, el Gobierno ha decidido La posible, y por demas peligrosa, imposicisn de una Iniciativa de Ley Ante esta situacion, organizaciones sociales, civiles y politicas INVITAMOS a todas las organizaciones, colectivos, hombres y mujeres Para efectos de Coordinacion y Enlace, una Comision especifica espera ATENTAMENTE Comision de Enlace Ligia Garcma (523 63 97) , Claudia Cruz (5 90 20 21), Tania Molina (516 Con una representante permanente en el Zocalo durante la semana que Alternativas Urbanas, Asamblea Barrios Patria Nueva, Brigada de Accion Roger - ------------ La informacion contenida en los mensajes de esta lista es generada por Todas las opiniones vertidas son responsabilidad de sus autores a no ser Esta lista es, fundamentalmente, un esfuerzo de los miembros del Comite - ----------- visita la pagina del Frente Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional: http://spin.com.mx/~floresu/FZLN/ Envia un mensaje sin asunto (subject) a: majordomo@laneta.apc.org con la siguiente linea en el cuerpo (body) del mensaje: unsubscribe fzln-l (fijate que es FZLN-L) - ----------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 16 Mar 1998 15:32:09 -0500 This posting has been forwarded to you as a service of Sintesis de prensa ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 16 Mar 1998 15:51:03 -0500 La violence sexiste n'est pas un mythe (Montréal, 16 mars, midi) Le Collectif masculin contre le sexisme Les membres du groupe pro-féministe montréalais ont manifesté "Il nous semble évident qu'en prétendant défendre, à Pourquoi si peu de condamnations? Les procureurs et les juges reconnaissent eux-mmes laisser Divorcer pour échapper à un conjoint agresseur "Il n'existe pas la moindre preuve d'une incidence significative Le CMCS craint de nouvelles victimes On sait en effet que la majorité des meurtres de femmes et Le harcèlement médiatique et juridique des femmes par les groupes - 30 - Pour plus d'informations, communiquer avec Martin Dufresne, DES FEMMES ET ENFANTS TUƒES PAR DES HOMMES EN TANT QU'HOMMES, UNIQUEMENT AU ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 16 Mar 1998 16:04:12 -0500 Subject: Re: articulo del Financiero (marzo 13, 1998) Susana: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 16 Mar 1998 16:06:04 -0500 Return-Path: This posting has been forwarded to you as a service of >From hvelarde@spin.com.mx Mon Mar 16 14:03:37 1998 van a disculpar que hayamos tenido tan abandonada la lista estos dias, pero vamos a enviarles algunos de los documentos y proyectos de resoluciones de tambien intentaremos ponernos al dia con los resumenes semanales tan pronto hacemos un llamado a todos a estar muy pendientes de lo que ocurra y a salud y saludos... Hector Velarde La informacion contenida en los mensajes de esta lista es generada por Esta lista es fundamentalmente un esfuerzo de los miembros del Comite Civil - --- Visita las paginas del Frente Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional: http://spin.com.mx/~floresu/FZLN/ (espa~ol) - --- Instrucciones para terminar tu suscripcion a la lista: Envia un mensaje sin asunto (subject) a majordomo@laneta.apc.org con la unsubscribe fzln-l (fijate que es FZLN-L) Las instrucciones para iniciar una suscripcion asi como la respuesta a http://spin.com.mx/~floresu/FZLN/noticias/suscripcion.htm - --- Para reportar problemas administrativos escribir a: fzln-l-owner@laneta.apc.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 16 Mar 1998 17:11:18 -0500 Subject: THE LEGAL CHALLENGE TO THE MAI:ONGOING DEVELOPMENTS C/o Constance Fogal Law Office, 401 - 207 West Hastings St., Vancouver Tel 604 687 0588; Fax 604 688 0550; cellular 604 202 7334 "The MAI is far more than a promise to treat foreign investors #401- 207 West Hastings St., Vancouver B.C.,V6B1H7 Our telephone numbet is 604 687 0588 The first time I read the dictionary, I thought it was a poem about e-mail: mailto:sam@politician.com - --------------Oooo----------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 16 Mar 1998 17:12:35 -0500 Dear anti-MAI campaigners, As you probably know by now, the European Parliament yesterday .... snip ...... For more information on the vote, you can contact: Paul-Emile Dupret OR Gaby Kueper ..... snip ...... G. regretting the fact that the negotiations have hitherto been H. whereas the EU has not yet supplied any studies on the impact of the I. Puts to the Commission the following recommendations: 1. Emphasizes the need for a broader public debate and ongoing 2. Calls on the Commission, within a reasonable period, to carry out an ..... snip .... The complete 22K document is available at: http://news.flora.org/flora.mai-not/ - -------- The first time I read the dictionary, I thought it was a poem about e-mail: mailto:sam@politician.com - --------------Oooo----------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 16 Mar 1998 18:10:29 -0500 CONTROL (or democracy) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 16 Mar 1998 18:13:57 -0500 MAI from Monetary Reform Magazine ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 16 Mar 1998 18:24:48 -0500 OCAP (Ontario Coalition Against Poverty) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 16 Mar 1998 18:41:02 -0500 MAI A foreign takeover bid? You bet! What's most curious about this MAI treaty is why our government is so To get an idea of what the government's line is on this, all you have to do "Canadians will decide. They won't decide based on what Sergio Marchi says. If Canada is no more than a 'public company', then as shareholders I think As bizarre as it may seem, the government has been borrowing money "Will you tell me why a government with the power to create money, should Towers replied, "Now if Parliament wants to change the form of the banking Obviously, our Parliament hasn't had the political will to do so for over The second reason I say that our government is either totally incompetent "... In 1997, 97.5 per cent of the $21.2 billion (of foreign investment in And on top of that ... "... From 1985 to 1996, some 65 per cent of foreign takeovers here were For those two reasons, I am convinced that the 'Board of Directors' that is If, indeed, 'we' are the "shareholders of Canada", as Minister Marchi says, As a friend of mine, Derrell, keeps asking: "If you were a businessperson So then, we have to ask ourselves once again: "What's in it for the The truth of the matter is nicely summed up by Paul Hellyer, former deputy "Globalization is not about trade. It is about power and control. It is the We should take Sergio Marchi up on his suggestion that 'we' be the ones to A foreign takeover is imminent with the signing of this MAI, but most "Non-co-operation has one aim - the overthrow of the government. Sedition Well then, Godspeed to all citizens in all countries campaigning to 'STOP One word of warning, though: Don't be fooled by the recent news that the It may sound like what we are trying to do here is next to impossible. But "It's fun doing the impossible." Enjoy ! - -------- The first time I read the dictionary, I thought it was a poem about e-mail: mailto:sam@politician.com - --------------Oooo-----------------------------------------
From: Georgina et Thierry Ruyer
Subject: Collectif Barbes - Mvt des sans-papiers
membres du 6e collectif des sans-papiers et leurs amis. Ceux-ci ont ete
transferes sur l'ile de la Cite et a Bobigny.
les sans-papiers arretes, mais les gardes mobiles qui attendaient les
manifestants ont interpelles aussitot un grande nombre d'entre eux. La
repression semble prendre des proportions inquietantes au lendemain des
elections regionales. Ne manquez pas de nous tenir au courant si vouz avez
des informations complementaires.
From: perez@total.net
Subject: 100 HORAS CONTRA LA GUERRA
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 01:39:01 -0600
From: Victor Barcenas
To: fzln-l@laneta.apc.org
Subject: [fzln-l] 100 HORAS CONTRA LA GUERRA
100 HORAS CONTRA LA GUERRA
Contra la guerra y por el cumplimiento de los Acuerdos de San Andris
Liberacion Nacional firmaron los primeros Acuerdos emanados de la Mesa
de
Dialogo de San Andres Larrainzar.
en
el que participaron todos los actores que han construido el movimiento
indigena que reclaman un nuevo pacto social entre Pueblos Indios-Estado-
Sociedad.
(COCOPA)
presento a las partes (Gobierno- EZLN) su Proyecto de Iniciativa de Ley
en
Materia de Derechos Indigenas, que recoge y traduce los Acuerdos
firmados en
San Andres en los terminos juridicos que permitiran llevar a la
Constitucion
Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos y saldar asi la deuda historica
que
el zapatismo, el Gobierno y la sociedad en su conjunto tiene para con
los
Pueblos Indios.
Constitucion dicha Iniciativa de Ley, fue el consenso de ambas partes.
El
EZLN por su parte, acepto en su totalidad la propuesta de la COCOPA;
pero
tambien desde entonces el Gobierno se ha negado sistematicamente,
haciendo
diversas y esenciales observaciones, para aceptar esta iniciativa.
rostros
indigenas que nos reclaman solucion efectiva a sus demandas. Los rostros
asesinados de las mujeres de Acteal, de los campesinos de la zona Norte
de
Chiapas y de muchos otros lugares del pais, no le han sido suficientes
al
Gobierno Federal para aceptar las reformas constitucionales que
reconocen
los derechos de los pueblos indios.
trabajo
de la COCOPA y la CONAI, argumentando una serie de elementos por demas
absurdas en contra de estas dos instancias que han sido clave para el
desarrollo del proceso de dialogo, ahora estancado como consecuencia de
la
cerrazon gubernamental.
darle
una salida UNILATERAL al conflicto que descarta de facto al zapatismo,
y lo
que es mas preocupante, a los Acuerdos de San Andres, excluyendo con
esto a
los propios pueblos indios.
en
Derechos Indigenas solo por parte del Ejecutivo Federal, o de sus
aliados
naturales como el PAN, que sera presentada al Congreso de la Union en su
Periodo Ordinario de Sesiones en este mes, no resolvera la demanda
historica de los pueblos indios para que les sean reconocidos sus
derechos,
por el contrario creara las condiciones que permitiran una guerra
abierta
contra los hombres y mujeres que devolvieron la esperanza del cambio a
muchos mexicanos.
preocupadas por el curso de los acontecimientos, CONVOCAMOS A LA MARCHA
DE
100 HORAS CONTRA LA GUERRA Y POR EL CUMPLIMIENTO DE LOS ACUERDOS DE SAN
ANDReS, que iniciaremos el proximo lunes 16 de marzo la as 16:00 hrs. en
el
Zocalo de la Ciudad de Mexico.
preocupados por detener la guerra, a manifestarse con acciones legales y
pacificas, de manera simultanea con las actividades que ustedes mismos
decidan, o secundar la Marcha de 100 horas, en todos los rincones de
este
pais y del mundo.
hacer
contacto con ustedes para unir esfuerzos en la lucha por una PAZ CON
JUSTICIA Y DIGNIDAD.
74 56)
Gloria Rico (635 59 80), Amarela Varela (674 65 71), Denisse Anzures
(662
52 92) Julia Villase~or
durara
la marcha
Juvenil por la Paz, Congreso Nacional Indigena, Frente del Pueblo, Grupo
por
la Paz, Multiforo Alicia, Movimiento por la Paz con Justicia y Dignidad,
Red
Ciudadana en apoyo a la Causa Zapatista, UAMeros por la Paz, Asamblea de
Barrios de la Ciudad de Mexico, Sindicato de Trabajadores
Administrativos
del INAH, MODELAC, UPREZ, CEU, CCAT-UCAI, Cleta, Frente Popular
Francisco
Villa, Frente Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional, VAPAC, PRD-DF, PRT,
Creadores-Academicos-Intelectuales y ciudadanos en lo individual, CEM,
OPEX,
Caravana Mexicana PTT, Convergencia de Organismos Civiles por la
Democracia,
Alianza Civica DF, MCD, Alianza Civica Independiente,
fuentes propias o tomada de otros medios informativos y no refleja,
necesariamente, la posicion oficial del Frente Zapatista de Liberacion
Nacional.
que
se especifique lo contrario.
Civil
de Dialogo "Batallon de San Patricio" de la Ciudad de Mexico.
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From: perez@total.net
Subject: MELEL XOJOBAL BOLETIN
Accion Zapatista de Austin.
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Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 12:14:43 -0600
From: Melel Xojobal
Subject: Melel Xojobal. Lunes 16 de marzo de 1998.
Lunes 16 de marzo de 1998
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DIALOGO
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Cuarto Poder/La Jornada. DICE LABASTIDA QUE NO SE USARA LA FUERZA EN
CHIAPAS. El sabado pasado, el presidente Zedillo firmo la iniciativa de
ley
sobre derechos indigenas que presento el PRI, que incluye las 4
observaciones que hizo el gobierno a la iniciativa original de la
Cocopa.
Esta iniciativa ya fue enviada a la Camara de Senadores para su
discusion.
El secretario de Gobernacion, Francisco Labastida Ochoa, dijo que el
EZLN
quiere retrasar la solucion del problema, pero invito a los zapatistas a
dejar la amenaza de la violencia y retornar al dialogo suspendido desde
septiembre de 1996. Agrego que el gobierno federal no usara la fuerza
para
resolver el conflicto en Chiapas. En el mensaje trasmitido en todo el
pais,
Labastida enumero nueve aspectos de la iniciativa enviada a la Camara de
Senadores para su discusion y aprobacion, entre los cuales destacan el
reconocimiento a la autonomia y leyes propias de justicia de los pueblos
indigenas, la remunicipalizacion, el uso colectivo de recursos
naturales,
educacion bilingŸe y la asistencia de interpretes en juicios. Labastida
dijo
que con esta accion se termina una de las causas del conflicto y aseguro
que
con dicha propuesta el gobierno de la Republica cumple con los acuerdos
de
San Andres Larrainzar y mantiene la via pacifica para resolver el
conflicto.
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La Jornada. ZEDILLO DICE QUE EL EZLN QUIERE LA VIOLENCIA. El presidente
Zedillo, que realiza ahora una visita de Estado en Chile, dijo que el
gobierno mexicano quiere la paz y que el EZLN quiere provocar la
violencia.
Sin embargo, Zedillo agrego que hoy el EZLN ya no tiene las ventajas que
tuvo en 1994, como el factor de sorpresa e incertidumbre, y que por eso
los
zapatistas ya no podran dan~ar al pais. Ademas, Zedillo explico que la
masacre de Acteal fue por una revancha entre grupos y dijo que ni el PRI
ni
el gobierno tienen culpa en el caso.
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Cuarto Poder/La Jornada. EL PAN DICE QUE SU PROPUESTA ESTA A DISCUSION.
El
PAN dijo ayer que su iniciativa sobre derechos y cultura indigenas
podria
modificarse y dijo que los panistas estan abiertos a debatir sobre ella.
El
PAN agrego que el gobierno federal no ha seguido una linea clara y
consecuente con su oferta de dialogo porque ha violado el estado de
derecho
en Chiapas varias ocasiones.
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Cuarto Poder. LEGISLADORES DEL PRD INICIARON UNA HUELGA DE HAMBRE. Cinco
diputados perredistas iniciaron ayer una huelga de hambre, que terminara
hasta que el Ejecutivo retire su iniciativa de ley para Chiapas. Los
perredistas reclamaron que la iniciativa presidencial haya sido
elaborada
unilateralmente, sin tomar en cuenta a las partes. Por su parte, la
dirigencia del PRD dijo que apoyara a la Cocopa y que insistira en una
salida pacifica para Chiapas.
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CASO ACTEAL
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Cuarto Poder. EL ESCRITOR SARAMAGO VISITO ACTEAL. El escritor portugues
Jose
Saramago visito ayer la comunidad de Acteal, en Chenalho. Hablo con
integrantes de la Sociedad Civil Las Abejas y del municipio Autonomo. El
representante de Las Abejas, Antonio Gutierrez, dijo que los 10 mil
desplazados de Chenalho que se encuentran distribuidos en 9 campamentos
no
regresaran a sus comunidades, porque hay cerca de 200 paramilitares que
volverian a atacarlos. Por su parte, Saramago dijo que es necesario que
la
memoria de Acteal no desaparezca.
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ORGANIZACIONES
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Melel Xojobal. COMUNICADO DEL CNI. El Congreso Nacional Indigena (CNI)
dijo
que el gobierno quiere provocar la guerra nuevamente y que por eso mando
al
Congreso la iniciativa de ley, sin tomar en cuenta al EZLN y a los
indigenas. El CNI convoco al movimiento indigena nacional y a la
sociedad
civil a una Huelga de Hambre Nacional Indigena, por la libre
determinacion y
contra la estrategia de guerra del gobierno, a partir del 15 de marzo.
Con
esta huelga se pedira el cumplimiento de las 5 condiciones del EZLN para
reiniciar el dialogo. Tambien invitan participar en la marcha de las 100
horas, que comenzara hoy, lunes 16 de marzo, a las 16 horas en el
Zocalo de
la Ciudad de Mexico.
- ------------------------------- Melel Xojobal. PRONUNCIAMIENTO DE LA
ASAMBLEA NACIONAL DEL FZLN. El Frente Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional
convoco a la sociedad civil a que se manifieste pacificamente en contra
de
las actuales acciones del gobierno federal, entorno a la iniciativa de
ley
sobre derechos y cultura indigenas. Ademas, el FZLN, que realizo una
Asamblea Nacional en Guadalajara, dijo que es necesario pedir al
Congreso
de la Union que no acepte el ataque contra su soberania que hace el
Ejecutivo Federal y defienda la iniciativa de ley elaborada por la
Cocopa.
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Cuarto Poder. MOCRI ANUNCIA MOVILIZACIONES. El Movimiento Campesino
Regional
Independiente (MOCRI-CNPA), dijo que realizara movilizaciones en varias
partes de Chiapas para pedir al gobierno la liberacion de sus
militantes,
presos por su lucha social y agraria.
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SEGURIDAD
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Cuarto Poder. CREARON SUBRPOCURADURIAS REGIONALES. El gobierno de
Chiapas
informo que se crearon cuatro subprocuradurias regionales y una para la
atencion especial a los pueblos indios, como parte de la
reestructuracion de
la Procuraduria de Justicia del Estado. Las nuevas subprocuradurias son:
region Norte, ubicada en Pichucalco; region costa, en Tapachula; region
Altos y de atencion a los pueblos indios, en San Cristobal; y region
Centro,
en Tuxtla Gutierrez.
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Cuarto Poder. DETUVIERON A DOS CUSTODIOS POR LA FUGA EN OCOSINGO. La
Procuraduria de Justicia del Estado dijo que detuvo a dos custodios de
la
carcel de Ocosingo, por su presunta culpabilidad en la fuga masiva de
presos
ocurrida hace unos dias. Sin embargo, los custodios dijeron que son
inocentes y que demandaran al director del penal por abuso de autoridad.
MELEL XOJOBAL. Servicio informativo al pueblo indigena.
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From: martin@laurentides.net
Subject: COMMUNIQUE: La violence sexiste n'est pas un mythe
a manifeste aujourd'hui devant la Maison de Radio-Canada à Montréal
pour rappeler que la violence des conjoints et des pères continue
à tuer chaque année une cinquantaine de 50 femmes et enfants au
Québec, malgré leurs appels à l'aide. En effet, l'appareil judiciaire
semble encore trop soucieux des prétendus "droits du père" pour
intervenir efficacement, mme en cas de violences et de menaces
de mort répétées.
devant la Maison de Radio-Canada recouverts de suaires noirs, en
mémoire des 479 femmes et enfants tués par des hommes au Québec
depuis le 6 décembre 1989. Ils qualifient de tentative de censure
les menaces de poursuites criminelles lancées par un groupe
d'hommes divorcés contre les femmes qui tentent d'obtenir justice
et protection face à un conjoint agresseur. Le Groupe d'entraide
aux pères et de soutien à l'enfant" manifestait au mme endroit pour
réclamer l'arrestation des femmes violentées en mme temps que
leur agresseur lorsque la police se présente sur les lieux d'une
scène de violence conjugale...
l'aveuglette, tous les hommes qui se disent "victimisés", le GEPSA
travaille à intimider les femmes violentées aux plans physique et
psychologique et financièrement exploitées. En les discréditant sur
la place publique, on cherche à b‰illonner ces femmes et à les
empcher d'obtenir justice et protection face aux hommes qui les
battent, les menacent ou qui leur volent mois après mois le soutien
dû à leurs enfants," a déclaré le secrétaire du CMCS, Martin
Dufresne.
"Si les appels à l'aide des femmes battues par un conjoint
mènent si peu souvent à des condamnations, c'est loin d'tre parce
que les femmes "mentent" lorsqu'elles appellent la police, affirme
M. Dufresne. Les preuves des violences infligées sont
habituellement très explicites lorsque les policiers arrivent sur
les lieux. Ce qui se passe, c'est que l'appareil judiciaire
continue à trouver des façons de protéger les maris agresseurs."
traîner ces dossiers pour favoriser une "réconciliation".
L'agresseur en profite pour attendrir et culpabiliser la victime:
il promet qu'il a eu sa leçon. S'il comparaît tout de mme au
tribunal, il promet de suivre ce qu'on appelle, à tort, une
"thérapie" et on en profite pour éviter de le trouver coupable.
Bref, avec la complicité du système, les conjoints agresseurs n'ont
aucune difficulté à éviter les conséquences de leurs actes, tout en
continuant à attaquer publiquement leur victime. "C'est ce que font
tous les batteurs de femmes, explique le Collectif masculin contre
le sexisme. Se prter à leurs proclamations publiques d'innocence,
c'est faire leur jeu et se montrer complices de la violence faite
aux femmes."
Le CMCS cite une étude de Carmen Gill et Lynn Saint-Pierre,
menée en 1986 dans la région du Sud-Ouest du Québec pour la Maison
L'Accueil de Valleyfield. Cette recherche systématique a démontré
que plus de 53% des femmes qui demandaient le divorce le faisaient
à cause de la cruauté physique ou psychologique de leur époux.
de fausses accusations de violence conjugale; des enqutes
irréprochables démontrent aujourd'hui que cette violence est
véritable, que son étendue est immense et encore trop souvent sous-
rapportée et minimisée. Par contre, tous les intervenants dans ce
dossier reconnaissent que le déni de leur violence et la
dénonciation de leur victime est systématique chez les batteurs de
femmes. Ce sont tout simplement les hommes qui mentent dans ce
domaine, affirme M. Dufresne, et c'est eux qu'il importe de
poursuivre au criminel."
"Les groupes masculinistes ne parlent jamais de cette violence
conjugale si répandue lorsqu'ils appuient n'importe quel homme qui
essaie d'arracher une garde exclusive ou partagée et qu'ils
réclament pour les hommes divorcés ou séparés des pouvoirs de plus
en plus absolus et contraignants face à leurs ex-conjointes", a
noté M. Dufresne. "Le divorce est une véritable planche de salut
pour les 300 000 femmes victimes de violences conjugale au Québec
et pour les enfants agressés sexuellement par un père ou par un
beau-père. Si, au nom de la "bonne réputation" des hommes ou d'un
prétendu rôle essentiel du Père, on interdit aux femmes de
témoigner des violences qu'elles et leurs enfants ont subi dans le
mariage et on les empche de pouvoir protéger leurs enfants au
moment du divorce, c'est encore plus de victimes qui viendront
s'ajouter aux 479 femmes et enfants tués jusqu'à maintenant par des
hommes au Québec depuis le 6 décembre 1989."
d'enfants au Québec et ailleurs sont le fait d'hommes violents en
instance de divorce ou récemment séparés et à qui on a consenti des
droits d'accès à ces femmes et enfants parce que leur violence
n'était pas reconnue.
de pères divorcés est une autre facette de la violence sexiste,
conclut le Collectif masculin contre le sexisme, et il est tout
aussi important de s'y opposer en tant que société soucieuse de
justice et de non-violence.
secrétaire du CMCS, au (514) 563-4428 ou avec Nicolas Doyon, au
252-9651.
___________________________________________________________________
QUƒBEC, DEPUIS LE 6 DƒCEMBRE 1989
Ada Burns, A•da El-Tomi, Agnes McCormick-McKenzie, Albina Arbour Cloutier,
Alex Maheux-Royer, Alexandra McBride, Alexandre Blanchette, Alexandre
Riendeau, Alice Beno”t, Alice LŽpine-Reeves, Aline DubŽ, Aloma Potvin,
Alonzo Ortiz, Amanda Huard, AndrŽa GagnŽ, AndrŽe Halpin, Ann Lyons, Ann
Tuyet Nguen, Anna Marden, Anna Yarnold, Anna-Maria Codina-Leva, Anne
Brissette, Anne Laurin, Anne-Marie Edward, Anne-Marie Lemay, Anne-Marie
Morin, Anne-Marie Sharpe, Annick Babin, Annick Gravel, Annie
Dominique-Normandin, Annie St-Arneault, Annie Turcotte, Antoinette Asselin,
Antonia Cantin, Ashley Pluviose, Audrey Danjou-ChrŽtien, Audrey Paquet,
AurŽlie Grimoux, Aurore Tremblay (2), Barbara Daigneault, Barbara Maria
Kluznick, Bee-Leei Meng, BŽatrice Lavoie, Beno”t Marceau, Bercuhi
Leylekoglu, Berta Dimidjan, Berthe Hardy-Blanchette, Binh-Khieu-Thanh Tran,
Bitha Mengo Munsi, Born Samphorn, Brejnev Lee Maynard, Calliope Vournous,
Carmel Louisjeune, Carmen Lagueux, Carmie Jeannot, Carmina Rivas, Carole
Bienvenue, Carole Blanchette, Carole Boisvert, Carole Lachapelle, Carole
Martin, Carole Rajotte, Caroline Guimond, Caroline Landry, Caroline Laniel,
Caroline Poulin, Caroline Veilleux, Carrie Dolores Mancuso, Catherine
Dansereau, Catherine Morin, Cathy Brooks, Cathy Caretta, CŽcile Roy, CŽdric
Alexandre-Scott, CŽdric Bourgeois-Cadieux, CŽline FrŽchette, CŽline
Lemieux-Letendre, CŽline Pearson, CŽline Saint-Amant, Chantal Brire,
Chantal Brochu, Chantal Lavoie, Chantal Tremblay, Charlene McFarlane,
Charles GagnŽ, Chien Chin Wong, Christian Girard, Christiane Asselin,
Christiane Boucher, Christiane Maurice, Christina Deladurantaye, Christina
Mitriou, Christina Palasanu, Christine Dallaire-Labelle, Christine De
Grandmont, Christine Deslauriers, Christine Leclerc, Christine Lessard,
Christine Tremblay, Christophe-Emmanuel Robinson, Cindy Bouchard, Cindy
Faucher, Claire Lafrenire, Claire Samson, Claude Ferron, Claude Julien,
Claude Lecours, Claudette Archambault-Perron, Claudette Servant, Colette
Julien, Cynthia Crichlow, Daniel Desrochers, Danielle AndrŽ, Danielle
Boucher, Danielle Falardeau, Danielle Laplante, Danielle Provost, Danny
Deschamps, Dany Fleurant, David Guillet, David Prieur-Santerre, Deborah Ann
Rothmann, Deilia Tautu, Delima Kopeau, Denise Charron, Denise Martel, Diana
Tautu, Diane Couture, Diane Francis, Diane GŽlinas, Diane Labelle, Diane
Latour, Diane Lavigne, Diane Massicotte, Diane Paquette, Dolores Lijoi,
Donald Desruisseaux, Donna Norris, Dora Psyrris, Dorine Mallette, Dylan
Lebel, Elaine Cormier, Elise Leboeuf, Elizabeth Bernachez-Larocque,
Emmanuella Corso, ƒric Arpin, ƒric Beauvais, ƒric Labonne, Estelle Letendre,
Eva Paradis, Evette Brown-Alliman, Fabian Mitchell, Fanny Kingstone, Fatima
Kama, Florence Bouchard, France Bazinet, France Beauregard, France
LacharitŽ, France Legault, France Pelletier, France Roy, Francine Gouin,
Francine Lacroix, Francine Lefebvre, Francine Turcotte-BŽrard, Francine
Valois, Francine Villeneuve, Francis Boucher, Franois Wistaff, Franoise
Barnes-Carrire, Franoise Beaulieu, Franoise Beaulne, Franoise Lirette,
Frankz Anatole, GaŽtane Saint-Pierre, Gemma Dessureault, Genevive Bergeron,
Genevive Dubois, Genevive Prieur-Santerre, Georges-ƒric Lohier, Georgette
Forget, Germaine Charbonneau, Germaine DŽsilets, Germaine Hebert, Gertrude
Paquin, Ghislaine DubŽ, Ghislaine Gagnon, Gilberte Desalliers, Ginette
Boucher, Ginette Dufresne, Ginette Gaudette, Ginette Gauthier, Ginette
Lamirande-Grenon, Ginette Legault, Ginette Rivard, Ginette Roger, Ginette
Vincent, Gisle C™tŽ, Guylaine Fortin, Guylaine Gent, Guylaine Leblond,
Guylaine Potvin, Hanh Nguyen, HŽlne Colgan, HŽlne Dufresne, HŽlne Farman,
HŽlne Hurtubise, HŽlne Langlais, HŽlne Plante, HŽlne Verreault, Hend
El-Tomi, Hermeline Leblanc-Bourdages, Hortensia Diaz, Huguette
Demers-Paradis, Huguette-Marie Brideau, Ian Lambert-Tourangeau, Ida Rudy
Kramer, ImmaculŽe-Barbara Pierre, Innocent Kastar, Isabelle Bacon, Isabelle
Bolduc, Isabelle Brouillette-Venne, Isabelle Champoux, Isabelle Denis,
Isabelle Rolin, Isabelle Villeneuve, Jacinthe Dufour, Jacqueline Bernard,
Jacqueline Dansereau, Jacqueline Fortin, Jadwiga Lorynski, Jae Woo Hu, Jane
Grefford, Janet Kuchinski, Janette Daigneault, Janie Lefebvre, Jasmine
Mathews, Jayshri Patel, Jea In Hu, Jean-Christophe Roy, Jean-Francois
Leclerc, Jean-Francois Lessard, Jean-Marc Harper, Jean-Philippe Rossignol,
Jean-Vanel PrŽvost, Jeanet Grenier-Lajoie, Jeanne Bouchard, Jeanne
Francoeur, Jeannelle Dumont, Jeannine Boissonneault-Durand, Jeannine
Marineau, JŽr™me FrŽchette-Vachon, JŽr™me Leclerc, JŽr™me Langlois, Jessica
Charbonneau, Jessica Chiasson-Huard, Jessica Lemire-Gagnon, Joan Williams,
Joanna Simolenska-Powada, Joanne Beaudoin, Joanne Foessi, Jocelyn Toope,
Jocelyne Bourbonnais-Delorme, Jocelyne Lemay, Jocelyne Montreuil, Jocelyne
Parent, Jocelyne Plante, Jocelyne Poirier, Jo‘lle Tremblay, Johanne Chalut,
Johanne Godbout, Johanne Guay, Johanne Patenaude, Johanne Plante, Johanne
Renaud, Johanne Saint-ƒloi, Johanne Valade, Joleil Campeau, Jonathan
Beaudin, Jonathan Brodeur, Jonathan Couture, Jonathan Gilbert, JosŽe
Jobidon, JosŽe Mathieu, JosŽe Paquin, JosŽe Pitre, JosŽe Tremblay, JosŽphine
Sberna, Josette Duchesne, Josette Therriault, Josiane Jeannot, Joyce Bond,
Judy Clark, Julie Beauvais, Julie Gendron, Julie Labonne, Justin Langlois,
Juthlande Pierre, Kamalmatie Mulidhar-Janack, Karen Margaret Ann Lewis,
Karina Janveau, Karine Hamel, Karine PagŽ, Karyn Hicks, Kevin Stringer,
Kelly-Lynn Fitzpatrick, Kim Parent, Kristina Blain, Laurette Roy, Laorina
Adriansen, Laurette Jarry, Laurin Lirette, Laurie FrŽchette, Leila El-Tomi,
LŽonie Hanscom-DubŽ, Lijuan Wang, Lina Charron, Linda Borden, Linda
Lafrance, Lise Beaudoin, Lise BŽlisle, Lise Bourgeois, Lise Brisebois, Lise
Cossette, Lise Hardy, Lise Papineau, Lise Raymond, Lise Roberge-Beaudoin,
Lise Verreault-BŽlanger, Lisette Boucher, Lorraine Bourgeois, Lorraine
Keogh, Lorraine Pelletier, Louana Charles, Louise Campbell, Louise De
Prater, Louise Dubreuil, Louise Ellis, Louise Fleury, Louise HŽroux, Louise
Gagnon, Louise Lessard-PichŽ, Louise Macenat, Louise Pageau, Louise
Plante-Ouellet, Louise Prieur-Santerre, Louise Ruel, Louiselle Caron,
Louisette Laflamme, Lucette Boily, Lucette Mageau-Casey, Lucie Brousseau,
Lucie Castonguay, Lucie Dionne, Lucille Gignac-GŽlinas, Lucille Morin, Luis
Antonio Ortiz, Lyane Breault, Lyne Saint-Onge, Lyne Villeneuve, Lynn
LabontŽ, Manon Hamel, Manon Leblanc, Manon Paquin, Manon Trottier, Manuel
Pouw, Marc Falardeau, Marguerite Boka, Marguerite Landry, Marguerite
Paris-Beauregard, Maria Gallo-DubŽ, Maria Susette Lamos, Marie Bourdeau,
Marie Lemay, Marie-Anne Bouffard, Marie-Berthe Marcotte, Marie-Chantale
Desjardins, Marie-Claude C™tŽ, Marie-Eve Larivire, Marie-Ghislaine Charles,
Marie-Jimcia Augustin, Marie-JosŽe Champagne, Marie-Paule Foucault,
Marie-Pier Gauthier, Marie-Pier Joly, Marielle Michaud, Marielle Villeneuve,
Mariette Giroux, Mariette Lacombe, Marilu Ortiz, Marlene Hogue, Marthe
Beaulieu, Martine Auger, Martine Lefebvre, Marwan Harb, Mary Begg, Mary
Glenn, Maryse Charron, Maryse Laganire, Maryse Leclair, Maud Haviernick,
Maxime Ayotte-McPhee, Maxime Raymond, Maxime Giasson Saint-Hilaire, MŽlanie
Cabay, MŽlanie Messier, Mercedes Castellanos, Mercedez Boudu, Michael
Paquette, Michael-StŽphane Jolin, Michel Perreault, Michle Blais, Michle
Richard, Micheline-Ange Charest, Micheline Bond, Micheline Cuerrier,
Micheline Denis, Micheline Dufault, Micheline GrŽgoire-Denis, Micheline
LacharitŽ, Micheline Lapierre, Micheline Leblanc, Micheline SŽvigny,
Michelle RhŽaume, Mikaela Tautu, Milia Abrar, Mina BrascoupŽ-JŽr™me, Ming
Hung Ha, Minnie Kenuajuak, Mireille BŽlanger, Mireille Bruneau, Mo•ra
Fortin, Monique Gaudreau, Monique Saint-Germain, Monique Stocker, Monique
Woods, Mylne Marceau, Myriam ChrŽtien, Myriam Valois, Nadia Marion, Nancy
Guimond, Nancy Lebreux, Nancy Martins, Nancy West, Natasha Alexandre-Scott,
Nathalie Beauregard, Nathalie Chassy, Nathalie Croteau, Nathalie Dallaire,
Nathalie Dumont, Nathalie Jolicoeur, Nathalie LŽvesque, Nathalie Rouleau,
Nelly Bobishe, Nicky Robinson, Nicolas Maloney, Nicole Bloomer, Nicole
DesgagnŽs, Nicole Dubuc, Nicole Franois, Nicole Morrissette, Nicole
Sassoon, Nicole Tremblay, Nora GuitŽ-Bujold, Nuran Demirel Keser, Odette
Dugas, Odette Pinard, Olivette Dupont-Baril, Pascal Poulin, Pascale Lemaire,
Patricia Shandroo, Paula Laviolette, Pauline Berthiaume-Bouthillette,
Pauline Boulet-Bellegarde, Pauline Bourrelle, Pauline Duval, Pearl
Lamarre-Rushford, Pierre-Luc Michaud, Pierre-Luc Rioux, Pierrette Faucher,
Pierrette Garceau, Pierrette Pelletier, Pierrette Plouffe-GuŽnette,
Pierrette Vaillancourt-PŽladeau, Priscilla DŽcarie-Rondeau, Rachel Marcoux,
Raymonde Poulin-Lapointe, Reine Lauzire-PagŽ, RenŽ Lauzon, RhŽa
Landry-Carufel, Rita Houde-Marchand, Rita Tookalook, Roberte MŽnard-Dunn,
Rollande Asselin-Beaucage, Rollande Vincent-Rinfret, Rose LagacŽ, Rosilda
Houle, Roxan Charbonneau, Ruby Ann Poucachiche, Samara Foucault, Samuel
Desormeaux, Samuel Shawn, Sandra Gaudet, Santino d'Intino, Sarah
Dutil-Coculuzzi, Sarah Gagnon, Scott MacCormack, SŽbastien Fugues, Seneca
Lapointe, Shanmatie Dookie, Shaun Birch, Skyler Hallock-Marchand, Solange
Lelivre, Sonia Pelletier, Sonia Raymond, Sophie Champagne, Sophie Gervais,
StŽphane Dion, StŽphane Guimond, StŽphane Houle, Stephanie Pierpaolie, Steve
Trudel, Steven Valentine, Sun Ok Hu, Suzanne BŽdard, Suzanne Bergeron,
Suzanne Chiquelho, Suzanne Grondin, Suzanne Jodoin, Suzanne Lecours, Sylvia
Branco, Sylvie Boucher, Sylvie Chauvin, Sylvie Lefebvre, Sylvie Mireault,
Sylvie Samson, Sylvie ThŽort, Sylvie TŽtreault, Sylvie Viau, Talin
Leylekoglu, Tanya Pinette, Tara Manning, Teresinha Ng, Theresa Shanahan
Litzak, Theresa Luca, ThŽrse Brire, ThŽrse Labelle, ThŽrse Riel, Thong
Van Luangduangsuthidej, Tina Diaz, Tina Laposta, Tobbie Turbide, Travis
Paris, Tricia Shelen Pillingy, Tung Than Nueng, Vicky Michaud, Vicky Parent,
Vicky Paquet, Vicky Roy, Victoire Cossette, Victoria Debes Ghazal, Victor
Lemay, Virginia Pacuraru, Viviane Simoneau, Widad El-Tomi, Wildrine Julien,
Yanne Cornu-Poirier, Yolande Perron, Youlia Ermenlieva, Yvette
Charbonneau-Bonneau, Yvette Groleau-GariŽpy, Yvette Latulippe, Yvette
Martin-Chouinard,
Yvonne Arseneault, Yvonne BŽdard, Yvonne Duchesne, Yvrose Guilloux, au 4
juin 2000.
*Italiques: Enfants et jeunes (123)
Caractres gras: Femmes abattues par un antifŽministe ˆ l'ƒcole
Polytechnique le 6 dŽcembre 1989 (14)
458 femmes tuŽes par un partenaire actuel ou rŽcent, par un client ou un
souteneur, par un fils ou par un violeur, par des cambrioleurs ou par un
antifŽministe armŽ; 123 enfants tuŽEs par un pre, un beau-pre ou un
prŽdateur sexuel. Nous parlons de crimes commis par des hommes en tant
qu'hommes parce qu'il s'agit dans presque tous ces cas, de pouvoir et de
contr™le. L'immense majoritŽ de ces femmes et enfants ont ŽtŽ tuŽes dans un
geste dŽlibŽrŽ, terroriste et essentiellement propriŽtaire, o l'on peut
reconna”tre l'influence et l'appui d'une culture et d'un appareil judiciaire
profondŽment sexistes. Nous travaillons ˆ rŽvŽler ce massacre permanent,
dans le but d'y mettre fin. Il continuera tant qu'on n'aura pas mis fin aux
privilges masculins que cette violence sert ˆ prŽserver. Faites votre part
pour empcher cette liste de s'allonger : confrontez le pouvoir masculin
partout o il s'affiche, y compris au gouvernement, et surtout appuyez ,
financirement ou autrement, votre maison d'hŽbergement pour femmes victimes
de violence conjugale (1-800-363-9010).
Cette liste (partielle) est tenue ˆ jour par le Collectif masculin contre le
sexisme, (418) 524-3254
From: perez@total.net
Subject: EL EZLN PUEDE SER EXTERMINADO EN SEIS HORAS.....
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 14:19:48 -0600 (CST)
From: Guillermo Michel Sinner
To: NUEVO AMANECER PRESS
Tu mensaje me llego por NAP. En mi opinion, lo que resulta
preocupante es que se minimiza lo que puede ocurrir si se extermina a la
comandancia zapatista, a sus 300 tropas de elite y a sus 2000
milicianos..., que segun El Financiero es todo el EZLN...
Creo que pretenden ignorar a las "bases de apoyo" nacionales e
internacionales. Apuestan a que "no pasara nada" si se ejecuta
sumariamente al EZLN (pues, en opinion de Zedillo, "el EZLN no puede
danhar al pais")... En cambio, parece implicar que mucho ayudaria ahogar
en sangre a los zapatistas chiapanecos, para que el y su camarilla
salinista neoliberal puedan seguir danhando impunemente a la mayoria de
los mexicanos, cada dia hundidos mas y mas en la miseria.
Dice "El Financiero": "...militarmente el EZLN no representa
peligro alguno para la elite del Ejercito Mexicano, constituida por
oficiales, jefes y generales {muchisimos de ellos formados y entrenados
en la School of Assassins}, y un ejemplo es que inteligencia militar ha
identificado en dos ocasiones al subcomandanter Marcos vestido de civil
en
san Cristobal de las Casas:
Cuanto anhade "El Financiero" solo pretende mostrar que el EZLN
puede ser exterminado "en seis horas" (al decir de algunos generales)...
Y
tal vez, hasta han calculado una mayor represion y exterminio en zonas
indigenas de Oaxaca, Guerrero, Colima, Puebla, Veracruz... y otros
estados
del pais. Lo que me pregunto es si podran exterminar a 20 millones de
indigenas, dispersos por todo el pais, y que han acompanhado al EZLN
(por
medio del Congreso Nacional Indigena) en su caminar hacia los Acuerdos
de
San Andres, ahora deshonrados por Zedillo con su tristemente famosa
iniciativa de ley que ayer envio al Congreso.
Si bien es cierto que, por un momento pareceria que va a
prevalecer la razon de la fuerza bruta del Poder, tambien es cierto que
la
fuerza de la razon, de la verdad de la historia, acabara prevaleciendo.
Como en la epoca cristiana primitiva, la sangre de los zapatistas -tan
abundantemente derramada- es semilla de zapatistas. A medida que maten
zapatistas, su semilla hara crecer el movimiento zapatista: en Italia,
en
Espanha (oficialmente priista, como dice Darrin Wood), en Francia, y no
se
en cuantos paises mas.
Espero que no sea necesario derramar mas sangre inocente, de
quienes se levantaron en armas para exigir respeto a sus derechos
humanos
fundamentales: pan, tierra, techo, trabajo, salud, libertad, justicia y
democracia. Espero que seamos capaces de detener la "guerra de
exterminio"
(o de baja intensidad, como dice el Manual del Pentagono). Espero que
lleguemos a elevar nuestra voz tan fuertemente, que el estrepito haga
reaccionar a los verdaderos transgresores de la Ley, a quienes todos los
dias, impunemente, violan los derechos humanos de todo el pueblo: en
especial de los mas debiles. Espero..., contra toda esperanza.
ARBOL DE LA ESPERANZA, MANTENTE FIRME
Guillermo
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Accion Zapatista de Austin.
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 09:09:25 -0600
From: Hector Velarde
Subject: [fzln-l] fyi
estuvimos participando en la primera Asamblea Nacional de delegados del
FZLN en Guadalajara, Jalisco.
las mesas. los documentos finales tendran su espacio en la pagina Web del
Frente.
como podamos. en estos dias ha habido muchas malas noticias y no pensamos
que las cosas mejoren. el supremo gobierno presento ya su iniciativa de ley
sobre derechos y cultura indigenas con lo que se da el penultimo paso para
la "solucion" militar del conflicto. lo que sigue es una campa~a todavia
mas fuerte de desprestigio en contra del EZLN y despues una "operacion
quirurgica" en contra de la dirigencia zapatista. ?la fecha? despues de la
"discusion" en el Congreso y antes de la temporada de lluvias en Chiapas;
Semana Santa, por ejemplo.
seguir demandando que el ejecutivo retire su iniciativa y cumpla con los
Acuerdos de San Andres.
Comite Civil de Dialogo "Batallon de San Patricio"
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From: Sam Boskey
Subject: MAI legal challenge
Defence of Canadian Liberty Committee/ Le Comite de la Liberte
Canadienne
B.C. V6B 1H7
THE LEGAL CHALLENGE TO THE MAI: ONGOING DEVELOPMENTS March 12,1998
It is happening! Our committee continues to ready itself for issuing the
writ. Pleas for funds continue and funds continue to come in. We have had
two donations of $5000.00 and one of $500.00. The majority come in at
$100.00, $75.00, $50.00, $40.00, $30.00, $25.00.,$10.00,sometimes $5.00.
Many thanks to all those contributors. We have a donor who will match
every contribution dollar for dollar. We have raised just under
$20,000.00 (which means $40,000.00). We have spent just under $2500.00 on
photocopying, postage, long distance telephoning and faxing, and legal
fees. We need to raise about $100,000.00. We have received considerable
free legal assistance to date. We pay no salaries, nor have any overhead
cost, nor do we pay anyone's expenses to travel, or park, etc. We operate
by volunteers and overhead contributions. We are keeping the money
primarily for legal fees which will begin to be hefty soon.
Cheques and letters and telephone calls come in from all across the
country often with request for information, and always with encouraging
words of support, enthusiasm and gratitude for the effort. People are so
happy this is happening. One general mailout has gone out, but was
incomplete from my growing list because we ran out of volunteers to stuff
envelopes. We try to avoid duplications to people for whom we have a fax
or e mail address. Sometimes we miss people by fax or e mail when a
broadcast gets interrupted or crashes and I do not have the time to check
and resend. Most of our information goes out by fax or e mail or
telephone, which means many people do not get regular updates. A mailout
is expensive and time consuming. Nevertheless we are communicating
reasonably well. I field a lot of telephone calls from all across the
country.
Simultaneously, we along with many others, have been encouraging the
provincial government of B.C. to launch a legal challenge. You will
remember our explanation that a province can get right to the Court of
Appeal of a province by way of reference on a question of law. We hope
the province goes and then we will intervene. But we will be ready to go
it alone if we have to. The fact of our presence and our campaign plays
an important role in the decision making process.
The Province of British Columbia is making encouraging sounds that
suggest a readying for a launch. When Ministers have been asked by the
press if the Province would do a legal challenge to stop the MAI, the
answer is "We are ruling out nothing". A primary official within the
office of Employment and Investment has been speaking at public meetings
explaining the negative effect the MAI would have on the province and
municipalities. He does an excellent job and is well received by the
public.
We have other information that the First Nations are seriously
considering proceeding to a legal challenge. We have information that one
of the most progressive unions is seriously considering backing that
challenge.
It is clear the interest in the legal challenge as a vehicle of primary
import has taken hold.
On March 6 or 7,1998, Premier Clark announced there would be public
meetings on the MAI throughout the province. On March 10,1998, the
Minister of Employment and Investment, Michael Farnworth, presented an
opinion piece in the Vancouver Sun, (which Sergio
Marchi countered the next day.) Farnworth said:
fairly. It would... absolutely prohibit many of the policy tools that
have built our country."..."Governments will simply not be able to
respond to the needs of their citizens as they can now."...If the federal
government proceeds with its threat to bind provincial and local
governments to the global investment pact, it would amount to
an unprecedented roll back of provincial constitutional powers."..."Our
government is determined to fight the MAI and to ally itself with other
governments and citizen organizations to stop this unbalanced and
undemocratic agreement. It is a fight for
job creation, social programs, health care, education and Canadian
culture. It is also a fight for BC sovereignty and the province's ability
to govern the best interest of British Columbians. We can not stand by
and allow these fundamental democratic rights to be taken away through
backroom deals."
"The BC NDP government is now the only holdout to a
full common market within Canada...
... "The MAI is proposed to be an extension of the existing
rules that Canada has made with the USA concerning investments that will
in the future appoy to all OECD countries." (Read FTA and NAFTA)... "THE
MAI statements made by Barlow, Dobbin, Orchard and others are blatantly
untrue, and Barlow's book is so full of distortions that it is worthless.
The disturbing part is that they know their manipulations are untrue or
are close to lies, yet they continue." (Might one ask, "Just who
is the liar?")
Forseth's complaint about the Liberals is that they are very poor
administrators and have not developed the appropriate political mandate
to finalize the MAI. In Marchi's reply to Farnworth on March 11,1998,
Marchi called all criticism of the MAI "myths". Marchi and Forseth have
clearly not read the MAI, or if they did, they are incapable of
comprehending the terms, or they are attempting to play mind games.
Clearly, they know whose side they are on, and it is not ours! Their
squeals indicate the pressure is being felt.
Forseth is right on one point. The BC government stands alone in this
country against the loss of sovereignty. Remember those February 1998
meetings of Ministers and Officials in Ottawa (behind closed doors) on
the MAI and the AIT. Only BC fought the AIT erosion of sovereignty. None
of the other provinces would acknowledge the connection between the AIT
and the MAI and similar agreements. It appears Marchi won over all other
trade ministers re the MAI, despite resolutions in some other
legislatures.
The CLC was holding a convention that same weekend only five minutes away
from the meetings, but failed to see the import of sending a delegation
or demonstration over even for a half hour in support of BC's position.
As citizens, we have to keep the pressure on on all fronts- to thwart the
Federal government's initiative with the MAI, and to encourage and
support direct leadership from those who would be on our side. Remember,
it is our presence and our determination that makes a difference. We must
continue to prepare, be ready to go, and then, go! Remember, the Rae and
Harcourt governments were preparing legal challenges to stop NAFTA and
then folded. Remember, the Solidarity movement in BC shut down the
province and then was derailed by "one of its own".
We will ensure a challenge proceeds and that the Citizens' interest is
presented. Together with the First Nations and a provincial government we
could be a powerful force. But if we have to go it alone, so be it. The
strength will still build, just differently. We are here and we are
moving.
Send your contribution to:
Defence of Canadian Liberty Committee in Trust,
Connie Fogal, Legal Advisor and Treasurer
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everything.
L'ennui en ce monde, c'est que les imbéciles sont sûrs d'eux
et les gens sensés pleins de doutes (Bertrand Russell)
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From: Sam Boskey
Subject: European Parliament against MAI
(10 March 1998) voted for a very critical resolution on the MAI, that
for instance "calls on the parliaments and governments of the Member
States not to accept the MAI as it stands".
Adviser for External Economic Relations
United Left and Nordic Green Lefts Group at the European Parliament
Strasbourg: t=E9l: 33 3 88 17 71 51 fax: 33 3 88 17 91 51
Brussels: t=E9l: 32 2 284 71 51 fax: 32 2 284 91 51
e-mail: pedupret@arcadis.be
Assistent to Wolfgang Kreissl-Doerfer
Green Group in the European Parliament
Brussels: tel: +32 2 284 51 10 fax: +32 2 284 9190
e-mail: email: wkreissl@europarl.eu.int
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
RESOLUTION ADOPTED 10/03/98
conducted in the utmost secrecy, with even the parliaments being excluded,
although transparency and parliamentary supervision in key international
economic issues are of crucial importance for the legitimacy of relevant
international agreements,
MAI on trade, commerce and the labour market or intellectual property
and whereas the compatibility of the MAI with existing environmental,
social and cultural legislation and legislation on intellectual property
rights in the EU, relations with the ACP countries and the EU"s
development policy, and its relationship with international environmental
agreements (MEA), international conventions on intellectual property and
regional agreements (REIO ) have still not been clarified,
parliamentary monitoring of the negotiations being conducted within the
framework of the OECD, bearing in mind that the decisions to conclude an
agreement are a matter for the state and national parliaments, the
European Parliament and the Council;
independent and thorough impact assessment in the social, environmental
and development fields, investigating to what extent the draft MAI is in
conflict with:
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everything.
L'ennui en ce monde, c'est que les imbéciles sont sûrs d'eux
et les gens sensés pleins de doutes (Bertrand Russell)
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From: JGA@eureka.qc.ca (Jean-Guy Aubé)
Subject:
Subject: The Control Game
Cc: Ed Deak
A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR RECOGNIZING POLITICAL/SOCIAL CONTROL TACTICS BY POWER
BROKERS, LARGE CORPORATIONS, PUBLIC RELATIONS FIRMS, AND GOVERNMENT ENTITIES.
Environmental Information Network (EIN), Inc.TM
P.O. Box 280087, Lakewood, CO 80228-0087 -- pelofson@aol.com
Paula Elofson-Gardine, Executive Director/Susan Hurst, Publications Director
Tactic 1 -- Make it impossible for people to be involved: These typical
control tactics set things up so that it's difficult and inconvenient for
interested parties such as the affected public to participate.
Examples:
* Meetings are scheduled at inappropriate locations or times; i.e.,
during regular working hours, highway rush hours, dinner times, or
deliberately conflicting times with similar interest meetings. Strict
meeting "guidelines" and use of question cards discourages real
dialogue and keeps attendees under control.
* Schedule lengthy one-way presentations that will not allow give and
take exchange. This precludes the public (including the press) from
asking questions or clarifications.
* Conveners may insist that all questions be held until the end, by which
time people are tired, the meeting area must be vacated, and the press
has had to leave to meet deadlines.
* Allow the public limited time, and a limited number of questions that
must pertain to their predetermined set of allowable topics; while the
conveners drag out their answers, essentially filibustering away the
rest of the time for the meeting -- and coincidentally time for open
discussion of issues and answers that many attendees showed up for.
* Staff may be trained to be nice, while having been trained to handle
the public by using subtle harassment or baiting techniques, which also
discourages public involvement.
These tactics are used to fulfill requirements for public outreach in order
to legitimize the process. If attendance is sparse it will be blamed on
public apathy, rather than a deliberate effort to exclude public
participation. Reject this pretense for public involvement. Short circuit
this tactic by standing up as a group and announcing an immediate press
conference that will give the press the real story from the citizens outside
of the meeting room or across the street from the building, then get up and
leave as a group. If this is not immediately possible, let the conveners
know that your group will hold its own meeting, protest, and/or press
conference the next morning and will continue to inform the media of their
non-cooperation on these issues.
Tactic 2 -- Divide and Conquer: This is a well-established tactic that
effectively places similar interest groups at odds against each other, when
they would otherwise be a formidable force for bureaucratic responsiveness
and accountability. This tactic uses existing tensions and divisions between
organizations. Name this tactic as soon as you recognize it to short circuit
its effectiveness. Make sure that everyone understands what interests they
share in common, and why it is in their best interest to continue to work
together. A few favorite tactics are described below.
Examples:
* Divide a large issue into many small ones. This forces people and/or
organizations to fight many small battles, dispersing their energies.
Small groups working in isolation of each other may not be as effective
as coordinating efforts to maximize through solid communication and
networking.
* Provide enough resources to cover only part of the problem. This can
include preparing only a few copies of handouts or important documents
so that self-imposed constraints prevent them from being able to
provide x, y, or z service -- while it is obvious that there is plenty
of budgetary allowance for gratuities, amenities, or items that fulfill
their bias or agenda.
* Appoint a committee using key members of the public -- including
appointees with views similar to the convener, funder, or directing
agency to maintain their control of the committee. Their involvement is
then publicly highlighted -- whether or not they attend or participate.
Their names will be used strategically (sometimes in absentia), or
photos are used to imply consent, agreement, or consensus with the
committee -- although they may object or disagree with the viewpoint or
findings of the committee. Citizens (token) used in this manner may or
may not be aware of their names or pictures being used to artificially
lend credibility to the committee or findings in question. In some
cases, they may be unaware that they are considered to be a member of
the committee.
* Many separate tables are used in large banquet or meeting rooms to
break a meeting up into small discussion groups. This effectively keeps
valuable information that would otherwise be revealed in the general
discussion from being heard by the larger group, which would have
enhanced communal brainstorming and questioning of the process or
problem at hand. These small group discussions may then be summarized
and reported back to the larger group. Carefully placed shills or
committee members may serve as group leaders to control group feedback.
This suppresses any controversial discussions that don't fit the
convener's agenda, and inhibits networking or brainstorming on the
issue.
* Seating arranged in "audience fashion" delegates you to a passive role
in these meetings. Short-circuit this by playing Musical Chairs. Insist
that the tables and/or chairs be moved (circle or horseshoe shape) so
that everyone can be an active participant with the conveners or
presenters. Put yourselves at the same level and/or table with the
power brokers so there is no distance to allow them to feel comfortably
in control (no shield). Convert their agenda to your agenda.
* Public relations campaigns (blitzes) into the community will seek out
homeowners associations, service groups, schools, and so on, to present
biased, incomplete, or misleading information to sidestep opposition to
mould and win over public opinion about key issues.
* Conduct private (behind closed-door or impromptu) meetings with civic
groups, government, or public officials (i.e. city council, county
commissioners, etc.) of similar political or philosophical leanings --
without informing citizens or organizations with opposing viewpoints of
these meetings.
* Wrong information regarding time and location is provided -- too late
to be corrected (The scavenger hunt). This ensures that their message
will be presented without all sides of an issue being recognized or
openly discussed.
Tactic 3 -- Pack the Meeting: The power brokers will encourage employees to
attend x, y, or z meeting. They may also establish telephone trees (which we
should be doing) to get employees and supporters to pack a meeting to
simulate public support for their position on an issue, and to set the tone
of the meeting.
* Comment or question cards are used in place of a communal microphone
for participants to go to, so everyone can hear and participate in the
discussion. Their supporters will stack the deck of comment cards with
time wasters, and may continue filling out more cards throughout the
meeting to defuse opposition discussion (see tactic 1 --
filibustering).
Short circuit this by meeting with your neighbors, colleagues, or
constituents for a pre-meeting conference to discuss opposition tactics and
strategy that are barriers to getting your views aired. Come up with your
own list of strategy and critical points, then divide them up among
yourselves. Go to the meeting prepared with fact sheets, questions, and
comments that support your views. Brainstorm with your colleagues, refine
the information, then pass it around the neighborhood, or the target
audience for and after the meeting. Call the tactics as you see them occur
in the meeting to defuse them. Insist on a fair airing of the issues, within
everyone's hearing.
Tactic 4 -- Economic Blackmail: When dealing with politically heated issues,
especially "company town" polluters, the first threat may be that massive
layoffs will occur if they have to: change a process, stop polluting, fix
safety problems, clean up contamination, and so on. This is a Red Herring
scare tactic that should be immediately brought to everyone's attention.
* In 1988, the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Facility (RFP) was faced with
changes that included decommissioning, the contractor threatened
massive layoffs. Economic developers and chambers of commerce predicted
local devastation. To the contrary, the cleanup has been a huge
economical boost for subcontractors and RFP personnel, who have nearly
doubled the numbers of employees that were needed for full production
and chemical recovery of plutonium pits for nuclear warheads.
* Retraining and educational programs have blossomed at local colleges.
The people to watch are the Developers and Chambers, who will attempt
to create new projects, while "dumbing down the workforce" by bringing
in minimum wage workers for cleanup jobs, lay off union people, and
funnel profits to special interest chums. Stay united, call that
tactic, and make them accountable.
No one likes to be picketed, boycotted, or pictured negatively in the press
- - -- these citizen tactics are relatively easy to implement.
Tactic 5 -- Give the appearance of action without doing anything: When faced
with an obvious need for change, bureaucrats may try to give the appearance
of taking action without actually doing anything. These tactics may sound
like this:
* "We have decided to appoint an advisory, special, sub-committee, or
commission to study or handle the problem. We want (or need) members of
our group to volunteer assistance because we do not have money for
staff."
* "Your knowledge, input, or time is so valuable (and so on), we would
like you to help us with x, y, or z to work out solutions" (but they
will fail to assimilate your information, suggestions, or concerns).
* "We would like to help you by doing x, y, or z for you" -- but the
reciprocal help never appears (carrot on the stick).
* "We plan to issue a policy or statement regarding that problem next
week, month, year..., so that everyone will know what to do in the
future..." Beware of bureaucrats stealing your uncompensated time to
tie you up, keeping you out of circulation in the community.
Volunteerism can be abused, becoming a time quicksand.
Don't accept inconsequential actions, excuses, and "donothingitis". Set a
reasonable amount of time for genuine action, and then tell everyone that
you expect action by that date. Think twice before joining "study committees
or advisory groups" that are not policy-changing bodies that have no real
power to do anything about the issue or problem in question, are funded and
directed by your adversary, or by those that represent the other side of
your issue. There may not be an accurate record of what has happened from
the beginning, during, or at the end of these efforts. Refusal to allow the
recording of meetings, or have an accurate paper trail to document important
meetings and proceedings is a serious red flag of cover-ups and problems.
Tactic 6 -- Give them a Red Herring, or Get them to Chase the Wrong Bunny:
This is an issue or information offered to belittle, patronize, or confound
and derail your efforts. When a bureaucrat tries to change the subject from
what you are concerned about to what they want you to focus on, they are
using a "Bait and Switch" routine.
Examples:
* "I don't know what you're talking about; You don't know your facts;
That issue is not important; Why are you interested in that issue?; You
have not done enough research; You aren't an expert; Your issue is
beside the point, irrational, emotional, or not practical; Why don't
you check into, or work on x, y, or z, instead?"
* Engaging attendees in detailed explanations or debates that are
intended to sidetrack the issue of concern, hoping that in the heat of
debate, you will: Give up, get tired, go home, and forget the key
issue.
Be aware of time wasters that will eat up meeting time, and are designed to
wear you down. When confronted with this tactic, don't get side tracked. You
don't have to be an expert to ask questions, ask for information, or to have
legitimate concerns.
Write notes throughout the meeting -- this will help keep you on track.
Stick to the issues you want to discuss, while making a special note to
follow up, or address the other person's issue later, if they genuinely
desire to do so.
Tactic 7 -- Refuse to give out information, or make it impossible to get it:
Bureaucrats plan that this tactic will discourage you, so that you will give
up and go away. The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) format may have to be
invoked to get cooperation. You must know what information you need, what
agency to request it from, and what to look for. The "Key and Lock"
buzzwords and descriptions must be included, or the very information you
seek may be withheld from you.
Examples:
* Bureaucracies protecting damaging information may try to charge
exorbitant fees for information to be searched, copied, and sent to
you. Request fee waivers based upon public interest needs and public
right-to-know laws.
* The requestor may be flooded with huge amounts of useless information
that is out of order and out of date. This is called a data dump in
legal circles. This is a common tactic used by legal rivals on cases to
eat up valuable pre-trial discovery time. It takes a critical eye,
speed reading, and some research or historical knowledge to be able to
weed through the useless information to find what you want.
To deal with the system effectively, you need the facts. If you have the
facts, the system has to deal with you more openly. Democracy depends on
people having the information needed to allow meaningful input and
interaction with the system. The refusal to give out information may sound
like this:
* "We don't have that information; x, y, or z is not in today, and I'm
not authorized to fulfill this request; We can only give out a summary
(They decide what is meaningful, included, excluded, or redacted); Why
do you think that's important?; Justify your interest, or legitimize
your need; We don't think you need that information."
Recognize these tactical phrases meant to put you off the track of the
information you need to level the playing field with your opponent, and
don't accept lame excuses for non-performance or non-compliance.
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STRATEGIES TO SHORT CIRCUIT THE CONTROL GAME
* AS SOON AS A TACTIC HAS BECOME APPARENT, LABEL IT: When you name that
tactic publicly, it loses its power. You can counter these tactics with
a minimum of wasted effort by keeping the lines of communication open
with your colleagues and other similar interest organizations.
* BE OBSERVANT OF INTERACTIONS, TACTICS, AND WHO MAY BE CALLING THE
SHOTS BEHIND THE SCENES: Recognize that although individuals make up
the bureaucracy, they should not be the targets of your efforts.
Evaluate where strategic counter-tactics would be the most effective.
Good mottoes to keep in mind. Always go to the top, and the squeaky
wheel gets fixed.
* DO NOT ALLOW BUREAUCRATIC FIGUREHEADS TO LABEL YOU as a troublemaker,
or as someone with emotional or personal problems (i.e.:
"Psychiatrically" linked to a site or set of issues, don't have a life
because you volunteer a lot of your time, are a paid staffer or
knowledgeable citizen, so your opinion doesn't count, or don't have "x"
number of constituents behind you.) to legitimize side stepping serious
issues and/or your concerns. Be alert to the evaluative patronizing
concern look. This is contrived to give the appearance of questioning
your mental or emotional stability to elicit a reaction. Keep cool and
don't give them the reaction they want from you. Any person might
become dedicated to seeking solutions, and become angry or frustrated
over the distancing treatment bureaucracies and corporations use to
keep the public at arm's length over difficult issues.
* MAKE YOUR ISSUE OR ADVERSARY AN OBJECT OF INTENSE STUDY: Never stop
questioning your previous conclusions about them. Get all the
information you can and keep getting it. Put this information to
productive and meaningful use, then network it around.
* NEVER RELAX AFTER A VICTORY, and don't underestimate the power of
determination.
* RENEW YOUR OWN OUTREACH REGULARLY by having current concerns and
information prepared and ready to distribute at every opportunity. Use
their meetings for opportunities to pass out your own targeted
information. Use several people to see that all attendees end up with
copies of your information. Ask local copiers or businesses to help
duplicate materials.
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens
can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
-- Margaret Mead, Anthropologist
"Ignorance is compounded by the sins of omission." -- Dr. Edward
A. Martell, Radiochemist
Cliff Boldt
Union Bay, BC, Canada
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From: JGA@eureka.qc.ca (Jean-Guy Aubé)
Subject: Mai from Monetary reform mag
(A Guest Column from the pages of Monetary Reform)
MAI
A foreign takeover bid?
You bet!
The Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), if signed, will severely
limit the ability of our
government to govern our nation in the public's best interests. That is
perfectly clear to me now,
after researching this double-issue of Monetary Reform over the past few
months.
What's most curious about this MAI treaty is why our government is so
anxious to sign it and give
up so many rights to foreign investors. You have to ask yourself, "What's
in it for the
government?" The MAI is nothing but 'rights' for the foreign investors and
'responsibilities' for
national governments (who supposedly represent 'us'). For example, foreign
investors would be
able to sue us, but we wouldn't be able to sue them. We would have to pay them
to stop polluting
in our back yard, instead of them paying us. For some reason, our
government is willing to bind us
to a treaty that limits 'our' options and maximizes 'theirs'. Do they have
their heads screwed on
right ? Or is this a case of 'gross misrepresentation' ?
To get an idea of what the government's line is on this, all you have to do
is listen to Sergio Marchi,
our Minister of Foreign Trade who is pushing the MAI. In an interview with
CBC TV (which
appears later on in the magazine) Marchi explained who will decide the fate
of Canada:
"Canadians will decide. They won't decide based on what Sergio Marchi says.
They will decide
based on what they feel as a share- holder of this great public company
called 'Canada'. They know
that their public company has to trade internationally, has to trade on the
investment side. They
know our public company has to get out there with the best of them, and
we're trying to facilitateour best interests. They are the shareholders. We're
just the board of directors. You know how quickly we come and go."
If Canada is no more than a 'public company', then as shareholders I think
we'd better wake up.
The current 'Board of Directors' is up to no good. They are either totally
inept or traitors to the
citizens of this great country. The reason I say that is two-fold. Firstly,
if you haven't been
following the monetary reform debate at all, then you won't realize that
our money supply has been
almost entirely privatized by our current (and past) 'Boards of Directors'
with only a small fraction
of the public even knowing it, much less understanding the implications.
As bizarre as it may seem, the government has been borrowing money
unnecessarily from the
private sector since at least 1934, resulting in a staggering illegitimate
debt of $600 billion. G.G.
McGeer, a young Vancouver lawyer, pointed this out to a federal Banking &
Commerce Committee meeting way back in 1934. He went to great lengths to
demonstrate to the committee that the nation's prime asset, the money supply,
had, in fact, been secretly privatized by the commercial bankers. The highlight
of the committee hearings came when McGeer asked what some call "the Towers'
Question" to the then Governor of the Bank of Canada, Graham Towers: "Will you
tell me why a government with the power to create money, should give that power
away to a private monopoly [of bankers] and then borrow that which Parliament
can create itself, back at interest, to the point of national bankruptcy?"
Towers replied, "Now if Parliament wants to change the form of the banking
system, then certainly this is within the power of Parliament."
Obviously, our Parliament hasn't had the political will to do so for over
64 years, despite McGeer's
plea and that of the late great Canadian economics professor John H. Hotson
who repeatedly spelt out the cardinal rule of national finance: "No sovereign
government should ever, under any circumstances, borrow money from commercial
banks at interest, when it can, instead, borrow from its own central bank
interest free."
The second reason I say that our government is either totally incompetent
or is composed of a bunch
of thieving pirates is the claim they continually make that globalization,
further trade liberalization,
privatization and foreign investment are all "good" for Canada. Really ?
Take a look at some of the startling statistics that Mel Hurtig has unearthed
in an article which appeared on February 5,
1998, in The Globe and Mail, entitled: "How much of Canada do we want to
sell?"
"... In 1997, 97.5 per cent of the $21.2 billion (of foreign investment in
Canada) went for acquisitions, and a meagre 2.5 per cent constituted new
foreign business investment."
And on top of that ...
"... From 1985 to 1996, some 65 per cent of foreign takeovers here were
financed in Canada."
For those two reasons, I am convinced that the 'Board of Directors' that is
running this country is either 'out to lunch' or it has been bought and paid
for by those same foreign corporations described above.
If, indeed, 'we' are the "shareholders of Canada", as Minister Marchi says,
then I suggest 'we'
snap out of it and do something right away to stop this foreign takeover
bid - of the kind that
visited Cambridge, Ontario last year when Nike bought Eddie Bauer's. The
pattern is becoming
more and more familiar: Nike bought the company, stole the technology,
closed it down and put
hundreds of Canadians out of work. Nike moved production to Malaysia and
left "us" to pick up
the pieces ! How's that for "healthy" foreign investment, Minister Marchi ?
And you want to open our doors to more corporate investors ?!
As a friend of mine, Derrell, keeps asking: "If you were a businessperson
and were asked if you
would sign a deal that: 1. limited your options and 2. tied you in for 20
years, what would you say
to it ?" "No way ! That's just plain bad business."
So then, we have to ask ourselves once again: "What's in it for the
government?" It's probably a
simple case of, "He who pays the piper, calls the tune !" In fact, it must
be that our government is
being heavily lobbied by foreign transnational corporations to sign this
treaty for 'their' benefit and
at 'our' expense. If so, then it's obvious that the current "Board of
Directors" of "Company
Canada" aren't acting on 'our' behalf at all. And therefore they should all
be fired and charged with gross misrepresentation, fraud and treason.
The truth of the matter is nicely summed up by Paul Hellyer, former deputy
Prime Minister under Trudeau. He should know what he's talking about, because
he's been there:
"Globalization is not about trade. It is about power and control. It is the
reshaping of the world into one without borders ruled by a dictatorship of the
world's most powerful central banks, commercial banks and multinational
companies. It is an attempt to undo a century of social progress and to alter
the distribution of income from inequitable to inhuman. Gold will be the
absolute monarch and goodness a mark of disloyalty."
We should take Sergio Marchi up on his suggestion that 'we' be the ones to
decide the fate of Canada and not 'them'. However, I don't think there is
enough time for us to wait for the next election. The fox is in the hen house
and having a field day. The time to act is now!
A foreign takeover is imminent with the signing of this MAI, but most
Canadians aren't even aware of it. We must wake them up and together prepare to
resist it in whatever non- violent way we can.
As Mahatma Gandhi might have said in our situation [paraphrased from the movie
'Gandhi' by Richard Attenborough]:
"Non-co-operation has one aim - the overthrow of the government. Sedition
must become our creed. We must give no quarter, nor can we expect any. ... To
this day, I believe non-co-operation with evil is a duty and that [corporate]
rule of [Canada] is evil."
Well then, Godspeed to all citizens in all countries campaigning to 'STOP
the MAI'.
One word of warning, though: Don't be fooled by the recent news that the
United States, or for that matter any country, won't be signing the MAI. It
could be a ruse. We heard the same story back in 1987 when the Americans
refused to budge on certain trade issues just before signing the Free
Trade Agreement. It is only meant to demobilize opposition - lull us back into
a false sense of security
- - so the negotiators can get the deal done without us stirring up any more
opposition.
It may sound like what we are trying to do here is next to impossible. But
as Albert Einstein once said,
"It's fun doing the impossible."
Enjoy !
Ian Woods - - Editor, Monetary Reform Magazine
From: JGA@eureka.qc.ca (Jean-Guy Aubé)
Subject: OCAP NEWS
News Bulletin 4 March 1998
GOOD NEWS........!!!!!!!
Trespassing charges against 19 OCAP members dropped.
Criminal charges against John Clarke, OCAP Provincial
Organizer, and 5 other OCAP members were reduced.
BAD NEWS.........!!!!!!!
We did not get the chance to make our argument that,
under section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and
Freedoms, the constitutional right to shelter takes
precedence over any property rights of the owner of an
unused apartment building and that the Trespass Act
cannot be enforced against homeless people attempting
to establish residence in abandoned apartment buildings.
OCAP was prepared to present evidence from a number of
expert witnesses on issues of housing, homelessness, the
constitution and international law.
The courtroom overflowed with defendants and about 100
supporters, squeegee kids, street people and friends,
including Jean-Claude Parrot, vice-president of the
Canadian Labour Congress and media.
The proceedings were delayed and delayed again because
the crown attorney "could not locate the (witness) police
officers." Finally the trespassing charges against 19
of us were dropped. The judge seemed to be quite
sympathetic to us and did not seem to allow the crown
too much leeway.
It is not clear to me at the moment what the criminal
charges, against 6 people, were reduced to. But they
may have been reduced to charges of "mischief."
On the new trial date, October 26, we shall have 3
days to argue our charter challenge case and present
our expert witnesses.
OCAP's Charter Challenge is based, in part, on UN
agreements, as well as the Canadian constitution,
including the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Canada's compliance with these international agreements
will be reviewed in November 1998 by the UN Committee on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
OCAP will call, in October, as an expert witness, at least
one Canadian expert who is expected to submit evidence to
that UN committee in November 1998.
Documents available by email from bobolsen@arcos.org:
OCAP\argumentoutline 9 K
UN\comment422 K
UN\comment722 K
UN\canadareview9311 K
The most important documents are the 1993 UN review of
Canada's compliance with these international agreements
and the outline of our lawyers' argument.
From: Sam Boskey
Subject: MAI - Monetary Reform Magazine
(A Guest Column from the pages of Monetary Reform)
The Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), if signed, will severely
limit the ability of our
government to govern our nation in the public's best interests. That is
perfectly clear to me now,
after researching this double-issue of Monetary Reform over the past few
months.
anxious to sign it and give
up so many rights to foreign investors. You have to ask yourself, "What's
in it for the
government?" The MAI is nothing but 'rights' for the foreign investors and
'responsibilities' for
national governments (who supposedly represent 'us'). For example, foreign
investors would be
able to sue us, but we wouldn't be able to sue them. We would have to pay
them to stop polluting
in our back yard, instead of them paying us. For some reason, our
government is willing to bind us
to a treaty that limits 'our' options and maximizes 'theirs'. Do they have
their heads screwed on
right ? Or is this a case of 'gross misrepresentation' ?
is listen to Sergio Marchi,
our Minister of Foreign Trade who is pushing the MAI. In an interview with
CBC TV (which
appears later on in the magazine) Marchi explained who will decide the fate
of Canada:
They will decide
based on what they feel as a share- holder of this great public company
called 'Canada'. They know
that their public company has to trade internationally, has to trade on the
investment side. They
know our public company has to get out there with the best of them, and
we're trying to facilitate
our best interests. They are the shareholders. We're just the board of
directors. You know how
quickly we come and go."
we'd better wake up.
The current 'Board of Directors' is up to no good. They are either totally
inept or traitors to the
citizens of this great country. The reason I say that is two-fold. Firstly,
if you haven't been
following the monetary reform debate at all, then you won't realize that
our money supply has been
almost entirely privatized by our current (and past) 'Boards of Directors'
with only a small fraction
of the public even knowing it, much less understanding the implications.
unnecessarily from the
private sector since at least 1934, resulting in a staggering illegitimate
debt of $600 billion. G.G.
McGeer, a young Vancouver lawyer, pointed this out to a federal Banking &
Commerce Committee
meeting way back in 1934. He went to great lengths to demonstrate to the
committee that the
nation's prime asset, the money supply, had, in fact, been secretly
privatized by the commercial
bankers. The highlight of the committee hearings came when McGeer asked
what some call "the
Towers' Question" to the then Governor of the Bank of Canada, Graham Towers:
give that power away
to a private monopoly [of bankers] and then borrow that which Parliament
can create itself, back at
interest, to the point of national bankruptcy?"
system, then certainly
this is within the power of Parliament."
64 years, despite McGeer's
plea and that of the late great Canadian economics professor John H. Hotson
who repeatedly spelt
out the cardinal rule of national finance: "No sovereign government should
ever, under any
circumstances, borrow money from commercial banks at interest, when it can,
instead, borrow
from its own central bank interest free."
or is composed of a bunch
of thieving pirates is the claim they continually make that globalization,
further trade liberalization,
privatization and foreign investment are all "good" for Canada. Really ?
Take a look at some
of the startling statistics that Mel Hurtig has unearthed in an article
which appeared on February 5,
1998, in The Globe and Mail, entitled: "How much of Canada do we want to sell?"
Canada) went for
acquisitions, and a meagre 2.5 per cent constituted new foreign business
investment."
financed in Canada."
running this country is
either 'out to lunch' or it has been bought and paid for by those same
foreign corporations described
above.
then I suggest 'we'
snap out of it and do something right away to stop this foreign takeover
bid - of the kind that
visited Cambridge, Ontario last year when Nike bought Eddie Bauer's. The
pattern is becoming
more and more familiar: Nike bought the company, stole the technology,
closed it down and put
hundreds of Canadians out of work. Nike moved production to Malaysia and
left "us" to pick up
the pieces ! How's that for "healthy" foreign investment, Minister Marchi ?
And you want to open
our doors to
more corporate investors ?!
and were asked if you
would sign a deal that: 1. limited your options and 2. tied you in for 20
years, what would you say
to it ?" "No way ! That's just plain bad business."
government?" It's probably a
simple case of, "He who pays the piper, calls the tune !" In fact, it must
be that our government is
being heavily lobbied by foreign transnational corporations to sign this
treaty for 'their' benefit and
at 'our' expense. If so, then it's obvious that the current "Board of
Directors" of "Company
Canada" aren't acting on 'our' behalf at all. And therefore they should all
be fired and charged with
gross
misrepresentation, fraud and treason.
Prime Minister under
Trudeau. He should know what he's talking about, because he's been there:
reshaping of the world into
one without borders ruled by a dictatorship of the world's most powerful
central banks, commercial
banks and multinational companies. It is an attempt to undo a century of
social progress and to alter
the distribution of income from inequitable to inhuman. Gold will be the
absolute monarch and
goodness a mark of disloyalty."
decide the fate of
Canada and not 'them'. However, I don't think there is enough time for us
to wait for the next
election. The fox is in the hen house and having a field day. The time to
act is now!
Canadians aren't even aware
of it. We must wake them up and together prepare to resist it in whatever
non- violent way we can.
As Mahatma Gandhi might have said in our situation [paraphrased from the
movie 'Gandhi' by
Richard Attenborough]:
must become our
creed. We must give no quarter, nor can we expect any. ... To this day, I
believe non-co-operation
with evil is a duty and that [corporate] rule of [Canada] is evil."
the MAI'.
United States, or for that
matter any country, won't be signing the MAI. It could be a ruse. We heard
the same story back in
1987 when the Americans refused to budge on certain trade issues just
before signing the Free
Trade
Agreement. It is only meant to demobilize opposition - lull us back into a
false sense of security
- - so the negotiators can get the deal done without us stirring up any more
opposition.
as Albert Einstein once
said,
Ian Woods - - Editor, Monetary Reform Magazine
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