DERAIL THE SPIRIT OF THE OLYMPIC SPIRIT TRAIN
ALL OUT ON OCTOBER 13 - THANKSGIVING MONDAY

MEET AT 12NOON !SHARP!
CORNER OF FRONT AND BAY/YORK (south-west corner)
FREE TRANSPORTATION
EMAIL NOONEISILLEGAL@RISEUP.NET FOR SEAT CONFIRMATION
OR AT COOKSVILLE STATION AT 1PM

On October 13, 2008, the CPR (Canadian Pacific Railway)'s 'SpiritTrain' will be arriving at Cooksville GO Transit Station in Mississauga, here to continue its goal of spreading pre-Olympic "spirit".

The Vancouver Winter Olympics 2010 are appropriating indigenous land, marginalizing the urban poor and exploiting migrant workers.

The 2010 Olympics spirit that this train carries is a spirit of racism and corporate greed. This spirit has met with opposition in each of its stops across the country.

This spirit of oppression needs to be met with our spirit of resistance.

When it stops in Mississauga, come out with pots, pans, whistles, flags and placards. As most of Canada gives thanks for the ongoing genocide of indigenous peoples on Turtle Island, we urge all allies to mobilize their communities to disrupt the Spirit Train in solidarity with the call for Indigenous sovereignty.

To confirm a spot or to share your solidarity, please email
nooneisillegal@riseup.net before Sunday, 12 October.

NO OLYMPICS ON STOLEN NATIVE LAND!

For further information, see: http://no2010.com/node/18

GATHERING OF MOTHER EARTH PROTECTORS

Sovereignty Sleepover: Toronto, Queen’s Park May 26th – May 29.

Rally: Queen’s Park May 26th, 5 p.m. – dusk.

Respect the right of First Nations to say no to economic exploitation and environmental destruction.
No jail for saying no.
Free Bob Lovelace and the KI Six.

On May 26th Indigenous communities and our supporters will gather at Queen’s Park to uphold our duty to protect the land, forest, water, and air and to promote respect for our Indigenous rights to say no to economic exploitation and environmental destruction. It is time to end the jailing and harassment of our people for protecting mother earth and traditional ways. Please come to our large rally on May 26th at the legislature. We are also inviting supporters to join us in four days of ceremony, speakers, workshops, music, and a three night sovereignty sleep-over directly on the front lawn of the legislature.

Right now Indigenous communities across Ontario are taking a stand to assert our right to protect our traditional territories and the future of our peoples. Our communities are peacefully protesting destructive industrial projects that the government is permitting on our traditional lands without community consent.

'Hands off Haiti' CD release party
featuring
The IMF & Rez Villain
Friday, Jan 25th @ Ginger's Tavern, Halifax
$5 at the door, or free if you buy a CD.
The show is a release party for the 'Hands off Haiti' hip-hop CD compilation. The CD is a project of the Canada Haiti Action Network and features some of the top hip-hop and urban artists in Canada including DL Incognito, Mood Ruff, LAL, the Dope Poet Society, EMC and the Legendary Haitian Folk singer, So Ann Auguste.

Funds raised from the CD will go to support human rights organizations working in Haiti.

This event is brought to you by Haiti Action Halifax with much support from CKDU Radio

More info:
www.myspace.com/handsoffhaiti
www.thac.ca
www.canadahaitiaction.ca

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On the last Friday of every month,
the Toronto Women's Bookstore donates
10% of sales to a selected community group.

In the past, they have supported organizations
including the South Asian Women's Centre, the
Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, Wen Do Women's
Self-Defense Corp., Voices of Positive Women,
the Triangle Program, the Black Coalition for
AIDS Prevention, the Native Women's Resource Centre,

*Please forward*
Upping the Anti Launch Party

*Celebrate MayDay with Upping the Anti! *
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Join us to celebrate the release of Issue 4!
on Tuesday May 1
8:30PM
Smiling Buddha Bar
961 College Street (west of Dovercourt)

Admission: $7 with journal ($5 without journal)

*Premier viewing of /"Shway Shway - /Video Excerpts from a Trip to
Lebanon" by Sarolta Camp.
*With DJing from DJ Miss Ruckus and Big Eva Edna

Public Forum: Showdown in Germany: Resistance to the G8 Continues
Thursday, April 19

Although the North American anti-globalization movement was displaced on the world stage by post-September 11 warmongering, the movement in Europe has continued to evolve and gain momentum.

This year, during the first week of June, the G8 leaders will meet for a nice cup of tea in the German resort of Heiligendamm, close to Rostock. To guarantee the security of their meeting, the superpowers will surround the resort with a 2-meter tall and 13-kilometer long security fence. The base of the fence will be sunk 1 meter deep into the ground. In total, they will invest 12.5 million Euros in barbed wire and cement.

When Mass Murder Starts in Your Own Backyard:
Wescam, L-3 Communications Canada, and The Blood on Canada's Corporate Doorstep

It appears that Canadian technology built in Burlington, Ontario,
contributed to another cowardly act of mass murder from the skies last
month. Some 80 Pakistani school kids, most under the age of 15, were
murdered October 30 when, according to numerous on-the-ground reports, an

The Women's Coordinating Committee Chile-Canada Presents:
FROM ARAUCO TO CALEDONIA - ONLY STRUGGLE WILL SET US FREE!

A political-cultural event of solidarity with Six Nations, uniting the indigenous struggles of historic bravery and courage with the Mapuche peoples in southern Chile.

Featuring Music, Poetry, Speech and FOR THE FIRST TIME in TORONTO, the exclusive premier of the MAPUCHE documentary, directly from Chile: "THE PILLAGING: THIS LAND IS OURS" (English subtitles included). Read more for details...

Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA) invites you to...
From Palestine to Lebanon: Public forum and film screening

Friday, August 25, 2006 @ 7pm (Free!!!!)
100 St. George Street (Sidney Smith Hall)

Report backs from Palestine and Lebanon by:
-Sawsan Kalache (Tadamon, Montreal)
-Stefan Christoff (Electronic Intifada, Montreal)
-Ahmad Shokr (Arab Students' Collective)

-AND-

featuring a special screening of Randa Chahal Sabbag's critically acclaimed film "SOUHA SURVIVING HELL"

August 8th – August 13th, 2006
August 10th, 2006 marks the 31st Anniversary of Prisoners Justice Day.

PJD began in 1975 in Millhaven Penitentiary (Kingston, ON) to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of Eddie Nalon, a prisoner in segregation awaiting medical assistance. It has since become an internationally observed event. This year in Toronto we've come together to plan Prisoners Justice Week - six days of cultural events, demos and workshops.

Read more for a full schedule...

MASS RALLY & MARCH
Saturday, August 12, 1:00pm
Israeli Consulate
180 Bloor Street West (west of Avenue Road, north side of Bloor)

March to U.S. Consulate
360 University Avenue (east of University, south side of Armoury)

and

HOSTAGES OF APARTHEID - A fundraiser in solidarity with Palestinian and Lebanese political prisoners
Friday, August 11, 6:00pm
Steelworkers Hall, 33 Cecil (near College and Spadina)

Read more for details...

Israel out of GAZA! WEST BANK! LEBANON! SYRIA! Don't attack IRAN!

1) EMERGENCY PUBLIC MEETING: Monday, July 17
Steelworkers' Hall, 33 Cecil Street

2) MASS RALLY: Saturday, July 22
Israeli Consulate, 180 Bloor Street West

Read more for details...

WHEN: Friday, June 23, 2006, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
WHERE: Ryerson Auditorium L-72, Ryerson University, Podium Building (adjacent to Jorgenson Hall), 350 Victoria Street (off Gould Street, just East of Yonge)

ORGANIZERS: Community Initiative for Human Rights and Justice - a grassroots coalition of social activists, human rights lawyers, academics, trade unionists, students and others.

The recent arrests of 17 young Muslim men, the mass arrests of about a 100 African-Canadian men (many were later released without charge), and the ongoing attacks on Indigenous communities bring to a head many questions about racial/cultural profiling, protection of fundamental human rights and liberties of marginalized groups, and concerns about the criminalization of dissent.

Join the rally on Wednesday June 21 in Toronto.

The Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (Big Trout Lake) First Nation is being
sued for more than $10 billion by a Canadian mining company, Platinex
Inc., because they have made a stand to protect their treaty and
aboriginal rights pending resolution of their legal dispute with the
federal and provincial governments. Despite the community consensus
against the project, the mining company attempted to proceed with
mineral exploitation but were blocked by the community. The company is
now seeking a court order to proceed regardless, and claiming $10
billion in damages from this First Nation.

I am sure you are now ALL aware of the unrest going on in the Six Nations
Territory, and what they are trying to accomplish in Caledonia.

I, David R. Maracle from the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, am a First
Nations Artist and Musician, and want to show support. I am calling all my
fellow Aboriginal musicians, entertainers and artists to band together to
show OUR support, and give back to OUR communities, and do a Benefit

From COINTELPRO to the PATRIOT Act:

Liberation Movements & the Fight Against State Repression

Saturday, May 13th, 2006 at 6:30pm

Toronto Reference Library Auditorium

789 Yonge St. (Just north of Bloor on the east side of Yonge)

SIX NATIONS SUPPORT RALLY TO CELEBRATE A VICTORY!


Indian Affairs Minister Jim Prentice has cancelled his participation in a debate on "Aboriginal Self Government"


6:30pm, Friday April 28th, Kings College Circle (in the field surrounded by U of T buildings, North West of the College & University intersection.)


Bring your drums!

1. Grassroots Women Press Release

2. Invitation to Upcoming Anti-Imperialist Conference in Vancouver

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1. For immediate release: April 12th, 2006

Press release: Grassroots Women

Politicians Should “Take Note”: Canadian Troops Will Not Bring Peace to
Afghanistan

(Vancouver, Canada) - Monday’s “take note” parliamentary debate on Canada’s
military mission in Afghanistan did not advance the cause of peace or women’

===== Introduction =====

In April, 5 years will have passed since the Summit of the Americas took
place in Quebec City. For many, this was a flashpoint, the culmination
of an exciting and focused burst of energy that has come to be known as
the anti-Globalization movement. For others, Quebec was an eye-opening
week of confrontation with police, the state, and the emerging Global
Corporate Governance structure embodied in the WTO, OAS, IMF, and World

A Public Forum on Iraq, the US Army, and the anti-war Movement with Former US Army Reserve Specialist and Abu Ghraib witness, Aidan Delgado, and US War Resister, Joshua Key.

When: Saturday 1 April, 6:30pm
Where: University of Toronto Bahen Center, 40 St. George Street, Room 1130
Admission is Free

*What is the real story of what happened at Abu Ghraib?
*What is the situation of the US military currently in Iraq?
*How are US soldiers opposed to the war organizing among returned veterans and the broader anti-war movement?
*How can we strengthen solidarity with US war resisters seeking asylum in Canada?

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a historian and long time feminist, anarchist and social justice
activist. Her newly published book, Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the
Contra War, is the third book in a historical/literary memoir series
that began with the publication of Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie (1997)
followed by Outlaw Woman: Memoir of the War Years, 1960-1975. Blood on
the Border tells the story of the US sponsored war and its effects on
the indigenous peoples of Nicaragua and the rest of the Americas.

SATURDAY, MARCH 18TH 8 P.M.
MUSIC - DANCE - SINGERS- SPEAKERS AND FOOD
STEELWORKERS Hall - 25 CECIL STREET.

PERFORMANCES BY: Faith Nolan & the Women of Colour Singing Group, Santos Molina (Salvadorian), Riki (Filipinos), Chilean Singers and DJ No Capitalista

SPEAKERS: Lawyer Raoul Boulakia, Amparo Torres, No One is Illegal, Committee to Support Amparo's Rights, and others.

(Vancouver, Canada) This March, a Vancouver-based women's advocacy groupcontinues the tradition of International Women's Day to acknowledge thecritical role of women in building a movement for genuine freedom and peace.

Grassroots Women will host two events welcoming women, children, and men to
examine the theme of “Building Anti-Imperialist Solidarity: Towards a Just and Lasting Peace”: a daylong conference on March 5th as well as a march and rally on March 8th.

Toronto's Prisoner's Justice Action Committee presents
The Second Annual
Prisoner's Justice Film Festival
February 23-26, 2006

This event is generously supported by the Social Justice Cluster,
University of Toronto

The first Toronto Prisoner's Justice Film Festival was held in January
of 2005 and drew hundreds of community members, abolitionists, youths,
activists, students, educators, artists, ex-prisoners, family members
and allies from across Ontario. This year's festival will build on the
first, as we work to build a movement that challenges the
prison-industrial complex, and demands justice, not jails.

12:00 Noon on Feb 14th -
Toronto Police Headquarters -
40 College Street at Bay

February 14th is the day Vancouver's downtown eastside community has remembered their missing for the past 15 years - over 60 women have disappeared or died violent deaths in the neighbourhood in the past 20 years.

We wish to express our solidarity with the people of the downtown eastside as well as call attention to the fact that Native women are not safe anywhere in canada. Hundreds of Native women have gone missing or been murdered from B.C. to Nova Scotia in the past 20 years. Many of their cases remain unsolved and too often no police investigation has ever been conducted. Family members seeking help are met with disinterest and racism.

Support these actions being organized by No One Is Illegal and Toronto
Action for Social Change:

A Vote for Volpe is a Vote for Torture;
A Vote for Volpe is a Vote Against Amnesty for Undocumented Immigrants;
A Vote for Volpe is a Vote for Detentions and Deportations of Immigrants and Refugees;

A Vote for Volpe is a Vote for Business as Usual - the Denial of Rights for Immigrants and Refugees!

Public forum:
Thursday, November 10th, 7:30pm
Rogers Communication Centre, Ryerson University
80 Gould Street, Room 204 (near Dundas subway station)

Demonstration during Sharon's Speech:
Monday, November 14th, 7:00pm
Metro Hall Square (King and John Streets, near St. Andrew subway)

Read more below for more info on both...

Immediate Action in Toronto
MEET AT CITY HALL (Queen and Bay)
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 8, 2 NOON

REVERSE THE POLICY - RAISE THE RATES!

We have just gotten word that the special diet program has been slashed
--effective immediately--for everyone in the Province on Ontario. On
Friday the Provincial Government quietly changed the law for everyone on
welfare and ontario disability who is trying to get the special diet. The
new policy they have come out with means that they now have a specific
list of medical conditions that are worth different dollar amounts (e.g.
cancer, diabetes etc..)

Satan Macnuggit Popular Arts presents
RECAP: Video images of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty

DVD RELEASE PARTY
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 9 PM
THE CAMERON HOUSE, 408 QUEEN ST. WEST
$5 suggested donation/free with DVD purchase

Satan Macnuggit Popular Arts is proud to announce the release of the new DVD compilation RECAP: Video Images of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty - debuting at the Cameron House on Thursday, November 3.

This two-hour set takes "video activism" to a new level. On a single disk it highlights a full decade of work by one of Canada's most renowned and contentious social justice groups, the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty.