What is the SPP? Teach-in and Discussion
What is the SPP?
A talk by members of the PGA Bloc – Ottawa
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Sunday, Aug 12, 2007 @ 1:30pm
Jack Purcell Community Centre – 320 Jack Purcell Lane (off Elgin near Gilmour)
Pay What You Can
Wheelchair Accessible
Child -friendly
Contact: a_ottawa@mutualaid.org
http://adg.roadnetwork.org/
On August 20-21, 2007, President Bush and his “partners�, including Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Prime Minister Harper of Canada, will once again be meeting behind closed doors, this time at Chateau Montebello, to discuss their Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP).
The “three amigos� will be meeting with senior executives from big business of the North American Competitiveness Council that control the war (Lockheed Martin), energy (Chevron, Suncor), telecommunications (BCE), railways (KCS, CN), media (Power Corp),
postal services (FedEx, UPS), forestry (Canfor), banking (Bank of Nova Scotia) and insurance (Manulife) industries, to name a few.
You’re not invited.
This latest model, the SPP, can be summed up as “NAFTA-plus-Homeland-Security�. It will secure additional prosperity� for those already benefiting both directly and indirectly from Bush and Harper’s war agenda (be it war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti, Columbia or here at home against First Nations), at the expense of the insecurity and impoverishment of the rest of us. This model is reflected in the spread of Bush’s Homeland Security agenda into Canada (e.g. no-fly lists on airplanes, “safe third country� deportation policies for migrants, etc.), and in forcing concessions on workers in Canada, US and Mexico in the name of “competitiveness�.
All are welcome. Accessible! Child-friendly!
Contact a_ottawa@mutualaid.org for more information.
http://adg.roadnetwork.org/