File spoon-archives/aut-op-sy.archive/aut-op-sy_1997/97-01-19.114, message 29


Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 13:21:18 -0800
From: squert-AT-sirius.com (Max Anger)
Subject: Re: Active Resistance in Vancouver (fwd)


Much as I appreciate the intentions of the poster, the fact that by posting 
every notice of every radical group here, you make the list unuseable for 
any specific purpose. 

It's odd in a sense that the growth of E-mail radicalism seems to result in 
radicalism being restricted to those able to spend 16 hours/day on the web.
I suppose this is the "quality/quantity" dialectic rearing it's head in a 
rather ugly way. I don't know what to do about it, really.

At 08:38 AM 1/9/97, aut-op-sy-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU wrote:
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 22:01:25 -0800 (PST)
>From: Jaggi Singh <jbsingh-AT-unixg.ubc.ca>
>To: sovernet-l-AT-speakeasy.org
>Subject: Active Resistance in Vancouver
>
>... A Call for Solidarity and Action ...
>
>JOIN ACTIVE RESISTANCE
>Vancouver Tent City
>January 7th-10th, 1997
>
>Rally and Set-up: Tuesday, January 7th, 12:30pm
>Outside Waterfront Skytrain Station Entrance (foot of Howe Street)
>
>Had enough of the neo-liberal agenda? Are you fed up with "free" trade? 
>Tired of corporate media complicity with big business and government? Get
>involved in the Active Resistance Tent City ... 
>
>Individuals and groups in Vancouver are planning a tent city between
>January 7th to 10th, 1997, and need your help. Our "Active Resistance
>Zone" will coincide with the Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum to be held
>at the Waterfront Center Hotel near Canada Place. The Forum -- which
>includes "parliamentarians" from the Asia-Pacific region -- is part of
>Canada's lead role in APEC and marks the beginning of the Chretien
>government's self-declared "Year of the Asia-Pacific." 
>
>Canada is a founding member of APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) 
>which is comprised of 18 Pacific Rim nations. APEC aims to impose a free
>trade zone in the region by the year 2020. Canada is hosting the APEC
>process in 1997 and will stage a series of high-level meetings throughout
>the year, culminating in a Leaders' Summit to be held in Vancouver this
>November. 
>
>For Canadian businesses, APEC means cheap wages, anti-union policies, lax
>or non-existent labour, environmental and human rights standards and cheap
>access to natural resources. APEC will mean the further lowering of living
>and working conditions for marginalized people in Canada and abroad --
>women, workers, indigenous peoples, youth -- and further environmental
>degradation.
>
>In Vancouver, the imminent arrival of the APEC process has already
>resulted in "clean up" operations in the Downtown Eastside. Police
>presence has been tripled in the area and there has been increased
>harassment of those who live on the street.
>
>The Active Resistance Tent City is about creating a space to talk about
>those issues and concerns that matter to us, as defined by us. For four
>days and three nights, our Active Resistance Tent City will be in the face
>of international and local "dignataries" and media, showing our opposition
>to their pre-ordained policies through our actions, and stimulating
>discussion and debate in our words. 
>
>To help and get involved, contact ACTIVE RESISTANCE:
>Tel: (604) 251-9914 * E-Mail: jbsingh-AT-unixg.ubc.ca
>
>(Please post and forward.)
>
>-30-
>
>The next planning meeting for the VANCOUVER ACTIVE RESISTANCE TENT CITY
>will be Saturday, January 4th at 2pm. The meeting will be held at the La
>Quena Coffeehouse at 1111 Commercial Drive in Vancouver. Please come by
>and help. 
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