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. > > > > > > > > > --- from list aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > > ASAN maxang-AT-webcom.com http://www.webcom.com/maxang/ For a critique of capital and the information system. *****stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal ***** *****if you agree copy these lines to your sig ***** --- from list aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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