From: miked-AT-riseup.net
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 16:44:52 -0800
Subject: AUT: anti-war anti-racist



> 
> On a brighter note, how are this weekend's demos shifting up in other
> people's
> parts of the world?
> 
> Steve

In Toronto the demo this weekend promises to be the best one yet.  So far the 
response to war in Toronto has been weak... there have been large demos and 
events and certainly I would say that the vast majority of people here are 
against millitary action against iraq (if not always for the best of reasons).  
However the anti-war coalitions are largely dominated by the International 
Socialists and large labour groupings which ensures that they are large but 
dull.  One of the "problems" has been that the vast majority of solid 
organizing energy in Toronto goes into the ontario coalition against poverty 
which i am very actively involved in and which has had a hard time orienting 
itself to the anti-war movement.  On Saturday OCAP, The Canadian Arab 
Federation, Anti-Racist Action, Worker Communist Party of Iran and The New 
Socialist Group (no time to describe their politics but they basically advocate 
'socialism from below') will be marching as a no one is illegal contingent 
which promises to give a more millitant feel to the demo and in the future a 
more millitant direction.  We are also planning on escalating our actions 
around immigrant and refugee defense (which ocap has been working on for years; 
preventing deportations, etc.) in response to the escalation of attacks against 
them.  I am pretty excited about Saturday and beyond in Toronto...
miked


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