On August 20-21, 2007, President Bush and his "partners", including
Mexican President Felipe Calderon, Prime Minister Harper of Canada,
and the heads of 31 of the wealthiest corporations on the planet will
meet behind closed doors in Montebello, Quebec to discuss their
Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP). To prepare for the mass
mobilizations and direct confrontations planned for August 19th-21st,
the PGA Bloc Ottawa is hosting a series of events in mid-August to
confront SPP and it's corporate backers.

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".

As stated above, on August 20-21, 2007, President Bush and his "partners", including Mexican President Felipe Calderon, Prime Minister Harper of Canada, and the heads of 31 of the wealthiest corporations on the planet will meet behind closed doors in Montebello, Quebec to discuss their Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP). To prepare for the mass mobilizations and direct confrontations planned for August 19th-21st, the PGA Bloc Ottawa is hosting a series of events in mid-August to confront SPP and it's corporate backers.

In fact, a series of events/protests are planned in almost every major Canadian city. A list of workshops/protests/other activities can be seen below. Join the resistance against the corporate agenda of the "Three Amigos".


Stop SPP Schedule of Events

ACROSS CANADA

Thursday, August 9 - Tuesday, August 21
Weeks of action against the SPP
Actions happening across country leading up to Montebello
Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, St Catherines and other cities


OTTAWA/GATINEAU/HULL

Monday, August 13 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm PSAC 233 Gilmour/Metcalfe
“Know Your rights” Legal Forum
Organized by the PGA Bloc Ottawa Committee
More information: Dave  davemcmurran@yahoo.ca 613-565-1793

Tuesday, August 14 10:30 am PSAC 233 Gilmour/Metcalfe
Press Conference
Democratic Space/Press Conference Committee
To announce the various events that are happening.
Groups represented will be Outaouais Ottawa Stop SPP Coalition, Council of Canadians, PGA Bloc Ottawa, L’Assemblée mondiale des peoples, speaker for the Bike Caravan and Paul Dewar’s public forum
More information: Celeste 613-240-3838

Tuesday, August 14 6:30 pm 125 Simard Hall
PGA Bloc Ottawa Meeting organizing against the SPP

Tuesday, August 14 7:00 pm PSAC 233 Gilmour/Metcalfe
Outaouais Ottawa Stop SPP Coalition Meeting

Wednesday, August 15 noon
Action around CCCE (location TBA)
Organized by ROCG and PGA Bloc Ottawa

Wednesday, August 15 - Saturday, August 18 9:00 am - 9:00 pm
PSAC 233 Gilmour/Metcalfe
Prop and Banner making
An artist and technical support will be available
Drop in to make your signs, banners, puppets, and other creations
Bring your own t-shirt and get it decorated for a small contribution to the artist and the Stop SPP fund.
Organized by the Outaouais Ottawa Stop SPP Coalition

Wednesday, August 15 8;30 pm Café La Brulerie 152 Montcalm, Gatineau
More information: 819-778-0109

Thursday, August 16 6:00 – 9:00 pm Exile Books 256 Bank/Cooper
Medic Training
Someone will be available to do a brief training or refresher. If you have trained to be a action medic or have First Aid training please come.
Also come if you are interested for medic-ing for Montebello days of action
Organized by PGA Bloc Ottawa


Thursday August 16 - Sunday, August 19 Britannia Beach
Council of Canadians table on SPP at Ottawa Folk Fest
More information:  http://www.canadians.org/

Saturday, August 18 6:30 pm “Whose Security?”
A forum with music and speakers at the Human Rights Monument, Elgin/Lisgar
Organized by the Justice for Mohamed Harkat Committee

Sunday, August 19 9:00 am. Bike to Bush! Leaving from Parc Jacques-Cartier (Hull)
A bike caravan to Montebello
More information: biketobush.ca

Sunday, August 19 1:00 pm Demo to Stop the SPP Starting from Parliament Hill
Mass, family-friendly demonstration against the SPP
Organized by the Outaouais Ottawa Stop SPP Coalition

Sunday, August 19 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm, 4-6 pm Ottawa University
Marion Hall, 140 Louis Pasteur
Public forum on the SPP
Organized by the Council of Canadians, Common Frontiers, and other groups

Monday, August 20 9:30 am Buses leaving for Montebello
Depart from Ottawa at 9:30 am returning at 4pm.
Sign up for transportation www.stopspp.ca
Demonstration in Montebello (or as close as possible)
Family friendly
Groups are asked to come with visuals such as puppets, banners and costumes
Skits, poetry, songs are great
Food is being arranged
Organized by the Outaouais Ottawa Stop SPP Coalition

Monday, August 20 9:00 am – 3;00 pm St Paul’s University 223 Main St
Ottawa Room Guigues Hall
A cross-border Security and Prosperity Partnership "Counter Summit”
Organized by the Green Party

Monday, August 20 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Bronson Centre, 211 Bronson Ave
Public forum on the SPP
Organized by MP Paul Dewar, Ottawa Centre

Websites: pga.radionetowrk.org
www.stopspp.ca


MONTREAL


Monday, August 13 6:30 pm 5437 Rue Cote-Des-Neiges (metro Cote-des-Neiges) 2nd Floor
Cote-Des-Neiges Community Centre
Free Community Dinner & Information Session
‘No Security without Justice! No Prosperity without Dignity’
Organized by No One Is Illegal Montreal, The Immigrant Workers Centre & Tadamon Montreal
More information: 514-691-0471 or 514-342-2111
 noii-montreal@resist.ca / nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com




Tuesday, August 14 noon CN: Protest at Central Train Station (metro Bonaventure)
Stop your racist lawsuits!
Support indigenous struggles for sovereignty, dignity and self-determination on Turtle Island
Oppose CN Rail's racism and colonialism
Protest Bush, Harper, Calderon and the "Security and Prosperity Partnership" (SPP)
More information:
 http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2007/07/cn-rail-drop-your-racist-lawsuits.html

Thursday, August 16 noon Dorchester Square (Rene-Levesque and Peel, metro Peel)
Protest against CSIS and the SPP
The People's Assembly against Security Injustice invite you to a demonstration to denounce the role of the Canadian and Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) in the criminalization, harassment and profiling of refugees, immigrants and non-status people
CSIS feeds a culture a fear and suspicion that the state uses to justify the expansion of surveillance and control on the agenda of the SPP
More information:  rpcis.mtl@gmail.com

E-Mail:  info@psp-spp.com
Website: www.psp-spp.com
Phone: 514-848-7583


TORONTO

Tuesday August 14
Picket CN Rail (details TBA)
More information: www.nooneisillegal.org or  torontostopthespp@riseup.net

Wednesday, August 15 7:30 pm Common Room 30 Gloucester key in #333
2 blocks north of the Wellesley Subway Station/¼ block east of Yonge.
“From Free Trade to North American Union: a Montebello Primer”
Organized by the Toronto Canadian Action Party
More information: 416-9-5990



FREDERICTON

Monday, August 20 12:00 pm Protest in front of Provincial Legislature
For information: Courtney M  gznzk@stu.ca 506-471-1868



WINDSOR

Monday, August 20 5:00 pm Rally at Ambassador (NAFTA) Bridge
Hosted by Council of Canadians Windsor Chapter and others


WINNIPEG
Monday, August 20 4:00pm - 6:00 pm Demonstration at Federal Building
Main and Water, just south of Portage and Main


EDMONTON

Sunday, August 19 10:00 am - 2:00 pm Legislative Assembly 10800-97 Ave
Protest against the SPP
Hosted by Protest the SPP


VANCOUVER

Saturday, August 11 2:00 pm at 2 pm Fireside Cafe, 13593 King George Hwy, Surrey
Corner King George and 108 (Right next to Gateway Skytrain)
Do You Know About the SPP? Community Forum

Tuesday, August 14 11: 30 AM 1601 Bayshore Dr
Disrupt the NAFTA Trade Ministers Meeting
Cross street is 1 block east of Denman (Cordova St W & Georgia St W both turn into Bayshore) Canadian International Trade Minister David Emerson, U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab, and Mexico's Secretary of the Economy Eduardo Sojo are having a meeting of the NAFTA Free Trade Commission
Organized by No One is Illegal Vancouver
 http://noii-van.resist.ca/?p=460

Thursday, August 16 7:00 pm Rhizome Cafe 317 East Broadway
Evening to resist the SPP

Monday, August 20 3:00 pm Canada Place (Waterfront Station)
Entrance on Howe/Cordova
Continental “Day of Action” to Oppose the SPP
Proceed to meet another Antiwar/Anti-SPP demo at 5:00 pm Burrard Skytrain Station
Meet in open park area just north of Skytrain entrance on Burrard/Dusmmuir.
March will converge with demo from Vancouver Art Gallery Robson/Hornby
”End the occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan! Stop the accelerating destruction of Earth!
No Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America!”
Organized by: Stopwar.ca

Contact information:  scrapspp@gmail.com or call 778 885 0040


ST. CATHERINES

Thursday, August 16 11:30 Montebello Park
“Whose Security? Whose Prosperity? - NAFTA on Steroids”
Rally will begin at Montabello Park march to City Hall
Organized by the Coalition Against the SPP & TILMA (N-CAST)
More information: Jen Coorsh 905-688-5550 Ext 4430  opirgbu@brocku.ca.



SEATTLE

Saturday, August 18
March For America Seattle, Washington
Seattle becomes the first city in the U.S. to publicly march against the SPP summit and
impending North American Union
More information: 1-877-MFA-WASH(632-9274)  contact@mfawash.org



MONTEBELLO/SURRONDING COMMUNITIES

Wednesday, August 10 - Monday, August 20
'Campement Autogéré' (used to be called Campement de la Jeunesse)
Will be taking in 'Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix' (Outaouais) on an organic farm
More information:  http://www.uncampement.net/?q=en


Monday, August 13 Time (To be announced) Elementary school in Montebello
“Stop SPP” & “Say NO to Bush”
Speakers: Francine (ROCG0
Gabriel Bernier (Marxist-Leninist rep from Montebello)
PGA Ottawa representative

Sunday, August 19 Montebello area
Will be a day of creative resistance and popular education against the SPP. We encourage affinity groups to organize autonomous actions within the framework of creative resistance, and call on individuals to join in a collective action of popular education.
More details to come

Monday, August 20 noon Chateau Montebello (or as close as possible to Montebello)
Protest and disruption of Bush, Harper, Calderon and the SPP
We call on affinity groups, organizations and individuals to mobilize in large numbers for a main Day of Action against the meeting of Bush, Harper, Calderon and the SPP.

Tuesday, August 21 5:00 pm Moving Demo
Montebello Committee (Ottawa)

homepage:: http://www.imc-montebello.org

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