Dans le cas où le Pakistan est incapable de contenir les terroristes, le leader Libéral Stéphane Dion a inclut comme option une intervention de l’OTAN. L’arcticle est commenté dans un billet par Borges.

The Green Party of Canada released today its Vision Green. The policy document lays out the plan for the kind of Canada we want in 2020 and how we get to that point. It is a breath of fresh air and provides visionary leadership, not for the next four year, but for the next forty years. Here are some of the solutions addressing the various issues it covers:
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Two students at Central Kings Rural High School fought back against bullying recently, unleashing a sea of pink after a new student was harassed and threatened when he showed up wearing a pink shirt.
– http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/858884.html

The story … has swept across North America and made its way to Europe.
– http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/859436.html

Check item #1 and #2 of this year’s project censored report. More reasons why not to step on US soil. A Wikipedia article on the Military Commissions Act confirms multiple sources repeating this critique. Also read the article on the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act.

Iain Levison wrote an interesting piece on his blog. Although I usually try to avoid dichotomies because they over simplify the world into “us and them”, I couldn’t help but pass it along. I think its just the trepidation you get by reading how much “those who get it” could form an international mouvement.

An article on Live Journal uses a house as a metaphor to describe the situation from the point of view of First Nation people. A reasonably good thread follows. Note that the strange family from out of town is our ancestors, the European colonialists.

‘They ask: “Why are you so angry?”
You realize, with a sense of horror, that they really have no idea.’

I found this really beautiful clip with pictures from Iran: http://www.lucasgray.com/video/peacetrain.html

We have so many reasons not to go to war and yet we do. Seems like governments are so out of touch with people’s will. One Iranian teacher, in the context of the teacher’s strike, conveys her fustrations on her blog:

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People don’t want the same thing as their corporate, state, religious or media leaders do. I am not very familiar with the situation in Turkey, but this kind of solidarity is exciting to read about.

http://www.indymedia.org/en/2007/01/879055.shtml

Since the news broke that George Bush will be announcing an increased deployment of 20,000 troops to Iraq, there has been a huge response within the U.S. military.

The War Resisters Support Campaign has been inundated with requests from soldiers who are considering coming to Canada.

This is an urgent appeal for housing spots for the new arrivals. If you have room where you can house a resister for a few days, a few weeks or longer, PLEASE GET IN TOUCH WITH US.

Welcoming a war resister here with the offer of temporary housing is a concrete way to help put an end to war in Iraq. Anything you can do to help would be greatly appreciated!

Please contact:

National Campaign Office:
phone: 416.598.1222
email: resisters@sympatico.ca
mailing Address:
Box 13, 427 Bloor Street West

Toronto, ON M5S 1X7

Toronto: resisters@sympatico.ca

Vancouver:
http://ca.geocities.com/vanresisters
email: bjorkna5@telus.net

Victoria:
vlannon@pacificcoast.net

Montreal: montrealresisters@hotmail.com

Ottawa:
ottawaresisters@yahoo.ca

Nelson, BC: West Kootenays War Resisters Support Campaign
nelsonresisters@gmail.com
phone:
250.354.7489

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The War Resisters Support Campaign is a broad-based coalition of community, faith, labour and other organizations and individuals that have come together to support U.S. soldiers seeking asylum in Canada because they refuse to fight in the illegal war in Iraq.

The Campaign works on two fronts: we support the material needs of war resisters when they arrive in Canada; and we campaign to persuade the Canadian government to provide sanctuary for U.S. war resisters.