May 27, 06
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June 1st
MAKE JUNE 1ST A CANADA-WIDE EMERGENCY DAY OF ACTION
AGAINST CANADA’S OCCUPATION OF AFGHANISTAN! --------------------------- In Vancouver, join Mobilization Against War and Occupation (MAWO) at a picket action at the Canada Forces Recruitment Centre to demand: CANADA OUT OF AFGHANISTAN NOW! and to call for an Independent Public Inquiry into Canada's war drive in Afghanistan: THURSDAY JUNE 1ST 12:30pm - 1:30pm Canada Forces Recruitment Centre (1070 W. Georgia St) -------------------------- An appeal to all peace loving people, social justice, and peace groups in Canada regarding Canada’s occupation of Afghanistan: Since the Parliament of Canada voted on May 17 to extend Canada’s mission in Afghanistan by two years, until 2009, three hundred people have been killed in Afghanistan. The vote in Parliament was not for an extension of mandate. It was a license to kill. It’s not only the US that is destroying and killing in Iraq. Afghanistan is Canada’s Iraq. This is the time for action – This is the time to make change – This is an appeal to all peace loving, all humanity loving people in Canada – Canada has achieved what in Afghanistan? “Reconstruction” has failed. “Building democracy” is a lie. Canada’s occupation of Afghanistan has meant only death, destruction, and bloodshed. This is a criminal occupation. Today, on Wednesday, May 24, the US military said “The Taliban have gained strength and influence in certain parts of Kandahar [and southern Afghanistan]”. Canada’s occupation forces in Southern Afghanistan have not brought “stability” – their savage occupation is uniting Afghan people against them. This is a criminal occupation. Canada is in Southern Afghanistan to fight against an anti-occupation resistance that is growing in strength, size, and popularity because of the occupation. The role of the Canadian occupation forces has been – and has to be – in the words of General Rick Hillier on July 14th 2005, “to kill people” to maintain the occupation. This is a criminal occupation. Canada is not “helping people” in Afghanistan. This occupation is part of Canada’s imperialist drive for its share of the US’s plunder of the world. Tens of lives of young Canadian soldiers have been sacrificed to this war machine. This is a criminal occupation. Canada’s occupation of Afghanistan has cost tens of thousands of Afghan lives, 17 Canadian military lives, and $4.1 billion dollars so far. Are our tax dollars blood money? Who is investing in Afghanistan? For what? This is a criminal occupation. This is the time for action – This is the time to make change – This is an appeal to all peace loving, all humanity loving people, and all social justice, and peace groups in Canada to take action against the occupation of Afghanistan. We have the power to make change. In Vancouver, Mobilization Against War and Occupation (MAWO) has collected over 10,000 signatures against the Canadian occupation of Afghanistan in the Lower Mainland area alone. If 10,000 is possible in the Lower Mainland, a million is possible across Canada. On Thursday, May 25, MAWO will be organizing our thirteenth picket action at the Canadian Forces Recruitment Centre in Vancouver against the occupation since July 2005. MAWO will be organizing our fourteenth picket on Thursday, June 1st – but Vancouver is not enough. Peace-loving, humanity-loving people must take action everywhere in Canada. This is an appeal to all peace-loving, humanity-loving people and organizations in Canada for a Canada-wide day of action on Thursday, June 1st. On this day, people in every province, territory, city, and town in Canada can gather together at recruitment centres, armouries, government offices, and every other symbol of the criminal Canadian war drive to demand “Canada Out of Afghanistan!” We are appealing to you to take action across Canada on June 1st to build an effective opposition to the government’s savage war drive and criminal occupation in Afghanistan. June 1st will be a beginning of a distinctly Canadian anti-war movement to confront and turn back the distinctly Canadian war drive that is in full swing today in Afghanistan. All out for the June 1st Canada-wide day of action against Canada’s occupation of Afghanistan! To sign on to the June 1st day of action, send an email to [email protected] For more information see: www.mawovancouver.org 
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I hope your all doing this more to get canada out of the American war, and not protesting against canadas military as a whole.
Id feel pretty sad if the people willing to give their lives to protect us found out about stuff like this. I agree Canada shouldnt be over there helping the Americans. But Im a proud support of our troops and what they are susposed to stand for!
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and "afghani" is apperently offensive Last edited by fable; May 27, 06 at 10:36 PM.
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The precedent, the current actions, and language used by the Canadian government says otherwise. This is the Canadian government and capitalist ruling class asserting themselves on a world stage along with the larger imperialist nations. My belief of the "our" soldiers has been and will be for sometime - that men and women who believe they are doing something for "their" country are in fact fighting for Canadian Capitalist interest. I do believe there are soldiers who have carried out humanitarian endevours, and I do believe that there is a exploitation of young people in debt, undertaken to recruit, but in the end a regular soldiers does not determinte or set out the agenda of why the military goes to war. I support soldiers, as much as calling for them to come home.
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