HELP BAN CLUSTER BOMBS NOW!

Canada has not committed to sign the treaty to ban cluster bombs on Dec. 3, 2008.
We must mobilize to tell the Harper government that it is morally unacceptable to avoid signing the treaty!

Cluster bombs cause predictable and unacceptable harm to civilians, both at the time of use and for many years after.

ACTIONS YOU CAN TAKE

• Sign the petition at Mines Action Canada.

• Tell your friends to sign the petition.

• Write a letter to the editor

• Write, call or fax your MP and Stephen Harper.  

PREPARE NOW

EMERGENCY VIGIL on the sad day when the death toll for Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan reaches 100.

Meet at 6 pm at the Ottawa Peacekeeping Monument, 420 Sussex (4 blocks North of Rideau).
If it happens in the evening, the vigil will be the following day 6:00 pm.

We will march from the peacekeeping monument to the War Memorial at Elgin and Rideau with 100 white flowers.

We mourn the deaths of all those killed in the war in Afghanistan, including the tens of thousands of innocent Afghan civilians who have died since 2001.

Not one more death.
Not one more dollar.
Not one more day.
Bring our troops home NOW!   Organized by Act for the Earth.

NO TO WAR ON IRAN

HARPER SPEAK OUT: NO TO U.S. WAR ON IRAN! 
BREAK THE SILENCE!  NO MORE DISASTROUS WARS!

Experts are convinced that the Bush Government is working hard to find a pretext for war.  See Recent Article.  Such a move would violate international law as did the invasion of Iraq.  And an attack by the U.S. would further destabilize the area.

Yet the Harper government has not taken a stand against war with Iran.  As noted by Murry Dobbin, Harper's history of support for whatever the U.S. wants to do makes us fear that he will support an invasion of Iran. 

WE MUST SPEAK UP AND TELL HARPER TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST A WAR THAT WOULD BE ANOTHER CATASTROPHE! 

In case of an attack on Iran:

Emergency Rally at the U.S. Embassy at 5pm the day of the attack, unless the attack is after 5 pm EDT, in which case we will meet the following day at 5pm. (map)

ZUCCHINI CAMPAIGN

We sent zucchinis to War Minister O'Connor one year ago because children were starving in Afghanistan.

On September 5, 2006, the respected Senlis Council released a report that stated children are starving in Afghanistan. Foreign military expenditures in that country outpace development and reconstruction spending by 900% .

Two years later, the crisis deepens, with no action on starvation!

In an August, 2007 report, the Senlis Council slams the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) for failing to answer key questions about where and why aid that’s been promised has not appeared on the ground in Afghanistan.

So now is the time to send a Zucchini to Canada's New War Minister, Peter MacKay.   Here's how!

This campaign was initiated by Homes Not Bombs.  Read the full story here.

COUNTER-RECRUITMENT CAMPAIGN

The military has launched a new recruitment campaign to sign up youth needed in Afghanistan.  This campaign is called Operation Connection.  In General Hillier's words: "...we're moving from a passive approach on recruiting where essentially we sat around waiting for you to come to us to a more active and aggressive one..."

To help young people withstand this pressure, ACT for the Earth has launched a counter-recruitment campaign called Operation Objection. Check it out and be sure to tell all concerned parents and young people you know about the website:  http://operationobjection.org.

END ISRAEL'S ASSAULT ON GAZA AND LEBANON
NOWAR-PAIX endorses the Canadian Peace Alliance statement on Israel's assault on Gaza and Lebanon. We demand that the government of Canada call for an immediate end to the Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Gaza. This escalating conflict may destabilize the entire region and result in a larger war. Israel's actions have now killed nine Canadians and hundreds more Lebanese and Palestinians. Stephen Harper's refusal to condemn these attacks is shameful.

NO PEACE WITHOUT JUSTICE!

“There will be no substantive and permanent peace for any peoples in this troubled region as long as Israel is violating key U.N. resolutions, official American policy and the international "road map" for peace by occupying Arab lands and oppressing the Palestinians.” Former US President Jimmy Carter, August 1st, 2006

See photos from Ottawa Rallies for Lebanon and Palestine.

WE NEED YOUR HELP TO BUILD FOR FUTURE ACTIONS--

With Harper on the loose at 24 Sussex, the BAD things happening under Martin will get even WORSE.

• More military spending!
• More commitment to supporting U.S. wars of aggression in Afghanistan, Haiti, Middle East, Iraq!
  
• More deep integration with US security!
• More outrageous support for US torture and "special rendition."
  (We are currently defending Guantanamo Bay when the rest of the world tells the US to close it!)

For more information or to volunteer:
English: nowar.paix at gmail.com
French: info@rocg.ca (Rassemblement Outaouais contre la guerre) (Link)
Both languages: 819-777-5831

JUSTICE FOR MOHAMED HARKAT COMMITTEE

OTTAWA-HAITI SOLIDARITY COMMITTEE
Next Meeting: TBA
20 James St. CUPE Boardroom
(entrance at back, buzzer at door)

NOWAR-PAIX (Network to Oppose War And Racism - Pacte contre l'Agression,
 l'Intolerance et la Xenophobie) is a volunteer activist coalition in Ottawa, Canada.