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Beirut, Lebanon

Beirut, Lebanon

From: World Peace Map
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Thursday, September 10 from 3:00-5:00 p.m. at the Cunard Centre (next to Pier 21)

Please join us in our protest of the Lockheed Martin Hour of Good Cheer.

 

For background, as part of the
annual arms show, Lockheed-Martin hosts an "Hour of Good Cheer" where they liquor up the people who they hope will buy their products. What is wrong with this?
  1. War is nothing to cheer about.
  2. Procurement of these toys by the government takes money away from Children, Health, Education & the Environment (as well as delayed maintenance and salaries for CF personel)
  3. We believe that attendance at such an event should constitute a violation of the conflict of interest guidelines (both because of the deliberate impairment of judgement, and because of the acceptance of a gift.)
  4. Purchase of these products has a miniscule economic multiplication effect on the domestic economy versus application of these funds to the economic stimulus package.

Monday, June 1 at 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Room 105, Weldon Law Building, Dalhousie


* Featuring a special performance by the Halifax Theatre Collective*

Adil Charkaoui, a Montreal teacher and father of three children, has been at the forefront of an important struggle for justice in Canada for over six years.

Arrested in 2003 under an immigration "security certificate", Charkaoui spent two years in prison and four years under draconian conditions, pending a court hearing of his certificate which, to date, has never taken place. The interim conditions forced his mother or father to accompany him each time he left home, prevented him from using any phone except the one in his home, and imposed many other restrictions on him. All of that time, he has lived under the threat of deportation to Morocco, where Immigration Canada recognizes that he would be at risk of torture or death.

Charkaoui has never been charged with any crime nor had any trial whatsoever. Under the security certificate process, specific allegations and the information used against the detainee can be kept secret. In February 2007, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the security certificate legislation was unconstitutional, but left the law in place until February 2008, when Parliament ratified almost identical new security certificate legislation.

In February 2009, the Federal Court finally lifted most of the interim conditions imposed on Charkaoui. However, Charkaoui is still forced to wear a GPS-tracking bracelet. He also continues to live under the label of "suspected terrorist" - which has cost him his job and much else - and under the threat of deportation to torture. Charkaoui thus continues his struggle to clear his name and achieve justice in Canada.

Charkaoui is among five men in Canada who are subject to security certificates. Over the coming months, some of their cases will be reviewed in Federal Court under the new, but no less unjust, security certificate legislation.

Timeline

* 1995 Charkaoui family (Adil, his sister, mother and father) moves to Canada as permanent residents
* May 2003 Charkaoui arrested and imprisoned without charge or trial
* February 2005 Charkaoui released from prison but placed under draconian conditions (still without charge or trial)
* February 2007 Supreme Court of Canada strikes down security certificate legislation, but leaves law in place for a year
* February 2008 New security certificate legislation ratified by Parliament; new security certificates issued against Charkaoui and four others
* June 2008 Supreme Court rules that CSIS can no longer destroy evidence
* February 2009 Federal Court releases Charkaoui from almost all his conditions

Contact: (902)-488-6071

Organized by Nova Scotia Public Interest Research Group (
NSPIRG) & the Halifax Peace Coalition. For more information, please email: hfxpeace_AT_chebucto.ca or web: http://www.hfxpeace.chebucto.org


Background information about Charkaoui: www.adilinfo.org
 

 

 

A discussion about Canada's security Certificate process with a former Detainee.

YES WE CAN! Rally PDF Print E-mail

Thursday, February 19  12:00-12:30 p.m.
Halifax Public Library, 5381 Spring Garden Rd. Halifax

 On the First Official Visit of US President Obama

YES WE CAN:

  • Stop the War in Afghanistan & Stop the Bombing of Pakistan
  • Take Urgent Action on Climate Change
  • Bring Omar Khadr Home
  • Meet our Millennium Development Goals

Please come to our public rally to welcome U.S. President Barack Obama to Canada, his first official international visit of his presidency. Across the country, Canadians will be sending the President and our Prime Minister Stephen Harper the message that "YES WE CAN" have a world without war and that we can work together to take action on climate change and create a truly sustainable future.

Organized by the Halifax Peace Coalition. Email: hfxpeace_AT_chebucto.ca


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Current HPC Campaigns

HPC acts on Canadian policy that fosters inequity or injustice, root causes of violence. Living in the shadow of empire, we want a foreign policy that promotes justice, equity, and peace. We are currently working on Canada's involvement in:


AFGHANISTAN

HAITI

IRAQ

MAYORS FOR PEACE

MISSILE DEFENSE

SECURITY CERTIFICATES

WAR RESISTERS

KEEP SPACE FOR PEACE

INTERNATIONAL POLICY STATEMENT


 

Please welcome two new groups to the hpc membership!
Students Coalition Against War (SCAW)
www.scaw.ca

Canadian Federation of Students - Nova Scotia (CFS-NS)


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