ROAD Network

OCAP: Stop The Deaths

2008-08-15T00:42:52-04:00

Come out and demand that the City take action to address these deaths and the daily hell and conditions people are experiencing.

Wednesday August 20 - 11am
Outside the Coroner’s Office
15 Grosvenor Street
(West of Yonge, North of College)

Callout/Appel :: Resistance 2010!

2008-08-13T11:42:06-04:00

Inspired by the mobilizing on the West Coast, organizers across "Canada" have begun awareness-raising efforts. Building on the call from the West Coast for anti-capitalist and anti-colonial resistance to the Olympics, some organizers affiliated with the "People's Global Action" Bloc (PGA-Bloc) in Ontario and Quebec have begun mobilizing around "Resistance2010", linking anti-Olympics efforts to organizing against the G8 and SPP, and the day-to-day systems and institutions of power and oppression they represent.

----------

D'un bout à l'autre de ce qu'on appelle «le Canada», plusieurs militantEs ont commencé une campagne de sensibilisation. InspiréEs par l'appel de la côte ouest à une résistance anti-capitaliste et anticoloniale aux olympiques, quelques militantEs faisant partie du réseau de l'Action mondiale des peuples (bloc-AMP) au Québec et en Ontario ont commencé à mobiliser autour de la campagne « Résistance 2010 », dans l'optique de relier les mouvements d'opposition au G-8, au PSP et aux Jeux Olympiques en dénonçant les systèmes et institutions de pouvoir et d'oppression qu'ils représentent.

Linchpin Issue 5 Out Now

2008-08-13T11:22:59-04:00

Common Cause is an Ontario anarchist organization that wants to see anarchists active in every town, neighborhood and workplace across Ontario. We have just published the fifth issue (August / Sept 2008) of our paper, Linchpin, online at http://linchpin.ca.

Bob Rae Buckles over Palestine

2008-08-13T01:49:14-04:00

See Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3pF5jYR38E of Bob Rae in Senate

Lansdowne Park to Host International Arms Exhibition

2008-08-09T16:46:16-04:00

The "U.S. Embassy Defense & Security Exhibition" is one segment of a large military trade show called "Secure Canada 2008" now scheduled for Lansdowne Park (Sept.30 - Oct.1). This whole event flies in the face of a near-unanimous Ottawa Council motion from 1989 stating "that Lansdowne Park and other city facilities not be leased to ARMX or other such arms exhibitions."

ARMX was Canada's largest military trade show. It sparked a public furor in 1989 when Ottawa's Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT) was formed to expose this manifestation of the military-industrial complex. COAT organized a large campaign culminating in a protest of some 4,000 citizens at Lansdowne's gates.

Anarchists paint bomb statue of John Galt

2008-08-05T16:50:52-04:00

In the wee hours of the morning of August 4 anarchist settlers used a ketchup bottle to apply red metal paint to a statue of John Galt in front of City Hall. August 4 was Guelph’s first ever John Galt Day. The town was awash in festivities and celebrations honouring John Galt and the plan he developed for the founding of the city of Guelph back in 1827. But who is this John Galt character?

Anti-Colonial Resistance on Turtle Island: From Six Nations to 2010

2008-08-05T08:35:32-04:00

Interview

personally, i don't place much of a weight on whatever labels, and would rather just do, think, and feel, and have my response to the world come through that rather than a label. i think people would probably call me an anarchist, if there was a label, that would be it. in terms of how i got involved in solidarity with indigenous people, i guess i'm excited by anyone who's taking extraordinary steps to defend themselves and the land. my involvement in solidarity work comes through being inspired by various indigenous communities, like grassy narrows, people from six nations and tyendinaga, and a bunch of people all over turtle island that are doing things we don't often see in non-native communities. i'm inspired by people who are clearly serious and being moved by my personally interactions and relationships with these people. primarily from different land reclamations and blockades, and being inspired by people's commitment and determination. that was what got me into it.

Ontario ARA Shuts Down Fascists in London

2008-07-30T22:00:48-04:00

On Sunday, July 27th, anti-fascists ("antifa") came together from across Southern Ontario to confront and shut down an attempt by long time hate organizers to intimidate the participants of London's 2008 Pride Parade. Acting on information found posted on white supremacist websites, antifa in several cities were able to organize and produce the numbers despite minimal preparation time.

Organizing For Justice Call-Out

2008-07-27T07:52:49-04:00

Calling all radicals, anarchists and community organizers! We are in the early stages of organizing a conference and community forum to be held in Ottawa this fall. The tentative date for the conference is Oct 24-26, 2008. The conference will feature workshops, panel discussions, and tables by community groups. It will be an opportunity for community members and those active in social justice and radical movements to network and learn from one another.

This conference represents the next step following the three Anarchist Assemblies held in 2007. We are hoping to build on the momentum and the successes of the Assemblies while becoming more inclusive in bringing in others involved in community development and organizing.

Youth and Supporters of Indigenous: Beware of Cops in Sheep's Clothing

2008-07-23T19:45:43-04:00

MNN. July 20, 2008. Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner Julian Fantino’s fascistic actions against Indigenous people are not new. His illegal dirty tricks to trap Mohawks and Shawn Brant in particular have been developed and practiced in cop training school. He’s following an old pattern. Really old. Cops are basically well-paid thugs. We’ve seen some of the police training videos. Police are trained to instigate violence.

Way back in the Winnipeg Workers Strike in 1917 the police were found to be responsible for the violence. In relations with the Ongwehonwe, it is once again armed state forces, police or military that have caused violence and deaths time and time again. Remember the Mohawk Oka Crisis in Kanehsatake in 1990, Gustafsen Lake in B.C. in 1995, the killing of Dudley George at Ipperwash, and all of the recent confrontations at Six Nations and Tyendinaga! The violence on all occasions was started by the cops and their instigators.

Assuming Hostilities: Towards a Pro-Revolutionary Milieu With Teeth

2008-07-23T12:33:30-04:00

It is safe to say that we are living through some of the worst times in the history of the world. We are no longer in danger of a disastrous end; we inhabit an environment of pure catastrophe to which we must simply acclimate ourselves, that we must simply survive. It is also safe to say that we who live in the United States are not the beneficiaries of some grand privilege as some maintain. Rather we inhabit one of the most degraded social environments that exists, we are among the most dejected, those most accustomed to defeat. There is no great proletarian counteroffensive, no social movements to speak of. But from the other side there is a permanent campaign of counter-insurgency, a conscious waging of social war.

U.S. Embassy plans Arms Bazaar in Ottawa (Sep30-Oct1) despite 1989 ban!

2008-07-23T11:44:06-04:00

The U.S. Embassy has scheduled a huge arms bazaar at Lansdowne Park this fall, despite an Ottawa City Council Motion of 1989 that banned all future military trade shows from municipal property. If it goes ahead, the "U.S. Embassy Defense & Security Exhibition" (Sept. 30 - Oct.1) will be the first weapons expo on Ottawa City property since May 23-25, 1989, when ARMX—Canada's largest military exposition of that time—filled Ottawa's Lansdowne Park.

"Canada First Defence Strategy" Under Mohawk Microscope

2008-07-21T12:12:05-04:00

MNN. July 16, 2008. Canada ’s military build-up is meant to try to attack “people of color” world wide, steal our resources and eliminate our population. There is a big recruitment campaign for Indigenous youth going on. They want 20% of the armed forces to be native. That way it will look like we approve of what they are doing. No money to heal. No money to educate. No money to pay the debt to Indigenous people. But money to kill!

The U.S. inspired "Canada First Defence Strategy" (CFDS) is basically written from a capitalistic economic viewpoint. No thought has been given to sustainable development. Canadians don’t support the military buildup. The "Strategy" is an aggressive profit-driven scheme designed to benefit career soldiers and industry.

City meets to discuss poverty reduction: Two homeless men die just blocks away

2008-07-16T03:01:20-04:00

On Monday, July 7, around supper time, a young Somali man in his mid- twenties was found dead in the Salvation Army Maxwell Meighen Hostel. On Thursday morning, July 10, Denis Bowen, 42, a native man known to many of us in the community, died outside a social housing building at 200 Sherbourne St.

Action Notice:

Join us THURSDAY, July 17th, to protest the city’s refusal to address poverty in our community and to speak out against the recent deaths of two homeless men who died last week in our community.

DATE: THURSDAY, July 17, 2008
TIME: 11 AM
LOCATION: Queen and Sherbourne St.

Barriere Lake Algonquins Return to Ottawa

2008-07-15T16:24:22-04:00

3 days of pickets, panels, and poetry!!!
NO COUPS D'ETAT in ALGONQUIN TERRITORY
HANDS OFF BARRIERE LAKE
HONOUR SIGNED AGREEMENTS

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
WHERE: Lawrence Cannon's office at the Ministry of Transport
330 Sparks Street, OTTAWA, near the corner of Wellington and Kent
WHEN: Wednesday July 16 12:30pm-5pm and Thursday July 17 10:00am-5pm

WHERE: Department of Indian Affairs, Corner of Wellington and Montcalm in GATINEAU
WHEN: Friday, July 18 11:00am-5pm
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Regional Peoples' Global Action Consulta / Consulta Régional de l'Action Mondiale des Peuples

2008-07-15T11:16:15-04:00

The PGA-bloc Ottawa invites you to join us in Ottawa for the upcoming Consulta of the Resistance2010 campaign. The Campaign is a region-wide mobilization focusing on the links between the Winter Olympics at Coast Salish (Vancouver), the Group of 8 (G8) summit in Huntsville, ON, and the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) summit, all of that year. We Hope to establish strategy for the upcoming months and years to unite analysis and resistance and to build strong links in the fight against colonialism, imperialism, and global corporatization.

Cops Surround Six Nations People For Shutting Down Illegal Development

2008-07-15T11:07:16-04:00

MNN. July 14, 2008. 10:40 a.m. This morning the Brantford City police arrested a Six Nations Indigenous person at the construction site at Fenn Ridge in Brantford. At the same time Ontario Provincial Police are gathering on Highway 403, making way for cement trucks to enter the illegal construction site. More cruisers are arriving on the scene. They have laid spike belts on the road to keep Indigenous people on the outside. Ambulances and paddy wagons are arriving. There are men, women and children inside the site gates. All the workers have left.

Belleville: Organic Underground Staff Threatened with Arrest

2008-07-14T22:46:50-04:00

PRESS RELEASE for IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 13th, 2008

ORGANIC UNDERGROUND STAFF THREATENED WITH ARREST - WILL NOT RETURN LITERATURE!

On Friday, July 11th, while participating in the local Summerfest activities on Front Street in downtown Belleville, an officer with Belleville Police Services was seen approaching numerous stores and street artists clutching a copy of a newspaper dedicated to radical street art and graffiti. This officer, Todd Bennett, was heard by OU staff to say that if anyone knew who the “asshole” was who was distributing this literature the police were to be contacted.

This particular newspaper was displayed on a table in front of the cafe along with political buttons, honey, fair trade coffee, chocolate, patches and Marxist and Anarchist literature.

Canada Throws Ecuador into Reverse

2008-07-12T10:27:19-04:00

Canada is "re-engaging with the Americas." That's what Minister of International Trade David Emerson told the Canada Council for the Americas in Vancouver this past February, elaborating that Canada wants to play "a positive role" to "help citizens throughout the region thrive in the world."

"You can count on Canada and Canadians," Emerson assured.

But in Ecuador, a small Andean nation a quarter the size of British Columbia, Canada's government has aligned itself with powerful Canadian mining interests to undo a recently passed decree crafted to strengthen protection for human rights and the environment.

Canada Itself Exists As An Occupation of First Nations’ Territory

2008-07-09T18:41:26-04:00

Good morning. Bonjour. Anni. Welcome everyone.

Today’s activities have been initiated by a local group called Sudbury Against War and Occupation (SAWO). We are a mixed group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous folks concerned with all forms and consequences of war and occupation. While this includes working against Canadian involvement in war and occupation all over the world, SAWO sees it as central to recognize that Canada itself exists as an occupation of First Nations’ territory and that struggles of Indigenous Peoples against that occupation must be supported. There is an urgent need to support communities standing up for their lands and for their sovereignity and understand how non-indigenous people are a part of and contribute to the continuing violations of that soveriegnity. Mohawk activist of Tyendinaga, Shawn Brant, called for a different way of doing things on National Aboriginal Day last year when he cried out: “We bury our children in this country every day. We have to force them to drink polluted water. We’re sick and tired of it. It’s going to end-June 29 is going to mark the time when First Nations people are going to be in a different relationship with the rest of the country.”