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. read full story / add a comment

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. read full story / add a comment

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. read full story / add a comment

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. read full story / add a comment

Please join a peaceful Vigil on Monday May 26 at 12 Noon in front of the CBC building on Sparks St. between Bank and O'Connor. read full story / add a comment

(Friday, May 2, 2008) Tyendinaga Mohawks are currently standing strong
at the quarry site, last week's roadblocks have been removed, and
police presence in the immediate vicinity of the territory has
decreased, although OPP remain present in the surrounding areas. read full story / add a comment

Six Nations spokesperson speaks on April 27th blockade of Highway 6 in Solidarity with the Mohawks of Tyendenaga. Video was filmed in the early evening of Sunday April 27th.

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**please note that circumstances on the ground continue to change
constantly, so full updates are not possible at this time **

April 28, 2008: After a tense exchange this morning, in which the OPP informed Mohawk spokesperson Jason Maracle to get people out of the area or they would come in, the OPP instead disbanded a Mohawk roadblock erected on the perimetre of the reclaimed quarry site. This psychological warfare on the part of the police resulted in a tense face-off between the OPP and community members. At present, the OPP has removed one of the roadblocks on the Slash Road and pulled back, but remains present in the direct vicinity of the quarry in great numbers. At the centre of the dispute is the Culbertson Tract, land which rightfully belongs to the Mohawks of Tyendinaga. Community members have been occupying a gravel quarry site for over a year.

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Source: http://www.anarchistnews.org/?q=node/3662

In the early morning of friday april 25th 3 Bell vans had their tires (12 of them) slashed.
We hope to express our solidarity with those fighting the implementation of capitalist expansion everywhere. From Tyendinaga to the occupied territories out west. The 2010 olympics (and SPP, both of which Bell sustains) is a symptom of capitalism and it spreads development, militaristic security and a tupperware disneyland of wealth for the rich atop the lives and lands of the poor and dispossessed it swallows.
Let's deepen our resistance to the 2010 SPP meeting, G8 and Olympics through local struggles and wherever their repressive structures and technology is implemented and developed!
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FOR THEIR RESISTANCE ON APRIL 20 AND 21 WHEN ONTARIO PROVINCIAL POLICE ATTACKED – ILLEGAL CONSTRUCTION STOPPED, HARASSMENT CONTINUES

MNN. April 24, 2008. Said one of the Rotiskenrekete, “We want to thank everyone all over the world for their support of our peaceful way of defending our land. We all condemn this kind of corporate corruption and white collar organized crime”. read full story / add a comment

What happened - How you can help - – Needs of Mohawks - Contacts of cops and politicians

MNN. Apr. 27, 2008. An email came from the real estate agents, Emile and Theodore Nibourg, enibourg@sutton.com. These are the guys who wanted to build condos on Mohawk land, or at least they wanted to make it look like they were building condos. They knew the Mohawks would object. They even told some of us they were hoping to get a pay out guaranteeing their profits from Canadian taxpayers when the deal fell through. What a scam! The “OPP” [who help the thieves of “Other Peoples Property”] fell for it hook, line and sinker. These are Nibourg’s puppets. You can practically see the strings. In a press statement Nibourg said, “We sent out a media release last week stating we are refraining from continuing our plans to develop the land to allow for a peaceful resolution and negotiations with the government”. read full story / add a comment

Some exciting news from the Infoshop: We're moving!!!
Ok, it's only
across the hall to a larger, brighter, and relatively (given the dominance
of "markets") affordable space.

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Reports

OPP move in on Tyendinaga Blockade

OPP Brings in SWAT on Tyendinaga Blockade

MNN Analysis: Tyendinaga Mohawk Defense of the Land

Mainstream News

OPP investigates native blockade in eastern Ontario
Charges possible in Ont. native blockade read full story / add a comment

MNN. April 22, 2008, 7:00 EDT. Congratulations! Mohawks of Tyendinaga! You made the colonial apparatus show their true colors! We stopped the construction and no one got hurt. We wouldn’t have the evidence if we hadn’t stood up to colonial lawlessness. Nothing’s changed since Ipperwash! It might even have gotten worse. The Mohawks used traditional guerilla tactics. We’re there! Then we’re not there! The OPP had no one to hit. So they left.

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MOHAWKS OF TYENDINAGA RETREAT TO QUARRY - OPP CLOSE PERIMETER AT 9:00 A.M. TUESDAY APRIL 22, 2008

OPP USING CHILDISH VIDEO GAME TACTICS

300 SWAT TEAM IN FULL GEAR, SHIELDS, ARMS AND ALL. ANOTHER 80 TO 100 OFFICER IN “GHOST CARS” AND “MARKED AND UNMARKED” CARS. REAL ESTATE AGENT EMILE NIBOURG STAYS AWAY.

Choppers flying overhead. Low flights over our heads at Culbertson Track and the quarry. On the water there are a dozen OPP surveillance boats. read full story / add a comment

MNN. April 21, 2008. Attacks on Indigenous people continue. Canada isn’t satisfied to waste billions of dollars a year on war missions overseas. It’s using the same armored fist at home. Today the town of Deseronto on Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory was surrounded by the armed forces of the Ontario Provincial Police. Deseronto is an illegal non-native enclave. read full story / add a comment

To kickstart planning events locally regarding: No Time To Celebrate - Jews remeber Nakba - Standing in solidarity with 60+ years of Palestinian resistance to Zionism, please email notimetocelebrate.ottawa@gmail.com

Sign the petition: http://notimetocelebrate.wordpress.com/action-ideas/
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The actions of those in the anti-CANSEC march were completed with the smashing of the windows of the Army Recruitment Centre on Slater St.

While others showed their solidarity with "Alex", arrested arbitrarily by the police, by making a presence at the police station, we chose to show ours in the night by attacking the system itself. In an act of opposition to this heavyhandedness of the state, the windows of the Army Recruitment Centre on Slater St. and the Scotiabank on Elgin St. were smashed on the night of Thursday April 10th.

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The morning of Thursday April 10th, a black bloc was called together to "shut down" CANSEC (secrity and weapons fair) and attack the system it expands. From the beginning of the demonstration an overwhelming police presence was mobilized to intimidate our small bloc.

Source: http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=2008041...94961 read full story / add a comment

Tuxedoed corporate war profiteers and their government backers were forced to flee the Ottawa Congress Centre tonight as alarms sounded, fire trucks were called, and police searched in vain for the nefarious anarchists that shut down the opening night of CANSEC 2008, Canada's largest arms fair. read full story / add a comment