Food Not Bombs London: Stop the War in Afghanistan!
Description:
Food Not Bombs London is looking for volunteers for Friday August 4th, and Saturday August 5th to assist in our participation at the CIRCA Rally against the war in Afghanistan. Friday we will be procuring and preparing food for the rally occurring the following day. Saturday where we will be serving, leafleting, and supporting the rally against Canada’s war in Afghanistan along with London’s Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army (CIRCA).
Where/When:
Food Preparation for Saturdays Rally:
Friday August 4th, 2006 6 – 9pm. 256 Grey Street (Grey & Wellington).
Rally:
Saturday August 5th, 2006 1 – 3pm. Mcmahen Park (Pall Mall & Adelaide). march begins starting at 1pm at Mcmahen.
IF you have:
food donations
Plates, bowls, forks
sharp knives & cutting boards
to donate, contact us!
OR:
Come out and join FNB for the preparation on Friday August 4th (6 pm – 9pm) at 256 Grey Street, or for the Rally August 5 (1 - 3pm) at Mcmahen Park and support preserving Canada’s traditional role as PEACEKEEPERS not warmongers.
If you can help out email ASAP foodnotbombslondon@hotmail.com . Thanks,
Alex Homanchuk .
Monday, July 31, 2006
Thursday, July 27, 2006
Canada to Israel "Go right ahead"
For those reading the papers today, the message that Canada has sent to Israel should, by now, be very clear now. Yesterday Israel’s Justice minister said that world leaders, in failing to call for an immediate cease-fire during the Rome summit, have given Israel a green light to push harder to wipe out the Lebanese guerrillas. While Israel continues to expand its bombing of Lebanon, it now has the green light to prepare a massive ground invasion of Lebanon. Preparations have begun in earnest, as Israel has announced its plans to call up 30,000 reserves to begin training.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said yesterday "everyone understands that a victory for Hezbollah is a victory for world terror". It's striking to see how closely our two Prime Ministers think. The Canadian government’s position mirrors that of Israel/US, which is despite the many dead and seriously injured Canadians, the situation does not merit a ceasefire. Whitehouse Press Secretary (and former FOXNEWS radio host) Tony Snow released a statement yesterday: "A ceasefire that would leave the status quo intact is absolutely unacceptable. A ceasefire that would leave intact a terrorist infrastructure is unacceptable. So what we're trying to do is work as best we can toward a cease-fire that is going to create not only the conditions, but the institutions for peace and democracy in the region."
The evacuation of Canadian-Lebanese citizens continues. The evacuation beginning 19 July to 25 July has thus far evacuated 8,739 citizens to Cyprus, Turkey or back to Canada. At this current rate, barring any further complications, it will still be several weeks before most of the estimated 40,000 citizens are completely evacuated. Potential complications are IDF harassment of refugee transports such as holding up ships for hours at a time -- reminiscent of the checkpoints many Palestinians have endured daily. This form of continued harassment is common despite Certificates of Safe Passage issued by the Israel Defence Forces for the international evacuation effort.
Expect more casualties. With such a large contingent of Canadians remaining in Lebanon as Israel further expands and intensifies its bombing of the country the likelihood that we will see further casualties is a near certainty. The recent bombing of a UN post, killing one Canadian, was condemned by Kofi Annan as "possibly deliberate" as dozens of desperate calls were placed by the UN observers at the post to the IDF to cease the attack. Israel’s attack continued during the rescue effort immediately after the bombing. The same disregard has been shown to Lebanese as they attempted to escape on bombed bridges and roads and are routinely targeted while fleeing. The IDF's continued disregard of civilian life will certainly continue to contribute to a quickly rising body count.
As the death toll grows exponentially, how will Canadians respond? So far the government has explicitly given the green light to Israel to continue the reckless bombing of civilians and crucial infrastructure unless it's politically impossible demands are met. It is not just the Canadian government that supports this destruction. Canadians are shown to be evenly split on Stephan Harper's stance on Lebanon according to an Ipos-Reid poll released Sunday.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said yesterday "everyone understands that a victory for Hezbollah is a victory for world terror". It's striking to see how closely our two Prime Ministers think. The Canadian government’s position mirrors that of Israel/US, which is despite the many dead and seriously injured Canadians, the situation does not merit a ceasefire. Whitehouse Press Secretary (and former FOXNEWS radio host) Tony Snow released a statement yesterday: "A ceasefire that would leave the status quo intact is absolutely unacceptable. A ceasefire that would leave intact a terrorist infrastructure is unacceptable. So what we're trying to do is work as best we can toward a cease-fire that is going to create not only the conditions, but the institutions for peace and democracy in the region."
The evacuation of Canadian-Lebanese citizens continues. The evacuation beginning 19 July to 25 July has thus far evacuated 8,739 citizens to Cyprus, Turkey or back to Canada. At this current rate, barring any further complications, it will still be several weeks before most of the estimated 40,000 citizens are completely evacuated. Potential complications are IDF harassment of refugee transports such as holding up ships for hours at a time -- reminiscent of the checkpoints many Palestinians have endured daily. This form of continued harassment is common despite Certificates of Safe Passage issued by the Israel Defence Forces for the international evacuation effort.
Expect more casualties. With such a large contingent of Canadians remaining in Lebanon as Israel further expands and intensifies its bombing of the country the likelihood that we will see further casualties is a near certainty. The recent bombing of a UN post, killing one Canadian, was condemned by Kofi Annan as "possibly deliberate" as dozens of desperate calls were placed by the UN observers at the post to the IDF to cease the attack. Israel’s attack continued during the rescue effort immediately after the bombing. The same disregard has been shown to Lebanese as they attempted to escape on bombed bridges and roads and are routinely targeted while fleeing. The IDF's continued disregard of civilian life will certainly continue to contribute to a quickly rising body count.
As the death toll grows exponentially, how will Canadians respond? So far the government has explicitly given the green light to Israel to continue the reckless bombing of civilians and crucial infrastructure unless it's politically impossible demands are met. It is not just the Canadian government that supports this destruction. Canadians are shown to be evenly split on Stephan Harper's stance on Lebanon according to an Ipos-Reid poll released Sunday.
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Food Not Bombs London: Rally for peace in Lebanon and Gaza
Food Not Bombs London: Rally for peace in Lebanon and Gaza
Food Not Bombs London is looking for volunteers for Friday July 21, and Saturday July 22 to assist in our participation at the Rally for peace in Lebanon and Gaza. Friday we will be procuring and preparing food in anticipation of a large rally Saturday where we will be serving, leafleting, and supporting the rally against the invasion of Lebanon. Details below:
On Saturday July 22 starting at 12:00 pm the Association of London Muslims along with several other peace groups will be holding a rally outside the John Labatt Centre calling upon the Canadian government to oppose the present aggression in the Middle East and to further protect its citizens trapped by bombing in Lebanon.
“[Israel will] turn back the clock in Lebanon by 20 years”
Israel's army chief of staff, General Dan Halutz, said his military would target infrastructure and "turn back the clock in Lebanon by 20 years". Making good on this promise Israel has bombed civilian infrastructure, targeted civilians, and it is now claimed, used banned incendiary weapons on the population. In a press release dated July 18 Amnesty International condemned the G8 leaders stating that: “They have failed conspicuously to uphold their moral and legal obligation to address such blatant breaches of international humanitarian law, which in some cases have amounted to war crimes." In the same release the casualties are listed as a minimum of 200 Lebanese civilians killed by Israeli air strikes since July 12 “including dozens of children”.
The Harper government has failed to protect Canadian citizens.
Reported in the London Free Press (July 18) while other countries began evacuating their citizens on Sunday, “despite having one of the largest groups of nationals in Lebanon of any country in the world, Canada was getting its first group of evacuees out of the war-torn country only on Wednesday...”. With the number of Canadians killed in Israel’s illegal aggression standing at 8 and many more gravely injured, criticism from the Harper government has been non-existent. In fact to the contrary, Harper has sided firmly with Israel in its violation of international humanitarian law stating “I think Israel's response under the circumstances has been measured.”
Come out and join FNB for the preparation on Friday July 21 (6 pm – 9pm), or for the Rally July 22 (11:30 – 2:00) and support the embattled peoples of Lebanon and Gaza.
If you can help out email ASAP foodnotbombslondon@hotmail.com . Thanks,
Alex Homanchuk
Food Not Bombs London is looking for volunteers for Friday July 21, and Saturday July 22 to assist in our participation at the Rally for peace in Lebanon and Gaza. Friday we will be procuring and preparing food in anticipation of a large rally Saturday where we will be serving, leafleting, and supporting the rally against the invasion of Lebanon. Details below:
On Saturday July 22 starting at 12:00 pm the Association of London Muslims along with several other peace groups will be holding a rally outside the John Labatt Centre calling upon the Canadian government to oppose the present aggression in the Middle East and to further protect its citizens trapped by bombing in Lebanon.
“[Israel will] turn back the clock in Lebanon by 20 years”
Israel's army chief of staff, General Dan Halutz, said his military would target infrastructure and "turn back the clock in Lebanon by 20 years". Making good on this promise Israel has bombed civilian infrastructure, targeted civilians, and it is now claimed, used banned incendiary weapons on the population. In a press release dated July 18 Amnesty International condemned the G8 leaders stating that: “They have failed conspicuously to uphold their moral and legal obligation to address such blatant breaches of international humanitarian law, which in some cases have amounted to war crimes." In the same release the casualties are listed as a minimum of 200 Lebanese civilians killed by Israeli air strikes since July 12 “including dozens of children”.
The Harper government has failed to protect Canadian citizens.
Reported in the London Free Press (July 18) while other countries began evacuating their citizens on Sunday, “despite having one of the largest groups of nationals in Lebanon of any country in the world, Canada was getting its first group of evacuees out of the war-torn country only on Wednesday...”. With the number of Canadians killed in Israel’s illegal aggression standing at 8 and many more gravely injured, criticism from the Harper government has been non-existent. In fact to the contrary, Harper has sided firmly with Israel in its violation of international humanitarian law stating “I think Israel's response under the circumstances has been measured.”
Come out and join FNB for the preparation on Friday July 21 (6 pm – 9pm), or for the Rally July 22 (11:30 – 2:00) and support the embattled peoples of Lebanon and Gaza.
If you can help out email ASAP foodnotbombslondon@hotmail.com . Thanks,
Alex Homanchuk
Rally for peace in Lebanon and Gaza
Rally for peace in Lebanon and Gaza
Start: Jul 22 2006 - 12:00pm
End: Jul 22 2006 - 2:00pm
Location:
John Labatt Centre (outside, across from Covent Garden Market)
Description:
WHO:
Everyone concerned about the mounting humanitarian crisis resulting from armed aggression against civilians in Lebanon and Gaza.
WHAT:
We are calling on the Canadian government to:
- oppose aggression in the Middle East presently, and condemn war crimes against civilians.
- take steps toward protecting Canadian citizens there.
- provide humanitarian aid to those affected by the fighting.
The rally has been called by the Association of London Muslims, with support from other groups.
Start: Jul 22 2006 - 12:00pm
End: Jul 22 2006 - 2:00pm
Location:
John Labatt Centre (outside, across from Covent Garden Market)
Description:
WHO:
Everyone concerned about the mounting humanitarian crisis resulting from armed aggression against civilians in Lebanon and Gaza.
WHAT:
We are calling on the Canadian government to:
- oppose aggression in the Middle East presently, and condemn war crimes against civilians.
- take steps toward protecting Canadian citizens there.
- provide humanitarian aid to those affected by the fighting.
The rally has been called by the Association of London Muslims, with support from other groups.
Thursday, July 06, 2006
"East London Crackdown"
for those unfamliar with this site its one of the saddest examples of self-rightous assholes run amuk in London. The websites administrator makes a point of photographing and posting images of women from Londons east end labeling them as prostitutes on the website. If you get a chance please do send them an email and ask them (not politely) to take this libelous crap down.
Sunday, July 02, 2006
Google video - embedding video
So if you're at all curious you can embed google videos within your blog! sure it works with you tube as well. cheers,
Oh, by the way this is a part of a debate between Alan Dershowitz and Norman Finkelstein.
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