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Tip: Your message to SUST-MAR must be html-free. So, BEFORE you hit SEND, please go to your "Format" pull-down menu and select "Plain text." Thanks! ____________________________________________________________________________ Two more things hot off the press... "GO FURTHER" DOCUMENTARY - ONE NIGHT ONLY! At the Oxford Theatre on Quinpool St. Wednesday, June 2, 9 p.m. "Go Further"(2003, 90 min.). Award-winning director Ron Mann joins actor/activist Woody Harrelson as he pilots a hemp-fuelled bus on an eco-consciousness raising excursion down the beautiful Pacific Coast, exploring the idea that the single individual is the key to large-scale transformational change. More info: 423-7488 About the film: http://www.sphinxproductions.com/pages/film_gofurther.html *Be sure to bring your friends who need to hear the environmental message! ******************************************************************* WAR RESISTERS CAMPAIGN - PLEASE ADD YOUR SIGNATURE Dear Friends, The War Resisters Support Campaign, a broad-based coalition of community organizations, has launched a petition aimed at Canada's federal government to allow US war resisters who refuse to fight in Iraq to have refuge in Canada. Initial signatories include June Callwood, David Suzuki, Maude Barlow, Shirley Douglas, Naomi Klein, Anne-Marie MacDonald and M.G. Vassanji. If you would like to add your name just go to the link below. Please forward widely! http://www.PetitionOnline.com/resister/petition.html War Resisters Support Campaign resisters@sympatico.ca www.resisters.ca (starting May 30, 2004) War Resisters Support Campaign DECLARATION During the period of 1965-1973 more than 50,000 draft-age Americans made their way to Canada, refusing to participate in an immoral war. At the time, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau said: "Those who make the conscientious judgment that they must not participate in this war... have my complete sympathy, and indeed our political approach has been to give them access to Canada. Canada should be a refuge from militarism." Thirty years later, Canada is faced with the same moral choice to give refuge to those who refuse to be accomplices in the US-led war on Iraq which many legal opinions have deemed illegal under international law. There are currently at least two young people who have made their way to Canada in objection to the US government¹s war on Iraq. Jeremy Hinzman was a soldier in the 82nd Airborne Division. He and his family arrived in Toronto in January 2004 and are currently seeking refugee status. Brandon Hughey, a 19-year-old American soldier, arrived in St. Catharines two months later and is also seeking refugee status. Regardless of the technical decisions of the Immigration and Refugee Board, we believe Canada should not punish US war objectors for exercising their conscience and refusing to fight. If they are returned to the United States, they face incarceration and possibly even the death penalty. Canada must not facilitate the persecution of American war objectors by returning them to the United States. The majority of Canadians did not support this war. The Canadian government did not support this war. We call on the Canadian government to demonstrate its commitment to international law and the treaties to which it is a signatory, by making provision for US war objectors to have sanctuary in this country. June Callwood, journalist and broadcaster Shirley Douglas, actor Maude Barlow, author and activist David Suzuki, broadcaster and environmentalist Steven Bush, author, senior lecturer and war resister Anton Kuerti, musician Bill King, musician and war resister Heather Mallick, journalist Naomi Klein, author Jane Orion Smith, General Secretary, Canadian Friends Service Committee (Quakers) Margaret Clare Ford, Clerk, Canadian Friends Service Committee (Quakers) John Hagan, Professor of Law and war resister Gale Zoe Garnett, artist Zafar Bangash, scholar and journalist Wayne Samuelson, President, Ontario Federation of Labour Canadian Labour Congress Canadian Arab Federation Ron Hawkins, musician Buzz Hargrove, President, Canadian Auto Workers Paul Cliche, author and activist Amir Khadir, spokesperson, Union des Forces Progressistes, Québec ahdri zhina mandiela, theatre artist John Fraser, author Moyez G. Vassanji, author Anne-Marie MacDonald, author Fiona M.J. McCall, author and sailor ____________________________________________________________________________ Did a friend forward this to you? Join sust-mar yourself! Just send 'subscribe sust-mar' to mailto:majordomo@chebucto.ca
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