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Immigrant detainees are being held indefinitely and without charge or trial in Lindsay’s maximum security jail. Unlike many of us, this Family Day, they will not be reuniting with their families. In fact, they are unable to see their families on most other days because Lindsay is inaccessible by public transport.

On February 16th, bring your family, young and old – sisters, fathers, sons, grandmothers and friends – and stand in solidarity with hundreds of families that are impacted by indefinite migrant detention, and the 100,000 more separated by detention over the past 8 years.

Where: The Central East Correctional Facility in Lindsay Ontario When: 4:00pm (buses leaving from Toronto, Peterborough, Guelph – scroll below to register and for details)

Everyone should be able to be with the people they love every day!

Canadian Immigration policy divides families. Only 5,000 parents or grandparents are admissible under family sponsorship, and their families must meet a minimum income bracket which is extremely high. Migrant workers come here to work, but cannot bring their families with them, even those that come to take care of children here in Canada. Parents held in indefinite detention are given the impossible choice of either giving their children up to social services or keeping them in detention. Federal immigration’s limited definition of what a family is means that many of us can never unite with those we love and call family. Families are torn apart by by indefinite detention and deportation – often times families are not even given a chance to say goodbye before a deportation.

This Family Day weekend, join us outside Lindsay jail with your families and friends to demand an end to an immigration system that criminalizes refugees, imprisons immigrants, exploits migrant workers, punishes poor people of colour, tears families apart, and prevents communities from reuniting. Demand the immediate establishment of a non-discriminatory, non-punitive, full and comprehensive immigrant regularization system. Demand freedom for the wrongly jailed, and an end to indefinite, arbitrary detention, with a 90 day maximum holding period for immigrant detainees pending deportation. Demand an end to maximum security holds, and a fair judicial review process.

Watch a video of 16 month old Alpha who has been in immigration prison his entire life; hear from fathers who are separated from their children and families; and learn more about the Campaign to End Indefinite Detention.

Coordinated by the Youth Committee of the End Immigration Detention Network

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The Jane-Finch community is among the many neighbourhoods in Toronto that Enbridge’s Line 9 runs through. Standing at the geograph­ical margins of the city, Jane-Finch is a low-income, racialized community that faces many challenges, including chronic unemployment and underemployment, targeted policing, and substandard housing. Not surprisingly, the community is routinely stereotyped and vilified. It also happens to be a hotbed of activism.

Line 9 currently carries conventional oil from Montreal to southern Ontario but is slated to transport bulkier Alberta tarsands oil and less stable Bakken crude oil in the opposite direction. The proposal to reverse the flow of the 38-year-old pipeline has been the subject of significant activism across Ontario. The fact that Enbridge’s proposal was approved by the National Energy Board without there being an environmental assessment has also generated concern. Errol Young of Jane-Finch Action Against Poverty says: “The Line 9 reversal adds to the environmental concerns faced by the community, including tank farms [oil depots] that create air pollution and result in a constant movement of giant trucks carrying gasoline on our roads.” The prospect of a spill is highly distressing as the pipeline passes close to homes, shopping malls, schools, health centres, and a subway line under construction.

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Those taking their trespassing charges to trial from Swamp Line 9 in June 2013 will be appearing in court over the next week.

Rad cat Keisha Neoma-Quinn is first up! She will be pleading NOT Guilty and defending herself against the charge of Trespassing this Wednesday April 30th!

We all know who...

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STOP KEYSTONE XL

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We, citizens from around the world, were encouraged when Secretary Kerry said that climate change is perhaps the world's most fearsome Weapon of Mass Destruction, and committed to provide US leadership to stop it. We call on you to now to reject the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline to uphold that leadership. The world is calling on you to act -- this decision is a referendum on your leadership to protect our planet.

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Right now, the US government is mulling over the defining climate decision of Obama's presidency -- whether to approve a monstrous pipeline that will transport up to 830,000 barrels a day of the world's dirtiest oil from Canada across the US. If approved, the Keystone XL pipeline will help pump billions of dollars into the pockets of a few companies... but also millions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere. It's been called "a fuse to the biggest carbon bomb on the planet". Bold public action has delayed it once, and a court ruling last week has dealt a serious blow to the project. Now, if we act fast and in massive numbers, we can help kill it for good. The US Secretary of State, responsible for the US's relationship with the world, has opened a final round of comments from the public. Let's flood the consultation with a million signatures and messages from every country calling on Kerry to kill Keystone and save the planet. We only have days until it closes - sign now!

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Coast Salish United In Opposition to Pipeline Project

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Coast Salish Tribes and Nations from the U.S. and Canada applying for intervenor status in the NEB's hearings into Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline application. Kinder Morgan Pipeline Threatens Ecology and Economy of Salish Tribes Tribes on Both Sides of the Border Intervene in Proceeding to Address Tanker Traffic and Oil Spill Risks Seattle, WA & Vancouver, BC, Coast Salish Territories; February 13, 2014 - Opposition to Kinder Morgan's TransMountain proposed pipeline project ramped up today as Coast Salish peoples on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border vowed to oppose the project as intervenors before Canada's National Energy Board (NEB). Coast Salish intervenors include the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, Tulalip Tribes, Lummi Nation, and Suquamish Tribe in Washington State, and the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations in British Columbia. The deadline for application to participate in the NEB process was last night at midnight. "Over the last 100 years, our most sacred site, the Salish Sea, has been deeply impacted by our pollution-based economy," said Swinomish Chairman Brian Cladoosby. "Every kind of pollution ends up in the Salish Sea. We have decided no more and we are stepping forward. It is up to this generation and future generations to restore and protect the precious waters of the Salish Sea." "Our people are bound together by our deep connection to Burrard Inlet and the Salish Sea. We are the 'People of the Inlet' and we are united in our resolve to protect our land, water and air from this risky project," said Chief Maureen Thomas of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation. "We will use all lawful means to oppose it. This is why we have applied to intervene in the NEB hearing process." In December, Kinder Morgan filed an application with the NEB to build a new pipeline to bring tar sands oil from Alberta to Vancouver, B.C. The NEB is the Canadian federal agency that regulates interprovincial energy infrastructure. They are responsible for reviewing, recommending and regulating major energy projects, such as the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline. If approved, the proposal would see the transport of tar sands oil expanded from its present level of approximately 300,000 barrels per day to 890,000 barrels per day. With an almost seven-fold increase in oil tankers moving through the shared waters of the Salish Sea, an increase in groundings, accidents, incidents, leaks and oil spills is inevitable. Experts have acknowledged that a serious oil spill would devastate an already-stressed marine environment and likely lead to collapses in the remaining salmon stocks and further contamination of shellfish beds, wiping out Indigenous fishing rights. "The fishing grounds of the Salish Sea are the lifeblood of our peoples. We cannot sit idly by while these waters are threatened by reckless increases in oil tanker traffic and increased risk of catastrophic oil spill," said Mel Sheldon, Chairman of the Tulalip Tribes. The proposed tar sands pipeline expansion is one of several projects that would dramatically increase the passage of tankers, bulk carriers, and other vessels through Salish Sea shipping routes and adjacent waters on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border. In addition to oil, regulators in both countries are reviewing controversial proposals to export huge quantities of U.S. coal. Taken together, these projects would greatly increase the risk of oil spills and other accidents that threaten the Coast Salish economies and cultures. "Today we are taking a stand to honour our ancient connection to the Salish Sea. The threat of oil spills and industrial pollution continue to threaten our way of life," said Chief Ian Campbell of the Squamish Nation. "We stand in unity with all who care about the health of the Salish Sea and defend it for future generations." Chairman Timothy Ballew III of the Lummi Nation stated, "I am a fisherman, a father and a member of the great Lummi Nation. As the northernmost Washington Treaty Tribe of the Boldt Decision, we are the stewards the Salish Sea and will not allow the Kinder Morgan proposal along our waterways that will threaten our harvesting areas and further the detrimental impacts to the environment and natural resources." -30- Contacts: Debra Lekanoff, Swinomish Indian Tribal Community: (306) 381-5296 Francesca Hillery, Tulalip Tribes: (360) 716-4013 Communications - Squamish Nation: (604) 980-4553 Sarah Thomas, Tsleil-Waututh Nation: (604) 358-3371 Jan Hasselman, Earthjustice: (206) 343.7340 x1025

hey all you super swampers – we’ve got TWO court dates coming up we hope you can join us for!

we know it can be hard to get out to these things (especially when banned from the courthouse… ) but these rad peeps could use some support after months of…well, sitting around courtroom 100.

Join ‘em...

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We need this leadership in Toronto.

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No more NAFTA — 20 Years is Enough!

On January 31, 2014, Communities throughout Mexico, Canada and the United States will join together to say “ENOUGH!” to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and other corporate “trade” deals. They will do this in solidarity with with an important conference in Mexico City on the catastrophic impacts of NAFTA on Mexico and the need for a radically new trade model for the continent and beyond.

January 2014 marks the twenty-year anniversary of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), a pact that has had devastating consequences for working families, small farmers, indigenous peoples, small business and the environment in all three countries and beyond. The pending Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has been described as “NAFTA on Steroids.” Four years into the TPP negotiations, this new corporate power grab threatens to:

Destroy livelihoods and accelerate the global race to the bottom in wages and working conditions

Further commodify agriculture, trample food sovereignty, hurt small farmers and contribute to forced migration

Enable new corporate attacks on democratically-enacted environmental and consumer protections

Undermine global economic stability by prohibiting effective regulation of financial markets

Reduce access to life-saving generic medications, increase the costs of prescriptions, and restrict freedom on the Internet

The harm that NAFTA has already cost our communities, and the new threats that the TPP poses, must be both acknowledged and resisted. We also need to spread the word that since NAFTA, when people have come together across issue areas and across geographic borders, we have defeated similar corporate power grabs like the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), the Millennial Round of the World Trade Organization, and the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). We will do so again with the TPP.

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MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

" While we urge our government to disengage itself from a disgraceful commitment, we must continue to raise our voices and our lives if our nation persists in its perverse ways in Vietnam. We must be prepared to match actions with words by seeking out every creative method of protest possible. These are the times for real choices and not false ones. We are at the moment when our lives must be placed on the line if our nation is to survive its own folly. Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest. Now, there is something seductively tempting about stopping there and sending us all off on what in some circles has become a popular crusade against the war in Vietnam. I say we must enter that struggle, but I wish to go on now to say something even more disturbing. The war in Vietnam is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit, and if we ignore this sobering reality —- and if we ignore this sobering reality, we will find ourselves organizing clergy— and laymen-concerned committees for the next generation. They will be concerned about Guatemala and Peru. They will be concerned about Thailand and Cambodia. They will be concerned about Mozambique and South Africa. We will be marching for these and a dozen other names and attending rallies without end, unless there is a significant and profound change in American life and policy. So such thoughts take us beyond Vietnam, but not beyond our calling as sons of the living God. In 1957, a sensitive American official overseas said that it seemed to him that our nation was on the wrong side of a world revolution. During the past 10 years, we have seen emerge a pattern of suppression, which has now justified the presence of U.S. military "advisers" in Venezuela. This need to maintain social stability for our investments accounts for the counterrevolutionary action of American forces in Guatemala. It tells why American helicopters are being used against guerrillas in Cambodia and why American napalm and Green Beret forces have already been active against rebels in Peru. It is with such activity in mind that the words of the late John F. Kennedy come back to haunt us. Five years ago, he said, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." Increasingly, by choice or by accident, this is the role our nation has taken, the role of those who make peaceful revolution impossible by refusing to give up the privileges and the pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investments. I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin — we must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered. A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. On the one hand, we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life’s roadside, but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life’s highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth with righteous indignation. It will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say, "This is not just." It will look at our alliance with the landed gentry of South America and say, "This is not just." The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just. A true revolution of values will lay a hand on the world order and say of war, "This way of settling differences is not just." This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation’s homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. America, the richest and most powerful nation in the world, can well lead the way in this revolution of values. There is nothing, except a tragic death wish, to prevent us from reordering our priorities, so that the pursuit of peace will take precedence over the pursuit of war. " - Martin Luther King Jr. April 4th, 1967

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ACTIVISTS SHUT DOWN A LINE 9 CONSTRUCTION SITE IN TORONTO

Tensions are running high around Enbridge’s Line 9 reversal plan, and it appears as if they’ve started construction before government approval has been issued.

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CONDOMAXIUM.

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ENBRIDGE’S LINE 9 PIPELINE COULD BE CATASTROPHIC FOR ONTARIO AND QUEBEC

This whole situation bears a disturbing resemblance to the monorail episode of The Simpsons.

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COLD SWEAT NO REQUESTS, no regrets - JUST COLD SWEAT. ft. RUBIE AND THE PEARL GEE$ DJ MARY MACK GLITCLIT ( and a very special guest headliner ) DJ STRONG-LIKE performances from : People Tanning SPAWNOFSID projections from the hands of Peter Rahul @ creatures || crawl 822 DUNDAS ST W

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  CATCH DJ STRONG-LIKE’S ALTER EGO AT AGO FIRST THURSDAYS TOMORROW NIGHT!

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Maybe a little bit of choir action too?

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Eight people locked themselves to construction equipment and a work trailer Monday to block construction of the Keystone XL pipeline near Seminole.