*** CAMPAIGN TO SCRAP THE SECURITY AND PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT!
The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) was founded
in March 2005 at a summit of the Heads of State of Canada, the US, and
Mexico. SPP is not an official treaty; it is not an official law;
therefore it has been able to escape any public scrutiny. The major drive
behind the SPP is a CEO-based organization, which is the only official
advisory group to governments on the SPP.
The SPP is a NAFTA-plus-Homeland-Security model and will involve the
harmonization of over 300 areas of regulations, including: integration of
the military and police, expansion of temporary worker programs as a means
of ensuring low wages, coordination of no-fly lists, expedited resource
extraction particularly oil and water on unceded indigenous territories,
and harmonization of health and environmental regulations to lower
standards and development of a North American alternative to the Kyoto
Protocol.
We believe that the SPP is a continuation of ongoing capitalist and
colonial policies- including that of the Canadian government’s- and will
bring greater insecurity and misery: murderous wars and occupations
abroad; border militarization; increased detentions and deportations;
attacks on indigenous peoples, the poor, migrants, and working people;
ecological destruction; and mega-projects in the service of corporate
greed.
Therefore we demand that the Security and Prosperity Partnership Agreement
be scrapped immediately!
Al-Awda Palestine Right of Return Coalition Vancouver
Anti Poverty Committee
Association of Chinese Canadians for Equality and Solidarity Society
B.C.Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines
BC Latin-American Collective
Bolivia Solidarity Committee
Building Bridges to Chiapas Human Rights Project
Bullaand Awwaz
Bus Riders Union
Café Rebelde Coalition
Check Your Head
CIPO-Vancouver (Popular Indigenous Council of Oaxaca)
Coast Salish Indigenous Action Group
Downtown Eastside Residents Association
Filipino-Canadian Youth Alliance-Vancouver (Ugnayan ng Kabataang Pilipino
sa Canada)
Filipino Nurses Support Group (British Columbia)
Grassroots Women
Group of Relatives and Friends of Political Prisoners in Mexico
Haiti Solidarity BC
Industrial Workers of the World
International Indigenous Youth Conference Secretariat
International Iranian Federation of Refugees
Justicia for Migrant Workers B.C
La Otra Campagna (The Other Campaign)- Vancouver
La Surda Latin American Collective
Latin America Connexions
New Socialist Group
Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala
No One Is Illegal-Vancouver
Philippine Women Centre of B.C.
Poets Against the War
Salaam-Vancouver
SIKLAB-B.C. (Advance the Rights & Welfare of Overseas Filipino Workers and
their Families)
Siraat Collective
South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy
Stopwar.ca
The Rational on Co-op Radio
Vancouver Socialist Forum
Vancouver Status of Women
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