Showing posts with label heather reisman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label heather reisman. Show all posts

March 29, 2008

Activism: Reminder to boycott Chapters

Heather Reiman has her fingers in MANY pies.

boycotting Chapters is important for many reasons - Isreali Apartheid being one - her membership on the SPP committe (CCCE membership) being another ..

Support local bookstores!! I do as is possible.

The purposely built Chapter's stories to keep out the disabled.

Figures.

Veeger


Report on a Canadian initiated boycott against Chapters and Indigo Bookstores - their President/CEO/Major shareholder is funding the Israeli military.

All the material here has been taken from the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (caiaweb.org) leaflets[1] on the subject - slightly modified to include the launch by "Boycott Israeli Apartheid Campaign" of a picket outside Chapters Bookstore in Vancouver on 12 May 2007.[2]

[1]CAMPAIGN LEAFLET: http://www.caiaweb.org/files/indigo_leaflet_revised_jan_07.pdf
HESEG FACTSHEET: http://www.caiaweb.org/files/website1_HESEG_factsheet_v2.3.pdf

[2]http://www.newsocialist.org/index.php?id=1248


Boycott Chapters & Indigo


Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid
7 February 2007



Picket outside Indigo, Toronto 17 Feb 2007

The majority shareholders of Chapters and Indigo Bookstores, Heather Reisman and Gerry Schwartz, established a fund called Heseg – Foundation for Lone Soldiers – a program of financial support for former “lone soldiers’ in the Israeli military.
The Israeli military is responsible for war crimes in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Lebanon.

Do not buy any products from Indigo, Chapters, World’s Biggest Bookstore, SmithBooks, Coles, The Book Company or Indigospirit until their controlling owners publicly announce that they will cut all financial ties to Heseg – the Foundation for Lone Soliders.

Cutting the Ties to Israeli Apartheid
Indigo/Chapters Boycott Launch - 23 Dec 2006




Picket outside Indigo, Toronto 17 Feb 2007

This report was conducted and produced by Mostafa Henaway of ckut 903 fm in montreal, and CKLN 881FM in Toronto.

DownloadMP3 (9.5Mb)


Many members of the Heseg Board are high-ranking Israeli military personnel. This includes Doron Almog, who avoided arrest in London last year by refusing to disembark from his plane because of a warrant issued for his arrest on suspicion of war crimes..

Heather Reisman and Gerry Schwartz own or control over 68 percent of the shares in Indigo Books and Music Inc. which owns and operates bookstores under the names Indigo, Chapters, World’s Biggest Bookstore, SmithBooks, Coles, The Book Company or Indigospirit. Reisman is chair and CEO of Indigo Books and Music Inc.



Picket outside Indigo, Toronto 17 Feb 2007

February 12, 2008

Heather Reisman watch. ACT NOW

PLEASE PHONE OR WRITE:

Reisman-Sponsored Haifa/UW Exchange Program


Many thanks to the Students for Palestinian Rights at the University of Waterloo for quickly addressing this problem. Now we need to step in and lend our support, especially if you are a UW alumni.
Heather Reisman and Gerry Schwartz of Chapters Indigo have made a $500,000. donation to the University of Waterloo to pay for a tuition-free student exchange program between Haifa University and the University of Waterloo. To give Waterloo students a true picture of what is happening in Palestine/Israel SFPR has asked that the exchange also include time at Birzeit University and Palestinian areas. Anne Pidduck the co-coordinator of the program said she is doubtful that tours of the OT will be offered since it's a High Risk area. (Plus the road to Birzeit has recently been blocked.)
Personally, I think UW should return the donation and not participate in this exchange. It will be used as a propaganda effort with far reaching consequences. Reisman and Schwartz are grooming UW students to be pro-Israel for when they graduate and take up influential positions in Canada. A similar case in point - the Ontario Chiefs of police and other senior officials who participated in a police trip to Israel are now in powerful positions such as most of the executive of the Ontario Chiefs of Police Association and head of the OPP etc.
Please see the full story of the Haifa/UW exchange program, information links and phone numbers in the email BELOW.
In addition, you may also wish to contact the

president of the University of Waterloo,
David L. Johnston at 519-888-4400,
president@uwaterloo.ca ,
University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1 http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infopres/HTML/president.html .
In order to win people over to our concerns, please state your case logically and politely. Overly emotional or rude calls can alienate the people we are trying to educate.
Thanks.

Nours Arab wrote:
To: Nidah@yahoogroups.com
CC: "Rami Alhamad" <hmd.rami@gmail.com>,
"Susan Howard-Azzeh" <susanha103@yahoo.ca>
From: "Nours Arab" <noursa@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:01:45 -0500
Subject: [Nidah] Concern Over Reisman-Sponsored Haifa/UofW Exchange Program

In early January, Students for Palestinian Rights (SFPR), a student club at the University of Waterloo (UW) noticed posters all around the university about a University of Waterloo-University of Haifa exchange program, which boasted that the term spent at Haifa would be tuition-free. Gerry Schwartz, CEO of the Onex Corporation, and Heather Reisman, CEO of Indigo Books and Music were covering the bill with a $500,000 donation. You can read more about this donation directly from the UWaterloo buletin: http://www.bulletin.uwaterloo.ca/2006/oct/03tu.html

As many of you may be aware, there are existing efforts to promote boycott of Indigo/Chapters/Coles because of previous stances/actions taken by the CEO couple. You can get more details about the boycott effort from the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid's Chapters Boycott website at http://www.caiaweb.org/indigoboycott. In short, Reisman and Schwartz are the founders of the Heseg Foundation, which provides scholarships to "lone" Israeli soldiers. You can see the Heseg Foundation here: http://www.heseg.com/.

Having learned about the Schwartz-Reisman-funded exchange program at the University of Waterloo, SFPR decided to distribute flyers about Israel's discriminatory policy, specifically in the education sector. These flyers were distributed outside the exchange program's information session. This was effectively a very peaceful and professional protest, which was covered by the university paper: http://imprint.uwaterloo.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2140

During this protest, SFPR was offered the opportunity to speak to UW administration. Two SFPR members met with Anne Pidduck, the UW Co-ordinator of the exchange program. SFPR was hoping to ensure that minimally the program does not act as a propaganda tool that gives a one-sided picture of Israel. After negotiations with the UW administration, UW expressed willingness to allow SFPR to co-host future information sessions to ensure that interested students are given a fuller picture of Israel and take that into consideration before participating in the program. It must be noted that the UW administration did not consult any student body before accepting this money. However, they appeared to have been expecting a response but having little concern about it. They placed us in this reactionary position as opposed to being included in the decision process.

SFPR would love to have the support of UW Alumni in contacting the University of Waterloo .

The contact info for people you may want to call and express your concern to regarding the exchange program donation are:

Martin Van Nierop

Communications & Public Affairs
+1 519-888-4881 or 519-888-4567 x84881

Anne Pidduck

School of Computer Science
+1 519-888-4567 x34662

July 31, 2007

Canada’s Largest Bookstore Retailer Bans Book Which Reveals

North American Union Agenda to Canadians


http://stopspp.com/stopspp/?p=152

By Peter Tremblay

Are you a concerned Canadian who is seeking a copy of the book entitled Traitors Among Us: The Betrayers of Canada in a Canadian bookstore. Well, you will not find a copy at Indigo Books. The ownership of Indigo books is associated with Canada’s largest corporations, that in turn, have reportedly sought to conceal information from Canadians about the North American Union (NAU) agenda.

The book entitled Traitors Among Us: The Betrayers of Canada features a compilation of articles from The Canadian National Newspaper. These articles both expose and also challenge an apparent assumption by many of Canada’s corporate and political elites. This apparent assumption, championed by large mass-media conglomerates in Canada like CanWest Global, is that the only “rational” course for Canadian society, is to assimilate itself into the U.S. political-military-industrial complex.

Canada, has been championed as an alternative society to “America” since time immoral. As Canada has evolved, since its cultural-political inception since 1535, the essence of its society has taken a distinctively socially progressive national identity. Jean Talon, Canada’s first Intendant in the “ancien regime” of New France, envisioned Canada as a Great and Powerful State, that was critically inspired by the Old World aboriginal civilizations of Canada, in synergy with “Old World” values of Europe. Prime Ministers of Canada before Brian Mulroney had all rejected so-called “Free Trade”, out of a now further substantiated concern that Canada’s vital social fabric and independence from the United States would be destroyed. Tommy Douglas’ championing of universal medicare vitally further affirmed Canada’s distinctively progressive social fabric. Former Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau, sought to further embrace the progressive identity of Canada, by seeking to champion the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He did that, in his efforts, as a Great Canadian, to fulfill Canada’s destiny as a Just Society, which would operate as a role model for the rest of the world.

In sharp contrast, current Prime Minister Harper cannot see any role for Canada other than that of participating in international affairs as a puppet of American Empire via “Globalization”.

Historically, the American Revolution had sought to destroy a connection to “Old World” values, symbolized by cultural-political ties with Britain. America’s elites sought to create an assimilating “melting pot”, which would be created by the idolizing of a gun culture of violence associated with the American Revolution, which has further embraced militaristic jingoism.

Canada’s political leadership, sought in response to the American Revolutionary context, to cultivate a society of “Peace, Order and Good Government” which would inspire a society that recognized the ideal of ‘civility’ in the development of our cities as communities; and where there was a positive constructive role for government in societal development. That sought role fundamentally embraces further adopted tenets of appreciating for example, multiculturalism, and ‘universality’ in relation to a comprehensive one-tier public healthcare system, within social justice, in general. That socially responsible role of government has vitally contributed to a reputed much better quality-of-life in Canada, as compared to the United States, which is plagued by horrific segregated poverty alongside elite affluence, and by accompanying prevalent violent crime in its cities.

Many of Canada’s corporate and political elites under the clandestine agenda of efforts to create a so-called “North American Union”, (apparently by any means necessary), seek to destroy Canada.

Canada’s corporate and political elites used to be among the greatest defenders of the need to defend Canada’s sovereignty. The elites had recognized that their institutions were the very creatures of the aggressive defence of Canadian institutions. These recognition among institutions included representatives of wealthy financial institutions, to smaller community-oriented initiatives and public agencies. However, thanks to former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney’s successful proselytizing of greed and venality, to once politically loyal elites, via the “benefits” of “Free Trade” with the United States, much of these elites now elect to sell Canada out.

Prime Minister Brain Mulroney had dysfunctionally inspired a new generation of greed-driven mercenaries who operate in the mass-media, in the likes of CanWest Global owners (who help fund the Conservative Party), TorStar, Quebecor Sun Media, and other such neo-conservative public relations outlets. Only BellGlobe Media, inclusive of the Globe and Mail, CTV, and CHUM, (as well as in particular, a handful of community and campus media outlets) have maintained any semblance of journalistic integrity, in the present sea of elite-managed propaganda.

Canada’s corporate and political elites now linked to the U.S. religious-political-military-industrial complex, which is operating in overtime, is trying to convince Canadians to accept the dysfunctional polices of the Harper neo-conservative minority government toward an elite sought right-wing majority government.

Dysfunctional policies which are supported by current Prime Minister Harper’s allies, include presiding over the sabotage of Canada’s universal public healthcare system to destroying treasured Canadian institutions like the well renown Wheat Board, so as to cause Canadian farmers to be ruled by U.S. agri-business privatization agenda. Additional policies include ignoring the plight of growing poor communities in Canada which include women, homeless peoples, immigrants, and aboriginal peoples, and also reckless pro-Global Warming policies.

The ‘Canadian Dream’ refers to the evolved collective aspirations of Canadians, as inspired by such recognized Great Canadians as Tommy Douglas and Pierre Elliot Trudeau, to fulfill the national destiny of Canada, as a socially independent society, that is independent from the United States. The prevailing systematized efforts to sabotage the achievement of the ‘Canadian Dream’, is the apparent betrayal of Canada to a traitorous agenda.

Source: AgoraCosmopolitan.com

Related:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Reisman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onex_Corporation

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