Rally Against Harper: Say No to Billion$ on War and Fighter Jets

Harper's holding a "Rally for Canada" in Burnaby Sat... Let's show him we oppose his spending on war and occupation instead of on human needs.


Saturday, April 16 · 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: 3030 Gilmore Diversion, off Canada Way
Burnaby, British Columbia

Please spread the word and make plans to join us Saturday.


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Links for further info

-Canadian Peace Alliance page:

http://www.acp-cpa.ca/en/April9.html

-$30 Billion on fighter jets = election issue:

http://stopwarblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/monday-for-people-not-for-fighter-jets.html

-"Kill Teams in Afghanistan: The Truth, by Malalai Joya:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/mar/30/kill-team-photos-afghanistan-us


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Background on the war: Harper lied, Canadians and Afghans died

Time and time again, Stephen Harper assured the public that Canadian troops would withdraw from Afghanistan in 2011. Up to 1000 Canadian military staff will be staying until at least 2014...

The war in Afghanistan has reached new levels of brutality. Civilian casualties spiked in 2010 and the rate of killing is increasing each month. It's time for it to end. After almost ten years of occupation and a half a trillion dollars spent by NATO, Afghanistan still suffers from a lack of basic services and a corrupt NATO backed government.

The statistics are shocking. According to the Afghan Rights Monitor: “Almost everything related to the war surged in 2010: the combined numbers of Afghan and foreign forces surpassed 350,000; security incidents mounted to over 100 per week; more fighters from all warring side were killed; and the number of civilian people killed, wounded and displaced hit record levels.”

The NATO forces continue with air strikes that kill civilians such as during the 4 days of attacks on Ghazi Abad which started on February 16 and killed more than 60 civilians - 30 of which were children. In a single two week period between the 12th and 26th of February, 200 civilians were killed.

The Canadian deployment of another 1000 soldiers to act as trainers will only compound the problems faced by the Afghan people. Any support for the corrupt regime of Hamid Karzai works against the aspirations of the Afghan people to live in a free and democratic society.