Defend free speech on Palestine! Canadians  Tell your MPs: Oppose Conservative motion that attacks Israeli Apartheid Week! Palestine Supporters worldwide, please email as well.

Conservative Member of Parliament Tim Uppal (Edmonton - Sherwood Park) has announced that he will introduce a motion in the House of Commons next week that condemns Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW), a series of campus-based educational events that takes place at universities and colleges all over the world (see below the text of Uppal's motion). Uppal's motion also condemns the use of the term "apartheid" in any discussion or debate about Israel.

If Uppal's motion passes, it will represent an unprecedented attack on free speech in Canada. That it has even been proposed, however, is also a clear sign of the strength and exponential growth of the Palestinian-led solidarity campaign grounded in the 2005 call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) of Israel.

Dear Dominion supporters and contributors

As one month has passed since the 7.0-magnitude earthquake rocked
Haiti on January 12, the world’s attention is beginning to shift away from a
situation and a people who require a global commitment to solidarity now, more
than ever.

 At the Dominion and Media
Co-op, we have been striving to both undertake and provide an outlet for critical
coverage of un(der)-reported stories from the ground in Haiti and here in
Canada. 

http://www.mediacoop.ca/story/2494

http://www.mediacoop.ca/video/2495

http://www.dominionpaper.ca/haiticonference

LATEST NEWS ABOUT -

The NHP regs already in place -
http://nhppa.org/?page_id=37
Protecting access to Natural Health Products -
http://nhppa.org/?page_id=37#04
Immediate Threat to the Natural Health Products Industry -
http://nhppa.org/?page_id=37#05
Other Threats facing the Natural Health Product Industry -
http://nhppa.org/?page_id=37#07

Health Freedom Timeline: A Brief History of NHP regs in Canada, Where We Are Now & the upcoming deadline
http://www.charterofhealthfreedom.org/index.php?/health-control-timeline

Part of GETTING ACTIVE means staying connected with the greater natural health community on this issue:
http://www.suspendandreview.com/apps/links/

Health Action Network Society: NHP Regs News -
http://www.hans.org/magazine/c/139/NHP_Regulations

Jan 2010 - 2011 (national across Canada) -

Countdown to the Natural Health Product (NHP) registration deadline under current regulations

OPEN LETTER - Kay Gilderdale Trial
emailed & original being sent by caregiver

January 8, 2010
Keir Starmer QC,
Director of Public Prosecutions,
50 Ludgate Hill, London
EC4M 7EX.

Dear Mr Starmer:

As a victim of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.) since 1991 and being bed and house confined, mostly bed, and require caregiver services to keep me alive, and a concerned fellow human being, I am writing to state and request that it is not in the public interest to prosecute Kay Gilderdale and I am pleading with you to please intervene and drop the case.

Thursday 7 January 2009 – Convoy Reaches Gaza!

WE HAVE BROKEN
THE SIEGE!

The Viva
Palestine and PSC aid convoy arrived in
Gaza last night
at about 19:00pm, with thousands of Palestinians greeting and cheering the
convoy to welcome them.

URGENT: Support the Gaza Freedom March!
Please call the Egyptian Embassy in Ottawa and the Egyptian Consulate in Montreal.

This is a call to all Canadians of conscience.

As many of you may know, Egypt has placed a ban on the Gaza Freedom March (GFM), a group of 1,362 people representing 42 different countries, and the conscience of humanity. They aim to end the siege of Gaza, which imprisons a population of 1.5 million innocent civilians who suffer in despicable ways, and they wish to bring to Gaza desperately needed humanitarian supplies including winter coats for children and specialized baby formula for infants with digestive problems, which Israel has banned from entering Gaza.

MEDIA ADVISORY - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -CANADIANS AT RISK IN CAIRO

Later this morning, Thursday, December 31, beginning at 10 am nore than 50 Canadians will be particpating in an illegal march from Cairo to Gaza to break the blockade of Gaza.

The Canadian government has said they will not provide assistance should marchers face prosecution or arrest.

The Canadians are part of the Gaza Freedom March brings over 1300 people from more than 43 countries to join Palestinians of Gaza in a non-violent mass march to the Israeli border.

Location details will be relased shortly prior to the march given the heavy police presence in Cairo.

I am so grateful to all that have been able to make this journey as well as those who are backing it with supplies etc. , there are so many of us for our own reasons who could not go on the Gaza March and who would have wanted to.

Though all the hardships and government's corruption to stop you to get to the people of Gaza/Palestine it is our hope that you get through, a recent update said it may be by water costing the Gaza March Convoy thousands of dollars even if possible, Israel doesn't want anyone around the Gaza gas fields, so I thought that an odd option given by Egypt, or it has been mentioned it may come down to passing the supplies through only. I pray, and write emails to my Canadian MP's and Egyptian Embassy here and in Egypt,  to do something to make sure you at least temporarily break the seige of Gaza once again, and that soon in the future the new wall that the USA, Israel and Eygpt are building get's stopped before it is completed and torn down.

Subject: latest report from Cairo distribute widely  *****  urgent*****
by Wendy Goldsmith