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Feminist News / Women's Equality in Spain
« on: October 09, 2006, 02:36:11 PM »
In Spain, women are shaping a cultural revolution
Molly Moore, The Washington Post

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MADRID - When Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega graduated from law school in the 1970s, Spanish law prohibited her -- and any other woman -- from becoming a judge, serving as a witness in court or opening a bank account.

Today, the angular, outspoken 57-year-old is Spain's first female vice president, helping orchestrate a cultural revolution in the boardrooms and living rooms of the country that coined the word machismo -- male chauvinism -- five centuries ago.

"We have a prime minister who not only says he's a feminist -- he acts like a feminist," Fernandez said in her cavernous office of polished wood floors and cream-colored sofas. "In 2 1/2 years, we have done more than has ever been done in such a short time in Spain."

Her Socialist government is requiring political parties to allot 40 percent of their candidate lists to women and is telling big companies to give women 40 percent of the seats on corporate boards. Half of Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriquez Zapatero's Cabinet members are women -- the highest proportion in any European government.

New divorce laws not only make it easier for couples to split, but stipulate that marital obligations require men to share the housework equally with their wives.

Read full article here  http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/15710011.htm


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Activism / Action to Support Court Challenges Program (Oct 4 deadline)
« on: September 28, 2006, 10:32:27 PM »
Action to Support Court Challenges Program (Oct 2nd deadline)

Web version available at http://dawn.thot.net/ccp/

Below you will find links to a letter to the Prime Minister and several background documents regarding the Court Challenges Program. A Steering Committee representative of both language rights and equality rights communities has prepared these materials and is asking that you do the following:

* Inform CCD by noon of Monday, October 2nd if you or your organization are willing to be listed as either a supporting organization or individual on this letter, or both.

Send your confirmations of support to [email:2j27k8r3]april@ccdonline.ca[/email:2j27k8r3] along with your contact information.  Your endorsement should indicate the full name (not simply an acronym) of the organization in both English and French if you choose, as well as the full spelling of your name and title if you wish it included.

* Circulate this letter to others that have not received it and encourage their support. There will be follow up letters to the Prime Minister. We are seeking as many names as possible by Monday but do not stop seeking endorsements of the letter, there will be other opportunities for organizations and individuals to support this work.

* Write your own letter as an individual or organization to the Prime Minister and forward a copy for our records to [email:2j27k8r3]april@ccdonline.ca[/email:2j27k8r3]

* Write your own Member of Parliament and send her or him a copy of the letter to the Prime Minister. We will circulate the final letter to the Prime Minister with endorsements to you on Monday afternoon.

Sign on to the Letter to the Prime Minister in Support of the Court Challenges Program
http://dawn.thot.net/ccp/ccp1.html


The Court Challenges Program: An Important Access to Justice Institution
http://dawn.thot.net/ccp/ccp2.html


The Court Challenges Program: An Effective and Accountable Institution
http://dawn.thot.net/ccp/ccp3.html


The History of the Court Challenges Program
http://dawn.thot.net/ccp/ccp4.html


Thanks!

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News / Where's the media on NAU - North American Union???
« on: September 28, 2006, 04:30:50 PM »
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Here's a series of articles on the North American Union collected over the last 5 months ...  check out the influential list of Canadian Participants at the secret meetings held in Banff in the summer. If that doesn't scare you, the topic should...


1. Bush sneaking North American superstate without oversight?
Mexico, Canada partnership underway with no authorization from Congress
by Jerome R. Corsi, WorldNetDaily, June 13, 2006

Despite having no authorization from Congress, the Bush administration has launched extensive working-group activity to implement a trilateral agreement with Mexico and Canada.

The membership of the working groups has not been published, nor has their work product been disclosed, despite two years of massive effort within the executive branches of the U.S., Mexico and Canada. >>

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2. Tancredo confronts 'super-state' effort
Demands full disclosure of White House work with Mexico, Canada
WorldNetDaily, June 15, 2006

Responding to a WorldNetDaily report, Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., is demanding the Bush administration fully disclose the activities of an office implementing a trilateral agreement with Mexico and Canada that apparently could lead to a North American union, despite having no authorization from Congress.

As WND reported, the White House has established working groups, under the North American Free Trade Agreement office in the Department of Commerce, to implement the Security and Prosperity Partnership, or SPP, signed by President Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox and then-Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin in Waco, Texas, March 23, 2005. >>

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3. Kansas City customs port considered Mexican soil?
WND investigation finds new evidence U.S. facility to be on foreign territory
by Jerome R. Corsi, WorldNetDaily, July 5, 2006

A Mexican customs facility planned for Kansas City's inland port may have to be considered the sovereign soil of Mexico as part of an effort to lure officials in that country into cooperating with the Missouri development project.

Despite adamant denials by Kansas City Area Development Council officials, WND has obtained e-mails and other documents from top executives with the KCSmartPort project that suggest such a facility would by necessity be considered Mexican territory · despite its presence in the heartland of the U.S. >>

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4. 'No EU in U.S.'
Tony Snow responds to warnings about North American superstate
by Les Kinsolving, WorldNetDaily, July 12, 2006

Presidential press secretary Tony Snow yesterday emphatically stated that there would be no "EU in the U.S." when asked about administration efforts to more closely integrate state relations between Canada, Mexico and the U.S.

As WorldNetDaily reported, some critics of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America have said the program, though supposedly beneficial to the U.S., will lead to a North American superstate similar to the European Union, open borders, loss of sovereignty and even a common currency.  >>

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5. Feds stonewalling on 'superstate' plan?
Agency fails to respond to FOIA request on 'North American union'
WorldNetDaily, July 19, 2006

The U.S. Department of Commerce appears to be stonewalling a Freedom of Information Act request to obtain complete disclosure of a congressionally unauthorized plan to implement a trilateral agreement with Mexico and Canada that apparently could lead to a North American union.

The plan is being implemented through an office within the Department of Commerce as the "Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America," under the direction of Geri Word, who is listed as working in the department's North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, office.  >>

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6. Congressman presses on 'superstate' plan
Asks Bush administration to fully disclose its activities
WorldNetDaily, July 19, 2006

A congressman is pressing the Department of Commerce to fully disclose a congressionally unauthorized plan to implement a trilateral agreement with Mexico and Canada that critics say could lead to a North American union.

Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., chairman of the Subcommittee on Management, Integration and Oversight of the House Committee on Homeland Security, wrote July 11 to Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez requesting detailed disclosure of working groups in the Security & Prosperity Partnership office within his department. >> >>

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7. Senator ditches bill tied to 'superstate'
Makes decision after WND points out link to 'North American Union'
by Jerome R. Corsi, WorldNetDaily, July 25, 2006

Responding to information from WorldNetDaily, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, has taken steps to ensure the Senate will not act on a bill that would further a plan to create a European Union-style alliance in North America.

Cornyn made the decision after WND pointed out Friday the legislation · the North American Investment Fund Act · would constitute an attempt to pass a key piece of American University Professor Robert Pastor's plan to create a "North American Union."  >>

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8. Feds finally release info on 'superstate'
Asked to disclose details of plan that could form 'North American Union'
WorldNetDaily, July 26, 2006

After missing a deadline, the U.S. Department of Commerce finally has granted a Freedom of Information Act request to obtain complete disclosure of a congressionally unauthorized plan to implement a trilateral agreement with Mexico and Canada that critics say could lead to a EU-style alliance in North America.

The plan is being implemented through an office within the Department of Commerce called the "Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America," under the direction of Geri Word, who is listed as working in the agency's North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, office.  >>

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9. North American merger topic of secret confab
Meeting on integration of U.S., Mexico, Canada brings together top officials
WorldNetDaily, September 20, 2006

Raising more suspicions about plans for the future integration of the U.S., Canada and Mexico, a high-level, top-secret meeting of the North American Forum took place this month in Banff with topics ranging from "A Vision for North America," "Opportunities for Security Cooperation" and "Demographic and Social Dimensions of North American Integration."

While the conference took place a week ago, only now are documents about participants and agenda items leaking out.  >>

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10. North American Forum agenda
Program of secretive high-level meeting in Canada
WorldNetDaily, September 21, 2006

Draft Detailed September 1, 2006 Agenda
Internal Document
North American Forum
Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel
Banff, Alberta
September 12-14, 2006 >>

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11. Attendance list North American forum
Donald Rumsfeld, George Schultz among U.S. officials on roster
WorldNetDaily, September 21, 2006

NORTH AMERICAN FORUM CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS
(Internal Document, Not for Public Release)
Report dated August 31, 2006

Forum Co-Chairs

Canadian Participants

American Participants

Mexican Participants

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12. North America confab 'undermines' democracy
Attendee of high-level meeting says officials wanted to hide it from public
by Jerome R. Corsi, WorldNetDaily, September 21, 2006

A closed-door meeting of high-level government and business leaders that discussed the merger of North America was designed to subvert the democratic process, charged an attendee of the confab in Banff, Canada.

Mel Hurtig, a noted Canadian author and publisher who was the elected leader of the National Party of Canada, provided WND the agenda and attendee list of the North American Forum at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in Banff, Alberta, Sept. 12-14.  >>

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13. North American students trained for 'merger'
10 universities participate in 'model Parliament' in Mexico to simulate 'integration' of 3 nations
WorldNetDaily, September 25, 2006

In another example of the way the three nations of North America are being drawn into a federation, or "merger," students from 10 universities in the U.S., Mexico and Canada are participating annually in a simulated "model Parliament."

Under the sponsorship of the Canadian based North American Forum on Integration, students met in the Mexican Senate for five days in May in an event dubbed "Triumvirate," with organizers declaring "A North American Parliament is born."

A similar event took place in the Canadian Senate in 2005. >>
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Feminist News / Bad choices lead t miserable lives: Edmonton Sun columnist
« on: September 24, 2006, 09:30:55 AM »
The part that disturbed me most in this article appearing in today's Edmonton Sun is in the first excerpt below...  Nothing quite like "Blaming the Victim" eh?

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"Bad choices lead to miserable lives.  
 
If a woman studies hard and goes to law school, she will have far more financial autonomy than most men. Her decision to challenge herself is the key.  

A woman who gets pregnant, drops out of school and hangs out with losers has less opportunity in life. But that's not society's fault. "


E-mail Mindy Jacobs at [email:23rfymz9]mjacobs@edmsun.com[/email:23rfymz9].
Letters to the editor should be sent to [email:23rfymz9]mailbag@edmsun.com[/email:23rfymz9].

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Despair over cuts to women's groups
By Mindelle Jacobs
Edmonton Sun, September 24, 2006

The way critics are wailing over possible cuts to women's programs, you'd think the Harper government was preparing to force females into burkas.

One group, the National Association of Women and the Law, closed down earlier this month because it didn't get federal funding.

The little-known Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action thought it was going to have to close last week. But its grant application was approved on Thursday, it announced on its website.

So much for those women-bashing Tories, eh?

Still, the movers and shakers in the women's movement are waiting with baited breath to see if Status of Women Canada, a federal agency that bankrolls women's groups and promotes gender equality, is on the chopping block.

If it gets the boot, will the rights of Canadian women be in danger? Will their life choices be curtailed? Hardly. Women in this country are better off than ever before.

This endless quest for gender equality is quite tiresome at a time when virtually all the significant barriers to women's accomplishment have been smashed.

Read full article

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News / PM pick for bench draws fire (G&M)
« on: September 21, 2006, 09:02:02 AM »
PM's pick for bench draws fire
Social activists cite conservative views
Globe & Mail, Kirk Makin

The appointment of an Ontario judge who is seen as an opponent of pro-choice and gay rights has created a stir among social activists.

Spokesmen expressed concerns yesterday about the appointment of Mr. Justice David Brown, a Toronto lawyer who has represented Christian family-value positions in several cases, and has written papers dealing with legal developments involving the sanctity of life. ... He represented Focus on the Family (Canada) and REAL Women of Canada in a court intervention against the constitutionality of same-sex marriage.  

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"What we are seeing is something we predicted: The Harper government intends to follow in the footsteps of the Bush government in the U.S. with measures like this," said Carolyn Egan, a spokeswoman for the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada.

Read full article here

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Feminist News / The Federal Gov't must Renew the Women's Program!
« on: September 14, 2006, 06:10:18 PM »
The Federal Government must Renew the Women's Program!

Intro
http://dawn.thot.net/swc_womens_program.html#intro

The Women`s Program
http://dawn.thot.net/swc_womens_program.html#1

Standing Committee on the Status of Women Recommendations to improve the Women's program
http://dawn.thot.net/swc_womens_program.html#2

The Context : women's inequality remains deeply entrenched
http://dawn.thot.net/swc_womens_program.html#3

A Lack of Political Will to Address the problem
http://dawn.thot.net/swc_womens_program.html#4

And this was Brought to you by the Women's Movement
http://dawn.thot.net/swc_womens_program.html#5

Past Federal Acknowledgment of the Important Role played by Women's Groups
http://dawn.thot.net/swc_womens_program.html#6

International support for the funding of Women's Groups
http://dawn.thot.net/swc_womens_program.html#7

Conclusion
http://dawn.thot.net/swc_womens_program.html#8

TAKE ACTION
Contact Bev Oda, Minister Responsible for the Status of Women Canada

* Email: [email:2arscmob]Oda.B@parl.gc.ca[/email:2arscmob]
* Address: House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario  K1A 0A6
* Fax: 613.992.2794

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Politics / McGuinty Gov't Still Doesn't Know How to Keep Promise
« on: August 29, 2006, 02:22:29 PM »
McGuinty Gov't Still Doesn't Know How to Keep Promise of Free Lawyers for All Discrimination Victims

AODA Alliance takes action in response to recently-revealed Legal Aid Ontario document showing McGuinty government still doesn't know how it will deliver on its pledge to ensure publicly-funded independent legal counsel to all human rights complainants

SUMMARY:

We report on several key developments.

Legal Aid Ontario LAO documents, recently revealed to the public on the Internet, disclose that six full months after the McGuinty Government announced it would strip the Human Rights Commission of most power to enforce the Human Rights Code, it still doesn't know how it will ensure its promised legal representation for all discrimination victims. An internal Consultation paper that LAO recently sent to Ontario legal clinics documents that Attorney General Michael Bryant, who pledged that all human rights complainants will have publicly-funded legal representation, still doesn't know how it will deliver on this extravagant promise.

It says Bryant asked Legal Aid whether it would take on this controversial
role. LAO won't decide for weeks whether to make a proposal. To see the
Legal Aid consultation paper and correspondence to Ontario legal clinics,
visit: http://www.aclc.net/full-lao-letter.html

The McGuinty Government pledged free publicly-funded independent legal
counsel throughout Human Rights Tribunal hearings to every human rights
complainant (annually some 2,500). It pledged to establish a Human Rights Legal Centre. The bill's supporters and critics agree that the bill doesn't guarantee this. Facing mounting criticism, the Attorney General committed on June 8, 2006 to amend the bill to address this. However in an August 3 letter to the AODA Alliance, he didn't act on the AODA Alliance's request that he reveal his amendments before the public hearings. See the Attorney General's letter to the AODA Alliance at http://dawn.thot.net/bill107_aoda_aug29-06.html#ag

Legal Aid Ontario's Consultation Paper states that LAO has explicitly decided not to consult with the public, and instead only to consult with legal clinics, on the issues set out in that Consultation Paper. The AODA Alliance has written LAO to urge it to open up its consultation process to include not only legal clinics, but the end-users who would use the legal services that the McGuinty Government has promised. This letter also sets out some preliminary input from the AODA Alliance to LAO on its Consultation Paper. See the AODA Alliance's August 25, 2006 letter to LAO, set out at http://dawn.thot.net/bill107_aoda_aug29-06.html#aoda

The AODA Alliance has also written to Attorney General Michael Bryant as a result of these recent developments. In its August 25, 2006 letter to him, set out at http://dawn.thot.net/bill107_aoda_aug29-06.html#aoda2, the AODA Alliance asks that public hearings on Bill 107 be halted until LAO decides whether it will offer to deliver free legal counsel to all human rights complainants, and until the Government makes public specifics on its proposed amendments to bill 107.

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Feminist News / (un)R.E.A.L. Women of Canada WATCH
« on: August 26, 2006, 05:15:52 PM »
Here's a link to DAWN Ontario's (un)R.E.A.L. Women of Canada WATCH page:

http://dawn.thot.net/rwoc_watch.html

page contents:

Liberal Party of Canada Press Release dd August 25, 2006
Conservatives Must Come Clean on Agenda for Status of Women Canada

LifeSiteNews.com, by Hilary White, dd August 14, 2006
Canadian Taxpayers Funding Radical Feminist Counter-Offensive
Federal agency determined to derail critics of its 33 year ideological crusade

Anti-Status of Women Canada Blogs dd August 25, 2006

LifeSiteNews.com, by Hilary White, dd August 25, 2006
Grassroots Blogger Reaction against Canada’s Status of Women Prompts Media Action
Public not aware feminist organization has been manipulating government since 1973

R.E.A.L. Women of Canada dd August 7, 2006
Counter-Attack by Feminists

LifeSiteNews.com dd July 20, 2006
R.E.A.L. Women file complaint against Ontario Chief Justice
The (un)R.E.A.L. Women of Canada clan are at it again ... Now they've filed a formal complaint against Ontario Chief Justice Roy McMurtry with the Canadian Judicial Council, alleging judicial misconduct.

CBC News Viewpoint, Heather Mallick, dd June 30, 2006
Attack on feminism hurts women here and overseas

R.E.A.L. Women of Canada dd June 24, 2006
R.E.A.L. Women of Canada's lobby efforts to disband Status of Women Canada (SWC) and
the Standing Committee on the Status of Women (FEWO)
|| en français

DAWN Ontario dd April 20, 2006
Call for Letters in Support of Increased Funding for Women's Equality-Seeking Groups

DAWN Ontario dd April 25, 2006
Sample Letter in Support of Status of Canada Canada (SWC)

R.E.A.L. Women of Canada
Election 2005 And Its Aftermath

National Post Thu 06 Apr 2006 Issues & Ideas A22, Andrea Mrozek
Feminist activism -- paid for by you and me

R.E.A.L. Women of Canada Press Release dd Feb 15, 2006
Feminist Shell Game

R.E.A.L. Women of Canada newsletter, Issue Nov-Dec 2005
Feminism in Canada

R.E.A.L. Women of Canada newsletter, Issue Jan-Feb 2000
The Status of Women Must be Disbanded

Take ACTION: Send an email in support of SWC

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Activism / Law Society Silences Non-Advocacy Paralegals - Bill 14
« on: August 25, 2006, 02:24:25 PM »
This is a very contentious issue that despite affecting people with low-incomes, women, minorities, and small business, has not received the media attention it deserves.  Ontarians need to be aware of Bill 14, and contact their MPP to state their opposition.
 

Law Society Silences Non-Advocacy Paralegals

Imagine having your ability to make a living severally changed or eliminated, and you are not able to use your constitutional right to speak out in protest.
 
That is what the non-advocacy paralegal faces, as the McGuinty government moves forward with its controversial Bill 14, The Access to Justice Act. The bill, if passed, would have paralegals regulated by the Law Society of Upper Canada.
 
Non-advocacy paralegals have been practicing in Ontario for decades. These are not the paralegals you hire to deal with your traffic tickets or small claims court matters. No, these paralegals are hired by the public, and small businesses to do paperwork involved with: incorporations, uncontested divorces, wills, and powers of attorney.
 
The Law Society has taken the position that these non-advocacy services, when preformed by anyone other then a lawyer, are not in the public interest, despite the fact that no Act restricts who can provide these services.
 
The irony is by introducing Bill 14 the McGuinty government has said they want to change the law. The government wants a Law Society committee to decide how all services provided by paralegals should be regulated in the public interest. This includes these so called "grey area services".
 
The Law Society has refused to halt prosecution of non-advocacy paralegals, at least until their own committee determines what services are in the public interest.
 
The public interest can not be served when those paralegals most affected by Bill 14, are denied their constitutional right to speak openly in opposition of a government bill, without fear of prosecution.

Background on Bill 14, the Access to Justice Act
http://www.ontla.on.ca/library/bills/382/14382.htm

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News / Trustees TRIPLE their Salaries & slash Special-Ed Budget
« on: August 10, 2006, 10:09:23 AM »
Over the past few weeks there were some articles in the Ottawa papers that the local Public School board has a $21 million deficit to cut and the first thing on the chopping block are new autism programs, special education budgets, etc... However, the trustees are tripling their salary(!).  

http://www.metronews.ca/home.aspx?city=ottawa

If you go to the home page, scroll down on the left side to Ottawa, and it is on page three of the Thursday, August 10 paper (today's).

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News / Supreme Court ruling won't ensure fair child support
« on: August 01, 2006, 06:30:54 PM »
Supreme Court ruling won't ensure fair child support
Georgie Binks, CBC News Viewpoint dd Aug. 1, 2006

If you pay child support and your salary has been recently increased, you probably wanted to head back under the covers. If you receive child support and have long been suspecting an ex-spouse is making more money, then you're likely smiling.

That's because on Monday, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that divorced and separated parents have a duty to report increases in their income when it comes to paying child support. It also means former spouses could face big retroactive support payments.

The system now is based on the payer's income. However, if a recipient's salary rises, he or she is required to pay a larger proportion of certain costs like camp, braces or private school. And if a payer's salary goes down? Don't worry about them. People paying child support usually waste no time letting the recipient know their salary has dropped and have always been allowed to plead for a reduction.

Read full article at: http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_binks/20060801.html

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Activism / Tips on Preparing Submission re Bill 107
« on: August 01, 2006, 07:12:55 AM »
Practical Tips on How to Prepare an Oral or Written Submission to the Legislature's Standing Committee on Justice Policy Regarding the Controversial Bill 107

Here are helpful tips for preparing your written and/or oral presentation on Bill 107 to the Legislature's Standing Committee on Justice Policy.
Everyone's contribution to these hearings makes a real difference.  We hope that these tips will be useful for presenters from the disability community and from any other individual or group interested in advancing the protection of human rights in Ontario.

We explain:

* how public hearings work
http://dawn.thot.net/aoda-july31-06.html#2

* tips for both oral and written presentations
http://dawn.thot.net/aoda-july31-06.html#3

* specific tips for making an oral presentation
http://dawn.thot.net/aoda-july31-06.html#4

* additional tip for organizations making an oral presentation
http://dawn.thot.net/aoda-july31-06.html#5

* additional tip for individuals making oral presentations
http://dawn.thot.net/aoda-july31-06.html#6

* tips for making a written submission
http://dawn.thot.net/aoda-july31-06.html#7

* suggestions if you need an accommodation for your disability at the
hearings

http://dawn.thot.net/aoda-july31-06.html#8

* contact information for the Standing Committee
http://dawn.thot.net/aoda-july31-06.html#9

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North Africa and the Middle East / Galeano: How Much Longer?
« on: July 29, 2006, 12:36:53 PM »
Galeano: How Much Longer?
by Eduordo Galeono  

07/28/06 "IPS" -- One country bombed two countries. Such impunity might astound were it not business as usual. In response to the few timid protests from the international community, Israel said mistakes were made.

How much longer will horrors be called mistakes?

This slaughter of civilians began with the kidnapping of a soldier.

How much longer will the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier be allowed to justify the kidnapping of Palestinian sovereignty?

How much longer will the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers be allowed to justify the kidnapping of the entire nation of Lebanon?

For centuries the slaughter of Jews was the favorite sport of Europeans. Auschwitz was the natural culmination of an ancient river of terror, which had flowed across all of Europe.

How much longer will Palestinians and other Arabs be made to pay for crimes they didn’t commit?

Hezbollah didn’t exist when Israel razed Lebanon in earlier invasions.

How much longer will we continue to believe the story of this attacked attacker, which practices terrorism because it has the right to defend itself from terrorism?

Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Lebanon: How much longer will Israel and the United States be allowed to exterminate countries with impunity?

The tortures of Abu Ghraib, which triggered a certain universal sickness, are nothing new to us in Latin America. Our militaries learned their interrogation techniques from the School of the Americas, which may no longer exist in name but lives on in effect.

How much longer will we continue to accept that torture can be legitimized?

Israel has ignored forty-six resolutions of the General Assembly and other U.N. bodies.

How much longer will Israel enjoy the privilege of selective deafness?

The United Nations makes recommendations but never decisions. When it does decide, the United States makes sure the decision is blocked. In the U.N. Security Council, the U.S. has vetoed forty resolutions condemning actions of Israel.

How much longer will the United Nations act as if it were just another name for the United States?

Since the Palestinians had their homes confiscated and their land taken from them, much blood has flowed.

How much longer will blood flow so that force can justify what law denies?

History is repeated day after day, year after year, and ten Arabs die for every one Israeli. How much longer will an Israeli life be measured as worth ten Arab lives?

In proportion to the overall population, the 50,000 civilians killed in Iraq—the majority of them women and children—are the equivalent of 800,000 Americans.

How much longer will we continue to accept, as if customary, the killing of Iraqis in a blind war that has forgotten all of its justifications?

Iran is developing nuclear energy, but the so-called international community is not concerned in the least by the fact that Israel already has 250 atomic bombs, despite the fact that the country lives permanently on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

Who calibrates the universal dangerometer? Was Iran the country that dropped atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima?

In the age of globalization, the right to express is less powerful than the right to apply pressure. To justify the illegal occupation of Palestinian territory, war is called peace. The Israelis are patriots, and the Palestinians are terrorists, and terrorists sow universal alarm.

How much longer will the media broadcast fear instead of news?

The slaughter happening today, which is not the first and I fear will not be the last, is happening in silence. Has the world gone deaf?

How much longer will the outcry of the outraged be sounded on a bell of straw?

The bombing is killing children, more than a third of the victims.

Those who dare denounce this murder are called anti-Semites.

How much longer will the critics of state terrorism be considered anti-Semites?

How much longer will we accept this grotesque form of extortion?

Are the Jews who are horrified by what is being done in their name anti-Semites? Are there not Arab voices that defend a Palestinian homeland but condemn fundamentalist insanity?

Terrorists resemble one another: state terrorists, respectable members of government, and private terrorists, madmen acting alone or in those organized in groups hard at work since the Cold War battling communist totalitarianism. All act in the name of various gods, whether God, Allah, or Jehovah.

How much longer will we ignore that fact that all terrorists scorn human life and feed off of one another?

Isn’t it clear that in the war between Israel and Hezbollah, it is the civilians, Lebanese, Palestinian, and Israeli, who are dying?

And isn’t it clear that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the invasion of Gaza and Lebanon are the incubators of hatred, producing fanatic after fanatic after fanatic?

We are the only species of animal that specializes in mutual extermination.

We devote $2.5 billion per day to military spending. Misery and war are children of the same father.

How much longer will we accept that this world so in love with death is the only world possible? U

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Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan writer and journalist, is author of “Open Veins of Latin America” and “Memory of Fire.”

Source: ZNet

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Chef's Corner / High Protein Meals
« on: July 28, 2006, 06:19:39 PM »
Italian Bean & Tuna Salad

Prep: 15 min, plus refrigeration time.

* 11 ounces canned baby lima beans, rinsed, drained
* 11 ounces canned dark red kidney beans, rinsed, drained
* 10 ounces canned Great Northern beans, rinsed, drained
* 5-1/4 cherry tomatoes, cut into fourths
* 1/4 small cucumber, cut lengthwise into halves, seeded, sliced
* 3-1/2 Tbs. green or red bell pepper, chopped
* 1/4 red onion, thinly sliced
* 2 Tbs. olive oil
* 1/3 cup tarragon white wine vinegar
* 1 tsp. dried basil leaves
* 2 Tbs. nonfat plain yogurt
* 1 Tbs. lemon juice
* 1/2 tsp. sugar
* 1 Tbs. water
* 2 cloves garlic
* 11 ounces tuna steak, broiled, grilled, or canned white tuna in water, drained
* 5-1/4 large lettuce leaves
* 2-3/4 basil or parsley sprigs

Combine beans, tomatoes, cucumber, pepper, and onion in large bowl. Add the next 8 ingredients (basil vinaigrette) and toss. Refrigerate mixture at least 4 hours for flavors to blend, stirring mixture occasionally. Add tuna to mixture 1 to 2 hours before serving. Spoon salad onto lettuce-lined plate; garnish with basil.

You can make the bean salad one day in advance and refrigerate, adding tuna 1 to 2 hours before serving.

Courtesy American Dry Bean Board.

Per serving:
calories 454, fat 9.1g, 18% calories from fat, cholesterol 37mg, protein 36.4g, carbohydrates 59.8g, fiber 19.1g, sugar 13.3g, sodium 76mg, diet points 6.5.

Dietary Exchanges:
Milk: 0.0, Vegetable: 1.9, Fruit: 0.0, Bread: 5.1, Lean meat: 0.0, Fat: 1.3, Sugar: 0.0, Very lean meat protein: 2.3

15
Chef's Corner / Low-Carb Tiramisu
« on: July 28, 2006, 06:18:08 PM »
Low-Carb Tiramisu

Makes 10 servings

* unsalted butter
* 4 oz. ground almonds
* 1 tsp. baking powder
* 1/4 tsp. salt
* 6 large eggs
* 1/2 cup Splenda
* 1 tsp. vanilla extract

Grease a 15-by 10-by 1-inch pan with butter. Line with parchment paper and grease with butter again. Preheat the oven to 350 ° F (175 ° C).

Combine the almonds, baking powder and salt. Separate the eggs. With an electric mixer, beat the yolks and Splenda with an electric mixer until thick and lemon coloured, 3-4 minutes. Beat in the vanilla. Fold in the almonds.

With a clean bowl and beaters, beat the egg whites to firm peaks. Stir 1/4 into the almond mixture. Fold in 1/2 of the remaining whites until barely combined and then the remaining 1/2 until thoroughly combined.

Spread evenly into the prepared pan. Bake for 20-25 minutes until the top springs back when pressed lightly. Let cool.

* 5 eggs
* 5 Tbsp. Splenda
* 1 500 gr. Container mascarpone
* 1/2 cup espresso or strong coffee
* 3 Tbsp. rum
* 1/2 cup cocoa

Separate the eggs. Beat the yolks with the Splenda until thick and lemon coloured. Add the mascarpone and beat it into the yolk mixture on low speed, scraping down the bowl. Do not overbeat or the mixture will curdle.

With clean bowl and beaters, beat the egg whites to soft peaks. Stir 1/4 into the mascarpone mixture. Fold in the remaining 3/4. Choose a large straight-sided dish, such as a soufflé dish to assemble the Tiramsu in.

Cut the almond cake into 16 fingers by cutting in half crosswise, then lengthwise. Cut each half crosswise into 8 fingers. Combine the rum and coffee in a shallow dish. Place the cocoa in a sieve over a bowl.

Sprinkle the bottom of the dish lightly with cocoa. Quickly dip a few of the fingers into the coffee mixture and line the bottom of the dish. Don't get them too wet or your tiramisu will be runny.

Spread on 1/4 of the mascarpone mixture and dust the top with cocoa. Repeat the process 2-3 times so you have 3-4 layers. End with a sprinkling of cocoa. Cover and refrigerate overnight.

Total Carbs: 91.81
Total Net Carbs (carbs minus fiber): 65.62
Carbs per Serving (10): 9.18
Net Carbs (carbs minus fiber) per Serving (10): 6.56

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