Homes Not Bombs Report
WE ARE ORGANIZING THESE PROTESTS TO CALL FOR:1. An end to Canada's role in the military occupation of Afghanistan and its complicity, with U.S. forces, in illegal detentions, torture, and murder of detainees.
2. An end to Canada's shameful role in Haiti, from its facilitation of the coup against legally elected Haitian President Aristide to its subsequent support for an illegitimate regime and reign of terror against the country's poorest citizens and democracy proponents.
3. An end to the production and export of weaponry, a multi-billion dollar industry that sees millions of Quebec's SNC-TEC bullets, Kitchener, Ontario's Diemaco machine guns, and Montreal's Bell-Textron "Hunter-Killer Copters" used in Iraq and Afghanistan, among other places.
4. An end to our permanent war economy which will soon see $20- billion a year spent on war while millions scrape by in poverty without affordable housing, accessible daycare, and other vitally needed social supports.
5. An end to the shady role of overseas "trainers" provided by RCMP and Canadian police forces for Iraqi and other security forces, many of whom are subsequently implicated in human rights abuses.
6. An end to Canada's ongoing role in the development and production of space warfare, and an end to this country playing the role of testing ground for military forces from around the world.
7. An end to the powerless Canadian thinking that such demands are impossible to achieve. To paraphrase an old saying, we should continue to demand the impossible so long as those who are currently possible remain possible.
For more information on related issues (war economy, star wars), visit our website at www.homesnotbombs.ca
" Homes not Bombs is an all-volunteer, Ontario-wide coalition of people who use nonviolent direct action in an attempt to confront institutional and personal violence, seeking a transformative solution which results not in winners versus losers, but in a society which becomes more equal and loving, more just and compassionate.
While much of our focus is based on campaigns which highlight the fact that Canada spends well over 700% more on war than on affordable housing, we act on the very clear links between militarism and poverty as well as the connections to sexism, racism, homophobia, classism, and all related forms of discrimination.
Whether we are dressed as Santa Claus emptying toy store shelves of war toys. organizing long-distance walks to support the families of Muslim men facing secret trials in this country, creating a festival of life outside of a war show, trying to transform Moss Park Armoury into housing for the homeless, or occupying the entrance to the War Department, our actions and campaigns are rooted in three basic concepts: they are confrontational, they are transformative, and they are nonviolent in word and deed. "
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