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Toronto-Ottawa Freedom Caravan & Camp Hope in June

Get on board: Freedom Caravan and "Camp Hope", Toronto-Ottawa, June 3-16, 2006.

Join a nonviolent community on wheels as we travel through dozens of communities between Toronto and Ottawa (June 3-10) and set up "Camp Hope" (June 11-16) at the steps of the Supreme Court, site of an historic three days of hearings on the grave human rights abuses stemming from Canada's secret trials.

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. A right delayed is a right denied. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere". - Martin Luther King

Freedom Caravan/Camp Hope Demands:

* Free Canada's Secret Trial Detainees
* End secret trials in Canada
* End deportations to torture
* End arbitrary detention without charge
* End RCMP/CSIS harassment of immigrant communities
* Create a just, fair system for refugees


Close Canada's Guantanamo Bay!

Five Muslim men in Canada:

* Detained years without charge
* Jailed on secret "evidence"
* Fighting deportation to torture


For details on getting involved, please get in touch:

Campaign to Stop Secret Trials in Canada
P.O. Box 73620, 509 St. Clair Ave. West,
Toronto, ON M6C 1C0
(416) 651-5800
tasc@web.ca
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.

posted by Annamarie at 7:10 PM