[act-ma] Join Veterans For Peace in supporting war resistors in Canada Wed. July 9 2 PM

[Nate Goldshlag]

Hi folks,

Please read the forwarded message below first.

I'd like to propose an action for Wed. July 9.  As many people as  
possible meet at the back side of the Copley Square park at 2 PM.  We  
get as many people as possible to sign the enclosed letter in advance,  
which is enclosed as both a Word document and a PDF.  If you cannot  
come, mail your signed copy to me at:

Nate Goldshlag
37 Ottawa Rd.
Arlington, MA 02476

Those letters would have to go out to me in the next few days to get  
to me in time.

We will then take these letters as a group up to the Canadian  
Consulate at 3 Copley Place Suite 400.  Afterwards, we will hand out a  
flyer in front of Copley Place for a while asking the public to send  
this letter to Prime Minister Harper and Minister Diane Finley.

If you cannot get the signed letter to me in time, you can always go  
to the web site that Adam references below and sign it online.  More  
paper letters are better, though, in my opinion.

Or, if you like, you can send the letters to the following:

Prime Minister Stephen Harper
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A2, CANADA
Fax: 613-941-6900
pm at pm.gc.ca

Minister of Citizenship & Immigration Diane Finley
Citizenship & Immigration Canada
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 1L1, CANADA
minister at cic.gc.ca

So who will join us on Wednesday 7/9 at 2 PM?  Please publicize this  
far and wide.

Peace,
Nate Goldshlag
Coordinator, Smedley D. Butler Brigade Veterans For Peace

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Admin Courage to Resist <orders_9y3 at couragetoresist.org>
> Date: June 30, 2008 1:38:44 PM EDT
> To: nateg at pobox.com
> Subject: Info and Link on the "Dear Canada Letter" and Vigil/ 
> Delegation info
> Reply-To: adminctr at couragetoresist.org
>
> Nate~
>
> The following is the basic email that we have been sending out to  
> folks in the Boston Area.  The link for folks to sign the letter is  
> here, as well as near the bottom of the letter:
>
> We mailed and delivered over 10,000 of the original letters to  
> Canadian
> officials. Please sign the new letter, "Dear Canada: Abide by  
> resolution - Let U.S. war resisters stay!"
>
> http://www.couragetoresist.org/canada
>
>
> Thanks so much for your assistance - I am pretty new to this entire  
> type of activity and all the help that I am getting is truly heart  
> warming.
>
> Adam
>
>
> My name is Adam Seibert, I am writing from Courage to Resist  
> regarding a vigil and delegation to the Boston Canadian Consulate on  
> Wednesday, July 9th.  If you would be interested in organizing or  
> participating in such an action to support war resisters please feel  
> free to contact me either via email or by phone at 510-488-3559.   
> Below you will find more information on the event.
>
> Adam Seibert, Courage To Resist
>
>
> Following is a brief history of the movement’s actions and those  
> actions’ results, a primer of sorts for the “Dear Canada, Let them  
> stay” campaign:
>
> Recently on June 3rd the Canadian Parliament passed an historic  
> motion to officially welcome war resisters! It now appears, however,  
> that the
> Conservative government may disregard the motion.
>
> Iraq combat veteran turned courageous war resister, 25-year-old Sgt.  
> Corey Glass of the Indiana National Guard is still scheduled to be  
> deported July 10th.
>
> We will ask that the Canadian government respect the democratic  
> decision of Parliament, the demonstrated opinion of the Canadian  
> citizenry, the view of the United Nations, and millions of Americans  
> by immediately implementing the motion and cease deportation  
> proceedings against Corey Glass and other current and future war  
> resisters.
>
> Join Courage to Resist, Veterans for Peace, and Project Safe Haven at
> Canadian Consulates across the United States.
>
> We mailed and delivered over 10,000 of the original letters to  
> Canadian
> officials. Please sign the new letter, "Dear Canada: Abide by  
> resolution - Let U.S. war resisters stay!"
>
> http://www.couragetoresist.org/canada
>
> Address of the Canadian Consulate in Boston:
> Consulate General of Canada
> Three Copley Place, Suite 400
> Boston, MA 02116
> Tel: (617) 262-3760
>
> For more information:
> Courage to Resist
> http://www.couragetoresist.org
> 510-488-3559
> (List of consulate vigils nationwide coming soon)

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