on; increased detentions and deportations; attacks on indigenous peoples, the poor, migrants, and working people; ecological destruction; and mega-projects in the service of corporate greed.

Leading upto August 20th, a wide range of educational events, actions, and creative resistance is being planned by a growing network of groups and individuals. Below are just some of the activities being planned, with many more being planned and confirmed.

==> GETTING INFORMED AND GETTING INVOLVED! There is a wide variety of educational materials available including factsheets, zines, slideshow presentations on the SPP that have been developed. We strongly encourage folks to get in touch if they would like to access these materials and to share this information with your friends, family, and groups. We are also happy to setup mini-information sessions for interested groups, networks, and unions on the hugely significant impacts of the SPP.

There is also ongoing organizing against the SPP- including outreach; a series of creative resistance direct actions facilitated by newworld theatre; coordinated actions across various cities; educational forums and community meetings and more.If you are interested in getting involved, there are weekly meetings on Tuesdays and lots more going on, so please do not hesitate to get in touch. We continue to build a diverse movement in resistance to the SPP and strongly encourage folks to get in touch.

Contact information: scrapspp@gmail.com or call 778 885 0040 Info on the SPP: http://noii-van.resist.ca and http://psp-spp.com/?q=en

DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE SPP? COMMUNITY FORUM Saturday August 11 at 2 pm Fireside Cafe, 13593 King George Hwy, Surrey Corner King George and 108 (Right next to Gateway Skytrain)

NATIONAL WEEK OF ACTION TO TARGET THE NACC! August 10-August 15 across Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver, Montreal and more! please stay tuned for more details

EVENING TO RESIST THE SPP Thursday August 16th at 7 pm Rhizome Cafe 317 East Broadway

CONTINENTAL DAY OF ACTION TO OPPOSE THE SPP! Monday August 20th at 3 pm Canada Place (Waterfront Station) proceed to meet another antiwar/antispp demo at 5:30 pm

==> AUDIO AND VIDEO ON THE SPP: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Tlyc6EysAcY http://noii-van.resist.ca/?p=446

==> LEARN ABOUT THE CORPORATE LOBBY BEHIND THE SPP: The North American Competitiveness Council (NACC) was launched as part of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) in June 2006. It is the only formal advisory board to the SPP and is made up of 30 corporate leaders from Canada, the U.S. and Mexico with ten advisors from each of the SPP signatory states. A September 13, 2006 story in Maclean's magazine describes NACC as a "cherrypicked group of executives who were whisked to Cancun in March by the leaders of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, and asked to come up with a plan for taking North American integration beyond NAFTA."

Read more at: http://noii-van.resist.ca/?p=438

==> WHAT IS THE SPP? The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) was founded in March 2005 at a summit of the Heads of State of Canada, the US, and Mexico. SPP is not an official treaty; it is not an official law; therefore it has been able to escape any public scrutiny. The major drive behind the SPP is a CEO-based organization, which is the only official advisory group to governments on the SPP.

The real face of SPP is to further an agenda of corporate free trade, border militarization, criminalization of migration, privatization and theft of indigenous land and resources, repression in the name of national security, impoverishment and displacement, and cooperation in war and occupation.

The SPP is a NAFTA-plus-Homeland-Security model and will involve the harmonization of over 300 areas of regulations, including: integration of the military and police, expansion of temporary worker programs as a means of ensuring low wages, coordination of no-fly lists, expedited resource extraction particularly oil and water on unceded indigenous territories, and harmonization of health and environmental regulations to lower standards and development of a North American alternative to the Kyoto Protocol.

Read more at: http://noii-van.resist.ca/?page_id=102

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No One is Illegal-Vancouver is a grassroots anti-colonial immigrant/refugee rights community collective with leadership from members of migrant and/or racialized backgrounds. As a movement for self-determination that challenges the ideology of immigration controls, we are in full confrontation with Canadian border policies; denouncing and taking action to combat racial profiling, detention and deportation, the national security apparatus, law enforcement brutality, and exploitative working conditions of migrants.

We struggle for the right for our communities to maintain their livelihoods and resist war, occupation, and displacement; while supporting indigenous sisters and brothers fighting theft of land and colonization. We also place ourselves within the broader movement for global social justice that struggles against capitalism, militarism, oppression, poverty, imperialism, and other systems of domination and exploitation.