[R-G] American war resisters in Canada need help

[Easy Green]

The War Resisters Support Campaign in Canada is seeking help in
finding temporary shelter for American war resisters who decide to
come to Canada. To that end the message and petition below will be
sent to the Green Party of Canada seeking its help in publicising
their need for help and to ask it's 8,000 members to help if they can.

This message will only go out to the public if the Green Party of
Canada approves it at its monthly meeting on Feb 11th. This approval
is by no means certain so we are asking for help from Worldwide and
Canadian supporters of the war resisters to help sway council to do
the right thing.
If you'd like to sign the petition either as a member or supporter of
the Green Party of Canada or as a person of any political persuasion
or nation who supports the war resisters please e-mail your name,
city, and country to easygreen at gmail.com and I'll add you to the list.

My apologies for cross posting but this is an urgent matter.

Thanks,

In Solidarity,
Dan Murray, Brampton, Canada



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To: Green Party of Canada Council
including Provincial Represntatives and Shadow Cabinet and EDAs

From: The undersigned members of the Green Party of Canada
Members in Good Standing and Lapsed Members

Petition for Action

Green Greetings,

The undersigned Green-minded individuals, exploring grassroots values
of the Global Green Charter have identified a matter of great
urgency related to our core value of non-violence. To that end we
desire the GPC Council to take immediate action on the following
ordinary resolution:

We propose that the following statement be posted on the GPC website:

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"Since the Green Party of Canada is a Party of Peace, we support the
efforts of the War Resisters Support Campaign to provide shelter for
those of our American friends who refuse to kill or be killed in the
name of war.
We encourage all Greens who can do so to provide temporary space in
their homes for war resisters who have chosen to leave their country
rather than fight. Welcoming a war resister into your home on a
temporary basis is a positive step towards ending the war in Iraq.
Anything you can do to help would be greatly appreciated!

Please contact:

National Campaign Office:
Phone: 416-598-1222
Email: resisters at sympatico.ca
Mailing Address:
Box 13, 427 Bloor Street West
Toronto, ON M5S 1X7

Vancouver: http://ca.geocities.com/vanresisters
Email: bjorkna5 at telus.net

Victoria: vlannon at pacificcoast.net

Montreal: montrealresisters at hotmail.com

Ottawa: ottawaresisters at yahoo.ca

Nelson, BC: West Kootenays War Resisters Support Campaign
nelsonresisters at gmail.com
Phone: 250.354.7489
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Further we suggest that Council contact all EDAs encouraging
them to inform their membership of this humanitarian need; and to
explore other appropriate strategies to make the GPC commitment to
its values known and relevant between elections. There may be an
opportunity to issue a media release about a new age "Underground
Railroad" for social justice and return Canada to its rightful role as
"Peacekeepers" acting locally and globally.

Yours in peace and ecology,

SIGNITORIES