Latest News __________________________________________________________ Saturday, June 14, 2008
WeAreChange vs Colin Powell and Depleted Uranium
VPD ARREST WRONG MAN: A Mistake or a targeted attack on the media? Independent cameraman Mike Barcellona hired by WeAreChange Vancouver incarcerated for 7 hours and charged for trespassing while filming from a sidewalk.
(Vancouver,B.C) WeAreChangeVancouver confronts Colin Powell at the Vancouver Convention Center on his use of Depleted Uranium June 12/08
Mr. Colin Powell should not have been allowed into the country as Canada has strict laws that bar entry when there are reasonable ground to believe a person has either been involved in the commission of war crimes or crimes against humanity or been a senior member of a government that has engaged in gross human rights violations. Mr. Powell's complicity in Depleted Uranium use, extraordinary rendition, the use of torture and inhuman treatment,, indiscriminant killing of civilians etc... makes him inadmissible into Canada. Once a person credibly accused of complicity in torture, such as Colin Powell enters the country, Canada must either prosecute of extradite to another country willing to prosecute.
Lawyers Against War had put Canadian Immigration Minister Diane Finley and the Prime Minister on notice of Canada’s duty to bar entry or to arrest and prosecute Colin Powell and received no response. Unfortunately it was left to concerned citizens to step up to promote adherence to the law.
WeAreChange members saw an advertisement to Powell's engagement in the Vancouver Sun claiming no questions were off limits.
Powell was in town to talk about Leadership in the 21st Century.
Three members of WeAreChange and a member of Vancouver 911 Truth purchased tickets and attended in order to ask Powell about Depleted Uranium use, which he is on the record for saying is safe.
Cancer rates and birth defects have skyrocketed in civilian populations with infants being born grotesquely deformed. Depleted Uranium is also killing American soldiers and being passed on to their offspring.
We were surprised to learn on arrival that the organizers were only going to “pick” a couple of pre-written questions. Talk about false advertising.
Powell referred to himself as a strong leader and talked about keeping the troops safe....which is ironic when considering DU is poisoning his own troops and he showed zero leadership when presenting the obviously false claims about the WMD's in Iraq to the U.N Security Council and the world. Google “Colin Powell War Crimes”
While Powell was speaking, you could hear the faint sound of bull horning from outside. We had multiple cameras filming outside and were able to sneak a camera into the event for safety purposes.
The question period consisted of " Who do you like better ? The Celtics or Lakers ? and " iphone or Blackberry” Absurd really.
Near the end of the question period, Dj Ball, James Flack and Rukshana stood up and asked Powell about DU use and American use of Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Dj Ball and James Flack were quickly escorted out by VPD who were kind enough not to bring out the taser . They said "You made your point ...time to leave"
Neither men resisted and followed the VPD request out of respect.. Although both members had tickets to the event and it was advertised that no question would be turned away, both were ejected.
No less than 30 seconds later a female member of Vancouver 911 stood up and went at Powell again on Depleted Uranium use.
She was grabbed by the arm and physically manhandled out the venue. This woman is 5 foot tall and teaches ballet.
Her arm is sore and she is suffering some discomfort.
As we left the building out onto the sidewalk we were shocked to see the videographer we hired to document the protest in handcuffs.
He came out to document the protestors on behalf of WeAreChange Vancouver and to submit the footage to a few independent media sites
such as WeAreChange, InfoWars, PrisonPlanet, What Really Happened, 911 Blogger and TruthNews.
We were quite confused to see Mike in handcuffs. He is your quintessential "nice guy".
People had been bull horning Powell for an hour and a half without arrest yet the media was targeted.
Reviewing Mike's footage it's clear that Mike was singled out because he was filming the same police officer more than once.
There were a group of protestors and a lineup of VPD officers(behind the lone police sergeant) which Mike was filming.
Mike planned on documenting the group, as it was being ejecting from the sidewalk.
We politely asked the officer what he was being charged with and were told he would probably be released without charges.
Unfortunately for Michael this is not the case..... He now has a court date and is being charged with assault by trespass.
The only assault we witnessed might have been on the female member of our group who was manhandled while being ejected or on Mike's camera as Mike feels it was targeted
Mike felt that the police inside the jail were very surprised that he was incarcerated on "trespassing" charges.
Another one of our members was followed home on his bike and stopped twice for not wearing a helmet. Harassment?
Mike was taken to the VPD lock-up at 222 Main Street. We had a representative from Lawyers Against War call on our behalf and secure Mike's release 8 hours later.
War Crimes , Crimes against Humanity and Torture are crimes in Canada. Peacefully filming a public event—i.e. responsible citizens exercising their freedom of expression to protest violations of Canadian law--while on property to which the public is invited is not.
Why did the VPD arrest the cameraman instead of Colin Powell ?
DJ Ball
Tosh Suo
The Kean-Hamilton Commission is now complaining that they’ve been lied to by the CIA. Knowing this now and with 24 Canadians killed on 911 and the bodycount rising in Afghanistan will you open a parliamentary investigation into the events of 911 ?
__________________________________________________________ Sunday, March 09, 2008
WeAreChange vs Canadian Prime Minister Harper
Fed up with a "Manchurian Candidate" Prime Minister that continues to harm Canada and commit treason against the country we love , we show up @ the Westin Bayshore (Vancouver) to voice our strong opposition.
1. Why have you secretly allowed for an agreement with the United States military to operate on our soil ? A military that condones and openly practises torture such as waterboarding,secret prisons and even taking pliers to childrens genitals ? some have called this an act of treason. http://www.canada.com/topics/news/sto…
2. Why do you continue to hide from Canadians the fact that the North America Union is real and being done undemocratically ? some have called this an act of treason Do Canadians employ you or does Robert Pastor ? http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.ph…
3. Why did your associates last week deem it necessary to interfere and subvert the election process in the United States last week vis-a-vis the Obama leak ? Will you be asking the RCMP to investigate the source of the Obama leak or was this attack already successful and now you hope it goes away ? http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/ar…
5. Why did RCMP Agent provocateurs go unpunished when trying to inflame peaceful protesters at your extremely secretive Montebello/ Bildeberger/SPP meetings last summer ? Speaking of which who paid the bill for the massive security ? http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2007/08/22/ot-police-070822.html
WeAreChange Vancouver with the help of StopWar,Vancouver 9-11 Truth and M.A.W.O Un-welcomes Karl "War Pig" Rove at the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown Vancouver. Major Canadian networks were on the scene. Vancouver does not harbor war criminals. The Fraser Institute should be ashamed of themselves for hosting this disgusting event.
A compelling and troubling account of how the wealth of our nation was silently passed from its citizens to a handful of powerful bankers in 1913. That's the year the Federal Reserve Act and the 16th Amendment were introduced, giving a privately held corporation the means to control our finances while ensuring its interest payments through the strong arms of the newly-formed Internal Revenue Service. Ever since then, Russo suggests, Americans have been gradually conditioned to accept fewer freedoms and a lower standard of living... all the while considering debt and servitude as distinctly American values.
War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, revealing in stunning detail how the American news media have uncritically disseminated the pro-war messages of successive presidential administrations.
TerrorStorm goes into documented cases of government-sponsored terror before exposing the 7/7 bombings as an orchestrated event and brings another update on the current state of the 9/11 Truth Movement.
WHY WE FIGHT, won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, it is an unflinching look at the anatomy of the American war machine, weaving unforgettable personal stories with commentary by a whos who of military and beltway insiders. Featuring John McCain, William Kristol, Chalmers Johnson, Gore Vidal, Richard Perle and others, WHY WE FIGHT launches a bipartisan inquiry into the workings of the military industrial complex and the rise of the American Empire. Inspired by Dwight Eisenhowers legendary farewell speech (in which he coined the phrase military industrial complex), filmmaker Jarecki (THE TRIALS OF HENRY KISSINGER) surveys the scorched landscape of a half-centurys military adventures, asking how and telling why a nation of, by, and for the people has become the savings-and-loan of a system whose survival depends on a state of constant war. The film moves beyond the headlines of various American military operations to the deeper questions of why why does America fight? What are the forces political, economic, ideological that drive us to fight against an ever-changing enemy? Frank Capra made a series of films during World War II called WHY WE FIGHT that explored Americas reasons for entering the war, Jarecki notes. Today, with our troops engaged in Iraq and elsewhere for reasons far less clear, I think its crucial to ask the questions: Why are we doing what we are doing? What is it doing to others? And what is it doing to us?
Loose Change Final Cut is the third and final release of this documentary series. We draw upon our experience and research that's taken place since the release of Loose Change 2nd Edition to make this new film.
Loose Change Final Cut is substantially different from Loose Change and Loose Change 2nd Edition Recut in the way it presents the information surrounding 9/11/2001. However, it remains true to the spirit that has made Loose Change what it is today. Because we are trying to accomplish the fairest documentary possible, we interviewed dozens of professionals who both agree and disagree with the official version of events of that day. Loose Change Final Cut is our best effort to tell the story of what happened surrounding 9/11/2001 and expose the events in need of investigation. The official movie site is here: http://loosechangefinalcut.com
Zeitgeist, produced by Peter Joseph, was created as a nonprofit filmiac expression to inspire people to start looking at the world from a more critical perspective and to understand that very often things are not what the population at large think they are.
