14) RALLIES FOR A NEW CANADA ON SEPT. 12

By Darrell Rankin, Winnipeg

            People will be putting their feet on the streets for a New Canada on September 12. Activists in several cities are mobilizing people with the idea that people need to influence the federal election, not money.

            Cities are taking different approaches, but they are all inviting different movements to unite, especially communities targeted by Bill C-51 which is turning Canada into a police state. People can bring ideas about what kind of country they want. Organizers of the Winnipeg rally have compiled a list of ideas backed by major movements how to create jobs, support Aboriginal rights, curb the secret police and so on.

            So far, rallies are taking place from Alberta to Ontario (Calgary, Regina, Winnipeg, Sudbury and Toronto).

            The last two times Canadians defeated majority Tory governments, labour and other activists rallied 100,000 people on Parliament Hill (1993) and organized the On to Ottawa Trek (1935).

            It's going to take more than a confident (or perhaps over confident) approach in front of a computer to defeat a majority Conservative government planning to spend $50 million on ads and robocalls, aided by obsequious media coverage.

            It is feet on the streets time! It is time to unite everyone targeted by the police state Bill C-51. It is time to bring people, communities, groups and movements together.

            A cross-Canada coordination page is set up at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1693943417492184/ or email rnknfile@mts.net.

(The above article is from the September 1-15, issue of People's Voice, Canada's leading socialist newspaper. Articles can be reprinted free if the source is credited. Subscription rates in Canada: $30/year, or $15 low income rate; for U.S. readers - $45 US per year; other overseas readers - $45 US or $50 CDN per year. Send to People's Voice, c/o PV Business Manager, 706 Clark Drive, Vancouver, BC, V5L 3J1.)