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Oil company defends RCMP collaboration

CBC News Posted: Feb 08, 1999 8:37 PM ET Last Updated: Feb 08, 1999 8:37 PM ET

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An Alberta energy executive says saving lives was the only motive behind a staged-bombing last year.

The President of Alberta Energy Company, Gwyn Morgan, said at a news conference Monday that it was believed the blast would put pressure on the real vandals.

Alberta Energy Company has been criticized for conspiring with the RCMP to set off a bomb that blew up a shed at a gas well site last October.

Albertans demand RCMP bombing inquiry

Police hoped to raise public anger about the vandalism by spreading false information about the well-publicized explosion.

Morgan says he agreed to participate in the action to avoid injury or death in the future because the severity of attacks on industry sites had been escalating.

"Under these same circumstances, and without the benefit of knowing what the future would hold I ask you what would you have done, " Morgan said.

Morgan said his company was asked by the RCMP to take part in the plan. He was assured by the RCMP that the explosion would be safe and controlled and was told his cooperation was completely within the law.

And while he regrets the public had to be misled, Morgan said cooperating with the police was the "right thing to do" and what every law abiding Canadian has the obligation to do.

There have been 160 acts of vandalism against the oil industry in northern Alberta in the past two years.

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Food Banks Canada working to combat food insecurity in the summer

DAVE MCGINN

The Globe and Mail

Published Monday, May 29, 2017 3:19PM EDT

Last updated Monday, May 29, 2017 3:19PM EDT

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Close to one million people – including more than 300,000 children – will rely on food banks across Canada this summer. But donation levels usually plunge this time of year, which can wreak havoc on families and others who suffer from food insecurity.

To combat the usual drop in donations throughout the summer, Food Banks Canada has launched #EveryPlateFull, a national fundraiser and food drive that runs until June 9. The Globe and Mail’s Dave McGinn spoke to executive director Katharine Schmidt about the campaign and the challenges of the season.

Why run this campaign now?

Summer is a particularly challenging time for food banks. Donations tend to fall and demand remains high. In some cases, it’s even harder for families over the summer.

Why is summer especially hard for families who have to deal with food insecurity?

One of the reasons is that school programs that typically have a breakfast or a lunch program – the kids aren’t in school and, therefore, they aren’t getting that extra food. Every meal makes a difference and the families really feel it.

And why do donations drop off in the summer?

We believe it’s primarily because everyone is out of their routines. People who are in a routine of buying an item or a couple of extra items when they do their weekly grocery shop and drop it in the food bank bin at the store, they’re on holidays, they’re doing different things, so they’re not making those regular donations. And then also, schools aren’t running food drives, [nor are many] places of business, places of worship. And so donations tend to dry up.

This summer, 918,000 people across Canada will use food banks. That is a massive number.

It’s huge. And that number is actually 26 per cent higher than it was before the recession hit in 2008. The numbers are up and they’re not declining, so food banks are constantly having to continue to serve their local communities at that high level.

What is the goal of the campaign?

We know that food banks will be providing 26 million meals over the summer. The goal of this campaign is three million meals, which means raising three million dollars. For every dollar that gets donated that will equate to three meals.

One dollar buys three meals? How is that possible?

It’s possible because food banks are very efficient. A lot of the support from food banks is done by volunteers, a lot of their food is donated, so that money is really leveraged through donated support and that’s why it goes as far is it does.

I think about the food bank a lot over Thanksgiving and Christmas, when there are so many reasons to reflect on good fortune, but to be honest it almost completely drops off my personal radar after that.

Hunger doesn’t take a summer holiday, unfortunately. We are looking for people to think about their fortune in the summer, and if they can give now before they go off on their summer holiday it would really be greatly, greatly appreciated.

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Pigs killing minorities is certainly something that didn't stop under obama. In fact, it even got worse. Is it  going to get better under trump ? Are you fucking nuts ? Would it have been addressed with hillary in power ? No fucking way. Support the efforts of the Revolutionaries in chicago . This is well worth your time and money.

June 24, 2017
Communiqué from the Revolution Club in Chicago

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REVOLUTION CLUB

WE CANNOT STAND ASIDE WITH ARMS FOLDED, WHILE THE PIGS CARRY OUT MURDER AND ARE NEVER PUNISHED!!!

Terence Crutcher in Oklahoma. Philando Castile in Minnesota. Samuel DuBose in Cincinnati. And now, Sylville Smith in Milwaukee. Each of these human beings was murdered by police. Each of their killers walked free, three in the past week alone.

This is how capitalist, white supremacist dictatorship comes down on Black people. Murdered for simply existing. Then the blue-suited killer goes free. Then the pigs blanket the area where Black people live and threaten, hem in, harass and arrest those who protest. The rights this system claims to guarantee—to protest, to bear arms, to be free from police contact without probable cause that you committed a crime, to be respected in your human dignity—are meaningless mockery. And now, with Trump, this will get—and is already getting—even worse!

No! No more! The Revolutionary Communist Party Central Committee says this:

We need to oppose and disrupt the moves of the ruling powers to isolate, “encircle,” brutalize, mass incarcerate and murderously repress the people who have the hardest life under this system and who most need this revolution. We need to “encircle” them—by bringing forth wave upon wave of people rising up in determined opposition to this system.(from HOW WE CAN WIN—How We Can Really Make Revolution)

Right now, as part of this, the Revolution Club in Chicago is spreading whistles throughout the communities under attack. When the police roll into the community, do not run away. Stay outside and blow your whistle. Take out your phones and start filming. Post up around their cars. Call the Revolution Club right away. THESE PIGS MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO ILLEGALLY AND IMMORALLY CARRY OUT MURDER AND COVER IT UP! The people have a right to resist and prevent such murder.

Then, yes, be part of protest. The Revolution Club organizes, and joins with protest—protest that does not respect their rules... protest that should be built as part of getting ready for REVOLUTION.

This revolution means something specific. It is not just a phrase. This revolution overturns and dismantles the system’s illegitimate instruments of violent repression. This revolution brings in a whole new power, backing up a different economic system and different relations between people. This revolution will make police murder and repression no more, for as BA has said, “if we had state power ... we would sooner have one of our own people’s police killed than go wantonly murder one of the masses.” (BAsics 2:16) This revolution—the communist revolution—aims to GET RID OF EXPLOITATION AND OPPRESSION, all over the world, not just smooth it out... or get in on it.

We have the leader of the revolution, Bob Avakian, BA, who has shown the way and charted the path to make this revolution. We have the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America, written by BA, that shows the solution to the madness of this system. We have a strategy to make this revolution, and we are organized into the Revolutionary Communist Party and the Revolution Club to carry this all the way through.

The Revolution Club is clear and straight-up: yes, the young people of Chicago must get out of the madness of killing and retaliating against each other. But the pigs are part of the problem—they are the enforcers of the problem—they are NOT part of the solution, in any way, shape or form. Get with the Revolution Club and be part of ending this madness as soon as possible.

Go to revcom.us every day.

And get in touch with the Revolution Club in Chicago at (312) 804-9121 or come to the organizing center at 1857 E. 71st Street, Chicago, Illinois 60649.

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“Why Is the U.S. Killing So Many Civilians in Syria and Iraq?”

June 23, 2017 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us

March 24, 2017, Mosul, Iraq. Rescue teams pull bodies of civilians from the ruins of a house. The escalating conflict between U.S.-led forces and the Islamic State has meant a dramatic spike in deaths of civilians, including from airstrikes.  Photo: AP

“Why Is the U.S. Killing So Many Civilians in Syria and Iraq?” That was the question posed in a June 19 New York Times opinion piece.

The article, written by a supporter of the U.S. empire and its military, nonetheless painted a damning picture of some of the escalating civilian slaughter being carried out by the U.S. in Iraq and Syria, and of America’s murderous, chauvinist ethos. Since the U.S. air war against ISIS began in August 2014 under Obama, the U.S.-dominated coalition has carried out 22,666 air attacks, dropped 84,296 bombs and missiles and killed—at minimum—between 4,118 and 6,360 according to Airwars.org. And many thousands more have been wounded, tens of thousands more driven from their homes, their lives shattered, and untold devastation visited on Iraq and Syria. (The U.S. admits to 484 civilians being killed by its coalition since August 2014.)

And it’s getting much worse under the fascist Trump/Pence regime, which is escalating the war as it tries to retake the densely populated cities of Mosul, Iraq, and Raqqa, Syria; the number of bombs being dropped has risen 20 percent.

Yet, at the same time, the Trump/Pence regime has “relaxed oversight, investigation and accountability” for civilian killings, according to the author. What does that mean? That the U.S. imperialists are no longer even taking the pitiful and wholly inadequate steps to avoid civilian causalities they had previously, and really aren’t even pretending to give a fuck about Iraqi and Syrian lives.

The U.S. military has never truthfully counted its millions of victims. On the rare occasions the U.S. military speaks about the civilian deaths they’ve caused, they insist they “do everything possible” to protect civilians. But here’s the reality today:

• The Trump gang has given military commanders much greater latitude to do what they deem militarily necessary with even less concern about killing civilians.
• The Pentagon no longer bothers with having a separate “red team” that evaluates whether air strikes could better avoid civilian deaths.
• “[T]he Pentagon will no longer acknowledge when its own aircraft are responsible for civilian casualty incidents”—instead blaming the slaughters on the “coalition” even though the U.S. is responsible for 95 percent of the attacks in Syria and 68 percent in Iraq.
• “Until June 13, the American military had only two people investigating Iraqi and Syrian civilian casualties full time.” This out of 10,000 U.S. military personnel stationed at the air war command center in Qatar! (The number is now seven.)
• Congress hasn’t bothered to exercise its “oversight” of the war, or hold any hearings about civilian killings.

All this has created a “staggering increase” in the number of civilians being slaughtered by the U.S. under Trump—46 in Al Jineh, Syria, on March 16; at least 105 and probably as many as 230 in one March 17 strike in Mosul; over 100 civilians, including 42 children, in the town of Al Mayadeen in Eastern Syria on May 25-26—to name a few incidents. Since Trump took over, Airwars.org figures indicate the U.S. has killed at least 2,300 and perhaps more than 3,000 civilians—more than 1,000 in March alone.

“Why Is the U.S. Killing So Many Civilians in Syria and Iraq?”

The answer (which the author is unable or unwilling to see): the U.S. is fighting reactionary, unjust wars of empire to dominate the Middle East (and the world)—not to liberate anyone.

Trump is now bringing his fascist “America First” gangsterism to the Middle East and the world. According to him, nothing will stand in America’s way of dominating and plundering the region and the world—not ISIS, not Iran, not global rivals, and certainly not “human rights,” civilian casualties, or Syrian, Iraqi or Middle Eastern lives.

Face it. This is what “America First” looks like!