MAWO Picket Line Against the Canadian War Drive Targets the Canadian Forces Recruiting Center. . . two weeks in a row! By Kira Koshelanyk On Thursday July 14th, 2005 General Rick Hillier, Chief of Defense for the Canadian government exposed for all the Canadian government’s imperialist face and role in the occupation of Afghanistan. He spoke frankly as the mouth-piece for the racist war machine describing the Afghan people as “detestable murderers and scumbags”, saying that the Canadian military “has to be able to go places and kill people” and clarifying, by announcing the deployment of 2000 more Canadian troops to Afghanistan, that those people would be Afghans. On Thursday July 21st and 28th Mobilization Against War & Occupation’s (MAWO) “Operation: Canada Out!” campaign organized a response to the revving engines of the Canadian imperialist war drive by holding two emergency pickets targeting the Canadian Forces Recruitment Center downtown Vancouver. |