or simply blatantly ignored?

What happened in Oaxaca? New Orleans?
What happened in Seattle? Miami?
What happened in Montebello? Cancún ?

do you know? well, if you do, why are we haggling the things that the MSM election coverage is throwing to us like dogs?

because our Voices are being eroded, not just in the MEDIA, but IN OUR LIVES.

& maybe we should be talking about it.
are we concerned enough about our diminishing *freedoms*, *privacy & right to peaceful assembly?
Portland doctors caught in Oaxaca crackdown

Mexico Wants Off Torture List Mexico's ambassador thinks his country will be removed from DFAIT's torture manual, a move critics say would place politics before human rights.

Canada and Mexico have seen their relationship grow stronger since the Conservatives came to power in January 2006. Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Prime Minister Stephen Harper have had several bilateral meetings, including a weekend together this past August. As well, dialogue between the Canadian and Mexican bureaucracies, militaries and business communities have picked up.

But torture does remain a problem. It is so prevalent that the U.S. State Department's travel advisory website includes a warning for Americans visiting Mexico.

"Mexican police regularly obtain information through torture and prosecutors use this evidence in courts," the website reads. "The Mexican Constitution and the law prohibit torture, and Mexico is party to several international anti-torture conventions, but courts continue to admit as evidence confessions extracted under torture.

"Authorities rarely punish officials for torture, which continues to occur in large part because confessions are the primary evidence in many criminal convictions. U.S. citizens have been brutalized, beaten, and even raped while in police custody."

The website adds that since the beginning of 2002, 21 Americans have died in Mexican prisons.

So tell me, after some AFL-CIO membership discussed shutting down ports to support abused Seattle WTO protesters, how many years did it take before corporatists & Bush outsourced the FUNCTION & SECURITY of 22 US Ports?
???
Browsing the Coastlines... ?

ask yourself: why do people call the SPP "NAFTA on steroids"?

Click here to read a letter to Prime Minister Harper demanding a debate on the SPP, which was signed by Maude Barlow (Council of Canadians), David Suzuki, Ken Georgetti (Canadian Labour Congress), Maher Arar & Monia Mazigh.

New shotgun Taser coming, safety committee told
Coming soon to a police force near you: the Taser shotgun, capable of firing a debilitating electronic zap from 20 metres – twice the reach of current 50,000-volt stun guns.

Taser International chairman Tom Smith described the new weapon as he took tough questions Wednesday from MPs studying the safety of his company's devices.

Taser shotguns are being tested in the U.S. and will likely be available by next year, he said. Police forces all over the world, including Canada, have expressed interest.

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