Speeches, Letters, Handouts
This section features a collection of speeches, letters, and handouts from ECAWAR events and related issues.
Concerning Gaza
A couple of documents concerning the war on Gaza in January of 2009.
To download a handout outlining ECAWAR's position on the situation in Gaza, click here.
Here is a letter to Prime Minister Harper from Dr. Ismail Zayid of the Canada Palestine Association.
Housing, Not War
This speech was delivered by Greg Farrants from Albertans Demand Affordable Housing (ADAH) at the Global Day of Action on March 15, 2008.
It was George Orwell in his book, 1984, who wrote:
“The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquest of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact.”
I say this because the same war that our government has waged or supported on Afghanis, on Haitians, on Columbians, on Lebanese, on Palestinians, and tacitly on Iraqis… is the same war that this government has waged on its own people and especially the poor and marginalized . . .
To read the entire speech, click here.
Omar Khadr and the Rule of Law
A ten-page letter concerning Omar Khadr, from Lawyers Against the War to the federal government in late July. Download and read the entire letter in PDF form here.
---Rev. Brian Kiely. Unitarian Church of Edmonton
Edmonton, April 25, 2008
The most interesting thing about lawyer Denis Edney’s April 23rd presentation at the Unitarian Church was how little time he spent discussing the young man’s actual case. Khadr is the Canadian citizen being held by the U.S.government in Guantanamo Bay. Captured at the age of 15 in Afghanistan, the boy-become-man has been held in solitary confinement and, until recently, without charges for over six years . . .
Read the rest of the article here.