KanMan
11-28-2007, 09:17 PM
Monday, December 17, Noon, National Day of Protest
WHEN: noon to 1.30 p.m. Monday, December 17
WHERE: Your Closest Constituency office of your Member of Parliament
WHAT: Theatrical demonstration (chains, leg irons, prison uniforms, signs,) with 10 - 20 people at ALL 308 Members of Parliament Constituency Offices across Canada. Its a day to educate each MP by giving out pamphlets to passers by and the MP and their assistants. Dressing in prison uniforms, hand-cuffed or leg-ironed, with a ball and chain, padlocks, or a variation of this with signs that might say "Prohibition Hurts People, Bill C-26 Hurts Canadians" and " HONK if you oppose jail for pot!"
WHY: The Conservatives have introduced amendments to the Controlled Drugs & substances Act that mandate minimum penalties for sellers of 3 kilograms of cannabis, all growers who grow in a rented property, all growers who have children in the garden house, any production of hashish and budder and oil for distribution, maximum penalties raised to 14 years, equal to manslaughter, for cannabis production! The penalties for marijuana have been getting more severe in the courts for the last year, and arrests across Canada are up considerably.
We are DEMONSTRATING at our elected REPRESENTATIVES to DEMAND MP's listen to science, facts, the Senate Report 2002, and to NOT pass the Bill-C-26, the Government Drug Amendments. INSTEAD WE MUST give each Member of Parliament compelling reasons why we should end Prohibition and solve all the problems of prohibition with a taxed and regulated form of distribution. We will propose counter-amendments that would, if legislated, solve the key concerns of the people and government regarding gun crime, gang activity, etc.
HOW: This is a day time protest, 90 minutes starting at noon. The idea is to present the CANNABIS USER as a good, decent citizen. PROHIBITION is the evil, PRISONS and INMATES are the RESULTS. So we must do a theatrical demonstration of individuals (possibly wearing hats of different professions, nurse, graduate, construction, etc.) dressed as prisoners, leg irons, hand cuffs, orange prison jump suits or the old Monopoly jail outfit of black and white stripes, holding a sign saying "POT PEOPLE DON'T DESERVE JAIL" " THE ANSWER IS TO END PROHIBITION " " QUEBEC IS NOT THE USA; No More Drug War, if you please" "LE QUEBEC n'EST pas L'USA ; Aucune Guerre de plus de Drogue, si vous s'il vous plaît" " Free Societies don't Punish Freedom, do they?"
Prison theatrics are accompanied by a sign. Others give out pamphlets to passersby. NO ONE IS SMOKING POT. this isn't DEFIANCE, this is a political demonstration. The media, if they show, must see one message and that is prohibition = punishment = jail. NO DISTRACTIONS, PLEASE! It's not a rebellious smokeout, it is political theatre organized to make an impact on your local media and your local MP.
The main Calgary protest will be at Prime Minister Stephen Joseph Harper constituency address in Calgary
Glenmore Landing
A203, 1600 - 90th Avenue S.W.
Calgary, Alberta
Keith Fagin
(403) 863-2071
keith at calgary420.ca
WHEN: noon to 1.30 p.m. Monday, December 17
WHERE: Your Closest Constituency office of your Member of Parliament
WHAT: Theatrical demonstration (chains, leg irons, prison uniforms, signs,) with 10 - 20 people at ALL 308 Members of Parliament Constituency Offices across Canada. Its a day to educate each MP by giving out pamphlets to passers by and the MP and their assistants. Dressing in prison uniforms, hand-cuffed or leg-ironed, with a ball and chain, padlocks, or a variation of this with signs that might say "Prohibition Hurts People, Bill C-26 Hurts Canadians" and " HONK if you oppose jail for pot!"
WHY: The Conservatives have introduced amendments to the Controlled Drugs & substances Act that mandate minimum penalties for sellers of 3 kilograms of cannabis, all growers who grow in a rented property, all growers who have children in the garden house, any production of hashish and budder and oil for distribution, maximum penalties raised to 14 years, equal to manslaughter, for cannabis production! The penalties for marijuana have been getting more severe in the courts for the last year, and arrests across Canada are up considerably.
We are DEMONSTRATING at our elected REPRESENTATIVES to DEMAND MP's listen to science, facts, the Senate Report 2002, and to NOT pass the Bill-C-26, the Government Drug Amendments. INSTEAD WE MUST give each Member of Parliament compelling reasons why we should end Prohibition and solve all the problems of prohibition with a taxed and regulated form of distribution. We will propose counter-amendments that would, if legislated, solve the key concerns of the people and government regarding gun crime, gang activity, etc.
HOW: This is a day time protest, 90 minutes starting at noon. The idea is to present the CANNABIS USER as a good, decent citizen. PROHIBITION is the evil, PRISONS and INMATES are the RESULTS. So we must do a theatrical demonstration of individuals (possibly wearing hats of different professions, nurse, graduate, construction, etc.) dressed as prisoners, leg irons, hand cuffs, orange prison jump suits or the old Monopoly jail outfit of black and white stripes, holding a sign saying "POT PEOPLE DON'T DESERVE JAIL" " THE ANSWER IS TO END PROHIBITION " " QUEBEC IS NOT THE USA; No More Drug War, if you please" "LE QUEBEC n'EST pas L'USA ; Aucune Guerre de plus de Drogue, si vous s'il vous plaît" " Free Societies don't Punish Freedom, do they?"
Prison theatrics are accompanied by a sign. Others give out pamphlets to passersby. NO ONE IS SMOKING POT. this isn't DEFIANCE, this is a political demonstration. The media, if they show, must see one message and that is prohibition = punishment = jail. NO DISTRACTIONS, PLEASE! It's not a rebellious smokeout, it is political theatre organized to make an impact on your local media and your local MP.
The main Calgary protest will be at Prime Minister Stephen Joseph Harper constituency address in Calgary
Glenmore Landing
A203, 1600 - 90th Avenue S.W.
Calgary, Alberta
Keith Fagin
(403) 863-2071
keith at calgary420.ca