Non-Native News of Interest

New Homolka crime link sought
TORONTO -- Families of the victims of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka want to know if Homolka was implicated in Bernardo's recent confession to 17 alleged sex assaults, their lawyer says.

It's Official--Paul Martin To Step Down
Former prime minister Paul Martin will officially resign as leader of the Liberal party.
Martin has stated in writing he will step down when Liberal party executives meet this weekend in Ottawa and set a convention date. "I wish to confirm my intention to resign as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada upon the formal call of the convention," Martin's letter to the party states.
 

"Operation Swarmer": That's what the U.S. military is calling the air assault they launched in Iraq earlier today. In what CNN is reporting as "the largest air assault since the invasion of Iraq nearly three years ago," some 50 aircraft are "supporting" U.S. and Iraqi troops near the city of Samarra. When the military says "supporting," they mean bombing. And when bombs are dropped, innocent civilians are killed.

Just yesterday U.S. air power demolished a farmhouse. According to The New York Times, "The American military said that only three civilians had been killed, while Iraqi officials said an entire 11-member family -- from a 75-year-old grandmother to a 6-month-old baby -- had died in the attack .... The results were devastating, according to images broadcast on Arab TV: dead cows, scorched cars, a smashed house and 11 bodies rolled up in blankets." (New York Times, March 16, 2006, p. A8)

This new air assault demands a quick, visible outcry from people all around the country. As it happens, there are more than 500 antiwar activities already planned to coincide with the 3rd anniversary of the start of the war in hundreds of locations around the country. Please take a moment right now to find out what is happening near you and then do everything you can to build those actions. visit UNITED FOR PEACE & JUSTICE