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To: marcos who wrote (41)	8/18/2001 1:42:54 PM
From: marcos	Respond to of 1293

Laid-off sawmill workers protest U.S. duty on Canadian softwood lumber By STEVE MERTL VANCOUVER (CP) - About 200 workers staged a protest Friday outside a Vancouver sawmill that's closing because of the imposition of punitive U.S. duties on Canadian softwood lumber. Leaders of the IWA-Canada local representing the Weyerhaeuser Canada mill said the 19.3 per cent duty slapped on imported Canadian lumber last week demands a tough response from Canada. "If it means that we have to play and use our levers (such) as energy, or whatever else is available to us, then we should use that," Harry Bains, a member of the union's plant committee, told workers ending their last shift. "We should not be sitting idly by. "You can't negotiate with that bully over there. You have to fight that bully with the same tactics that they come on with." [ed - preach it brother .. right to the gut - swift, hard, and often] The U.S. Commerce Department imposed the duty at the request of American lumber producers who claim Canadian softwood is subsidized through low provincial stumpage - Crown timber-cutting fees. The countervail case was launched after the expiry of a quota agreement expired in March that restricted the amount of duty-free lumber flowing into the U.S. market, where Canadian wood has a 34 per cent share. American producers have lost three previous countervail cases. Forest companies in British Columbia, which accounts for more than half the $10 billion in annual softwood exports to the United States, responded by announcing temporary mill closures. It's estimated up to 14,000 people could be out of work by next week. The latest was Louisiana-Pacific Corp., which said it was shutting a cedar sawmill in Malakwa, B.C., and laying off 120 workers. "We simply cannot absorb the increased cost of this duty," Patrick Bonkemeyer, Louisiana-Pacific's general operations manager for engineered wood products, said in a news release issued by its Portland, Ore., head office. Weyerhaeuser, based in Federal Way, Wash., is closing three mills for at least two weeks. Bains urged workers to pressure federal and B.C. politicians to do more to fight the countervail. "They haven't done enough," he said. Union leaders plan to meet Wednesday to draw up a strategy to respond to the U.S. action, possibly including picketing nearby border crossings. "If it means to go to the border, make sure we take all our friends, family and kids over to the border," Bains said. "No one is left behind, so we can send a clear message to the American government that whatever the tactics they're using is not acceptable to us." Millworker Tony Paiva said he was prepared even to blockade the busy border crossing, as long as others were with him. "I'll do anything to support my job and my family," said Paiva, who has worked at the mill for more than 14 years. Meanwhile, International Trade Minister Pierre Pettigrew announced he would hold an extraordinary federal-provincial meeting with forest ministers next Friday in Montreal to discuss Canada's response to the countervail duty. ca.news.yahoo.com

To: marcos who wrote (41)	8/19/2001 12:02:00 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1293

FO techniques against independent peoples, Example I, location SE Asia - 'On Mar. 16, 1968, a unit of the U.S. army Americal division, led by Lt. William L. Calley, invaded the South Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai (more correctly, Son My), an alleged Viet Cong stronghold. In the course of combat operations, unarmed civilians, including women and children, were shot to death (the final army estimate for the number killed was 347). The incident remained unknown to the American public until the autumn of 1969 ... Of the many soldiers originally charged, only five were court-martialed, and one, Lt. Calley, convicted. On Mar. 29, 1971, he was found guilty of the premeditated murder of at least twenty-two Vietnamese civilians and sentenced to life imprisonment. His sentence was later reduced to 10 years, and in Sept., 1974, a federal district court overturned the conviction and Calley was released. encyclopedia.com