http://dominion.mediacoop.ca/fr/old/taxonomy/term/4093/0 fr http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/shipbuilding-yes-not-militarization-shipbuilding/7288 <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://dominion.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/thumb200/2007.april_4.harper_protest_naval_dockyards.jpg" alt="" title="Haligonians denounce Harper’s visit to the Naval Dockyards, April 4, 2007" width="250" height="84" class="imagecache imagecache-thumb200 imagecache-default imagecache-thumb200_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <img src="http://dominion.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/thumb200/HarperBarbards0719.jpg" alt="" title="Admiral Harper speaks onboard the Canadian frigate HMCS Fredericton in the Caribbean, July 19, 2007, while on a visit to Colombia, Chile, Barbados and Haiti. The Canadian frigate was deployed as part of “Op Caribe,” a war exercise aimed to build “maritime domain awareness.”" width="250" height="188" class="imagecache imagecache-thumb200 imagecache-default imagecache-thumb200_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://dominion.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/thumb200/403px-bundesarchiv_bild_102-06788_fritz_thyssen.jpg" alt="" title="Fritz Thyssen, financier of the German Nazis. Peter MacKay worked for ThyssenKrupp in 1991" width="250" height="372" class="imagecache imagecache-thumb200 imagecache-default imagecache-thumb200_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <img src="http://dominion.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/thumb200/gustav_krupp_greets_reichsfuhrer_ss_heinrich_himmler_at_the_launch_of_navy_cruiser_prinz_eugen_from_the_krupp_germania_werft_yard_at_kiel.jpg" alt="" title="Gustav Krupp greets Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler at the launch of Navy cruiser Prinz Eugen from the Krupp Germania Werft yard at Kiel. Krupp was convicted of crimes against humanity by the Nuremberg Tribunal. His sentence was commuted by the USA." width="250" height="201" class="imagecache imagecache-thumb200 imagecache-default imagecache-thumb200_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://dominion.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/thumb200/there_is_a_way_out_of_the_crisis.jpg" alt="" title="The first thing about the alternative is to reject the logic of there being “no alternative” – except to join the Irving empire to fight for “Atlantic Canadian jobs” or to side with some other monopoly group." width="250" height="316" class="imagecache imagecache-thumb200 imagecache-default imagecache-thumb200_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <img src="http://dominion.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/thumb200/2006.irving_shipyard_equipment_being_load.jpg" alt="" title="Machinery from Irving’s Saint John shipyard being loaded on the BBC Russia for transport to Mumbai, India on May 8, 2006. (Telegraph-Journal photo)" width="200" height="300" class="imagecache imagecache-thumb200 imagecache-default imagecache-thumb200_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://dominion.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/thumb200/jd_ivring_pulpandpapermill.jpg" alt="" title="Irvings are the greatest polluter in New Brunswick. Photo shows its notorious Saint John pulp and paper mill – Alex Vye, 2003" width="250" height="188" class="imagecache imagecache-thumb200 imagecache-default imagecache-thumb200_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <img src="http://dominion.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/thumb200/MapIntHafxrroutes.jpg" alt="" title="Map of the sea routes that the Atlantic Gateway is contending for reveals the extent of the global ambitions of the Irving empire and the political and economic elite." width="250" height="76" class="imagecache imagecache-thumb200 imagecache-default imagecache-thumb200_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://dominion.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/thumb200/atlantica_map_2.jpg" alt="" title="Map shows U.S. and Canadian territory to come under the dictate of this annexationist project. Since this map was published, Newfoundland and Labrador have been incorporated into the Atlantic Gateway project." width="250" height="149" class="imagecache imagecache-thumb200 imagecache-default imagecache-thumb200_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <img src="http://dominion.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/thumb200/100626-TorontoNoG8G20-41.jpg" alt="" title="" width="250" height="334" class="imagecache imagecache-thumb200 imagecache-default imagecache-thumb200_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://dominion.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/thumb200/060501-MayDayWindsorStopPayingtheRich.jpg" alt="" title="" width="250" height="354" class="imagecache imagecache-thumb200 imagecache-default imagecache-thumb200_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <img src="http://dominion.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/thumb200/clearingthewaterssears.jpg" alt="" title="Fisherman Fred Sears, occupying the Bluenose on the Halifax waterfront. Hook and line fishermen courageously fought for a human-centred solution to the fisheries crisis against the corporatization and privatization of the fisheries by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans in service of monopoly right." width="250" height="164" class="imagecache imagecache-thumb200 imagecache-default imagecache-thumb200_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://dominion.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/thumb200/1991.SHIP_HMCS_Protecteur_and_USS_Wisconsin_1991_lg.jpg" alt="" title="The HMCS Protecteur, one of the supply vessels to be replaced in the Joint Support Warship contract, fuels the American warship USS Wisconsin in the Persian Gulf in this 1991 file photo." width="250" height="167" class="imagecache imagecache-thumb200 imagecache-default imagecache-thumb200_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <img src="http://dominion.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/thumb200/fleet_renewalinitiativegm.jpg" alt="" title="Principal Canadian shipyards (Infographic from the Globe and Mail)" width="250" height="127" class="imagecache imagecache-thumb200 imagecache-default imagecache-thumb200_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://dominion.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/thumb200/2008.lockheedmartin-Dalhousie.jpg" alt="" title="Militarization involves the appropriation of taxpayer-funded research and development by the U.S. armaments multinationals for a song" width="250" height="152" class="imagecache imagecache-thumb200 imagecache-default imagecache-thumb200_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <img src="http://dominion.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/thumb200/Partners.Mulroney-MacLay-Schreiber.jpg" alt="" title="Partners: Brian Mulroney, Elmer MacKay (father of Peter MacKay, Minister of Defence and NATO representative) and Karlheinz Schreiber, German arms merchant. As one blogger put it, “you can’t make this stuff up.”" width="250" height="187" class="imagecache imagecache-thumb200 imagecache-default imagecache-thumb200_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <ul> <li><em>This article was revised and updated on June 8, 2011</em></li> </ul> <p>SHIPBUILDING is one of the traditional industries in the Maritimes, Quebec, certain lake ports in Ontario, and British Columbia&nbsp;which is in crisis. Now, instead of resolving the crisis in favour of the people, the warmongering positions of the Harper government include the militarization of all shipbuilding.</p> <p><a href="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/shipbuilding-yes-not-militarization-shipbuilding/7288" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/shipbuilding-yes-not-militarization-shipbuilding/7288#comments Tony Seed Syndicalisme Canadian Foreign Policy Dominion Stories Tue, 17 May 2011 14:58:42 +0000 Tony Seed 7288 at http://dominion.mediacoop.ca