- Don’t let Canwest intimidate you into silence. Recommend this website to as many people as you can, in all walks of life. Those who share a commitment to defend, maintain, and use the democratic right of free speech need to know about this case.
- Write letters to Canwest demanding they drop the lawsuit and mail them c/o their lawyer: David Church, Church & Company, 900-1040 West Georgia Street, Vancouver British Columbia, V6C 3H4, Canada. Please copy the Seriously Free Speech Committee with your letters.
- Write letters to the non-Canwest mainstream media asking them why they aren’t covering this important case. Including: CBC, CTV, Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, etc.
- Encourage your organization to adopt resolutions or issue public statements critical of Canwest’s actions and in support of the SFSC campaign. Please send copies to info@seriouslyfreespeech.ca. For examples please click on the ‘Support’ Tab.
- Contribute financially to help defray the unavoidable legal costs. Make donations payable to: “Seriously Free Speech Committee” and mail them to the address below:
Seriously Free Speech Committee
PO Box 57112, RPO East Hastings Street
Vancouver, B.C. V5K 5G6
PO Box 57112, RPO East Hastings Street
Vancouver, B.C. V5K 5G6
Email: info@seriouslyfreespeech.ca
9 responses so far ↓
Bernadette Stringer // March 29, 2008 at 6:35 pm |
i would like my name on the petition/statement to support mort briemberg.
Penny Newman // April 3, 2008 at 9:19 am |
Please let me know more. We will certainly be supporting Mordecai in whatever happens. The media continues to suppress information on the Palestine situation and now they are trying to suppress individual points of view. CanWest is of course one of the more odious examples but it certainly is seen in many other guises. Mort deserves our support for his continued efforts on behalf of many people and causes and his ability to say “no” when others are not so bold. People like Asper, Harper, Bush, or whoever continue to try and scare financially or otherwise those who oppose their viewpoints.
John Bogardus // April 7, 2008 at 3:30 pm |
It’s a testament to Mordecai’s courage, determination and effectiveness that he is being targeted. It’s a test of our humanity to ensure he doesn’t stand alone.
Joe Wheeler // April 9, 2008 at 6:12 pm |
The idea of a petition to CanWest or letter to their lawyer is like politely asking the Devil to be a nice person. It acknowledges CanWest’s position that they have the high ground in commencing their legal action. Asking them to drop the suit would not move them even a tiny bit, and in the process feeds into their arrogance that people who sign the petition, etc., are powerless and just blowing off steam. The petition is therefore a bad idea.
What is more to the point is to engage them on the playing field they’ve set down, and shift the focus to their unconscionable abuse of legal process. This would mean instead of a petition to e.g. organize a benefit concert or other public gathering where a defence fund can be collected; such a benefit gathering would further call public attention to CanWest’s oppressive arrogance.
Then when you have money to hire sufficient lawyers, CanWest can be challenged for bringing a vexatious, frivolous and groundless law suit that if pursued would tend to bring the administration of justice in disrepute and therefore a motion that the suit be dismissed with prejudice and costs to the wrongly-named defendant, Dr. Briemberg. Their claim is so flimsy they might even be sued for Abuse of (legal) process.
Then, in the pre-trial segment, use subpoena power to trace down exactly who is behind this suit and grill them mercilessly in discovery, as well as demanding all pertinent internal documents. If it comes to trial, make sure that supporters pack the courtroom, and that there is a media presence, e.g. reporters for various local progressive papers. An orderly demonstration could take place at or near the courthouse to further gain public attention of what is going on, including dozens of people passing out copies of the original pamphlet that Briemberg was distributing, marked as such, thereby going beyond satire to the public’s right to know that which is the subject of dispute in court. It will become even more attractive if it is marked as “this is the satirical writing that CanWest has sued to suppress your right to read”.
Mary Ann Cantillon // May 16, 2008 at 3:37 pm |
Please add my name to petition
Thank You
Mary Ann Cantillon
André Paradis // June 13, 2008 at 8:26 am |
Il n’y a aucun doute qu’il faut s’opposer fortement à cette tentative de Canwest de limiter la liberté d’expression et de reduire au silence ceux qui critiquent le discours aveuglément pro-israëlien que tiennent aussi bien le Vancouver Sun que The Gazette, ici, à Montréal. Il faut aussi défendre pleinement Mordecai Briemberk, un militant
“historique” exemplaire pour les droits des Palestiniens et une juste résolution du conflit Palestine-Israël, que plusieurs voudraientt bien faire taire, un militant que j’ai eu le plaisir de connaître et d’apprécier.
Herman Boerma // July 2, 2008 at 5:29 pm |
I second Joe Wheeler’s suggested approach.
Ismail Zayid // September 27, 2008 at 12:54 pm |
Mordecai Briemberg and his colleagues deserve the full support of all those who care for justice and international law, in their perfect right to tell the facts as they are.
Akbar Mujahed // November 26, 2008 at 7:21 am |
My support of all those who care for justice and international law, in their perfect right to tell the facts as they are.