Marc Emery

By: COREY LAROCQUE, Welland Tribune

 

NIAGARA FALLS — Canada's Justice Minister Rob Nicholson says he hopes the beefed-up security presence following him lately is a "short-term" measure, but the Niagara Falls MP wouldn't say much else about why he has a police escort tailing him.

 

"We're always concerned about issues of security," Nicholson said Monday, when asked about what appeared to be a plainclothes police officer travelling with him to a funding announcement in Niagara Falls.

 

A woman in a black suit and wearing dark sunglasses was with Nicholson when he arrived at the Bridge St. train station Monday to announce Ottawa will contribute $700,000 toward upgraded GO Train platforms.

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This week on Tuesday, June 23, as part of the Free Marc Campaign, I took part in the occupation of Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's office.

 

To the credit of the office, while at first we were only allowed in a small entry, we were buzzed in to the locked office and were given the opportunity to explain our action to the staff. A staff member asked questions and listened to our concerns for over 15 minutes. As a matter of protocol, police were called down, but the call was treated as a non-urgent matter (we waited for an hour for police to arrive, and only one officer was sent down.) The officer was calm and polite and had both his badge number and name clearly displayed. He in no way threatened us with arrest for our protest, and merely asked our names and confirmed that we would only remain during open office hours. Having confirmed this information, he left.

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By. Angela Blackburn/Oakville Beaver

 

The Free Marc Emery (also known as the Prince of Pot) Campaign came to Oakville Tuesday and one arrest followed.

 

Emery is a Canadian, who was recently extradited — with the co-operation of the Canadian federal government — to await sentencing in the United States for selling marijuana seeds online. Emery is due for sentencing in September and faces five years in prison stateside.

 

The campaign has seen protesters take over numerous offices of members of the Conservative government of Canada, including Prime Minister Stephen Harper, to demand the return to Canada of the imprisoned marijuana activist.

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By Jeremiah Vandermeer, Cannabis Culture

 

CANNABIS CULTURE - Another 'Free Marc Emery' campaign activist was arrested during a Conservative MP office occupation in an apparent attempt by Canadian officials to subvert the rights of peaceful protestors. The arrest is the third in days for members of the campaign, who say authorities are using brute force and shady tactics to keep them quiet.

 

Nicole Seguin, a Vancouver drug policy reform activist and member of the 'Free Marc Emery' campaign, was arrested on Tuesday, June 15 for protesting at the Oakville, Ontario constituency office of Conservative MP Terence Young.

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Nicole Seguin, National Director End Prohibition

 

On Tuesday, June 15, I accompanied the Free Marc Campaign to another stop along our tour in Oakville, Ontario, this time at Conservative MP Terrence Young's office. While I had some idea of the possibility of police show of force based on the police reaction to our stop at Rob Nicholson's office, I was still surprised at the size of the police response to our protest.

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The Daily News (Kamloops)

 

A small group of demonstrators took their protest over the recent deportation of marijuana activist Marc Emery to the riding office of MP Cathy McLeod Monday.

 

The four protesters, aligned with the web-based protest FreeMarc.ca, were also objecting to Bill S10, legislation currently before the Senate that proposes mandatory minimum sentences for dealing marijuana.

 

With the House in session, McLeod was in Ottawa, but her staff told the protesters they could not put up posters at the riding office or prevent constituents from entering.

 

RCMP were summoned and convinced the group to take their protest outside.

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As the National Director of End Prohibition, the NDP's unofficial grassroots organization committed to ending prohibition of marijuana and normalizing Canadian drug policy, I strongly believe in our right, if not obligation, to protest unjust laws through protest, demonstration, and civil disobedience. Throughout history, we can see that violence only begets more violence, and for any civil right to be achieved requires discipline and willingness to suffer without retaliating with force.

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NiagaraThisWeek

 

What was supposed to be a peaceful demonstration outside MP Rob Nicholson’s office on Thursday afternoon resulted in the arrest of two men.

 

Jacob Hunter of Vancouver and Eric Compton from Toronto were both arrested by officers from the Niagara Regional Police Services outside Nicholson’s Niagara Falls office. The protest, organized by the Free Marc Emery Campaign, was targeted at Nicholson, Niagara Falls MP, because in his role as Canadian Minister of Justice, Nicholson was the person who signed the extradition order for Emery. Marc Emery is a Canadian cannabis activist and former cannabis seeds seller who was sentenced to five years in a United States prison on drug charges stemming from his cannabis seed selling business. Read more »

By Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times

 

Reporting from Vancouver, Canada — For years, his seed catalogs were scrutinized by discerning cannabis cultivators across the U.S. and Canada, much like the ladies of Cumbria might fuss over Chiltern's inventories of sweet peas and heirloom tomatoes.

 

There was Blue Heaven pot, capable of producing a "euphoric, anti-anxiety high," or Crown Royal, whose "flower tops come to a flat golden crown, sparkling with gems of THC," or Hawaiian Sativa, with its "menthol flavor that tingles the taste buds and tickles the brain."

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