Canwest: Media Bully

*News Flash: Creators of CanWest parody speak out in the Georgia Straight *

VANCOUVER- Sun owner CanWest has launched an unprecedented civil lawsuit against local activists. In this direct attack on freedom of expression, the activists are being sued for a four page parody of the Vancouver Sun satirising CanWest’s well-known bias for supporting the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.

In fact, the media giant’s founder, Izzy Asper, boasted that “In all of our newspapers… we have a very pro-Israeli position…we are the strongest supporter of Israel in Canada.” Now CanWest is attempting to bully and silence criticism of its political position - we can’t let them do that.

The Seriously Free Speech Committee has been formed to resist this bullying, demanding that the suit be dropped in favour of an open public debate of the important issues of Israel and Palestine.

As the Supreme Court of Canada said in its June 2008 unanimous decision about freedom of expression, “the law must accommodate commentators such as the satirist or the cartoonist who… exercise a democratic right to poke fun at those who huff and puff in the public arena.”

Courtesy of Seriously Free Speech

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