The MobGlob has also arrived in Quebec. Despite the Canadian Government's crack down, some Quebec prosecutors are threatening to quit . A special eight-member team set up by the provincial government to prosecute protesters arrested at the Summit of the Americas is being critized by prosecutors. They are objecting to what they claim is political interference with the judiciary on the part of summit organizers. Even with all of the activists who have been denied, many people in Quebec are still predicting that the protests around the Summit of the Americas will be bigger than Seattle .
Activists are likely to pass through northern New England en route to the summit.
If enacted, it would ensure that all businesses in Maine, in order to bid for state contracts, will comply with the Maine Purchasing Code of Conduct. The people of Maine would be saying that conditions such as the misuse of child labor, unimaginable dangerous and harsh working environments, long, grueling hours for poverty wages and the denial of medical services and basic human rights are not acceptable. By supporting this bill we have a wonderful opportunity to increase compassion and justice, and decrease human cruelty and suffering. Interfor is a logging company which clear-cuts trees in the largest unprotected ancient temperate rainforest in the world. New York and Maine had also declared it to be hazardous waste, but the U.S. State Dept. insisted it is a legal trade commodity and defended the sale to a developing country.