From resist at resist.ca  Sat Feb  1 13:11:09 2003
From: resist at resist.ca (resist admin)
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 13:11:09 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [news] Cuts to Child Protection
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302011309460.32072-100000@resist.ca>


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Cuts to Child Protection
From: "Bob Wilson" <BWilson at heu.org>
Date: Fri, January 31, 2003 4:45 pm

Cuts to Child Protection

According to Minister of Children and Family Development, Gordon Hogg,
65% of the children taken into the care of the government come from
single parent families on welfare. The goal of Hogg's Ministry is to
reduce the number of children in care. Meanwhile, Minister of Human
Resources, Murray Coell, has cut welfare rates for single parent
families.

On April 1, 2002, government made it harder to get child care, and
support payments to single parents with a child over 3 also went down by
$51 per month. On July 1, 2002, there was a further cut of over $50 in
shelter allowances for families of 3 or more (including single parent
families with 2 or more kids). Coell and Hogg sit in the same Cabinet.
Are their policies inconsistent, or does Hogg's acceptance of a 20%
failure rate for kids explain how they can cut support for the most
vulnerable while cutting child protection.

Hogg was quoted in the April 1st Victoria Times Colonist as saying "Even
with the best risk management tools an 80 per cent success rate is
probably the most that can be achieved." When interviewed by Vaughn
Palmer on Shaw Cable's Voice of BC on January 22, 2003, Hogg repeated
his assertion that a 20% failure rate is acceptable. He stated that
reorganizing his Ministry while cutting it by 25% was "not ideal". In
opposition, the BC Liberals pilloried the NDP for not putting more money
into child protection and acted as if every tragedy was the personal
responsibility of the Minister. Hogg said that his Ministry has saved
$40 million by reducing the number of children in care by 1,000.

The Ministry has yet to respond to my Freedom of Information request for
statistics on the number of child protection cases. It is likely that the
number of children in need of protection has continued to increase even
though the number of children in care has decreased. Since the government
eliminated the position of the independent Children's Advocate before it
started its cuts, we will have to wait two years to see data from Vital
Statistics on the number of deaths. Government, meanwhile, eliminated that
measure from any of its "service plans" (except for aboriginal infants).

Hogg said that his Ministry has data showing that every time a high
profile tragedy hit the news, social workers in his Ministry responded
with higher rates of apprehending children. He neglected to mention that
it was the BC Liberal caucus who raised the profile of every tragedy
over the past ten years. Now that they are in power, it is particularly
hypocritical that his response to tragedies is a lecture on the
acceptance of failure. There is a need to verify that no tragedy is the
result of cuts imposed by the Campbell government, but you can be
certain that they will make it virtually impossible to ever make that
determination.
________________________________________________

C 2003 David D. Schreck.

Articles appearing here may be quoted elsewhere provided that
attribution is made to David Schreck, StrategicThoughts.com

Full articles may be reprinted with attribution and the preservation of
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From pat_wobbly at hotmail.com  Sun Feb  2 09:20:05 2003
From: pat_wobbly at hotmail.com (Pat S)
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 09:20:05 -0800
Subject: [news] Fwd: Call To Action Against the Police State!
Message-ID: <F50iR0rTMc351p1R8EP0001956f@hotmail.com>



A CALL TO ACTION: PLEASE DISSEMINATE WIDELY

Fight the Consolidation of Police Terrorism in the US:
A call to Action in Seattle, June 2 to 6th, 2003


We, the committee to form a Northwest Federation of Anarchist Communists,
call for a convergence in Seattle, Washington, home of the WTO protests,
to strike at the heart of the forces whose goals are to undermine all
human rights, criminalize dissent, jail, harass and torture activists, and
even commit legal murder of people of color and dissidents alike, in the
name of "Homeland Security", "Fighting Terrorism" and "Criminal
Intelligence".  We call for all that have been victimized, or feel that
they will become victimized, by this unprecedented consolidation of police
power to join in solidarity and return to Seattle.

The Law Enforcement Intelligence Unit (LEIU) is holding its annual
conference in Seattle, on June 2,3,4,5 and 6th. (see
http://www.leiu2003seattle.org/) The organizers of this conference have
invited Attorney General John Ashcroft, Director of Homeland Security, Tom
Ridge (who conspired to imprison and murder journalist Mumia Abu- Jamal),
Portland Joint Terrorism Task Force member John Cooney; FBI Assistant
Director John Pistole, New York City Police Deputy Commissioner of
Intelligence, and Former CIA agent David Cohen will attend. The purpose of
this conference is for law enforcement, from local police to the FBI to
the CIA and military, to further consolidate their power and organization,
and to improve "the current state of intelligence sharing/processing among
local and federal law enforcement agencies; and [to discuss] specifics as
to what local law enforcement can do to better support the war on
terrorism". We all know that the war on terrorism is a pretext for the war
of the State against the population: people of color, immigrants, and
political activists inside as well as outside the United States.

The topic of their conference include such things as "Criminal Protest
Groups" and "left wing" terrorism. We all know that people committing such
acts as stepping off of the curb at a demonstration, organizing against
the war, organizing against the rape of our planet, occupying buildings
and workplaces, and destroying capitalism are considered terrorists by our
government. When the government loses its legitimacy with the people the
response has been to build a system to monitor, criminalize, imprison, and
murder its subjects, and to remove the line between the military and the
domestic police. We have seen the massive consolidation of police power
after the rise of the anti-globalization and anti-capitalist movements,
the resurgence in anarchist organization, and the call of the government
to seize Iraqi oil under the pretext of avenging the horrible tragedy of
9-11.

We have seen the steady rise of the abuse of the police, from the tear
gassing and beatings at WTO, to the murder of an activist in Genoa. The
history is merely being repeated, since the organization of slave patrols
in New York in 1830's and the centuries of genocide against native people;
J. Edgar Hoover's repression of Wobblies, anarchists and socialists during
World War 1; the Palmer raids of the 20's; persecution of communists in
the 1930's and 1950's; the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti; The destruction
of the Black Panther Party and the murder of its leaders in the 1960's;
the repression of the American Indian Movement and frame up of Leonard
Peltier; the disruption of the anti-apartied movement of the 1980's; and
now, the criminalization of Muslims, immigrants, people of color, native
peoples, and activists in the 1990's and to date. Our resistance to the
police state in the US is the uniting of all people of all color, of all
struggles for self determination, of all defenses against the rape of
Mother Earth, and the struggle against the employing class.

We call upon all to converge upon Seattle, using whatever tactics they
feel are necessary and prudent to carry out the goals of their respective
organizations and constituencies; we call all upon all to organize in
affinity groups and coalitions as necessary to resist the legalized
planning for the criminalization of dissent; and we leave up to
individuals and groups to choose whatever tactics they deem appropriate to
their cause, and that such tactics be carried out independent of one
another when necessary. We call upon the defense of non-violent activists
against the likely abuse by the police who will likely rise to the
occasion; and we call for this to be the first action of many to dismantle
the institution of Police Terrorism, disguised as Homeland Security and
its regional manifestations of FBI/law enforcement partnerships. We must
expose this legal crime network to the people of this country, and destroy
any and all legitimacy they made have.

Corporate America is funding this conference. Starbucks, 7-11 stores, and
Microsoft are listed as sponsors. Microsoft develops the computer
infrastructure for citizen data collection (see
http://jps.directtaps.net/) Corporate America has declared us the enemy,
and they are raising their army of soldiers and intelligence alike to
defeat our resistance to their tyranny. This already happened last year on
the docks on the West Coast of the US, where the White House called the
leadership of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) to
warn then against striking against the waterfront employers (the PMA) to
protect "national security", while the employers in an allinace with the
Bush White House and corporate retailers used Taft-Hartley to fight the
union. This will likely happen with the ILA on the east coast when their
contract expires. Corporate America wants the cops and military involved
in our workplace disputes, so that they can make us their unquestioning
servants paralyzed by fear.

Our struggle against the proponents of "Homeland Security" and the
emerging police state is our struggle for our survival, and for the
survival of our planet.

In Revolutionary Struggle and Solidarity,

Coordinating Committee for the formation of a Northwest Federation of
Anarchist Communists.



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From resist at resist.ca  Sun Feb  2 22:54:46 2003
From: resist at resist.ca (resist admin)
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 22:54:46 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [news] February 15: An Anarchist Call for Global Action against
	Capitalism and War
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302022252360.24653-100000@resist.ca>


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 21:23:16 -0500 (EST)
From: Joseph Catron <joseph at mutualaid.org>
To: pga at lists.riseup.net
Subject: [pga] February 15: An Anarchist Call for Global Action against
    Capitalism and War

The ongoing war between the United States, the United Kingdom and Iraq is
only one component of a global struggle between the rich and powerful and
the billions who are oppressed for their benefit. Blair and Bush, like bin
Laden and Hussein, use the politics of international war as a diversion
from their wars against the poor, the excluded, and the Earth.

>From the West Bank to the West Side, and from the rainforests of Colombia
to the farmlands of Great Britain, the ruling class maneuvers to extract
the maximum profits from the Earth and its people. International war is
one more tactic in this class war, for the acquisition of natural
resources, the elimination of surplus populations, and the consolidation
of patriotic unity between the oppressors and the oppressed.

On February 15, 2003, millions around the globe will march in opposition
to the escalation of this war. We call on all who seek a world free of the
oppression of authoritarianism, capitalism, ethnic hatred and religious
fundamentalism to participate in this unprecedented mobilization, through
convergences in Amsterdam, Antwerp, Aotearoa, Athens, Bangkok, Barcelona,
Belfast, Berlin, Berne, Brussels, Budapest, Cairo, Cape Town, Copenhagen,
Dublin, Edmonton, Glasgow, Helsinki, Istanbul, Jakarta, Johannesburg,
London, Lisbon, Madrid, Manila, Montreal, New York, Oslo, Paris, Prague,
Ramallah, Rome, San Francisco, San Juan, Sao Paulo, Skopje, Stockholm,
Sydney, Tallinn, Tokyo, Toronto, Vienna, Warsaw, and anywhere else, and to
escalate this component of the struggle against the ruling class through
direct action, including strikes, sabotage, sickouts, occupations, civil
disobedience, and the mass reclamation of public space. Let's make our
resistance to war visible in as many ways as possible!

>From London and New York to Cairo and Ramallah, our resistance will be as
global as their oppression. On February 15, to the streets! And to the
barricades!

No war between states! No peace between classes!

------------

This call can be found online, with a current list of endorsers and list
of local events, at: http://www.infoshop.org/f15call.html

Coming soon: http://war.infoshop.org

------------

Endorsers:
Infoshop.org





From pat_wobbly at hotmail.com  Sat Feb  1 07:34:41 2003
From: pat_wobbly at hotmail.com (Pat S)
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 07:34:41 -0800
Subject: [news] City of Tacoma Refuses Peltier March Permit
Message-ID: <F612cWEYh9oB26nnqSn00016bf9@hotmail.com>

From: "Arthur J. Miller" <bayou at blarg.net>
To: <iww-list at iww.org>
CC: "Arthur J. Miller" <bayou at blarg.net>
Subject: [IWW-list] City of Tacoma Refuses Peltier March Permit
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 17:55:07 -0800

Please post widely

From:
TACOMA LEONARD PELTIER SUPPORT NETWORK
P.O. BOX 5464
TACOMA, WA 98415-0464
E-MAIL: bayou at blarg.net

CITY OF TACOMA REFUSES TO ISSUE A PERMIT FOR LEONARD PELTIER MARCH

   For the past ten years the Tacoma Leonard Peltier Support Group has held 
a
march and rally for justice for Leonard Peltier. The Tacoma LPSG is a part
of a regional support network (NWLPSN), which has organized or helped
organize 60 rallies and marches through out our region with few problems
from city governments. We try hard to keep the focus on Leonard Peltier and
Native issues and we have not sought to give anyone any problems.
   This year our annual Tacoma march and rally is a bit different than those
in the past because supporters from a number of different NW cities have
joined in the organizing for the event, thus the event has become a regional
event. In past years we have marched on the sidewalk, but because the
turnout will be larger this year, we applied for a permit that would let us
march in the street. The City of Tacoma has refused to issue us a permit. We
if cannot change that we will march on the sidewalk, (we will not allow
anyone to change our focus from Leonard Peltier and Native issues), but we
wish to address the reasons why the City of Tacoma refuses to issue us a
permit because the reasons are relevant to all social activists. At this
time there are three official reasons given to us by the City of Tacoma:
   1. Lack of payment for the police at our march. The City says that we 
must
pay for all the police that come out for our march. We are not asking for
them to come out at all, and we could never raise all the money they want.
This we know to be unconstitutional base upon federal court rulings.
   2. The lack of an insurance bond. Again we do not have the money for this
and again this is unconstitutional. I was involved in one case on this
before (Steve Robideau, Terry Bear Ribs and Arthur Miller vs. The City of
Leavenworth) and we won the case. The ruling was that it is unconstitutional
to deny the right of freedom of assembly based upon lack of financial
resources. They did not even tell me about needing the bond until they
called me up to say they would not issue a permit.
   3. The lack of notifying in writing each person who is to take part in 
the
march of some type of laws which they would not tell me what laws I had to
notify people of. I asked how it was possible to notify in writing
beforehand everyone who comes to the march?
Again I was not told of this until I got the call today.
   What these requirements that the City of Tacoma is demanding is a clear
statement that only rich people can have permits to march in the City of
Tacoma! Because our marches have included Elders, Children and others who
may not wish to confront the City Of Tacoma, if our lawyers cannot get us
our permit, we will march on the sidewalk, which does not need a permit.
   The refusal of giving us a permit has not been the only form of official
harassment of us. A Detective of the Intelligence Division of the Tacoma
Police Department (Jeff Ship) contacted me. He said he was calling me about
the traffic situation with the march. But the questions he asked me had
nothing to do with traffic. He asked; what will the speakers speak about? (I
just told him Native issues), He asked about members of our group (I told
him nothing on that), He asked about if there were going to be anti-war
people at the march, he asked about our car pools, and other things (which I
gave him a lot of ?I don?t know?s). He knew a lot about our past events and
even knew to call me, which shows that the Tacoma Police Department has
intelligence files on our group, even though we have never broken any laws
unless speaking out about Leonard Peltier and other Natives issues is
against the law.
    As Leonard Peltier has shown us, struggling for justice for the people 
is
not easy, that is why we call it a struggle. Though the struggle for the
freedom of speech and assembly does not call for the type of sacrifices
Leonard has had to make, still it does take effort on our part. The Tacoma
LPSG will not back down in the face of intimidation; we will carry on our
purpose, even if we must do it alone. But we believe that we will not be
alone. We respectfully ask all who believe in social justice to join us for
our march on Feb. 8th in Tacoma (see below for more information) for the
greatest protection we can have from further harassment will come from the
greatest number of people possible that join us in the march. Please network
with your friends, groups and organizations (and pass this e-mail statement
to others and to lists) to bring people out for the march and let the City
of Tacoma know that there are many people who they cannot intimidated.
Though we may have to march on the sidewalk, later we may see then need to
call for a civil liberties march.
   We also have the need of people video taping the march and rally and for
legal observers.
   The City of Tacoma needs to hear from you where ever you maybe. Please
call, e-mail or snail mail letters to the Mayor of Tacoma asking that the
City of Tacoma respect the rights of free speech and freedom of assembly for
those that do not have the money to buy those rights. Contact: Mayor Bill
Baarsma, 747 Market St., Suite 1200, Tacoma, WA 98402-3766; Phone: (253)
591-5100; E-mail: bbaarsma at cityoftacoma.org.
   Thank You
Arthur J. Miller
Tacoma LPSG


From:
TACOMA LEONARD PELTIER SUPPORT NETWORK
P.O. BOX 5464
TACOMA, WA 98415-0464
E-MAIL: bayou at blarg.net

UNTIL FREEDOM IS WON!

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF SOLIDARITY
WITH LEONARD PELTIER
MARCH AND RALLY FOR JUSTICE

For Peace, Justice and Freedom for all People

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2003
TACOMA, WA

Dedicated to the memory of Nilak Butler and Standing Deer who recently
passed on from this world.

NEEDS: Signs and Banners

12:OO NOON:  MARCH FOR JUSTICE
PORTLAND AVE PARK (on Portland Ave. between E. 34th and
E. Fairbanks Ave. Take Portland Ave. exit off I-5 and head east)

1:00 PM: RALLY FOR JUSTICE
U.S. FEDERAL COURT HOUSE,
1717 PACIFIC AVE.

SPEAKERS:
Matilaja, Yu?pik -  Yakama, Tacoma LPSG
Harold Belmont, Elder, Native People?s Alliance With Friends and Allies
Dorothy Ackerman, Lakota Elder
Helaire EchoHawk, Native American Coalition
Juan Jose Bocanegra, long time Peltier supporter
Michael Oneroad, Portland AIM
Steve Hapy Jr, NW AIM
Arthur J. Miller, Tacoma LPSG
Matt Remle, Lakota, Community Coalition for Environmental Justice
Peter Bohmer, Evergreen State College Teacher
Pio Celestino, Peruvian Indigenous Elder, Regugio Del Rio Grande

Music:
Jim Page
NW AIM DRUM

CARAVAN FOR JUSTICE (car pool)
SEATTLE: Meet at 10:45 at the parking lot at 22nd and Madison.
OLYMPIA: Meet at 10:45 Media Island 816 Adams St.

AFTER RALLY
HONORING POTLUCK

AT THE GUADALUPE HOUSE, 1417 S. G St
(Only a few blocks from the rally site) Please bring food.

   The Honoring Potluck will take place right after the Feb. 8th Rally For
Justice For Leonard Peltier. This is open to all supporters. This meal will
give thanks to those who have helped in the past 10 years with our regional
network and with the Feb. 8th march and rally. It is also a time to make
connections to build for the future.

  DONATIONS NEEDED! We have had to borrow money to pay for fliers, posters,
and mailing in order to put on the Feb. 8th March and Rally For Justice For
Leonard Peltier. Our group is a grassroots group and we have no other
funding outside of donations that come from you, our supporters. Please if
you can, send us a donation to: Seattle LPSG, P.O. Box 2514, Seattle, WA
98111. (Please make checks out to the Northwest Leonard Peltier Support
Network).

HOW YOU CAN HELP. Please pass this message on to others and if you would
like to get out fliers and posters please let us know at: bayou at blarg.net

SPONSORED BY: Tacoma LPSG, NW AIM, Native People?s Alliance With Friends and
Allies, Native American Coalition, Seattle LPSG

   Feb. 6th, 2003 will mark the 27th year since AIM activist Leonard 
Peltier?
s arrest. After Leonard?s defense team in appeals disproved the government?s
case against Leonard the government stated that they have no evidence
directly connecting Leonard to the deaths of the FBI agents that he was
convicted for, but still he has not been granted a new trial. The Leonard
Peltier Defense Committee has a new appeal and a lawsuit against the FBI.
This event is in support of the appeal, lawsuit and seeks to send a message
of solidarity for the continuous struggle for justice for Leonard Peltier.
www.freepeltier.org.

   When you?re conquered, the people you?re conquered by dictate your 
future.
This is a basic philosophy of mine. If I?m part of a conquered nation, then
I?ve got to yield to authority.  Norman Zigrossi, FBI

   There is a possibility that the jury would have acquitted Leonard Peltier
had the records and data improperly withheld from the defense been available
to him in order to better exploit and reinforce the inconsistencies casting
strong doubts upon the government?s case.   Eighth Circuit Court Opinion,
1986

    I have no doubt whatsoever that the real motivation behind both Wounded
Knee II and the Oglala firefight, and much of the turmoil throughout Indian
Country since the early 1970s, was?and is?the mining companies? desire to
muffle AIM and all traditional Indian people, who sought?and still seek?to
protect the land, water, and air from their thefts and depredations. In this
sad and tragic age we live in, to come to the defense of Mother Earth is to
be branded a criminal.  Leonard Peltier


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From yang at dojo.tao.ca  Sun Feb  2 14:37:33 2003
From: yang at dojo.tao.ca (Yang Chang)
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 15:37:33 -0700
Subject: [news] S. Korea: Solidarity Needed Over Korean Workers Death
Message-ID: <20030202233525.DKNP22888.priv-edtnes12-hme0.telusplanet.net@[209.53.80.26]>

please forward, especially to any union listserves you may be on.

---------------- Begin Forwarded Message ----------------
Date:        2/2/03 7:16 AM
From:        Jamie Doucette, polaroidsea at yahoo.com

Solidarity Needed Over Korean Workers Death     
Date:   1/30/2003 11:50:43 PM Pacific Standard Time 
From:   lvpsf at igc.org   

PICIS <picis at jinbo.net>

Dear Friends, 

Warm Greetings from PICIS!

PICIS, in solidarity with KCTU, sends you an appeal for solidarity, about 
the death for a worker in Korea.

In Solidarity, 

PICIS
---------------------------------------------
KCTU APPEAL(Jan. 30th, 2003)

Bloody Suppression

On January 10, a Unionist at Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction, a 
shipbuilding firm, burned himself to death. He decided to commit suicide 
in 
protest against company's brutal suppression over union members. 
Bae Dal-ho, a 50-year-old team leader of the boilers section, was found 
burned to death nearby the cooling tower. Bae had been working for Doosan 
for 
21 years, and his family depended on his earnings. Doosan had asked Bae 
to 
take responsibility for his involvement in the 47-day strike in May last 
year. The company convinced the court to hold his wage and restrict his 
bank 
access.  
Before his self-immolation, Bae wrote a memo, which was found in his car: 
"Due to the company's provisional seizure of my wage, I had not received 
any 
pay for more than 6 months. No wage will be paid to me on this 
forthcoming 
payday, nor the day after tomorrow."

The members of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) and the 
Korean 
Metal Workers Federation (KMWF) are organising nation-wide struggles. One 
of 
our demands is the resignation of Doosan president Park Yong-sung from 
the 
chair of the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI), the 
retraction of provisional property seizure and charge for damage, and a 
special investigation on Doosan's acquisition of Korea Heavy Industries 
and Construction, the former firm of Doosan Heavy Industries and 
Construction.

The provisional seizure of assets is a new form of suppression over trade 
unions these days in Korea. Until now, the amount trade union leaders 
were 
charged with is about 200 million won each, regardless of their ability 
to 
pay. Around 50 companies are asking for a total of 22 billion won. Now, 
it 
costs us not only money, but also blood. Stop suppressing the union! 

Our Demands

- Stop the suppression of trade unions!
- Demand special labour supervision over Doosan Heavry Industries and 
Construction and punish its unfair labour practices!
- Park Yong-sung should resign as chairperson of the Korea Chamber of 
Commerce and Industry (KCCI)!!

Please send a protest letter(following are sample letters) by e-mail or 
fax.  

(Please copy your protest letter to us, inter at kctu.org)


Sample Protest Letter 1

President of Doosan Group & KCCI, Park Yong-sung
Seoul, South Korea

E-mail Address : yspark at doosan.com, http://www.yspark.com/
Fax Number : +82-55-2645551~2

Dear President Park:

Having heard the suicide of a Doosan worker, Bae Dalho, I demand strongly 
that you stop suppression over the trade union of Doosan Heavy Industries 
and 
Construction through inhumane measures such as provisional seizure of 
assets 
and wages, and charge for damages.  
I would like for you to start respecting the fundamental rights of 
workers of 
Doosan, as well as those of Korea. 

Thank you.

(Please your signature)


Sample Protest Letter 2

Mr. Kim Dae-Jung
The President of Republic of Korea
E-mail: president at cwd.go.kr
Fax: +82-2-770-0347

President, Kim Dae-jung
Seoul, South Korea

Dear President Kim: 

Having heard the suicide of a Doosan worker, Bae Dalho, together with the 
thousands of trade unionists around the globe who are concerned with the 
rights of Doosan workers, I appeal to you to start respecting the 
fundamental 
rights of workers.   
I would like for you to take an urgent measure for protecting workers' 
rights 
of Doosan, as well as those of Korea. 

Thank you

(Please your signature)

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From resist at resist.ca  Sun Feb  2 23:52:48 2003
From: resist at resist.ca (resist admin)
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 23:52:48 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [news] Venezuelan opposition officially ends "strike".
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302022352070.27668-100000@resist.ca>


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 21:31:25 -0800
From: Macdonald Stainsby <mstainsby at tao.ca>
Reply-To: "RTL, project-x: it's ALL THE SAME" <project-x at lists.resist.ca>
Subject: [pr-x] Venezuelan opposition officially ends ["]strike["].

AFP and Reuters. 2 February 2003. Venezuelan opposition officially ends general
strike; Venezuela's Chavez Says Strike Dead.

CARACAS -- The Venezuelan opposition late Sunday officially declared an end to a
63-day general strike that has paralyzed the country's economy and reduced its
oil exports to a trickle.

But the opposition pointed out that its struggle against the government of
populist President Hugo Chavez was just entering a "new phase."

"The Democratic Coordinating Committee announced that tonight we are entering a
long-expected and more trying new phase in our struggle," said opposition
spokesman Timoteo Zambrano.

He said although the strike was ending, the protesters will not abandon
thousands of employees of Petroleos de Venezuela, the state-run oil company, who
have been dismissed by the Chavez government.

"Our struggle will now assume new forms, and we will pursue our goals at the
negotiation table," Zambrano pointed out.

Chavez earlier declared victory and demanded punishment for its organizers.

Although state oil firm employees are maintaining their stoppage in the vital
petroleum industry, a confident Chavez announced that oil production was fast
approaching 2 million barrels per day (bpd), around two thirds of pre-strike
levels.

"There is no strike here. We faced a terrorist coup plan and we've already
defeated it," left-wing former paratrooper Chavez said in a broadcast on state
radio and television.

Nine weeks into the grueling strike that has battered the economy but failed to
budge him, Chavez called on opposition leaders to abandon their efforts to oust
him.

"You've been defeated, recognize it," he said.

The president said his government had scored a "popular victory" over his
opponents, whom he called "terrorists."

"I demand in the name of the people the application of implacable justice
against the traitors of the nation," he said, speaking on his weekly radio and
television show, "Hello President."

The outspoken president condemns his striking foes as a rich, resentful elite
trying to topple him because their privileges are threatened.

-------------------------------------------
Macdonald Stainsby
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/rad-green
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international
--
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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From Tom_Childs at Douglas.BC.CA  Tue Feb  4 19:58:02 2003
From: Tom_Childs at Douglas.BC.CA (Tom_Childs at Douglas.BC.CA)
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 19:58:02 -0800
Subject: [news] Global Justice Video Screenings - Feb 11th @ Video In
Message-ID: <200302050358.TAA28681@Douglas.BC.CA>

            * * * G L O B A L   J U S T I C E * * *
         Short videos on BIG SCREEN - February 11, 2003

Please circulate and mark your calendars for a social night out for
alternative media and discussion.....
       
     The evening will feature the following video works:
 
*1) "Lawful Access"
  A panel discussion of the changes in the laws that govern the 
rights of government agencies to access personal correspondence,
especially electronic communications. Recorded at the VPL, Jan '02

*2) "The Future of Poverty"
  Recorded at the recent forum on poverty at SFU with Hon. Ed.
Broadbent and Jean Swanson presenting. Recorded Jan '02

*3) "Water is Life"
  A Peace Team demonstration held at a Baghdad water facility.
Produced by Global Justice videographer Linda Morgan on her Peace
Team journey to Iraq over the Winter Solstice

*4) "No to War" 
  A 20 minute dynamic re-cap of Vancouver's January 18th Peace
March and Rally featuring the thousands of people who took to
the streets, the musicians and the keynote speakers.

Discussion follows each video.

WHEN: Tuesday, Feb 11th, 7:30 pm
WHERE: Video In, 1965 Main Street (at 3rd Avenue, 3 blocks south
         of Main Street/Science World sky train station)
Admission by Donation. (No one turned away for lack of funds)

    Sponsored by Global Justice Videos,  Video In and Indymedia
           For more info: 604 904-2412 or 604 524-9316
                  http:// www.globaljustice.ca






From resist at resist.ca  Tue Feb  4 22:20:02 2003
From: resist at resist.ca (resist admin)
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 22:20:02 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [news] 
 Guilty while Not-Guilty: The case of Montreal activist Manuel Almeida
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302042219470.21842-100000@resist.ca>


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Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 01:07:04 -0500 (EST)
From: Jaggi Singh <jaggi at tao.ca>
To: pga at lists.riseup.net

GUILTY WHILE NOT-GUILTY: The case of Montreal activist Manuel Almeida


MONTREAL, Tuesday, February 4, 2003 -- Late this afternoon, in Montreal's
municipal court, anti-capitalist activist and postal worker, Manuel
Almeida, 44, was found guilty of breaking his condition of release on a
previous charge. Manuel will be sentenced in April. He is worried that the
sentence might cost him his job, as well as restrict his ability to visit
his extended family in Angola, from which he immigrated to Quebec more
than two decades ago.

What is interesting about Manuel's case is the condition he has been found
guilty of breaking: not participating in any public demonstrations
whatsoever. Manuel was charged with the offence after he was rounded up in
a downtown park on April 26, 2002, in a preemptive mass arrest undertaken
by Montreal's riot squad. Unlike other mass arrests in arrest-prone
Montreal in recent years, this mass arrest, which rounded up hundreds,
happened before the planned demonstration could even begin. The police
actions were roundly condemned by even very mainstream liberal civil
rights groups.

Hundreds of people had gathered in a park to listen to music and share
food in anticipation of a torchlight march (expected to attract at least
1000 protesters). The events were organized by the Anti-Capitalist
Convergence (CLAC) in opposition to the G8 Labour Ministers' meeting
taking place in Montreal at the same time. Manuel was serving food in the
park, as a member of the CLAC Food Committee, and intended to clean up and
leave before the march, to abide by his conditions. Nonetheless, Manuel
was caught up in the riot police dragnet and charged.

In announcing his verdict, the Montreal municipal court judge cited three
dictionaries -- LeRobert, LaRousse, and the Oxford Canadian English
Dictionary -- on their definitions of "demonstration". Based on the
entries he read, the judge concluded that a gathering to listen to music
and east food before a planned march was still a demonstration, and so
Manuel was guilty.

What makes Manuel's case that much more absurd is that he has already been
found not guilty in the original case that led to the imposition of the
draconian "no-protest" conditions in the first place. Manuel was arrested
on September 29, 2001, after participating in an anti-IMF/World Bank
protest in Montreal that joined with a pro-Palestinian demo at the
American Consulate. At his trial on the charge, which took place more than
a year later (after his arrest at mass roundup on April 2002), the judge
decided that Manuel was not guilty due to lack of evidence.

Still, Manuel faces sentencing for breaking his falsely imposed conditions
at the Montreal G8 protest. He also faces trial in Ottawa after being
targeted for arrest at the Take the Capital protests against the G8 in
July 2002, for breaching the very same .no protest. condition. Manuel and
his comrade Bertrand Loiselle are both active CLAC members who were
singled out by Ottawa Police and RCMP during the Take the Capital
protests.

Like so many targeted arrests in recent years, Manuel and Bertrand were
arrested not so much for what they actually did, but because of who they
are;  that is, effective, tireless and dedicated political organizers.
Throughout the Take the Capital protests in Ottawa, CLAC members were
followed by various undercover and plainclothes security and police
forces.

Manuel and Bertrand's arrests also belie the dismissive stereotype of who
participates in confrontational anti-capitalist protests. Manuel is the
father of two teenage girls, while Bertrand is the father of two young
boys. They are both involved and loving parents, and they also work
full-time, as a postal worker and community sector organizer respectively.
Importantly, they're both tirelessly dedicated to their organizing
efforts, more often-than-not behind-the-scenes, doing the thankless but
necessary tasks that go into effective organizing.

Manuel and Bertrand, who are unilingual francophones, will be facing
trials for their involvement in the anti-G8 protests in Ottawa in the
coming weeks and months. To support them, or for more information, please
contact the Anti-Capitalist Convergence of Montreal at clac at tao.ca or
409-2049. Your support and solidarity is needed and appreciated.


[Reported and written by Jaggi Singh in Montreal. This article is one in
an occasional series called "Resistance on Trial", about various political
activists and organizations that are confronting the courts as a result of
their effective political organizing against poverty and misery in all its
forms. Jaggi is a member of the No One Is Illegal Campaign and the
Anti-Capitalist Convergence (CLAC).]







From gnsimmons at shaw.ca  Thu Feb  6 02:19:08 2003
From: gnsimmons at shaw.ca (Greg Simmons)
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 02:19:08 -0800
Subject: [news] Feb. 15 Anti-Capitalist Callout
Message-ID: <00c201c2cdca$29f364e0$74b64c18@vs.shawcable.net>

Callout for a Revolutionary Anti-Capitalist Contingent for the
Saturday, February 15 Demonstration Against the War on Iraq 

Meet at the Waterfront Sky Train Exit (Canada Place Exit), 12:30 pm. 

Organizational Meeting: 
Sunday February 9 at 6PM. Spartacus Books. (311 W. Hastings).


The November 17 Coalition has called for another demonstration against the imminent U.S. led war on Iraq, and once again thousands are expected to march through the streets of Vancouver in a display of dissent.

Anarchists and anti-capitalists are calling for a cohesive contingent to participate in the upcoming anti-war march. All those who identify as anti-capitalist or anti-authoritarian are encouraged to participate. Our purpose is to make our presence known, distribute anarchist perspectives on so-called war and peace, and show our rage in the streets. 

Currently we see the need to unify our efforts, gather our forces, and take a visible anti-capitalist stand against the war. Through this we hope to encourage others to move beyond symbolic protest, and to begin to use direct action in this struggle.

We do not merely want and end to this war, but an end to state power that causes war on a daily basis: poverty, systemic racism, housing and job insecurity, police repression, and increasing harsh realities locally and around the world. 

Bring creative & radical banners, flags, signs and noise makers. Let?s make sure this is more than just another march.


No War Between Nations, No Peace Between Classes!

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vanarchy/
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From gflett1 at shaw.ca  Thu Feb 13 00:21:04 2003
From: gflett1 at shaw.ca (Gordon Flett)
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 00:21:04 -0800
Subject: [news] Solid Proof The U.S. Government Is Lying
Message-ID: <3E4B5570.3E3B0337@shaw.ca>

http://truthout.org/docs_02/021303A.htm

Osama Rallies Muslims, Condemns Hussein 
By William Rivers Pitt 
t r u t h o u t | Perspective 

Wednesday 12 February 2003 

Osama bin Laden rose from the dead yet again on Tuesday to prophesy
doom and death for America. This is nothing new; he has been clawing his
way out of various burial holes for seventeen months now, and always
manages to strike fear into the American heart by way of the American
media and the Bush administration at exactly the moment when incredibly
important shifts in history are in the offing. 

At this moment, George W. Bush stands almost completely alone in his
desire to make pre-emptive war on the nation of Iraq. Several key NATO
allies - France, Germany and Belgium among them - have thrown sand into
the gears of battle by refusing to prepare Turkey for an immediate war
they do not support nor deem necessary. As this incredible state of
affairs unfolded, Americans found their ears ringing with orange-hued
warnings of imminent death. Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge went so
far as to tell people to load up on plastic sheeting and duct tape so as
to bar their windows from chemical attack, but the administration he
calls home made sure to tell people to live their lives normally and
continue shopping. 

And so it goes. This is fairly standard stuff within the American echo
chamber. Let there be one important piece of legislation, or one highly
embarrassing turn of events for the administration, and the word goes
forth that the sky is falling. We have been dealing with this
politically manufactured low-grade hysteria for many months now. Most
Americans have reached a suspended state of disbelief about it all, and
won't be taking these warnings seriously unless they see Osama bin Laden
on their doorstep in a black cassock with scythe in hand. Bush and
Ashcroft will soon run out of colors on the warning chart if this keeps
up; the shade after red likely exists somewhere in the fourth dimension,
visible only to ultraconservative war-hawks and media talking heads. 

When the voice of Osama comes out of the television, however, things
suddenly become much more serious. The Bush administration may have
forgotten him entirely, but every single American still sleeps with
visions of burning towers and plummeting bodies projected on the backs
of their eyelids. Peter Bergen, noted terrorism expert, stated on CNN
that such messages from bin Laden usually herald new attacks. If the
Orange Alert was dubious on Monday, it was given new importance on
Tuesday. 

Secretary of State Colin Powell set the stage for this new bin Laden
statement early on Tuesday, much to the surprise of CIA Director George
Tenet. Powell, during testimony at a Senate Budget Committee meeting,
let it drop that the Middle East news network Al Jazeera had in hand a
tape of Osama bin Laden. Tenet, seated with the Intelligence Committee,
had not heard of this tape. One is left wondering at Powell's sources,
especially after the story unfolded. 

Powell used the existence of this tape, and the words he claimed bin
Laden had said on it, to further tie Saddam Hussein to international
terrorism. He claimed bin Laden was clearly establishing a connection
between himself and Hussein on the tape, beyond all question. "This
nexus between terrorists and states that are developing weapons of mass
destruction," said Powell, "can no longer be looked away from and
ignored." 

The actual tape, played and translated live on every major cable news
channel, told a very different story. Osama bin Laden swore vengeance
against America if Iraq was attacked, and demanded that the Muslim world
stand in solidarity with the Muslim people of Iraq. In very clear words,
Osama bin Laden told the people of Iraq to rise up against both American
aggression and against "socialist" Saddam Hussein. If the translations
that were provided were reliable, there is no ambiguity in bin Laden's
words on the matter. So much, it seems, for Powell's case that Hussein
and bin Laden are working together. 

And this is where it gets interesting. 

An MSNBC.com report on the bin Laden tape carried the following
sentence: "At the same time, the message also called on Iraqis to rise
up and oust Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who is a secular leader."
This clearly confirms the clarity of mind Osama bin Laden displayed in
regard to Saddam Hussein, and conforms to the recorded message heard by
millions and millions of people around the world. 

Less than twenty minutes after this report appeared on MSNBC, that
sentence was deleted from the report. A few intrepid Internet news
junkies, including myself, preserved what is called a 'screen-grab' of
the original article before it was scrubbed. The version of the article
currently in existence has replaced the text above with this far more
benign text: "The taped statement reflected Saddam, a secular leader,
but made it clear that Saddam was not the immediate target." A similar
story line, bereft of the portions describing bin Laden's wish that
Hussein be killed, has appeared in virtually every mainstream news media
report on the matter. 

The manner in which this story unfolded brings forth a number of serious
questions. 

First of all, questions must be asked regarding Colin Powell's motives
in this. The recording heard by the world diverged significantly from
the spin Powell put on it before the Budget Committee. Osama bin Laden
did not state an alliance with Saddam Hussein, but with the Muslim
civilians in Iraq who will bear the bloody brunt of any American attack.
In fact, bin Laden told the Iraqi people to rise up against Hussein.
This is not the way allies deal with each other. 

Why would Powell go to such lengths to stretch the glaringly obvious
truth in this matter? He is already suffering from a deficit of
credibility in the aftermath of the plagiarism scandal that is currently
rocking Tony Blair's administration. Powell stood before the UN last
week and praised a British intelligence dossier that contained
cut-and-pasted pages and pages of an essay, with all spelling and
grammatical errors intact, written by a postgraduate student from
California. The data was years out of date, flat-out contradictory in
several key areas, used without the student's awareness, and yet was
offered as an up-to-the-minute assessment of Iraqi weapons capabilities. 

This, in combination with Powell's obviously skewed interpretation of
Tuesday's bin Laden recording, forces us to call into question every
single word he and the Bush administration have said on the matter. The
question of whether Saddam Hussein has ties to al Qaeda terrorism and
Osama bin Laden can be put to bed now, it seems, alongside the tatters
and shreds of honor and dignity formerly enjoyed by the Secretary of
State. 

More ominously, why would a news network like MSNBC so obviously haul
water for the failed allegations of the Bush administration? Events
happen in seconds on the internet, but merely scrubbing uncomfortable
sentences from articles cannot stop the tens of thousands of readers who
are wise enough now to save the evidence before it evaporates in a cloud
of silicon. 

These deletions display a manifest breach of faith on behalf of MSNBC,
and call to mind issues surrounding the conflict of interest that are
inherent in the ownership of this network. MSNBC, along with NBC and
CNBC, are owned by the corporate giant General Electric. GE is one of
the largest defense contractors on the face of the earth, and will,
bluntly, be paid a king's ransom in the event of a war. Following this
line of questioning leads to some dark corners, indeed. How often is the
data being manipulated by the corporate-owned media? Are we to rely
solely on the nimble fingers of keyboarded citizens to get to the heart
of the matter? 

A report appearing later on Tuesday on MSNBC.com served to refute the
claims of collusion between bin Laden and Hussein. "Although Powell
sought to characterize the tape as a concrete link between al-Qaida and
the Iraqi government," the MSNBC.com report read, "White House officials
acknowledged later to NBC News that it did not. Powell did not know it
had not been broadcast when he spoke to the committee and was 'a little
on the front of his skis,' a government source said." These lines were
buried deep within the report. 

By Wednesday morning, this text had been completely removed from the
article. 

Virtually the entire global community stands against us today on the
subject of this war, with nations willing and able to destroy NATO
before allowing it to take place. The Bush administration has cut
billions of dollars from street-level homeland defenders like police
forces and fire houses, yet has the eagle screaming for a war that will
be fought simultaneously in downtown Baghdad and in your utterly
undefended neighborhood. They have the gall, simultaneously, to speak of
trillion dollar tax cuts for rich people that will further debilitate
our budgetary ability to defend ourselves. Links between Osama bin Laden
and Saddam Hussein have proven to be not only false, but laughable. The
credibility of the Bush administration has been destroyed. 

And yet we go, with the news media whistling 'Onward Christian Soldiers'
all the while. The Bush administration is ecstatic, believing they can
spin bin Laden's statement of support for Iraqi civilians into a
connection between the terrorist and Hussein. 

You are being lied to, clumsily. 

Pass it on. 

                  ------- 
William Rivers Pitt is a New York Times bestselling author of two books
- "War On Iraq" (with Scott Ritter) available now from Context Books,
and "The Greatest Sedition is Silence," available in May 2003 from Pluto
Press. He teaches high school in Boston, MA. 

Scott Lowery contributed research to this report.

From gflett1 at shaw.ca  Fri Feb 14 01:52:49 2003
From: gflett1 at shaw.ca (Gordon Flett)
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 01:52:49 -0800
Subject: [news] 17 Die in Violent Bolivian Tax Protests
Message-ID: <3E4CBC71.4C4B65B7@shaw.ca>

17 Die in Violent Bolivian Tax Protests
Bolivia Hit by Wave of Violent Tax Protests, Leaving at Least 17 Dead

The Associated Press

LA PAZ, Bolivia Feb. 12 2003
Striking police and furious civilians clashed with government troops
Wednesday, touching off riots and looting that plunged the Bolivian
capital into chaos. At least 17 people were killed and 100 injured, and
sevenbuildings were left in flames.

Government troops fired tear gas, rubber bullets and live ammunition to
quell the riots, which started when demonstrators stormed the
presidential palace to protest government proposals to raise taxes and
cut spending on social programs.

As smoke from fires swirled through La Paz's historic center, President
Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada gave a nationally televised speech appealing
for calm and announcing he would suspend the tax increases.

"I plead with all Bolivians to put an end to the violence and to begin
honest negotiations," Sanchez de Lozada said. "I ask one more thing from
our father above God save Bolivia."

The death toll rose steadily as the violence continued. Officials late
Wednesday night put the death toll in the clashes at 17 with more than
100 injuries.

As the president withdrew all troops from the historic center,
protesters set fire to seven government buildings that burned throughout
the night as the city's firefighters abandoned their posts and joined
the police in the protests.

Protests then turned to looting. Before thousands of cheering onlookers,
protesters tossed computers and books from the windows of the government
buildings.

A large cheer came as protesters eased a large oak desk out a
fifth-story window, and then turned to screams of panic as it landed
squarely on a man walking below.

Several hundred demonstrators later attacked the brick and stone
headquarters of the president's party, burning the three-story building
and destroying a minibus in its garage.

Not far away, inmates set fire to the city's largest jail but
firefighters arrived on scene and began extinguishing the flames. There
were no immediate reports of injuries.

With no police or military presence, the city plunged into chaos.
Ambulances screamed through the city, carrying the injured to hospitals,
which pleaded for blood donations. Tired nurses and doctors created a
human chain to keep grieving family members from forcing their way into
the city's emergency rooms, surgery wards and morgue.

"I've been a doctor here for 30 years and I've never seen such a bloody
day," said Eduardo Chavez, director of the capital's main public
hospital. Chavez said five of the dead were police officers who died
from gunshot wounds.

There were no immediate details on what caused the deaths of the other
victims nor of how many of the injured were civilians, police or
government troops. At least one 27-year-old man who was shot in the eye
by soldiers said he was a volunteer firefighter who was only helping an
injured police officer into an ambulance.

The mutiny began Tuesday night when officers in four precincts refused
to begin patrols and demanded a 40 percent pay increase.

Officers in the capital are paid the equivalent of about $105 per month,
a salary that would have been eroded by proposed income tax increases
ranging from 7 percent to 13 percent.

By morning, nearly all police in La Paz and the surrounding area had
left their posts despite talks with government officials to avert the
strike.

Street protests began Monday after Sanchez de Lozada, struggling to lift
Bolivia out of a five-year recession, approved tax hikes that would
reduce the buying power of South America's poorest nation.

"The citizens here are full of fear," said Fernando Solis, a businessman
who was trapped by the protests inside the Paris Hotel in the city's
historic center.

Labor unions, business interests and others came out against the tax
increases, but it was the police revolt that appeared to spark the
violent street clashes with government troops.

Police officers, dressed in green fatigues, seized the foreign ministry,
firing tear gas in support of the demonstrators who laid siege to the
presidential palace across the square.

All shops were closed within at least 12 blocks of the historic center
as smoke from tear gas and burning tires, wood and other debris filled
the air.

"I'll continue fighting until the government is deposed," said Juan de
Dios, a 17-year-old high school student who joined a mob attacking the
presidential palace.

Television reports said human rights representatives were attempting to
mediate between the police and the government.

"We're living a total chaos," said Sonia Rocha, a restaurant owner. "The
government should really have thought before announcing these new taxes.
We're just too poor to pay them."

Wilma Plata, head of La Paz's Teachers union, said some 20,000 public
school teachers would join the police in a general protest Thursday.

"The government has created this crisis, and expects the nation's
workers to shoulder the burden," she said. "The government is destroying
us."

From streetpoet77 at hotmail.com  Thu Feb 13 18:34:30 2003
From: streetpoet77 at hotmail.com (Big Garlic Bobcat)
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 02:34:30 +0000
Subject: [news] APC confronts Mr.Sub slumlord
Message-ID: <BAY2-F208SqN2Th692T0001cc57@hotmail.com>


attn: flying squad meets 5pm APC office, Friday Feb. 14th


ANTI-POVERTY COMMITTEE, VANCOUVER
42 blood alley, 682-2726
APC CONFRONTS MR.SUB SLUMLORD: PETER STAIJERS
Thursday February 13th 2003

The Anti-Poverty Committee fights for the rights of poor and homeless 
people.  On Feb.12 APC member Tim was evicted from his place of dwelling 
illegally.   The eviction notice was verbal, non-legally binding, and gave 7 
days notice for vacating the premises, rather than the proper time (which is 
1 full month).  Under the Residential Tenancy Act, it is illegal for a 
landlord to evict a tenant without proper procedure.  The reason for  
terminating Tim's tenancy was because another homeless youth was sleeping on 
the floor of his 100 square foot (no toilet or kitchen) apartment.  Tim pays 
$375 a month.

An APC caseworker tried to speak via phone with landlord Peter Staijers, but 
he hung up continuously.  PIVOT lawyer John Richardson phoned Peter on 
Wednesday afternoon to no avail either.   Land owner Peter Staijers owns and 
operates the Mr. Sub at Renfrew and Broadway among other businesses.  A 
delegation of APC members went to Mr. Sub on Wednesday night and delivered a 
letter of notice.  Mr. Staijers was ordered by APC to re-instate Tims 
tenancy immediately.

Mr. Staijers refused to cooperate.  APC discovered that Mr.Staijers property 
may not be legally zoned to house tenants.  Not only is he stealing from the 
poor, evicting them to the streets, profiting off slum housing, but he may 
also not be legally licensed to house tenants.

At 1:15 Feb. 12th, a flying squad (APC emergency response team), went out to 
Mr. Sub at Renfrew and Broadway.  For 45 minutes APC shut down Mr. Sub.  Mr. 
Staijers tried to bargain, but did not meet our demand of refunding Tim for 
two months rent ($750) plus a return on the damage deposit.  APC turned away 
customers, yelled chants, and thoroughly disrupted business.  Mr. Staijers 
(who was at Mr. Sub when we got there) was thoroughly upset at the situation 
yet bitterly refused to cooperate.

APC vows to return to shut down the Mr. Sub at Broadway and Renfrew.  The 
message to Mr. Staijers is the same one we will put out to all people who 
actively profit off the oppression and homelessness of the people we defend. 
  APC is bad for business.  We will continue to educate Mr. Staijers through 
escalating tactics that it is not worth his time to force Tim on to the 
streets.

Having made our point,  APC left after one hour voluntarily.  We decided 
when the battle will end, and left fully armed.  We will disrupt Mr. Sub 
again, soon, with more people, and for a longer period of time.  Get 
involved.

-APC DIRECT ACTION CASEWORK TEAM, TIM AND FLYING SQUAD
(If you wish to get involved with the weekday actions of APC flying squads, 
or are in need of help, call the Anti-Poverty Committee at 682-2726.  We 
need doers).



BIG GARLIC BOBCAT
revolution is hairy, and vicious with big teeth.  Revolution smells like 
garlic.  Revolution is a big garlic bobcat.




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From noii_van at hotmail.com  Fri Feb 14 12:47:32 2003
From: noii_van at hotmail.com (No One Is Illegal - Van)
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 12:47:32 -0800
Subject: [news] No One Is Illegal - Vancouver joins Feb. 15 Anti-war March 
Message-ID: <F793dEvssPVyf8F6fIZ00028918@hotmail.com>

No One Is Illegal - Vancouver joins Feb. 15 Anti-war March

No One Is Illegal - Vancouver will meet at Waterfront Station at 12:00 noon 
on Saturday, February 15 to participate in the march against the war on 
Iraq. We will be meeting with the members of the Iranian Stop Deportation 
Now group, the Anti-Poverty Committee, and the anti-capitalist contingent.
Everyone who is interested in fighting for the rights of immigrants and 
refugees in Vancouver is encouraged to join us.

* Stop the racist war on immigrants!

* Stop the policy of deportations now!

* General amnesty for all detained immigrants in Canadian prisons!

* Open the borders for detained immigrants in US prisons!

noii_van at hotmail.com




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From noii_van at hotmail.com  Mon Feb 17 14:59:22 2003
From: noii_van at hotmail.com (No One Is Illegal - Van)
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 14:59:22 -0800
Subject: [news] No One Is Illegal Vancouver Conference
Message-ID: <F84g2SeIKZg4FrF0UP4000212f0@hotmail.com>

No One Is Illegal Vancouver Conference

SFU Harbour Centre - 515 West Hastings, room 1700
March 16, 12:30-5:30pm

No One Is Illegal -Vancouver is a coalition of groups and individuals 
committed to fighting for the rights of immigrants and refugees.

The Vancouver conference will include speakers, discussion and a report back 
from the National No One Is Illegal Conference in Montreal.

Phone: 604-682-3269 box 7051
noii_van at hotmail.com

No One Is Illegal - Vancouver
Demands

* Stop the racist war on immigrants
* Stop the policy of deportations now!
* General amnesty for all detained immigrants in Canadian prisons!
* Open the borders for detained immigrants in US prisons!

No One Is Illegal - Vancouver
Basis of Unity

1. Canadian immigration policies serve to consolidate the development of 
Fortress North America, using free trade to open borders to capital, while 
promoting the economic exploitation of the people whose free movement it 
regulates and limits. Therefore, we believe that a campaign for the 
regularization of non-status people must do so in confrontation to the 
Canadian state, and its racist and colonial policies against immigrants, 
refugees and indigenous peoples.

2. Struggles for justice and the right to self-determination for immigrants, 
refugees and indigenous peoples are led by those communities and individuals 
and are carried out on a daily basis. Those of us who participate in these 
struggles as allies do so with this understanding.

3. We acknowledge that the Canadian state is built on the displacement, 
dispossession and genocide of indigenous peoples, and that our campaign must 
recognize this fact and be carried out accordingly, in solidarity with the 
struggles for self-determination and justice of indigenous communities.

4. We recognize that capitalism, patriarchy and racism are interconnected 
systems of oppression and domination that reflect and reinforce each other. 
These systems must be eradicated. We aim to work together in a way that is 
consistent with this analysis. As such, we commit to working and debating in 
ways that are respectful of the right to dignity, autonomy and 
self-determination of each person and of the communities of which they are a 
part.

5. We struggle for a world in which everyone can move freely, live and 
flourish in justice and dignity.







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From resist at resist.ca  Tue Feb 18 10:06:12 2003
From: resist at resist.ca (resist admin)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 10:06:12 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [news] list usage reminder
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302181003190.27976-100000@resist.ca>


hi folks,

just a reminder that this list is for news. announcements of upcoming
events should not be posted here. instead they should be sent to
van-announce at lists.resist.ca. if you aren't sure, just go to
http://lists.resist.ca for more info.

thanks.

ron (for resist)


From ron at resist.ca  Sat Feb 22 13:32:49 2003
From: ron at resist.ca (ron)
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 13:32:49 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [news] Toronto Police Cheif Opposes Investigation into Racial
	Profiling
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302221331350.13295-100000@resist.ca>


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Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 18:59:50 -0800 (PST)
From: giles at resist.ca
Reply-To: internal list for copb vancouver <copb-van-l at lists.resist.ca>
To: copb-van-l at resist.ca
Subject: [copb-van-l]  TORONTO POLICE CHIEF OPPOSES INVESTIGATION INTO
    RACIAL PROFILING


TORONTO POLICE CHIEF OPPOSES INVESTIGATION INTO RACIAL PROFILING
 WebPosted Tue Feb 18 05:53:50 2003

TORONTO--Toronto's police chief strongly criticized a planned
inquiry by the Ontario Human Rights Commission into racial
profiling Monday night. Julian Fantino said the commission
invitation to people to give personal testimony on racial profiling
may do more harm than good.  Over the next two weeks, individuals
who believe they have been profiled are invited to talk about their
experience with the commission.  It wants to know how the incident
has affected their lives and outlook toward society.

"In many different ways its going to cause more hype, more
controversy and in many respects it might be perceived to be a
negative," Fantino said Monday at a community town hall meeting
meant to improve relations between police and Toronto's Caribbean
community.  But a member of the audience at the meeting said she
supports the commission's inquiry.

"It's a real attempt to examine how are people really affected,"
said Karen Mock of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation.  "There
will be an investigation to ensure that what the complainant has
reported actually did happen," she said.

The Ontario Human Rights Commission is offering an online
questionnaire, or people can call the commission.  The commission
says there will be a public hearing based on the reports it
receives.  Racial profiling has been a hot issue since the Toronto
Star ran a series of articles alleging blacks are treated more
harshly by city police. Toronto police Chief Julian Fantino denies
his officers use racial profiling. The police association is suing
the newspaper.

 Copyright =A9 2002 CBC All Rights Reserved




From megan at resist.ca  Mon Feb 24 10:44:56 2003
From: megan at resist.ca (megan at resist.ca)
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 10:44:56 -0800
Subject: [news] CSIS report on anti-globalization protesters
Message-ID: <20030224184455.GA4726@resist.ca>

CSIS paints anti-trade movement as menace
Top-secret report warns of 'violent and extreme' elements
  
Stewart Bell, with files from Mary Vallis  
National Post 

Monday, February 24, 2003
  
A top-secret intelligence document says the violent fringes of the 
anti-globalization movement remain a security concern for Canada and 
that "extraordinary caution" is necessary to prevent trouble at 
international gatherings.

Although security agencies have since Sept. 11 focused their efforts 
extensively on the dangers of Islamic terrorism, the Canadian Security 
Intelligence Service report says Canada is also threatened by homegrown 
domestic extremists, notably anti-globalization radicals.

The briefing report, dated last November, shows months after Canada 
hosted the G8 Summit without incident in Kananaskis, Alta., Canada's 
intelligence service continues to view anti-globalization violence as a 
problem.

"The presence of world leaders in Kananaskis reminded us that one of the 
newest emerging domestic threats emanates from the highly-publicized 
phenomenon of anti-globalization," said the CSIS briefing.

"Security was taken seriously [and] certainly contributed to making this 
event happen almost violence free .... The rationale for this 
extraordinary caution will continue for future meetings.

"We must not forget, as graphically illustrated by the actions in Quebec 
City, and in Genoa, Italy in 2001, that there are elements within the 
movement which are violent and extreme," the CSIS briefing said.

An anti-globalization protester was killed for the first time in 
anti-capitalist riots during the extremely violent clash outside a G8 
meeting in Genoa.

A police officer shot Carlo Giuliani, 23, after he lobbed a fire 
extinguisher through the shattered window of a police vehicle that had 
been cornered by a frenzied crowd of demonstrators. The threat posed by 
such anti-globalization groups has also been apparent in Canada. In 
Quebec City in April, 2001, rioting militants attacked police guarding 
the Summit of the Americas conference. Nineteen officers were injured 
and some 400 protesters were arrested. Some protesters had sawed-off 
hockey sticks and attacked the police with smoke bombs and chunks of 
concrete.

Two months later, CSIS advised Parliament that violent fringe groups 
such as the Black Bloc anarchists, as well as militant factions of 
animal rights and environmental groups, were showing up at 
anti-globalization protests alongside trade unions, left-wing 
politicians and non-violent protesters.

Clifford Orwin, a political scientist at the University of Toronto, said 
anti-globalization demonstrations will probably always attract "violent 
elements."

"It would be quite surprising if they didn't," he said, adding violent 
protesters are drawn by the allure of publicity.

The briefing report on counter-terrorism was prepared for Wayne Easter, 
federal Solicitor-General, shortly after he took over the Cabinet post 
from Lawrence MacAulay. It was released to the National Post under the 
Access to Information Act.

It identifies the al-Qaeda terrorist network as the agency's top 
concern. After Sept. 11, Canada intensified its investigations into 
Islamic extremists, it said.

"As we have witnessed, one of the prime motivations for terrorism today 
is religious extremism. Islamic terrorists use a militant interpretation 
of the Koran to justify using extreme violence to enforce their 
beliefs."

The main threat comes from Sunni Muslim extremists. About 85% of Muslims 
are Sunnis, it says. A small minority see Osama bin Laden as a 
figurehead and adhere to his belief in a jihad, or holy war, against 
non-Muslims and moderate Muslims.

"Although the recent audio recording, now assessed to be the voice of 
bin Laden, specifically makes reference to Canada as a potential target 
of future terrorist attacks, it has [long] been our assessment that 
al-Qaeda posed a threat to Canada's interests."

But Islamic terrorists are not the only threat to Canada. Elements 
within Canadian multicultural groups are also actively supporting 
secessionist movements in such countries as India, Sri Lanka, Turkey, 
Ireland and the Middle East, the report says.

"Most of the world's major Sikh terrorist groups are represented in 
Canada," it says, adding that three B.C. Sikhs have been charged with 
the 1985 Air-India bombing that killed 329.



From ron at resist.ca  Tue Feb 25 14:18:16 2003
From: ron at resist.ca (ron)
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:18:16 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [news] Cop Shoots Handcuffed African-America 12 Times and Gets Off
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302251417050.6458-100000@resist.ca>



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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 12:46:51 -0800 (PST)
From: sabate <sabate at ziplip.com>
To: copb-van-l at lists.resist.ca
Subject: [copb-van-l] anti-cop news from U.S.

Louisville, KY: City prepares for an uprising.

City officials are preparing for a possible uprising in response to the
decision not to indict a police officer that shot and killed a handcuffed
African-American man last December. A grand jury came back with the
decision today, Feb. 24 at about 6 PM. The victim, James Taylor, was shot
twelve times by Louisville Police detective Michael O?neil. O?neil claimed
that Taylor attacked him with a ?box-cutter type knife.? Witnesses at the
scene and community activists have proved numerous times that Taylor could
not have been a threat to the detectives while handcuffed behind his back.
The decision not to indict is no surprise to community members who have
had to go through seven major shooting incidents involving the LPD and
African-American men. Each one surrounded by controversy and severe
brutality on the part of the police. In each case officers were cleared of
all wrong doing. This particular case has also been surrounded by
controversies, other than the obvious excessive use of force by police
after taking Taylor?s life. Accusations of witness tampering and coercion
have been directed at the LPD.

Obviously preparing themselves for an uprising similar to the events that
shook Cincinnati to the core last April, the LPD and the city
Louisvgovernment have turned downtown Louisville into a virtual military
occupied zone. Cops are sitting in alley ways through out the downtown
area equipped with riot gear and buses for mass arrests. A police
helicopter is also flying overhead watching for any congregation of
people. Numbers of police mobilized specifically for a disturbance is
estimated in the hundreds.

Community activists are planning an economic boycott of all shops and
events in the downtown Louisville area. It will be in response to the city
governments general unwillingness to cooperate with the community on
issues concerning police brutality and misconduct and to protest the new
Citizen Complaint Board. The board was created by the mayor and gives
absolutely no power to actual members of the community in investigating
the police. Local anarchists are also responding by starting a Louisville
COPWATCH, which is in it?s third weeks of operation.

Report from the enrag?es collective... FUCK THE LPD!


From gflett1 at shaw.ca  Thu Feb 27 02:05:09 2003
From: gflett1 at shaw.ca (Gordon Flett)
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 02:05:09 -0800
Subject: [news] Bernadette Devlin
Message-ID: <3E5DE2D5.2E123400@shaw.ca>

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/politics/ny-nybres243144609feb24,0,2135199.column?coll=ny-lipolitics-print 

Finding Trouble in U.S. 
by Jimmy Breslin 
? 2003, Newsday, Inc. 

February 24, 2003 -- "I'm a 55-year-old granny with a gammy leg after
years of to'ins and fro'ins, and I'm here on a cheap holiday in New
York, sourced on the Internet by my daughter," Bernadette Devlin
McAliskey was saying yesterday. 

"We were going for our luggage. We were in Chicago. The cheap flight
takes you to New York that way. We didn't have to go through
immigration, they pass you through in Dublin now. The loudspeaker calls
out 'McAliskey.' We go up to your man and say yes, and we're immedately
surrounded by three men and a woman. They grab the passports out of our
hands. One of the men says to me, "We've a fax from our agents in
Dublin. It says you're a potential or real threat to the United
States.'" 

She told them to look at the name on the passport, which says Bernadette 
Devlin McAliskey. 

"I've been coming back and forth to this country for 30 years," she told 
them. 

"You've evaded us before, but you're not going to do it now," one of the 
immigration people, the oldest one, said. 

"Look at the passport. Read the name. I was a member of Parliament." 

"What year?" 

"Nineteen sixty nine." 

"That made you 21 years old," one of them said. "Come on." He motioned
toward an office. 

She was 21 then, and she was famous all over the world, but fame comes
and goes in a minute and here were four people who not only never heard
of her, but were detaining her. 

She remembered yesterday that she said, "This is crazy." 

The older agent said, "If you tell me one more time that this is crazy,
I'll put handcuffs on you and throw you into a cell." 

"All right, I won't say one more time that this is crazy. But it is
crazy," she said. 

Then Bernadette Devlin, who for so many years showed Catholics in
Northern Ireland how to breathe and be as unafraid as she was, and by
doing so placed the first jobs they ever had into their lives, this
small woman with music for a voice who thrilled so many Irish in New
York, wound up in an office, where she was fingerprinted and
photographed. 

Humiliate them. Then frighten them. "I'm going to throw you in prison,"
the older man said. 

He tried the wrong party. "You can't do that," she said. "I have rights.
I have the right to free movement. I have human rights. I have the right
to be protected under the Constitution of the United States." 

The daughter overheard one of them say, "After 9/11, nobody has any
rights." 

It was common mouthing and behavior from a government that daily shears 
people of their rights. 

"This must be the way they treat every Mrs. McAliskey," she was saying 
yesterday. "That was the most disturbing." 

Under John Ashcroft, a prayer breakfast man who probably prays against 
people, the Justice Department doesn't believe in the Bill of Rights. 
Ashcroft is useless in a big Justice Department case against such as
Enron. How could he be? Even he says he accepted big donations from
them. 

But he can sweep the rights of individuals out of the room, and do it
while humming prayer songs. 

In one week in this city, an anti-war demonstration was blocked by the
mayor and police commissioner, and now Bernadette Devlin is deported.
That one comes from Washington. She is cleared easily by American agents
in Dublin who knew she was in order. Suddenly, they are ordered to send
a fax to Chicago to block her. Somebody in Washington, with the mind of
a rodent, has to order that. 

This has to be all about her making a speech against the war someplace
and the British put in a complaint to our authorities. 

At the Chicago airport, they asked Bernadette if she ever had been
arrested. Yes, in Northern Ireland. Had she been in prison? Yes, for six
months. "I told them I was convicted of an offense for civil rights
demonstrating 20 years ago." 

Her daughter, Deirdre, remembers one of them saying, "See, that makes
her ineligible to be in the country. She knew that. She snuck past the
people in Dublin." 

Bernadette said yesterday, "I told them that it has to be two years in
jail before you're ineligible to enter the United States. I was in for
six months. That put me in bracket A of 211. My ineligibility was
lifted. I've been going and coming to this country for 30 years now. Go
look me up on the computer." 

One of them whispered to her, "Don't make my boss mad. He shot at
Russians here." 

"I was going to tell them that I was shot in Northern Ireland, but now I
was afraid that he would be upset and start shooting at me. Who knew
what they would do? They were in a panic. Totally irrational. They had a
fax that said I was a potential or real threat to America. I'm sitting
there, an old nuclear warhead." 

She started in again about them looking up her file in the computer.
"It's there," she said. "They have a profile of me." Finally, the older
agent went into another room. Minutes passed. When he came out he was
different. "She's telling the truth," he told the others. 

Then he said to her, "You're Bernadette Devlin." 

"Yes, I am." 

"Then you're right. It is crazy. I can't do anything about it. This fax
says you can't enter the country. I've got to send you back." 

She was seething with contempt. Amazingly, they let thedaughter,
Deirdre, go off to New York, so she could tell everybody what had
happened. The agents hadn't looked at the luggage; Deirdre picked hers
up and was gone. 

Bernadette was escorted to the Aer Lingus flight back to Dublin. She had 
arrived at 5:20 p.m. Now, at 7:30 p.m. on Friday night, all this beauty
was being deported. 

She was found yesterday at her home in Coalisland, Northern Ireland.