From news at resist.ca Sun Aug 1 06:17:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2004 13:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] What Kerry Really Did in Vietnam Message-ID: <20040801131702.19190.qmail@resist.ca> July 29, 2004 ; Counter Punch ; By Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair Hail, the Conquering War Criminal Comes! Unlike Bill Clinton and George Bush, Kerry duly presented himself for military service. After a year's training he was assigned to the USS Gridley, deployed to the Pacific, probably carrying nuclear missiles. Beset by boredom, Kerry received the news that once of his best friends, Dickie Pershing, grandson of "Black Jack" Pershing had been killed in Vietnam. Kerry seethed with rage and yearned, as he put it years later to his biographer Douglas Brinkley, for vengeance. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/7/31/182957/874 From news at resist.ca Sun Aug 1 07:17:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2004 14:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Human Rights Horrors in Haiti Message-ID: <20040801141702.22453.qmail@resist.ca> The report makes note that "Morgue employees from the General Hospital in Port au Prince have revealed that 800 bodies on Sunday, March 7, and another 200 bodies on Sunday, March 28 were dumped and buried in a mass grave at Titanyen. These figures are unusual for such a short period of time [100 is normal for a month]." The systematic process of demonizing Aristide, staging several coup attempts that functioned to make the government look unstable, along with the well-orchestrated complicity of the OAS and the rest of the "colonial community", laid the groundwork for a full-on denial in the aftermath. It is likely that as many people have died since the end of February as died in the three year CIA-supported military dictatorship that overthrew Aristide the first time, and it is many of the same people carrying out the atrocities. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/7/31/234652/321 From news at resist.ca Sun Aug 1 07:17:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2004 14:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Extra-union organization launches in BC Message-ID: <20040801141702.22452.qmail@resist.ca> July 22, 2004 ; Project-X list BC?s labour movement has been crippled by a lack of vision, a lack of analysis, and bad internal and external politics. This was proved once again by the tragically unnecessary May 2 defeat of 43,000 courageous and defiant health workers along with tens of thousands of other workers who were poised (or already striking) to give them effective support IN ACTION. But it wasn?t just a defeat. It was a sell-out by leaders committed to an inadequate and therefore failing strategy. It?s time to start changing our unions into fighting organizations that can meet the escalating attacks that have been coming our way for many years now. Doing that will require more than voting out one set of leaders and voting in another. This text intends to kick off the necessary discussion about what has been wrong for too long and what some real alternatives are. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/7/31/181544/316 From news at resist.ca Sun Aug 1 07:17:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2004 14:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Message from Cuban Anarchists: Solidarity with the Cuban People, Not with Castro Message-ID: <20040801141702.22455.qmail@resist.ca> Today, just as 45 ago, the Cuban people are living under an interventionist threat from the Yankees and suffer the terror and despotism of Castro-fascism, the only difference being the fact that the repressive Castrist system is more sophisticated and even more oppressive. The jails remain full of (non-violent) opponents and young people who have rebelled against the constant imposition of totalitarianism and the lack of liberty. Once again, social fighters or those in despair who are trying to flee from absolutism are being put up against the wall. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/7/31/232752/473 From news at resist.ca Sun Aug 1 14:17:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2004 21:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Cuba and the Myth of the 'Independent Libraries' Message-ID: <20040801211702.18475.qmail@resist.ca> According to its strategy of destabilization of Cuban society, the United States, in addition to financing and directing "independent journalists", and "human rights members" has created "independent libraries"(1). The main role of those organizations consists of carrying out a job of disinformation in the heart of the country, and in creating favorable conditions for weakening the nation, which is already in an extremely hostile geopolitical context. Those different splinter groups are shown in the international press as the nucleus of the future "civil and democratic society." The information transnationals still do not deign to give attention to the facts, however easily accessible and verifiable, preferring to talk about internal dissidence. Created in 1998 by Mr. Ram??n Humberto Col??s Castillo according to the leadership of the United States Interest Section (SINA) in Havana, it thought that the "independent libraries" would give the illusion of a growing opposition against the Cuban government. The birth of those entities fits directly in the political maneuvering of the United States which consists of manipulating the reality of the island."(2) Indeed, those libraries should officially allow Cubans to have access to real independent information, but in reality they were propaganda groups at Washington's service. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/1/62537/32926 From news at resist.ca Mon Aug 2 07:17:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 14:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] The Greening of Venezuela Message-ID: <20040802141702.25695.qmail@resist.ca> In the past fifteen months the government has begun to redistribute uncultivated land from private estates or public lands to poor peasants and landless labourers. In a repeat of the agrarian reform programmes carried out decades ago in several Latin American countries, some 2.2 million hectares (5.5 million acres) has already been distributed to 116,000 families organised in cooperatives. But the Venezuelan agrarian reform goes beyond satisfying peasant land hunger and alleviating poverty. It is based as far as possible on organic practices and is intended as the foundation stone of an entirely new social and economic model, oriented towards self-sufficiency, sustainability and "endogenous development". URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/1/145948/6670 From news at resist.ca Mon Aug 2 08:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 15:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Ditch the Distraction in Chief Message-ID: <20040802151704.31801.qmail@resist.ca> THE NATION ; lookout by Naomi Klein [from the August 16, 2004 issue] This madness has to stop, and the fastest way of doing that is to elect John Kerry, not because he will be different but because in most key areas--Iraq, the "war on drugs," Israel/Palestine, free trade, corporate taxes--he will be just as bad. The main difference will be that as Kerry pursues these brutal policies, he will come off as intelligent, sane and blissfully dull. That's why I've joined the Anybody But Bush camp: Only with a bore like Kerry at the helm will we finally be able to put an end to the presidential pathologizing and focus on the issues again. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/2/74132/66054 From news at resist.ca Mon Aug 2 08:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 15:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Promoter of Hastings Slots Boosted NPA Coffers Message-ID: <20040802151704.31800.qmail@resist.ca> Georgia Straight ; 29-Jul-2004 ; By charlie smith A businessman who helped persuade Vancouver NPA city councillors to approve 600 slot machines at Hastings Racecourse was a generous donor to the NPA's 2002 election campaign. Bruno Wall, the chief proponent of slot machines at the racetrack, donated $5,000 to NPA Coun. Sam Sullivan's campaign through a numbered company, 582967 B.C. Ltd. This was the largest corporate donation to Sullivan's campaign in 2002. According to records in the city clerk's office, Wall donated another $5,000 through the same numbered company to the NPA central campaign. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/2/74452/48707 From news at resist.ca Mon Aug 2 15:17:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 22:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Someone Should Give Lil' Caesar a Drink Message-ID: <20040802221703.9306.qmail@resist.ca> On this 51st anniversary of the attack on the Moncada fortress on July 26, 1953 I shall address a sinister character that keeps threatening, insulting and slandering us. This is not a whim or an agreeable option; it is a necessity and a duty. On June 21, at the Anti-imperialist Forum I read Epistle Number Two to the president of the United States, responding to an infamous State Department report on trafficking in human beings, one of those reports the government of that country usually issues, as if it were the supreme moral judge of the world. In that document Cuba is accused of being one of the countries that promotes sexual tourism and child pornography. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/2/93616/01716 From news at resist.ca Tue Aug 3 07:17:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 14:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Loan Company 'suggests' man on disability sell his bed as repayment Message-ID: <20040803141703.11573.qmail@resist.ca> OCAP ; Aug 3, 2004 The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) is taking up the case of a man who is being hounded by an unscrupulous loan company. Geoff owes money on a credit card. He is living on a sub poverty allowance that he receives from the Ontario Disability Support Plan. He has multiple health problems that include worsening and uncontrollable seizures that are triggered by stress. The task of collecting Geoff?s debt has now been taken up by a loan company called MBNA [...which...] suggested that he should sell his bed in order to pay them what they want! URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/3/62549/16910 From news at resist.ca Tue Aug 3 07:17:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 14:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Muslims are not a threat to Canada, but dishonest and misleading reporting are Message-ID: <20040803141703.11574.qmail@resist.ca> MMN 2 Aug 2004 by Yahya Abdul Rahman Muslims are not a threat to Canada, but dishonest and misleading reporting are...Montreal August 2, 2004 (MMN): When people read Robert Fife's July 30th National Post article entitled "Saudis fund radicals in Canada," they are implicitly being asked to accept a set of assumptions which include the following: URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/2/16330/00810 From news at resist.ca Tue Aug 3 07:17:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 14:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] US, Iraqi forces surround al-Sadr's home Message-ID: <20040803141703.11577.qmail@resist.ca> 02 August 2004 by AFP US occupation troops have surrounded the home of Shia Muslim leader Muqtada al-Sadr in the central Iraqi holy city of Najaf, an AFP correspondent witnessed. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/2/161042/2095 From news at resist.ca Tue Aug 3 07:17:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 14:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Israel's Deceit Knows No Bounds Message-ID: <20040803141703.11575.qmail@resist.ca> arabnews - July 27, 2004 - by Shakir Husain There is always something extraordinary about Israel's deceitful behavior. When the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) head Mohamed El-Baradei visited Tel Aviv recently to talk about Israel's arsenal of nuclear weapons, he ended up discussing Iran's nuclear program.What was the point in letting the Israelis distract attention from their own nuclear weapons? With more than 200 ready-to-use nuclear bombs, Israel poses the single gravest threat to Middle East and North Africa. Americans and Europeans do not even call Israeli bombs "weapons of mass destruction." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/2/15577/01058 From news at resist.ca Tue Aug 3 07:17:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 14:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Anarchy on the trumpet: Can Jazz Stop Bush? Message-ID: <20040803141703.11576.qmail@resist.ca> Charlie Haden was sitting in his car one night, listening to the news. Vietnam's neighbour Cambodia was being bombed by the US air force on the orders of President Richard Nixon. Haden felt powerless as an individual - but as a musician he was convinced he could register dissent, and maybe make a difference. He rang his friend and musical collaborator, composer Carla Bley, and said: "Let's do an album about the tragedy of what this administration is doing in the world." The result was the Liberation Music Orchestra, which made one of the most powerful jazz-driven musical statements of the early 1970s with its self-titled album. The band was a volatile, expensive one, and many members were leaders in their own right, making it difficult to keep it on the road. But in the past 35 years, the LMO has returned whenever the rallying call was loud. It re-formed in 1982, when Ronald Reagan invaded El Salvador, to record the album Ballad of the Fallen. It came back in 1989, during George Bush Sr's time, for a rousing We Shall Overcome at the Montreal jazz festival, and to record the album Dreamkeeper. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/2/193147/1155 From news at resist.ca Tue Aug 3 18:17:07 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 01:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Those brutal bastards and porky-PIGS Message-ID: <20040804011707.16786.qmail@resist.ca> 1.Pig Loses Glock - Calgary 2.Tre Arrow Slowly Starving - Port Coquitlam 3.Lazy Pigs Miss Caribana Shifts - Toronto 4.Family Speaks Against Tazers - Quinte West 5.More Police Corruption in Mohawk Community - Kahnesatake 6.RCMP Ignore Cathedral Grove 911 Call - BC 7.Tent City Raided - Kitchener 8.Disabled Homeless Man Assaulted By Pigs - Ottawa URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/3/172426/6559 From news at resist.ca Tue Aug 3 18:17:07 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 01:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] The mask of altruism disguising a colonial war Message-ID: <20040804011707.16787.qmail@resist.ca> The Guardian August 2, 2004 by John Laughland Mr Blair has invoked moral necessity for every one of the five wars he has fought.... The bombing campaign against Iraq in December 1998, the 74-day bombardment of Yugoslavia in 1999, the intervention in Sierra Leone in the spring of 2000, the attack on Afghanistan in October 2001, and the Iraq war last March were all justified with the bright certainties which shone from the prime minister's eyes. Blair even defended Bill Clinton's attack on the al-Shifa pharmaceuticals factory in Sudan in August 1998, on the entirely bogus grounds that it was really manufacturing anthrax instead of aspirin. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/3/153217/5985 From news at resist.ca Tue Aug 3 18:17:07 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 01:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Palestinians & Israeli Anarchists Break Through Separation Wall Message-ID: <20040804011708.16788.qmail@resist.ca> Palestinian residents of the West Bank village of Kafr Zeita and anti-separation fence activists on Monday burst through a gate in the barrier separating the village from its agricultural lands. Activists from the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement and the Israeli group Anarchists Against the Fence said this was the first time demonstrators have managed to break through the barrier. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/3/151520/4854 From news at resist.ca Tue Aug 3 18:17:07 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 01:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] US-Mexico Border: Stop Chasing Migrants to Death Message-ID: <20040804011708.16790.qmail@resist.ca> There is a serious problem going on in the Sonoran Desert, at the Mexican-American border. Due to extra reinforcements at traditional urban (illegal) entry points, such as San Diego and El Paso, people are being forced into the deserts now to make the crossings. One human rights volunteer said, "The Border Patrol, as planned, went on to push them into the deserts, where the risk increased exponentially." And we are seeing record numbers of dead from this. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/3/145426/2317 From news at resist.ca Tue Aug 3 18:17:08 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 01:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Iraq Set to Explode Message-ID: <20040804011708.16798.qmail@resist.ca> Iraq to Explode Can't Blair see that this country is about to explode? Can't Bush? by Robert Fisk; The Independent ; August 03, 2004 Bagdhad: The war is a fraud. I'm not talking about the weapons of mass destruction that didn't exist. Nor the links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida which didn't exist. Nor all the other lies upon which we went to war. I'm talking about the new lies. For just as, before the war, our governments warned us of threats that did not exist, now they hide from us the threats that do exist. Much of Iraq has fallen outside the control of America's puppet government in Baghdad but we are not told. Hundreds of attacks are made against US troops every month. But unless an American dies, we are not told. This month's death toll of Iraqis in Baghdad alone has now reached 700 - the worst month since the invasion ended. But we are not told. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/3/144523/1033 From news at resist.ca Tue Aug 3 18:17:08 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 01:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] 11 Aug 2004: Remember Anthany James Dawson Message-ID: <20040804011708.16792.qmail@resist.ca> 03 Aug 2004 "It was at this point that several witnesses report seeing what appeared to be excessive physical violence done to Anthany by police officer(s): "When I saw him being punched it made me feel sick." It is alleged an officer said, "When I tell you to roll over, you fuckin roll over."Witnesses also say police appeared to be joking and laughing as they stood behind the ambulance once Anthany had been put inside." -- Rose Henry Whereas: Anthany James Dawson died under questionable circumstances..."Strike the Dawn and let us holla another Anthem/This goes out to Dawson what was Anthany Twisten melanins with Lessons" URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/3/145053/0609 From news at resist.ca Tue Aug 3 18:17:08 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 01:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Opec 'unable to pump more oil' Message-ID: <20040804011709.16799.qmail@resist.ca> The president of oil producers' cartel Opec has said oil prices are at "crazy" levels, but that Opec nations are powerless to cool the market. "There is no more supply," said Opec president Purnomo Yusgiantoro after oil prices hit a fresh peak following warnings of an attack on the US. His remarks pushed prices even higher, topping $44 a barrel for a new record on the New York Mercantile Exchange. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/3/95755/98837 From news at resist.ca Tue Aug 3 18:17:08 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 01:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Saddam Wasn't a Satisfying Scapegoat, So Now it's Off to Iran Message-ID: <20040804011709.16807.qmail@resist.ca> There was widespread disappointment, for example, that the September 11 commission apportioned responsibility for the catastrophe so widely and did not name and shame an individual. It would have been very satisfying to offload our fear and rage on to a single culprit, make him bear the burden of our pain, vilify him and drive him into the political wilderness. The trouble with this type of projection is that it makes all too easy to ignore our own culpability. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/3/81858/65756 From news at resist.ca Wed Aug 4 09:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 16:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Protesters demand repeal of 'mean-spirited' law against panhandling Message-ID: <20040804161703.14429.qmail@resist.ca> Canadian Press ; Yahoo! News ; Sun Aug 1, 2004 ; SUE BAILEY OTTAWA (CP) - If Chris Keats had a dollar for every time someone told him to "Get a job" he might not be living in a tent outside city hall. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/4/84711/50674 From news at resist.ca Wed Aug 4 09:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 16:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] First unionized Wal-Mart in North America? Message-ID: <20040804161703.14430.qmail@resist.ca> CMAQ ; 03/08/2004 ; Posted by "Worker Inependence" QUEBEC CITY, QUEBEC ? A Wal-Mart located in Jonqui?re, Quebec is on its way to becoming the only unionized Wal-Mart in North America after a ruling on Monday by the Quebec Labour Relations Board (QLRC) to grant employees union certification with UFCW Canada (United Food and Commercial Workers Canada). URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/4/83941/88093 From news at resist.ca Wed Aug 4 14:17:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 21:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] More U.S. and Iraqi army losses due to insurgent actions Message-ID: <20040804211703.15268.qmail@resist.ca> BAGHDAD, August 3 (PL).--Three U.S. soldiers and two members of the Iraqi police force died in a series of attacks by the Iraqi resistance, according to the Qatari TV network Al Jazeera. The network quoted a communiqu?? from the U.S. central command in Iraq, the two occupying troops died and a further two were injured when a home-made bomb exploded in the path of a patrol from the 1stt Cavalry Division on a routine round in the Western sector of this capital. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/4/93744/59119 From givara72 at yahoo.com Wed Aug 4 14:15:32 2004 From: givara72 at yahoo.com (givara gaza) Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 14:15:32 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [news] Palestinian refugees struggle to return: Musa Al-Hindi visits Vancouver Message-ID: <20040804211537.21038.qmail@web52508.mail.yahoo.com> Palestinian refugees struggle to return: Musa Al-Hindi visits Vancouver by Derrick O?Keefe "International law also says that Palestinian refugees must be allowed to return, if they choose to. The physical space and resources are there, what?s absent is the political will on the part of the international community," Musa Al-Hindi, July 29, 2004. Community organisations and solidarity activists played host in late July to Palestinian refugee and Omaha, Nebraska-based activist Musa Al-Hindi, who addressed two public meetings while visiting Vancouver, B.C. On Thursday, July 29, the Palestine Solidarity Group (PSG) held a forum featuring Al-Hindi at Simon Fraser University?s Harbour Centre campus. Itrath Syed, a PSG member and a New Democratic Party candidate in the recent federal election, chaired the event and introduced Al-Hindi, a member of Al-Awda, the Palestine right to return coalition. The presentation sketched the history of the refugee issue in the context of the Palestinian national liberation movement past and present. Born in Lebanon in 1965, he is one of over five million refugees descended from the hundreds of thousands that were dispossessed during the Nakba of 1948 and during Israel?s subsequent wars of expansion. Al-Hindi linked his social activism to the "existential" struggle of the Palestinian people of which he is part, saying, "some may be accused of speaking on behalf of refugees, of Palestinians, but you can?t accuse me of this; this is my struggle." In an interview following the forum, the speaker described the genesis of the Al-Awda coalition in North America, lamenting the lack of focus on refugee issues today: "There was a one day conference [in 2000], and the second day was a meeting of activists, who said ?we need to go beyond just a conference. We need to have a movement, an organization and a coalition around the issue of right of return, as a central issue.? If you study political and social movements, it is rare that the resources, the skills and the timing of the launching of the movement are all present at the same time. And with Al-Awda, they were. In 2000, there were conferences everywhere, the whole talk was around final status and right of return; it was in the air. It was not like today, where the issue is buried." Musa al-Hindi?s presentation was an incisive look at the plight of Palestinian refugees, and an inspirational report on their resilient movement to achieve justice. One self-described Zionist in the audience asked about the refugees accepting compensation instead of return and was flatly rebuked, as al-Hindi noted that under United Nations resolution 194 and international law Palestinians in the diaspora are entitled to compensation and return. The following evening, Friday, July 30, al-Hindi was a keynote speaker at a successful fund-raising dinner for the Palestine Community Centre in Vancouver attended by over 100 people. The centre is less than a year-old, but has already become a hub for the local community as well as for grassroots activist organizations in the city, providing services such as English and Arabic language instruction and citizenship exam preparation. North America?s Al-Awda movement has a number of campaigns planned over the coming year to disseminate the plight and struggle of Palestinian refugees, and to be part of a movement that can effectively fight against Israel?s apartheid policies. The Al-Awda conference is slated for Spring 2005, and will likely be held in California, so that, as Musa Al-Hindi noted, "it?s easier for you guys [in western Canada] to drive there." For more information: Al-Awda: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, www.al-awda.org/ Palestine Solidarity Group (Vancouver), www.palsolidaritygrp.org/ Palestine Community Centre (Vancouver), www.palestinecommunitycentre.org/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From news at resist.ca Thu Aug 5 06:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 13:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Iraqi groups warn 'all' truck drivers Message-ID: <20040805131703.23605.qmail@resist.ca> aljazeera by aljazeera 04 August "We will kill anyone, whether Arab, foreign or Iraqi, inside any truck carrying goods to the occupation forces," said a statement from the leadership of the resistance movement in Ramadi, west of Baghdad. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/4/191247/3379 From news at resist.ca Thu Aug 5 06:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 13:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Little by little, democracy is being banned Message-ID: <20040805131703.23606.qmail@resist.ca> by George Monbiot ; Published in the Guardian (August 03 2004) If we have learnt anything over the past eighteen months it is this: that the first rule of politics - power must never be trusted - still applies. The government will neither regulate itself nor be regulated by the institutions which surround it. Parliament chose to believe a string of obvious lies. The media repeated them, the civil service let them pass, the judiciary endorsed them. The answer to the age-old political question - who guards the guards? - remains unchanged. Only the people will hold the government to account. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/4/171327/8941 From news at resist.ca Thu Aug 5 06:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 13:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] More Jewish immigrants arrive in Israel Message-ID: <20040805131703.23607.qmail@resist.ca> aljazeera by aljazeera 05 Aug 2004 Israeli bulldozers clear land to prepare for new colonies....Some 200 French Jews arrived in Israel on 28 July, nearly two weeks after Sharon called on French Jewry to leave their homes...His remarks angered France as they implied that the country was anti-Semitic, and that the French government was not going far enough to protect Jews and their assets. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/4/191027/0122 From news at resist.ca Thu Aug 5 06:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 13:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Muslims 'Tarnished' by Anti-Terror Raids Message-ID: <20040805131703.23608.qmail@resist.ca> August 4, 2004 By Neville Dean, PA News Britain's Islamic leaders tonight warned that the Muslim community felt increasingly persecuted following the arrest of 12 men in another round of anti-terror raids. Police were tonight continuing to question the 12, who are all thought to be of Asian origin, at Paddington Green Police Station in London. The men, aged between 19 and 32, were seized in a series of raids across the country yesterday on suspicion of being concerned in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/4/15632/23688 From news at resist.ca Thu Aug 5 07:17:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 14:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] The Frowning Face of Compassionate Conservatism Message-ID: <20040805141702.28064.qmail@resist.ca> Compassionate conservatism has many faces and most of them have frowns. They frown at everything from the environment to the poor. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/5/23127/64773 From news at resist.ca Thu Aug 5 07:17:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 14:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] The Politics of Pot Message-ID: <20040805141702.28063.qmail@resist.ca> Counterpunch ; July 17 / 18, 2004 ; By FRED GARDNER The directors of the University of California's Center for Medical Cannabis Research--Igor Grant, MD, and Drew Mattison, PhD--organized a "workshop" in Paestum, Italy last month that seemed to violate their basic mandate. The event, entitled "Future Directions in Cannabinoid Therapeutics II: From the Bench to the Clinic," was held on Sunday, June 27, following the International Cannabinoid Research Society's annual meeting. Participants included many prestigious scientists... The guests had no idea, presumably, that the session was unauthorized by the people of California. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/5/22228/76381 From news at resist.ca Fri Aug 6 08:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 15:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Iraq's Child Prisoners Message-ID: <20040806151703.23373.qmail@resist.ca> A Sunday Herald investigation has discovered that coalition forces are holding more than 100 children in jails such as Abu Ghraib. Witnesses claim that the detainees - some as young as 10 - are also being subjected to rape and torture. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/5/134617/9944 From news at resist.ca Fri Aug 6 09:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 16:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Resistance Without Reservation! (Part 1 of 2) Message-ID: <20040806161703.28042.qmail@resist.ca> Sun Peaks resort and Delta Hotels are built on Secwepemc territories that have never been ceded or surrendered. Land and Water BC disregarded the Secwepemc, who said NO to expansion in stakeholder meetings and in June 2001 obtained a court injunction to forcibly remove the Secwepemc from their homelands. The Skwekwelk'welt Protection Center, at the resort's entrance, claims aboriginal title and rights. For this exercise of rights, 54 arrests with charges ranging from criminal contempt and intimidation by blocking a road to resisting arrest have been made. In honour of the front-line struggles of this land that have been in total resistance for centuries, a convergence is being organized on Secwepemc territories on August 28-29. Hundreds will travel from Vancouver and surrounding areas to escalate the fight against state and corporate occupation. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/5/203315/4745 From news at resist.ca Fri Aug 6 09:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 16:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Columbia & Venezuela: A Clash of Two Models Message-ID: <20040806161703.28041.qmail@resist.ca> by Justin Podur and C.P. Pandya; August 04, 2004 If Venezuela provides a new, albeit fragile, model of social and economic progress for the region, then its Andean neighbor Colombia, can be seen providing a less-favored, more dangerous alternative - one of neoliberal repression and privatization. Venezuelans will decide which model to pursue in the referendum of August 15. But the clash of the two models has taken some unexpected turns recently. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/5/14425/50173 From news at resist.ca Fri Aug 6 09:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 16:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] The Ancient One and Jack Metcalf Message-ID: <20040806161703.28044.qmail@resist.ca> By Macdonald Stainsby A recent ruling on the "Kennewick man" bones has deep implications as yet another in a long line of scientific attacks on indigenous sovereignty. The recent court decision that the local Indians do not control the bones despite the non-ambiguous nature of laws passed on agreements between the nation and the American state is one more salt-grinding demonstration that sovereignty of First Nations is not something that a North American government is bound to respect. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/5/104956/7684 From news at resist.ca Fri Aug 6 13:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 20:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada opens door for missile shield Message-ID: <20040806201703.21117.qmail@resist.ca> Canada and the United States have expanded military co-operation in a possible precursor to Ottawa joining the U.S. missile-defence program, though Defence Minister Bill Graham insisted yesterday that the Liberal government remains "a long way" from deciding whether to take that major step. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/6/123724/7826 From news at resist.ca Sat Aug 7 09:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 16:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] New Upsurge of U.S. Aggression against Cuba Message-ID: <20040807161705.2862.qmail@resist.ca> The American hostility against Cuba is very distinctive, and indeed unique. No other foreign policy toward a country has ever seen such an arsenal of coercive measures which, for the most part, violate most international conventions. The American hatred for the Cuban revolution goes much further than the historical Cold War framework, completely inopportune if even minimal attention is paid to the relations between the two countries since the end of the eighteenth century. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/6/194321/2024 From news at resist.ca Sat Aug 7 09:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 16:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Iraqi Resistance Report (august 1) Message-ID: <20040807161706.2863.qmail@resist.ca> UNPRECEDENTEDLY FIERCE BATTLES RAGE IN AL-FALLUJAH SUNDAY NIGHT AS RESISTANCE BURNS THE GROUND UNDER THE AGGRESSORS' FEET. Resistance battles US invaders in and around al-Fallujah once again after nightfall Sunday. Iraqi Resistance fighters late on Sunday launched a series of varied attacks on the US aggressors in and around al-Fallujah. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/6/181140/9207 From news at resist.ca Sat Aug 7 09:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 16:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Crap Arrest of the Week #3 Message-ID: <20040807161706.2864.qmail@resist.ca> Elitsa, a 20-year-old Bulgarian anarchist, has become the latest victim in the Bulgarian government's attempts to criminalize dissent and label protesters as threats to "national security". URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/6/192650/2958 From news at resist.ca Sat Aug 7 10:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 17:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Vancouver police Taser probe under fire Message-ID: <20040807171704.7872.qmail@resist.ca> CBC ; 06 Aug 2004 ; Written by CBC News Online staff VANCOUVER - Advocacy groups are welcoming the announcement of an investigation into the use of Taser guns by police in Vancouver, but they still have concerns about the scope and impartiality of the inquiry. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/6/20237/76681 From news at resist.ca Sat Aug 7 10:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 17:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] =?iso-8859-1?q?Loathed_by_the_rich=3A__Why_Hugo_Ch=E1vez_?= =?iso-8859-1?q?is_heading_for_a_stunning_victory?= Message-ID: <20040807171704.7873.qmail@resist.ca> August 7, 2004 ; Richard Gott ; The Guardian To the dismay of opposition groups in Venezuela, and to the surprise of international observers gathering in Caracas, President Hugo Ch?vez is about to secure a stunning victory on August 15, in a referendum designed to lead to his overthrow. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/7/03242/87536 From news at resist.ca Sun Aug 8 09:17:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 16:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Family furious as police cleared in death Message-ID: <20040808161703.29124.qmail@resist.ca> "The way my son died ... [He] didn't die no accidental cause. I don't believe in that. What did cause his death? The way that they were on him. They were six policemen, smashing his head on the cement" URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/7/13418/43906 From news at resist.ca Sun Aug 8 09:17:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 16:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Armed Group Attacks Pro-Chavez Regional Headquarters in Venezuela Message-ID: <20040808161703.29125.qmail@resist.ca> According to Labor Minister Maria Cristina Iglesias and journalist Martin Pacheco, heavily armed men broke into Comando Maisanta headquarters in Indio Mara, Maracaibo, yesterday, attacking people and vehicles. Approximately 45 community media journalists were there for a meeting with pro-Chavez political leaders. Four people were injured and taken to medical centers. Seven vehicles were destroyed by gunshots and heavy blows, including Minister Iglesias' vehicle. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/7/174116/5828 From news at resist.ca Sun Aug 8 09:17:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 16:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Women's Health in a &quot;Free Market&quot; Economy Message-ID: <20040808161703.29126.qmail@resist.ca> It is now ten years since the UN held its International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo. Its Programme of Action was the first and most comprehensive international policy document to promote the concepts of reproductive rights and reproductive health...One decade later, however, some 600,000 women die each year...while 18 million are left disabled or chronically ill because of largely preventable complications during pregnancy or childbirth. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/7/18166/20885 From news at resist.ca Sun Aug 8 09:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 16:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] There Are No Words ...Radiation in Iraq Equals 250, 000 Nagasaki Bombs Message-ID: <20040808161703.29128.qmail@resist.ca> dissidentvoice by Bob Nichols 06 Aug 2004 This story is about American weapons built with Uranium components for the business end of things. Just about all American bullets, tank shells, missiles, dumb bombs, smart bombs, 500 and 2,000 pound bombs, cruise missiles, and anything else engineered to help our side in the war of us against them has Uranium in it. Lots of Uranium....putting Four Million Pounds of Radioactive Uranium Dust (RUD) on the ground in Iraq was a definitely "on-purpose" kind of thing. ...there is no cure. The uranium will long outlast the veterans' and the Iraqis' bodies though; for, you see, it lasts virtually forever. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/7/181921/7039 From news at resist.ca Sun Aug 8 09:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 16:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] The "Terrorism Experts" Message-ID: <20040808161703.29129.qmail@resist.ca> ("Terrorism Experts")....use a common language to describe their subjects and their environment; they are extremely ideological under a thin veneer of scientific jargon; they possess a keen sense of selective observation; they always pretend to possess a psychological understanding though few if any have dealt close up with their subjects in any clinical sense except perhaps under conditions of incarceration and interrogation....Their style is self-righteous, highly moralistic, vitriolic, hyperventilating and yet slippery with euphemisms when it comes to dealing with the violence of their partisan states. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/7/225954/1254 From news at resist.ca Sun Aug 8 10:17:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 17:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Canadian Liberal Imperialists Message-ID: <20040808171702.926.qmail@resist.ca> "....the decision that (former Candian Prime Minister) Jean Chretien made not to go to Iraq is something that angered the Americans, and the same thing with (French President) Jacques Chirac deciding not to go to Iraq with Bush, because he figured they already had access to oil in Iraq, therefore it wasn't a 'good idea' to accompany Bush in his adventure. These people needed to make peace with Bush, and Haiti offered the perfect opportunity for them to become 'friends' again." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/7/2398/03725 From news at resist.ca Sun Aug 8 10:17:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 17:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Aliant uses high-tech security firm to intimidate strikers Message-ID: <20040808171702.925.qmail@resist.ca> Unknown source Aliant Inc, now in it's 107th day of a strike by Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union members for a new collective agreement, is rumored to have advised AFI (Accufax International Group) to "step-up" a campaign of intimidation (under the guise of injunction enforcement) against strikers on the picket lines in Atlantic Canada. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/7/103936/0842 From news at resist.ca Mon Aug 9 09:17:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 16:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Aljazeera vows to cover Iraq despite closure Message-ID: <20040809161702.26240.qmail@resist.ca> Saturday 07 August 2004 ; Al Jazeera Aljazeera has vowed to continue its Iraq coverage despite the one-month closure of its Baghdad office announced by the Iraqi interim government on Saturday. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/9/84428/20706 From christoff at resist.ca Fri Aug 13 17:17:48 2004 From: christoff at resist.ca (Stefan Christoff) Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 17:17:48 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [news] CKUT Radio: Philippines out of the WTO Message-ID: CKUT Radio: Philippines out of the WTO Listen to an interview with Antonio Tujan of IBON an independent research organization based in Manila. The interview explores the current social, economic and political effects of the WTO on the Philippines, while reflecting on the recent WTO negotiations in Geneva, which concluded on July 31st. The WTO negotiations have been projected as a breakthrough by economic and political elites around the world, while social movements in the Philippines and throughout the Global South stress that the Geneva negotiations only illustrate the neo-colonial nature of the WTO. The Geneva negotiations focused on key trade policy issues, which lead to the collapse of the September 2003 WTO Ministerial negotiations in Cancun Mexico, such as large Agricultural Subsidies maintained by northern countries and the TRIPS Agreement (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights). -> To listen to the interview with Antonio Tujan of IBON visit: http://www.radio.indymedia.org/news/2004/08/2243.php -> For more information about anti-WTO movements in the Philippines visit: http://qc.indymedia.org/ ----------------------- From news at resist.ca Mon Aug 9 14:17:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 21:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] (Leonard Peltier) Cruel and unusual punishment: In the eye of the beholder Message-ID: <20040809211703.30661.qmail@resist.ca> aimsupport.org ; Monday, August 02, 2004 By Leonard Peltier The Constitution protects against *cruel and unusual punishment,* and, therefore, if the Constitution has meaning, then you, as citizens, MUST care. To ignore the cruel and extreme conditions prisoners endure -- overcrowding, poor medical care, and unhealthy conditions -- is to return to a way that the Eighth Amendment was intended to end. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/9/131141/1389 From news at resist.ca Tue Aug 10 08:17:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 15:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Why Iraqi Christians are Moving to Syria Message-ID: <20040810151703.15752.qmail@resist.ca> August 9, 2004 ; By GARY LEUPP - Counterpunch The recent spate of attacks on Christian churches in Iraq is symptomatic of the general insecurity that Christians (about three percent of the population, around 800,000 people) face in the occupied country. The interim constitution states that "Islam is the official religion of the State and is to be considered a source of legislation" and while recognizing religious freedom "respects the Islamic identity of the majority of the Iraqi people." For some, Islamic identity means the imposition of Muslim morality. In Sadr City, the Mahdi militia is shutting down Christian-owned liquor shops. Some shop owners have been killed, some Christian women attacked for appearing in public inappropriately attired. Others have been attacked because of a widespread belief that Christians are abetting the occupation. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/9/164153/5540 From news at resist.ca Tue Aug 10 08:17:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 15:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] A Critique of the System: Of International White Supremacy & International Capitalism Message-ID: <20040810151702.15751.qmail@resist.ca> 10 Aug 2004 By Stokely Carmichael aka Kwame Ture ...whenever you raise questions about racial problems to white western society, each white man says `Well don't blame me,....I see you as an equal. You're just as good as I am--almost.' ...I want to point out the difference between individual racism as opposed to institutionalized racism. The second type is less overt, far more subtle, less identifiable in terms of specific individuals committing the acts, but is not less destructive of human life. The second type is more the overall operations of established and respected forces in the society, and thus does not receive the condemnation that the first type receives. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/9/233633/3486 From news at resist.ca Tue Aug 10 08:17:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 15:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Sadr's Popularity Soars Among Shi`i Youth; Sunni, Shi`i Unite In Battle Message-ID: <20040810151703.15753.qmail@resist.ca> Free Arab Voice August 9 2004 By Muhammad Abu Nasr Muqtada as-Sadr's popularity soars among Shi`i youth as Jaysh al-Mahdi battles invader troops, and Sunni-Shi`i fighting unity expand.... it was clear that most of the country's Shi`i youth have come to regard Muqtada as-Sadr as a man unwilling to submit to the occupation forces and ready to confront them with what force he has available. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/9/22547/81232 From news at resist.ca Wed Aug 11 08:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 15:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Aliant Faces Ongoing Sabotage During Strike Message-ID: <20040811151704.9182.qmail@resist.ca> The RCMP say an act of sabotage was responsible for the loss of phone service in three communities on the island's northeast coast last week. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/10/154022/915 From news at resist.ca Wed Aug 11 08:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 15:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Anarchism & the Trade Unions Message-ID: <20040811151704.9183.qmail@resist.ca> Rarely do we hear the words "anarchist" and "trade unionist" in the same sentence; however, as Brian Sheppard writes below, this has not always been the case. For example, anarchist militants played a crucial role in many of the working class battles of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, like the struggle for the eight hour day, as well as those of the radical Industrial Worker's of the World ("Wobblies"). There are no laws, graven in stone, which say that trade unions have to be organized in a hierarchical, top-down manner or that a bureaucratic class of "trade union professionals" are needed to "manage down" struggles to conform to the need to maintain "labour peace." Indeed, the history and traditions of working-class anarchism has much to offer today's generation of class conscious workers, who are quickly coming to the realization that the TU "movement" is even incapable of doing what is necessary to protect the hard-won victories of the past, let alone play a constructive role in the more fundamental victories of the future. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/10/182317/419 From news at resist.ca Wed Aug 11 08:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 15:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Planning the deaths of innocent People Message-ID: <20040811151704.9184.qmail@resist.ca> by Lawrence Y Braithwaite (aka Lord Patch) 11 Aug 04 Until recently, as we have all discovered new things about our character and hearts recently, I really didn't think that my community within Victoria, BC was very important, to the world, except to me B.U.T. I am seeing that we have become the focus of these racist and amerikkkan paranoic assaults like the rest of the dissidents in larger more well known cities. I fear that I might fail my community of New Palestine/The Hood/Fernwood URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/11/22032/5675 From news at resist.ca Wed Aug 11 08:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 15:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Anti-Vivisectionists make the news! Message-ID: <20040811151704.9185.qmail@resist.ca> On August 5th, 31 Animal Rights activists and 5 companion animals protested Iams cruelty to animals in Dupont circle in Washington D.C. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/10/173424/517 From news at resist.ca Fri Aug 13 12:17:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Darfur, Sudan: Caught Between Western Hypocrisy & Muslim Complicity Message-ID: <20040813191702.23656.qmail@resist.ca> As the humanitarian catastrophe in the Darfur region of Sudan continues to unfold, the United States has seized the opportunity to divert attention from Iraq and Palestine and at the same time, extend its geo-political domination in North Africa and beyond through threats of sanctions and possible military intervention. On the other hand, the Arab League (AL) and the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) are strangely silent on the excesses in Darfur and this has allowed the situation on the ground to spin out of control. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/12/1160/11330 From news at resist.ca Fri Aug 13 12:17:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Swaziland residents kick out cops after political clashes Message-ID: <20040813191703.23657.qmail@resist.ca> allafrica.com Angry residents of an informal settlement outside the central commercial town of Manzini have declared their neighbourhood a no-go area for Swazi police following a clash at the weekend between the security forces and political demonstrators. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/11/205412/328 From news at resist.ca Fri Aug 13 12:17:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] The Ultimate Cage Match: The Land of Liberty puts Free Speech in a Cage Message-ID: <20040813191703.23658.qmail@resist.ca> The police preparations for the Democratic National Convention held last week at the Fleet Centre in Boston were the continuation and intensification of the methods for guaranteeing security at political conventions and summits. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/11/133440/860 From news at resist.ca Fri Aug 13 12:17:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] U$A, the CIA and Chavez Message-ID: <20040813191703.23659.qmail@resist.ca> Venezuela state-owned news agency VENPRES is quoting an El Mundo de Madrid (Spain) report that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is set to put a contingency plan in motion in the (likely) event that President Hugo Chavez Frias wins next weekend's Recall Referendum. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/11/93740/4841 From news at resist.ca Fri Aug 13 13:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 20:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] IWW Strike Support Committee Report Message-ID: <20040813201703.29823.qmail@resist.ca> The following is the "IWW Vancouver Strike Support Committee Report" for current lower mainland disputes. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/12/165744/158 From news at resist.ca Sat Aug 14 10:17:07 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 17:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Anarchism Canada Site Message-ID: <20040814171707.21556.qmail@resist.ca> Anarchism Canada is an e-contact web site that hopes to provide an up-to-date listing of all anarchist and "anarchist friendly" groups, websites, contacts, projects, etc. active in Canada today. It is a "work in progress" that will hopefully be continually updated and corrected. Anarchism Canada spans the gamut from specifically anarchist groups, through the IWW, FNB, ARA, Anarchist Music and much more. Please see the following site to find out what it is all about. Corrections and additions are always appreciated: anarchismcanada URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/13/191335/790 From news at resist.ca Sat Aug 14 10:17:07 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 17:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] On the MOVE! Message-ID: <20040814171707.21555.qmail@resist.ca> sfbayview by Janine, Janet and Deb Africa 13 Aug 04 This Aug. 8, 2004, marks 26 years of unjust imprisonment for the MOVE 9. For the past twenty-six years, The MOVE 9 have stood strong and committed, dispite the one-hundred year sentences each of them is facing, and dispite the fact that each of the MOVE 9 knows that all they would have to do to be released from prison is leave MOVE and denounce MOVE founder John Africa. ...The issue is, and always has been, our commitment to John Africa's revolution, our commitment to exposing this rotten system for what it is. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/13/233026/277 From news at resist.ca Mon Aug 16 07:17:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 14:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Living in an election year: a cartoon manifesto Message-ID: <20040816141702.2904.qmail@resist.ca> A new 10-page comic book attack on the US elections. Read and laugh. Print out and distribute. Available at www.taktic.org/~grafikatak/ low res version for web viewing: www.taktic.org/~grafikatak/comicbook.pdf hi res version for printing: www.taktic.org/~grafikatak/comicbookhires.pdf URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/15/22011/4304 From news at resist.ca Mon Aug 16 07:17:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 14:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Police want you to pay for their wire taps Message-ID: <20040816141702.2903.qmail@resist.ca> Globe and Mail ; By JIM BRONSKILL - Canadian Press ; Ottawa ? Canada's police chiefs propose a surcharge of about 25 cents on monthly telephone and Internet bills to cover the cost of tapping into the communications of terrorists and other criminals. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/16/65052/2464 From news at resist.ca Mon Aug 16 07:17:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 14:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] The Coming Northwest Passage Through the Heart of the Arctic Nations: Oil, Diamonds and Self-Determi Message-ID: <20040816141703.2905.qmail@resist.ca> by Macdonald Stainsby ; www.dissidentvoice.org ; August 9, 2004 It is in the Arctic regions where the fastest process of settler colonialism in the Western Hemisphere is occurring, with new untapped resources-- particularly oil and gas-- being discovered, along side some of the largest diamond deposits on the planet. Just as Canadian and American imperialist designs on Iraq, the Sudan, Nigeria and Venezuela are often in large part about crude and energy, so too is this not-new battlefield. We must call the piper on his lousy tune: ?you are not bringing freedom and development? we must again say, ?you are after the oil?. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/15/18849/1692 From news at resist.ca Mon Aug 16 08:17:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 15:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Venezuela's Chavez Wins Recall Vote Message-ID: <20040816151702.9779.qmail@resist.ca> Monday, Aug 16, 2004 ; By: Martin Sanchez ; Venezuelanalysis.com Caracas, Venezuela. Aug 16. (Venezuelanalysis.com).- At 4:03AM, Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE) announced that according to preliminary results, Venezuelan opposition to President Hugo Chavez will continue his term until 2006. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/16/72440/0552 From news at resist.ca Mon Aug 16 08:17:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 15:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Pollutants cause huge rise in brain diseases Message-ID: <20040816151702.9781.qmail@resist.ca> Juliette Jowit, environment editor ; Sunday August 15, 2004 ; The Observer The numbers of sufferers of brain diseases, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and motor neurone disease, have soared across the West in less than 20 years, scientists have discovered. The alarming rise, which includes figures showing rates of dementia have trebled in men, has been linked to rises in levels of pesticides, industrial effluents, domestic waste, car exhausts and other pollutants, says a report in the journal Public Health. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/16/7348/92788 From news at resist.ca Mon Aug 16 08:17:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 15:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Injections Temporarily Turn Slacker Monkeys Into Model Workers Message-ID: <20040816151702.9780.qmail@resist.ca> LA Times ; By Alan Zarembo ; August 12, 2004 Laboratory monkeys that started out as careless procrastinators became super-efficient workers after injections into their brains that suppressed a gene linked to their ability to anticipate a reward. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/16/73423/2047 From news at resist.ca Tue Aug 17 05:17:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Foster Care Radio Needs Your Help Message-ID: <20040817121702.24800.qmail@resist.ca> by AfterFostercare Foster Care Radio's is now in the planning stages and John Dunn is asking you to get involved in helping it become a reality. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/16/124728/018 From news at resist.ca Tue Aug 17 06:17:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 13:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Tread Softly in Sudan Message-ID: <20040817131702.28664.qmail@resist.ca> THE HUMAN crisis in Sudan's arid Darfur region, where 30,000 have died and a million are said to be homeless, has provoked charges of a second, Rwanda-style genocide and calls for urgent western military intervention in Africa's largest nation. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/16/21200/7419 From news at resist.ca Tue Aug 17 06:17:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 13:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Fighting Back Against City Hall Message-ID: <20040817131702.28663.qmail@resist.ca> Ontario Coalition Against Poverty ; Aug 16, 2004 David Miller's first summer as Mayor started with a brutal police crackdown on squeegee youth, the targeting of Chinatown street vendors and the eviction of residents from the Bathurst Street Bridge. Since then things have only continued to escalate. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/17/5191/75702 From news at resist.ca Tue Aug 17 09:17:17 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:17:17 -0000 Subject: [news] Police want 25-cent surcharge on phone bills to fund wiretaps Message-ID: <20040817161718.14966.qmail@resist.ca> OTTAWA - The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police wants every phone and internet customer in the country to pay a surcharge of 25 cents a month to help cover the cost of eavesdropping on criminals. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/17/8655/41457 From christoff at resist.ca Wed Aug 18 16:29:16 2004 From: christoff at resist.ca (Stefan Christoff) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:29:16 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [news] CKUT Radio: Life and Death in Rafah Refugee Camp Message-ID: CKUT Radio: Life and Death in Rafah Refugee Camp Listen to an interview with Mohamed Omar, an independent Palestinian journalist from Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. Mohamed is the creator of the independent news website Rafah Today, which documents life and death in the Gaza Strip. Mohamed, who's home was recently demolished by the Israeli military, speaks about the importance of an independent media movement in Palestine to document and uncover the often hidden realities of the Israeli occupation. The interview outlines the current situation in Rafah, focusing on the constant Israeli Occupation Forces incursions into Rafah refugee camp, while also exploring the aftermath of the massive Israeli military incursion dubbed "Operation Rainbow" in late May 2004. The Israeli incursion made international headlines, bringing condemnation from the United Nations and the majority of nations throughout the world. The late May incursion saw many Palestinians killed and hundreds of homes were destroyed, leaving thousands homeless until today. -> To listen to the interview with Mohamed Omar visit: http://www.radio.indymedia.org/news/2004/08/2244.php -> To view Mohamed Omar's website Rafah Today visit: http://www.rafahtoday.org ----------------------- From christoff at resist.ca Wed Aug 25 12:02:35 2004 From: christoff at resist.ca (Stefan Christoff) Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 12:02:35 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [news] CKUT Radio: Palestinian Prisoner Hunger Strike Message-ID: CKUT Radio: Palestinian Prisoner Hunger Strike Listen to an interview with Mahmoud Ziadi, spokes person of the Committee for the Families of Political Prisoners and Detainees in the West Bank. The interview focuses on the current hunger strike of more than 7000 Palestinian political prisoners throughout Occupied Palestine, while also drawing the links between the current hunger strike and the ongoing Palestinian struggle for liberation from the deadly and illegal Israeli occupation. The Palestinian hunger strike, which began on Sunday August 15th, has stressed simple and direct demands to the Israeli authorities and the international community concerning the globally condemned humanitarian crisis within Israeli prisons, such calling for an end to the arbitrary and indiscriminate beating of prisoners in their cells, in prison courtyards and during transportation to and from prisons, the indiscriminate firing of tear gas into prisoner's cells and prison courtyards. Regular humiliating strip searches of prisoners in full view of other prisoners and guards each time they enter or exit their cells and subjecting prisoners to solitary confinement for excessive periods of time, for months and even years. -> To listen / download the interview with Mahmoud Ziadi visit: http://www.radio.indymedia.org/news/2004/08/2310.php -> For more info about the ongoing Palestinian hunger strike visit: The International Solidarity Movement http://www.palsolidarity.org The Right of Return Coalition http://www.al-awda.org ----------------------- From pnbrown at vcn.bc.ca Sun Aug 29 22:02:44 2004 From: pnbrown at vcn.bc.ca (Paul Browning) Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 22:02:44 -0700 Subject: [news] Fw: [Ceasefire.ca] Opposition crossing party lines Message-ID: <00c701c48e4e$964bf490$6401a8c0@PAUL> ----- Original Message ----- From: NewsLetter at ceasefire.ca To: pnbrown at telus.net Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 2:22 PM Subject: [Ceasefire.ca] Opposition crossing party lines Steven Staples, Polaris Institute & Founder of ceasefire.ca. August 27, 2004 Dear Paul Browning, Wow! It has been a bad week for Prime Minister Paul Martin - it started with Jack Layton saying the NDP won't back down from its opposition to Star Wars, and then ended with his own caucus deeply divided over the issue and some brutally frank comments by Carolyn Parrish on front pages and TV screens across the country. Opposition to Canada joining missile defence has crossed party lines, and is not going to go away. And now it threatens to derail the government's agenda for the coming session of Parliament. Martin is going to find it virtually impossible to manage a minority government with so many of his own MPs opposed to Canada joining missile defence. Here is what you can do right now to help keep Canada out of Star Wars: First, if you have not yet sent a letter of support to the Liberal MPs who are speaking out against the government's slide into the US missile shield, then I urge you to go to ceasefire.ca right now. We've updated the web site today so you can send a note of support to the nearly dozen Liberal MPs who have spoken out this week, and copy it to the Prime Minister, all in just a few clicks. Second, if you can, please help us raise money to wage the campaign that lies ahead by making your contribution. We need to raise $20,000 to ensure that missile defence is an issue when Parliament sits in October. Click here to make your donation. If you have already made a donation, then accept my thanks, and watch for a note from me in the mail in the coming days. Thank you for your support, Steven Staples Explosions in the Sky: Impolitic MP Carolyn Parrish has become the favourite traget of pro-Bush forces in Canada for her denunciation of the U.S. administration -- even though she's proven right on Iraq. The Ottawa Sun, Aug 17, 2004 by MICHAEL HARRIS, TORONTO SUN You have to hand it to Carolyn Parrish: the Toronto MP is a weapon of mass hysteria. Ever since she gave a ringing backhander to George Bush over his administration's bellyflop in Iraq, Parrish has been the whipping girl of pro-Bush supporters in this country. They see her as an uncouth, national embarrassment for calling the president names. Yes, while Iraq churns and burns, and the number of terrorist attacks around the world has actually gone up since Bush's reaction to 9/11, some people take pleasure in trashing a backbench Liberal MP for the high crime dissing the world's most powerful man in a scrum. Hmmm. In my books, Carolyn Parrish is A-okay. She might have said it better, but at least she said it, which is more than I can say for some of her craven male counterparts in the government who like to pretend that three-quarters of Canadians aren't opposed to President Bush and his mother of all boondoggles. I don't know if the supporters of Star Wars are a coalition of idiots, but I do know that a coalition of people who are definitely not idiots have taken the same stand on this desperately important issue as our naughty 905 Grit. Take the case of Richard Garwin, a brilliant American physicist who got a medal last November from President Bush for his scientific advice to the administration. Garwin has now publicly condemned Bush for "misusing, suppressing and distorting scientific advice." He is not alone. Four thousand top U.S. scientists have signed a petition to register their opposition to Bush policies, including Star Wars. Forty-eight of them happen to be Nobel Prize winners. Like Ms. Parrish, they are not anti-American, but merely in profound disagreement with President Bush. They are not the only ones. In March 2004, President Bush received a letter signed by 49 U.S. generals and admirals recommending that he "postpone operational deployment" of this son of Star Wars and use the money to secure facilities containing nuclear weapons and to protect America's ports and borders. That, they say, is the real danger to the U.S., not non-existent ballistic missile threats from so-called rogue states. Are these generals and admirals un- or anti-American or just more alive to the follies of Star Wars? I would argue the latter. The deployment of anything that is untested and unproven is objectionable on a pragmatic level. So far, the missiles only hit their targets five times out of eight. Even at that, the Pentagon has admitted that it has conducted tests where targets were fitted out with homing devices! I doubt that a real enemy would be so accommodating. Here is what James Albaugh, president of Boeing Corp. defense business said about the reliability of the system. "We know we have not fully tested the system, but it's our view that it is better to have a system deployed that is not fully tested than to not have a system at all." The missile defence shield may not work, but it has certainly got the rest of the world worked up. The Russians are accusing Washington of starting a new arms race, in light of a U.S. deal with Denmark that allows the Americans to upgrade a radar station in north-western Greenland. Although Bush has assured the Russians that his missile defence system will not be targeted against Russia, the move into Greenland suggests otherwise. So too does a U.S. plan to deploy elements of its missile shield on the territories of new NATO allies in eastern and central Europe. It may not work, it threatens a new arms race, but is it really the weaponization of space? The answer is yes. Although a lot of people wrote about the deployment of America's first ground-based missile interceptor at Fort Greely in Alaska on July 22, few people noticed that U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld also earmarked $70 million for Nfire -- an acronym for the near field infrared experiment. This project, originally scheduled for launch this year, involves a series of low-Earth orbit satellites equipped with infrared sensors. Their initial job will be to allow the U.S. military to distinguish between a rocket plume or exhaust of an enemy missile and the missile itself. But Nfire is also designed to carry a "kinetic kill vehicle" that would intercept a missile after it has been tracked -- the first weapon in space. What Carolyn Parrish and colleagues like Anita Neville and Sarmite Bulta know is two-fold. If security is your goal, spooking countries all around the world by further weaponizing earth and space is not the way to go. For real peace and security, disarmament and diplomacy is the better road. Paul Martin should remember that Canadians want to take it. The Ottawa Sun Here is my donation to ceasefire.ca! Enter your e-mail address: $75 $100 $200 $300 $500 $1000 My choice $ Thank you for making a donation to the work of ceasefire.ca, a project of the Polaris Institute. To protect your privacy and security your donation can only be processed at our secure web site. Privacy statement If you prefer to send your donation through the mail, please print this page and send it along with your cheque to our address below. Donations and inquiries may be directed to: Polaris Institute / Attn. 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