From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 1 07:09:19 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 15:09:19 -0000 Subject: [news] Workers occupy factory in Greece Message-ID: <20041201150919.16907.qmail@resist.ca> The clothing factory "Tricolan", in Naoussa, has been occupied for more than a month; the workers resist their involuntary dismissal by the corporation's owner, following the factory's closure. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/30/11419/328 From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 1 07:09:19 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 15:09:19 -0000 Subject: [news] Anti-evolution teachings gain foothold in U.S. schools Message-ID: <20041201150919.16908.qmail@resist.ca> "There's only one creator, and it has to be God," said Rebecca Cashman, 16, a sophomore at Dover High. She frowned when asked to recollect what she learned about evolution at school last year. "Evolution -- is that the Darwin theory?" Cashman shook her head. "I don't know just what he was thinking!" The drive to bring more religion and what have been labeled "moral values" into the classroom goes beyond challenges to Darwin's theory, Scott said. The Charles County school board also proposed to censor school reading lists of "immorality" or "foul language" and to allow the distribution of Bibles in schools. In Texas, the nation's second-biggest school textbook market, the State Board of Education approved health textbooks that defined abstinence as the only form of contraception and changed the description of marriage between "two people" to "a lifelong union between a husband and a wife." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/30/185252/14 From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 1 07:09:19 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 15:09:19 -0000 Subject: [news] If there were elections on the moon or on Mars, America would be there too" -- Chavez Message-ID: <20041201150920.16911.qmail@resist.ca> Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez seconded Russia on Saturday in accusing the West of meddling in Ukraine, saying that "the hand of Washington is obvious" in the crisis over the nation's disputed presidential election, the Interfax news agency reported. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/29/22816/660 From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 1 07:09:19 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 15:09:19 -0000 Subject: [news] Haudenosaunee family denied access to Canada Message-ID: <20041201150920.16914.qmail@resist.ca> "Moses is a Tuscarora raised in Onondaga, N.Y. and lives with his partner, Alexis Shackleton and two daughters here in Kahnawake. He has travelled back and forth across the border countless times to visit his family, work and play lacrosse. This is the first time he has been denied access to Canada." "They asked for my American passport but I told them I was not an American or a Canadian but a citizen of the Haudenosaunee." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/30/11136/710 From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 1 07:09:19 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 15:09:19 -0000 Subject: [news] South American Country Takes the Responsibility of Drug Users Out of the Hands of Authorities Message-ID: <20041201150920.16910.qmail@resist.ca> "The Brazilian federal government, last week, signed a Drug Decriminalization Decree, which stated that the country would be taking drug enforcement responsibilities away from the police agencies and putting the drug problem into the hands of the Health Ministry." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/30/173035/52 From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 1 07:09:19 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 15:09:19 -0000 Subject: [news] Thousands come to meet George in Ottawa Message-ID: <20041201150920.16913.qmail@resist.ca> Somewhere between 5-10,000 people marched on Ottawa yesterday to show disapproval of the emperor. Demonstrations were relatively calm and Bush heads off to Halifax where a smaller protest is expected. The only alternative press I can find on it at this point is at the new Ottawa Indymedia which was recreated for the occasion. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/1/61136/9063 From news at resist.ca Thu Dec 2 07:09:16 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 15:09:16 -0000 Subject: [news] U.N. endorses Bush Doctrine Message-ID: <20041202150917.19789.qmail@resist.ca> New York, NY, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan is readying a report that would back preemptive military strikes, The Independent reported Wednesday. The report, with 101 recommendations that include one to increase the Security Council from 15 to 24 nations, comes from 16 high-level experts who began their work on global security solutions in the midst of the war in Iraq. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/1/175922/807 From news at resist.ca Thu Dec 2 07:09:16 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 15:09:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Homeless families occupy army recruitment centre Message-ID: <20041202150916.19788.qmail@resist.ca> "Today, [Nov 30] as part of their "Homes For The Holidays: Operation Bring the Money Home" Campaign, dozens of homeless families belonging to the Kensington Welfare Rights Union (KWRU) have moved their Bushville Tent City to sit in at the main Army Recruiting Office in Philadelphia." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/1/105637/305 From news at resist.ca Thu Dec 2 07:09:16 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 15:09:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Ottawa assails Israel's UN foes Message-ID: <20041202150917.19791.qmail@resist.ca> United Nations -- UN Ambassador Allan Rock yesterday delivered a scathing denunciation of the General Assembly's resolutions isolating and attacking Israel, confirming a shift in Canada's approach to the Middle East. During an annual debate on the question of Palestine, Mr. Rock said Canada will vote today against two key resolutions on which it has abstained in the past, lining up with the United States, often the only major power to defend Israel at the United Nations. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/1/20436/9271 From news at resist.ca Thu Dec 2 07:09:16 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 15:09:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Reproductive Choices and Institutional Racism Message-ID: <20041202150917.19792.qmail@resist.ca> By Cora Beitel Women of colour in North America face many barriers with regards to their reproductive choices. Midwifery care, natural childbirth and breastfeeding are three areas where women of colour are underrepresented. To understand this phenomena the history of the medicalization of childbirth and its results must be examined. As well, the effects of institutional racism in the `natural birth' movement need to be studied. The barriers women of colour face in the birthing communities are akin to the struggles they experience within the women's movement. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/1/20145/8274 From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 3 08:09:06 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 16:09:06 -0000 Subject: [news] General strike cripples Italy Message-ID: <20041203160906.4742.qmail@resist.ca> Much of Italy seized up on Tuesday as millions of workers staged a one-day walk-out against the economic policies of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. The protest marks the fourth general strike in Italy since Mr Berlusconi took power in 2001. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/2/14130/3735 From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 3 08:09:06 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 16:09:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Elections in Ukraine: The Bad Versus the Corrupt Message-ID: <20041203160906.4744.qmail@resist.ca> "Nobody should be fooled by the U.S. claims of supporting democracy in Ukraine. Washington has turned a blind eye to election fraud across the former USSR--from Russia to the oil-rich Central Asian states....(T)he U.S. aims to pull Ukraine into Washington's orbit." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/2/192123/089 From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 3 08:09:06 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 16:09:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Rod Coronado to be indicted on federal conspiracy charges Message-ID: <20041203160907.4745.qmail@resist.ca> On December 2nd at 11:00am at the Evo A. DeConcini Federal Courthouse, federal prosecutors will formally indict Chuk'shon Earth First! (CEF!) activist Rod Coronado on conspiracy charges related to the local environmental group's interference with the hunt for mountain lions in Sabino Canyon last March. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/2/11548/5086 From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 3 08:09:06 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 16:09:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Oil Spill Off Newfoundland Coast Message-ID: <20041203160907.4747.qmail@resist.ca> Up to 165,000 Litres of crude oil was reported dumped into the ocean at the Terra Nova offshore site (near the southern edge of the Grand Bank, c.300 km SE of Cape Race Newfoundland) on Sunday November 21, 2004. As of last Thursday the slick extended to more than 50 square kilometers of sea surface. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/2/193517/031 From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 3 08:09:07 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 16:09:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Union Busting by the Concordia Student Union Message-ID: <20041203160907.4750.qmail@resist.ca> Recently, the new Concordia Student Union has begun taking on the little union on campus [CUPE 4512] and attacking them in the most vile manner. They do not receive proper notice of work hours that need to be done, the CSU is in constant consultation with their lawyers as to how to skirt labour law, and more recently they have even begun illegally suspending union leaders for carrying out their duties. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/1/221135/369 From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 3 08:09:06 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 16:09:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Amnesty International's concerns about deaths and ill-treatment involving police use of tasers Message-ID: <20041203160907.4746.qmail@resist.ca> James Borden was arrested in a disoriented state in November 2003 and died shortly after the administration of the last of six electro-shocks, delivered while his hands were reportedly cuffed behind his back. The medical examiner released a statement listing cause of death as a heart attack, drug intoxication and electrical shock. James Borden is one of thousands of individuals shocked with stun devices by US law enforcement agents each year as a growing number of agencies move to adopt such weapons. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/1/194255/911 From news at resist.ca Sat Dec 4 08:09:09 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 16:09:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Trouble at the U.N: Leonard Peltier Message-ID: <20041204160910.25847.qmail@resist.ca> Yesterday, the Indigenous Peoples' delegates declared a hunger strike and spiritual fast inside the United Nations Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, to call the world's attention to these attempts to weaken the Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/3/13315/6691 From news at resist.ca Sat Dec 4 08:09:09 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 16:09:09 -0000 Subject: [news] 190 US Spy Flights In November Prelude To Attack: North Korea Message-ID: <20041204160909.25845.qmail@resist.ca> "This is a clear indication that the US imperialists are watching for a chance to mount a pre-emptive attack on the (North), while frantically pursuing their hostile policy towards it," said the North's official Korean Central News Agency. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/1/204625/284 From news at resist.ca Sat Dec 4 08:09:09 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 16:09:09 -0000 Subject: [news] IMF sponsored "democracy" in the Ukraine Message-ID: <20041204160909.25844.qmail@resist.ca> Michel Chossudovsky gives a detailed breakdown of the players involved in the attempt to steal the election in the Ukraine. "Opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko in the Ukrainian presidential elections is firmly backed by the Washington Consensus." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/1/2106/13077 From news at resist.ca Sat Dec 4 08:09:09 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 16:09:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Hitchhikers, Teamsters and Bad Law Message-ID: <20041204160910.25849.qmail@resist.ca> Fatigue will eat you alive without you even knowing it, and it kills. It almost killed the two of us that night. And now, the Teamsters Union is fighting Transport Canada's and the Canadian Trucking Alliances proposal to force an 18-hour workday, with 13 hours of driving time plus doing the loads and books and everything else, on truckers. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/3/73552/5853 From news at resist.ca Sat Dec 4 08:09:09 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 16:09:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Right Whales Continue to be Struck by Ships in the North Atlantic Message-ID: <20041204160909.25846.qmail@resist.ca> "This is yet another needless tragedy for a species already fighting for its life," said IFAW Senior Program Officer Erin Heskett. "NMFS is sitting on its hands. How many more endangered right whales must die before desperately needed regulations are implemented and enforced?" URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/3/123846/620 From news at resist.ca Sat Dec 4 08:09:09 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 16:09:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Peterborough as New Hub for DNA research Message-ID: <20041204160910.25850.qmail@resist.ca> "Go where the puck is going to be." - The Great One (Wayne Gretzky) These were the words of Denis Ferkany, president of the Greater Peterborough Region DNA Cluster, at the public forum organized to discuss the project three weeks ago. Proponents of the project believe that DNA technology will be of utmost importance in the future, and that the DNA cluster project will transform Peterborough into a hub of DNA research in North America. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/3/95053/4034 From prms at alternatives.com Fri Dec 3 12:25:05 2004 From: prms at alternatives.com (Press Release Media Service) Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 12:25:05 -0800 Subject: [news] Naturists Stand United Against UBC Towers Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.20041203122505.00af4100@mail.alternatives.com> http://www.alternatives.com/skisby/towers/wbps1203.pdf FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, December 3, 2004 NATURISTS STAND UNITED AGAINST UBC TOWERS Wreck Beach Preservation Society (WBPS) to Receive International Donations The international protest against threats to Wreck Beach has never been stronger or more unified. Steve Critchley, President of Western Canadian Association for Nude Recreation (W-CANR), will fly into Vancouver this weekend to present WBPS with a cheque covering donations from several American Association of Nude Recreation (AANR) clubs. Donations will also be presented from the Federation of Canadian Naturists (FCN), Pacific Canadian Association of Nudists (P-CAN), the Naturist Education Foundation (NEF), the Society for Okanagan Naturists (SOON), and South Florida Free Beaches (SFFB). These groups and many others represent sweeping solidarity from naturist groups and individuals internationally. Individuals who support keeping Wreck Beach both natural and au naturel, have deluged officials with letters opposing the proposed UBC Marine Residences project. Almost 500 letters opposing the project have been sent to GVRD and UBC officials. The International Naturist Federation based in Antwerp, Belgium which represents 33-million naturists, has sent a letter strongly censuring UBC's plan. As well, WBPS has gathered almost 21,500 petition signatures, not just from residents of the Lower Mainland, but also from individuals representing 62 countries, 47 states, and all provinces and territories. On November 22, 2004, UBC announced several proposed changes to its design, though it has not yet provided this revised design to WBPS for its review. Despite the changes, the Towers are going to remain visible from the beach. This conflicts with the GVRD Board's resolution opposing any development that "would compromise the historical viewscape and the privacy of Wreck Beach from all areas of exposed beach at low tide." WBPS, supported by naturists from around the world, remains opposed to buildings that will be visible from Wreck Beach. The Wreck Beach Preservation Society executive will be joined by the Pacific Spirit Park Society executive for this historic presentation in sight of the shame of UBC. The media are invited to join us in this historic event atop the Fraser Parkade, east of the first tower currently being constructed. Time: 11 a.m. Date: Sunday, Dec. 5, 2004. Location: Top floor above Lower Mall. Contacts: Judy Williams, Chair, WBPS, 604-856-9598, cell 604-308-6336 James Loewen, Vice-Chair, WBPS, 604-689-9697 Chris Rarinca, Treasurer, WBPS, 604-420-4742 Lara Tessaro, Legal Counsel, A. Cameron Ward & Co., 604-688-6881 Ed Chessor, President, PSPS, 604-224-0967 Steve Critchley, 604-788-3127 From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 5 08:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 16:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Former CIA Chief Calls for Controls on Internet Message-ID: <20041205160904.30346.qmail@resist.ca> "The way the Internet was built might be part of the problem, he said. Its open architecture allows Web surfing, but that openness makes the system vulnerable, Mr. Tenet said....Access to networks like the World Wide Web might need to be limited to those who can show they take security seriously, he said." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/3/154331/305 From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 5 08:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 16:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Yukon chiefs oppose ANWR drilling Message-ID: <20041205160904.30347.qmail@resist.ca> The Council of Yukon First Nations chiefs voted unanimously against any development in the refuge at a meeting Thursday. Linklater says Yukon First Nation chiefs understand the caribou have to come before U.S. oil interests. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/3/145312/888 From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 5 08:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 16:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] RAV project gets green light Message-ID: <20041205160905.30348.qmail@resist.ca> The TransLink board has voted to proceed with construction of the rapid transit line that will link downtown Vancouver with the airport and Richmond. The vote came a day after the provincial Treasury Board decided to kick in another $65 million to bridge a funding gap, bringing the total provincial commitment to $435 million. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/5/73215/6898 From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 5 08:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 16:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Police Beat Arabic Men for over 9 Minutes!! Update! Message-ID: <20041205160905.30349.qmail@resist.ca> Two Middle-Eastern men who were caught on video being beaten by police in Eugene Oregon will go to trial on December 7 to defend themselves against charges created after they refused to drop their case against the police. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/3/165411/255 From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 5 09:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 17:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Torture A-OK, says USA Message-ID: <20041205170904.7250.qmail@resist.ca> Evidence gained by torture can be used by the U.S. military in deciding whether to imprison a foreigner indefinitely at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as an enemy combatant, the government says. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/3/235347/378 From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 5 09:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 17:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Be careful what you read... Message-ID: <20041205170905.7249.qmail@resist.ca> This was no ordinary demonstration, for it involved not only the subject of the detention, Mr. Namini, but also the fear that must dwell within some if its participants. Indeed, an individual arrest has ripple effects which spread through a community. Mr. Namini is not the only suspicious one. It becomes every person who owns this book, every person associated with this book, everyone who knows someone who might own this book. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/3/14523/8740 From news at resist.ca Mon Dec 6 06:09:08 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 14:09:08 -0000 Subject: [news] 'They hate our policies, not our freedom' Message-ID: <20041206140908.5073.qmail@resist.ca> by Tom Regan [T]he US Defense Department confirmed the contents of a report by the Defense Science Board that is highly critical of the administration's efforts in the war on terror and in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. 'Muslims do not hate our freedom, but rather they hate our policies [the report says]. The overwhelming majority voice their objections to what they see as one-sided support in favor of Israel and against Palestinian rights, and the long-standing, even increasing, support for what Muslims collectively see as tyrannies, most notably Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Pakistan and the Gulf states. Thus, when American public diplomacy talks about bringing democracy to Islamic societies, this is seen as no more than self-serving hypocrisy.' URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/6/53040/6585 From news at resist.ca Mon Dec 6 06:09:08 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 14:09:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Toxic wildlife threatens health of Russian Inuit Message-ID: <20041206140908.5075.qmail@resist.ca> "If you eat seal or walrus, boil the meat and avoid eating the liver or fat. Better yet, eat arctic char or caribou. That's the advice from a new report on persistent organic pollutants, toxic substances which are in the northern food chain and, at high levels, can cause severe damage to human health." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/5/1508/49901 From news at resist.ca Mon Dec 6 06:09:08 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 14:09:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Clash of generations emerges in Palestinian race Message-ID: <20041206140908.5074.qmail@resist.ca> It may seem like an unlikely candidacy, but intifada leader Marwan Barghouthi's decision to run for the Palestinian presidency from his Israeli jail cell is turning a lackluster race into a potential battle of generations. It is also sending shockwaves through the ruling Fatah movement. Mr. Barghouthi's backers say his candidacy aims to underscore support for the continuation of armed attacks against Israeli settlers and soldiers alongside possible diplomacy, as opposed to Fatah candidate Mahmoud Abbas's call to end the armed intifada. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/4/22527/5459 From news at resist.ca Mon Dec 6 06:09:08 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 14:09:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Police Escalate Repression Against Anti-Poverty Committee Message-ID: <20041206140908.5076.qmail@resist.ca> "The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) has added to their number of arrests in their campaign against Anti-Poverty Committee (APC) members. During last week's demonstration against George Bush, APC member Jagdeep Mangat was arrested while walking away from the demo. A large number of officers detained Jagdeep when he was out of view of the crowd. He was held over night on an outstanding warrant dating back to May 8, 2004. The false charge is 'assaulting a police officer.'" URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/5/21859/2958 From news at resist.ca Mon Dec 6 06:09:08 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 14:09:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Skwelkwek'welt Update Message-ID: <20041206140909.5077.qmail@resist.ca> Part one: The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) is trying to put another railway in on Secwepemc land. The CPR workers found some of our ancestors in an ancestral burial ground and dug them up on Friday, November 19th, 2004. The elder's and traditional people got together and had a ceremony and the ancestors told them to rebury the remains at the original burial site. Part two: Sun Peaks Corp. and province stay charges against three Secwepemc Nationals URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/5/115753/074 From news at resist.ca Mon Dec 6 06:09:08 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 14:09:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Act Now to Stop the Deportation of an Iranian Activist! Message-ID: <20041206140909.5078.qmail@resist.ca> "Haleh Sahba is a 30-year old refugee claimant in Vancouver, Canada who is facing deportation to Iran on Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2004. Haleh has spent almost 3 years struggling with Immigration Canada, and like many refugees in the post 9/11 climate, her case was denied. Now, after 3 years of trying to build a life here, Immigration Canada, with less than one week notice, has booked a flight to deport her to Iran on Tuesday Dec 7, 2004 at 10:30 AM." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/5/175813/207 From news at resist.ca Tue Dec 7 08:09:09 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 16:09:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Very, Very Dirty Pictures Message-ID: <20041207160909.22907.qmail@resist.ca> You want explicit? You want raw and uncensored and free of media bias? Here you go. This is what you won't see in the paper. This is what you won't see on CNN or on MSNBC or CBS News or on any major media Web site anywhere and especially no goddamn way ever in hell will you see it within a thousand miles of Fox News. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/5/182716/890 From news at resist.ca Tue Dec 7 08:09:09 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 16:09:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Food Bank Etiquette Message-ID: <20041207160909.22906.qmail@resist.ca> There are many religious parables that say to "share" things you do not want, is not really sharing. For instance, a mom asks a kid to give some of their toys to a toy drive for the poor, and the kid brings a teddy bear missing an arm, and a truck with no wheels, etc. Then the mom sends the kid back to get a nice toy to give to the poor. Well, this same concept applies to food banks. Do not give food banks food that is so old you will not eat it. I talked to someone who saw a 1979 expiration date on a food package at a food bank recently! URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/6/143153/516 From news at resist.ca Tue Dec 7 08:09:09 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 16:09:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Leonard Peltier Statement on John Graham's Extradition Hearing. Message-ID: <20041207160910.22908.qmail@resist.ca> Tuesday-Friday, 10 am, 800 Smythe St. BC Supreme Court. Today in the BC Supreme Court in Vancouver the extradition hearing of John Graham began. The hearings are schedualed to take place for the next 2 weeks, though a decision could be made earlier. The US is seeking to extradite John Graham on an indictment for first degree murder of Anna Mae Aquash whose body was discovered in the remote badlands outside of Wanbli SD in 1976. Both John Graham and Anna Mae Aquash were members of the American Indian Movement, and were actively supporting Traditional Lakotas who were in the middle of a life and death struggle to protect sacred lands from uranium mining. In late 1976 Leonard Peltier, who was also active in AIM in SD in the 70's, was extradited from Vancouver, Canada for the murder of 2 FBI agents. He was convicted, and is still in prison despite the fact he has already served his time. It is now in court records that his extradition was based on fabricated evidence. Parallells between Peltier's and Graham's case, can be made. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/6/17738/0946 From news at resist.ca Tue Dec 7 08:09:10 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 16:09:10 -0000 Subject: [news] anti imperialists bomb hydro tower in Quebec Message-ID: <20041207160910.22912.qmail@resist.ca> "An explosive device was placed under a Hydro-Quebec pylon of the Radisson-Nicolet-Des Cantons power line, near the American border. Through this operation, we are making public our refusal to be silent witnesses to the waste and pillaging of our resources at the hands of the United States empire," said the statement, translated from French by CTV's Montreal bureau. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/6/221032/327 From news at resist.ca Tue Dec 7 08:09:09 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 16:09:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Update on Deportation of Iranian Activist Message-ID: <20041207160910.22909.qmail@resist.ca> Today, December 6th, a day Canada commemorates as a day of action and remembrance on violence against women, Immigration Canada has decided to deport a woman back to a country notorious for its dismal human rights record and on-going persecution of women. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/6/222437/632 From news at resist.ca Tue Dec 7 08:09:10 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 16:09:10 -0000 Subject: [news] 14 dead women, 15 years later Message-ID: <20041207160910.22911.qmail@resist.ca> By Heather Mallick Monday marks the 15th anniversary of the mass murder of 14 young women at the University of Montreal's ?cole Polytechnique. Dec. 6 is now called the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/7/72127/2514 From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 8 07:09:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 15:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] OPEC May Maintain Oil Production Quotas to Prevent Shortages Message-ID: <20041208150902.24870.qmail@resist.ca> The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is likely to keep production at a 25-year high to prevent shortages during the U.S. winter and lower prices, OPEC officials said. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/6/143431/189 From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 8 07:09:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 15:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Irish Republican Army Talks About Disarming Message-ID: <20041208150903.24871.qmail@resist.ca> "The Irish Republican Army has met the head of an independent disarmament body, despite fading hopes of a deal to restore Catholic (Republican)-Protestant (Loyalist) power sharing in Northern Ireland." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/8/04549/3934 From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 8 07:09:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 15:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Haida Nation gives permisson for wind farm test turbine Message-ID: <20041208150903.24873.qmail@resist.ca> By Leanne Ritchie | The Prince Rupert Daily News "The company which wants to install a large scale wind farm north of Haida Gwaii has made several steps forward in its agreements with the Council of the Haida Nation." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/8/61259/5747 From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 8 07:09:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 15:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Badges, banned cars & forced work for the military: Fallujah Message-ID: <20041208150903.24872.qmail@resist.ca> Under [US military] plans, troops would funnel Fallujans to so-called citizen processing centers on the outskirts of the city to compile a database of their identities through DNA testing and retina scans. Residents would receive badges displaying their home addresses that they must wear at all times. Buses would ferry them into the city, where cars, the deadliest tool of suicide bombers, would be banned. [Another idea being considered] would require all men to work, for pay, in military-style battalions. Depending on their skills, they would be assigned jobs in construction, waterworks, or rubble-clearing platoons. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/6/233346/378 From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 8 07:09:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 15:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Natives' Land Battles Bring a Shift in Canada Economy Message-ID: <20041208150903.24874.qmail@resist.ca> By Clifford Krauss | NYTimes "...[T]he Haida have become used to challenging the rich and powerful, and winning. Today they are in the vanguard of what appears to be a renaissance of Indian nations in Canada that legal scholars and others say could determine ultimate control over many resources vital to Canada's future, including oil, timber and diamonds." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/8/668/57048 From christoff at resist.ca Wed Dec 8 16:06:42 2004 From: christoff at resist.ca (Stefan Christoff) Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 16:06:42 -0800 (PST) Subject: [news] Electronic Intifada: The Ayoub Family - Ain el Hilweh in the heart of Montreal Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 15:40:15 -0800 (PST) From: No One is Illegal Montreal Electronic Intifada: Ain el Hilweh in the heart of Montreal Ali Abunimah writing from Montreal, Canada, {http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3411.shtml} I went to visit the Ayoub family while I was recently in Montreal. It was freezing cold and snow was falling as along with two activists with the Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees, I approached the side door to Notre-Dame-de-Gr??ce church. We found Khalil Ayoub huddled outside, smoking a cigarette. The small alley and adjacent yard are as far as any of the family can go without facing arrest by Canadian police. Khalil led us inside, down the steps to the basement, where church members were holding a rummage sale. We made our way through the tables of books and clothes and into the small room that has been the Ayoubs' world for almost one year. Khalil Ayoub, 67, his brother Nabih Ayoub, 69, and Nabih's wife Th??r??se Boulos Haddad, 62, sought sanctuary in the church after Immigration Canada issued a deporation order against them in January 2004. The Ayoub brothers were born in the village of Al-Bassa, near the port city of Akka, in northern Palestine. In 1948, when Israel was established in their country, they fled to Lebanon and over the years moved among several refugee camps, trying to escape the horrors of the Israeli invasion and the Lebanese civil war. In 2001, they obtained visas to the United States, and in April that year crossed into Canada and applied for refugee status. Stateless, with no passports and no where to go, their claim was rejected and they were ordered deported. This is when they sought refuge in the church. For many Palestinian refugees living underground in Montreal, the Ayoub family is a local symbol of the larger Palestinian refugee struggle, representing the fate of the forgotten majority of Palestinians in the world who live in diaspora, denied the right to return to their own country. Whether the Ayoubs and 100 other stateless Palestinians threatened with deportation will ever find a place they can call home and live in peace depends most immediately on whether Canada's Immigration minister will decide to regularize their status in Canada. I had always thought that Canada has been exemplary in upholding international human rights and humanitarian principles. But while I was there, Ahmed Nafaa, a stateless Palestinian, was deported to the United States to face an uncertain fate. What will become of the Ayoubs if they are deported? Who will take them in if Canada will not? What was so shocking and moving about the situation Ayoubs find themselves in, in their church basement room in Montreal, is how reminiscent it is of the conditions they fled in Lebanon's Ain el Hilweh refugee camp. The little room was like so many refugee homes I have visited in Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine. One room suffices for all the family functions: a home despite itself. All their clothes and belongings are meticulously stacked and ordered, sometimes covered with brightly printed cloths to hide any semblance of clutter. As we visited with the family, Th??r??se sat on a chair, shelling peas, while Nabih and Khalil joked and speculated on their future. When I told Nabih that my family is from a village in the West Bank, he told stories of people he knew from our area, describing moments of his life as if they had occurred yesterday. But all the stories he told occurred before 1948 -- before his life was incomprehensibly shattered into pieces that have yet to stop careening in unknown directions. He described the family's search for shelter after they heard about the deportation order -- the terror of not knowing what would happen to them from one hour to the next. After they came to the church, they found a certain tranquility, but no peace. As we sat and talked, Khalil got up, insisting on making us Arabic coffee, despite our protestations that he should not trouble himself. This gesture is the most commonplace among Palestinians, and it is also the most powerful. To offer someone coffee, to serve it with your own hands, is a way to say "welcome to my home." Ali Abunimah is a co-founder of The Electronic Intifada From news at resist.ca Thu Dec 9 08:09:09 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 16:09:09 -0000 Subject: [news] ACLU seeking FBI files on activist probes Message-ID: <20041209160910.14026.qmail@resist.ca> "Washington -- The American Civil Liberties Union is seeking information from the FBI on why bureau task forces set up to combat terrorism also looked into anti-war, animal rights and environmental groups." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/9/72242/3434 From news at resist.ca Thu Dec 9 08:09:09 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 16:09:09 -0000 Subject: [news] 20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA Message-ID: <20041209160910.14028.qmail@resist.ca> In a country where no matter who wins the election, they move further to the right each time, you might think that there would be no need to rig the vote. Here are 20 fun facts that show you might be wrong. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/9/71629/6171 From news at resist.ca Thu Dec 9 08:09:09 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 16:09:09 -0000 Subject: [news] New, Painful Task for Repatriation Committees Message-ID: <20041209160910.14030.qmail@resist.ca> "After a decade of work to repatriate ancestral remains from museums, the Old Massett and Skidegate repatriation committees have a new and painful task before them. An estimated 50,000 aboriginal children died in residential schools, and the committees decided to assist in the repatriation of their remains." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/9/71833/6104 From news at resist.ca Thu Dec 9 08:09:09 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 16:09:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Pentagon denounces Bush's "war on terror". Message-ID: <20041209160911.14031.qmail@resist.ca> "There is no yearning-to-be-liberated-by-the-US groundswell among Muslim societies - except to be liberated perhaps from what they see as apostate tyrannies that the US so determinedly promotes and defends." Rhetoric about freedom is received as "no more than self-serving hypocrisy", highlighted daily by the US occupation in Iraq." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/8/123643/194 From news at resist.ca Thu Dec 9 08:09:10 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 16:09:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Electronic Intifada: The Ayoub Family - Ain el Hilweh in the heart of Montreal Message-ID: <20041209160912.14032.qmail@resist.ca> "For many Palestinian refugees living underground in Montreal, the Ayoub family is a local symbol of the larger Palestinian refugee struggle, representing the fate of the forgotten majority of Palestinians in the world who live in diaspora, denied the right to return to their own country. Whether the Ayoubs and 100 other stateless Palestinians threatened with deportation will ever find a place they can call home and live in peace depends most immediately on whether Canada's Immigration minister will decide to regularize their status in Canada. I had always thought that Canada has been exemplary in upholding international human rights and humanitarian principles. But while I was there, Ahmed Nafaa, a stateless Palestinian, was deported to the United States to face an uncertain fate. What will become of the Ayoubs if they are deported? Who will take them in if Canada will not?" URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/8/161611/108 From news at resist.ca Thu Dec 9 08:09:10 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 16:09:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Puppet Dictator From Haiti to Visit Montreal this weekend Message-ID: <20041209160912.14033.qmail@resist.ca> Below is an announcement of a Montreal Conference to be held by the Chalabis of Haiti and their International sponsors in Canada on December 11 and 12, 2004. The same Canadian officials, who conspired to destroy Haiti's democracy with the forceful removal of Haiti's elected government, are currently in the process of following through with the international communities' ultimate plans to place Haiti under direct occupation with the pretext of an "international protectorate." To that end, Canadian foreign Minister Pierre Pettigrew is holding a meeting with the Chalabis of Haiti on December 10, 11, 2004. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/9/75323/2959 From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 10 07:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] US kills witnesses to its crimes--Naomi Klein Message-ID: <20041210150904.11996.qmail@resist.ca> David T Johnson, Acting ambassador, US Embassy, London Dear Mr Johnson, On November 26, your press counsellor sent a letter to the Guardian taking strong exception to a sentence in my column of the same day. The sentence read: "In Iraq, US forces and their Iraqi surrogates are no longer bothering to conceal attacks on civilian targets and are openly eliminating anyone--doctors, clerics, journalists-- who dares to count the bodies." Of particular concern was the word "eliminating." The letter suggested that my charge was "baseless" and asked the Guardian either to withdraw it or provide "evidence of this extremely grave accusation." It is quite rare for US embassy officials to openly involve themselves in the free press of a foreign country, so I took the letter extremely seriously. But while I agree that the accusation is grave, I have no intention of withdrawing it. Here, instead, is the evidence you requested. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/10/65014/152 From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 10 07:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Britain to host Mid-East peace summit Message-ID: <20041210150904.11995.qmail@resist.ca> "Britain has won American agreement to hold an international peace conference on the Middle East in London early next year. The meeting, planned for late January or early February, is likely to be attended by foreign ministers." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/9/72627/6161 From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 10 07:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Deported Refugee in Iranian Jail Message-ID: <20041210150904.11999.qmail@resist.ca> "From (Vancouver Airport) to a jail cell at the airport in Tehran: 30-year-old Haleh Sahba was deported by Immigration Canada, and now she's in jail." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/9/20019/9575 From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 10 07:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Fallujah napalmed Message-ID: <20041210150904.11997.qmail@resist.ca> "US troops are secretly using outlawed napalm gas to wipe out remaining insurgents in and around Fallujah. News that President George W. Bush has sanctioned the use of napalm, a deadly cocktail of polystyrene and jet fuel banned by the United Nations in 1980, will stun governments around the world." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/10/64322/206 From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 10 07:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 15:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Elves Burn luxury houses in Maryland Message-ID: <20041210150904.12000.qmail@resist.ca> INDIAN HEAD, Md. - "More than a dozen expensive homes under construction were burned down early Monday in a suburban Washington housing development that had been criticized by environmentalists because it is next to a nature preserve, officials said." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/9/145445/004 From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 10 07:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 15:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Refugees on hunger strike and camp-out in front of IRB offices in Montreal Message-ID: <20041210150905.12001.qmail@resist.ca> Members of the Human Rights Action Committee, a self-organized group of mainly Punjabi refugees, are maintaining a 4-day, 3-night rotating hunger strike outside the offices of the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) in Montreal. Protesters are camping outdoors in the sub-zero temperatures, and have burned documents to protest the "racist and incomptent" IRB. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/10/11351/503 From news at resist.ca Sat Dec 11 07:09:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 15:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Israeli Soldiers "Shoot Boy for Fun" Message-ID: <20041211150903.23919.qmail@resist.ca> "'I don't have the slightest doubt that (the killing of innocent Palestinian civilians) is a rampant phenomenon,' says Basim Eid, a former field researcher for the Israeli human-rights group, BTselem and head of the East Jerusalem-based Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group....'The Israeli army is no longer an army that abides by military ethics." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/10/22118/080 From news at resist.ca Sat Dec 11 07:09:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 15:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Permanent Anti-Globalization Office to Open in Venezuela Message-ID: <20041211150903.23920.qmail@resist.ca> "The World Forum of Intellectuals and Artists in Defense of Humanity closed yesterday with words from Argentine Nobel peace prize laureate, Adolfo Perez Esquivel and President Hugo Chavez [who] pledged to provide an office and resources in Venezuela to initiate a "network of networks" of social organizations and institutions around the world working to build alternative models of development in the face in globalization." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/11/6309/7423 From news at resist.ca Sat Dec 11 07:09:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 15:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] What Constitutes a Legitimate Target? Message-ID: <20041211150903.23921.qmail@resist.ca> "More than 50 years after the Geneva Conventions were drawn up to delimit the boundaries of warfare the arguments are still raging as to what constitutes a legitimate target....And nowhere have the divisions been more acutely exposed than in the continuing 'war on terror' (sic) where near daily atrocities have injected fresh urgency into the search for a consensus." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/10/215214/04 From news at resist.ca Sat Dec 11 07:09:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 15:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Global protests against Alcan mine in India Message-ID: <20041211150903.23922.qmail@resist.ca> "On December 1, 2004 in the Kashipur district in the state of Orissa, India, police violently attacked community members peacefully demonstrating against the construction of a mining road and a police barracks on their land. The more than 300 adivasis (indigenous peoples) and dalits (low caste) are part of a mass movement protesting the development of a bauxite mine and alumina plant that would lead to their forced displacement and the destruction of their sacred land. The Canadian aluminium company, Alcan Inc., is one of two partners in the project. At the demonstration, sixteen people, mostly women, were critically injured as police charged them with batons. They did not receive medical treatment, but rather were thrown in jail. Several other community leaders have been reported missing." Brook Thorndycraft and Tamara Herman URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/10/124022/70 From news at resist.ca Sat Dec 11 07:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Toxic tailings released as dam bursts - cover-ups continue Message-ID: <20041211150903.23926.qmail@resist.ca> "The leadership of the Nak'azdli First Nation learned through an unofficial source that on November 30, 2004, Teck Cominco's tailings pond dam at Pinchi Lake failed, resulting in untold amounts of toxic, mercury-laden effluent spilling into this fish-bearing lake." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/10/212819/16 From news at resist.ca Sat Dec 11 07:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Italy's 'disobbedienti' face full wrath of law Message-ID: <20041211150903.23923.qmail@resist.ca> "Italy faces what is widely seen as an assault on the right to demonstrate this week after it was announced that 13 members of a flamboyant, although non-violent, radical group are to be tried for 'crimes' which could put them behind bars for years." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/10/13285/278 From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 12 09:09:06 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 17:09:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Americans in Venezuela to support revolution Message-ID: <20041212170907.12745.qmail@resist.ca> Regarded by his opponents as an autocrat and demagogue, Chavez has become a magnet for North American progressives and other international political tourists. In addition to marginalizing the country's traditional elites and establishing health and social programs for the poor, he promises to use oil revenues garnered by the world's fifth largest petroleum exporter to reduce spiraling rates of poverty. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/11/122146/83 From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 12 09:09:07 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 17:09:07 -0000 Subject: [news] John Graham's lawyers fighting extradition. Message-ID: <20041212170907.12752.qmail@resist.ca> VANCOUVER - Lawyers for an ex-Yukoner wanted for murder in the United States are making a constitutional challenge to prevent their client from being extradited. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/11/114614/64 From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 12 09:09:06 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 17:09:06 -0000 Subject: [news] The Drugs of War: Getting High in the Green Zone Message-ID: <20041212170907.12748.qmail@resist.ca> "Afghanistan is once again one of the world's largest producers of opium and will probably remain so for a while. This factor alone increases the likelihood of...narcotics use (by U.S. military personnel). Adding to the easy availability of opium products is the increased stress of combat and life in a foreign culture. This is a combination that causes humans to look for an escape. Since there is no local alcohol, the prospect of an opium high could start looking pretty good to those soldiers so inclined...One can only wonder how long it will be before foreign soldiers discover this fact." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/11/171942/46 From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 12 09:09:06 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 17:09:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Federal Military Vehicles Torched In Virginia and Maryland Message-ID: <20041212170907.12747.qmail@resist.ca> "Fire officials in Montgomery and Fairfax counties are investigating several fires that have damaged or destroyed federal government vehicles outside military recruitment offices in the past week." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/12/74219/084 From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 12 09:09:07 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 17:09:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Whistleblower affidavit on rigging US e-vote Message-ID: <20041212170908.12751.qmail@resist.ca> "In stunning revelations set to rock the vote from Tallahassee to Capitol Hill - and perhaps even a bit further up Pennsylvania Avenue - a Florida computer programmer has now made remarkable claims in a detailed sworn affidavit...that he designed and built a "vote rigging" software program at the behest of then Florida Congressman, now US Congressman, Republican Tom Feeney of Florida's 24th Congressional District." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/12/8347/9840 From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 12 09:09:07 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 17:09:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Oil spreads off Alaska; 6 still missing Message-ID: <20041212170908.12749.qmail@resist.ca> Thousands of gallons of oil gushed from a broken freighter and fouled Unalaska Island beaches Thursday as hope dwindled for six of its crew who were lost the night before in the crash of a Coast Guard rescue helicopter. Daylight brought calmer seas to the rugged, rocky west shore of Unalaska, but revealed an ugly sight: A thick sheen of oil spreading hundreds of yards from the two halves of the vessel in all directions. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/12/8825/6774 From christoff at resist.ca Sun Dec 12 14:48:15 2004 From: christoff at resist.ca (Stefan Christoff) Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 14:48:15 -0800 (PST) Subject: [news] CKUT Radio: The Battle of Guadalajara Mexico - A Radio Documentary Message-ID: CKUT Radio: The Battle of Guadalajara Mexico - A Radio Documentary Listen to a radio documentary, on the May 2004 street demonstrations in Guadalajara Mexico against the 3rd Summit of the ALCUE, which gathered representatives from 25 European countries, joined by 33 of their Latin American and Caribbean counterparts. The closed-door negotiations of the ALCUE, regarding "free-trade" economic policies effecting more than 1 billion people, were confronted by thousands of demonstrators from throughout Mexico and the world. Ten years after NAFTA (the North American Free-Trade Agreement), the people of Mexico have experienced the devastating impacts of "free trade" economic policies. According to the government of Mexico, today 40 million people live below the poverty level, and 25 million in extreme poverty. In May 2004 the streets of Guadalajara were filled with a thousands of voices, who issued a resounding rejection of the ALCUE summit and the "free trade" economic model in North America, based on the exploitation of the people, cultures and lands of Mexico. The Guadalajara demonstrations, were faced with severe repression at the hands of the Mexican state, who mounted a police and state security forces operation to repress the popular demonstrations. Hundreds of demonstrators were rounded up, severely beaten, arrested and in certain cases tortured while in prison. This radio documentary provides an in-depth perspective on the demonstrations in Guadalajara and resistance movements to neo-liberal economic in Mexico and throughout Latin America. Featuring interviews with the Carlo Giuliani Caravan an anarchist group in Mexico City, the Guadalajara Indymedia Center, the Mexican Action Network Against Free Trade (REMALC), Agustin Pro Juarez Center for Human Rights in Mexico City and CLAC (the Anti-Capitalist Convergence of Montreal). To Listen / Download the Radio Documentary Visit: http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2004/12/3068.php This radio documentary was produced for CKUT Radio in Montreal by Fabian Duran of the Mexico City Indymedia Center and AIRE a video-activist collective in Mexico City (http://kloakas.com/aire) and Stefan Christoff of CKUT Radio in Montreal & CLAC (the Anti-Capitalist Convergence of Montreal - http://clac.taktic.org). For more Information on the May 2004 Guadalajara Demonstrations Visit Indymedia Guadalajara: http://guadalajara.mediosindependientes.org ----------------------- From news at resist.ca Mon Dec 13 07:09:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Venezuela Embraces Linux and Open Source Software Message-ID: <20041213150902.6731.qmail@resist.ca> "Venezuela's government is quickly moving towards the adoption of Open Source software, in a bid to save money and move towards technological independence. 'This follows the principle of national scientific independence, so that we do not depend on privately owned software. If knowledge does not have owners, then intellectual property is a trap set by neo-liberalism,' Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said last September when he announced to be working on a decree to adopt Open Source software in the public administration." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/12/74728/228 From news at resist.ca Mon Dec 13 07:09:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] "In Defense of the Humanity" New challenges of the Bolivarian Revolution Message-ID: <20041213150903.6732.qmail@resist.ca> Chavez calls for the "internationaliz[ation of] the Bolivarian Revolution" at Worldwide conference of intellectuals and artists "In Defense of the Humanity" "It is no exaggeration to affirm that the initiative is a sign of the radicalization of the process of deep transformations in the path making Venezuela the showcase for a class struggle that the world has not known since the Russian Revolution of 1917." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/12/225214/41 From news at resist.ca Mon Dec 13 07:09:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] 5,000 Desertions and Counting Message-ID: <20041213150903.6733.qmail@resist.ca> "[The] army of 150,000 in Iraq has so far experienced 5000 desertions--an astonishing rate of 3.3 percent. That's remarkable, considering how hard it must be to desert in that environment. In Vietnam, you could hide out in a Saigon brothel, or, as some soldiers did, melt into the jungle, turn yourself over to the VC, and get smuggled north to North Vietnam and eventually Russia or even Sweden. The options in Iraq aren't so good..." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/12/8402/4382 From news at resist.ca Mon Dec 13 07:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] CKUT Radio: The Battle of Guadalajara Mexico - A Radio Documentary Message-ID: <20041213150903.6735.qmail@resist.ca> Listen to a radio documentary, on the May 2004 street demonstrations in Guadalajara Mexico against the 3rd Summit of the ALCUE, which gathered representatives from 25 European countries, joined by 33 of their Latin American and Caribbean counterparts. The closed-door negotiations of the ALCUE, regarding "free-trade" economic policies effecting more than 1 billion people, were confronted by thousands of demonstrators from throughout Mexico and the world. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/12/151437/94 From news at resist.ca Mon Dec 13 07:09:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] "Somewhere out there, a night bird cries." Message-ID: <20041213150903.6734.qmail@resist.ca> "For thousands of years the Poplar River First Nation, an Ojibway Indian tribe in Manitoba, crossed this water quietly, ever so quietly, not a sound, paddles slipped into the water as if they were slicing clouds. Bruce is wondering why others don't believe -- can't believe that building a road into this forest opens the path to its destruction, that cutting down the trees to make pulp into toilet paper seems wasteful. Why companies with their bottom lines and consumers with their insatiable needs don't think of the trees as having voices and the animals living in them as having souls." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/12/83716/677 From news at resist.ca Mon Dec 13 07:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Haiti Dictator Met with Protest in Montreal Message-ID: <20041213150903.6736.qmail@resist.ca> December 12, 2004 | by Dru Oja Jay, The Dominion Latortue Visit Provokes Protest Montreal Haitians ask Canadians and Quebecois(es) for Solidarity MONTREAL, Dec 11 -- "Latortue assassin, Paul Martin complice". This easy-to-translate chant was the charge of choice of a lively group of 100 members of the Montreal Haitian diaspora--some coming from the Ottawa, Toronto, and the United States--who staged a lively, loud four hour protest outside of Montreal's Centre Mont Royal on Saturday. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/12/102618/06 From news at resist.ca Tue Dec 14 08:09:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Palestinian Plurality/Israeli Exceptionalism [...] Message-ID: <20041214160906.32743.qmail@resist.ca> When the al-Aqsa intifada broke out on 29 September 2000, after Israeli police killed Palestinian worshippers and protestors during Sharon's provocative visit to Haram al-Sharif (Temple Mount), the Palestinians of 1948 spontaneously organized solidarity actions, marches and general strikes. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/13/233311/28 From news at resist.ca Tue Dec 14 08:09:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] WTO to open membership talks with Iraq Message-ID: <20041214160906.32744.qmail@resist.ca> Monday, December 13/04 | Associated Press | Geneva The World Trade Organization decided Monday to open membership talks with Iraq. The WTO's ruling General Council agreed by consensus to accept Iraq's application, trade officials said, thus starting the lengthy negotiations on terms for the country's joining the 148-country organization that sets the rules for global commerce. Iraqi Trade Minister Mohammed Mustafa al-Jibouri hailed the move, saying it was as significant as last month's decision by the Paris Club of creditor nations to write off 80 per cent of Iraq's debts. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/13/233356/10 From news at resist.ca Tue Dec 14 08:09:06 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:09:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Italy police face G8 raid trial Message-ID: <20041214160906.32746.qmail@resist.ca> Italian police accused of violence during a raid against protesters at the G8 summit in Genoa in 2001 must stand trial, a judge has ruled. Several senior officers are among 28 police charged with lying, slander and complicity to seriously harm protesters at the Diaz school in the city. It was being used by anti-globalisation protesters as a base at the time. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/13/185556/36 From news at resist.ca Tue Dec 14 08:09:06 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:09:06 -0000 Subject: [news] U.S. Congressman Blasts Bush Administration for Handling of Venezuela Coup Message-ID: <20041214160906.32745.qmail@resist.ca> "Newly declassified intelligence documents show that the Bush Administration was blatantly deceptive when it denied knowing about coup threats and downplayed the role that dissident military officers played in carrying out the coup against President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela on April 11, 2002, said Congressman Jose E. Serrano (D-NY) today through a press release." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/12/8414/3884 From news at resist.ca Tue Dec 14 08:09:06 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:09:06 -0000 Subject: [news] A pox on both Campbells Message-ID: <20041214160907.32751.qmail@resist.ca> by Charles Demers With the fortnight-old death of Canada's leading myth-maker, Pierre Berton - who somehow rendered heroic the construction of a railway that proved, more than anything, that the easiest way to steal Indian land is to scatter Chinese corpses across it - the time for fantastical legends seems to be coming to an end. In Vancouver, another unreal fairy tale, the marriage of convenience between the thuggish cop-cum-mayor palooka Larry Campbell and the city's left-leaning municipal machine COPE, seems to be coming to a close, with the man once surreally referred to as "The People's Campbell" set to announce any day now his decision to run as an independent mayoral candidate with a "team" of community leaders. READ MORE AT http://sevenoaksmag.com/commentary/43_comm1.html URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/14/3122/9778 From news at resist.ca Tue Dec 14 08:09:06 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:09:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Fredericton Anti Poverty Organization warns government to keep hands off Message-ID: <20041214160907.32750.qmail@resist.ca> "The Fredericton Anti-Poverty Organization is warning the Lord government to keeps its hands off an amendment to the NB Human Rights Act that [would not] allow welfare recipients to live together after January 1st." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/14/73824/626 From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 15 08:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 16:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Hyping terror for fun, profit--and power Message-ID: <20041215160904.22580.qmail@resist.ca> WHAT IF there really was no need for much--or even most--of the Cold War? What if, in fact, the Cold War had been kept alive for two decades based on phony WMD threats? What if, similarly, the War On Terror was largely a scam, and the administration was hyping it to seem larger-than- life? What if our "enemy" represented a real but relatively small threat posed by rogue and criminal groups well outside the mainstream of Islam? What if that hype was done largely to enhance the power, electability, and stature of George W. Bush and Tony Blair? And what if the world was to discover the most shocking dimensions of these twin deceits--that the same men promulgated them, both in the 1970s and today? It happened. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/14/185546/17 From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 15 08:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 16:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Deaths reported as UN enters Haiti slum Message-ID: <20041215160905.22581.qmail@resist.ca> December 14, 2004 | Haiti Information Project (HIP) Port au Prince, Haiti(HIP)- Sustained and heavy gunfire erupted in the pro-Aristide slum of Cite Soleil at about 3 a.m. this morning and was followed by an incursion into the area by hundreds of Brazilian and Jordanian troops of the United Nations. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/14/17914/244 From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 15 08:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 16:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Abbas calls for end to armed uprising Message-ID: <20041215160905.22583.qmail@resist.ca> "Jerusalem (AP) - The armed uprising against Israel is a mistake and must end, interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said in an interview published Tuesday, signalling his determination to change direction after Yasser Arafat's death." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/14/18399/204 From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 15 08:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 16:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Montreal artist arrested Message-ID: <20041215160905.22585.qmail@resist.ca> If you are familliar with this picture, then you have probably been in Montreal recently and may be interested to know that Roadsworth, the artist responsible for all that wonderful street art, is being charged with 85 counts of public mischief. There is a possibility that he could see jail time. In a similar case in Montreal from a few years ago, an artist received a fine of $50,000 and 300 hours of community service. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/14/18329/919 From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 15 08:09:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 16:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Justin Goodman Sentenced to 90 Days in Jail Message-ID: <20041215160905.22589.qmail@resist.ca> "On December 8, in B.C. Supreme Court, Justin Goodman was sentenced to 90 days in jail for his role in an anti-deportation action at Vancouver Airport almost 2 years ago. Previously, Justin had been convicted of 'assault on a peace officer' and 'assisting escape from lawful custody' (an additional charge of 'obstruction' was stayed)." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/14/16347/644 From news at resist.ca Thu Dec 16 07:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] U.S. Missile Defense Test Fails Message-ID: <20041216150904.26475.qmail@resist.ca> The first test in nearly two years of a multibillion-dollar U.S. anti-missile shield failed on Wednesday when the interceptor missile shut down as it prepared to launch in the central Pacific, the Pentagon said. The Pentagon is spending $10 billion a year on the project in which Boeing Co. is the prime contractor. Key subcontractors are Northrop Grumman Corp., for battle management; Raytheon Co., for the kill vehicle; and Lockheed Martin Corp. and Orbital Sciences Corp., which build the booster rockets. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/15/101535/24 From news at resist.ca Thu Dec 16 07:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] UNICEF report blames governments for permanent damage to children Message-ID: <20041216150904.26474.qmail@resist.ca> LONDON, England (AP) -- "More than half the world's children are suffering the effects of poverty, war and HIV/AIDS, denying them a healthy and safe childhood, UNICEF's annual report said Thursday. The United Nations children's fund report on The State of the World's Children found more than 1 billion children were growing up hungry and unhealthy, schools had become targets for warring parties and whole villages were being killed off by AIDS." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/16/63618/632 From news at resist.ca Thu Dec 16 07:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Iraqi resistance group appeals to US people, US GIs Message-ID: <20041216150904.26476.qmail@resist.ca> "Over two million innocents died waiting for a light at the end of a tunnel that only ended with the occupation of our country and the theft of our resources. After the crimes of the administrations of the U.S and Britain inIraq, we have chosen our future. The future of every resistance struggle ever in the history of man." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/16/62444/246 From news at resist.ca Thu Dec 16 07:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Paul Martin reveals Canada's foreign policy future: Imperialism Message-ID: <20041216150905.26480.qmail@resist.ca> by Roger Annis | December 15, 2004 Paul Martin was interviewed last night (December 13) on As It Happens. It was a wide-ranging interview which focused on Martin's intended direction for Canadian foreign policy. He began the interview with this thought: "Foreign policy isn't only something you study. Foreign policy is something you do." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/15/154913/25 From news at resist.ca Thu Dec 16 07:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Wake up and smell the ota Message-ID: <20041216150904.26479.qmail@resist.ca> MNN. Dec. 4, 2004. "Kanehsatake's peace and security have been threatened again. James Gabriel is back on the territory to 'force through a biased election', as Arihwakehte (Clifton Nicholas) observed." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/16/61046/502 From news at resist.ca Thu Dec 16 07:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Work without bosses: Zanon workers take over factory in Argentina Message-ID: <20041216150904.26478.qmail@resist.ca> "Argentine workers have stuck two fingers up at the bosses and are running their factory for themselves at the Zanon plant after the owner closed it down claiming it wasn't making enough profit. But since the occupation the cooperative has taken on 50% more workers and production levels have increased threefold. The occupied factory is a success story in a country where the US-driven neoliberalist project has dramatically crashed and burned." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/15/92645/943 From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 17 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] The White Elephant in the Room: Race and Election 2004 Message-ID: <20041217140903.19955.qmail@resist.ca> by Bob Wing, Special to United for Peace and Justice Many spin doctors would have us believe that the story of the 2004 election turns on evangelicals and moral values, the better to advance their rightwing agenda in both the Democratic and Republican parties, not to speak of the halls of power. But an examination of the exit polls shows something very different (though not at all new): the centrality of race in U.S. politics. The bad news is that the Republicans, trumpeting their program of aggressive war and racism, swung the election by increasing their share of the white vote to 58 percent. This represents a four-point gain over 2000; a 12-point gain over 1996 and a grim 18-point gain over 1992. The good news is that people of color--African Americans, Latinos, Native peoples, Asian Americans and Arab Americans--surged to the polls in unprecedented numbers and voted overwhelmingly in opposition to the Bush agenda despite an unprecedented Republican attempt to intimidate them. People of color constituted about 35 percent of new voters and, despite their dazzling diversity, showed uncommon political unity. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/16/164441/13 From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 17 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Let Food Be Thy Medicine This Flu Season Message-ID: <20041217140903.19957.qmail@resist.ca> Hippocrates, the person the Hippocratic Oath that doctors take is named after, said, "Let food be your medicine, and medicine be your food." There is profound wisdom in that simple phrase. Modern Americans do not eat enough whole grains, fruits, and vegetables, even amidst the cheap abundance of such foods. But added to that, is the eating of foods that actually tax the system and lessen immunity, such as fast foods with little to no nutritional content. These foods take energy from the body to digest and give little back in return, depleting vitamins, not building them up. We also have a problematic, profit-driven health care crisis in America. From scheduled C-section births in conveyor belt succession, to doctors receiving drug company kickbacks, American health care is often lacking integrity. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/16/145744/46 From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 17 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Mob rule? No, just disobedient Message-ID: <20041217140903.19958.qmail@resist.ca> The Globe And Mail | Comment | A27 | Thursday 16 December 2004 Laboratories for lawlessness, mob rule, violence veto - McGill professor Gil Troy's hyberbolic rant last week in these pages about Montreal's cancellation of talks by Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, Jean Charest and Paul Cellucci invokes images of riot and mayhem that threaten a breakdown of civilization at the hands of unruly savages. The constabulary must be called in to restore order, the establishment must exert itself. Prof. Troy seems to be lost in a colonial past - or is it a colonial present? Does he dream of America establishing order, Fallujah-style, in Montreal? Or Israel, the way it has in Rafah? URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/16/142123/65 From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 17 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] On the trail of a trafficked child Message-ID: <20041217140904.19959.qmail@resist.ca> By Louisa Lim | BBC correspondent in Kunming In a poor district in the southern city of Kunming, children play beside heaps of gravel left by construction crews. The scene brings back painful memories for Li Qifang and his wife, Pu Caiju. More than two years ago their four-year-old son was playing outside their house when he was abducted. They have not seen him since. The couple now fear their son was abducted by a baby trafficking ring. Buying and selling children is illegal in China, but child trafficking may be on the rise. A traditional preference for sons, combined with family planning restrictions limiting families to one child, have created a particularly strong market for boys. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/16/21587/076 From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 17 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Venezuela: Changing the World by Taking Power Message-ID: <20041217140904.19962.qmail@resist.ca> "You cannot change the world without taking power, that is the example of Venezuela. Chavez is improving the lives of ordinary people, and that's why it's difficult to topple him--otherwise he would be toppled. So it's something that people in the Global Justice movement have to understand, this is serious politics. It's pointless just chanting slogans, because for the ordinary people on whose behalf you claim to be fighting getting an education, free medicine, cheap food is much much more important than all the slogans put together." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/16/133854/12 From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 17 06:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] COPE's Gang of Four Revolutionizes Party Message-ID: <20041217140904.19964.qmail@resist.ca> "Mayor Larry Campbell has chosen to fight for control of the centre-left party he joined two years ago, rather than leaving it to run on his own. Campbell announced Tuesday that he and three other councillors will form an independent caucus inside the Coalition of Progressive Electors." Intro: Vancouver Sun | Frances Bula Story: Georgia Straight | charlie smith URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/16/114339/66 From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 17 06:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Employees of Alcan Indian venture intimidate and harass in Kashipur Message-ID: <20041217140905.19965.qmail@resist.ca> Montreal, December 16th, 2004 Today, a solidarity group called Alcan't in India held a demonstration in front of Alcan's Montreal headquarters to commemorate the killings of three anti-mining villagers four years ago. Meanwhile an independent report from India shows that goons, who have been on Alcan's payroll for the last three years, have attacked various delegations attempting to enter the region to observe and report on the commemorations occurring in Kashipur. "Just before the Montreal demonstration, we received a report from Sudhir Pattnaik an independent journalist of Orissa who has been covering breaking news from Kashipur, that 7000 local peoples congregated to commemorate the December 2000 shootings and again proclaim their clear anti-mining stance," said Alcan't in India spokesperson Abhimanyu Sud "This is despite massive police presence, which has set up checkpoints throughout Kashipur restricting almost all movement and communications within, to and from the area. This police intimidation is a conscious program of the state in support of UAIL's proposed mine and refinery, in which Alcan has a 45% share" URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/16/214428/94 From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 17 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] British terror measure ruled illegal Message-ID: <20041217140904.19960.qmail@resist.ca> London -- Britain's highest court ruled Thursday that the government cannot detain terror suspects indefinitely without trial. Nine judges in the House of Lords ruled in favour of a group of men jailed without charge for up to three years whose lawyers say their detention is incompatible with their human rights. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/16/17447/527 From news at resist.ca Sat Dec 18 08:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 16:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Fidel Speech Awarding Chavez Order of 'Carlos Manuel de Cespedes' Message-ID: <20041218160903.17364.qmail@resist.ca> Remarks by Dr. Fidel Castro Ruz, President of Cuba, at a ceremony to present the Order of "Carlos Manuel de Cespedes" to Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias, President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, on the 10th anniversary of his first visit to Cuba, at the Karl Marx theater on December 14, 2004. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/17/12434/986 From news at resist.ca Sat Dec 18 09:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 17:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Public Defenders Need to Go On Strike Message-ID: <20041218170904.26393.qmail@resist.ca> The situation with underfunded public defenders, and plea bargains being thrown around more often than not, with poor people caught in the mix, denied the rights given them legally, to fair and proper representation, needs to stop. Now. This is no longer a situation where public defenders can stand around and keep pointing fingers at those funding them, usually the state. At a certain point, public defenders become accomplices in these crimes against the poor of inadequate, insufficient, incomprehensible, defense for serious crimes in America's Criminal Justice System. Something must be done and I think what needs to be done is Public Defenders need to go on strike. Seriously. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/16/15749/203 From news at resist.ca Sat Dec 18 09:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 17:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Consequences of the ' forgotten' war: Korea Message-ID: <20041218170904.26394.qmail@resist.ca> The media claim that North Korea is trying to obtain and use weapons of mass destruction. Yet the United States, which opposes this strategy, has used or threatened to use such weapons in northeast Asia since the 1940s, when it did drop atomic bombs on Japan. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/16/152846/87 From news at resist.ca Sat Dec 18 09:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 17:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Climate change hits bottom line Message-ID: <20041218170904.26395.qmail@resist.ca> http://news.bbc.co.uk/ - Deccember 17,2004 The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has announced that 2004 is expected to be the fourth warmest year worldwide since records began. And the insurance industry says this year will face unprecedented claims for damage from weather-related disasters. Both sets of figures were released as ministers from 180 countries heard a message from the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan urging an end to doubts and delays on action to combat climate change. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/17/91249/737 From news at resist.ca Sat Dec 18 09:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 17:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] EnCana Funds Facility for Workerbees in Training Message-ID: <20041218170905.26396.qmail@resist.ca> EnCana (Energy Canada) has donated $500 000 to Medicine Hat College so that there will be workers skilled in the resource sector, where EnCana expects a major boom. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/17/192910/07 From news at resist.ca Sat Dec 18 09:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 17:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Israel prepares to demolish 60,000 Palestinian homes Message-ID: <20041218170905.26397.qmail@resist.ca> Palestinian sources reported today that the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon plans to demolish 60,000 Palestinian houses. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/16/19295/283 From news at resist.ca Sat Dec 18 09:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 17:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] A Canadian anarchist website for kids shut down Message-ID: <20041218170905.26398.qmail@resist.ca> An anarchist website for kids has been shut down by the hosting company "Netfirms Inc", based in Toronto, ON. According to QMAC, the site was shut down at the request of the American police. If anyone has information on how to contact the group who published the site, please ask them to contact us as we may be interested in hosting them. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/16/143257/72 From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 19 08:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 16:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] How Do You Drive Out a Union? Message-ID: <20041219160903.22835.qmail@resist.ca> Mr. Brown, a longtime maintenance man, acknowledged that a mysterious consultant known as Mr. X had advised him on how to oust the union and had helped him write fliers that called the union's leaders names like "trailer trash," "Uncle Tom" and "dog woman." Not only that, Mr. Brown testified that envelopes filled with cash had often been sent to his home. He said he had no idea who had sent them. "I don't look a gift horse in the mouth," he said. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/18/17121/229 From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 19 08:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 16:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Palestine: Lessons in Popular Resistance Message-ID: <20041219160903.22834.qmail@resist.ca> We are all Ahmed Awwad Lessons in Popular Resistance by Kobi Snitz; December 15, 2004 - Znet In his book "stupid white men" Michael Moore, includes an open letter to Arafat, instructing him in the principles of non violence. Moore assures Arafat that when such an approach can not fail and, when taken, it will have a million potential Israeli supporters amongst those who attend 'peace now' rallies. Moore seems sincere in his support for Palestinian rights but he must have known that such a letter reinforces the idea that Palestinian political under-development is responsible for their misery. Quite apart from the obscenity of criticizing our victims, Moore also distorts history by giving the impression that Palestinian resistance has been restricted to terror attacks. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/16/16493/514 From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 19 08:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 16:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] US uses Africans and US orphans as guinea pigs for AIDS drugs testing Message-ID: <20041219160904.22842.qmail@resist.ca> In the first story (posted by Yang), South Africa's ruling party has accused top U.S. officials of "conspir[ing]" with a German drug firm and treating Africans like guinea pigs amid questions over testing of a key HIV/AIDS drug before a U.S.-backed roll-out of the treatment across the continent. In the second story (posted by Fern), mostly black or hispanic orphans in NYC were treated with experimental AIDS drugs without their knowledge or the knowledge of their caregivers. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/19/74313/756 From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 19 08:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 16:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Nova Scotia man half-way through pledge not to spend any money for a year Message-ID: <20041219160904.22845.qmail@resist.ca> ANNAPOLIS ROYAL, N.S. - Almost six months into a year-long pledge to live without spending any money, a man in Nova Scotia says he's busily crafting Christmas gifts for friends and family. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/16/171815/25 From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 19 08:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 16:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Almost Half of Americans Favor Restrictions on Muslims' Rights Message-ID: <20041219160904.22837.qmail@resist.ca> The survey found 44 percent favored at least some restrictions on the civil liberties of Muslim Americans. Forty-eight percent said liberties should not be restricted in any way. The survey showed that 27 percent of respondents supported requiring all Muslim-Americans to register where they lived with the federal government. Twenty-two percent favored racial profiling to identify potential terrorist threats. And 29 percent thought undercover agents should infiltrate Muslim civic and volunteer organizations to keep tabs on their activities and fund-raising. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/18/111334/21 From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 19 08:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 16:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Fidel and =?utf-8?q?Ch=C3=A1vez?= promote Bolivarian alternative for the Americas Message-ID: <20041219160904.22844.qmail@resist.ca> PRESIDENTS Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro have signed two documents that constitute the highest expression of the unity of the will of both governments to increase the range of cooperation and bilateral relations in general: a joint declaration and a agreement for the application of the Bolivarian Aleternative for the Americas (ALBA). URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/18/14166/379 From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 19 08:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 16:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Inuits to Sue U.S. Over Global Warming Message-ID: <20041219160904.22846.qmail@resist.ca> "The Inuit, about 155,000 seal-hunting peoples scattered around the Arctic, plan to seek a ruling from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that the United States, by contributing substantially to global warming, is threatening their existence." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/16/12942/452 From news at resist.ca Mon Dec 20 06:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 14:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] My Case Against Pinochet Message-ID: <20041220140904.23287.qmail@resist.ca> "When I read that Gen. Augusto Pinochet, the 89-year-old former leader of Chile, had been placed under house arrest earlier this week and declared competent to stand trial for his many crimes, it was no abstract issue for me." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/19/18935/294 From news at resist.ca Mon Dec 20 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Gaza Strip Military Occupation - Canadian Complicity Message-ID: <20041220140904.23284.qmail@resist.ca> listen to an interview with mohamed omar, an independet palestinian journalist, about the canadian government's relationship to the internationally condemned Israeli military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/19/121521/97 From news at resist.ca Mon Dec 20 06:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 14:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Companero Bob Everton, Presente! Message-ID: <20041220140905.23288.qmail@resist.ca> "I write these words with immense consternation, and feeling of loss. A few days ago our community lost one of its most dedicated activist and revolutionary, Bob Everton." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/19/142127/10 From news at resist.ca Mon Dec 20 19:09:06 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 03:09:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Memorials to Bob Everton Message-ID: <20041221030906.5215.qmail@resist.ca> Please join us in celebrating the life and contribution that Bob Everton made to our community. There are two memorials for Bob I would like to draw the attention of interested people to - one virtual, the other physical: Please visit http://memorial.resist.ca to share with others around the world your thoughts and family well-wishes. We will ensure that messages are printed out and brought to Bob's memorial on Thursday night for sharing with his family and friends. To post to this site, please scroll down the left-hand side and create an account with which to access the writing area. If you have photos you want to post in a digital format but aren't sure how - please contact me (megan at resist.ca) and i will help you with that. A Memorial for Bob Everton will take place - Thursday, December 23rd PM - Glenhaven Memorial Chapel (1835 East Hastings) PM - Wake at the WISE Hall - 1882 Adanac The family are asking people to bring photos and stories about Bob to the WISE to be posted on posterboard. They want this information widely disseminated. Peace be with all of you.... URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/20/184859/07 From news at resist.ca Tue Dec 21 10:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 18:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] When he eats little, she eats less Message-ID: <20041221180903.10741.qmail@resist.ca> Developing countries' crippling debt hits women hardest. And the policies of the IMF and World Bank make matters worse Noreena Hertz | The Guardian URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/16/17582/626 From news at resist.ca Tue Dec 21 10:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 18:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Israeli President Unveils Plan For 'World Knesset' Message-ID: <20041221180904.10742.qmail@resist.ca> JERUSALEM -- "Israel's government took its first public step last week toward the formal creation of an international Jewish "parliament," whose purpose would be to represent Diaspora Jews in the formation of Israeli government policies that have potential impact on Jewish life in other countries." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/19/02245/612 From news at resist.ca Tue Dec 21 10:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 18:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Twelve Myths About Direct Action Message-ID: <20041221180904.10744.qmail@resist.ca> Direct action--that is, any kind of action that bypasses established political channels to accomplish objectives directly--has a long and rich heritage in North America, extending back to the Boston Tea Party and beyond. Despite this, there are many misunderstandings about it, in part due to the ways it has been misrepresented in the corporate media. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/20/21559/320 From news at resist.ca Tue Dec 21 10:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 18:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Residential School Victims' suffering irrelevant: Ottawa Message-ID: <20041221180904.10745.qmail@resist.ca> "After months of negotiation, victims of abuse at an Indian residential school in the Yukon are being told their claims are invalid. Federal officials have determined students of the Baptist Mission School in Whitehorse are not eligible for government compensation." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/20/8449/0377 From news at resist.ca Tue Dec 21 10:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 18:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Aboriginal leaders push for devolution progress Message-ID: <20041221180905.10747.qmail@resist.ca> "Earlier this week, Prime Minister Paul Martin renewed his commitment to devolve powers to northern governments, but aboriginal leaders say they've heard enough talk." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/19/191959/48 From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 22 08:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 16:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Rocket Hits U.S. Base in Iraq, Killing 22 Message-ID: <20041222160903.11409.qmail@resist.ca> BAGHDAD, Iraq - "A 122 mm rocket slammed into a mess tent Tuesday at a military base near the northern city of Mosul, ripping through the ceiling and spraying shrapnel as U.S. soldiers sat down to lunch. Officials said 22 people were killed in the deadliest single attack against Americans in Iraq since the start of the war." [ED: Below this story is a comparison article to show the change in spin the corporate media applied as they rewrote history.] URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/22/0645/7478 From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 22 08:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 16:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Happy Sixty-Fifth Birthday; Now Get Back to Work! Message-ID: <20041222160904.11410.qmail@resist.ca> "One of the most important far-left ideas floating around in the 1980s was the critique of modern wage-slavery, as articulated by the Zerowork group and a host of anarchist essayists, most notably Bob Black, author of 'The Abolition of Work.' The argument went like this: While ultra-rationalized production, technological progress, and general abundance were supposed to have created a society of leisure and plenitude, the vast majority of people in the West are in fact still forced to spend half their waking hours chained to a desk, with their every movement monitored by managers and computers, and only short measured breaks for lunch, until they're finally set free at age sixty-five....Well, all that's changed now." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/22/15249/704 From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 22 08:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 16:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Venezuala Cuba Trade Agreement Message-ID: <20041222160904.11413.qmail@resist.ca> "For one party, President Hugo Chavez Frias, in the name of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and, for the other, the President of the Council of State of the Republic of Cuba, Fidel Castro Ruz, in the name of the Republic of Cuba, meeting in Havana on December 14, 2004 [...] have examined the possibility of extending and modifying the Comprehensive Cooperation Convention between Cuba and Venezuela signed on October 30, 2000." Details of the agreement follow. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/21/161221/11 From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 22 08:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 16:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Iraq's communists join election race Message-ID: <20041222160905.11414.qmail@resist.ca> The communists, Iraq's oldest political party, have submitted a list of 257 candidates drawn from all sectors of Iraqi society and united under one banner, newspapers said. "The Union of the People list includes personalities of all faiths and all communities," party secretary Hamid Majid Musa told the daily Al-Madaa, without saying who would head the new group. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/18/1848/3927 From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 22 08:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 16:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] U.S. law 'threatens Canada's secrets' Message-ID: <20041222160905.11421.qmail@resist.ca> "Highly sensitive personal, military and national security information held by the Canadian government is accessible to U.S. authorities under the Patriot Act, according to a document obtained Friday." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/22/22112/175 From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 22 08:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 16:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Native people struggle to save shellmounds Message-ID: <20041222160905.11415.qmail@resist.ca> "Indigenous people of the California Bay Area recently held three events focused on the struggle to preserve their ancient burial grounds, the shellmounds, from real estate development." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/21/163144/14 From news at resist.ca Thu Dec 23 08:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 16:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Poll: Americans' support for Iraq War continues to slip Message-ID: <20041223160904.1696.qmail@resist.ca> "Washington (Reuters) - A majority of Americans now say the war in Iraq was not worth fighting, a view that has driven down the ratings of President Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll released on Monday." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/21/163633/87 From news at resist.ca Thu Dec 23 08:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 16:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Toward a anti-Authoritarian Islam Message-ID: <20041223160904.1697.qmail@resist.ca> A personal apologia from a european Muslim on Islam and Anarchist principles URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/22/122722/06 From news at resist.ca Thu Dec 23 08:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 16:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] A Left Hook Interview with Stan Goff Message-ID: <20041223160904.1698.qmail@resist.ca> Recently, Left Hook co-editor M. Junaid Alam was able to fire off some questions to Stan Goff, a former US Special Forces Master Sergeant with more than two decades of military experience who is now heavily involved in anti-war work with Military Families Speak Out and the Bring Them Home Now campaign, and is also the author of Full Spectrum Disorder and Hideous Dream. Below, he offers his sharp insights on recent tactical, military, and political developments taking place in Iraq, discusses the very real signs of growing discontent within the armed forces, and what the anti-war movement should do about it. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/23/72242/667 From news at resist.ca Thu Dec 23 08:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 16:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Unseasonal strife in Santa's little sweatshops Message-ID: <20041223160904.1702.qmail@resist.ca> "It is the week before Christmas, and Santa's helpers are restless. In fact, they have been demonstrating their discontent by striking, smashing their factories, and not turning up for work." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/23/7128/3687 From news at resist.ca Thu Dec 23 08:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 16:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Canadians Have No Reason to Feel Proud Message-ID: <20041223160905.1703.qmail@resist.ca> "The fundamental question, though, is why people use Canadian patriotism as a protective cloak from American patriotism. Do they not see that while the colours may be different, the fabric remains essentially the same?....I rebut the argument that simply 'being better' than the United States of America (or 'American citizens') is...a cause for celebration - indeed, this is not a difficult achievement. In fact, if we measure how peaceful and just a given society is by using the United States as a yardstick, our moral compass is in need of significant retuning." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/22/2009/3774 From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 24 08:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 16:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] The Class Chasm Undermines Political Solidarity Message-ID: <20041224160903.13782.qmail@resist.ca> I have recently begun to realize that the stigma of poverty may actually be more damaging to poor people than the poverty itself, in some instances. Parts of poverty would be bearable if we were all in a class solidarity. But I am uncomfortable with class inequity. This thing where some are supposed to suffer in the lower class, while their political "allies" live at a higher class level, with private transportation, no hunger, adequate clothing, stable housing, job opportunities not available to the poor, etc., does not really work for me, if I am to be honest. This class chasm is often as agitating and degrading as the direct effects of the poverty itself. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/23/1111/7659 From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 24 08:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 16:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Iceland-Multinational's logging Western Europe's last wilderness... Message-ID: <20041224160903.13784.qmail@resist.ca> December 23, 2004 www.killingiceland.org The Icelandic highlands are the last great expanse of true wilderness left in Western Europe. Now the country's hydro-electric potential has been targeted by multinational corporations, who intend to establish large scale heavy industry in these hitherto pristine hinterlands. These multinational vandals - willingly helped by the Icelandic government - are about to produce an environmental catastrophe of unprecedented proportions. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/23/92446/073 From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 24 08:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 16:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Sharon Rejects Right of Return; Return to 1967 Borders Message-ID: <20041224160903.13781.qmail@resist.ca> In a televised speech at the Herzliya Conference on Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced that he had reached a "strategic agreement" with the U.S. President to totally reject the right of return, as well as rejecting any withdrawal from Jerusalem. He stated that "Israel will not withdraw to the 1967 borders, and will not evacuate settlements in the West Bank". URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/24/7826/5121 From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 24 08:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 16:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Billboard 'War' escalates US-Cuban Christmas crisis Message-ID: <20041224160903.13783.qmail@resist.ca> Tourists take pictures in front of a massive billboard showing photographs of Iraqi prisoners being abused by American soldiers in front of the U.S. interest section in Havana, Cuba on Friday, Dec. 17, 2004. The U.S. Interest Section ignored a demand earlier this week to remove Christmas decorations that include a reference to dissidents jailed by Fidel Castro's government. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/24/72853/071 From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 24 08:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 16:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Frank McKenna considered front-runner to be Canada's ambassador to US Message-ID: <20041224160904.13785.qmail@resist.ca> After an awkward year-long delay, Prime Minister Paul Martin is on the threshold of sending to Washington the man he believes will best defend and promote Canadian interests at the epicentre of world affairs. Long considered a potential successor to Martin as Liberal leader, McKenna also has close personal and business links to the Bush family inner circle. He and the president's father golf and fish and McKenna serves on one of the international advisory boards of the Carlyle Group, a hugely influential, sometimes controversial, global investment firm with headquarters just down Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/24/71314/569 From news at resist.ca Sat Dec 25 15:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 23:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Cloned kitten sold for $50,000 Message-ID: <20041225230904.32642.qmail@resist.ca> "Califoria-based biotech firm Genetic Savings & Clone (GSC) has made its first sale: a cloned male kitten, for $50,000." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/24/1449/2734 From news at resist.ca Sat Dec 25 15:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 23:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] For Budding Spendthrifts, Toy ATM Gives New Meaning to Piggy Bank Message-ID: <20041225230904.32643.qmail@resist.ca> "Tweens and beyond can insert the supplied ATM card into the silver machine, punch in their PIN, be greeted by name on the electronic display, peer into the pretend security camera and wait for that seminal capitalistic moment -- when crisp bills miraculously appear, ripe for the plucking." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/24/14147/422 From news at resist.ca Sat Dec 25 15:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 23:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Resist!ca news service on work-to-rule until Jan 5, 2005 Message-ID: <20041225230905.32644.qmail@resist.ca> We'll be taking a little break from the news until after the new year. The site may be updated periodically. Check back after January 5 for the regular feed of news you have grown to know and love... Have yourself a good break if you get one. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/24/141017/54 From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 26 07:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 15:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Venezuela Offers China Greater Access to Oil Message-ID: <20041226150904.21454.qmail@resist.ca> President Chavez said that Venezuela will offer China greater access to Venezuelan resources, such as oil, natural gas, and related products, in an effort to reduce Venezuelan dependency on the U.S. market. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/25/213426/00 From news at resist.ca Mon Dec 27 08:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 16:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Our Private Information in Exchange for "Free" Credit Checks Message-ID: <20041227160903.466.qmail@resist.ca> Beginning on December 1, 2004, "consumers" (according to the FTC) in the Western states, are encouraged to order their credit reports "for free," once a year. [Other areas of the country will follow throughout the year.] But there is one aspect to this that we need to be aware of. [...E]very time you apply for a "free" copy of your credit reports, the parties involved are going to try to squeeze as much personal information as possible out of you, to sell and use later, as a valuable resource. Additionally, receiving your credit report does not include the answers to essential questions such as where did this information go, and who ordered it, without specific lines of questioning that these credit reporting agencies tend to avoid answering. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/26/85441/577 From news at resist.ca Mon Dec 27 08:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 16:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Greek Militants Attack Police Station Over Abuse of Afghan Refugees Message-ID: <20041227160903.467.qmail@resist.ca> "About 50 youths...hurled stones and set fire to a car at a police station in Athens whose officers were earlier accused of abusing Afghan immigrants....Human-rights activists said last Tuesday that police raiding an Athens hostel carried out mock executions on Afghan immigrants, with one officer allegedly sticking a gun in a teenager's mouth." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/26/172755/47 From news at resist.ca Mon Dec 27 08:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 16:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] [Mackenzie pipeline] Negotiations 'back on track' [with government Indians] Message-ID: <20041227160904.468.qmail@resist.ca> "A lawyer hired by the federal government recommended in November that unless the DFN dropped its demand for what he characterized as a veto over the pipeline, the government should end self-government negotiations. Scott didn't take a hard line last week, however, according to [Deh Cho Chief] Norwegian." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/26/13633/020 From news at resist.ca Tue Dec 28 08:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 16:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Defining 'terrorism' is harder than you'd think Message-ID: <20041228160904.30380.qmail@resist.ca> This is a bit old but after finding it stashed away in my email, I had to send it on. In a UN report on its own relevence, they state: "Lack of agreement on a clear and well-known definition [of terrorism] undermines the normative and moral stance against [it] and has stained the United Nations image." The report singles out two reasons why an international definition of terrorism has been impossible to achieve. The first, it says, "is the argument that any definition should include states' use of armed forces against civilians." The second [problem] says the UN, "is that peoples under foreign occupation have a right to resistance and a definition of terrorism should not override this right." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/27/183021/06 From news at resist.ca Tue Dec 28 08:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 16:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] China collecting pawns in battle to secure status as market economy Message-ID: <20041228160904.30381.qmail@resist.ca> When Venezuela recognized China's status as a market economy last week, Beijing secured yet another pawn in a low-key battle it is waging against the United States and Europe, analysts said. "They're signing up more and more countries to acknowledge their market economy status to increase their bargaining power in the World Trade Organization (WTO)," said Andreas Lauffs, a trade lawyer at Baker McKenzie. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/27/191735/85 From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 31 08:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 16:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Christmas in Haiti Message-ID: <20041231160904.27998.qmail@resist.ca> Christmas in Haiti by Haiti Information Project; December 29, 2004 -Znet Port au Prince, Haiti (HIP)- The US-installed regime of Gerard Latortue has begun making compensation payments to Haiti's former brutal military in an apparent move to reward them for their role in overthrowing the democratically elected government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. In a gesture rife with symbolism, the first payments were made to former soldiers who had participated in a takeover of President Aristide's residence this past December 15. UN forces were said to have convinced the former soldiers to leave without a single shot being fired. Afterwards, the UN trucked them to a local police academy where they were housed in preparation for Tuesday's ceremony. Thirty-three former soldiers who participated in the takeover of Aristide's compound received the first in a series of checks that are said by the Latortue regime to total about $5000 per soldier. About 6000 former soldiers are said to be eligible for similar compensation. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/30/2936/1694