From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 1 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Bin Laden's Message to America Message-ID: <20041101140903.5287.qmail@resist.ca> Veteran CIA analyst Michael Scheuer, author of Imperial Hubris, says that whenever a new communication from Osama bin Laden appears, analysts look at everything - voice, the detailed configuration of rocks and trees, you name it - except for the content, what is actually being said. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/31/73055/380 From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 1 06:09:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 14:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] We Pledge Allegiance to the Penguin Message-ID: <20041101140903.5286.qmail@resist.ca> We pledge allegiance to the penguin, and the intellectual property regime for which he stands. One nation, under Linux, with free music and open source software for all. Welcome to Brazil! URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/31/71856/475 From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 1 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Roma Refugee Describes Prison Guard Abuse Message-ID: <20041101140903.5288.qmail@resist.ca> In a telephone interview, Dragan described prison guard abuse, saying "They harass me, they hurt me like in hell... They keep me naked for eight days. For two nights in those eight they took the matress out and this is truly a crime. I slept naked. I couldn't take it anymore. They said that 'if immigration isn't going to break you, we're going to break you here.'" URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/31/191742/43 From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 1 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Thinking Beyond Arafat Message-ID: <20041101140903.5289.qmail@resist.ca> The grave illness of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat has given rise to frenzied speculation about what will happen after he is no longer on the scene. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/31/173132/05 From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 1 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Israel Killing Children in Palestine Message-ID: <20041101140904.5290.qmail@resist.ca> "A look at the use of language, perhaps the most accurate gauge of a society's moral collapse, will reveal the degree of racism that has gripped Israel. Media outlets, politicians and even academics have seen fit to brand Palestinian children as 'enemies', 'beasts', 'tormenting attackers' and 'terrorists' throughout this intifada. The main motive behind resorting to such dehumanizing diction in reference to children is a prevalent belief in the Israeli mainstream that Palestinians are more than anything else an imminent danger to be dealt with. They are a people born with a predisposition to terror, as if due to some mysterious genetic disorder. A child is then just a potential terrorist, a literal time-bomb." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/31/212421/08 From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 1 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Nigeria union calls second strike Message-ID: <20041101140904.5292.qmail@resist.ca> Nigeria's main trade union has said it will hold a second general strike in protest at fuel rises, warning it would specifically target oil production. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/31/165429/42 From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 1 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] UN and RCMP-backed police terror sweeps Haiti Message-ID: <20041101140904.5300.qmail@resist.ca> The current repression has led Haitian and international human rights observers to draw comparisons with the darkest days of the 1991-1994 military regime, and with the 1957-1986 dictatorship of Fran?ois 'Papa Doc' Duvalier and his son, Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc'. The difference, they say, is that the current government has had the blessing of the international community. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/31/221036/89 From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 1 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Will there Be a War Against the World After November 2? Message-ID: <20041101140904.5293.qmail@resist.ca> "From Guatemala to Iran, from Chile to Nicaragua, to the struggle for freedom in South Africa, to present-day Venezuela, American state terrorism, licensed by both Republican and Democrat administrations, has fought democrats and sponsored totalitarians. Most societies attacked or otherwise subverted by American power are weak and defenceless, and there is a logic to this. Should a small country succeed in breaking free and establish its own way of developing, then its good example to others becomes a threat to Washington." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/31/211119/09 From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 1 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Bin Laden's Amazing ability to show up at the right time Message-ID: <20041101140904.5301.qmail@resist.ca> Bin Laden's Amazing ability to show up at the right time October 31st, 2004 Macdonald Stainsby Note immediately: I am not interested in making this article about whether or not 9-11's "official" story is a lie. You know already, unless you too have gone onto auto-pilot for three plus years ....The argument I am making is the one in between discussing whether or not to consider this legitimate inquiry. So, instead, I shall take up a few points that have been rolled out into our ears every single time that the idea comes of being against the FBI's conspiracy theory. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/31/9447/8414 From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 2 05:09:06 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 13:09:06 -0000 Subject: [news] US troop buildup starts near Baghdad Message-ID: <20041102130906.21952.qmail@resist.ca> The US military has increased its military strength around Baghdad in recent days, while insurgency and clashes are continuing across the war-torn country. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/1/204225/604 From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 2 05:09:06 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 13:09:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Globalization not new: Look at the slave trade Message-ID: <20041102130906.21950.qmail@resist.ca> blackcommentator By Philip Emeagwali October 21 2004 Note: the same pattern of slavery/cultural imperialism was/is still used on the Native peoples (in kkkanada) and now the muslim and black peoples in afrika/middleeast. "...These mission schools plundered our children?s self-esteem by teaching them that, as Africans (ed. Native peoples and cultures) they were inherently "bad people." Our children grew up not wanting to be citizens of Africa. Instead, their education fostered the colonial ideal that they would be better off becoming citizens of the colonizing nations. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/1/54923/9184 From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 2 05:09:06 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 13:09:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Iran and Iraq Message-ID: <20041102130906.21951.qmail@resist.ca> POSITIVELY BLACK by Junious Ricardo Stanton 30 Oct 2004 ...if Iran continues preparing its nuclear arsenal and decides to change from the US dollar to the European Union's Euro as their exchange medium for their oil like Saddam Hussein did. This will provoke the US to attack Iran like it did Iraq. If the Iraqi people have a "free election" and reject an AmeriKKKan puppet government it will mean more trouble for the US occupation and plans..." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/31/43440/609 From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 2 05:09:06 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 13:09:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Wal Mart Threatens Teotihuacan! Message-ID: <20041102130906.21954.qmail@resist.ca> News Story with introduction by Hunter Gray -- I am quite certain that Wal Mart will be smashingly defeated in its sick incursion into the Circle of Teotihuacan. In addition to the rapidly mounting opposition to its hungry adventure -- by a wide and angry range of the peoples of Mexico -- there is also the power of Tezcatlipoca. Although generally seen as a Toltec deity who was taken by the later Aztecs, His roots do go back into the era of Teotihuacan. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/31/152157/74 From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 2 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Early returns indicate socialist wins presidency in Uruguay Message-ID: <20041102140903.30202.qmail@resist.ca> Montevideo, Uruguay - (KRT) - Socialist Tabare Vazquez appeared to win a majority of votes for president in tiny Uruguay on Sunday, adding his nation to South America's political swing to the left and potentially denying the United States an important ally in the region. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/2/55124/3345 From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 2 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Excess 100,000 deaths since Iraq invasion Message-ID: <20041102140903.30201.qmail@resist.ca> Deaths of Iraqis have soared to 100,000 above normal since the Iraq invasion, mainly due to violence, with many of the victims being women and children, according to public health experts from the United States. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/2/53136/3714 From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 3 05:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 13:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] U.S. Progressives Support Kerry: Can the Left Sink any Lower? Message-ID: <20041103130903.25507.qmail@resist.ca> "Throughout this election cycle progressives resolutely determined to affirm their values and principles with their vote have been called out and attacked by left luminaries: we don't care for poor, working people, we fail to understand the dangers of Bush, we've fallen prey to infantile hero-worship. Our intellects have been impugned, and we are accused of being too rigid, absolutist, purist....The left elite continues to earnestly plead/intellectually bully for the sacrifice of just some, wee, little, tiny, bit of our integrity. And for what purpose? A Kerry presidency?.... And I always thought the left stood for something." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/2/144758/557 From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 3 05:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 13:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Civil unrest erupts in Uzbekistan Message-ID: <20041103130903.25508.qmail@resist.ca> There are reports of unprecedented civil disorder in Uzbekistan, where several thousand people have taken to the streets in the city of Kokand. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/2/10585/7642 From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 3 05:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 13:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] After the Referendum: Venezuela Faces New Challenges Message-ID: <20041103130903.25509.qmail@resist.ca> The victory belongs not to a man but to the project of creating a country guided by humanism and solidarity in its domestic and international spheres. It is also a victory for a development model embracing endogenous development and the social economy as alternatives to voracious, destructive neoliberalism. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/1/9522/19181 From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 3 05:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 13:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Lawyers involved in John Graham extradition hearing back in court Message-ID: <20041103130904.25510.qmail@resist.ca> An American Indian Movement activist charged with murder in South Dakota almost 30 years ago may learn more next month about the strength of the U.S. case against him. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/2/121029/958 From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 3 05:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 13:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Support Justin Goodman! Remember Kobra and Hassan! Message-ID: <20041103130904.25511.qmail@resist.ca> Jury selection took place today for Justin Goodman's upcoming November 15 trial on charges of "assisting escape from lawful custody" and "assault on a police officer", related to the Canadian government's attempted deportation of two Iranian refugees on January 21, 2003 URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/2/18449/1907 From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 3 05:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 13:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Another 4 years of war, flag waving and banality Message-ID: <20041103130904.25513.qmail@resist.ca> We still don't know the results of the multi-million dollar farce of democracy known as the US Presidential Elections but if you want to know if Americans have "abandoned their chief in a time of war" (don't they know they are always at war?), then tune into US IndyMedia for all the electoral gossip. The big deal at the moment seems to be that "Ohio voter groups have called for a statewide walkout and protest in Columbus as the US presidential election hinges on thousands of provisional ballots and claims of disenfranchisement." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/3/45733/9358 From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 3 20:09:18 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 04:09:18 -0000 Subject: [news] Climate change is here, now, say scientists Message-ID: <20041104040918.14471.qmail@resist.ca> Inuit hunters are falling through ice, permafrost is thawing and destabilizing foundations of buildings and vital winter roads, while the habitat of creatures from polar bears to seals is literally melting away. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/3/75336/1918 From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 3 20:09:18 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 04:09:18 -0000 Subject: [news] France and the other face of secularism Message-ID: <20041104040918.14470.qmail@resist.ca> aljazeera by Soumayya Ghannoushi 02 November 2004 The "veil problem", it must be noted, is only a small detail in an infinitely more complex narrative and a symptom of a more profound crisis affecting the nature of French laicite (secularity) itself and France\'s relations with the Muslim world. ...The subject of this frenzy is a religion whose five million followers are forced to exist outside the frame of legitimacy in forsaken ghettoes, denied many of their basic rights as human beings. Islam, the second largest of the country's faiths, is reduced to an underground religion practised in basements and derelict buildings, URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/3/5619/32239 From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 4 06:09:20 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 14:09:20 -0000 Subject: [news] Bush Elected by Homophobia & Misogyny Message-ID: <20041104140920.4688.qmail@resist.ca> "Progressives are loath to offer a frontal criticism of the theocracy that has overtaken the South and the Midwest -- where under the command of tolerance we have to endure the intolerance toward women and their bodies, toward gays and lesbians, towards anyone who does not fit the compass of the "moral values" mass-produced by the established churches. It is time to throw off our forbearance and open a direct debate on the suppression of rational argument in favor of theocratic bigotry." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/3/181043/393 From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 4 06:09:19 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 14:09:19 -0000 Subject: [news] Ontario addicted to gambling revenue Message-ID: <20041104140920.4687.qmail@resist.ca> National Post | Wednesday, November 03, 2004 | By April Lindgren Toronto - The Ontario government is hooked on gambling proceeds and has no plans to scale back operations, Premier Dalton McGuinty acknowledged yesterday following the release of a report that shows problem gamblers generate more than one-third of provincial gaming revenue. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/4/52814/1604 From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 4 06:09:20 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 14:09:20 -0000 Subject: [news] B'nai Brith official quits after terrorism remark Message-ID: <20041104140921.4691.qmail@resist.ca> Globe and Mail | Wednesday, November 3, 2004 | By Marina Jim?nez An official with B'nai Brith Canada resigned after statements he made on The Michael Coren Show that Israel's use of state-sponsored terrorism is justified to protect its citizens. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/4/52947/1174 From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 4 06:09:20 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 14:09:20 -0000 Subject: [news] Massive attacks halt Iraqi oil flow Message-ID: <20041104140921.4693.qmail@resist.ca> [Good News to start your morning: Brought to you by Resistance to Bush part III -- Macdonald] Fighters have mounted the biggest attacks yet on Iraq's oil infrastructure, blowing up three pipelines in the north and hitting exports via Turkey, oil officials say. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/3/173241/395 From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 4 06:09:20 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 14:09:20 -0000 Subject: [news] How Bush Was Offered Bin Laden and Blew It Message-ID: <20041104140922.4696.qmail@resist.ca> The newly-(re)elected Bush Administration justifies all the people they've killed and made homeless by their need to kill or capture Osama Bin Laden; as the Counterpunch exclusive below suggests, based on interviews with an Afghan-American businessman, the U.S. could have practically had Bin Laden and his top Lieutenant's gift wrapped by a willing Taliban government eager to avoid any confrontation with the U.S. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/3/182543/614 From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 4 06:09:21 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 14:09:21 -0000 Subject: [news] Remote-Controlled Surveillance Equipment Found in Kanehsatake Message-ID: <20041104140922.4699.qmail@resist.ca> At present the origins of the camera and its associated equipment is not known. However, Kanehsatake residents suspect that the RCMP, SQ and the KMP are responsible for placing the camera in that location. Community members also suspect that the installation of the surveillance equipment has a twofold purpose; firstly as a precursor to a police action against Kanehsatake, secondly to monitor the movements of community members who are working at the KCSHQ. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/3/133647/564 From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 5 06:09:11 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 14:09:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Colombia. Indigenous Day of Resistance. Message-ID: <20041105140911.6227.qmail@resist.ca> In Colombia, the Day of Resistance was marked by a general strike. In the biggest show of unity, labor federations, Indigenous groups, peasants, women, students and progressive organizations mobilized a million people throughout the country. A poster for the strike read, "Surrounded by threats that give us courage ... we will all participate in the work stoppage without fear or cowardice." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/3/93426/6080 From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 5 06:09:11 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 14:09:11 -0000 Subject: [news] In search of freedom, Afghan wives make a grisly choice Message-ID: <20041105140911.6228.qmail@resist.ca> HERAT, Afghanistan -- Zahara Mohamedi decided she couldn't take it anymore. Last year, when she was 18, her family sold her for the equivalent of about $1,200 into a forced marriage with a man she had never met. She moved from the city to a village, where her new husband never allowed her to leave the house. She was treated as little more than a servant, taking orders from her in-laws -- even from an 11-year-old girl. Eight months ago, Mohamedi poured cooking oil over her head and chest and announced that she was going to set herself on fire. Her in-laws dared her to. They beat her and held her. She broke free and lit a match, immediately engulfing her face and upper body in flames. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/5/5393/02164 From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 5 06:09:11 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 14:09:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Update On Kanehasatake Message-ID: <20041105140912.6231.qmail@resist.ca> There's been a lot of media attention focused on Kanehsatake in the past couple weeks. Reports of James Gabriel and his loyalists going to the Quebec National Assembly to plea for RCMP and SQ intervention into the "lawlessness" Kanehsatake were sympathetic to Gabriel's martyr act and reported that he and his Goons were not getting enough support from Chagnon or the SQ. James Gabriel said the lack of support was due to racism URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/4/103529/681 From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 5 06:09:11 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 14:09:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Use of 'Kemosabe' upheld as not demeaning to Mi'kmaqs Message-ID: <20041105140911.6229.qmail@resist.ca> HALIFAX -- "Is Kemosabe a racist greeting? Not according to a Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission board of inquiry, which spent an entire day watching episodes of the Lone Ranger to decide whether being called Kemosabe demeaned a woman's Mi'kmaq heritage." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/5/5476/09320 From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 5 06:09:11 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 14:09:11 -0000 Subject: [news] "Pipeline will free N.W.T. from Ottawa's apron strings", says report Message-ID: <20041105140912.6232.qmail@resist.ca> Financial independance for a territory or cultural independence and self-determination for a nation? -- "I would say that as soon as that pipeline is functioning and the diamond mines are continuing to produce diamonds we probably won't have any need to have money through our territorial financing agreement at that time," says Premier Joe Handley. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/4/92750/3965 From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 5 06:09:11 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 14:09:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Arctic thaw Message-ID: <20041105140912.6233.qmail@resist.ca> by Charles W. Petit | November 2, 2004 "Eskimo? I must tell you. We are not Eskimos," says Percy Nusunginya, 63, president of the Inupiat tribal council in Barrow, Alaska, northernmost city in North America and home to 4,600 souls, mostly indigenous Alaskan natives, on a dusty gravel strand between vast tundra and the Arctic Ocean. "We are hyperboreans," the weather-beaten whaling captain says proudly over breakfast in tiny Osaka Restaurant. Nusunginya leans slowly forward with a small smile: "It's from the Greek. Hyperborean." He has his etymology right, perhaps more than he realizes. Dictionaries show hyperborean as the general designation for high Arctic denizens. But the word has even greater resonance for today's environmentalists and scientists. In Greek myth, the Hyperboreans live in a warm, perpetually sunlit polar land beyond the north wind. That notion -- of warmth in a polar land -- is today becoming uncomfortably close to the truth. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/4/201343/174 From news at resist.ca Sat Nov 6 06:09:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 14:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Hungary announces Iraq pull-out Message-ID: <20041106140903.3740.qmail@resist.ca> "Hungary will withdraw all of its 300 troops stationed in Iraq by the end of March 2005, the country's prime minister has said. There has been intense pressure from the public and opposition groups to pull them out." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/5/61231/9791 From news at resist.ca Sat Nov 6 06:09:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 14:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] 1968 & Today Message-ID: <20041106140902.3738.qmail@resist.ca> I think that an a useful comparison for leftists today to use when talking to people about Bush is the election of Richard Nixon in 1968. The election that year took place in a context of growing social polarization and anger around the Vietnam War. In the spring of 1968, the Tet Offensive in Vietnam had demonstrated the incredible unpopularity and weakness of the U.S. occupation in that country. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/3/16520/9586 From news at resist.ca Sat Nov 6 06:09:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 14:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Outrage over Colombia's expulsion of foreign trade unionists Message-ID: <20041106140902.3739.qmail@resist.ca> "Colombian President Uribe lied to union delegation: International unionists took part in a meeting with Uribe, where the President assured the delegation of his government's full commitment to trade union rights, and thanked them for their interest in the situation in Colombia. When they returned to the country again, they were expulsed." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/5/61939/2254 From news at resist.ca Sat Nov 6 06:09:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 14:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Police show support for suspended officers Message-ID: <20041106140903.3741.qmail@resist.ca> More than 200 members of the Saskatoon Police Association have voted unanimously to support two constables suspended after the release of a report on Neil Stonechild. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/5/16836/0273 From news at resist.ca Sat Nov 6 06:09:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 14:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Concordia to allow Barak speech Message-ID: <20041106140903.3745.qmail@resist.ca> MONTREAL -- Backtracking on a decision that fuelled a furor over free speech, Concordia University in Montreal has agreed to invite former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak to speak on its campus. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/5/10118/6355 From news at resist.ca Sat Nov 6 06:09:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 14:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Canadian Imperialism in Haiti Message-ID: <20041106140903.3743.qmail@resist.ca> "Probably of more significance in the overall media distortion, however, is the downplaying (omission) of information contrary to the Canadian Government line that would have us not only believe that supporters of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide are to blame for Haiti's problem, but that Canada's presence (100 RCMP officers who command the UN police contingent) is helping Haiti out." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/5/174847/399 From news at resist.ca Sun Nov 7 07:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Woodlands Increase in Cuba Message-ID: <20041107150903.6752.qmail@resist.ca> Havana, Nov 5 (Prensa Latina) Cuba increased its woodlands by 1.3 percent in the last 10 years, making the island the only Latin American nation to increase forests in the last two years. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/6/233354/867 From news at resist.ca Sun Nov 7 07:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Civil Unrest Challenges China's Party Leadership Message-ID: <20041107150903.6754.qmail@resist.ca> It seems there are more and more protests against the capitalist chinese state recently, maybe with the potential to coalesce into a larger attack on neoliberalism in China. It's also intersting to see how well an authoritarian state can manage rebellion in a situation like this. Normally we would think not very well (relying too much on outright repression), compared to liberal western goverments, but the chinese state is more flexible than this assumption allows -CONTRIBUTOR. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/6/152717/140 From news at resist.ca Sun Nov 7 07:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] New Brunswick community to host 100, 000 tonnes of toxic soil Message-ID: <20041107150903.6761.qmail@resist.ca> November 06, 2004 | by Hillary Lindsay Sacrificing Belledune "Belledune is a small community in Northern New Brunswick that is home to just over two thousand people. It will soon also be home to 100 000 tonnes of toxic soil from Manville, New Jersey. This picturesque hamlet on the shores of the Bay of Chaleur is becoming known to some as a 'sacrifice zone.'" URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/7/61756/6295 From news at resist.ca Sun Nov 7 07:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] The Peak is Nigh Message-ID: <20041107150903.6756.qmail@resist.ca> "Everyone knows that oil prices have grown volatile in recent months. Explanations include rising demand from China and supply limits resulting from pipeline sabotage in Iraq. Some commentators note that global oil production may be nearing its historic peak, since new discoveries have been dwindling since the 1960s and spare production capacity is evaporating. One by one, countries that were oil exporters are becoming net importers (US oil production peaked in 1970; natural gas production here is also in decline)." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/3/14158/0817 From news at resist.ca Sun Nov 7 07:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Bush Win Victory for the Religious Right Message-ID: <20041107150903.6753.qmail@resist.ca> "But these election night indiscretions were not the source of that sick feeling in my stomach, that sense of being punched in the gut, that difficulty in breathing. It was the recognition that what I had run from thirty-nine years earlier had caught up with me. The religious fanatics who had terrorized my childhood and adolescent years were back." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/5/14482/1126 From news at resist.ca Sun Nov 7 07:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Fallujah: Will the Anti-War Movement Stand Up This Time? Message-ID: <20041107150904.6762.qmail@resist.ca> Fallujah and the Reality of War By RAHUL MAHAJAN - Counterpunch; November 6, 2004 "The assault on Fallujah has started. It is being sold as liberation of the people of Fallujah; it is being sold as a necessary step to implementing 'democracy' in Iraq. These are lies. I was in Fallujah during the siege in April, and I want to paint for you a word picture of what such an assault means." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/6/151455/013 From news at resist.ca Sun Nov 7 07:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Forces line up for what might be the final battle over [Alaskas A.rctic N.ational W.ildlife R.efuge] Message-ID: <20041107150904.6758.qmail@resist.ca> Voters in the United States put the Republican Party firmly in control of the government this week - to the despair of people trying to stop oil and gas exploration in what's been called "America's Serengeti". The Porcupine Caribou herd has sustained the Gwitch'in people for countless generations... URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/6/101657/895 From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 8 07:09:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 15:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] "Democratic" Elections in Historical Perspective Message-ID: <20041108150903.8650.qmail@resist.ca> "(E)lections (even the freest) do not necessarily have anything to do with freedom. The freely cast vote of an individual whose opinions themselves are shaped by an oppressive social structure may easily become a vote for more oppression....The promotion of 'democratic elections' as an end in itself can mask support for highly repressive social systems." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/7/15410/9878 From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 8 07:09:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 15:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Marines say the toll is expected to rival those seen in Vietnam War Message-ID: <20041108150903.8651.qmail@resist.ca> Houston Chronicle | November 5, 2004 | By Tom Lasseter WITH U.S. FORCES NEAR FALLUJAH, IRAQ - The number of dead and wounded from the expected battle to retake insurgent-controlled Fallujah probably will reach levels not seen since Vietnam, a senior surgeon at the Marine camp outside Fallujah said Thursday. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/7/182630/840 From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 8 07:09:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 15:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] French call for stronger EU to keep America in check Message-ID: <20041108150903.8652.qmail@resist.ca> Daily Telegraph | 05/11/2004 By Ambrose Evans Pritchard and Toby Helm in Brussels Tony Blair's hopes of healing the rift between Europe and America after the re-election of President George W Bush were quickly dashed yesterday, as France led calls for a rival European superpower to confront Washington. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/7/82720/0371 From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 8 07:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Protester dies under atomic train Message-ID: <20041108150903.8653.qmail@resist.ca> A anti-nuclear protester has died after his leg was severed by a train carrying atomic waste from France to Germany. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/7/1210/99916 From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 8 07:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Police drug crackdown illegal, says advocacy group Message-ID: <20041108150903.8654.qmail@resist.ca> WebPosted Nov 5 2004 | CBC VANCOUVER - A police watchdog group says the Vancouver Police Department may have broken the law with its city-wide enforcement crackdown on the drug trade in the Downtown Eastside. The Pivot Legal Society says the VPD may have violated the Police Act, by going ahead without the permission of city council. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/7/192748/388 From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 9 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] [Yukon] Kwanlin Dun vote too close to call Message-ID: <20041109140903.7990.qmail@resist.ca> The Yukon's largest land-claim vote is so close that ratification officials can't determine whether it's been approved. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/8/9558/57932 From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 9 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Crap Arrest(s) of the Week #6 - 9 Message-ID: <20041109140904.7993.qmail@resist.ca> In this installment, the righteous defenders of law and order uphold justice by arresting folks for throwing a sponge, having an argument, having an argument 20 years ago, and for trying to report other crap arrests. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/8/134537/060 From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 9 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Bus Riders Condemn TransLink's Sham 'Public Consultation' Message-ID: <20041109140903.7991.qmail@resist.ca> "TransLink's idea of a 'public consultation' is to meet with a few individuals, community groups and other 'stakeholders' for less than two hours, in a meeting that is by invitation only and where the actual decision makers are not even going to be present," says Aiyanas Ormond, a BRU organizer. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/8/20653/1502 From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 9 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] NDP picks businessman over union leader Message-ID: <20041109140904.7994.qmail@resist.ca> Vancouver Sun | Monday, November 8, 2004 | By Amy O'Brian\n\n A successful juice-making entrepreneur beat a longtime, dedicated unionist in Sunday's bid for the provincial New Democratic Party's nomination in Vancouver-Fairview. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/8/19408/1181 From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 9 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] US strikes raze Falluja hospital Message-ID: <20041109140904.7995.qmail@resist.ca> BBC News | November 6, 2004 A hospital has been razed to the ground in one of the heaviest US air raids in the Iraqi city of Falluja. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/8/20839/9116 From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 9 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] The End of the Arafat Era Message-ID: <20041109140904.7997.qmail@resist.ca> -Am Johal | November 8, 2004 The Palestinian President is expected to be taken off life support in the coming days. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/8/101029/244 From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 10 06:09:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Judge halts war-crime trial at =?utf-8?q?Guant=C3=A1namo?= Message-ID: <20041110140905.14066.qmail@resist.ca> New York Times | November 9, 2004 | By Neil A. Lewis Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Nov. 8 - "A federal judge ruled Monday that President Bush had both overstepped his constitutional bounds and improperly brushedaside the Geneva Conventions in establishing military commissions to try detainees at the United States naval base here as war criminals. "The ruling by Judge James Robertson of United States District Court in Washington brought an abrupt halt to the trial here of one detainee, one of hundreds being held at Guantanamo as enemy combatants. It threw into doubt the future of the first set of United States military commission trials since the end of World War II as well as other legal proceedings devised by the administration to deal with suspected terrorists."a URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/9/201029/447 From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 10 06:09:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] All the makings of a war crime Message-ID: <20041110140906.14067.qmail@resist.ca> Sydney Morning Herald | November 9, 2004 "A US-led attack on the Iraqi Sunni-stronghold (Falluja) will breach the Geneva convention..." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/10/5923/6172 From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 10 06:09:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Iraqi Resistance Will End When Occupation Does Message-ID: <20041110140906.14069.qmail@resist.ca> "All countries object to being occupied. Foreign invasions provoke nationalist resistance. This has happened with extraordinary speed in Iraq because of the ineptitude of the US civil and military commanders, but in the long term it would have happened anyway." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/9/154256/825 From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 10 06:09:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Global Warming Alarm Bells Ringing Message-ID: <20041110140906.14072.qmail@resist.ca> Despite the attention likely to be focused on the report, little of it will come as a surprise to the Inuvialuit, Dene and Inuit of Canada's North. From Tuktoyaktuk in the Northwest Territories, where melting permafrost is washing a community into the ocean, to Baffin Island, where elders can no longer predict weather or follow ancient hunting routes, they are already living with climate change. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/9/95535/8325 From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 10 06:09:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Canadians have lost confidence in U.S., poll finds Message-ID: <20041110140906.14073.qmail@resist.ca> Ottawa Citizen | Thursday, November 04, 2004 | By Jack Aubry Ottawa -- "The last four years of the Bush presidency have hugely undermined Canadians' confidence in U.S. leadership, with almost eight of 10 in the country believing that America's foreign policy is indicative of the behaviour of a rogue nation, a new poll shows." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/9/20551/9440 From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 11 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Falluja: All the makings of a war crime Message-ID: <20041111140903.23042.qmail@resist.ca> Sydney Morning Herald | November 9, 2004 "A US-led attack on the Iraqi Sunni-stronghold (Falluja) will breach the Geneva convention..." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/9/202032/733 From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 11 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] On Strike! Hollyburn Country Club Food & Beverage Workers Message-ID: <20041111140903.23043.qmail@resist.ca> 50 members of CAW Local 3000 struck the Holyburn Country Club on November 10. Apparently it's not exactly a country club working there! URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/10/17500/114 From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 11 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Labor needs "that vision thing" Message-ID: <20041111140903.23044.qmail@resist.ca> 11/9/04 | By David Bacon Oakland, CA -- There's no question that labor pulled out all the stops to defeat George Bush. Over 2000 members of the country's largest union, the Service Employees (SEIU), left their jobs to go campaign in battleground states, and the organization budgeted $65 million for the campaign. The AFL-CIO itself fielded 5000 fulltime staffers and 225,000 volunteers. That made Bush's victory a hard one to swallow. For many of the most progressive leaders of US labor, however, it was more than just bitter - it was threatening. "We have no alternative now but to resist at every level," said Stuart Acuff, the AFL-CIO's organizing director. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/10/203655/20 From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 11 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Washington is determined that Iraqis will democratize -- even if it kills them Message-ID: <20041111140903.23045.qmail@resist.ca> Globe and Mail | Wednesday, November 10, 2004 | By Naomi Klein "Escape routes have been sealed off, homes are being demolished, and an emergency health clinic has been razed -- all to prepare the city for January elections... "So the excuses were lies: If elections can be held now, they could have been held a year ago, when the country was vastly calmer. But that would have denied Washington the chance to install a puppet regime in Iraq, and possibly prevented Mr. Bush from winning a second term. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/10/203422/17 From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 11 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Saskatoon police near 'mutiny' over Stonechild report Message-ID: <20041111140903.23047.qmail@resist.ca> SASKATOON - Faced with what some fear could become a mutiny in the ranks, the police chief in Saskatoon has once again put off a decision on firing two officers involved in the death of Neil Stonechild. The officers had 17-year-old Stonechild in their custody on the night he disappeared in Nov. 1990, an inquiry concluded last month. His frozen body was found days later on the outskirts of Saskatoon. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/10/20405/953 From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 11 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] President Arafat has died Message-ID: <20041111140904.23050.qmail@resist.ca> Thursday 11 November 2004 Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat has been officially announced dead at the Paris military hospital where he was being treated, Aljazeera reports. He was 75. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/10/20428/336 From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 12 15:09:13 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 23:09:13 -0000 Subject: [news] YASSER ARAFAT, 1929-2004 Message-ID: <20041112230913.32077.qmail@resist.ca> Although his political obituary was written again and again, Yasser Arafat displayed a legendary tenacity and an amazing ability to pull through at the eleventh hour, usually thanks to his remarkable skill in cobbling together coalitions and allies from very disparate backgrounds. Trapped by Ariel Sharon in the rubble of his Ramallah headquarters, though, Arafat was marginalized politically and virtually powerless militarily since the murderous Israeli attack on Palestinian cities in March-April 2002 that killed over 500 people and destroyed most of the infrastructure of the Palestinian Authority. He departs the Palestinian and Middle Eastern political stage as a wraith of his former self, with no political heir apparent. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/10/204845/54 From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 12 15:09:13 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 23:09:13 -0000 Subject: [news] Police detain nuclear whistleblower Vanunu Message-ID: <20041112230913.32078.qmail@resist.ca> Thu., November 11, 2004 Cheshvan 27, 5765 The police international investigations unit detained nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu on Thursday morning for questioning related to an ongoing probe examining suspicions he leaked national secrets and violated legal rulings since his release from prison. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/11/1599/2321 From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 12 15:09:13 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 23:09:13 -0000 Subject: [news] U.S. Supports War of Terror in Colombia Message-ID: <20041112230913.32076.qmail@resist.ca> Unknown source. US union leader Dan Kovalik reports from the front lines of Washington's war in Colombia: Trade unionists are being killed at an alarming rate by paramilitary groups that are receiving the active support and collaboration of the very military which the United States is funding at record levels. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/11/151255/93 From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 12 15:09:13 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 23:09:13 -0000 Subject: [news] Grizzly Bear, Grey Whale Populations "Extirpated" Message-ID: <20041112230914.32082.qmail@resist.ca> Prairie Grizzly Bears and Atlantic Grey Whales are officially extinct, according to the federal government's Species At Risk registry. Last month's announcement of endangered species added to the Species at Risk listings focused on the political decision not ot list two salmon runs in BC, but mainstream media failed to report on the many populations of animals and plants that appear doomed to vanish forever. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/11/195125/89 From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 12 15:09:13 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 23:09:13 -0000 Subject: [news] Yellowknifers lob darts at missile-shield proposal Message-ID: <20041112230914.32080.qmail@resist.ca> It seems Yellowknifers aren't keen on the United States missile-defence system - and they let Canada's defence minister know it at a public meeting last night. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/11/103335/08 From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 12 15:09:13 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 23:09:13 -0000 Subject: [news] CUPE and RCMP Collaboration Message-ID: <20041112230914.32084.qmail@resist.ca> "City Watch is designed to prevent and reduce crime by encouraging municipal workers to be alert to activities they might witness in the course of their jobs..." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/11/164426/28 From sharai at resist.ca Sat Nov 13 16:33:04 2004 From: sharai at resist.ca (sharai) Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 18:33:04 -0600 Subject: [news] Two Police Officers fired in Stonechild case Message-ID: <4196A7C0.8090806@resist.ca> Two police officers fired in Stonechild case They deny any role in death of native teen who froze in 1990 outside Saskatoon By KATHERINE HARDING With a report from Canadian Press Saturday, November 13, 2004 - Page A6 Fourteen years after an aboriginal teen was found frozen to death in a field outside of Saskatoon, two police officers have been fired for their involvement in the case. Saskatoon Police Constables Larry Hartwig and Bradley Senger "are each unsuitable for police service by reason of their conduct," Police Chief Russell Sabo told a packed news conference yesterday. Reading from a statement, the chief said the case was a "highly significant issue for this community" and the officers were dismissed for "failing to diligently and promptly report" information or evidence to officials about Neil Stonechild being in their custody on Nov. 24, 1990, the frigid night the 17-year-old went missing. Five days later, two construction workers found Mr. Stonechild dead. While the firings drew high praise from Mr. Stonechild's family and native leaders, Saskatoon's police union was disappointed. Both officers have denied any connection to the teen's death, and are going to request separate hearings into Mr. Sabo's decision. "We need this hearing so these guys get due process like anybody else," said Stan Goertzen, the police union's president. Mr. Hartwig and Mr. Senger had been suspended without pay since Oct. 26, the day a public inquiry rejected their repeated claims that they had no dealings with Mr. Stonechild on the night he disappeared. The inquiry didn't assign blame for his death. Mr. Justice David Wright, who led the $2-million inquiry conducted earlier this year, also concluded that the Saskatoon police force's original investigation into the incident was "superficial and totally inadequate." Back then, the force said Mr. Stonechild died after trying to walk to an adult jail to turn himself in for running away from a youth home. More than a decade after he died, Mr. Stonechild's death was reviewed. An RCMP task force was formed in 2000 to investigate the Saskatoon police force after an aboriginal man came forward to say that officers had left him on the city's outskirts. Two police officers were found guilty of unlawfully confining the witness. They served time and were eventually fired from the force. Mr. Stonechild's mother, Stella Bignell, said in a statement relayed through her lawyer, Don Worme, that she was pleased the officers in her son's case were fired. Mr. Worme said Ms. Bignell "simply expressed she was grateful to Chief Sabo for this very difficult decision. It's obviously a courageous decision." She was "deeply hurt" by the fact that rank-and-file officers were standing behind Mr. Hartwig and Mr. Senger, he added. Lawrence Joseph, vice-chief of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations, applauded Mr. Sabo's decision in the Stonechild case, and urged that it be the start of a long-needed "rebuilding" process between aboriginals and the Saskatoon police force. In his report about the Stonechild case, Judge Wright wrote the case reminded him of the "chasm that separates aboriginal and non-aboriginal people in this city and province. "The deficiencies in the investigation go beyond incompetence or neglect," he wrote. "They were inexcusable." While he said he found Judge Wright's report "troubling," Saskatchewan Justice Minister Frank Quennell has said there isn't enough evidence to lay charges against Mr. Hartwig and Mr. Senger. Colin Boyd, an ethics professor at the University of Saskatchewan, said Mr. Sabo's decision "provided much-needed leadership on this issue." Since the public inquiry report was released, Saskatoon's police union has bitterly complained that the officers were being unfairly treated, and 200 officers voted unanimously to support them. That reaction prompted some members of the community to call for the force to be disbanded. "[Mr. Sabo's] decision today is going to bring things to a head. He's calling the bluff of the rank and file," Prof. Boyd said. "It's not clear whether they are going to take him on." From christoff at resist.ca Sat Nov 13 16:44:02 2004 From: christoff at resist.ca (Stefan Christoff) Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 16:44:02 -0800 (PST) Subject: [news] MONTREAL: {Update} Osama Saleh - Palestinian Refugee Facing Deportation from Canada Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 16:17:18 -0800 (PST) From: Palestinian Refugees - Montreal UPDATE on Osama Saleh: >From the Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees Montreal --- Osama Saleh a stateless Palestinian refugee facing deportation to the occupied West Bank, faced a "Judicial Review" at the Federal Court of Canada. With more than 50 supporters packed in the courtroom, the Federal Court Justice did not present a ruling on the case, instead requesting both Osama's lawyer and the lawyer representing Citizenship and Immigration Canada to file further arguments within the coming weeks, regarding the legality of Osama's pending deportation. In this light the struggle against Osama's deportation continues. The Federal Court hearing took place within the context of an international week of action --- November 9th - 16th --- against the ongoing construction of Israel's Apartheid Wall throughout the West Bank. Immigration lawyer Stewart Istvanffy argued in Federal Court, that Osama, like all Palestinians in the West Bank, is directly affected by the Apartheid Wall and policies of collective punishment inflicted on the Palestinian people by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). During both the first and second Intifada, Osama was incarcerated for his participation in the Palestinian popular uprisings against Israeli occupation. Through Osama's experience of resistance to occupation, he presents a living face of the Palestinian struggle for liberation in Montreal. As stated in the November 9th Federal Court hearing by Osama's lawyer, "Osama was jailed for trying to fight for the self-determination for the people of his country, Palestine". It is on this basis of persecution that Osama struggles for recognition as a refugee and for his status in Canada, highlighting the seamless link between the struggle of Palestinian refugees in Montreal against deportations and the broader struggle for Palestinian freedom and liberation throughout the world. The case of Osama Saleh represents the broader struggle over 40 stateless Palestinian refugees against deportation from Canada. The Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees, continues to call for your support and solidarity for the struggle against Palestinian deportations from Canada. If you are interested in getting involved with or supporting Palestinian refugees in Montreal, please contact us. In Solidarity, The Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees 514 591 3171 / refugees at riseup.net / refugees.resist.ca -------------------------- From news at resist.ca Sun Nov 14 07:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 15:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Final cost of Athens Olympics: $11.6 billion Message-ID: <20041114150905.11073.qmail@resist.ca> MSNBC.com | November 12, 2004 Athens, Greece - The final cost of the Athens Olympics soared to about $11.6 billion -- at least $3.1 billion more than originally estimated. Neither figure included transportation projects such as the new tram line, suburban rail network and extension of the Athens metro system to the airport. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/13/18176/025 From news at resist.ca Sun Nov 14 07:09:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 15:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Mulla Omar Vows to Retake Afghanistan Message-ID: <20041114150905.11076.qmail@resist.ca> Taleban leader Mulla Mohammad Omar has accused the United States of trying to impose a puppet administration in Afghanistan and vowed to regain control of the country, a Pakistan-based Afghan news agency reported yesterday. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/13/105630/71 From news at resist.ca Sun Nov 14 07:09:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 15:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Student files complaint against Vancouver police Message-ID: <20041114150905.11077.qmail@resist.ca> cbc.ca nov. 12 VANCOUVER - A Langara journalism student is launching a complaint with the B.C. Police Complaints Commission. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/12/163416/50 From news at resist.ca Sun Nov 14 07:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 15:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Dire Humanitarian Crisis Brewing in Falluja Message-ID: <20041114150905.11075.qmail@resist.ca> "We call on the Iraqi government and US forces to allow us to do our humanitarian duty to the innocent people," said Firdus al-Ubadi, Red Crescent spokeswoman. "This is their responsibility," she said, adding that judging by reports received from refugees and pictures broadcast on television, Falluja was a "big disaster". URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/12/18428/144 From news at resist.ca Sun Nov 14 07:09:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 15:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Bush nominates Gonzales (who supports torturing "enemy combatants") for attorney general Message-ID: <20041114150906.11078.qmail@resist.ca> Gonzales was involved in drafting and approved an August 2002 memo to the president which included the opinion that laws prohibiting torture do "not apply to the President's detention and interrogation of enemy combatants." The memo also said that an interrogation tactic only constituted torture if it resulted in "death, organ failure, or serious impairment of body functions." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/12/232033/97 From news at resist.ca Sun Nov 14 07:09:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 15:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Food banks 'see more workers, kids' Message-ID: <20041114150906.11084.qmail@resist.ca> Food bank lineups are getting longer all over the country with an astonishing increase in the number of children, students and working families forced to ask for a handout. BC leads the way with 41.7% more children needing emergency food parcels this year. Way to go Gordo...give Ralph something to shoot for. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/13/183023/30 From news at resist.ca Sun Nov 14 07:09:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 15:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] AP: Police Lose Control of Mosul Amid Uprising Message-ID: <20041114150906.11080.qmail@resist.ca> The military says keeping men aged 15 to 55 from leaving is key to the mission's success. "If they're not carrying a weapon, you can't tell who's who," said an officer with the 1st Cavalry Division. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/13/83636/169 From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 15 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Iraq: The Unthinkable Becomes Normal Message-ID: <20041115140903.23173.qmail@resist.ca> By John Pilger "Mainstream media speak as if Fallujah were populated only by foreign 'insurgents.' In fact, women and children are being slaughtered in our name." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/13/211928/23 From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 15 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] US Considers Attack on Latino Immigration Rights Message-ID: <20041115140903.23174.qmail@resist.ca> Wisconsin Republican Rep. James Sensenbrenner, a leading advocate of the bill, said all its provisions stemmed directly from the report of the 9/11 Commission. The bill also seeks to prevent illegal immigrants from obtaining drivers' licenses and would withdraw recognition of ID cards issued by Latin American embassies that many immigrants carry that now allow them to open bank accounts, obtain drivers licenses and even board aircraft. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/14/111719/01 From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 15 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] S.Korean farmers clash with police in demonstration Message-ID: <20041115140903.23175.qmail@resist.ca> www.chinaview.cn 2004-11-13 19:40:05 SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Xinhuanet) -- Some 15,000 South Korean farmers on Saturday clashed with riot police during their demonstration against the government's negotiations on opening the country's rice market. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/13/19191/648 From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 15 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Miami Cops Taser Children Message-ID: <20041115140904.23176.qmail@resist.ca> Police Use of Stun Guns on Children Riles Parents Officers Taser Boy, 6, and Girl, 12 MIAMI (Nov. 13) - Miami-Dade police have acknowledged using a stun gun on a second youngster just weeks after subduing a 55-pound first-grader with a 50,000-volt shock. In the second instance, a 15-year-veteran officer used his Taser to immobilize a 12-year-old girl who was playing hooky from school. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/14/11358/045 From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 15 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada and the Arctic North Message-ID: <20041115140904.23177.qmail@resist.ca> Well, now it appears to be official. On October Seventh, 2004 Imperial Oil (otherwise known as Esso) has submitted an application to build the single largest mega project of industrialization in the history of the settler state of Canada. Along with several Inuit and many other Dene Nations, the Deh Cho (Dene) Nations of the Mackenzie Valley are among those whose land will be traversed by a 1700 kilometere long natural gas pipeline. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/12/232446/85 From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 15 18:09:11 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 02:09:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Bigotry at the Ballot Box Message-ID: <20041116020911.30879.qmail@resist.ca> "Bush's election and the passage of heterosexist marriage laws means that we can have no faith in the power of Americans to do the right thing at the ballot box. Both at home and abroad, the majority has used democracy to sanction violence. Tyranny--the abuse of power--is at hand. There is only one appropriate course of action. My partner and I must now pursue a strategy common to all those who, by virtue of their existence, have ever been subject to the law's violence. Soon we must immigrate, become refugees, to a place where we can feel like humans as we fight for human dignity. We must join the local and international movements of human rights organizing. Our target must be the violent homophobia of the American legal system. Our weapon is free speech. We must find the spaces to argue that people do violence to other human beings when they ban expressions of love by same-sex couples." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/14/155257/84 From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 16 05:09:08 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 13:09:08 -0000 Subject: [news] U.S. President Schwarzenegger? Message-ID: <20041116130908.14129.qmail@resist.ca> Two brief articles on the movement to change the US Constitution to allow non-US born citizens to become US President, focused exclusively for Arnold Schwarzenegger's future run at the Whitey House. Think Bush is bad? Consider a man who has made a career killing brown-skinned "terrorists" in blockbuster Hollywood movies and spearheading right-wing, racist policies as Governor of California. At the last National Republican Convention, Schwarzenegger recalled listening to President Nixon speak as "a breath of fresh air", and dramatically noted his conversion to the Republican Party at that time, saying, "if he [Nixon] is a Republican, then I am a Republican!" Especially interesting given recent talk of making it easier to strip non-US born citizenships and deporting these people based on "anti-terrorism" legislation. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/14/115020/30 From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 16 05:09:08 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 13:09:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Iraqi Shia Condemn Assault on Falluja Message-ID: <20041116130908.14130.qmail@resist.ca> Baghdad's highest Shia authority has denounced the US military assault on Falluja and called on all Iraqi religious authorities to support the Iraqi people. "We back our brotherly Sunni Muslims in the city of Falluja and nothing on earth will spoil our brotherhood with them." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/15/3342/6824 From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 16 05:09:08 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 13:09:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Even more statistical evidence of election fraud Message-ID: <20041116130908.14131.qmail@resist.ca> [In the recent presidential [s]election] most counties [in Florida] fell more or less in line with what one would expect based on the share of Republican registrations, but some differ wildly. All of those with touch-screen voting had results relatively in line with her expected results, while all of those with extreme variance were in counties with optical scanning. According to the official statistics for Cuyahoga county [Ohio], a number of precincts had voter turnout well above the national average: in fact, turnout was well over 100% of registered voters, and in several cases well above the total number of people who have lived in the precinct in the last century or so...One precinct with 558 registered voters cast nearly 9,000 ballots URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/15/181559/39 From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 16 05:09:08 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 13:09:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Alaska's tundra now releasing carbon dioxide Message-ID: <20041116130909.14133.qmail@resist.ca> Scientists say they've found evidence the North has now become a source of atmosphere-warming carbon dioxide. A new study from the Pew Center on Global Climate change says the Arctic tundra is no longer absorbing carbon dioxide, but it rather releasing it. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/15/51144/356 From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 16 05:09:08 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 13:09:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Confessions of an economic hit man Message-ID: <20041116130909.14132.qmail@resist.ca> The following is an interview "with John Perkins, a former respected member of the international banking community. In his book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man he describes how as a highly paid professional, he helped the U.S. cheat poor countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars by lending them more money than they could possibly repay and then take over their economies." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/15/1811/2913 From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 16 05:09:08 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 13:09:08 -0000 Subject: [news] 14 Arrested at OCAP Squat Message-ID: <20041116130909.14137.qmail@resist.ca> ANTI-POVERTY protesters planning to stay overnight in the former Toronto Police headquarters had their plans changed by the old tenants. Moments after members of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty stormed through the front doors of 590 Jarvis St., police stormed through the back doors and began hauling the squatters out one by one. Police arrested 14 people in the melee. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/15/165312/14 From christoff at resist.ca Tue Nov 16 09:40:45 2004 From: christoff at resist.ca (Stefan Christoff) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 09:40:45 -0800 (PST) Subject: [news] CKUT Radio: U.S. Military War Crimes in Fallujah Message-ID: CKUT Radio: U.S. Military War Crimes in Fallujah Listen to a live report on the current military siege of Fallujah, from Dahr Jamail an independent journalist, currently based in Baghdad Iraq. According to a Red Cross official in Iraq, at least 800 civilians have been killed during the U.S. military siege of Fallujah, which has destroyed large areas of the city and inflicted a humanitarian disaster. This live report provides insight and context into the current siege of Fallujah, while questions the distinction between "insurgents" and "civilians" killed in Fallujah, created by official U.S. military statements and widely reported on major North American media networks. To listen / download the report visit: http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2004/11/2909.php To read Dahr Jamail's reports from Iraq visit: http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com ----------------------- 800 Civilians Feared Dead in Fallujah Inter Press Service By: Dahr Jamail {http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/hard_news/archives/hard_news/000121.php#more} BAGHDAD, Nov 16 (IPS) - At least 800 civilians have been killed during the U.S. military siege of Fallujah, a Red Cross official estimates. Speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of U.S. military reprisal, a high-ranking official with the Red Cross in Baghdad told IPS that ?at least 800 civilians? have been killed in Fallujah so far. His estimate is based on reports from Red Crescent aid workers stationed around the embattled city, from residents within the city and from refugees, he said. "Several of our Red Cross workers have just returned from Fallujah since the Americans won't let them into the city," he said. "And they said the people they are tending to in the refugee camps set up in the desert outside the city are telling horrible stories of suffering and death inside Fallujah." The official said that both Red Cross and Iraqi Red Crescent relief teams had asked the U.S. military in Fallujah to take in medical supplies to people trapped in the city, but their repeated requests had been turned down. A convoy of relief supplies from both relief organisations continues to wait on the outskirts of the city for military permission to enter. They have appealed to the United Nations to intervene on their behalf. "The Americans close their ears, and that is it," the Red Cross official said. "They won't even let us take supplies into Fallujah General Hospital." The official estimated that at least 50,000 residents remain trapped within the city. They were too poor to leave, lacked friends or family outside the city and therefore had nowhere to go, or they simply had not had enough time to escape before the siege began, he said. Aid workers in his organisation have reported that houses of civilians in Kharma, a small city near Fallujah, had been bombed by U.S. warplanes. In one instance a family of five was killed just two days ago, they reported. "I don't know why the American leaders did not approach the Red Cross and ask us to deal with the families properly before the attacking began," said a Red Cross aid worker, who also spoke on condition of anonymity. "Suddenly they attacked and people were stuck with no help, no medicine, no food, no supplies," he said. "So those who could, ran for the desert while the rest were trapped in the city." If the U.S. forces would call a temporary cease-fire "we could get our trucks in and get the civilians left in Fallujah who need medical care, we could get them out," he said. Mosques have organised massive collections of food and relief supplies for Fallujah residents as they did last April when the city was under attack, but these supplies have not been allowed into the city either. The Red Cross official said they had received several reports from refugees that the military had dropped cluster bombs in Fallujah, and used a phosphorous weapon that caused severe burns. The U.S. military claims to have killed 1,200 "insurgents" in Fallujah. Abdel Khader Janabi, a resistance leader from the city has said that only about 100 among them were fighters. "Both of them are lying," the Red Cross official said. While they agree on the 1,200 number, they are both lying about the number of dead fighters." He added that "our estimate of 800 civilians is likely to be too low." The situation within Fallujah is grim, he said. If help does not reach people soon, "the children who are trapped will most likely die." He said the Ministry of Health in the U.S.-backed interim Iraqi government had stopped supplying hospitals and clinics in Fallujah two months before the current siege. "The hospitals do not even have aspirin," he said. "This shows, in my opinion, that they've had a plan to attack for a long time and were trying to weaken the people." ----------------------- From sarae at alumni.uwaterloo.ca Tue Nov 16 20:13:25 2004 From: sarae at alumni.uwaterloo.ca (Sara Ehrhardt) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 23:13:25 -0500 Subject: [news] Briefing: Denial of Water to Iraqi Cities Message-ID: <07283E3B-384F-11D9-ABB6-000A95EAFBF0@alumni.uwaterloo.ca> > > > ----- Original Message ----- > This briefing is also available in PDF format at: > http://www.casi.org.uk/briefing/041110denialofwater.pdf > > ******************************* > > BRIEFING, 11/11/04 > > Denial of Water to Iraqi Cities > > INTRODUCTION > > Water supplies to Tall Afar, Samarra and Fallujah have been cut off > during US attacks in the past two months, affecting up to 750,000 > civilians. This appears to form part of a deliberate US policy of > denying water to the residents of cities under attack. If so, it has > been adopted without a public debate, and without consulting > Coalition partners. It is a serious breach of international > humanitarian law, and is deepening Iraqi opposition to the United > States, other Coalition members, and the Iraqi interim government. > > EVIDENCE FOR THE DENIAL OF WATER > > Tall Afar > > On 19 September 2004, the Washington Post reported that US > forces 'had turned off' water supplies to Tall Afar 'for at least three > days' (1). Turkish television reported a statement from the Iraqi > Turkoman Front that 'Tall Afar is completely surrounded. Entries and > exits are banned. > The water shortage is very serious' (2). Al-Manar television in > Lebanon interviewed an aid worker who stated that 'the main > problem facing the people of Tall Afar and adjacent areas is > shortage of water' (3). Relief workers reported a shortage of clean > water (4). Moreover, the Washington Post reports that the US army > failed to offer water to those fleeing Tall Afar, including children > and > pregnant women (5). > > Samarra > > 'Water and electricity [were] cut off' during the assault on Samarra > on Friday 1 October 2004, according to Knight Ridder Newspapers > (6) and the Independent (7). The Washington Post explicitly blames > 'U.S. forces' for this (8). Iraqi TV station Al-Sharqiyah reported that > technical teams were working to 'restore the power and water supply > and repair the sewage networks in Samarra' (9). Al Jazeera > interviewed an aid worker who confirmed that 'the city is > experiencing a crisis in which power and water are cut off' (10), as > well as the commander of the Samarra Police, who reported that > 'there is no electricity and no water' (11). > > Fallujah > > On 16 October the Washington Post reported that: 'Electricity and > water were cut off to the city [Fallujah] just as a fresh wave of > strikes > began Thursday night, an action that U.S. forces also took at the > start of assaults on Najaf and Samarra.' (12) > > Residents of Fallujah have told the UN's Integrated Regional > Information Networks that 'they had no food or clean water and did > not have time to store enough to hold out through the impending > battle' (13). The water shortage has been confirmed by other > civilians fleeing Fallujah(14), Fadhil Badrani, a BBC journalist in > Falluja, confirmed on 8 November that 'the water supply has been > cut off'. > > In light of the shortage of water and other supplies, the Red Cross > has attempted to deliver water to Fallujah. However the US has > refused to allow shipments of water into Fallujah until it has > taken control of the city (15). > > Other cases > > There have been allegations that the water supply was cut off during > the assault on Najaf in August 2004, and during the invasion of > Basra in 2003. We have not investigated these claims. > > > JUSTIFICATIONS FOR THE DENIAL OF > WATER > > Some military analysts have attempted to justify the denial of water > on tactical or humanitarian grounds. Ian Kemp, editor of military > journal 'Jane's Defense Weekly', argues that: 'The longer the city > [Fallujah] is sealed off with the insurgents inside, the more > difficult it > is going to be for them. Eventually, their supplies of food and water > are going to dwindle' (16). > > Barak Salmoni, assistant professor in National Security Affairs at the > U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, told the San Francisco > Chronicle that civilians would probably be encouraged to leave > Fallujah 'by cutting off water and other supplies' (17). > > These arguments are deeply flawed on legal, humanitarian and > political grounds. The majority of the population of Fallujah fled > before the American attack. Those who have not already fled > Fallujah are forced to remain, since roads out of the city have been > blocked (18), including by > British troops (19). Not only are those remaining unable to leave, but > they are likely to consist largely of those too old, weak, or ill to > flee - > precisely the groups which will be most severely affected by a > shortage of water. > > REACTION IN IRAQ > > The information reported above is more widely known in Iraq than in > the US and UK, and has had become a significant political issue. > Belief that US tactics involve denial of water is widespread. > According to the LA Times: > 'As soon as the women of Fallouja learned that four Americans had > been killed, their bodies mutilated, burned and strung up from a > bridge, they knew a terrible battle was coming. They filled their > bathtubs and buckets with water...' (20) > > Condemnations of the tactic have been issued by several major Iraqi > political groups. On 1 October the Iraqi Islamic Party issued a > statement criticising the US attack on Fallujah which 'cut off water, > electricity, and medical supplies', and arguing that such an approach > 'will further aggravate and complicate the security situation'. It also > called for compensation for the victims (21). > > Three days later Muqtada al-Sadr criticized both the denial of water > to Samarra, and the lack of international outrage at it: 'They say that > this city is experiencing the worst humanitarian situations, without > water and electricity, but no-one speaks about this. If the wronged > party were America, wouldn't the whole world come to its rescue and > wouldn't it denounce this?' (22) > > Denial of water is one of the misguided tactics which increases > distrust of the Coalition forces. Asked in June how much confidence > they had in US and UK forces, 50.8% of participating Iraqis > responded 'none at all', with a further 29.5% saying 'not very much' > (23). > > This in turn fuels anti-American violence. A spokesman for the > Association of Muslim Scholars, one of the most significant Sunni > political groupings in Iraq, reported that the party's representative > in > Samarra had told him that 'there was no water'. He argued that partly > asa result of this: 'The Iraqis no longer trust the Americans. It is > not a > question of military manifestations. It is now a question of popular > rejection for the Americans, not for the military manifestations.' (24) > > His analysis is confirmed by the Oxford Research International poll, > according to which one third of Iraqis regard attacks against > Coalition forces as 'acceptable' (25). > > REACTION IN THE UK > > Awareness of this issue remains extremely limited among the British > public. The British government denies involvement. Despite inquiries > from CASI and others, they appear not to have raised the issue with > their American counterparts. UK Armed Forces Minister Adam > Ingram has denied knowledge of US action to cut off water > supplies in Tall Afar (26), despite coverage in the Washington Post. > Similarly Hilary Benn, the UK Secretary of State for International > Development, says he has not discussed the issue with his > American counterparts (27). This lack of communication with the > American side suggests a lack of concern for the > humanitarian implications of the conflict in Iraq, and an unwillingness > to comment on American activities. Concerning British forces, Mr. > Ingram has claimed that: 'With regard to the action of our own > Forces, I can also confirm that we have not cut off water supplies to > civilians. It is possible that local temporary disruptions may have > occurred at some time due to damage from > combat with anti-Iaqi Forces but we are not aware of any actual > cases where this has happened' (28). > > LEGAL IMPLICATIONS > > The denial of water to civilians is illegal both under Iraqi and > international law. Article 12 of the Transitional Administrative > Law,which serves as a constitution during the interim period, states > that: 'Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and the security of his > person' (29) > > International law specifically forbids the denial of water to civilians > during conflict. Under Article 14 of the second protocol of the > Geneva Conventions, > > 'Starvation of civilians as a method of combat is prohibited. It is > therefore prohibited to attack, destroy, remove or render useless for > that purpose, objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian > population such as food-stuffs, agricultural areas for the production > of food-stuffs, crops, livestock, drinking water installations and > supplies and irrigation works.' (30) > > RECOMMENDATIONS > > CASI calls on Members of Parliament to raise this issue with > ministers as a matter of urgency. The UK government must use its > influence with our US ally to ensure that all military operations are > conducted within the bounds of international law. In addition to the > suffering caused to the civilian population, use of these tactics by US > forces puts our own troops at risk from rising insurgency. > > We hope that the issue will be taken up by international NGOs such > as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. Deliberate > disruption of civilian water supplies should be a matter of concern for > all who are promoting human rights in Iraq. > > CASI urges journalists on the ground in Iraq to investigate the above > reports further, in order to build up a clearer picture of use of this > tactic. The UK media must give greater weight to the plight of civilian > populations in their coverage of conflicts such as Fallujah. The UK > public needs to know that our Coalition partner is using this illegal > tactic. > > ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS > > This briefing was prepared for CASI by Daniel O'Huiginn and Alison > Klevnas. Thanks to Felicity Arbuthnot, Anne Campbell, Helena > Cobban, > Mike Lewis, Rory McCarthy, Glen Rangwala, Colin Rowat, Shirin, > Jonathan > Stevenson, Per Klevnas and the members of the CASI Analysis list > for > their help and advice. Except where otherwise noted, extracts from > the > Iraqi press and broadcast media are taken from the BBC news > monitoring > service. > > For more information on this issue, please contact: > > Daniel O'Huiginn, > Tel: 01223 328040 > Mobile: 07745 192426 > Email: dan.ohuiginn at casi.org.uk > > > (1) 'After Recapturing N. Iraqi City, Rebuilding Starts from Scratch', > by Steve Fainaru. 19 September 2004. > http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A31377- > 2004Sep18?language=printer > (2) Comments by Faruq Abd-al-Rahman, leader of the Iraqi > Turkoman > Front, on TRT 2 Television, Ankara, 1600 gmt 12 September 2004 > (3) Al-Manar Television, Beirut, 0440 gmt 14 September 2004 > (4) Al-Sharqiyah, Baghdad, 1200 gmt 15 September 2004 > (5) 'After Recapturing N. Iraqi City, Rebuilding Starts from Scratch', > by Steve Fainaru. 19 September 2004. > http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A31377- > 2004Sep18?language=printer > (6) 'US, Iraqi forces take control of Samarra'. By Nancy A. Youssef > and > Patrick Kerkstra, 1 October 2004, > http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/world/9813499.htm > (7) 'Onslaught in Samarra escalates in 'dress rehearsal' for major > US > assault on rebels'. Ken Sengupta, Independent, 3 October. > http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=56 > 835 > (8) Washington Post, 16 October 2004. > http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A34612- > 2004Oct15?language=printer > (9) Al-Sharqiyah, Baghdad, 1300GMT 8 October 2004 > (10) Al-Jazeera TV, 1505 gmt 1 October 2004 > (11) Al Jazeera TV, 1810 gmt 2 October 2004 > (12) Washington Post, 16 October 2004. > http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A34612- > 2004Oct15?language=printer > (13) 'Iraq: thousands of residents have fled Fallujah'. IRIN, 8 > November. > http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/480fa8736b88bbc3c12564f6004c8 > ad5/c8e6aade2a3db177c1256f460051db3b?OpenDocument > (14) Comment by Shirin, > http://justworldnews.org/MT/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=966 > (15) 'Iraq: thousands of residents have fled Fallujah'. IRIN, 8 > November. > http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/480fa8736b88bbc3c12564f6004c8 > ad5/c8e6aade2a3db177c1256f460051db3b?OpenDocument > (16) 'Iraq: US troops surround al-Fallujah as offensive preparations > continue'. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty feature, 8 November > 2004. > http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2004/11/f29d2002-7151-4453- > 9e91-97c77a17d3f2.html > (17) San Francisco Chronicle, 6th November 2004. > http://www.sfgate.com/cgi- > bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/11/06/MNGHL9NBU11.DTL > (18) > http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=58 > 0548 > (19) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3989815.stm > (20) LA Times, 24 October, > http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg- > fallouja24oct24,1,6787318.story?coll=la-headlines-world > (21) Statement issued by the Political Bureau of the Iraqi Islamic > Party, on 19 Sha'ban 1425 AH, corresponding to 3 Oct 2004. > Reported on > Dar al-Salam radio, Baghdad in Arabic 1600 gmt 4 Oct 04 > (22) Statement by Muqtada al-Sadr on Al-Manar Television, Beirut, > in > Arabic 1800 gmt 4 October 2004 > (23) Survey conducted in June 2004 by Oxford Research > International, > http://www.oxfordresearch.com/Iraq%20June%202004%20Frequenc > y%20Tables.PD > (24) Al-Jazeera TV, 1615 GMT 2 October 2004 > (25) Survey conducted in June 2004 by Oxford Research > International, > http://www.oxfordresearch.com/Iraq%20June%202004%20Frequenc > y%20Tables.PD > (26) Response of Adam Ingram on 25 October 2004 to questions > 191479 > (tabled by Llwyd, and 192090, 192089, and 192087 tabled by Adam > Price. > http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmhansrd/cm04 > 1025/text/41025w03.htm#41025w03.html_spnew9 > (27) Response to question by Adam Price MP: > Adam Price: To ask the Secretary of State for International > Development > what discussions he has had with counterparts in the US > Administration > on cutting off water supplies in Iraq. [192088] > Hilary Benn: I have had no such discussions > http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmhansrd/cm04 > 1103/text/41103w03.htm#41103w03.html_spnew4 > (28) Letter from Adam Ingram to Anne Campbell MP, dated 21 > October > 2004, ref D/Min(AF)/AI 4770/04/C > (29) Law of administration for the state of Iraq for the transitional > period, http://www.cpa-iraq.org/government/TAL.html > (30) > http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/7c4d08d9b287a42141256739003e636b/d6 > 7c3971bcff1c10c125641e0052b545 From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 17 05:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 13:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Iraqis Remove Corpses Under U.S. Oversight Message-ID: <20041117130903.13448.qmail@resist.ca> FALLUJAH, Iraq - Murmuring "God is great," two dozen Iraqi men collected corpses Tuesday in a U.S. Marine-directed effort to rid Fallujah of festering bodies in keeping with Muslim burial principles. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/16/17557/849 From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 17 05:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 13:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Vancouver Jury Trial Over Botched Deportation Begins Message-ID: <20041117130904.13449.qmail@resist.ca> Justin Goodman's jury trial began today at the Supreme Court in downtown Vancouver, relating to Immigration Canada's attempt to deport Kobra Nateghi and her son, Hassan Esmat, almost two years ago. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/15/202152/24 From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 17 05:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 13:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Thinning ice forces cull of Greenland dogs Message-ID: <20041117130904.13450.qmail@resist.ca> Kielson Holm says a campaign is underway to help hunters in Greenland feed their dogs An official with the Inuit Circumpolar Conference Greenland says ice conditions and bad weather have prevented Greenlanders from hunting seals to feed their animals. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/15/21921/418 From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 17 05:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 13:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Graham Extradition hearing preparations, Mon-Wed Message-ID: <20041117130904.13453.qmail@resist.ca> The US is attempting to extradite John Graham, a Tuchone from the Yukon, for 1st degree murder of Anna Mae Aquash. Anna Maes' body was found in Wanbli South Dakota in February 1976. She had been shot in the back of the head, execution style. Initially the FBI attempted to cover-up her identity and cause of death. The evidence for 2 indictments given out last May 2003, was based on a video taped confession Arlo Looking Cloud gave where first he stated he was intoxicated, and he eventually slurred a story that was fed to him by investigators. In April 2003, John Graham was indicted along with Arlo Looking Cloud, a Lakota from Wounded Knee South Dakota for Anna Maes' murder. Arlo was found guilty for aiding and abbetting in her murder, and he was sentenced in April 2004. Arlo was not allowed to choose his own lawer, or to take the stand to defend himself at his own trial. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/15/203416/21 From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 17 05:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 13:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Rights Group Blasts "Racist" U.S. Media Message-ID: <20041117130904.13451.qmail@resist.ca> "The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) said it was deeply concerned with 'the alarming hostility expressed by media commentators towards the Palestinian people in the wake of the death of Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat'....The ADC said US networks MSNBC and CNN both broadcast hostile commentary regarding Palestinians." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/16/15126/027 From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 17 05:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 13:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Dear America: Thank You Message-ID: <20041117130904.13454.qmail@resist.ca> Dear United States: I want to thank you. Don't get me wrong. I don't think you had a real choice. But the fact is, you are going along with this. No, I don't mean that no one is challenging the vote. I was unable to figure out which side I was thinking would be better in helping the movement for a better world. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/15/51515/269 From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 19 05:09:08 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:09:08 -0000 Subject: [news] US accused of `torture flights' Message-ID: <20041119130908.22138.qmail@resist.ca> Stephen Grey - Sunday Times AN executive jet is being used by the American intelligence agencies to fly terrorist suspects to countries that routinely use torture in their prisons. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/16/193552/00 From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 19 05:09:08 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:09:08 -0000 Subject: [news] "We Must Kill the Bandits:" Lula's Troops in Haiti Message-ID: <20041119130908.22137.qmail@resist.ca> "Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva recently commented, 'Our solidarity is being tested by the Caribbean crisis in Haiti.' In truth, it is the solidarity of international activists with Lula's government that is being tested. As Brazil angles for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, many progressives around the world cannot help but wonder how much complicity with brutal repression Lula will countenance in order to look "credible" to Washington." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/17/103135/32 From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 19 06:09:16 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:09:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Hundreds Arrested at APEC Summit in Chile Message-ID: <20041119140916.31179.qmail@resist.ca> Around 120 protesters were arrested here Wednesday after they crashed with police in a rally against globalization and US President George W. Bush, who will arrive here for Saturday's economic leaders meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/17/21323/946 From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 19 06:09:16 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:09:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Hamilton trying to charge hundreds of Red Hill Creek protesters Message-ID: <20041119140916.31180.qmail@resist.ca> A Hamilton city council committee has decided to punish opponents of the Red Hill Creek Expressway. The Public Works, Infrastructure and Environment committee adopted a resolution on Monday "that the City commence a Court Action against all identifiable individuals who, during the summer of 2004, participated in activities in contravention of the City's Injunction Order, seeking to have them held in contempt of Court." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/18/151235/65 From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 19 06:09:16 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:09:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Anarchism and The Sanctity of Marriage debate Message-ID: <20041119140916.31178.qmail@resist.ca> (C)Eugene Plawiuk---September 2004 ------------------------------------------------- "The popular notion about marriage and love is that they are synonymous, that they spring from the same motives, and cover the same human needs. Like most popular notions this also rests not on actual facts, but on superstition." Emma Goldman, Marriage and Love -------------------------------------------------- URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/18/2566/7851 From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 19 06:09:16 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:09:16 -0000 Subject: [news] "Government consulted adequately" with Nations: Supreme Court Message-ID: <20041119140916.31181.qmail@resist.ca> OTTAWA - A B.C. mining company has won a major legal battle in its bid to re-open a mine near Atlin, with the Supreme Court of Canada ruling the provincial government had consulted adequately with local First Nations in approving the project. In a landmark ruling, Canada's top court ruled Thursday that governments have a legal but limited duty to consult First Nations about the use of land, even where it involves unproven aboriginal claims. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/18/142649/12 From prms at alternatives.com Fri Nov 19 19:20:14 2004 From: prms at alternatives.com (Press Release Media Service) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 19:20:14 -0800 Subject: [news] Showdown over UBC Towers Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.20041119192014.00906de0@mail.alternatives.com> http://www.alternatives.com/prms/2004/wbps1119.pdf Wreck Beach Preservation Society and Pacific Spirit Park Society JOINT NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release November 19, 2004 Showdown over UBC Towers On Monday, November 22, 2004, the Wreck Beach Preservation Society (WBPS), the Pacific Spirit Park Society (PSPS) and local citizens will take on the University of British Columbia regarding its plan to build four 20 storey buildings towering over the world famous beach. The highly controversial development is on the agenda of the GVRD-UBC Joint Committee meeting, taking place at the GVRD head office, 4330 Kingsway, Burnaby, starting at 5 p.m. Wreck Beach is part of Pacific Spirit Regional Park, which is protected from development impacts by its Park Plan and by the Official Community Plan (OCP). The GVRD has echoed the two Societies' concerns about the impact on the pristine, natural views of the cliffs from the beach, on the privacy of beach visitors, and on cliff stability and erosion. The first of the four towers has already received a development permit and is under construction; with another story or two, Tower 1 will be seen from the beach. "The recent land slide on the cliff face below the development site is Mother Nature's warning that these Towers will be bad for the Park," cautioned Judy Williams, president of the WBPS. "It is obvious that these Towers, as currently planned, will destroy the natural, unspoiled views of the Park's forested cliffs from the beach. To comply with the OCP, UBC must mitigate this negative impact. PSPS and WBPS call on UBC to halt construction until a full public review of the project's impacts is undertaken," said Ed Chessor, Chair of the Pacific Spirit Park Society. On October 29, 2004, the GVRD passed a resolution to "require UBC conduct a full public review, including consultation with the Musqueam, regarding the impact of the planned residences on the park to meet requirements of the Regional Park Management Plan". "The public is entitled to review and comment on the studies UBC has commissioned for the Towers, and UBC is obliged to consider this input. Public consultation can only assist UBC in properly mitigating the Towers' negative impacts," stated Lara Tessaro, legal counsel to WBPS. Yet to date, UBC has not released its environmental and geotechnical studies to concerned citizens, despite a second GVRD resolution advocating their release. The agenda and associated reports for the Joint Committee meeting are located at http://www.gvrd.bc.ca/board/agendas/04comagendas/GVRD-UBC/november/agenda.htm . Information about the WBPS's 21,000-signature petition and letter-writing campaign opposing the Towers can be found at http://www.wreckbeach.org/. -30- For more information, please contact: Judy Williams, President of the Wreck Beach Preservation Society at 604-308-6336 James Loewen, Vice-President of the Wreck Beach Preservation Society at 604-689-9697 Lara Tessaro, Legal Counsel to the Wreck Beach Preservation Society, at 604-688-6881 or 604-873-1178 Ed Chessor, Chair of the Pacific Spirit Park Society at 604 822-9707 or 604-813-9707 From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 19 21:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 05:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] 47 parties boycott elections in Iraq Message-ID: <20041120050903.28747.qmail@resist.ca> Baghdad - Forty-seven Iraqi political and religious parties have decided to boycott the general elections due in January in protest against the extended use of force throughout the country, a joint statement said on Wednesday. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/19/201325/18 From news at resist.ca Sat Nov 20 06:09:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 14:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Workers' Defence Bulletin, Nov 18, 2004 Message-ID: <20041120140903.843.qmail@resist.ca> [via the aut-op-sy list...] 1.Philippines- Strikers Massacred: Your Help Needed Now 2.USA- Locked-Out Hotel Workers Still Need Your Support 3.El Salvador- U.S. Trade Unionist Assasinated 4.Korea-KGEU General Strike launched, State Suppresion Getting Bitter 5.China- Shoe Factory Workers Imprisoned 6.Israel- Authorities Seek to Dismantle Workers Advice Centre 7.Hondouras-Gildan Continues to Violate Labor Rights! 8.Iraq-Urgent Appeal From Fallujah URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/19/10327/003 From news at resist.ca Sat Nov 20 06:09:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 14:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Israeli "Defence" Forces to join NATO exercises Message-ID: <20041120140902.840.qmail@resist.ca> -The enormously expanded NATO is seeking to revive the framework, known as the Mediterranean Dialogue program, set up a decade ago, as part of its interest in expanding its realm. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/18/141416/45 From news at resist.ca Sat Nov 20 06:09:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 14:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] ALF Strikes in Iowa Message-ID: <20041120140902.841.qmail@resist.ca> The Animal Liberation Front is claiming responsibility for the liberation of 401 animals from the University of Iowa in the early hours of November 14th, 2004. All animals on the third floor of the UI psychology department -- 88 mice and 313 rats -- were removed, examined and treated by a sympathetic veterinarian, and placed in loving homes. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/19/1529/8284 From news at resist.ca Sat Nov 20 06:09:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 14:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Kangaroo Mother Care, an example to follow from developing countries Message-ID: <20041120140903.842.qmail@resist.ca> In 1978 Edgar Rey, a Colombian paediatrician concerned with the problems arising from a shortage of incubators and the impact of separating women from newborns in neonatal care units, developed Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC),3 a healthcare technique for low birthweight infants that is at least as effective as traditional care in a neonatal care unit. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/18/65530/176 From news at resist.ca Sat Nov 20 06:09:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 14:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Former British Trade Union Leader Helps Canadian Businesses Push Privatization Message-ID: <20041120140903.844.qmail@resist.ca> "There are few individuals more popular in business circles than a tame trade unionist who has decided to feather his own nest by going over to the employers' side. Lew Adams is a case in point....On Friday, November 26, Adams will address a joint lunchtime meeting of the Vancouver Board of Trade and the Canadian Council For Public-Private Partnerships (CCPPP), Canada's largest and most powerful P3 lobby group." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/18/181219/56 From news at resist.ca Sat Nov 20 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Skypigs Get More Power Message-ID: <20041120140903.847.qmail@resist.ca> "Dozens of police officers will be patrolling TransLink's SkyTrain system by the end of this month." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/19/1533/3733 From news at resist.ca Sun Nov 21 07:09:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 15:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Human Worth Versus The Cost of Rent Message-ID: <20041121150902.9781.qmail@resist.ca> How much worth does a human life have? Is a human life worth $100? What if someone said to you that they could not take poverty anymore, and that the daily grind of poverty stigma and hells just to eat and sleep at night have gotten to be too much. That they were going to commit suicide if this did not stop and soon. Would it be worth pledging $100 a month to keep that human alive? Or not? Be honest. Or would it be worth maybe ten cents a month, to keep that person alive? Seriously, how much is a human life worth to you personally? How much would you be willing to give up, to keep that human being alive? What happens when a human's worth goes below rent and food costs? When a human life costs more than it is worth? What happens when people care more about buying plastic holiday decorations at K-Mart than humans freezing to death on the streets outside their locked doors? What happens when human beings have no worth? What happens is the world you see today. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/21/45431/877 From news at resist.ca Sun Nov 21 07:09:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 15:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Palestinian Plurality Message-ID: <20041121150902.9780.qmail@resist.ca> There are over 9 million people worldwide who self-identify as Palestinian. A little more than 4.5 million of them live on the land alternately known as "Mandate Palestine," "Israel and the Occupied/Administered Territories," "Israel/Palestine" or any other number of names, depending on whom you speak to and when. As one of many million Palestinians born outside of the disputed land in question, I admittedly prefer, "Palestine." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/19/221053/83 From news at resist.ca Sun Nov 21 07:09:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 15:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Palestinians Called 'Stinking Animals' on MSNBC Message-ID: <20041121150902.9782.qmail@resist.ca> (WASHINGTON, D.C., 11/18/04) A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today called for an apology from the MSNBC cable television network over comments on its "Imus in the Morning" program that referred to Palestinians as "stinking animals" and suggested that they all be killed. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/21/0516/3754 From news at resist.ca Sun Nov 21 07:09:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 15:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Anti-war movement prepares for Bush Message-ID: <20041121150903.9783.qmail@resist.ca> George W. Bush is making an official visit to Canada November 30 - December 1, in what will mark both his first trip to our capital -- that's Ottawa, not Toronto, as I assume someone has briefed George -- and one of his first international visits since the November 2 election. People across the country are looking forward to giving the American President the welcome that he deserves. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/19/2177/3789 From news at resist.ca Sun Nov 21 07:09:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 15:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Iraqi Groups Call for Election Boycott Message-ID: <20041121150903.9784.qmail@resist.ca> "A group of national, political and religious groups in Iraq, including the Association of Muslim Scholars, have decided to boycott the elections due to be held early next year....The signatories of the statement include Imam Khalesi University, Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS); the National Trend Movement; Iraqi National Foundational Conference; Iraqi Turkomen Front; and the Christian Democratic Party." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/18/19646/538 From news at resist.ca Sun Nov 21 07:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Kelowna Goes for Safe Streets Message-ID: <20041121150903.9787.qmail@resist.ca> Three-quarters of UBCM delegates heartily endorsed Wednesday a City of Kelowna resolution supporting the creation of safe streets legislation. Mayor Walter Gray, who had the last word during the halfhour debate, used this week's closure of the Kelowna Drop-In Centre as an example of where the proposed legislation could be used as a community tool. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/20/10365/743 From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 22 06:09:18 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 14:09:18 -0000 Subject: [news] The coming currency shock Message-ID: <20041122140918.16543.qmail@resist.ca> "The reason for the collapse [of the US dollar] is the huge stock of reserve currency held by foreigners. When other countries conclude that their hoards of dollars represent claims that the US cannot meet, dollar dumping begins. Financing for US debt dries up; interest rates rise; imported goods become unaffordable and living standards fall. Flight from the dollar is already underway. During the past two years, the US dollar has declined 52% against the new European currency, the Euro. This decline is striking in view of the sluggish European economy and the fact that many analysts regard the Euro as merely a political currency." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/19/21343/054 From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 22 06:09:18 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 14:09:18 -0000 Subject: [news] Hearings on Ohio voting put 2004 election in doubt Message-ID: <20041122140918.16544.qmail@resist.ca> On Saturday, November 13, and Monday, November 15, the Ohio Election Protection Coalition's public hearings in Columbus solicited extensive sworn first-person testimony from 32 of Ohio voters, precinct judges, poll workers, legal observers, party challengers. An additional 66 people provided written affidavits of election irregularities. The unavoidable conclusion is that this year's election in Ohio was deeply flawed, that thousands of Ohioans were denied their right to vote, and that the ultimate vote count is very much in doubt. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/21/2087/8148 From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 22 06:09:18 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 14:09:18 -0000 Subject: [news] Climate change already affects Arctic animals Message-ID: <20041122140919.16545.qmail@resist.ca> While the fight for international action to combat warming in the Arctic intensifies, people at "ground zero," as one Inuvialuit recently noted in Iceland, are already sensing changes in plants, animals, fish and birds. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/21/231835/03 From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 22 06:09:18 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 14:09:18 -0000 Subject: [news] British Man Terrorized by "Anti-Terrorist" Cops Message-ID: <20041122140919.16546.qmail@resist.ca> "You are going to remember this day for the rest of your fucking life. Do you understand me, you fucking bastard? - arresting British 'Anti-Terrorist' police reading Babar Ahmad his rights." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/21/151239/30 From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 22 06:09:18 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 14:09:18 -0000 Subject: [news] Iraqi Insurgents Blow up Oil Pipeline Message-ID: <20041122140919.16547.qmail@resist.ca> Some areas of the oil pipeline linking the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk with the Turkish Ceyhan harbour, in the Mediterranean sea, have been blown up by Iraqi insurgents, Al Jazeera news service reported Sunday. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/21/204319/48 From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 22 06:09:18 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 14:09:18 -0000 Subject: [news] Bush Coming To Ottawa And Why We Must Resist Message-ID: <20041122140919.16548.qmail@resist.ca> Tyranny is ensconced in the absence of resistance. Bush must be stopped; cowering before this man can only normalize a malevolent arrogance that devalues humanity and hates truth. The truth is that those who will take to Ottawa's streets while our government honours Bush are an expression of why we have reason to hope. And don't let the red carpet that will be unfurled for Bush distract you; in these four years, a human can attain no higher honour than in resisting America's Molach. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/21/84752/110 From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 23 06:09:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Investigating the Indian Gaming Scandal Message-ID: <20041123140903.31691.qmail@resist.ca> The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs has, for nine months, been investigating charges that former lobbyist Jack Abramoff and public relations executive Michael Scanlon manipulated Indian tribes and walked away with millions of dollars from "less than honorable" dealings. Washington insider Jack Abramoff promised free assistance to the Tigua tribe, claiming he could help to reopen their tribal casino that had been shut down by the state of Texas. What the tribe didn't know was that Abramoff had worked as part of the anti-gambling lobby that helped close that very casino, and that he had a secret deal with Scanlon to share the profits. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/23/51025/183 From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 23 06:09:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Dene Youth Alliance charges bias against panel Message-ID: <20041123140903.31692.qmail@resist.ca> The chair of the joint review panel for the Mackenzie Valley pipeline project is rejecting allegations of bias against a member of his staff. A member of the Dene Youth Alliance made the allegations against the legal counsel for the panel reviewing the pipeline project. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/22/10190/292 From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 23 06:09:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] U.S. Soldiers in Falluja Told to Shoot on Sight Message-ID: <20041123140903.31693.qmail@resist.ca> "On the eve of the assault on Falluja, the US military ordered troops to shoot any male on the street between the ages of 15 and 50 if they were seen as a security threat, regardless of whether they had a weapon....'You are killers, not murderers. You are warriors not war criminals. Don't cross that line,'" (said one U.S. Officer). URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/21/205118/98 From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 23 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] U.S. Congress adds $800 billion to debt limit Message-ID: <20041123140903.31697.qmail@resist.ca> "Washington---The U.S. Congress has approved adding another $800 billion US to the country's debt limit, allowing the government to increase the debt to $8.18 trillion US." The American media has failed to print the story. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/23/45051/922 From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 23 06:09:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] A Poem For Christmas Greed Message-ID: <20041123140903.31690.qmail@resist.ca> A poem for greed at Christmas... URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/21/04649/550 From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 23 06:09:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Kelowna Homeless Confront Mayor Message-ID: <20041123140903.31694.qmail@resist.ca> November 17 - Kelowna Daily Courier A protest by homeless people on the steps of Kelowna City Hall last night drew an in-person rebuke from Mayor Walter Gray. A half-dozen men and one woman were preparing to camp at the front door when they were confronted by Gray. "So, what's the issue here," an obviously annoyed Gray asked them, after coming outside from council chambers when told there were people preparing to bed down for the night URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/20/104019/11 From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 24 06:09:08 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 14:09:08 -0000 Subject: [news] US Gov't docs: We are out of new oil, need wars Message-ID: <20041124140908.28735.qmail@resist.ca> As the United States prepares for war with Iraq, a report commissioned early in George Bush's presidency has surfaced, showing that the US knew it was running out of oil and foreshadowing the possible need for military intervention to secure supplies. The report forecasts an end to cheap and plentiful fuel, with the energy industry facing "the beginning of capacity limitations". URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/23/162921/75 From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 24 06:09:08 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 14:09:08 -0000 Subject: [news] U.S. Hopes for Falluja Beginning to Unravel Message-ID: <20041124140908.28736.qmail@resist.ca> "The U.S. is now faced with the choice of leaving Falluja and allowing the Shura (Resistance) government which has ruled it since April to return to power, or allow the resistance to take power in many other cities. Either option will leave the U.S. in a significantly worse position than it was in before the attack. As so many predicted, the attack on Falluja has strengthened the resistance and weakened the American occupation." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/23/163355/39 From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 24 06:09:08 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 14:09:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Panel negotiations stall, Deh Cho walk out Message-ID: <20041124140908.28734.qmail@resist.ca> Negotiators for the Deh Cho First Nations have walked out of talks with Ottawa aimed at settling two high-profile suits over the review of the Mackenzie Valley pipeline. The Deh Cho wants to become part of the agreement that created the panel, putting them on the same footing as the federal government and the Inuvialuit. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/23/144447/20 From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 24 06:09:08 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 14:09:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Resistance is Warranted Message-ID: <20041124140909.28739.qmail@resist.ca> It is of little consequence how many of these crimes can be proved to involve Bush's direction. What matters is he launched illegal aggressive war. If Canada does not arrest him, it means Canada is in breach of their international obligations as a signatory in the Hague. Sometime in the upcoming months, presumably next May, another alleged war criminal will be making his way to Canada, and this time right in the heart of Montreal. Ehud Barak, former Prime Minister and "leading dove" from Israel, will attempt to give a speech to a private, selected crowd on the campus of Concordia University. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/23/145356/96 From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 24 06:09:08 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 14:09:08 -0000 Subject: [news] DKA and Cops Limit Needle Exchange Message-ID: <20041124140908.28737.qmail@resist.ca> John McDonald, Capital News If you want to find out information about the needle exchange program in Kelowna, don't ask the man who supervises it - he doesn't know. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/23/95512/041 From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 24 06:09:08 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 14:09:08 -0000 Subject: [news] July 2003 WTO trial begins in Montreal Message-ID: <20041124140908.28738.qmail@resist.ca> "...If you're in a crowd and a few bad apples start lobbing rocks, you're at risk of being arrested, which is exactly what happened last July. Montreal police kept...demonstrators far from the Sheraton Centre where the WTO was meeting and instead of herding them south off Rene Levesque Blvd., they herded them north to - guess where? - Ste. Catherine St., where there are plenty of capitalist windows to smash." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/23/54233/214 From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 25 08:09:08 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 16:09:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Court rejects petition against bill for Jews-only communities Message-ID: <20041125160908.11010.qmail@resist.ca> The High Court of Justice dismissed on Tuesday a petition seeking to prevent the Knesset from voting on a bill that would allow the establishment of communities for Jews only. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/25/65744/196 From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 25 08:09:08 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 16:09:08 -0000 Subject: [news] McDonalds CEO resigns to fight colon cancer Message-ID: <20041125160908.11009.qmail@resist.ca> CHICAGO: McDonald's Corporation is welcoming its second new CEO in seven months, as Charlie Bell abruptly resigned to focus on battling the colon cancer doctors detected two weeks after he became the fast food giant's chief. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/24/183443/06 From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 25 08:09:08 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 16:09:08 -0000 Subject: [news] "Not a penny more for RAV", says CUPE BC President Message-ID: <20041125160909.11012.qmail@resist.ca> BURNABY, BC, Nov. 18 CNW - CUPE BC President Barry O'Neill is demanding TransLink directors honour their promise to taxpayers and reject Richmond-Airport-Vancouver (RAV) rapid transit plans that exceed their committed budget expenditure ceiling. Global TV reported this evening that a leaked document about the RAV procurement, expected to be announced by RAVCO staff tomorrow, to be between $100 million and $300 million over budget. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/23/53144/335 From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 25 08:09:08 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 16:09:08 -0000 Subject: [news] U.S. and 7 Countries Weigh New Findings on Arctic Climate Message-ID: <20041125160908.11011.qmail@resist.ca> The United States and the seven other countries with Arctic territory today expressed concern about profound changes in the Arctic climate and said they would consider new scientific findings concluding that heat-trapping emissions were the main cause. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/24/13571/229 From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 25 08:09:08 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 16:09:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Australian police raid Aboriginal newspaper Message-ID: <20041125160909.11013.qmail@resist.ca> Australia's reelected Howard government has launched a blatant attack on press freedom with a federal police raid on November 11 on the National Indigenous Times (NIT), an Aboriginal newspaper. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/24/191045/03 From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 25 08:09:08 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 16:09:08 -0000 Subject: [news] The Bush Protest Debate Message-ID: <20041125160909.11016.qmail@resist.ca> The Bush Protest debate - Placards, Produce, or Parrish | by Aaron Lakoff As soon as the news went out, activists from every corner of eastern Canada hit the ground running. Bush in Ottawa on November 30! As quickly as you can say "diplomatic mission", calls were going out for mass protests, buses filled with demonstrators, community meetings, and crafty slogans. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/24/93744/138 From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 26 08:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 16:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] "Project Boneyard" - 'Hate Rock' Counter-Campaign Message-ID: <20041126160904.17870.qmail@resist.ca> News Flash: Apparently, normally mundane activities such as worshipping Rudolph Hess can be made more appealing if supported by a few badly played power chords. In September 2004 a fascist record label in the United States claimed to be producing 100,000 CD samplers of 'white power music' for concentrated distribution throughout disaffected white communities across America - from coast to coast, in every state. These CDs are to be handed out in middle schools, high schools, university campuses, shopping malls, sporting events, mainstream concerts, parties, and via direct-mail schemes. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/25/95131/644 From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 26 08:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 16:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] New Death Sentence Precedent in Washington State Stands Message-ID: <20041126160904.17871.qmail@resist.ca> Back in 2003, Gary Ridgway, Washington state's "Green River Murderer," confessed to 48 murders of women, under a plea bargain with the state. He is deemed "the nation's worst serial killer." The "bargain" was Ridgway plead guilty and confess, after months of 14 hour a day interrogations, and the abuse which is routine to beat these "free will confessions" out of people, and in return for his "free will confessions," he would escape the death penalty and instead spend his life in jail with no chance of parole. Then in 2004, Charles Champion, a black male in the same jurisdiction, was accused of killing one white male police officer. And was threatened with death if convicted. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/24/03050/901 From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 26 08:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 16:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Terrorizing Those Who are Praying Message-ID: <20041126160904.17873.qmail@resist.ca> After several weeks of relative calm in Adhamiya, the detention of the Imam of Abu Hanifa and killing of worshippers inside their mosque is sure to ignite the fires of revenge in this area, which is already known as the Fallujah of Baghdad." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/24/12743/693 From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 26 08:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 16:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] 'End RAV line talks': Richmond councillor Message-ID: <20041126160904.17872.qmail@resist.ca> "It is time for us all to say 'enough', take RAV off life support and allow it a merciful death," wrote Steves. Richmond council will discuss the line today but Steves thinks more than half the council will vote against granting access to Richmond land for the project -- forcing expropriation. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/26/6455/4722 From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 26 08:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 16:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Court rules Tlingits have no case in mine dispute Message-ID: <20041126160904.17874.qmail@resist.ca> JUNEAU -- The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled against the Taku River Tlingit First Nation's claims that British Columbia ignored its concerns about a proposed mine near the Alaska border. The court ruled 7-0 Thursday to reverse two lower courts' findings that British Columbia officials did not adequately consult with the Tlingits about the proposed Tulsequah Chief multi-metal mine about the potential impact on their ancestral home. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/26/65736/783 From news at resist.ca Sat Nov 27 08:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 16:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Your laser printer could be spying on you Message-ID: <20041127160903.13421.qmail@resist.ca> Jason Touhey, Medill News Srvice Next time you make a printout from your color laser printer, shine an LED flashlight beam on it and examine it closely with a magnifying glass. You might be able to see the small, scattered yellow dots printer there that could be used to trace the document back to you. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/27/63345/344 From news at resist.ca Sat Nov 27 08:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 16:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Deh Cho, feds at loggerheads over pipeline Message-ID: <20041127160904.13422.qmail@resist.ca> Christian says he thought the two sides were making progress until the Deh Cho issued what he calls an "ultimatum": that they wouldn't drop the lawsuits unless they could have a veto over the Mackenzie Gas project. Christian says it's not in Canada's interest to give the Deh Cho this veto, and if the Deh Cho won't reconsider its position, he threatens Canada will walk away from the Deh Cho process. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/25/215427/95 From news at resist.ca Sat Nov 27 08:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 16:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] CN's hidden camera sparks workers' ire Message-ID: <20041127160904.13424.qmail@resist.ca> The discovery of a hidden camera at CN Rail's Transcona [Manitoba] Wheel Yard shook employees and poisoned the workplace, the union says. But the railway says putting two cameras in the ceiling was a way to get to the bottom of unexplained equipment breakdowns. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/26/162937/45 From news at resist.ca Sat Nov 27 08:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 16:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Kosovo Liberation Army helps establish "protectorate" in Haiti Message-ID: <20041127160904.13423.qmail@resist.ca> Recent findings indicate that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is employing suspected war criminals from the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in Haiti. The KLA is best known as a terrorist organization with ties to the CIA, US State Department, and narco-trafficking. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/27/71056/077 From news at resist.ca Sat Nov 27 08:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 16:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Indigenous insurrection in Australia over death in police custody Message-ID: <20041127160904.13425.qmail@resist.ca> About 1,000 residents of the Aboriginal community of Palm Island, Australia, burned down the local police station, court house and the home of the police officer-in-charge on November 26, after a coroner's report revealed that Cameron Doomadgee, a 36-year-old Aboriginal and Palm Island resident, had suffered four broken ribs, a ruptured liver and a ruptured portal vein, during an arrest for public drunkenness last Friday. Doomadgee died about an hour later in police custody. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/26/114336/25 From news at resist.ca Sat Nov 27 08:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 16:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Anti-bush protesters boycott police talks Message-ID: <20041127160904.13427.qmail@resist.ca> CBC - Nov 26 | OTTAWA Most anti-Bush protesters boycotted a meeting organized by the Ottawa police liaison team, Thursday night. Some say they will no longer co-operate with police. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/26/7544/0565 From news at resist.ca Sun Nov 28 08:09:08 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 16:09:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Pinochet and Bush - the troubles facing war criminals Message-ID: <20041128160908.23569.qmail@resist.ca> Learning a lesson from the trials and tribulations of the dictator Augusto Pinochet, who was indicted for crimes against humanity when he traveled outside of Chile, George W. Bush arranged for his being granted "diplomatic immunity" by Chilean president Lagos as a precondition for Bush's trip to Chile for the Asia-Pacific Economic Conference. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/27/7346/6396 From news at resist.ca Sun Nov 28 08:09:08 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 16:09:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Bush in Halifax Message-ID: <20041128160909.23570.qmail@resist.ca> ::: Communique I: Callout ::: On Wednesday, December 1st, the commander-in-chief of the United States war machine, George W. Bush, will dodge soft criticism in Parliament with a photo-op in what his planners consider the sanctuary of Halifax. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/27/22575/921 From news at resist.ca Sun Nov 28 08:09:08 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 16:09:08 -0000 Subject: [news] After Iraq it is Venezuela Message-ID: <20041128160909.23571.qmail@resist.ca> After Iraq it is Venezuela - the next oil confrontation between America and Euro Zone and this time a new super power coalition of India, China, Russia and Brazil makes the difference. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/27/145739/47 From news at resist.ca Sun Nov 28 08:09:08 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 16:09:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Shadow of Anti-Semitism over Ukraine's Disputed Election Message-ID: <20041128160909.23572.qmail@resist.ca> by British Helsinki Human Rights Group | 24 November 2004 Western television viewers and newspaper readers are being fed on a diet of propaganda about the current crisis in Ukraine... "People power" and Western-orientated democrats are on the march against evil ex-communist oligarchs. Good is battling against evil for the soul of Ukraine. Sadly it is not so simple. Western media and governments may have edited out the manifestations of extreme nationalism and anti-Semitism which disfigure the Ukrainian opposition's rabble-rousing but history will record that in the run up to the disputed presidential elections, key opposition leaders, including Viktor Yushchenko, Julia Timoshenko and Alexander Moroz, defended anti-Semitic publications and accepted the backing of neo-Nazi groups as well as US and EU and so-called "civic society" NGOs. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/27/13130/397 From news at resist.ca Sun Nov 28 08:09:09 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 16:09:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Charest reopens Great Whale Hydro Negotiations which Cree fought to stop in 1995 Message-ID: <20041128160909.23583.qmail@resist.ca> MONTREAL -- Premier Jean Charest has a dream that Quebec can emulate oil-rich Alberta, its coffers overflowing with cash from the export of hydroelectric energy. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/28/73223/378 From news at resist.ca Sun Nov 28 08:09:08 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 16:09:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Help that hinders Message-ID: <20041128160909.23573.qmail@resist.ca> By Arundhati Roy Because of globalisation the distance between decision-makers and those who endure the effects of those decisions has never been so great. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/28/74829/142 From news at resist.ca Sun Nov 28 08:09:08 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 16:09:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Indigenous Peoples Day: Genocide It Is Message-ID: <20041128160909.23574.qmail@resist.ca> ''I think it's the proverbial elephant in the living room that nobody's willing to talk about, pretending it's not there. It is there, and we're coming to that time where we have to talk about it,'' he says. "I work with the public every day and it does come up in conversations ... people always want to know what happened on Haida Gwaii; how the population went from over 10,000 down to 500 and how that all came about. They know that's something wrong there, that something happened (because) our people just disappeared like that." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/27/64715/624 From news at resist.ca Sun Nov 28 08:09:09 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 16:09:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Indian culture includes tobacco Message-ID: <20041128160910.23577.qmail@resist.ca> BISHOP - Raymond Andrews picks through the foliage of wild tobacco plants on an arid, wind-swept Sierra Nevada plateau. The 55-year-old Paiute Indian, with waist-length gray hair and a leather satchel slung over his shoulder, inspects the leaves with an expert eye. Some, he prunes and discards. Others, he saves to smoke in sacred pipes or distribute as gifts of honor. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/27/135731/32 From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 29 07:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Economic crisis a question of when, not if Message-ID: <20041129150905.31325.qmail@resist.ca> New York (Reuters) - The economic policies of President Bush have set the country on a dangerous course that will likely end in crisis, Princeton economics professor Paul Krugman told Reuters in an interview. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/28/18550/651 From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 29 07:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Kuwaiti Anti-War Cleric Sentenced Message-ID: <20041129150904.31323.qmail@resist.ca> "A Kuwaiti court has upheld a two-year suspended jail sentence of a leading religious scholar who publicly opposed the emirate's support for last year's US-led invasion of Iraq." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/28/203832/24 From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 29 07:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Alabama Vote Opens Old Racial Wounds Message-ID: <20041129150905.31324.qmail@resist.ca> [T]he amendment's opponents say they want to remove the segregated-schools portion of the constitution but cannot abide by guaranteeing a public education and fear mandates for higher education taxes. [Alabama Christian Coalition President John] Giles and others said guaranteeing a right to a public education would have opened a door for "rogue" federal judges to order the state to raise taxes to pay for improvements in its public school system. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/28/21741/902 From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 29 07:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Locals not benefiting from northern development: report Message-ID: <20041129150905.31326.qmail@resist.ca> Economic development and exploration is happening in the arctic without northerners, especially indigenous peoples, reaping many benefits. That's just one of the findings in the Arctic Human Development report released this week in Iceland by the Arctic Council. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/28/22557/925 From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 29 07:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Fighting Oil with Oil in Venezuela: King Condi vs Rodrizilla Message-ID: <20041129150905.31327.qmail@resist.ca> The Washington Post recently quoted the new US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice describing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez as 'a real problem...The key there is to mobilize the region to both watch him and be vigilant about him and to pressure him when he makes moves in one direction or another.' Rice, who served as director of Chevron for 10 years, was appointment to replace Colin Powell who was seen by Bush as being too soft. Yikes. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/29/62058/422 From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 29 07:09:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Summary Killing by RCMP-backed police in Port au Prince Message-ID: <20041129150906.31328.qmail@resist.ca> Haiti - November 28 | Port-au-Prince Police arrived in Rue Fort National at around 10.30 this morning, approximately twenty minutes after a rubbish truck was put on fire there by armed individuals. The latter came from another neighborhood and they left the zone immediately afterwards. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/29/03549/310 From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 30 07:09:13 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:09:13 -0000 Subject: [news] Elections and Death Squads Message-ID: <20041130150913.22673.qmail@resist.ca> "Is it a coincidence that US puppet (and Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad) Allawi is calling for the death penalty to be administered to the Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS) Sunni clerics who oppose elections, while, at the same time two of these clerics have been gunned down by unknown forces? This coincidence seems to be more intentional than coincidental. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised at all if it turns out that these two men were killed by death squads employed by the US and its client government in Baghdad." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/29/173839/43 From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 30 07:09:13 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:09:13 -0000 Subject: [news] Hawk Engagement: A Dangerous Turn in U.S. Plans for North Korea Message-ID: <20041130150913.22675.qmail@resist.ca> The recent appointment of Victor Cha as Asia Director in the National Security Council portends a more aggressive approach towards North Korea during President Bush's second term. Long an advisor to the Administration, as Asia Director, Cha will hold responsibility for developing U.S. policy towards North Korea, and it will be he who maps out the approach to the Democratic Republic of Korea (DPRK - North Korea) in the coming months. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/29/142518/33 From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 30 07:09:13 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:09:13 -0000 Subject: [news] General Strike in S. Korea Message-ID: <20041130150913.22674.qmail@resist.ca> Pyongyang, November 29 (KCNA) -- "Members of the south Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) reportedly staged a general strike in 28 regions of south Korea including Seoul, on Nov. 26 in protest against the government's promotion of the anti-popular 'bill on the protection of the part-time work system'. It drew over 157,000 unionists at 276 work sites across south Korea under the KCTU including the Federation of Metal Industry Trade Unions, the Federation of Chemical Fiber Trade Unions and the Confederation of Taxi Drivers' Unions." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/29/22418/624 From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 30 07:09:13 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:09:13 -0000 Subject: [news] PSAC employees strike against union Message-ID: <20041130150914.22677.qmail@resist.ca> "Loren Crawford, vice-president of the Alliance Employees Union, says it's frustrating for one union to have to go on strike against another." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/29/201546/62 From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 30 07:09:13 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:09:13 -0000 Subject: [news] Larry Campbell may run with new party Message-ID: <20041130150914.22678.qmail@resist.ca> Vancouver - "Vancouver Mayor Larry Campbell says he might run for mayor with a new centrist political party, if that's what it takes to work effectively at city hall." Campbell's politics are so far to the right for a supposed 'lefty option' that many in his party (COPE) vote against him and he says "I look at the two NPA (reactionary right) members (of council) and they've voted many times with us". URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/30/61534/181 From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 30 07:09:13 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:09:13 -0000 Subject: [news] US Marines Aided by Robotic Airplane in Iraq Message-ID: <20041130150914.22680.qmail@resist.ca> [A robotic airplane called ScanEagle] "...travels above insurgent positions and sends real-time video images to Marines on the ground. The unmanned device can relay facial expressions on enemy soldiers, and can transmit in such detail that it shows steam rising from their coffee." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/11/29/191228/20