From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 1 07:17:06 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 14:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Georgetti Opens Pandora's Box-Will Canadian Labour Accept Free Trade? Message-ID: <20041001141706.30958.qmail@resist.ca> By Eugene Plawiuk, (Endnotes included) Last week Ken Georgetti, President of the Canadian Labour Congress declared that the labour movement's twenty-year opposition to Free Trade was a failure. In no uncertain terms Georgetti opened up a Pandora's box, well ok he backpedaled immediately afterwards, claiming he said no such thing, but it was too late the box was open. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/30/22315/5115 From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 1 10:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 17:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Violence flares in Gaza Message-ID: <20041001171704.26578.qmail@resist.ca> Violence flares in Gaza Al-Jazeera - Thursday 30 September 2004, 21:09 Makka Time, 18:09 GMT Clashes in Gaza have claimed 21 Palestinian lives so far At least seven Palestinians have been killed by an Israeli tank shell in the Jabalya refugee camp, raising the death toll in violence across Palestine to 24. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/30/1296/44236 From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 1 10:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 17:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Major Israeli Offensive in Gaza Message-ID: <20041001171705.26585.qmail@resist.ca> More than 100 Israeli tanks have moved deep into the northern Gaza Strip shortly after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon approved a major Israeli offensive in the area. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/30/23506/9117 From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 1 10:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 17:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Second NWT MLA up on charges Message-ID: <20041001171705.26580.qmail@resist.ca> Henry Zoe, the MLA for North Slave, was charged Sept. 10 for an incident that is alleged to have occurred in the summer. Zoe is the second MLA currently facing charges in the Northwest Territories legislature. Inuvik Twin Lakes MLA Roger Allen is facing a charge of sexual assault and is scheduled to appear in court on Oct. 18. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/30/114341/729 From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 1 10:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 17:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Rebels declare start date for Nigerian uprising Message-ID: <20041001171705.26583.qmail@resist.ca> "We will target government infrastructure and oil company personnel," Mr. Dokubo-Asari told the Associated Press. "Oil facilities will not be targeted since it will endanger the environment." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/30/113156/267 From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 1 10:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 17:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Plan Would Let U.S. Deport Suspects to Nations That Might Torture Them Message-ID: <20041001171706.26595.qmail@resist.ca> By Dana Priest and Charles Babington | Washington Post Staff Writers | Thursday, September 30, 2004; Page A01 The Bush administration is supporting a provision in the House leadership's intelligence reform bill that would allow U.S. authorities to deport certain foreigners to countries where they are likely to be tortured or abused, an action prohibited by the international laws against torture the United States signed 20 years ago. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/30/10401/9182 From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 1 10:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 17:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Winnipeg Group Begins Policing the Police Message-ID: <20041001171706.26587.qmail@resist.ca> "An anti-racism group in Winnipeg is arming volunteers with video cameras to search out instances of police brutality and harassment....Members of United Against Racism say they constantly hear stories about aboriginal people being beaten by police or stopped by officers for no good reason." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/29/1511/87776 From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 1 10:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 17:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Bus Riders Defeat Fare Increase! A $41 million dollar victory for bus riders in the GVRD Message-ID: <20041001171706.26588.qmail@resist.ca> In the second victory in less than 12 months, bus riders once again struck a blow for justice at the regional TransLink Board. "Today we beat the unjust fare increase that TransLink planned to impose on bus riders throughout the region" states Kirat Kaur of the Bus Riders Union. "We struggled long and hard to have the voices of transit-dependant women heard at the TransLink Board. We organized women to speak out on the hardships they face due to TransLink policy and planning, we spent time in our communities hearing the experiences and ideas of transit-dependant women, and we rode the bus and talked directly to women who are already struggling to pay high fares. Months of organizing transit-dependant women in our communities have finally paid-off. What bus riders have achieved today is to keep $41 million dollars in the pockets of bus riders throughout the Lower Mainland", explains Kirat Kaur. This is a tremendous victory for our communities." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/29/201534/534 From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 1 11:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 18:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Queer VIFF Film Held by Canada Customs Message-ID: <20041001181704.4008.qmail@resist.ca> The following is a press release from Vancouver media artist Kai Ling Xue. Canada Customs' targeting of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender material has had an impact on more than just book stores. Independent multi-media artist Kai Ling Xue knows that now. Xue's latest short film "A Girl Named Kai" has been showing at numerous film festivals throughout North America this year. Recently it was screened at the Austin International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. The film, en route back to Canada, was seized and held by Canada Customs. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/30/1897/25810 From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 2 09:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 16:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Haiti Protests: UN/Brazilian Troops stand-by as Haitian police provoke violence Message-ID: <20041002161704.17407.qmail@resist.ca> October 1, 2004 | Haiti Information Project Port au Prince, Haiti (HIP) - Last September 11th more than 10,000 Lavalas militants took to the streets to demand the return of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. The marchers were accompanied by a large contingent of Haitian police who returned fire when unidentified gunmen shot at the demonstration as it passed the Office of National Insurance on Delmas 17. The crowd immediately took up the chant, "Down with the army. Long live the police!" URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/1/142955/468 From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 2 09:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 16:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Who are the "Progressives" in Iraq? Message-ID: <20041002161705.17408.qmail@resist.ca> "(M)ainstream Iraqis seem to have been all but forgotten by both the American left and right. Iraqis must be valued for who they are, not as pawns in some partisan political agenda. Such chauvinism might be expected of 'America-first' right-wingers, but such a position is hardly defensible for any conscientious progressive. It's no wonder instead of seeing Iraq's highly complex and, indeed, contradictory political reality, so many American leftists have chosen instead to cling to the comfort that comes from simple sloganeering." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/1/113027/855 From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 2 09:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 16:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] "Free Trade" Has Cost Us Dearly Message-ID: <20041002161705.17409.qmail@resist.ca> September 24, 2004 | By Murray Dobbin - Globe and Mail (Recently we) saw fierce controversy in the labour movement as Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) president Ken Georgetti tried desperately to explain to his federation members' media - read CanWest - claims that he now supported free trade. In an email to CLC union heads Georgetti stated official CLC policy: "We continue to oppose NAFTA and other similar trade deals." But the speech reported on, and a CLC position paper on the economy, were much more ambiguous. Georgetti talked of a North American economy and how, regarding NAFTA, it was hard to "unscramble an omelette." The CLC paper said free trade had not been the "economic disaster" once predicted. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/1/14430/8942 From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 2 09:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 16:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] OCAP takes $3500+ worth of groceries and distributes successfully Message-ID: <20041002161705.17411.qmail@resist.ca> OCAP | Sept 30, 2004 In this Wednesday's food grab from a high-end grocery store, members of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty walked away with $3525.00 worth of food and tolietries. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/2/8216/92633 From news at resist.ca Sun Oct 3 06:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 13:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] The "Wall": A Barrier to Peace Message-ID: <20041003131705.23023.qmail@resist.ca> Jewish Chronicle (UK), 16 July 2004 and Jewish Voice for Peace (US), August 5, 2004 | By Tony Klug It doesn't seem so long ago when an explosion of joy consumed Israel and the wider Jewish world as the barricades that had divided Jerusalem for 19 suffocating years were triumphantly dismantled in the wake of Israel's military victory in the 1967 war. Now the barbed wire, fences and concrete barriers - eight metres high in some places - are back, courtesy of Israeli politicians and engineers, not only in the capital city but all over the captured territories. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/2/114127/552 From news at resist.ca Sun Oct 3 06:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 13:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] China's thirst for oil gets into top gear Message-ID: <20041003131705.23025.qmail@resist.ca> By Rupert Wingfield-Hayes | BBC correspondent in Beijing China is not the biggest oil consumer in the world, that prize goes to America, nor is it the biggest importer - which is also the USA. What China outdoes the rest of the world at is the growth of its appetite. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/2/112513/160 From news at resist.ca Sun Oct 3 06:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 13:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] A History of NDP Strikebreaking Message-ID: <20041003131706.23026.qmail@resist.ca> (from the Solidarity Caucus, a rank and file group of trade union militants) "Every single New Democratic Party (NDP) government in the history of British Columbia has brought in strikebreaking legislation during its term of office." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/2/132127/987 From news at resist.ca Sun Oct 3 06:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 13:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Haiti Slum Under Siege Message-ID: <20041003131705.23024.qmail@resist.ca> October 2, 2004 | Haiti Information Project (HIP) Port au Prince,Haiti (HIP)- A slum in the capital is under siege from the Haitian National Police (HNP) following three days of violence and unrest. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/2/94122/0624 From news at resist.ca Sun Oct 3 06:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 13:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] B.C. " Economic Miracle" Achieved on the Backs of Seniors, the Poor & Vulnerable Message-ID: <20041003131706.23028.qmail@resist.ca> "Finance Minister Gary Collins can dance around it as long as he likes, but the bitter reality is that the B.C. Liberals' entire budget surplus this year is equal to the annual amount they have slashed from poor people, the disabled, abused children, and needed social services." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/2/134055/505 From news at resist.ca Sun Oct 3 07:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 14:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] U.S. dollar heading for a collapse, ex-Clinton adviser says Message-ID: <20041003141704.30972.qmail@resist.ca> The Vancouver Sun | September 25, 2004 | By James Baxter "Banff, Alta. -- The U.S. dollar is fast reaching a point at which foreign investors will abandon it and send it into a freefall, says Bill Clinton's former economic adviser." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/3/62345/4211 From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 4 05:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 12:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] U.S. Media Distortions on Iran Nothing New Message-ID: <20041004121704.21469.qmail@resist.ca> "A basic (media) premise is that the United States and Israel are good and do not pose threats worthy of mention, so that any 'advance' in nuclear arms, or the possession and threat of use of such weapons by these states, is outside the realm of discourse....These are not the views of the global majority, but they represent the official U.S. view, hence serving as a premise of the (New York) Times reporter." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/3/16435/5127 From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 4 05:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 12:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Haitian Police Surround Radio Station Message-ID: <20041004121704.21468.qmail@resist.ca> Haiti Information Project (HIP) Port au Prince, Haiti (HIP) - Units of the Haitian National Police (PNH) have blocked off Rue Chavannes in the capital and surrounded a local radio station. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/3/105130/724 From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 4 05:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 12:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Colombian Army invades Ecuadorean territory Message-ID: <20041004121705.21485.qmail@resist.ca> 30.09.2004 | Ecuador | anncol.org For the second time in a few days the territorial integrity of Ecuador has been violated. According to the locals of the northern border zone, Colombian government troops clearly violate Ecuadorean sovereignty by entering Ecuador in order to operate against Colombian guerrilla forces. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/3/153739/363 From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 4 05:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 12:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Paradise Cleansed Message-ID: <20041004121705.21470.qmail@resist.ca> guardian.co.uk | Guardian | October 2, 2004 | by John Pilger The story of Diego Garcia is shocking, almost incredible. A British colony lying midway between Africa and Asia in the Indian Ocean, the island is one of 64 unique coral islands that form the Chagos Archipelago, a phenomenon of natural beauty, and once of peace. Newsreaders refer to it in passing: "American B-52 and Stealth bombers last night took off from the uninhabited British island of Diego Garcia to bomb Iraq (or Afghanistan)." It is the word "uninhabited" that turns the key on the horror of what was done there. In the 1970s, the Ministry of Defense in London produced this epic lie: "There is nothing in our files about a population and an evacuation." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/3/155019/986 From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 4 05:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 12:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Strong Social Programs Important for all Working People Message-ID: <20041004121705.21471.qmail@resist.ca> "....social entitlements such as welfare and unemployment insurance are an important means to protect the wages and conditions of working people. Decent welfare and unemployment benefits provide a security guarantor for working people who may fear losing their job. When decent social entitlements exist, invariably workers' bargaining power is improved. In short, the strength of welfare and unemployment benefits helps determine a country's social wage -- its generally accepted minimum pay and benefits." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/3/184325/276 From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 4 05:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 12:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Nfld. premier says rash of suicides in Natuashish need attention Message-ID: <20041004121706.21486.qmail@resist.ca> Canadian Press October 1, 2004 NATUASHISH -- The former Innu chief whose nephew was among four young men to kill themselves in recent months says he's had it with the hypocrisy of the federal and provincial governments. Frustrated and still shocked over the suicide of his 21-year-old nephew, Simeon Tshakapesh said Friday that if mental-health workers are not sent in to the relocated Labrador community of Natuashish, he wants the band to target the Voisey's Bay mine with protests. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/3/17612/3430 From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 4 05:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 12:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Settling for the System Message-ID: <20041004121705.21472.qmail@resist.ca> How PunkVoter.Com Became Just Another Tool of the Democrats By SCOTT EVANS, Although for many of us the last four years have brilliantly demonstrated the undemocratic nature of American democracy, it seems that some radicals have missed their cues. Presented with endemic alienation as a result of the failure of American political structures, most strikingly expressed in the 2000 election, many activists have actually chosen to channel residual anger into the very system that generated it. As the facade of capitalist democracy crumbles, the usual suspects are rallying the public--and preparing to charge, full-force, back into the smoldering rubble. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/3/123238/064 From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 4 05:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 12:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] US isolated as Kremlin endorses Kyoto Message-ID: <20041004121706.21477.qmail@resist.ca> Inter Press Service | October 2, 2004 WASHINGTON -- Thursday's decision by the Russian government to endorse ratification of the Kyoto Protocol to curb greenhouse gas emissions has thrown a particularly stark spotlight on the degree to which President George W Bush has isolated the United States on the issue of global warming, as well as other transnational problems. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/3/173527/980 From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 4 05:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 12:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Official U.S. plan made to fight war in space Message-ID: <20041004121705.21476.qmail@resist.ca> Vancouver Sun | October 2, 2004 | By David Pugliese Ottawa -- The U.S. air force has for the first time developed a formal plan to fight a war in space, putting together a list of targets that range from weather and communications satellites to spacecraft-launch facilities of other nations. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/3/154513/729 From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 5 06:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 13:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Nigerian government launches assault on civilians in Delta region Message-ID: <20041005131704.25021.qmail@resist.ca> WSWS | By Ann Talbot | 4 October 2004 The Nigerian armed forces have launched a brutal assault on civilians in the oil-rich Niger Delta region. ?Operation Flush Out 3? is an attempt to subdue the region in the interests of the oil companies that operate there. Ordered to use maximum force, the combined naval, air and army operation has carried out air raids on heavily populated civilian areas. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/5/54136/2968 From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 5 06:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 13:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] John Kerry and the U.S. Special Forces Message-ID: <20041005131704.25020.qmail@resist.ca> Military "Special Forces" such as the U.S. Army "Green Berets," Navy SEALS, and Britain's SAS (Special Air Services) are the stuff of legends and Hollywood movies. Aside from the mythologies, however, such forces play a crucial role in counter-insurgency and the repression of resistance to imperialism. For example, SAS members parachuted into Afghanistan shortly after 9-11 to carry out operations against Taliban/Al-Qaeda forces, as well as work with "Northern Alliance" guerillas fighting against the Taliban government. Likewise, U.S. Navy SEALS are working on the ground in Iraq against the popular insurgency there. As the article below makes clear, Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry's plan to increase the use of military Special Forces in the "war on terror" has nothing to do with ending the war & occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan, and everything to do with "increase(ing) the capacity the U.S. has to violently defend its economic and political interests while decreasing our troop deployments, our financial investment, and our legal exposure." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/4/192221/570 From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 5 06:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 13:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada: Indifference to the safety of Indigenous women must end Message-ID: <20041005131705.25022.qmail@resist.ca> Amnesty International | 4 October 2004 Canadian officials have too long ignored the threat to Indigenous women in Canadian towns and cities. Many are missing, some have been murdered and Canadian authorities are not doing enough to stop the violence, says Amnesty International... URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/5/54151/8303 From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 5 06:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 13:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Liberals pushing Arctic agenda Message-ID: <20041005131705.25024.qmail@resist.ca> The Globe and Mail | October 4, 2004 Ottawa --- Prime Minister Paul Martin's government will propose in tomorrow's Speech from the Throne a new Northern strategy aimed at protecting sovereignty over the Canadian Arctic through sustainable development initiatives coupled with efforts to build "circumpolar" co-operation with other northern nations, sources say. The Throne Speech, to be read by Governor-General Adrienne Clarkson, will tout this development program for the North as a key facet of a more vigorous federal government presence at home and abroad, including steps to build on the Smart Border initiative negotiated with the Bush administration after the 9/11 attacks. That 30-point plan was aimed at facilitating cross-border commerce in tandem with both countries' stepped-up efforts to combat the threat of terrorism. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/4/1557/32905 From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 6 05:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 12:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Indigenous mobilization in Colombia Message-ID: <20041006121703.18544.qmail@resist.ca> October 2, 2004 | CounterPunch by Phillip Cryan No one can ignore tens of thousands of people marching, disciplined and peaceful, along 60 miles of highway in the middle of a country at war. When large numbers of people are organized enough to pull off such a mobilization, not even media outlets skilled in the arts of pro-government distortion and omission can help but pay attention. And the government listens up too. From September 14-16 about 60,000 people marched along the Panamerican Highway in southwestern Colombia demanding respect for their autonomy and protesting President Alvaro Uribe Velez's economic and security policies. Led by regional and national indigenous organizations, the march also included peasant farmers, Afro-Colombians, union members and students. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/5/15231/0365 From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 6 05:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 12:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] US set to veto Gaza resolution at the UN Message-ID: <20041006121703.18545.qmail@resist.ca> By Evelyn Leopold UNITED NATIONS, Oct 5 (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday prepared to veto an Arab-drafted U.N. Security Council resolution demanding Israel stop a major offensive in the Gaza Strip unless the measure were changed. "I predict it will not go forward," U.S. Ambassador John Danforth told reporters. "I will bet either my left or my right arm that this resolution will not pass," he said, calling the measure one-sided and unbalanced. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/5/141956/259 From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 6 05:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 12:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Uprising begins in Haiti Message-ID: <20041006121703.18547.qmail@resist.ca> Port-au-Prince -- Machete-wielding supporters of ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide are turning their wrath on Haiti's demoralized police force, beheading some of their victims in a campaign imitative of the insurgency in Iraq. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/5/151259/388 From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 6 05:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 12:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Drug Industry Scandal a 'Crisis' Message-ID: <20041006121703.18546.qmail@resist.ca> Inter Press Service News Agency | October 4, 2004 | By Ritt Goldstein Vast numbers of dead, the compromising of key elements within the medical community and its regulatory structures, the blind pursuit of billions of dollars in corporate profits -- all have surfaced in a detonating pharmaceutical industry scandal of global dimension. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/5/201551/451 From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 6 05:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 12:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] When Gandhi Met Hindy Message-ID: <20041006121704.18551.qmail@resist.ca> Montreal Muslim News | October 3, 2004 | By Matthew Behrens Toronto -- On the day after the 135th birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, a group of 100 Toronto-area Muslims took a page out of the nonviolent apostle's book with a videotaping trip to the CN Tower, the world's tallest free-standing structure. At first glance, such an event should hardly be newsworthy. But because we live in an age where Islam is daily demonized and Muslims are designated a suspect class who are jailed in Canada on secret evidence without charge or bail, this gathering comes with a fair bit of tension. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/5/20848/5356 From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 6 05:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 12:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Vanishing Alaska: Global warming is flooding villages along the coast. Message-ID: <20041006121704.18548.qmail@resist.ca> October 4, 2004 | Time Shishmaref is melting into the ocean. Over the past 30 years, the Inupiaq Eskimo village, perched on a slender barrier island 625 miles north of Anchorage, has lost 100 ft. to 300 ft. of coastline -- half of it since 1997. As Alaska's climate warms, the permafrost beneath the beaches is thawing and the sea ice is thinning, leaving its 600 residents increasingly vulnerable to violent storms. One house has collapsed, and 18 others had to be moved to higher ground, along with the town's bulk-fuel tanks. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/5/145547/758 From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 6 05:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 12:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Concordia denies talk by ex-Israeli PM Message-ID: <20041006121704.18552.qmail@resist.ca> Concordia University, the site of violent clashes two years ago that scuttled a speech by former Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu, has turned down a request by a Jewish students group to have Mr. Barak deliver a lecture this month. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/5/152416/414 From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 7 06:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 13:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Response to Vancouver Courier article Message-ID: <20041007131705.23662.qmail@resist.ca> Allan Garr's recent smear campaign against David Cunningham and the Anti-Poverty Committee is hardly shocking as the Courier partakes in a time-tested strategy: take an effective organization, try to isolate them politically by playing the 'good protestor/ bad protestor' dichotomy, and try to divert them by writing on their personal life. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/7/03113/4666 From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 7 06:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 13:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Israel Accused of Nazi Tactics Message-ID: <20041007131705.23659.qmail@resist.ca> A high-ranking Palestinian Authority official has accused the Israeli occupation army of adopting Nazi tactics against Palestinian population centres in the Gaza Strip. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/6/43648/3845 From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 7 06:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 13:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Recovering what Remains Message-ID: <20041007131706.23660.qmail@resist.ca> "Mass murder was done to my people and we demand to know where the churches buried the children who never came home from the residential schools. Innocent children were tortured, sterilized, and murdered. Their spirits will never rest until their remains are brought home to their own territory." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/6/52127/8520 From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 7 06:17:06 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 13:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Union seeks certification at third Quebec Wal-Mart Message-ID: <20041007131707.23675.qmail@resist.ca> Union seeks certification at third Quebec Wal-Mart By Virginia Galt | Wednesday, October 6, 2004 - Page B14 | Globe and Mail URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/6/21857/5867 From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 7 06:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 13:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] UN troops and police surround Haiti slum Message-ID: <20041007131706.23663.qmail@resist.ca> Repression of armed uprising continues in Haiti with the activ participation of UN forces and the puppet government's militarized police force. The Latortue government has been purchasing black market arms to assist the police in their campaign of terror against the popular struggle for self-determination. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/6/104829/379 From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 7 06:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 13:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Alcohol fuels Innu election Message-ID: <20041007131707.23664.qmail@resist.ca> Canadian Press | October 5, 2004 "Innu politicians have admitted some of their supporters supply alcohol during election time." NATUASHISH --- Booze was flowing freely in Labrador's Innu communities of Natuashish and Sheshatshui in the run up to Wednesday's election for Innu Nation officials. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/6/174523/852 From edoherty at uniserve.com Thu Oct 7 11:18:03 2004 From: edoherty at uniserve.com (Eric Doherty) Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 11:18:03 -0700 Subject: [news] Northwest Social Forum will not be held October 15-17 Message-ID: <4165885B.5030904@uniserve.com> *Northwest Social Forum will not be held October 15-17, 2004. The International Forum on Globalization pre-event, scheduled for October 14 will not be held. * Statement of the Planning Committee of the Northwest Social Forum October 6, 2004 With deep sadness, the Northwest Social Forum Planning Committee has come to the painful decision not to hold the Northwest Social Forum as it had been planned from the 15th to the 17th of October. The Indigenous Programming Committee withdrawal of September 23, followed by The Youth Planning Committee?s withdrawal of September 28, has been of great concern to the NWSF Planning Committee and to the many communities that have been participating at different times and in different capacities. While our goal has been to use the Forum as a space and a process to bring the networks and communities together, at this point we feel that the process is not serving that purpose. Our decision indicates our desire not to increase the division or confusion and to return to our focus of building relationships and social movements that foster understanding and cooperation within our diversity. The NWSF Planning Committee deeply apologizes for all the inconvenience this decision will cause. Before making this decision, we would have preferred to consult far more extensively with all the communities that have worked so hard to put on the NWSF about their views about what is to be done. However, given that there are only nine days before the event was scheduled to begin, such extensive consultations did not seem feasible. We the Planning Committee reaffirm our commitment to the principles set out by the participant organizations in the initial NWSF planning retreat back in April 04 and attach those principles. Once more we take responsibility for misunderstandings, misstatements, transgressions, and inadequate responsiveness to concerns raised by the Indigenous and Youth Committees. As we move forward with this decision, we the Planning Committee, reaffirm our most sincere intent and commitment to dialogue and healing based on learning, respect and mutuality. We especially encourage all those communities that have been historically marginalized and exploited to participate in this process. We believe the NWSF should be seen as an event in the path we walk to build strong networks and movements in the Northwest region and beyond. We remain hopeful for our working together in the spirit and principles of the Northwest Social Forum because ?Another world is possible? and we all together can build it. Sincerely NWSF Planning Committee Lynne Dodson, Washington State Jobs with Justice Cindy Domingo, Center for Social Justice Rosalinda Guillen, Food Justice Alliance Fran Korten, Positive Futures Network Lucilene Lira, Friends of the Landless Workers Marco Mejia, American Friends Service Committee, Portland Dan Merkle, Center for Social Justice Michael Ramos From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 7 18:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 01:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] 2 Palestinian teens killed in Gaza strike Message-ID: <20041008011705.19392.qmail@resist.ca> Ibrahim Barzak Canadian Press Thursday, October 07, 2004 JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip -- Two Palestinian boys, ages 15 and 14, were killed in an Israeli missile strike Thursday, while a 13-year-old boy from Jebaliya died of wounds suffered last week during the Israeli offensive in northern Gaza. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/7/135330/902 From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 7 18:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 01:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] FBI Seizes IMC Servers in the UK Message-ID: <20041008011705.19393.qmail@resist.ca> independent media center | Oct 7, 2004 Thursday morning, US authorities issued a federal order to Rackspace ordering them to hand over Indymedia web servers to the requesting agency. Rackspace, which provides hosting services for more that 20 Indymedia sites at its London facility, complied and turned over the requested servers, effectively removing those sites from the internet. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/7/174441/390 From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 8 06:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 13:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Charest ambushed, speech cancelled Message-ID: <20041008131704.15371.qmail@resist.ca> Quebec Premier Jean Charest was forced to cancel a speech Wednesday night at the Universite de Montreal because of student protests. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/7/12459/3217 From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 8 06:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 13:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Pipeline court action miffs N.W.T. [Government Indians]. Message-ID: <20041008131704.15372.qmail@resist.ca> Some aboriginal leaders from the Mackenzie Valley are opposed to court action that would delay the proposed pipeline project. Last month the Deh Cho First Nation filed two lawsuits to halt the Mackenzie Valley joint panel review. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/7/131540/626 From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 8 06:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 13:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Anti-War Movement Faces Challenge with Kerry Message-ID: <20041008131703.15369.qmail@resist.ca> "Last week's (Presidential) debate is being hailed by some as proof of (John) Kerry's right to claim the anti-war vote. But a closer examination says just the opposite. To be sure, the candidates said different things and even proposed different strategies for dealing with Iraq (as well as a variety of other countries now simply assumed to be 'the enemy'). But the difference was one of how best to fight and win, not whether or not the US military should be deployed to defend so-called 'American interests' around the world." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/7/183437/252 From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 8 06:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 13:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Norman Nawrocki's 'Duck Work' released Message-ID: <20041008131704.15370.qmail@resist.ca> October 6/04 After 18 years & 18 albums with all his bands (like the legendary Rhythm Activism, and Bakunin's Bum, DaZoque!, etc.), Montreal's one-man 'creative resistance' generator, Norman Nawrocki blitzes Canada with his newest, anti-war, anti-Empire CD, 'Duck Work,' Oct 14 - Nov 5 . (Itinerary attached.) URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/8/52058/4895 From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 8 06:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 13:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Racial Profiling of students at Zionist rally Message-ID: <20041008131704.15373.qmail@resist.ca> Students at Concordia University in Montreal were harrassed by police for having the wrong colour skin while watching a rally organized by Zionists regarding the Administration's refusal to allow Ehud Barak speak on Campus. Montreal Muslim News | October 5, 2004 | by Shujaat Wasty URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/8/52829/2494 From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 9 18:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 01:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Vancouver Police Chief Tells Panhandlers to " Get a Job" Message-ID: <20041010011705.5437.qmail@resist.ca> "Vancouver police Chief Jamie Graham has some advice for panhandlers ---- get a job....'I always thought to myself, why they couldn't sort of look for a pick-and-shovel job....'(said Graham)." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/8/12171/6151 From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 9 18:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 01:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Take them out, dude: pilots toast hit on Iraqi 'civilians' Message-ID: <20041010011705.5436.qmail@resist.ca> The Independent | 6 October 2004 | By Andrew Buncombe in Washington The Pentagon said yesterday it was investigating cockpit video footage that shows American pilots attacking and killing a group of apparently unarmed Iraqi civilians. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/8/11308/7262 From news at resist.ca Sun Oct 10 07:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 14:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Mass grave uncovered in Chechnya Message-ID: <20041010141703.15680.qmail@resist.ca> aljazeera By Asim Khan Saturday 09 October 2004, 20:34 Makka Time, 17:34 GMT "Numerous non-governmental organisations have reported on the abundance of mass graves in the region, to the extent that the Committee on Conscience of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000 placed Chechnya on its Genocide Watch List." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/9/192314/804 From news at resist.ca Sun Oct 10 07:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 14:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Launch of Web Gallery Images of Resistance Message-ID: <20041010141703.15679.qmail@resist.ca> http://www.imagesofresistance.org/index.html URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/9/201818/231 From news at resist.ca Sun Oct 10 07:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 14:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Violence Begets Violence Message-ID: <20041010141703.15682.qmail@resist.ca> Montreal Muslim News By Dr. Mohamed Elmasry October 9, 2004 I met with Uri Davis, a Palestinian Jew, as he describes himself, while he was on a Canadian speaking tour. Professor Davis is an author of books on the apartheid Israeli policies. Mainstream Canadian media completely ignored this remarkable man's message because it is not acceptable to the elite of Canadian Jews. But Davis has a short answer to my blunt question "What do the Jews really want from the Palestinians, and from the rest of us; Arabs and Muslims?" He said it is greed that motivates the Zionists to follow an aggressive violent policy towards the Palestinians. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/9/211816/506 From news at resist.ca Sun Oct 10 07:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 14:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Formal applications submitted to build pipeline Message-ID: <20041010141703.15681.qmail@resist.ca> YELLOWKNIFE - Months of speculation ended Thursday morning when Imperial Oil filed its applications to build the proposed Mackenzie Valley pipeline. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/9/215048/787 From news at resist.ca Sun Oct 10 08:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 15:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Judge dismisses $1.25-billion US suit against Black Message-ID: <20041010151703.25309.qmail@resist.ca> CBC | Fri, 08 Oct 2004 CHICAGO - A U.S. federal court judge has thrown out Hollinger International's $1.25 billion US racketeering lawsuit against Conrad Black and other former executives of the company. The lawsuit, which was filed in May, alleged that Black and his associates improperly diverted $380 million US from Hollinger International to companies they controlled. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/10/7390/9535 From news at resist.ca Sun Oct 10 08:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 15:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Crack pipes now given out through city program Message-ID: <20041010151703.25311.qmail@resist.ca> ottawa.cbc | Oct 8 2004 Crack pipes now given out through city program OTTAWA - Ottawa's needle exchange program has been given the go-ahead to distribute other drug paraphernalia. A city committee has approved the distribution of crack pipes, tourniquets and aluminum caps used to heat drug mixtures. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/10/74842/624 From news at resist.ca Sun Oct 10 08:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 15:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] World Congress Against the Death Penalty wraps up in Montreal with march Message-ID: <20041010151703.25310.qmail@resist.ca> CBC | Sun, 10 Oct 2004 MONTREAL - An innocent man released from death row and two world celebrities were among the hundreds of social activists to march Saturday against capital punishment, still practised in 66 countries. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/10/74431/137 From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 11 07:17:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 14:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] [American] 'abysmal' Indian jails Message-ID: <20041011141703.3263.qmail@resist.ca> Reacting to a federal report blasting Indian jails as a "national disgrace," Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., introduced legislation last week designed to provide money for maintenance, repair and replacement of prisons on U.S. reservations. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/10/105629/99 From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 11 07:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 14:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] math, computers and terrorism Message-ID: <20041011141703.3264.qmail@resist.ca> A small group of thinking men and women convened at Rutgers University last month to consider how order theory -- a branch of abstract mathematics that deals with hierarchical relationships -- could be applied to the war on terror. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/10/173428/67 From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 11 07:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 14:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Ehattesaht First Nation close logging road Message-ID: <20041011141703.3266.qmail@resist.ca> by CP The Ehattesaht First Nation on Vancouver Island's west coast says it has closed but not blockaded a road through this tiny community to logging trucks as a matter of safety Vancouver Island logging operations affected by road closures URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/10/222438/63 From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 11 07:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 14:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Canadian social activists co-found new federal political party Message-ID: <20041011141703.3265.qmail@resist.ca> Canadian social activists co-found new federal political party The Cosmopolitan Party of Canada is seeking Community Political Representatives who are passionate and articulate about social justice and/or environmental protection issues. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/10/21152/817 From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 11 07:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 14:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] 200 protesters arrested at Columbus Day parade Message-ID: <20041011141704.3269.qmail@resist.ca> More than 200 protesters were arrested on charges of loitering and disobeying orders Saturday during a peaceful demonstration against the annual Columbus Day parade in downtown Denver. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/10/134850/02 From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 11 07:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 14:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Truckers Join IWW, Win 2-Day Strike Message-ID: <20041011141704.3270.qmail@resist.ca> By Adam Welch, Motor Transport Workers IU 530 Organizing Committee - Published in the Industrial Worker, October 2004 More than 200 Stockton owner-operator truckers working out of the rail yards in California's Central Valley have joined the IWW since July and won several victories. In the past few weeks the union has successfully worked to reverse two IWW members' life-time banishments from the Burlington Northern-Santa Fe rail yard and negotiated a favorable settlement of a strike at the 11-driver Patriot trucking company. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/10/235016/16 From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 12 08:17:13 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:17:13 -0000 Subject: [news] Elections in Afghanistan Message-ID: <20041012151714.23838.qmail@resist.ca> The recent elections in Afghanistan are being touted by the Bush Administration and corporate media as a victory for ordinary Afghans. The following two articles, from Counterpunch and Znet respectively, offer an alternative to all the dishonest and hypocritical rhetoric about bringing "democracy" and "freedom" to Afghanistan. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/11/234443/75 From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 12 08:17:13 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:17:13 -0000 Subject: [news] Baghdad squatters face eviction as officials crack down Message-ID: <20041012151714.23839.qmail@resist.ca> "This situation must come to an end, or it will spread," says Jaleel Abaidy, a spokesman for the Baghdad city government. "These people must understand that they have no right to live there." Abaidy says that he has taken steps to have the courts authorize evictions. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/11/114557/36 From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 12 08:17:13 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:17:13 -0000 Subject: [news] Columbus Day marked by Indians' suicide epicemic Message-ID: <20041012151714.23840.qmail@resist.ca> Survival International News Release - 11 October 2004 Indians in North and South America are killing themselves in record numbers as the continent marks Columbus Day (12th October). In one small Indian community in Canada, four young people have hanged themselves in the past three months alone....Stephen Corry, Survival's Director, said today, 'Responsibility for years of Innu suicides rests squarely with Canada's government. There is no doubt whatsoever that its denial of Innu rights is destroying the people. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/11/74718/967 From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 12 08:17:14 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:17:14 -0000 Subject: [news] Deh Cho News Release: Pipeline review Message-ID: <20041012151714.23843.qmail@resist.ca> NEWS RELEASE Deh Cho Urges Gas Companies to Back First Nations' Quest for Voice in Pipeline Project 7/10/04 URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/10/8287/4396 From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 12 08:17:14 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:17:14 -0000 Subject: [news] Sharon comes clean Message-ID: <20041012151714.23844.qmail@resist.ca> Financial times | October 8, 2004 | Editorial So now we know for certain. Ariel Sharon's plan to "disengage" from the Gaza Strip is a gambit to freeze the Middle East peace process indefinitely, hang on to nearly all the Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, deny the Palestinians a state, and set aside forever the future of 4m Palestinian refugees, the status of occupied Arab east Jerusalem and where Israel's final borders are to be drawn. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/10/82322/783 From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 12 08:17:14 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:17:14 -0000 Subject: [news] State Attacks Damage World-Wide Indymedia Network Message-ID: <20041012151714.23849.qmail@resist.ca> "If you have ever read an Indymedia site, posted to the newswire, or made a comment, then please consider: this incident is not an attack on Indymedia, it is an attack on you. Indymedia volunteers are few in number, and we don't produce much content compared to what is produced by the hundreds of thousands of people who have contributed to the sites over the last five years. The FBI has stolen an irreplaceable piece of our collective history. Worse, they have made a direct attack on an important component of the global movement against neoliberalism, a part that carries messages to and from the different parts of our body politic without the need for the authoritarian brain of a Central Committee to tell us how to move." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/11/185213/70 From sarae at alumni.uwaterloo.ca Tue Oct 12 15:41:14 2004 From: sarae at alumni.uwaterloo.ca (Sara Ehrhardt) Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 18:41:14 -0400 Subject: [news] Fwd: [ftaaott] Indymedia Press Release Oct 11 Message-ID: > > > [deutsch unten, NL, PT, FR, ES at > http://www.indymedia.org/en/2004/10/112083.shtml ] > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > * News from Indymedia * > > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE > October 11, 2004 > > Indymedia to U.S., U.K., Swiss and Italian > Authorities: "Hands Off Our Websites" > > Evidence is beginning to mount that the > authorities of at least four countries > (Switzerland, Italy, U.K. and U.S.A.) are > involved in last week's seizure of two of > Indymedia's servers that brought down more than > 20 of the Indymedia network's web sites and > several internet radio streams. Indymedia has yet > to receive any official statement or information > about what the order entailed or why it was > issued. > > An FBI spokesperson, Joe Parris, confirmed to > Agence France-Presse that the FBI issued a > subpoena to the provider who hosted the Indymedia > servers in the U.K., but that it was "on behalf > of a third country." (1) Daniel Zapelli, senior > federal prosecutor for Geneva (Switzerland), > confirmed that he has opened a criminal > investigation into Indymedia coverage of the 2003 > G8 Summit in Evian. (2) Zapelli will provide > details of that investigation at a press > conference on Tuesday. > > Federal prosecutor of Bologna (Italy) Marina > Plazzi has also stated that she is investigating > Italy Indymedia because it may "support > terrorism." (3) Plazzi says she will provide more > information on Thursday, October 14th. > > Meanwhile, international journalist associations > have come forward in support of Indymedia. "We > have witnessed an intolerable and intrusive > international police operation against a network > specialising in independent journalism," said > Aidan White, General Secretary for the > International Federation of Journalists. (4) > > Indymedia is consulting with the Electronic > Frontier Foundation (EFF) on how to retrieve its > servers and prevent further government attacks on > free speech. "EFF is deeply concerned about the > grave implications of this seizure for free > speech and privacy, and we are exploring all > avenues to hold the government accountable for > this improper and unconstitutional silencing of > independent media.," said EFF Staff Attorney Kurt > Opsahl. (5) > > As of Monday, October 11, five of the downed > websites have been restored, including Brasil, > Euskal Herria, Poland, UK and Nice. Indymedia > volunteers are working around the clock to > restore the remaining sites, however at least > four of them - Uruguay, Italy, Western > Massachusetts and Nantes - have suffered data > loss as a result of the governments' action. > > "This FBI operation gives us even more reason to > continue with what we have been doing for several > years," says an activist from Italy Indymedia. > > "Uruguay has a long history of media repression. > We don't have the money to pay for web hosting, > and so we rely on the solidarity of other > countries. Actions like the seizure of the > servers make the whole world insecure for free > media," says Libertinus, an Indymedia volunteer > from Uruguay, one of many Indymedia web sites > that was caught in the FBI actions as a > bystander. "Uruguay's national elections will > take place on October 31st. It's a bad time for > this to happen." > > For more information, visit > http://www.indymedia.org/en/static/fbi, email > press at indymedia.org, or call: > > Tomasso at +39 3383903806 (Italy) > Hep Sano at +1-415-867-9472 (San Francisco) > David Meieran at +1-412-996-4986 (Pittsburgh) > > * Notes to the editor * > > (1) On October 7, 2004, Rackspace, a web hosting > provider based in San Antonio (USA), turned over > two servers at its London officer after it was > issued a court order under the Mutual Legal > Assistence Treaty. Rackspace officials claim that > the order prevents them from divulging the > reasons for the seizure and to whom the servers > were actually given. They stated, "Rackspace is > acting as a good corporate citizen and is > cooperating with international law enforcement > authorities." See more details on > www.indymedia.org/fbi and on the press releases > from 8 and 9 October: > http://www.indymedia.org/en/2004/10/111999.shtml > and > http://www.indymedia.org/en/2004/10/112047.shtml > > (2) For more examples see: > http://www.indymedia.org/en/static/fbi.shtml > > (3) AFP report: > http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1509&ncid=738&e=6&u=/ > afp/20041008/tc_afp/us_internet_justice > > (4) International Federation of Jounalists: > http://www.ifj.org/default.asp?Index=2734&Language=EN > > (5) Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): http://eff.org/ > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Presseerkl?rung 12.10.04 > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Indymedia an US-, britische, schweizer und > italienische Beh?rden: "Finger weg von unseren > Websites" > > Es mehren sich Beweise, dass die Beh?rden von > mindestens vier L?ndern (Schweiz, Italien, > Gro?britannien und USA) letzte Woche daran > beteiligt waren, zwei Indymedia-Server zu > beschlagnahmen und damit mehr als 20 > Indymedia-Websites lahmzulegen. Bis jetzt hat > Indymedia weder formelle Unterlagen oder > ?berhaupt irgendwelche Informationen dar?ber > erhalten, was genau die Ma?nahme umfasst oder auf > welcher Grundlage hier gehandelt wurde. > > FBI-Sprecher Joe Parris best?tigte gegen?ber > Agence France-Presse, dass das FBI den > Beschlagnahmungsbeschluss an den Provider > ausgestellt hat, dass dies aber "im Auftrag eines > dritten Staates" geschah. (1) Daniel Zapelli, > Oberster Bundesstaatsanwalt in Genf (Schweiz) > best?tigte, dass er ein Verfahren bez?glich der > Indymedia-Berichterstattung ?ber den G8-Gipfel > 2003 in Evian er?ffnet hat. (2) Zapelli wird > Details ?ber dieses Verfahren am Dienstag in > einer Pressekonferenz erl?utern. > > Die Oberste Staatsanw?ltin von Bologna (Italien) > Marina Plazzi erkl?rte, dass sie eine Ermittlung > leitet, um zu kl?ren, ob Indymedia Italien > "Terrorismus unterst?tzt". (3) Plazzi sagt, dass > sie am Donnerstag, den 14. Oktober weitere > Informationen zur Verf?gung stellen wird. > > In der Zwischenzeit haben internationale > Journalismus-Vereinigungen ihre Unterst?tzung f?r > Indymedia erkl?rt. "Wir mussten eine > unertr?gliche und aufdringliche internationale > Polizeioperation gegen ein Netzwerk beobachten, > dass sich auf unabh?ngigen Journalismus > spezialisiert hat", sagte Aidan White, IFJ > Generalsekret?r. (4) > > Indymedia ber?t gemeinsam mit der Electronic > Frontier Foundation, wie die Server > zur?ckerhalten und weitere staatliche Angriffe > gegen die Redefreiheit verhindert werden k?nnen. > "EFF is sehr besorgt ?ber die tiefgreifenden > Auswirkungen der Beschlagnahmung f?r Redefreiheit > und Datenschutz, und wir werden alle > M?glichkeiten in Betracht ziehen, um die > Regierung zur Verantwortung zu ziehen f?r diese > unlautere und verfassungswidrige Methode, > unabh?ngige Medien zum Schweigen zu bringen", > sagte EFF-Anwalt Kurt Obsahl. (5) > > Am Montag, dem 11. Oktober, konnten f?nf der vom > Netz genommenen Websites wieder online gehen: > Brasilien, Euskal Herria, Polen, UK und Nizza. > Indymedia-AktivistInnen arbeiten rund um die Uhr > um die restlichen Seiten zu reaktivieren, dennoch > haben mindestens vier - Uruguay, Italien, Western > Massachusetts und Nantes - als Resultat der > Regierungseingriffe Daten verloren. > > "Diese FBI-Operation liefert uns noch mehr Grund, > das weiter zu machen, was wir schon seit Jahren > tun", sagt ein Aktivist von Indymedia Italien. > > "Uruguay hat eine lange Geschichte der > Unterdr?ckung von Medien. Wir haben das Geld > nicht, Web-Hosting zu bezahlen, und daher sind > wir von der Solidarit?t anderer L?nder abh?ngig. > So etwas wie diese Beschlagnahmung der Server > machen die Welt unsicher f?r freie Medien", sagt > Libertinus, Indymedia-Aktivist aus Uruguay, einer > der vielen Indymedia-Seiten, die von den > FBI-Aktionen betroffen sind. "Am 31. Oktober > finden in Uruguay landesweite Wahlen statt. Dies > ist ein denkbar ung?nstiger Zeitpunkt." > > > ------------ > > Mehr Informationen gibt es unter > ## http://www.indymedia.org/en/static/fbi, > ## per mail an press at STOPSPAMindymedia.org (auch deutsch), > ## oder per Telefon: > Tomasso +39 3383903806 (Italien, auch englisch) > Hep Sano? +1-415-867-9472 (San Francisco) > David Meieran +1-412-996-4986 (Pittsburgh) > > ------------ > > > (1) Am 7. Oktober h?ndigte Rackspace, ein > Web-Hosting-Provider mit Hauptsitz in San Antonio > (USA) aufgrund einer gerichtliche Verf?gung nach > dem Vertrag zu gegenseitigen juristischen > Unterst?tzung (Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty) > zwei Server in seinem Londoner B?ro aus. > Rackspace-Angestellte behaupten, dass die > Verf?gung sie daran hindert, Gr?nde f?r die > Beschlagnahmung und daf?r, an wen die Server > tats?chlich ausgeh?ndigt wurden, bekannt zu > machen. Sie erkl?ren, dass "Rackspace als guter > Firmenb?rger mit den internationalen > Vollstreckungsbeh?rden kooperiert." Siehe mehr > Details unter http://www.indymedia.org/fbi und in > der Presseerkl?rungen vom 8. und 9. Oktober > http://www.indymedia.org/en/2004/10/111999.shtml > und > http://www.indymedia.org/en/2004/10/112047.shtml > > (2) Mehr Beispiele siehe: http://www.indymedia.org/en/static/fbi.shtml > > (3) AFP-Bericht: > http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1509&ncid=738&e=6&u=/ > afp/20041008/tc_afp/us_internet_justice > > (4) International Federation of Jounalists: > http://www.ifj.org/default.asp?Index=2734&Language=EN > > (5) Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): http://eff.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > Pga_europe_process mailing list > Pga_europe_process at squat.net > https://squat.net/mailman/listinfo/pga_europe_process > > > -- > Venit summa dies et ineluctabile tempus: The last > day has come, and the inevitable doom. > > > > Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > > ADVERTISEMENT -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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This Israeli military operation marks the deepest incursion into the Gaza Strip in the past 4 years, illustrating the devastating reality of the ongoing illegal Israeli occupation. Listen to an interview with Al-Jazzera's English Gaza correspondent Laila El-Haddad, who has been reporting from Jabaliya refugee camp throughout the recent Israeli incursions. The interview provides a first hand account on the current crisis in Jabaliya, while also focusing on the growing movement throughout the world to introduce an economic boycott toward Israel. -> To listen to the interview with Laila El-Haddad of Al-Jazzera visit: http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2004/10/2667.php -> To read an article by Laila El-Haddad on Jabalya Refugee Camp visit: http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/CB8868A4-078C-4BDC-B562-9F5ACBB2C54C.htm ----------------------- From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 13 07:17:09 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Imperial America: Gore Vidal Reflects on the United States of Amnesia Message-ID: <20041013141710.31221.qmail@resist.ca> Democracy Now transcript June 4th, 2004 "Nowadays, if your country is attacked, you immediately get a contract to rebuild something. Then perhaps you are a member of the cabinet who knocks down cities, and then you go over to the vice president and get his company, Halliburton, to rebuild them with treasury money. So, I mean, you can see them--"Hey, Rumsfeld, I want to build -- you know, I have this dream" -- you can hear this coming from one of them. "I want a railroad station right in the center of Baghdad. I mean, they need it. They need an old fashioned one with towers on it. Something beautiful. And no cement block. I want brick." You can hear them at this. And then we rebuild it. So, between the destructiveness and all of the lies that are told, there is all of the corruption. In a proper country, the corruption would be reported. You can't find it. Then the president -- well, he's like Lyndon Johnson. If you remember toward the end of Lyndon Johnson's reign and the Vietnam War was going, he couldn't speak anywhere except to Army bases. Now we have this little terrier marching around, "Yap, yap, yap, yap. I'm a wartime president. I'm a wartime president. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Just like the big guys."-- Gore Vidal URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/12/12123/822 From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 13 07:17:10 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Congress Approves Doubling U.S. Troops in Colombia Message-ID: <20041013141710.31222.qmail@resist.ca> The action was welcomed by President ?lvaro Uribe's government for its fight against Marxist rebels but condemned by human rights monitors, who warned of a sharp escalation in Colombia's conflict. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/12/163314/22 From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 13 08:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Beyond Children of the Atom: Black Politics, White Minds and the X-Men Message-ID: <20041013151703.9686.qmail@resist.ca> Morpheus_Reloaded- Exposin Fake Shy by Morpheus Reloaded May 8th, 2003 One must beg to wonder if this is the average white view of the totality of the black struggle. In their minds does Malcolm X and any assertion of black empowerment, nationalism, or the like boil down to nothing more than hateful black power militants bent on violent vengeance or a desire to rule whites? URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/11/95826/728 From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 13 08:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Bush Currying Favour With America's Underclass Message-ID: <20041013151704.9687.qmail@resist.ca> "Europeans, intellectuals and artists may argue all night about exaggerated threats, torture at Abu Ghraib prison and the looting of art treasures. But this carries no weight with conservative working- class people in the US. The Republicans are past-masters of presenting themselves as victims of the liberal elite, a horde of quibbling lawyers, haughty academics, depraved journalists and know-it-all actors. And at times they are quite right. There is no doubt that most intellectuals and 'experts' are out of touch with ordinary life and are hopelessly self-centred. They laugh at popular tradition and all the hicks in remote places in the back country who still support Bush. But Fox News and the Republicans thrive on the bitterness their divisive attitude creates." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/12/193859/23 From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 13 08:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Should Concordia invite Al-Qa'ida's Zarkawi? Message-ID: <20041013151704.9695.qmail@resist.ca> Concordia's decision to deny Barak a venue leaves one fearing a slide "down that slippery slope of intellectual totalitarianism", wrote Troy. Yes Sir! echoed the editorials of The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, the Montreal Gazette, and the National Post. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/12/171946/38 From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 13 08:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Volunteers sought for new group to video and monitor Winnipeg police conduct Message-ID: <20041013151704.9689.qmail@resist.ca> Fielding complaints about police conduct has become a routine part of Larry Wucherer's job as president of the Aboriginal Council of Winnipeg... "this is a consistent, regular thing from the community." So the council has joined forces with another community group, United Against Racism, to launch a new program aimed at monitoring police behaviour on the beat. The groups will hold a meeting Wednesday they hope will attract enough interest to spark the creation of a Winnipeg chapter of Copwatch. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/12/101453/89 From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 13 08:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Judging the Intifada Message-ID: <20041013151704.9688.qmail@resist.ca> The fourth anniversary of Israel's violent crackdown on the Palestinian uprising, which coincided with its latest massacre of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, occasioned a number of analyses, many concluding -- wishfully -- that the Intifada has been "counterproductive" for the Palestinians, or even a "failure." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/12/16234/357 From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 13 08:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Vancouver Police Strip Searches Challenged Message-ID: <20041013151704.9691.qmail@resist.ca> 10/12/2004, from The Tyee Adding a voice to mounting criticism, 'punk riot' onlooker claims Vancouver police subjected her to degrading ordeal. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/12/153840/79 From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 14 07:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 14:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Venezuela: After the Referendum (another view) Message-ID: <20041014141703.1773.qmail@resist.ca> Both the exaltation of the military persona of Chavez and its ahistorical linking to that of Bolivar, is intended to legitimise neoliberal politics with demagogical words. They have also played up the "US Invasion" scare, an ironic prelude to this government's giving away of the country's oil to corporations like Chevron-Texaco or Repsol-YPF, paladins of capitalist globalisation. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/13/162259/97 From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 14 07:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 14:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Tense situation in Nigeria as general strike begins Message-ID: <20041014141703.1772.qmail@resist.ca> By Fred Weston | October 11, 2004 Adams Oshiomhole, Nigeria Labour Congress President, has confirmed that the general strike against the latest fuel price hike is starting today and will be total. It is going to be a four-day warning strike. The situation in Nigeria is very tense as over the weekend Oshiomhole disappeared briefly. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/13/12316/387 From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 14 07:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 14:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Alaska pipeline gets boost from U.S. Congress Message-ID: <20041014141703.1775.qmail@resist.ca> north.cbc.ca The United States Senate has passed legislation designed to jump-start the construction of a pipeline down the Alaska Highway. The bill includes permitting approvals and loan guarantees worth nearly $18 billion. Alaska's major oil producers maintain the incentives are a critical factor in construction of the pipeline. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/12/161854/09 From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 14 07:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 14:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Update on various trials in Montreal Message-ID: <20041014141703.1774.qmail@resist.ca> The following is a summary of a few recent court victories along with upcoming dates. I'm posting it to give people in other parts an idea of what activists in Montreal are facing over the next while. If you are in Montreal, remember that these proceedings are long and boring and stressful. Try your damndest to get out and support your comrades. If you are in other parts of the country or world, consider sending a letter of support. It makes a difference. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/14/64256/140 From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 14 07:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 14:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Amnesty International: Double Standards and Curious Silences Message-ID: <20041014141703.1777.qmail@resist.ca> "Given the current escalation of Israeli depredations in Gaza and the daily US bombings of Falluja, it is interesting to examine Amnesty International's (AI) statements on the situation. AI is widely viewed as an authority on human rights issues, and thus it is of interest to analyze its output on these recent events. Careful scrutiny of AI's record reveals that, its typical response to the daily obscene deeds by either Israeli or US armies is a few barely audible ruminations with an occasional lame rebuke. The impotence of these responses raises many questions." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/13/18639/330 From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 14 07:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 14:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] ASCII evicted Message-ID: <20041014141704.1778.qmail@resist.ca> ASCII: Amsterdam Subversive Center for Information Interchange The ASCII squat, a free public internet space run by hackers and activists in Amsterdam, was evicted yesterday by the local police. ASCII was set up recycling old computers and using only free software (GNU GPL) to bring broader access to technology for the populace. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/13/134433/20 From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 14 07:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 14:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Student protester sues York U. for $800, 000 despite lifting of three-year ban Message-ID: <20041014141704.1781.qmail@resist.ca> By COLIN PERKEL | Canoe.ca TORONTO (CP) - A Jewish, pro-Palestinian student suspended for three years for participating in two noisy campus protests is suing York University and its president for $800,000 even though the school withdrew the punishment. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/14/64438/135 From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 15 04:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] NYTimes short video: Canada's Claims in the Arctic Message-ID: <20041015111703.27765.qmail@resist.ca> short film on Canada in the Arctic with the NYTimes... From an American bourgeois perspective to be certain, but a piece that contains important information about the need to maneuver the military up north, despite whatever might come as a result. click here URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/14/164832/87 From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 15 04:17:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Catholic priest arrested in Haiti, as repression increases, genocide underway Message-ID: <20041015111702.27757.qmail@resist.ca> Catholic Priest arrested in Haiti Haiti Information Project (HIP) Port au Prince, Haiti (HIP) Heavily armed units of the Haitian National Police (PNH) arrested Catholic priest Gerard Jean-Juste today at his parish of St. Claire in the poor neighborhood of Petite Place Cazeau. The U.S.-backed government of Gerard Latortue accused Father Jean-Juste of importing arms and harboring gunmen in his parish. Jean-Juste spoke by telephone minutes prior to his arrest and denied any involvement in the violence that has rocked Haiti since September 30th when police opened fire on a peaceful demonstration. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/14/93034/539 From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 15 04:17:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Clandestine interview from Haiti: resistance in the slums of Port au Prince Message-ID: <20041015111702.27758.qmail@resist.ca> Backed by United Nations so-called peacekeepers, the U.S.-installed Haitian regime continues its siege of poor neighborhoods in the capital, Port au Prince, in an attempt to crush ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's Lavalas party. The following is the result of a clandestine interview with a woman called Nancy, conducted last Sunday in the slum of Bel Air. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/14/9279/3095 From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 15 04:17:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] OCAP immigration appeals and updates Message-ID: <20041015111703.27762.qmail@resist.ca> 1. Funding Appeal for Afghani Family 2. Support Letters needed for Russian Family facing Deportation 3. Roma Refugee in Solitary Confinement and on Hunger Strike 4. Support Anti-Fascist Refugee Viktor Kononovich 5. Bring him home: Update on Mohamed Cherfi 6. Tilo Johnson: Deported to Nigeria URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/14/65919/708 From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 15 04:17:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Monsanto Victory Plants Seed of Privatisation Message-ID: <20041015111703.27760.qmail@resist.ca> Stephen Leahy | Inter Press Service | BROOKLIN, Canada | Oct 5, 2004 Canadian farmers' traditional right to save seeds is being threatened by proposals to collect royalties on virtually all such seeds following agribusiness giant Monsanto's victory over grower Percy Schmeiser. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/13/122632/19 From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 15 04:17:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Chilean anarchist shot by police Message-ID: <20041015111703.27759.qmail@resist.ca> On October 13, 2004, a group of encapuchados (masked-up rebels) attacked a motorcycle police contingent with firebombs outside of the University of Chile in Santiago. The cops opened fire on the rebels, using live rounds, and hitting an anarchist, who has been identified by the corporate media as Gustavo Fuentes. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/14/114126/27 From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 15 04:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] $1B conflict of interest exposed Message-ID: <20041015111704.27766.qmail@resist.ca> James Baker III was appointed by GW Bush to find ways of implementing the US foriegn policy of reducing Iraq's debt. James also just happens to be a senior partner in the Carlyle Group which stands to gain $1Billion+ from a proposal sent to the Kuwaiti government in which the group would help Kuwait maximize on the repayment of money owed to them by Iraq. Money, which without Baker's influence, would be diffficult to recover. Legal experts have called this a "classic conflict of interest" and "one of the greatest cons of all time". URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/15/31246/698 From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 16 07:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 14:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Democrat voter registrations ripped up by Republicans Message-ID: <20041016141703.6010.qmail@resist.ca> A fired worker from a Republican organization which registers voters for the upcoming election has revealed that his bosses threw out the registrations of some Democrat voters. Further investigation has revealed that this practice may have been widespread amongst different organizations, some of which have used the name of Democrat organizations to attract voters. A video link is available here. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/16/61744/512 From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 16 07:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 14:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] A Letter from James A. Baker, III Message-ID: <20041016141703.6012.qmail@resist.ca> It seems the Carlyle Group has resorted to Spam Tactics to try to defraud Iraq and the world out of $57 Billion dollars, for themselves and the Kuwaiti Government. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/14/17363/625 From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 16 07:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 14:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Riot police take down blockade of Trudeau airport Message-ID: <20041016141703.6014.qmail@resist.ca> Public Service Alliance of Canada members, representing customs workers from Montreal, Dorval and Mirabel, demonstrated for three hours at the Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/15/114344/67 From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 16 07:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 14:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] American corporations being paid for "loss of profits" in Iraq Message-ID: <20041016141703.6013.qmail@resist.ca> Globe and Mail | October 15, 2004 | By Naomi Klein By all means, pay Saddam's victims -- but surely that means Iraqis, not rich [American] corporations. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/16/6346/0107 From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 16 07:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 14:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Threats force New Brunswick Tories to call off AGM Message-ID: <20041016141703.6015.qmail@resist.ca> FREDERICTON -- Finance Minister Jeannot Volpe says threatening letters have forced the cancellation of the Progressive Conservative party's annual general meeting scheduled for this weekend in Edmundston, according to reports. The Lord government is coping with a strike by more than 800 hospital support workers in Moncton, and with pulp mill closures in Miramichi and Nackawic. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/15/111525/95 From news at resist.ca Sun Oct 17 07:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 14:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Anti-war activists show Iraqis what "Americans are really like" Message-ID: <20041017141703.4213.qmail@resist.ca> Nyack, N.Y.. -- More than 2,000 people opposing the war in Iraq, including teachers, lawyers and the father of an American beheaded by terrorists, are sending Iraqis personal photos with protest messages to showcase "what Americans are really like." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/16/132243/19 From news at resist.ca Sun Oct 17 07:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 14:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Churches declare Sanctuary Week Message-ID: <20041017141703.4214.qmail@resist.ca> Interfaith Sancuary Coalition | October 13, 2004 Montreal - Appalled that several people have now entered a second year living in sanctuary, churches across Canada have declared a Sanctuary Week from October 17th to 24th. The United Church of Canada, which is currently offering sanctuary in two of the five known cases, has called upon its congregations across the country to devote a part of their weekly prayer services to the issue of sanctuary, to invite local MPs to attend the services, and to write the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration to ask for a solution for the current sanctuary cases, as well as for the implementation of a right of appeal for refugee claimants, in order to prevent the need for recourse to sanctuary. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/17/62613/132 From news at resist.ca Sun Oct 17 07:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 14:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Commission of Inquiry releases wide-ranging Consultation Paper Message-ID: <20041017141703.4215.qmail@resist.ca> OTTAWA | Oct. 5 | CNW Telbec | Mr. Justice Dennis O'Connor released today a Consultation Paper relating to the Policy Review portion of his mandate. The Paper invites individuals, groups and organizations, including government institutions, to provide their views on whether a new review mechanism is required for the RCMP's national security activities and, if so, what it should look like. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/17/62937/713 From news at resist.ca Sun Oct 17 07:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 14:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] A shift in [Canadian] policy on Mideast? Message-ID: <20041017141704.4218.qmail@resist.ca> Globe and Mail | Friday, October 15, 2004 - Page A7 | By John Ibbitson "Senior government officials are increasingly angry [...] about what they claim is a major but surreptitious shift in this nation's foreign policy. Canada, they say, is moving away from a balanced approach toward the Middle East in favour of explicit and virtually unqualified support for Israel." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/17/63010/650 From news at resist.ca Sun Oct 17 07:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 14:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Vanishing seabirds worry Arctic biologists Message-ID: <20041017141704.4217.qmail@resist.ca> CAMBRIDGE BAY, Nunavut - Scientists say several kinds of Arctic seabird are dwindling in numbers and some are changing their eating habits as ice conditions change in the north. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/16/13815/822 From news at resist.ca Sun Oct 17 07:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 14:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Death Squads rampage in Haiti, 600 killed in last 2 weeks: Message-ID: <20041017141704.4223.qmail@resist.ca> Flashpoints radio interviews Kevin Pina October 15, 2004 Canadian activists be advised that the RCMP is presently in command of the "training" of Haitian police and are in charge of the overall UN police "stabilization mission" contingent. Add this to the gruesome context below. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/16/124314/10 From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 18 03:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 10:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Global study finds one-third of amphibians face extinction Message-ID: <20041018100904.16084.qmail@resist.ca> They were the first animals with backbones to walk on land. They witnessed the rise and fall of the dinosaurs and were present at the birth of a bipedal ape who went on to become the most destructive species the planet has ever known. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/16/12509/498 From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 18 03:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 10:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Iraq to pay US$200M to US coporations for "loss of revenue" Message-ID: <20041018100904.16083.qmail@resist.ca> Globe and Mail | October 15, 2004 | By Naomi Klein Next week, something will happen that will unmask the upside-down morality of the invasion and occupation of Iraq. On Thursday, Iraq will pay $200-million (U.S.) in war reparations to some of the richest countries and corporations in the world. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/17/181910/73 From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 18 03:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 10:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Women Banned from Voting, Running for Office in Saudi Arabia Message-ID: <20041018100904.16085.qmail@resist.ca> Feminist Daily News Wire | October 13, 2004 Saudi Arabia?s Interior Minister, announced in an interview on Monday that women will not be able to participate as either voters or candidates in the first nationwide vote held in the monarchy. Nayef cited administrative and logistical reasons for the decision, saying that there are too few women for the task of running women-only voter registration and polling centers, and also that not enough women in Saudi Arabia have a photo identification card, which is necessary to vote in the election URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/18/2642/7616 From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 18 03:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 10:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Amendments to privacy laws won't protect our personal data from the FBI Message-ID: <20041018100904.16087.qmail@resist.ca> October 8, 2004 | http://www.bcgeu.ca/2502 The B.C. Government and Service Employees' Union (BCGEU) is rejecting the government's claim that amendments to B.C. privacy laws will be sufficient protection for British Columbians if their medical and financial records and other personal information are handed over to U.S.-linked companies. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/18/2203/5024 From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 18 03:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 10:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Missile Defence vote "rigged" Message-ID: <20041018100904.16088.qmail@resist.ca> Prime Minister Paul Martin has "rigged" votes in the Commons to guarantee Liberal support for the controversial U.S. ballistic missile defence system, says an outspoken Grit. Canada's Policy on Ballistic Missile Defence (Source : Canada Department of National Defence ; issued Oct.5) URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/17/141113/57 From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 19 12:09:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 19:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] The Liberal Holocaust Message-ID: <20041019190906.16145.qmail@resist.ca> "The Democratic Party, the party of slavery, has a long history of mass murder and empire building. They are not an alternative to the American Empire. Especially on foreign policy, there is remarkable consistency between republican and democratic administrations. If the Nuremberg standards were applied every President since World War Two, both democrat and republican, would have to be hung.... A vote for the democrats is a vote for imperialism and war...." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/19/13654/726 From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 19 12:09:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 19:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] "Never Again" Message-ID: <20041019190906.16146.qmail@resist.ca> Hedy Epstein, 79-yr old kinder transport survivor and Holocaust educator, who was roughed up demonstrating against the Wall this spring, and strip-searched at B-G airport on leaving, will be joining the synagogue vigil on Oct 2. This was publicly announced (along with the decision not to vigil at the synagogue on Yom Kippur, which falls on Saturday this year). The synagogue rabbi wrote to Hedy asking her not to come. She rejected his appeal, with a poem, exchange below. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/18/172542/61 From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 19 12:09:06 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 19:09:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Syria & Iran: How to Effect Regime Change and Expand the Empire Message-ID: <20041019190906.16147.qmail@resist.ca> In the article below, Counterpunch regular contributor Gary Leupp outlines the strategy of the U.S. in expanding their empire through lies, duplicity and terror. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/18/11517/035 From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 19 12:09:06 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 19:09:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Soldiers Saw Refusing Order as Their Last Stand Message-ID: <20041019190906.16149.qmail@resist.ca> JACKSON, Miss., Oct. 17 - What does it take for a man like Staff Sgt. Michael Butler, a 24-year veteran of the Army and the Reserve who was a soldier in the first Persian Gulf war and a reserve called up to fight in the current war in Iraq, to risk everything by disobeying a direct order in wartime? URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/18/62444/175 From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 19 12:09:06 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 19:09:06 -0000 Subject: [news] US wealth gap grows for ethnic minorities Message-ID: <20041019190906.16150.qmail@resist.ca> Suzanne Goldenberg Tuesday October 19, 2004 The Guardian In the US, in 2002, the median net worth of white households was $88,651, or 11 times greater than Hispanic families ($7,932) and 14 times greater than African-American families ($5,988). URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/18/214322/24 From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 19 12:09:06 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 19:09:06 -0000 Subject: [news] 2006 Canadian Census and National Missile Defence - Two Stones in the Same Swamp Message-ID: <20041019190907.16151.qmail@resist.ca> Roy Whyte CDM Oct 11 2004 Word has come down this week that Lockheed Martin will help conduct the 2006 Canadian census through a Canadian subsidiary. Lockheed Martin is o?ne of the worlds leading arms manufactures and a close supporter of the Bush government. From the Lockheed Martin website, "We never forget who we're working for." That certainly is neither Canada nor Canadian citizens; it is the U.S. government. Lockheed Martin is also a big player o?n the national missile defence scheme as put forward by the Bush government. Currently the federal Liberal party is seeing itself divided over this issue, as the Martin camp wants to press ahead by any means necessary so that they may curry favour with Washington. Some Liberal MP's are instead actually listening to the Canadian populace and voicing their opposition to the move to join the United States in the destabilizing act of national missile defence. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/18/213412/54 From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 20 05:09:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Israel & South Africa Message-ID: <20041020120905.23377.qmail@resist.ca> "So for us in South Africa, who have lived through Apartheid, who have benefited from this (sanctions) kind of international solidarity, we think it is vital for us to be in the lead to support the call to isolate Israel. It is therefore with shock and embarrassment that we find our own (African National Congress - former liberation movement, now neo-liberal) government, which benefited from this international solidarity, in fact acting like scabs during a strike, breaking this call." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/19/201614/09 From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 20 05:09:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Exploitation on tap Message-ID: <20041020120905.23378.qmail@resist.ca> Why is Britain using aid money to persuade South Africa to privatise its public services? George Monbiot | Tuesday October 19, 2004 | The Guardian No one could have accused the Conservative government of breaking its promise to bring back Victorian values. When, in 1992, it permitted private water companies to install pre-paid meters in Birmingham, the people who couldn't afford to flush their toilets started defecating into pots, which they then emptied out of the windows of their tower blocks. It made one quite nostalgic. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/19/174839/37 From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 20 05:09:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Prominent leader arrested after Iqaluit standoff Message-ID: <20041020120905.23376.qmail@resist.ca> IQALUIT - Nunavut politician Jerry Ell was arrested this morning in Iqaluit after giving himself up following a six-hour armed standoff with police. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/19/183520/84 From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 20 05:09:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] A Brief Recent History of Venezuela's Labor Movement Message-ID: <20041020120905.23380.qmail@resist.ca> By: Jonah Gindin - Venezuelanalysis.com When Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was elected in 1998, inaugurating a process of radical political and social changes, it looked as though labor might be left behind. The main labor central, the Confederation of Venezuelan Workers (CTV) was one of his most avid critics, and Chavez in turn lashed out verbally against the CTV on a regular basis. But the image of Chavez vs Labor, repeatedly thrown at the unsuspecting casual observer by the mainstream media, is precisely intended to mislead. The unpleasant truth is that the CTV has not adequately represented Venezuelan workers since the 1970s, if not before. The reality of Chavez vs the CTV, then, does not exclude the active and enthusiastic participation of a large proportion of Venezuelan workers in his Bolivarian revolution (named after Latin American Independence leader Simon Bolivar). URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/19/17583/165 From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 20 05:09:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Americans plan to unilaterally divert Great Lakes water Message-ID: <20041020120906.23381.qmail@resist.ca> TheStar.com | Oct. 18, 2004 The governors of the Great Lakes states have a plan for diverting water from the Great Lakes Basin. Under their scheme, neither Canada nor the provinces would have any right to approve or veto the diversion of Great Lakes waters regardless of their duration, scale, or impact on the waters of this shared ecosystem. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/19/204331/61 From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 20 05:09:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Concet Properties refuses to come clean on Liberal Party donation scandal Message-ID: <20041020120906.23383.qmail@resist.ca> "Last May a major scandal erupted inside the British Columbia labour movement when it came to light that Concert Properties (a huge development corporation controlled by the trade union movement) had donated $16,665 to Gordon Campbell's Liberal Party.... What Concert's directors (union leaders!) seem to be saying.... is simply this: 'We will take the pension money of our members and donate it wherever we want. We will do this without seeking a mandate from our members, or even informing them that we are giving their money away to our enemies. We will join the P3 crusade to privatize public services, regardless of the democratically adopted positions of our unions in opposition to this privatization. We will also pay ourselves whatever directors fees and perks we deem to be fit, and conceal this information from our membership. We are answerable to no one. We are accountable to no one. And if you don't like it, you can lump it.'" URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/19/184310/60 From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 21 06:09:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 13:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Why not eat children?: Comparing the socio-economic choices of Germany to Venezuela Message-ID: <20041021130905.22295.qmail@resist.ca> The Guardian | October 12, 2004 | By Alan Freeman Why not eat children? The article compares the choices two governments have made given their available resources: Germany with the neocon model of imposing economic hardship for their poor even in times of prosperity (for some) and the Venezuelan model of using economic surplus to actualize social goals. The author claims, "Reforms that are presented as economic necessities are in fact usually political choices". URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/21/55832/744 From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 21 06:09:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 13:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] US unable to sell Treasury bonds Message-ID: <20041021130905.22296.qmail@resist.ca> Washington Post | Tuesday, October 19, 2004; Page E01 | By Jonathan Weisman and Ben White "...A rash of new data, including Treasury Department figures released yesterday showing a net sell-off by foreigners of U.S. bonds in August, has stoked debate over whether overseas investors -- private individuals, institutions and government central banks -- are growing dangerously bearish on the U.S. economy." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/21/55850/026 From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 21 06:09:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 13:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Tli Cho "deal" wends way through Parliament again Message-ID: <20041021130905.22297.qmail@resist.ca> OTTAWA - The Tli Cho Land Claims and Self-Government Act was introduced in the House of Commons Tuesday by Indian Affairs Minister Andy Scott. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/20/10050/896 From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 21 06:09:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 13:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Six Arrests Made at CSIS as Sit-in Demands Secret Evidence Used to Detain Canada's Secret Trial Five Message-ID: <20041021130905.22298.qmail@resist.ca> TORONTO, OCTOBER 20, 2004 "Six people were arrested today following a sit-in in the lobby of the building that houses the Toronto offices of Canada's national spy agency, CSIS. The group, made up of folks from Burlington, Hamilton, Dundas, Durham, and Toronto, had been seeking a meeting to discuss the secret 'evidence' which has been used to detain five > Muslim men a collective 164 months, or 13 and a half years, behind Canadian prison bars without charge or bail. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/20/14479/374 From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 21 09:09:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] France begins expelling girls who wear head scarves in school Message-ID: <20041021160905.18940.qmail@resist.ca> PARIS -- France has quietly begun expelling Muslim girls for wearing head scarves to public schools in defiance of a new law banning conspicuous religious symbols, treading carefully for fear of endangering two French hostages in Iraq. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/21/8311/6115 From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 21 09:09:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] $6 a liter of Water? If you are an Indian... Message-ID: <20041021160905.18941.qmail@resist.ca> Nearly 50 per cent of the homes in the community contain black mould and need to be washed with water and bleach regularly, Mr. Moonias said. A one-litre bottle of water sells for $6 in the town. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/21/82532/710 From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 22 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Chavez government denounces destruction of Columbus statue and pays to rebuild it Message-ID: <20041022130903.18245.qmail@resist.ca> "...A deal was offered by the mayor. The five prisoners would be released in exchange for the 'organizers.' He later made a statement denouncing the 'anarchists' that had carried out the action, and 'washing his hands' of whatever might happen to them in the courts. Most sickeningly, Freddy Bernal vowed to restore the statue to its previous state. Many people here are utterly disgusted at the idea that a section of the Bolivarian government intends to use public funds to repair a statue of Christopher Columbus, which had been torn down by the same people who would give their lives to protect that same government." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/21/164642/59 From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 22 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Ottawa Cops Target Anti-Poverty Organizer Message-ID: <20041022130903.18247.qmail@resist.ca> This is regarding an Ottawa anti-poverty organizer who has been targetted by the police. There have been big legal battles in Ottawa for radicals in the 7 Year Squat, Jane Scharf, the homeless tent cities and again and again, Heidi Rimke. She was recently found guilty for yelling at Ottawa Mayor Bob Chiarelli for breaking his promises to start new initiatives to combat homelessness. The homeless epidemic in Ontario is about to go into another winter and people cannot sit idly by. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/21/1228/1690 From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 22 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Millions of Americans denied the vote Message-ID: <20041022130903.18246.qmail@resist.ca> October 19, 2004 "In total violation of international law, five million US citizens are still being deprived of their right to vote in the upcoming presidential elections, due to their criminal records, according to a Reuters wire. Meanwhile, a study estimates that four to six million people were not registered to vote in the last elections. Another survey reports the use of a variety of intimidation techniques to prevent a countless number of citizens from voting." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/22/55259/495 From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 22 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Vancouver Police Officer Charged With Assault (on Activist) Message-ID: <20041022130904.18250.qmail@resist.ca> October 21, 2004 | Vancouver "A city police officer has been criminally charged with assault after allegedly throwing a local activist through a plate-glass window." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/22/55353/371 From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 22 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Prison term for involvement in Sheshatshiu riot Message-ID: <20041022130903.18248.qmail@resist.ca> Kenny Milley, a member of the Innu Nation, has been sentenced to two years in prison for his resistance to a police attack on the reserve of Sheshatshiu. Innu women and children occupied the band council office in March, after waiting five and a half years for the council to delegate them housing. RCMP officers and Child, Youth and Family Services officials were repelled by about 50 to 60 family members who rushed down to defend those occupying the offices. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/21/113833/53 From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 23 11:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 18:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] The Promise of Restitution of Indigenous Rights in Venezuela Message-ID: <20041023180903.28235.qmail@resist.ca> The arrival of Christopher Columbus was commemorated last week in countries across the Americas except in Venezuela. This past October 12, President Hugo Chavez did not commemorate the arrival of Columbus to this continent in 1492. Instead, Chavez paid homage to 16th Century indigenous chief, Guaicaipuro, at the National Pantheon in Caracas. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/22/122154/40 From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 23 11:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 18:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] European Social Forum Hijacked by Authoritarians Message-ID: <20041023180904.28236.qmail@resist.ca> Thousands of people from more than 70 countries came to a very wet London last weekend to take part in the European Social Forum (ESF) and the various autonomous events across the capital. They came to see if 'another world is possible' , yet as expected, last weekend was hijacked by people whose vision seems seriously at odds with many people involved in grassroots politics. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/22/222845/52 From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 23 11:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 18:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] "Grand chief" offers olive branch on pipeline suits Message-ID: <20041023180904.28237.qmail@resist.ca> YELLOWKNIFE - The Deh Cho's grand chief says he's willing to compromise his stand on how a pipeline is reviewed if federal officials do the same. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/22/114728/18 From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 23 11:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 18:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Ferry workers angry at arbitrator, Liberals and own president Message-ID: <20041023180904.28239.qmail@resist.ca> Vancouver Sun | Friday, October 22, 2004 | By Vaughn Palmer Victoria - Ferry workers are still recovering from "shock, horror, dismay, and disappointment" over the arbitrator's binding decision in their bitter dispute with BC Ferries. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/23/105854/49 From news at resist.ca Sun Oct 24 07:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] China: An army of migrant workers grows restless Message-ID: <20041024140904.18687.qmail@resist.ca> Globe and Mail | Saturday, Oct 23, 2004 | By Geoffrey York Huang Benlin "is a small wiry man in a grease-stained shirt, a migrant worker from a small village in Sichuan province who has suffered 24 years of low wages, exploitation, long hours and cruel bosses. Now, he is plotting his revenge." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/24/63015/229 From news at resist.ca Sun Oct 24 08:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Testing begins on Imperial gas works [in the Arctic Ocean!!] Message-ID: <20041024150903.27090.qmail@resist.ca> INUVIK, N.W.T. - Imperial Oil has announced plans to start the preliminary stages of building a gas production facility in the Mackenzie Delta. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/22/12859/014 From news at resist.ca Sun Oct 24 08:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Ousted Mohawk police chief returns Message-ID: <20041024150903.27092.qmail@resist.ca> MONTREAL - The reappointment of a police chief previously barred from a First Nation community is being met with anger by some Kanesatake residents. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/22/115756/76 From news at resist.ca Sun Oct 24 08:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Muslim group condemns cleric's attack on Jews Message-ID: <20041024150903.27091.qmail@resist.ca> "B.C. Muslims have been trying for at least two years to silence what they call the "grotesque" anti-Jewish views of radical Vancouver cleric Sheik Younus Kathrada." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/23/194353/50 From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 25 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Venezuelan president says he will send troops to expropriate land from wealthy Message-ID: <20041025130903.6838.qmail@resist.ca> Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez stepped upthe pressure on wealthy landowners Saturday, saying he will send troops to confiscate unused farmland if large property owners refuseto give up the land to help the poor. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/24/104356/60 From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 25 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] "Community" Armed Forces Message-ID: <20041025130903.6839.qmail@resist.ca> Canada's part-time soldiers will provide one-stop shopping for aid to communities hit by disaster or a terrorist attack under a new proposal that will see specialized army planning officers set up in major towns and cities. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/24/185843/22 From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 25 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Resist.ca Turns Two Message-ID: <20041025130903.6840.qmail@resist.ca> Happy birthday to Resist.ca! Although the Resist! Collective has been around in one form or another for over five years now, we have only been running the resist.ca website and offering @resist.ca email addresses and lists to social justice focused individuals and organizations around the globe since October 26, 2002. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/25/53947/117 From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 26 06:09:09 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:09:09 -0000 Subject: [news] "Peacekeepers" Haitian cops move against militants Message-ID: <20041026130910.29537.qmail@resist.ca> PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Haitian police and U.N. troops moved into a slum that has become a flashpoint for unrest, using bulldozers to remove a barricade of torched cars that had blocked traffic in the capital. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/25/84137/653 From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 26 06:09:09 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:09:09 -0000 Subject: [news] The New Cointelpro Message-ID: <20041026130910.29538.qmail@resist.ca> Via NY Transfer News Collective | By Camille T. Taiara "EARLY THIS MONTH the federal government launched the latest crude offensive in its so-called war on terror. Titled the October Plan, the program called for 'aggressive - even obvious - surveillance' of a wide range of individuals (regardless of whether or not they're suspected of any criminal wrongdoing) until the Nov. 2 presidential election, according to an internal document leaked to the press." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/26/54433/071 From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 26 06:09:09 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:09:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Aboriginal languages facing extinction Message-ID: <20041026130910.29539.qmail@resist.ca> "We have to preserve and above all revitalize (these languages)," said Thanissa Laine, a co-ordinator for the second Conference on Aboriginal Languages. "There is no law protecting endangered languages in Canada but there are (laws) for animals that are becoming extinct." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/25/8479/2964 From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 26 06:09:10 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:09:10 -0000 Subject: [news] "Populism" Rearing it's Ugly Head in Latin America Message-ID: <20041026130910.29540.qmail@resist.ca> "By far the most dangerous application of the populism epithet has been the U.S. Southern Command's recent inclusion of 'radical populism' on its list of national security threats....SouthCom's commander, General James Hill, alerted Congress to the threat of 'radical populism in which the democratic process is undermined to decrease rather than protect individual rights.'" URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/26/04833/898 From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 26 06:09:10 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:09:10 -0000 Subject: [news] NYC Files Lawsuit to Stop Critical Mass Message-ID: <20041026130910.29541.qmail@resist.ca> Oct 25, 2004 http://nyc.indymedia.org/feature/display/128206/index.php ???? New York City filed a lawsuit today in an effort to stop the monthly critical mass ride. They are asking a judge to grant them an injunction enjoining "all other participants in Critical Mass bicycle rides form engaging in conduct that requires a permit without having first obtained such a permit." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/25/21505/120 From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 27 05:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 12:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] "What's the Point of Fighting Organizations that Can't Fight?" Message-ID: <20041027120904.10637.qmail@resist.ca> "(Many on the left) are obsessed with the unions, waiting for their big battalions to stir into action. But....if we are to win the fight against capitalism, then we won't get anywhere by asking nicely. This really isn't rocket science." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/26/141344/79 From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 27 05:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 12:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] A Poem By A Palestinian Youth Message-ID: <20041027120904.10636.qmail@resist.ca> A Poem By A Palestinian Youth Eye to Eye By Gihad Ali URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/25/7549/3594 From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 27 05:09:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 12:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Unions and the Global Justice Movement Message-ID: <20041027120904.10638.qmail@resist.ca> Bill Fletcher, Jr. addresses the lack of understanding in the US labour movement (and by extension all other labour movements) of "global justice" and what it means to have an analysis of social justice issues that go beyond national boarders. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/27/5024/8839 From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 27 06:09:06 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:09:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Alternative energy source "fizzles" in Inuvik Message-ID: <20041027130906.17905.qmail@resist.ca> The president of the Northwest Territories Power Corporation says an experiment at using an alternative energy-generating system in Inuvik is a failure. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/26/16289/385 From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 27 06:09:06 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:09:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Iraq's Prime Minister Faults U.S. Military in Massacre Message-ID: <20041027130906.17906.qmail@resist.ca> NYTimes | By EDWARD WONG | October 27, 2004 BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct. 26 - Prime Minister Ayad Allawi blamed the American-led military forces on Tuesday for the weekend massacre of 49 freshly trained Iraqi soldiers, saying the military had shown "major negligence." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/27/5158/8220 From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 27 06:09:06 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:09:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Boston Cops Kill Celebrating Student Message-ID: <20041027130907.17908.qmail@resist.ca> "As a Caucasian 21 year old college student, Victoria Snelgrove was not your typical (police) brutality victim. But if this is what (Boston Police Commissioner Kathleen) O'Toole describes as 'great restraint' it raises the question of what police are doing in parts of the city like Roxbury and Mattapan where the lights don't shine as brightly (Roxbury & Mattapan are low-income, primarily African-American communities in Boston)." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/26/163534/97 From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 28 08:09:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 15:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Cuba and the US dollar Message-ID: <20041028150905.25956.qmail@resist.ca> The measures announced by the Cuban government yesterday in relation to the use and circulation of the USD in Cuba are the latest in a series attempting to deal with the serious problems the Cuban economy faces. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/27/23611/566 From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 28 08:09:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 15:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Israel may have Iran in its sights Message-ID: <20041028150905.25958.qmail@resist.ca> If diplomacy fails, the Jewish state could call on military to strike any nuclear arms program. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/27/9542/5716 From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 28 08:09:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 15:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Large-scale local protests erupting in China Message-ID: <20041028150906.25960.qmail@resist.ca> BEIJING Vexed local officials in towns and cities across China are struggling to contain large public demonstrations that are erupting at a seemingly quickening pace. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/27/231835/06 From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 28 08:09:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 15:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Chilean anarchist shot by police Message-ID: <20041028150906.25961.qmail@resist.ca> On October 13, 2004, a group of encapuchados (masked-up rebels) attacked a motorcycle police contingent with firebombs outside of the University of Chile in Santiago. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/28/05150/551 From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 28 08:09:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 15:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Neighbours say UN/RCMP-assisted Haitian cops killed at least 10 people in capital Message-ID: <20041028150906.25964.qmail@resist.ca> PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Haitian police raided a building in Haiti's capital and killed at least 10 people, most of them young, neighbours told a human rights lawyer Wednesday, the second day of a strike called by loyalists who want the return of ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/27/2318/8157 From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 28 08:09:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 15:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] cops killed this Indian? Bummer. No charges will be laid... Message-ID: <20041028150907.25965.qmail@resist.ca> Neil Stonechild was in the custody of two Saskatoon police officers on the last night he was seen alive, and injuries he suffered likely were caused by police handcuffs. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/27/234355/44 From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 28 08:09:06 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 15:09:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Update on Adrian Dragan: Roma Refugee Message-ID: <20041028150906.25969.qmail@resist.ca> Adrian Dragan is a Roma (Gypsy) refugee currently being held in isolation at the North Fraser prison in Port Coquitlam. On October 6, he started a hunger strike after he was placed in isolation for refusing to sign a form that would indicate his willingness to return to Romania (which he does not want to do). URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/27/135724/06 From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 29 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] IWW Vancouver Strike Support Committee Report - October 28, 2004 Message-ID: <20041029130904.802.qmail@resist.ca> While some strikes end (or are suspended), others start, and some just keep going on and on and on. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/28/103415/03 From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 29 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Trial date set for Chairman Gonzalo Message-ID: <20041029130904.804.qmail@resist.ca> (no endorsement of AWTW implied) 25 October 2004. A World to Win News Service. 5 November has been set as the date for the opening of the trial of Abimael Guzman (Chairman Gonzalo) and 17 other accused leaders, members and supporters of the Communist Party of Peru (PCP). URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/27/113030/21 From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 29 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Police clash with protestors on anniversary of deadly hunger strike Message-ID: <20041029130904.805.qmail@resist.ca> Security forces sprayed tear gas on stone-hurling protestors in Istanbul Wednesday at a demonstration to mark the fourth anniversary of a hunger strike in Turkish prisons that claimed dozens of lives, Anatolia news agency reported. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/27/15546/795 From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 29 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Russian natives join Makahs' celebration Message-ID: <20041029130904.810.qmail@resist.ca> The Makahs offered homage to the spirits of the four seasons. The Russian guests donned long, fur-lined robes to celebrate the reindeer that helped feed native people in the northeast Russian province of Chukotka. And they both honored the gray whale, which the Russians hunt, and the Makahs - now blocked by federal court rulings - hope to hunt again. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/27/112430/91 From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 29 06:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Toronto Cops Beat, Pepper Spray & Arrest Youth of Colour Message-ID: <20041029130904.811.qmail@resist.ca> Last February, 14 Division (Toronto) police officers began a campaign of brutality against youth of colour in the Alexandra Park Co-Op. A number of youth were beaten, illegally detained, intimidated and charged. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/29/22318/811 From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 29 07:09:08 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 14:09:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Study out in time to back VPD's request for funds to pay for crackdown Message-ID: <20041029140908.9575.qmail@resist.ca> VANCOUVER - Pivot Legal Society is questioning the timing of a newly released study on the Downtown Eastside crackdown by Vancouver police, and its connection to an upcoming budget request by the Vancouver police. The VPD is approaching the City of Vancouver for an extra $5 million to pay for a budget overrun caused, in large part, by costs associated with the crackdown. The City of Vancouver refused to pay for the $2.3 million initiative when approached by police in the spring of 2003. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/29/639/24655 From rebel_jill98 at yahoo.co.jp Fri Oct 29 21:36:41 2004 From: rebel_jill98 at yahoo.co.jp (=?ISO-2022-JP?B?cmViZWxfSklMTC8bJEJNcDpbRjs9IRsoQg==?=) Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 13:36:41 +0900 Subject: [news] [*Sign our petition now! Defend the Rights of Elderly/disabled homeless comardes in osaka!] Message-ID: <41831A59.9040905@yahoo.co.jp> Subject: *Sign our petition now! Defend the Rights of Elderly/disabled homeless comardes! Comrades; saluton, we, the ?Koureisha-Tokubetu-Shuurou-Rouso-junbi-kai? and some groups(Association of Poor People in Nagai Park, Association of Kamagasaki-Patrol and Nishinari-Kouen-Yorozu-soudansho...etc) in osaka-city are organizations of a homeless liberation struggle in osaka. now, we urgently propose that you will support our action against the government abolishing the Special works for the elderly day-workers and the elderly homeless comrades. by the way, in osaka, we will strongly plan to demand the following requirements as a petition against japanese government in early November 2004.(on 3-4 November 2004, we will go to tokio for our actions.) so, every morning, we have continued to do our signature activities in Kamagasaki area (the biggest day-workers' town in japan) and other areas of osaka city since October 2004. if you will be interested in supporting our requirements, we would love to ask you for your signatures or your solidarity messages by e-mail: nagaipark_tentvilla(no scum!)yahoo.co.jp then, if you or your group have your own web site, let us know. Shall we link our web sites each other! Vi venkos! Ni venkos! La batalo continuos...no pasaran! thanx. in solidarity. (rebel_JILL) http://www.geocities.jp/nagaipark_tentvilla/ http://au.geocities.com/nagaipark_nakamanokai/tokusyuu_seigansyo041012en.htm We demand: -the japanese governmet should evaluate the ?Koureisha-Tokubetsu-Shuurou(=special works for the elderly & disabled dayworkers/homeless comrades)?'s actual results of our works actively! -we strongly oppose the abolition of special works for the elderly & disabled dayworkers/homeless comrades. Also, we strongly oppose that the japanese government will plan to do the abolition of ?Kinkyuu-Chiiki-Koyou-Sousyutsu-Tokubetsu-Kouhukin? on the end of March 2005. These special works are not enough to be able to get rid of the hungry of many homeless comrades and are also not enough to live dayworkers' lives. Further, elderly poor comrades who have no registering card for special works are eagering to get this works. So, abolishing these works will cause terriblely damages(of course, including starvations and illnesses by malnutritions) to these registered 3100 elderly comrades and all elderly/disabled poor comrades. -The japanese government should justifiably provide the ?Third Subsidy? For Unemployed peoples & more sufferring longtime unemployed peoples. And also, ?helps for the poor? not ?helps for the foxy & nasty capitalists?! http://au.geocities.com/nagaipark_nakamanokai/tokusyuu_seigansyo041012en.htm __________________________________ for your loved one http://pr.mail.yahoo.co.jp/pinkribbon/ From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 30 07:09:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 14:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Mad, or what? Message-ID: <20041030140903.19553.qmail@resist.ca> from korean anarchist network (anarclan.net) New Attacks Against Migrant Workers Here At least since before October 4th, it seems that South Korean (bourgeois) mainstream media, news agencies and the government completley went crazy! What was going on? URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/29/215451/00 From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 30 07:09:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 14:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] New Yukon park won't stop lawsuit (Tr'ondek Hwech'in) Message-ID: <20041030140903.19554.qmail@resist.ca> The Tr'ondek Hwech'in say the new Tombstone Park does not meet the environmental standards promised in the First Nations "Final" Land Claim Agreement. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/28/11823/873 From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 30 07:09:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 14:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Fascists Run Out of Town in New Zealand Message-ID: <20041030140903.19555.qmail@resist.ca> "The extreme ring wing/fascist group National Front was confronted this weekend by counter marches, fairies and anarchist blocks. The National front rally at parliament, (in) support of keeping the current national flag as a symbol of New Zealand's colonial heritage, was met by fairies throwing glitter over the skinheads and an anarchist block, who chanted 'boring' and 'nazi scum' throughout the nationalist speeches." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/29/165935/09 From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 30 07:09:02 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 14:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] 6 Arrested at Bellingham Critical Mass Message-ID: <20041030140903.19556.qmail@resist.ca> 6 People were arrested Friday night at a masquerade Critical Mass ride through the streets of Bellingham, Washington. One was dressed as a prisoner. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/29/23214/374 From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 30 07:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Burning coal and garbage called "clean" under BC Liberal guidelines Message-ID: <20041030140903.19558.qmail@resist.ca> BC Labour News Network Independent power producers are exploiting a massive loophole in the BC "Clean Energy Guidelines" by developing proposals to burn dirty fuels such as coal and garbage, says the BC Citizens for Public Power, a BC Hydro watchdog group. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/29/20431/078 From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 30 07:09:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Grand chief "can just about taste" pipeline settlement Message-ID: <20041030140903.19557.qmail@resist.ca> FORT SIMPSON, N.W.T. - The Deh Cho may be close to resolving their differences with the federal government over the Mackenzie Valley pipeline project. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/28/11546/064