From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 14 10:54:44 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 17:54:44 -0000 Subject: [news] Fallujah: The Beslan of Iraq Message-ID: <20040914175444.28344.qmail@resist.ca> Since, the Marines were rebuffed last April in a three week siege that killed an estimated 650 Iraqis, the military has repeatedly bombed sections of Fallujah using the spurious claim of targeting terrorist "safe houses." Every incident involved the wanton destruction of personal property and the loss of innocent life....These attacks are part of larger "psy-ops" (psychological operation) strategy that requires the long-term terrorizing of the population to make them more compliant to American wishes. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/11/14515/4171 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 14 10:54:44 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 17:54:44 -0000 Subject: [news] Racism within the ranks Message-ID: <20040914175444.28345.qmail@resist.ca> While struggling for truth and equality, true partnership and reconciliation between Jews and Palestinians, we need to address the wrongs inflicted by Zionism not only on Palestinians but on Arab Jews as well. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/11/123153/720 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 14 10:54:44 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 17:54:44 -0000 Subject: [news] Public Power in the Age of Empire Message-ID: <20040914175445.28346.qmail@resist.ca> by Arundhati Roy Radical change cannot and will not be negotiated by governments; it can only be enforced by people. By the public. A public who can link hands across national borders. So when we speak of "Public Power in the Age of Empire," I hope it's not presumptuous to assume that the only thing that is worth discussing seriously is the power of a dissenting public. A public which disagrees with the very concept of empire. A public which has set itself against incumbent power - international, national, regional, or provincial governments and institutions that support and service empire. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/11/151055/858 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 14 10:54:44 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 17:54:44 -0000 Subject: [news] Canadian Bullets, Dead Iraqis Message-ID: <20040914175445.28348.qmail@resist.ca> By Chris Spannos | ZNet | September 8th, 2004 With up to 13,802 Iraqi civilian deaths to date, Canadians will now be providing one of the most basic necessities for the US occupation forces in Iraq: bullets. The Canadian company SNC Technologies Inc. (SNC TEC) is now part of a multinational consortium of small-caliber ammunition producers whose purpose is to supply between 300 million -500 million more bullets to occupation forces per year, and potentially for at least five years. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/12/11757/9360 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 14 10:54:45 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 17:54:45 -0000 Subject: [news] From Vietnam to Iraq: Atrocity Denial Message-ID: <20040914175445.28353.qmail@resist.ca> For those who have studied the historical record of the US prosecution of the war in Southeast Asia, neither the Republicans nor Democrats have confronted the full measure of those atrocities and what their legacy is especially in the war on Iraq....While Rumsfeld and the Pentagon have touted the "clean" weapons used in Iraq, the fact is that aerial cluster bombs and free-fire zones have continued to be part of present day military operations. Villages throughout Iraq, from Hilla to Fallujah, have borne and are bearing US attacks that take a heavy civilian toll. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/13/182051/281 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 14 10:54:44 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 17:54:44 -0000 Subject: [news] Skwelkwekwelt Update - September 11, 2004 Message-ID: <20040914175445.28349.qmail@resist.ca> The Skwelkwekwelt Protection Center, along with various support groups, held a rally at Sun Peaks on August 29 to protest the on-going expansion of the Sun Peaks Ski Resort. On the same day, Secwepemc members and their invited guests began construction of what was to be a permanent structure. This structure was to monitor environmental damage at Skwelkwekwelt, inform visitors and investors of the on-going unsettled land issue in the area and assert and exercise our Secwepemc Title and Rights to our unceded lands by occupying our lands. Demo information for today follows. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/12/162636/285 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 14 10:54:45 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 17:54:45 -0000 Subject: [news] IWW Vancouver Strike Support Committee Report - September 13, 2004 Message-ID: <20040914175445.28363.qmail@resist.ca> Tens of thousands of PSAC federal government workers are on strike nationwide, with more on the way. Struggles continue for other workers, while others have ended in victory. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/13/16317/2728 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 14 10:54:45 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 17:54:45 -0000 Subject: [news] New Documentary Fills Void Left by Failure of Journalism Message-ID: <20040914175446.28355.qmail@resist.ca> by Robert Jensen; September 13, 2004 - Znet I'm a former full-time journalist turned journalism professor. I continue to commit occasional acts of journalism, and I retain a deep affection for, and commitment to, the craft and its ideals. That's why it pains me to say this: The performance of the U.S. corporate commercial news media after 9/11 has been the most profound and dangerous failure of journalism in my lifetime. That's the bad news. The good news is that the void is being filled by other institutions, including the Media Education Foundation with its new documentary, "Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/13/225445/345 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 14 10:54:45 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 17:54:45 -0000 Subject: [news] Middle Eastern Men Beaten By Eugene Oregon Police Department Message-ID: <20040914175446.28356.qmail@resist.ca> Two Middle-Eastern men were physically assaulted outside a bowling alley in front of a group of witnesses on March 6, 2003. When the men filed a civil suite against the cops, the prosecutor piled on an additional 8 charges in an attempt to have the men deported. No source. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/13/21735/5337 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 14 10:54:45 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 17:54:45 -0000 Subject: [news] "God Wills It!" Message-ID: <20040914175446.28364.qmail@resist.ca> "Two shocking manifestos were published this week. Both call for comment....One of them declares that dismantling the settlements in the Gaza Strip is a "crime against humanity". It does not mention that they were set up on the land reserves of a million Palestinians crowded in the tiny strip, and rob them of their scarce water....The second manifesto declares that the Halakha (Jewish religious law) commands the killing of innocent Palestinian civilians if this helps to save Jews. It is signed by the heads of the "Arrangement Yeshivot", the West Bank settlement rabbis and other religious leaders." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/13/225935/835 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 14 22:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 05:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Why West is Losing Message-ID: <20040915051705.14582.qmail@resist.ca> Toronto Sun | September 12, 2004 | by Eric Margolis Three years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, America's politicians and media continue to gravely deceive the public about the so-called war on terrorism. Now the definitive book on terrorism has appeared that should be mandatory reading for every thinking person. It's called Imperial Hubris: Why The West is Losing the War on Terror. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/14/212532/833 From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 15 05:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Resistance - the First Step Towards Iraqi Independence Message-ID: <20040915121706.354.qmail@resist.ca> World Crisis Web by Tariq Ali 14 Sep 2004 "Whether the oppressors are troops from the USA, or cobbled together out of co-operative Iraqis, the reistance to capitalism and neo-colonialism in Iraq will not be stopped." ...It is the combination of all this that fuels the resistance and encourages many young men to fight. Few are prepared to betray those who are fighting. This is crucially important, because without the tacit support of the population, a sustained resistance is virtually impossible. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/14/192310/434 From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 15 05:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Why Bush May Well Be the Lesser Evil Message-ID: <20040915121705.353.qmail@resist.ca> (I)nadvertently, the Bush administration's falsehoods, rudeness, and preemptory demands have begun to destroy an alliance system that for the world's peace should have been abolished long ago. In this context, it is far more likely that the nations allied with the U. S. in the past will be compelled to stress their own interests and go their own ways. The Democrats are far less likely to continue that exceedingly desirable process, a process ultimately much more condusive to peace in the world....The Democrats' greater finesse in justifying these policies is therefore more dangerous because they will be made to seem more credible and keep alive alliances that only reinforce the U.S.' refusal to acknowledge the limits of its power. In the longer run, Kerry's pursuit of these aggressive goals will lead eventually to a renewal of the dissolution of alliances, but in the short-run he will attempt to rebuild them and European leaders will find it considerably more difficult to refuse his demands than if Bush stays in power--and that is to be deplored. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/14/174345/976 From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 15 05:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Pier 57 Message-ID: <20040915121706.356.qmail@resist.ca> "My 21-year old daughter disappeared from NYC last Tuesday afternoon when walking with friends through a park where no protest was being held -- and was held prisoner -- without being charged -- by the NYPD for three days. The first day and night she spent in an unsafe and inhumane facility at Pier 57 ("Little Guantanamo") provided by the Republican Party....Yes, it was managed by the Republican National Committee. It was leased by the RNC to hold political dissenters who disagreed with the Bush administration." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/14/153017/220 From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 15 05:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] The Criminalization of Dissent Message-ID: <20040915121706.355.qmail@resist.ca> "(W)e are reverting to the sort of guilt-by-association that marked the ideologically-driven anti-communist crusades of the Cold War era. Given that orientation, it is not surprising that the FBI was targeting groups of anarchists even before they traveled to NYC to take part in the protests. And, once they were near the RNC, police preemptively arrested a number of the known anarchists, charging them with outlandishly made-up charges." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/14/154321/742 From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 15 05:17:06 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada faces major security decisions Message-ID: <20040915121706.363.qmail@resist.ca> The Record | 13 September 2004 A11 | By Lynn Myers Despite the billions of dollars spent to date, the system (American ballistic missile defence program) does not work. Most of it hasn't even reached the drawing-board stage, let alone passed the testing stage. The planned deployment of two missile interceptors in mid-September seems cynically calculated to win a partisan political advantage in the run-up to the November elections in the United States, rather than a serious attempt to increase American security. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/14/211633/274 From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 15 05:17:06 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] One state or two? The debate continues... Message-ID: <20040915121706.364.qmail@resist.ca> There has been much discussion over the years as to how to resolve the crisis in the occupied state of Palistine. Noah Cohen has challenged the conventional wisdom of Noam Chomsky in this article published on axisoflogic.com. Chomsky's reply and Cohen's follow up will leave you with plenty to think about on this complex subject. A later story by Todd May follows below. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/14/204044/038 From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 15 05:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Editor's murder fuels concerns for free speech Message-ID: <20040915121706.358.qmail@resist.ca> September 11, 2004 The editor of a political magazine who was kidnapped in May apparently has been killed and his body burned - the fourth journalist investigating corruption to be killed in Mexico this year. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/14/21845/6867 From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 15 20:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 03:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Iraqi Crackdown Message-ID: <20040916031703.19658.qmail@resist.ca> "(The) new....operation suggests that Rumsfeld is trying to take aggressive steps to establish control of hostile areas before heading into the 2004 election cycle. His efforts will fail.... As Israel has discovered, people will not easily submit to occupation. They will suffer any indignity and endure any hardship rather than accept subjugation." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/15/174223/830 From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 15 20:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 03:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Haifa Street Helicopter Massacre Message-ID: <20040916031703.19659.qmail@resist.ca> "By all accounts on the ground, the crowd had gathered at least minutes before the helicopters arrived; children and other unarmed civilians were celebrating the departure of the American troops and the hit on the Bradley, whose crew had evacuated, by dancing on and around the vehicle; and nearly the entire crowd disbursed once the helicopters began firing from above.... In the instant preceding the explosion that mortally wounded TV reporter Al-Tameizi, he appears on camera entirely unaware that aircraft are about to strike the crowd in which he is standing, suggesting there was no warning at all, and that gathered civilians were targeted on the very first strike." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/15/174940/242 From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 16 06:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 13:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Skwelkwek'welt Update - September 14, 2004 Message-ID: <20040916131705.30434.qmail@resist.ca> The Skwelkwek'welt Protection Centre is under the threat of an imminent attack, as Indian Act band council chiefs and RCMP officers are preparing to meet at the site on Thursday, September 16. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/15/15437/3991 From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 16 06:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 13:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Muslim GI appeals for release Message-ID: <20040916131705.30435.qmail@resist.ca> Aljazeera by Roshan Muhammed Salih 14 Aug 2004 NB: as in the Vietnam war the cowards of the US have come running to kkkanada for safety. As in the vietnam war they are are white and middle class. As in the vietnam war the less than priviledged and often darker bruhs end up on the frontlines or behind bars. ..read on: An American soldier who was imprisoned for refusing to fight against fellow Muslims in Iraq has said the US army has a moral duty to release him. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/15/63946/3121 From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 16 06:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 13:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Olympics put Greek economy in tailspin Message-ID: <20040916131705.30436.qmail@resist.ca> Globe and Mail | Tuesday, September 14, 2004 - Page A1 | By Doug Saunders London -- After a summer of fun, Games and frantic spending on the world's largest party, the people of Greece are waking up this week to an Olympic hangover of truly gold-medal proportions. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/15/61715/0105 From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 16 06:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 13:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] The University Revolt in Oruro Message-ID: <20040916131705.30437.qmail@resist.ca> marxist.com | By Ramon Sanchez The Oruro Technical University (UTO) students have been giving further headaches to the Bolivian ruling class. The clashes between the very highly UTO lecturers and the students began just over three weeks ago when the lecturers demanded a 20% wage rise during a University Council meeting. This demand angered the students and the low paid non-academic workers (kitchen staff, cleaners, porters and so on) who did not accept this abuse of the already tight UTO budget. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/15/62451/3396 From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 16 06:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 13:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Bush orders sanctions against Venezuela for sex trafficking. Venezuela fires back. Message-ID: <20040916131705.30444.qmail@resist.ca> Two stories here. In the first, "President Bush ...order[s] a partial cut in U.S. assistance to Venezuela because of its alleged role in the international trafficking of women and children for sexual exploitation. In the second, (in english and spanish) Venezuelans send a statement to the UN noting that they have been updating the UN regularly on their efforts to comply with international treaties (to which the US have hypocritically not signed) on sex trafficking of women and children. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/15/61956/8705 From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 16 06:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 13:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Act Now to Stop Deportation of Roma Refugee! Message-ID: <20040916131706.30445.qmail@resist.ca> Adrian Dragan has been held for 16 months awaiting removal to Romania. He is a Roma (also known as "Gypsy") and faces serious danger and repression if removed to Romania, where Roma people are regularly attacked and persecuted. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/15/153036/057 From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 16 06:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 13:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Former Yellowknife resident convicted for role in Revolutionary Cells Message-ID: <20040916131706.30439.qmail@resist.ca> A former Yellowknife resident has been convicted in Germany of bombing a building almost 20 years ago. He told the court he was a member of a radical left wing group called the Revolutionary Cells. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/15/125638/321 From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 17 06:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 13:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Sharon: We won't follow road map Message-ID: <20040917131706.13603.qmail@resist.ca> Jerusalem -- Israel is not following the Mideast peace road map, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said in an interview published Wednesday, acknowledging that he is casting aside the U.S.-backed plan for now, even as Washington insists it is still valid. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/17/0265/63634 From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 17 06:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 13:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] They say 9/11 changed the world. What about September 16? Message-ID: <20040917131706.13602.qmail@resist.ca> BADIL Resource Center by ADIL Resource Center Sept 16, 2004 On 11 September 1982, Israeli Defence Minister Ariel Sharon, the architect of the invasion, announced that "2,000 terrorists" had remained inside the Palestinian refugee camps around Beirut. ...Around mid-day on Thursday 16 September 1982, a unit of approximately 150 Israeli-allied Phalangists entered the first camp. For the next 40 hours members of the Phalangist militia raped, killed, and injured a large number of unarmed civilians, mostly children, women and elderly people inside the encircled and sealed camps. The estimate of victims varies between 700 (the official Israeli figure) to 3,500. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/16/83228/8168 From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 17 06:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 13:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Audio report with Samaa Elibyari: Iraqi refugees deported from Lebanon Message-ID: <20040917131706.13604.qmail@resist.ca> Caravan Samaa Elibyari Sept 15, 2004 A CKUT Radio 90.3 FM Montreal audio report on the situation of Iraqi refugess being deported from Lebanon recorded by Caravan host Samaa Elibyari from Montreal can be found at radio.indymedia.org URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/16/83519/7609 From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 17 06:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 13:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] " Feed your alternative media" week -- October 17-23, 2004 Message-ID: <20040917131706.13605.qmail@resist.ca> A growing populace has grown weary of talking business suits, delivering embedded news stories, on a corporate budget. The sterilization of public opinion through the nightly news is no longer effectively sedating American thought processes, and alternative media has never been so powerful, organized, promising, or important, as it is right now. With a growing international alliance of environmentalists, free trade activists, anarchists, etc., and the use of the web and internet for immediate updates and news reporting, combined with new street technology, we are successfully reclaiming the airwaves and press in an alternative media movement, creating an unprecedented threat to corporate controlled media and news. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/15/131631/435 From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 17 06:17:06 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 13:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Milosevic "Trial" Suspended Message-ID: <20040917131707.13610.qmail@resist.ca> THE HAGUE - The UN court here has suspended the trial of Slobodan Milosevic until October 12 to allow the defence lawyers assigned to the former Yugoslav president more time to prepare their case, the judges said. Kay earlier complained that many witnesses scheduled to appear in the defence case had refused to come because Milosevic is no longer conducting his own defense. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/16/144814/135 From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 17 06:17:06 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 13:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Riot police break St. John's tax worker picket line Message-ID: <20040917131707.13606.qmail@resist.ca> WebPosted Sep 16 2004 05:54 PM NDT st.johns.cbc.ca ST. JOHN'S -- Police in riot gear showed up to escort managers and other workers into the Taxation Centre in St. John's Thursday afternoon. Striking workers with the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) formed a hard picket line outside the centre. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/16/161336/847 From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 17 07:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 14:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Big Pharma's big shadow Message-ID: <20040917141705.21966.qmail@resist.ca> The Toronto Star | 15 September 2004 | by Tony Clarke As the television cameras zoomed in on the First Ministers' health-care summit this week, one of the major players was missing the brand-name pharmaceutical companies known as 'Big Pharma.' After all, when it comes to health-care programs in this country, especially developing a national pharmacare program, the brand-name drug corporations are arguably among the most powerful decision makers. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/17/6268/36103 From christoff at resist.ca Fri Sep 17 21:28:29 2004 From: christoff at resist.ca (Stefan Christoff) Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 21:28:29 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [news] Statement of Solidarity from the Family of the Late FAROUK ABDEL-MUHTI for the Struggle of Palestinian Refugees in Canada Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 21:19:08 -0700 (PDT) From: No One is Illegal Montreal From the Family of the Late FAROUK ABDEL-MUHTI: A Statement of Solidarity for the Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees in Montreal on the eve of the September 18th STATELESS and DEPORTED Demonstration. Below is a statement of solidarity from the family of the late Farouk Abdel-Muhti a stateless Palestinian refugee, who died in July 2004. With Farouk's passing the struggle for Palestinian liberation lost one of its leading fighters in the US. Farouk Adbel-Muhti was born in 1947 in Ramallah, a Palestinian city in the occupied West Bank of Jordan. Like many Palestinians, Farouk lived the uprooted life of a stateless refugee, traveling from country to country until finally settling in New York in the 1970s. He came to the attention of US immigration officials in the mid-1970s after overstaying his visa. An immigration judge ordered him deported, however, there was no way to carry out the deportation, since the West Bank was now controlled by Israel, which did not allow the return of people who left the Palestinian territories before the Israeli occupation of 1967. Farouk continued to live openly in the New York area, engaging in a number of public political activities, with a focus on the struggle for Palestinian liberation and issues relating to immigration and Latin America. In March 2002, Farouk began working regularly at Pacifica Radio station WBAI. He used his contacts to arrange interviews with Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. One month later, three New York police officers and an INS agent, came to his Queens apartment without a warrant. They claimed they wanted to ask Farouk some questions about September 11th. Farouk was detained on April 26, 2002 and jailed in various facilities around the country for two years. He was never charged with a crime. He was often held in solitary confinement, subjected to extensive interrogation, and often denied food. His health was failing but he remained handcuffed and shackled whenever he went to the health clinic. Two years after his detention, a US federal judge ordered Farouk to be deported, charged or released. He walked out of prison on April 12, 2004. Farouk died in July 2004 of a hear attack, after giving a speech in Philadelphia. In his last speech, Farouk called for unity among groups fighting for Palestinian liberation and social justice. His death came just three months after he was released from jail where he was detained for two years without charge. ------------------------ Statement of Solidarity with the Palestinian Refugees of Canada From the Family of the Late Farouk Abdel-Muhti: This statement is to express solidarity with the Palestinian refugees of Canada, on this very important occasion, the Montreal demonstration against the deportation of Palestinians from Canada, on the eve of the Sabra and Chatila massacres, as we approach the twenty-second anniversary of the heinous crimes committed against the Palestinian people by the Lebanese right-wing Christian militia, the Phalange, on the orders of Ariel Sharon, who gave the orders to enter the camp when the Palestine Liberation Organization had already left, to slaughter the innocent people in the camps. In this brutal act of genocide, more than three thousand unarmed Palestinian civilians, men, women, and children, including babies, were brutally massacred, their bodies dumped mostly in mass graves, while the world looked on in horror, but did nothing. Twenty-two years later, we see the sons and daughters of this generation still suffering, as war rages in Palestine, as Israel continues to practice ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people, imprisoning them, demolishing their homes, and now building an apartheid wall that cuts deep into Palestinian lands, separating families from their lands, their livelihoods, and each other. Meanwhile, in Canada, Palestinian refugees who escaped the horrors and degradation of life in the refugee camps of Lebanon and throughout the world are now facing deportation from Canada, having committed no crime, but being Palestinian. These stateless Palestinians have truly inherited the experience of their parents, and are feeling the intense pain of being stateless refugees. It is for this reason that the world must realize the urgency of the Palestinians achieving their independence, in a Palestinian state of their own, with Jerusalem as its capital. The vulnerable position of the Palestinian deportees in Canada, in Lebanon, in the United States and all over the world obviates this fact and disproves any argument that the Palestinians can be "absorbed" into the polities of any other country, including Arab countries. In the meantime, however, the countries where they reside, such as Canada, have an obligation to accept the Palestinians, and to extend to them the rights and dignities that are extended to all their other citizens and residents, including granting them political asylum. Palestinian refugees of Canada, we share your pain. Our dear brother, Farouk Abdel-Muhti, who is now deceased, was also a stateless Palestinian. As such, he lived for thirty some odd years in the United States, with no serious problems until, after September 11th, he was picked up by immigration authorities, incarcerated for nearly two years, 8 months of which was spent in solitary confinement, tortured, beaten, withheld medication, belittled and called a terrorist, simply for being a Palestinian in the post-September 11th climate of paranoia and xenophobia in the United States. Our dear brother was ultimately released in April of this year, but the irreparable damage was already done, to his life and to ours. Farouk died exactly one hundred days after his release, weakened from the terrible treatment, food, and conditions he endured in the immigration jails of the United States, Allah yarhamouh! His only crime was being a stateless Palestinian. We are left to live with the tragic reality of this and other misfortunes which are largely a result of the unjust, inhuman and misguided policies directed at Arab and Muslim immigrants, especially Palestinians, since 9/11, by the Bush Administration in the United States, and by other governments. We see similar policies being implemented in Canada against immigrants, in what the Bush Administration is attempting to portray as a "global war on terror". But what do these immigrants, especially the Palestinians, have to do with this, being victims of the state terror and genocide inflicted upon them by the Zionist State and its war machine for the last 56 years? We must not let what happened to our brother Farouk, who fought tirelessly for the rights of workers and the oppressed all over the world, especially for his people, the Palestinians, happen to Palestinians in Canada, who have migrated there to seek a better life, and better opportunities, away from war-torn lands and squalid refugee camps. We must demand that this inhuman treatment of immigrants be stopped, once and for all. Our struggles are the same, and we send this statement of solidarity to express to you that we are behind you in your struggle, we feel your pain, and we say to you, you must continue to fight for justice until your human rights and your dignity is acknowledged, in Canada, in the United States, and in Palestine, where ultimately you will prevail, with the establishment of your own state, where you the Palestinians, not an occupying power where World-War Two era fascists and murderers masquerade as a government, will be free to determine your own destiny. We wish you peace and success, and offer you solidarity on this very special occasion, where you are taking your struggle to the streets and demanding your rights, letting the world know how unjustly you are being treated. May the struggle continue until you win! If Farouk were with us today, he would encourage you to keep going, to network with all of us, for us all to work together until we achieve social justice, human rights, equality, civil and political rights! We will see the phoenix rising from the ashes, if we remain steadfast in our fight to end oppression, racism, and imperialism, and to demand justice and rights for all peoples, regardless of their race, religion, or nationality. His spirit remains with us, and if we continue, we will win; our dignity, our independence and our inalienable right to be free! Venceremos! With Revolutionary Fervor and Congratulations! With Love and Solidarity! Long Live Palestine! Sharin Chiorazzo (the fianc?e of Farouk Abdel-Muhti) and Tariq Abdel-Muhti (Farouk's Son) For more information, please see www.freefarouk.org, or e-mail us at freefarouk at yahoo.com or abufkheida at maktoob.com. Phone: (201) 951-6919, (212) 674-9499. ----------------- From edenvick at resist.ca Sat Sep 18 04:48:54 2004 From: edenvick at resist.ca (edenvick at resist.ca) Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 04:48:54 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [news] news item submission Message-ID: <1066.24.100.216.20.1095508134.squirrel@mail.resist.ca> >From: "A Smith" >Date: September 14, 2004 19:22:16 EDT >Subject: Hamilton Political Prisoner Needs Your Support! > >Please forward this to everyone you can!!! > >--------------------- > >Nineteen-year-old Political Prisoner Detained in Hamilton Jail Since >August 21st, 2004, Despite Claims of Innocence and an Air-tight Alibi > >--------------------- > >On Saturday August 21st, 2004, two Hamilton police officers arrived >at the home of nineteen-year-old Jonathan Ames to execute a warrant >for his arrest. The police officers told Jonathan and his friends >and family that he was under arrest for assault with a weapon and >two counts of failure to comply. They refused to give any >additional details as to what the charges stemmed from. Shocked >and confused by what was happening, one of Jonathan's friends >commented, "This is like a third world country. You come in and >arrest him without even telling us why." One officer responded >saying, "No ma?am. If this was a third world country we would have >kicked your door in first." > >The next day, in court, Jonathan's friends and family learned that >he was accused of being with three other men and throwing a rock at >a security guard at the construction site of the Red Hill Valley >Expressway. > >Jonathan has an air-tight alibi for the night this alleged incident >took place including numerous witnesses and a bank video tape that >helps to establish a timeline of his activities. It took Hamilton >police two-and-a-half weeks to even investigate his alibi, despite >receiving information about it the day after Jonathan?s arrest. >[Interestingly, the Deputy Police Chief told a member of the public >that the alibi had been investigated and deemed to be unsubstantial >the day BEFORE police actually conducted ANY interviews]. > >Even after investigating his alibi, Jonathan remains in jail because >the transcript of his bail hearing has not yet been released ? >despite the fact it was ready on August 27th. > >The police case is weak and rests entirely on the testimony of one >guard. There are no witnesses. There are no photos or video tape. >There is no physical evidence. There weren?t even any injuries (the >guard claims to have been hit with four 3-4? rocks from a distance >of 10 feet and with enough force to knock him over ? yet lacks even >a bruise to substantiate this claim). Even the guard?s own >statement contains numerous inconsistencies. > >The security company had more than enough motive to frame Jonathan. >Jonathan was one of four individuals to spend time living on a >platform in a tree beside the construction site in an effort to stop >the construction of the expressway. Soon after descending from the >tree, he was involved in a protest activity where he was severely >beaten by guards and threatened with death. Jonathan sustained >tracheal bruising and swelling as a result of this attack and >experienced difficulty breathing. Nonetheless, Jonathan and three >other protestors were charged with assault after one guard sprained >his ankle and another broke his on the rock and branch-covered >slope. (Jon told me he was personally non-violent and the guard just >kept beating him up - Robbie) > >Jonathan tried to file a report against the guards, but in his >initial attempt to do so, a police officer laughed at him and >refused to take the report. In the following weeks, Jonathan was >very vocal about his intentions to pursue criminal and civil charges >against the guards and possibly the police and the city once he was >exonerated of the charges he was facing. > >Now by adding more charges to the list, including two counts of >failing to comply, it will mean Jonathan will have to work even >harder to clear his name. Furthermore, these charges have allowed >the police and the city to keep Jonathan in jail, effectively ending >his actions in opposition to the expressway. > >In a city where the mayor and numerous city councillors are being >investigated for questionable campaign contributions from local >developers and construction companies, the imprisonment of an >expressway opponent on such weak charges cannot be viewed as >anything but political. > >Jonathan?s arbitrary and false arrest has instilled fear into many >in the activist community in Hamilton. > >Understandably, Jonathan's morale is weakening every day. Please >send letters of support and encouragement to him at the address >below. If you prefer you can e-mail your letter to >hamilton_injustice at hotmail.com and we?ll print and mail it for you. > >Jonathan Ames >Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre >165 Barton Street East >Hamilton, ON L8L 2W6 >CANADA > >If you would like more information about the actions that Jonathan >has been involved in please visit: >http://treesit.revolutionweb.org From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 18 08:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 15:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Kryptonite U-Lock bike locks defeatable by ballpoint pen Message-ID: <20040918151703.958.qmail@resist.ca> Kryptonite U-Lock bike locks defeatable by ballpoint pen Infoshop News | September 15, 2004 This is a heads up from Infoshop News to our many readers who own bicycles. News has been circulating today through the bike enthusiast blogs and bulletin boards about the discovery that certain kinds of bicycle U-Locks can be opened using a ball point pen. Evidently the companies that manufacture bike locks have known about this problem since the early 1990s and have done little to address this problem. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/17/114630/952 From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 18 08:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 15:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Syria: From Ally to the Axis of Evil Message-ID: <20040918151703.956.qmail@resist.ca> "Those invaders of Iraq are at it again. Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and their neo-con staff led by Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith, have conjured up another villain: Syria." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/17/18271/4015 From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 18 08:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 15:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] The Most Important Terrorism is "Ours" Message-ID: <20040918151703.955.qmail@resist.ca> "Last May, the US Marines used battle tanks and helicopter gunships to attack the slums of Fallujah (Iraq). They admitted killing 600 people, a figure far greater than the total number of civilians killed by the "insurgents" during the past year. The generals were candid; this futile slaughter was an act of revenge for the killing of three American mercenaries. Sixty years earlier, the SS Das Reich division killed 600 French civilians at Oradour-sur-Gland as revenge for the kidnapping of a German officer by the resistance. Is there a difference?" URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/17/174127/604 From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 18 08:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 15:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Annan finally states what we've always known: Iraq war was illegal and breached UN charter Message-ID: <20040918151703.963.qmail@resist.ca> The Guardian | Thursday September 16, 2004 | By Ewen MacAskill and Julian Borger in Washington The United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan, declared explicitly for the first time last night that the US-led war on Iraq was illegal. Mr Annan said that the invasion was not sanctioned by the UN security council or in accordance with the UN's founding charter. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/17/144230/154 From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 18 08:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 15:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Madonna: Cry for me Palestina Message-ID: <20040918151703.957.qmail@resist.ca> Madonna is in our country now for an Israeli - organised tour for a spiritual Kabbalah group. She is visiting parts of the occupied territory. Yesterday Palestinians and internationals - some of them her fans-gathered at the entrance of Bethlehem and song "Don't cry for me Falastina" a rewording of her hit song from "Evita". Israeli peace groups and others expressed that Madonna's visit might be manipulated to lend unconsciously support for Israeli expansionism the policy of expropriation and the caging of the Palestinian people. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/16/145150/254 From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 18 08:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 15:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Business still brisk at B.C. pot store Message-ID: <20040918151704.966.qmail@resist.ca> Sep. 18, 2004 | The Star | DANIEL GIRARD In a city that has earned the nickname Vansterdam because of its liberal views on marijuana, a shop openly selling renowned B.C. bud is hardly big news. But the Da Kine Food and Beverage Shop has been grabbing headlines for a couple weeks now as dozens of people file through its storefront on the city's Commercial Dr. and plunk down $10 a gram for marijuana or pick up some pot-laced baked goods. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/18/73158/7610 From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 18 08:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 15:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] The Earth is Melting, Arctic Native Leader Warns Message-ID: <20040918151703.965.qmail@resist.ca> An Arctic native leader offered a passionate plea to the U.S. government and its citizens Wednesday to aggressively combat climate change. Addressing a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on global warming, Inuit Circumpolar Conference Chair Sheila Watt-Cloutier said the Inuit are already suffering dramatic changes to their Arctic environment. Watt-Cloutier, who represents the 155,000 Inuit in Greenland, Canada, Alaska and the Russian Federation, described the Inuit struggle as "a snapshot of what is happening to the planet." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/17/134113/484 From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 18 08:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 15:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Domtar Inc. to shut down two mills because of Algonquin blockade Message-ID: <20040918151704.975.qmail@resist.ca> This situation has been brought about by a shortage of timber resulting from a dispute between the Algonquin communities of Lac Simon and Winneway and the Government of Quebec. A barricade erected on August 30 has prevented wood harvesting and transport in the sectors supplying these two facilities. Domtar Inc. is the third largest manufacturer of non-coated papers in North America. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/17/14245/2835 From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 18 08:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 15:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Judge raps police in profiling case Message-ID: <20040918151704.970.qmail@resist.ca> Judge raps police in profiling case Throws out motorist's drug charge Fantino takes comments `very seriously' PETER SMALL - STAFF REPORTER | Toronto Star | Sept 17, 2004 A judge has thrown out a drug charge against a young black motorist, finding that two Toronto police officers used racial profiling when they stopped him and later "fabricated" evidence. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/17/1196/05474 From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 19 08:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 15:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Zimbabwe forcibly evicts black farmers Message-ID: <20040919151705.29817.qmail@resist.ca> >From South Africa's Mail & Guardian | Harare, Zimbabwe | 17 September 2004 Hundreds of black peasant farmers in Zimbabwe were this week forcibly evicted from two formerly white-owned farms that they occupied during the 2000 land invasions, witnesses, civic groups and police said on Friday. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/19/7445/64453 From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 19 08:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 15:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Nineteen-year-old Political Prisoner Detained in Hamilton Jail Since Aug 21 Message-ID: <20040919151705.29818.qmail@resist.ca> Jonathan's friends and family have learned that he was accused of being with three other men and throwing a rock at a security guard at the construction site of the Red Hill Valley Expressway which he had been protesting. Jonathan has an air-tight alibi for the night this alleged incident took place including numerous witnesses and a bank video tape that helps to establish a timeline of his activities. It took Hamilton police two-and-a-half weeks to even investigate his alibi, despite receiving information about it the day after Jonathan?s arrest and the Deputy Police Chief told a member of the public that the alibi had been investigated and deemed to be unsubstantial the day BEFORE police actually conducted ANY interviews. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/19/74419/7411 From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 19 08:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 15:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Newspapers accused of misusing word 'terrorist' Message-ID: <20040919151705.29819.qmail@resist.ca> Staff | CBC.CA | 17 September 2004 Ottawa - Canada's largest newspaper chain, CanWest Global, is being criticized over its use of the word "terrorist" in stories about the Middle East. The owner of the National Post and dozens of other papers across Canada is being accused of inappropriately inserting the word into newswire copy dealing with the Middle East, thereby changing the meaning of those stories. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/19/74427/6793 From christoff at resist.ca Wed Sep 22 16:02:57 2004 From: christoff at resist.ca (Stefan Christoff) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 16:02:57 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [news] {Montreal} Report from STATELESS and DEPORTED: A Popular Mobilization Against Deportation of Palestinians from Canada Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:24:45 -0700 (PDT) From: No One is Illegal Montreal Report from STATELESS and DEPORTED: A Popular Mobilization Against Deportation of Palestinians from Canada On Saturday September 18th more than 1000 people took the streets of downtown Montreal under the banner of "Stateless and Deported" to illustrate the growing popular support for the struggle of Palestinian refugees fighting deportation in Canada, within the context of the Palestinian solidarity movement worldwide. The lively and spirited demonstration was also held to commemorate the thousands of Palestinian refugees who lost their lives in the September 1982 massacre of Sabra and Chatila during the Israeli invasion of Beirut. The demonstration kicked-off with speeches, slogans and traditional Palestinian music and proceeded down Ste-Catherine Street, occupying multiple city blocks in Montreal's downtown core, lead by a large banner which read "Refugee Camps are No One's Home", carried by directly effected Palestinian refugees facing deportation at the hands of Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC), to the Occupied Territories and the Palestinian refugee camps of Lebanon. Spirited chants and slogans such as "Racists Out! - Palestinians In!", resonated throughout the streets of downtown Montreal and were lead-by directly effected Palestinian refugees active with the Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees, such as Fouad Sakr an elderly Palestinian refugee facing deportation in the coming months to Ein El-Helweh refugee camp in southern Lebanon and Youssef Elloubani a Palestinian refugee from Bourj El Barajneh refugee camp in Beirut. The spirited demonstration was diverse in nature and included visible support of many self-organized groups of refugees fighting deportation in Montreal, who are active with the Solidarity Across Borders Campaign. The demonstration also included the full-scope of groups who have been active within the Palestinian solidarity movement in Montreal since the beginning of the second Intifada, highlighting the seamless link between the struggle of Palestinian refugees in Montreal against deportations and the broader struggle for Palestinian freedom and liberation throughout the world. Saturday's demonstration ended at Complexe Guy-Favreau, headquarters of the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) --- the institution directly responsible for the rejection of Palestinian refugee claims --- with a free food serving from local Montreal activists and speeches from groups & organizations which actively mobilized for the demonstration, including Sanjiv Kumar of the recently formed Human Rights Action Committee (HARC), Bruce Katz of Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine, Hicham Salfiti of the Canadian Palestinian Foundation and Rabie Masri the spokesperson of the Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees. This past Saturday's demonstration highlighted the political importance of the struggle of Palestinian refugees in Montreal and throughout Canada who continue to struggle against deportation and fight for their status. It is within this context that the Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees plans to intensify the fight against Citizenship and Immigration Canada in the coming months. We must continue to stand united in the struggle against the deportation of Palestinian refugees from Canada! In Solidarity, The Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees in Montreal Tel: 514 591 3171 Email: refugees at riseup.net Web: http://refugees.resist.ca -> To view pictures, reports and video on the Stateless & Deported demonstration produced by the Independent Media Center of Quebec (CMAQ), visit: http://www.cmaq.net -> Below is an article on the demonstration published in the Montreal Gazette: Hundreds protest against deportation of Palestinians: Demonstrators say failed refugee claimants to be returned to Gaza Strip and West Bank Montreal Gazette Sunday, September 19, 2004 By CATHERINE SOLYOM Whatever side of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict you may be on, it's clear from the endless headlines that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are not the safest places to be. Yet Canada is nevertheless set to deport about 40 Palestinians over the next few months, said a group of about 500 demonstrators as they marched through downtown Montreal yesterday. "They're deporting people back to military occupation," said Rabie Masri of the Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees, one of several groups that organized the demonstration down Ste. Catherine St. W. yesterday. "We hope (Paul Martin's) minority government will finally put an end to this situation." Masri said it's not easy - bureaucratically speaking - for the Canadian government to deport stateless Palestinians. Sometimes it must deal with two different countries: first with Jordan for those going back to the West Bank, and with Egypt for those going to Gaza. There are currently six young Palestinians in Montreal living underground to avoid being sent back there, Masri said. Ahmad Mustapha, 26, may soon be in the same situation. "Like the 40 others, I have been refused refugee status," said Mustapha, an engineer who was born and raised in a refugee camp in Lebanon. "I'm basically waiting to be deported." He and others at the march decried the system that refused them in the first place. Since 2002, it is up to one Immigration and Refugee Board judge to decide the fate of refugee claimants, often with little knowledge of the home country, and with no chance for claimants to appeal based on the merits of their case. When Mustapha explained that he couldn't get work in Lebanon, for example, an IRB judge told him he hadn't looked hard enough. "But as a Palestinian it is illegal for me to work as an engineer in Lebanon," he said. As demonstrators marked the anniversary of the massacres at the Sabra and Chatila refugee camps in Lebanon - on Sept. 16 to 18, 1982, up to 2,000 Palestinians were killed by right-wing Christian militias - they also expressed particular concern for the Ayoub family here. Before coming to Canada three years ago, Khalil Ayoub, 67, Nabih Ayoub, 69, and his wife, Therese Boulos Haddad, 62, had been living on the run or in refugee camps for about 50 years. Now they have spent more than seven months confined to the basement of a Notre Dame de Grace church to avoid deportation, with no response from Immigration Minister Judy Sgro other than to say refugee claimants should not seek sanctuary in churches. "(The Ayoubs) could be your parents or your grandparents," Masri told the crowd of about 500 people. "All we want is for them to be able to live the last few years of their life in dignity and peace in Canada." csolyom at thegazette.canwest.com ----------------------- From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 20 08:17:06 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 15:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Yukon to ask feds for help supporting refugees Message-ID: <20040920151706.32294.qmail@resist.ca> WHITEHORSE - The Yukon government says refugee claimants are putting a strain on the territory's Social Assistance program. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/19/201020/856 From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 20 08:17:06 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 15:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Retracing a Grim Past-- The Trail of Tears Message-ID: <20040920151706.32293.qmail@resist.ca> ROUND VALLEY RESERVATION, Calif. - It is known, to those who know it at all, as California's Trail of Tears. In 1863, U.S. soldiers rounded up Indian tribes across Northern California at Chico Landing in Butte County. Then they marched them across the sweltering Sacramento Valley, over the rugged North Coast mountains, to what was known then as the Nome Cult Reservation. Of 461 Indians who set out under guard, only 277 completed the 100-mile, 14-day trek. Many were abandoned, too sick to continue. Some escaped. Others were killed. For decades, some descendants tried their best to forget. These days, they make a point of remembering. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/19/135948/134 From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 20 08:17:06 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 15:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Deh Cho open second front in legal war against review Message-ID: <20040920151706.32295.qmail@resist.ca> YELLOWKNIFE - The Deh Cho First Nations have launched a second attempt to stop the review of the proposed Mackenzie Valley gas pipeline. The Deh Cho are now asking the court to issue a permanent injunction to stop the joint review panel from reviewing the pipeline applications. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/19/20236/1685 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 21 05:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 12:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Statement from the 2nd Continental Summit of the Indigenous Peoples and Nationalities of Abya Yala Message-ID: <20040921121704.1953.qmail@resist.ca> >From July 21-July 25, representatives of 64 Indigenous Peoples and Nationalities converged in Quito, Ecuador for the 2nd Continental Summit of the Indigenous Peoples and Nationalities of Abya Yala. On the closing day, the following statement was released. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/20/85144/4933 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 21 06:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Iraq And The AmeriKKKan Empire Message-ID: <20040921131705.8917.qmail@resist.ca> POSITIVELY BLACK by Junious Ricardo Stanton 20 Sep 2004 No free thinking person in this country believes the corporate media has the best interests of the AmeriKKKan people at heart. By that reckoning the media will continue to do the bidding of its owners by continuing the current campaign of disinformation, misinformation and deceit to insure the plutocrats' agenda is carried out.. In order for the ruling elites to foist their New World Order upon the planet they must first brainwash the AmeriKKKan masses to go along with their program....Thus far the fascists have mainly resorted to marginalizing dissenters. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/20/81729/7490 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 21 06:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Is There a "Right" to be a Fascist? Message-ID: <20040921131706.8927.qmail@resist.ca> An interesting and provocative article addressing issues of free speech and fascism from an anarchist perspective; originally posted to http://www.infoshop.org. The author lives in the U.S. so there are a lot of references to American politics and history; nonetheless, this is an intelligent and thoughtful article for all anti-fascists. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/20/151249/950 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 21 06:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Who Really Seized Simona Torretta? Message-ID: <20040921131705.8919.qmail@resist.ca> A few weeks ago, I made a post regarding an appeal for the release of humanitarian workers allegedly kidnapped by the resistance in Iraq (see http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/10/13324/6598). The article below, by Naomi Klein and Jeremy Scahill, raise the possibility that the kidnapping may have been a type of "counter-intelligence" operation by the Iraqi puppet government and/or the U.S. and cite evidence asking "Who benefits from the [alleged] kidnapping of an Iraqi and two foreign aid workers by anti-occupation resistance forces?" URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/20/20846/7525 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 21 06:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] POV: art against cultural imperialism Message-ID: <20040921131706.8922.qmail@resist.ca> undaground rr x-press by Ewuare Osayande 20 Sep 2004 In this climate of anger and fear the question becomes: Where are your allegiances? And can we see those allegiances in your art?... As Angela Davis has written, "Progressive and revolutionary art is inconceivable outside the context of political movements for radical change. ... Cultural workers must thus be concerned not only with the creation of progressive art, but must be actively involved in the organization of people's political movements." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/20/8421/06632 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 21 06:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Past Imperfect: Terror in Black and White Message-ID: <20040921131705.8918.qmail@resist.ca> Africana.com By William Jelani Cobb 15 Sep 2004 September 11th was far from the first instance of terrorism on American soil. Terror -- and specifically racial terrorism -- has roots almost as old as this country itself....It would be easy, at this distant remove, to forget that Timothy McVeigh, the homegrown terrorist who orchestrated the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City that claimed 168 lives did so in order to ignite a race war. ...The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot, in which bands of armed and deputized whites attacked black residents of the city, resulted in twice as many deaths as the Oklahoma City bombing by the most conservative estimates. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/20/81423/9584 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 21 06:17:06 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Sateless and Exhausted Message-ID: <20040921131706.8928.qmail@resist.ca> Stateless and Exhausted Refugees in Montreal face the endurance test of Immigration Canada By Aaron Lakoff aaron at resist.ca In the streets of Montreal this past Saturday, September 18th, Palestinian refugees and their supporters held a demonstration under the banner "Stateless and Deported". Approximately 1000 gathered on Saint Catherine street to put an end to their deportation back to refugee camps throughout the Middle East. Through the sunshine and autumn air, a steady chant could be heard - "Nous sommes fatigues! Donnez nous nos papiers!" This chant ("we are tired! give us our papers!") speaks volumes of the refugee experience in Canada. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/20/104111/476 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 21 06:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Cloud over Sun Peaks Message-ID: <20040921131706.8923.qmail@resist.ca> A planned $285M B.C. ski resort expansion has divided the native community and sparked a bitter land claim battle URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/20/1906/23099 From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 22 06:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 13:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Seven Oaks Interviews Fenton on Haiti Occupation Message-ID: <20040922131705.9673.qmail@resist.ca> "Seven Questions," on Haiti: Derrick O'Keefe and Anthony Fenton http://sevenoaksmag.com/questions/31.html URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/21/11331/6273 From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 22 06:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 13:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Microwave Weapons: New Technology in Crime Message-ID: <20040922131705.9674.qmail@resist.ca> telegraph By Tony Freinberg and Sean Rayment Defence Correspondent 20 Aug 2004 There is a new, effective weapon for criminals and terrorists. Law-breakers often misuse modern technology. Through the illegal usage of innovative high-tech weapons, people are not "shot", rather their living quarters are bathed in (high frequency) electromagnetic waves for a length of time.,,,In addition to that, victims (through intrigue and defamation) are seen as psychotic and dangerous; thus, they are completely helpless. At the same time, the new weapons (for certain contractors) are tested under ordinary circumstances and constantly improved. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/21/6419/51078 From news at resist.ca Wed Sep 22 06:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 13:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Indians threaten re-enactors with violence Message-ID: <20040922131705.9675.qmail@resist.ca> Chamberlain, SD, Sep. 20 (UPI) -- A spokesman for a group of North American Indians threatened re-enactors following Lewis and Clark explorations with violence. "We didn't bring our bows and arrows today, But if you continue, we will harass you. We will bring our bows and arrows." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/21/85843/3827 From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 23 07:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Culture and Dissent Message-ID: <20040923141704.7850.qmail@resist.ca> -Am Johal About a fifteen minute walk from the street vendors and businesses of the downtown Palestinian cultural capital of Ramallah, is a dangerous subversive place according to the Israeli authorities. So much so that they in fact in 2002 raided the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center and according to the Miami Herald "seized a computer and a cellphone, broke dozens of windows, swept books off shelves, peppered walls with shrapnel and bullets, spit pumpkin seeds on the floor and allegedly stole 3,700 shekels." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/22/152355/119 From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 23 07:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Anti-Poverty Committee Respond to DTES Visit by Governor-General Message-ID: <20040923141704.7853.qmail@resist.ca> Today over 50 poor people who live in the Downtown East Side (DTES) staged a demonstration during the Governor-General's visit. In preparations for the tour that was lead by (Vancouver Mayor) Larry Campbell and (City Councillor) Jim Green the Police cleaned the streets of any visible signs of the catastrophe we live in. Following a press release sent out by the Anti-Poverty Committee, the schedule was changed and the Governor-General tried to sneak past us, with no luck! URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/22/153845/541 From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 23 07:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Protesters stop speech by Romanian president at Montreal park Message-ID: <20040923141704.7851.qmail@resist.ca> Canoe.ca | September 18, 2004 MONTREAL (CP) - About 100 protesters booed and jeered the Romanian president Saturday, preventing him from giving a speech at a city park. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/23/65715/6405 From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 23 07:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] OCAP to take food for the poor and send McGuinty the bill Message-ID: <20040923141704.7854.qmail@resist.ca> OCAP | 19/09/04 The end of this month will close the first year of McGuinty?s Liberal government. Every month 175,000 people in the GTA use food banks, surpassing the number of people who used food banks during the Harris years. Hundreds of thousands more struggle to keep food on table and pay their rent. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/23/65843/9073 From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 23 07:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] No Bail for Pot Cafe Owner Message-ID: <20040923141704.7852.qmail@resist.ca> The owner of Vancouver's Da Kine Smoke and Beverage Shop, which sold marijuana over the counter, is staying in jail. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/22/20108/2088 From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 23 07:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Arrests at Sun Peaks Message-ID: <20040923141704.7857.qmail@resist.ca> The first person left and therefore was not arrested. The remaining three were arrested and brought to Kamloops. One person is still in custody and is in the process of taking a fast. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/22/134037/463 From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 23 08:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 15:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] NGOs meeting at UN call for embargo of Israel Message-ID: <20040923151704.18619.qmail@resist.ca> Haaretz | 16/09/2004 | By Shlomo Shamir, Haaretz Correspondent New York - A non-governmental conference committee meeting Wednesday at United Nations headquarters in New York adopted a resolution calling for UN member nations and international bodies to increase their pressure on Israel to put an end to the occupation. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/23/7945/62636 From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 24 06:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 13:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] New York Cops Boast That They Will Stop Critical Mass Message-ID: <20040924131704.20872.qmail@resist.ca> Not content with arresting and abusing hundreds of non-violent protestors during the Republican National Convention, New York cops are now vowing to crack down on the radical cycling group Critical Mass. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/23/191527/159 From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 24 06:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 13:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Union of BC Indian Chiefs Condemns Arrests at Sun Peaks Message-ID: <20040924131704.20873.qmail@resist.ca> "Yesterday's arrests at Sun Peaks Resort is another stage in the long, nasty and protracted battle to protect traditional Secwepemc territory from the wanton destruction by the massive expansion of Sun Peaks Resort." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/23/132650/877 From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 24 06:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 13:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] CLC says free trade ain't so bad after all Message-ID: <20040924131705.20875.qmail@resist.ca> By GLORIA GALLOWAY | Globe and Mail | Thursday, Sep 23, 2004 OTTAWA -- Canada's labour unions remain opposed to free trade, but said yesterday they reluctantly accept its existence and will now push to make it better as Canadian jobs face increasing threats from emerging markets such as China and India. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/24/51724/2492 From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 24 06:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 13:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] First Nations' blockades target hunters Message-ID: <20040924131705.20874.qmail@resist.ca> Dozens of hunters hoping to bag a moose in the Chilcotin's Nemiah Valley have been turned back at two First Nations roadblocks. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/23/21408/5632 From news at resist.ca Fri Sep 24 06:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 13:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] B.C. Mayors & Councillors Back Crackdown on Street People Message-ID: <20040924131705.20876.qmail@resist.ca> (B.C.) mayors and councillors have passed a motion supporting the controversial Safe Streets Act - the private member's bill put forward by B.C. Liberal MLA Lorne Mayencourt. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/23/185814/545 From jkneen at magma.ca Fri Sep 24 09:20:38 2004 From: jkneen at magma.ca (Jamie Kneen) Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 12:20:38 -0400 Subject: [news] CLC says free trade ain't so bad after all In-Reply-To: <20040924131705.20875.qmail@resist.ca> References: <20040924131705.20875.qmail@resist.ca> Message-ID: He doth protest an awful lot... September 22, 2004 TO: Members of the Executive Council, Ranking Officers of Affiliated Organizations and Presidents of Labour Councils Greetings: Re: National Post Story and Free Trade The CanWest chain (publishers of the National Post), in a front page story this morning, alleged that, in a speech I was to deliver at the Canadian Labour Congress "Industrial Policy Conference", I said that we were wrong about free trade and were not opposed to the free trade agreements. The story is a deliberate and malicious falsification of what I said. The actual speech that I delivered, which is identical to the copy the National Post had, is posted on the CLC website (http://www.clc-ctc.ca). I encourage you to go to the website and read the speech. We are not going to allow the National Post to get away with this misrepresentation of the position of the CLC or its Officers. The CLC has instructed its legal counsel to immediately initiate legal action against National Post and other newspapers in the CanWest chain, which continues to propagate these lies. This is also the newspaper chain that has been criticized by Reuters and Associated Press for altering the text of their stories to reflect the political ideology of the papers' owners. We continue to oppose NAFTA and other similar trade deals. And we continue to call for government action to protect Canadian jobs, develop a healthy manufacturing sector and invest in needed public services. In solidarity, Kenneth V. Georgetti President. cc: All CLC Staff LAEB\COPE-225\G:\NATIONAL POST-1.wpd -- Venit summa dies et ineluctabile tempus: The last day has come, and the inevitable doom. From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 25 06:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 13:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Missile defence talks important for Canada Message-ID: <20040925131704.31781.qmail@resist.ca> Thu, 23 Sep 2004 OTTAWA - The proposed U.S. ballistic missile defence program does not involve putting weapons in space, and Canada must consider joining for the good of North America, said the minister of national defence. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/24/16032/4094 From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 25 06:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 13:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Natural and Unnatural Devastation in Haiti Message-ID: <20040925131704.31780.qmail@resist.ca> Tropical Storm Jeanne wreaks havoc in Haiti. 300,000 homeless, 1060 dead, mostly children under 16, over 1000 missing, 175,000 in need of immediate relief, many might die of thirst or hunger. Hundreds of years of imperialist deforestation leave Haiti at the mercy of floods. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/24/1481/16567 From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 25 06:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 13:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Women paying price of legal services cutbacks Message-ID: <20040925131705.31784.qmail@resist.ca> Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives | September 22, 2004 (Vancouver) As a result of legal aid cuts women are losing custody of their children, giving up valid legal rights to support, and being subjected to litigation harassment, according to a new report. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/24/52147/5080 From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 25 06:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 13:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Three Sun Peaks protesters released Message-ID: <20040925131704.31782.qmail@resist.ca> Janice Billy said the group has many supporters, native and non-native, who are willing to maintain a protest camp. She vowed to keep rebuilding camp after camp if necessary, "just like the Palestinians." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/24/132358/372 From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 25 06:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 13:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] The Creator Vs. Canadian Imperialism: Exercise Narwhal, Gunboat Diplomacy, and Oil Message-ID: <20040925131705.31788.qmail@resist.ca> by Macdonald Stainsby | September 20, 2004 | Swans Before the Republican Guard vanished on the outskirts of Baghdad in early April 2003, the US invasion had run into two major stumbling blocks in its advance on the Iraqi capital: guerrilla resistance and major sandstorms... At the time, with many of us hoping that this attempt to colonize Iraq would fail, I heard one friend remark "Allahu Akbar!" ("God is Great!") in reference to the possibility that this unexpected supernatural intervention was divined. Perhaps the Creator-- as the indigenous refer to it in the Arctic -- is trying to prevent an ecocidal and genocidal colonization that is happening, with next to no fanfare, right now. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/24/13940/4731 From news at resist.ca Sat Sep 25 06:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 13:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Ipperwash judicial inquiry continues Message-ID: <20040925131705.31785.qmail@resist.ca> On September 23, members of Dudley George's family found a metre-long swastika spray-painted at their usual parking spots at the site of the Ipperwash judicial inquiry. The day before, the inquiry heard hearsay testimony that then-premier Mike Harris had said at a meeting he wanted the "f -- ing Indians" occupying Ipperwash Provincial Park out of there. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/24/14611/9311 From christoff at resist.ca Sat Sep 25 11:17:32 2004 From: christoff at resist.ca (Stefan Christoff) Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 11:17:32 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [news] Electronic Intifada: Canadian activists protest deportation of Palestinian refugees Message-ID: Canadian activists protest deportation of Palestinian refugees Report, Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees, 25 September 2004 REPORT FROM STATELESS AND DEPORTED: A POPULAR MOBILIZATION AGAINST DEPORTATION OF PALESTINIANS FROM CANADA http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3119.shtml From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 26 07:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 14:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Extra time for [Mackenzie/Deh Cho] pipeline intervenors Message-ID: <20040926141705.30766.qmail@resist.ca> YELLOWKNIFE - The deadline for getting funding to take part in the technical analysis of the proposed Mackenzie Valley pipeline has been extended. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/25/11324/1804 From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 26 08:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 15:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Haiti: Victims of Tropical and Political Storms Message-ID: <20040926151704.7317.qmail@resist.ca> By Kevin Pina | September 26, 2004 Port au Prince, Haiti - Interim Prime Minister Gerard Latortue flew into Gonaives, Haiti on March 20th where a huge and boisterous crowd of thousands heralded him. During the celebration Latortue embraced gang elements and the former military that helped overthrow the democratic government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide as "freedom fighters." Since then, Latortue and his government have done little to take control of Haiti's third largest city and has allowed gang leaders like Buteur Metayer and Wilfort Ferdinand to run it like a private fiefdom. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/25/224136/204 From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 26 08:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 15:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Bush and the Hitler connection Message-ID: <20040926151705.7320.qmail@resist.ca> >From south africa's (Johannesburg) Mail & Guardian | 25 September 2004 George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany. The UK's Guardian newspaper has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/26/755/82917 From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 26 08:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 15:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Fun, the Labor Movement, and the Leadership Message-ID: <20040926151704.7318.qmail@resist.ca> All workers can make lists of how destructive their jobs are - to the environment as well as to individuals' aesthetic sense. It doesn't feel good to keep doing these horrid jobs in these horrid conditions, where one-up-one-ship is essential for survival, promoting that workers - and middle management - lie about someone else so they can get a leg up for promotions and raises. Brutal working conditions besides sweatshop conditions come with the job. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/25/234610/002 From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 26 08:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 15:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Force made false arrest: OCAP activist wins damages Message-ID: <20040926151705.7325.qmail@resist.ca> thestar.com | Sep. 25, 2004 | Harold Levy The Toronto police force and one of its officers have been ordered to pay $10,000 for falsely arresting and imprisoning Sue Collis, a former organizer of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty shortly after she addressed an anti-homelessness rally at Christie Pits on June 1, 2001. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/25/155340/772 From news at resist.ca Sun Sep 26 08:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 15:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] "Every foreigner who does go home opens up a job for a German" Message-ID: <20040926151705.7319.qmail@resist.ca> theglobeandmail.com | By DOUG SAUNDERS | Saturday, September 25, 2004 - Page A15 The week's events left many Germans wondering if fascist extremism has made a return to mainstream credibility, after being nearly unmentionable in Germany since Hitler's suicide nearly 60 years ago. There have been chilling echoes of the circumstances that saw Hitler sweep to power in the late 1920s and early 1930s: a sustained period of growing unemployment and economic malaise; angry and jobless young men in the eastern provinces infuriated by the liberal, tolerant society of the west; a widespread distrust of "outsiders," immigrants and perceived non-Germans. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/25/105142/800 From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 27 05:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Whitehorse Refugees Urge Panel Message-ID: <20040927121703.9217.qmail@resist.ca> north.cbc.ca WebPosted Sep 24 2004 07:24 PM CDT WHITEHORSE - A lobby effort is underway to bring the Federal Immigration and Refugee Board to Whitehorse to hear the cases of dozens of refugees now living in Yukon. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/26/131728/426 From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 27 05:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Vancouver Mayor Calls Anti-Poverty Committee " a Bunch of Anarchists" Message-ID: <20040927121704.9218.qmail@resist.ca> According to Vancouver Mayor Larry Campbell of the "Coalition of Progressive (sic) Electors," the Anti-Poverty Committee (APC) are "anarchists" who have blown into town and "should go blow someplace else." Sounds like APC must be doing something right! (FYI: Campbell is a political opportunist and former cop who only decided to run for COPE when his buddy, ex-Vancouver Mayor Phillip Owen of the Non-Partisan Association (NPA) was unceremoniously dumped by the right-wing party for his support for a safe injection site and other harm reduction measures. Rumours abound that due to the constant friction between Campbell and a few of the more social-democratic City Councillors in COPE, Campbell may run as an "independent" in the next election.) URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/25/231425/485 From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 27 05:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Angry at Planned Fare Hike, Bus Riders are Getting Organized Message-ID: <20040927121704.9220.qmail@resist.ca> Bus riders across the GVRD are angry and getting organized to stop the proposed bus fare increase. "The impacts of these transit fare increases will be simply devastating to the marginalized and working people who ride the buses every day. We deserve better than fare increases and bus cuts", explains Zailda Chan, an organizer with the Bus Riders Union. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/26/81456/3324 From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 27 05:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Uri Avnery: Why I changed my mind (and support for a 2-state solution) Message-ID: <20040927121704.9219.qmail@resist.ca> By Uri Avnery | haaretz.com | Fri., September 24, 2004 Not long ago a European interviewer asked me: "In your youth you were a member of the (right wing) Irgun. Now you belong to the radical peace camp. When did you move from the one extreme to the other? At what moment did this happen?" URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/25/153933/817 From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 27 05:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Cuban statement to UN Message-ID: <20040927121704.9223.qmail@resist.ca> Cuba condemns an impotent UN controlled by the superpower. Poor countries have paid three times there debt but the unpayable debt has still doubled while one rich country spends $900B on the war machine every year. They call for a develpment tax on international financial transactions and a stronger G-77. Also see Cuba lobbies to end embargo URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/26/183121/915 From news at resist.ca Mon Sep 27 05:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] U.S. Veterans Object to "Monument to Cowards" Message-ID: <20040927121705.9224.qmail@resist.ca> "The largest combat veteran's group in the United States has asked President George W. Bush to tell the Canadian government that a monument in British Columbia to Vietnam War draft-dodgers should not be built....The Veterans of Foreign Wars says the proposed monument, to be erected in Nelson, is a tribute 'to cowards' and a slap in the face to the 42 million Americans who have served in the military over the years." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/27/13822/2688 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 28 06:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 13:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] News Empire Reveals its Prejudices Message-ID: <20040928131703.7177.qmail@resist.ca> The CanWest newspaper chain got international exposure this week. The New York Times, probably the world's most prestigious newspaper, wrote about CanWest's editorial policies....The story started when the Ottawa Citizen revised an Associated Press story from Iraq. AP reporter Hamza Hendawi wrote, "U.S. jets pounded targets in Fallujah" without "weakening the Sunni militants who have steadily expanded their control of the city." The Citizen changed that to, "U.S. jets pounded terrorist positions [without] weakening the Sunni terrorists." The change was deliberate. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/27/133745/158 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 28 06:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 13:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] U.S. Military Strategy in Iraq Message-ID: <20040928131703.7176.qmail@resist.ca> "Since the end of the battle of Najaf, things have become a jumbled mass of new violent outbreaks and conflicting pronouncements by all sides of the Iraqi conflict. Hidden in this confusion is an entirely new American military-political strategy that promises to wreak further havoc in the cities of Iraq, while shifting dramatically the equation of forces. If the U.S. succeeds, it will set the stage for a massive military offensive just after the November elections, one which may be magnitudes more brutal than anything we have seen so far. If the U.S. fails, it could generate the sort of high profile set-back that ruins Bush's electoral chances and/or leads to yet another major change in U.S. political-military strategy." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/28/25526/6158 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 28 06:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 13:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] What is Left? Nihilism vs. Socialism Message-ID: <20040928131704.7178.qmail@resist.ca> This essay is originally from Nihilism, Anarchy, and the 21st Century by A! If socialism has been, at best, a corrective to the worst excesses of Capitalism then where else can we draw our inspiration from? If the mainstream of socialism (so called state socialism, communism, or social democracy) is solidly interested in the same progressive, economic assimilation as the dominant world then we could look to its rivals. If these rivals (libertarian and utopian socialists) have shown that they are co-optable or worse, that they are not capable of being effective in the time of crisis then where do we turn? If people couldn't effectively combat the system of the 19th century, when it was just becoming a worldwide system rationalizing everything, including its opposition, what hope do we have today long after the fact? URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/27/152738/336 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 28 06:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 13:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] The Covert War Against Native Americans Message-ID: <20040928131704.7179.qmail@resist.ca> by Ward Churchill 27 Sep 2004 "We are engaged in a struggle for the liberation of ourselves as people. In this, there can be neither success nor even meaning unless the struggle is directed toward the liberation of our land, for a people without land cannot be liberated. We must reclaim the land, and our struggle is for the land-first, foremost, and always. We are people of the land."--Kwame Toure ... But, in America, when we speak of liberation, what can it mean? We must ask ourselves, in America, who are the people of the land? And the answer is-and can only be-the first Americans, the Native Americans, the American Indian. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/27/82718/8363 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 28 06:17:03 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 13:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Anti-missile peace camp (Yukon/Alaska) hailed as success Message-ID: <20040928131704.7180.qmail@resist.ca> A group of Yukoners, including students and teachers from Vanier Catholic School, descended upon a major U.S. military base over the weekend. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/27/132920/901 From news at resist.ca Tue Sep 28 06:17:04 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 13:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada offers to train African troops Message-ID: <20040928131704.7184.qmail@resist.ca> Globe and Mail by JEFF SALLOT 27 Sep 2004 Ottawa -- Canada will help train African troops to try to stop the Darfur crisis, a tragedy that might dwarf in scale the Rwandan genocide a decade ago if the international community fails to act swiftly, Prime Minister Paul Martin says. African leaders feel strongly that peacekeeping troops from their own continent should be used if there is any international intervention in the Darfur region of Western Sudan, Mr. Martin said yesterday. Canada, however, has told the African Union it stands ready "to help train those troops" and provide military equipment such as flak jackets,... URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/27/85713/7655 From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 30 03:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Crap Arrest of the Week #5 Message-ID: <20040930101705.12998.qmail@resist.ca> Crap Arrest of the Week #5 For being asleep.... Three squatters were rudely awoken by dozy cops who raided their house and then declared they had uncovered a plot to disrupt (this) week's (British Labour Party) conference. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/28/194643/112 From news at resist.ca Thu Sep 30 04:17:05 2004 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Algerian removed from Quebec church faces deportation Message-ID: <20040930111705.19841.qmail@resist.ca> CBC Sept 27, 2004 NEW YORK - An Algerian man who was removed from a Quebec church by police and sent to the U.S. is expected to learn Monday whether he will be deported to Algeria. ...He had been arrested earlier for taking part in a demonstration in Montreal. The first person in Canada in recent history to be pulled out of sanctuary by police, Cherfi was then turned over to immigration officials and sent to the U.S. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/9/28/6303/36281