From news at resist.ca  Fri Apr  1 07:09:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 15:09:04 -0000
Subject: [news] ANWR supporters show strength in Yukon
Message-ID: <20050401150904.6900.qmail@resist.ca>

Hundreds of Yukoners angry about the United States' decision to allow drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge took their frustration to the steps of the territory's legislature Wednesday. "If the caribou are chased out of the birthing grounds, there won't be any caribou, there won't be any Gwich'in, and what's it all about?" said Phillipe Leblond, who took part in the noontime rally. "More oil for feeding the war machine?"

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/30/21342/1412


From news at resist.ca  Fri Apr  1 07:09:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 15:09:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Who Caused An Anarcho-Feminism Split?
Message-ID: <20050401150904.6901.qmail@resist.ca>

"Why is it that when things serve only males, is it not considered 'male-exclusive,' yet anything where women predominate is immediately labeled abhorrent, as subcultural (a women's something or other), or a subcategory of the all-maleness that is considered normalcy? I am stunned how male editors continue to pump out more and more male-exclusive websites, newswires, and magazines, and then have the nerve to call it "alternative" press."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/31/7415/04685


From news at resist.ca  Fri Apr  1 07:09:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 15:09:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Sleepwalking to disaster in Iran
Message-ID: <20050401150904.6903.qmail@resist.ca>

"The American media today is sleepwalking towards an American war with Iran with all of the incompetence and lack of integrity that it displayed during a similar path trodden during the buildup to our current war with Iraq. It was curious that no one in the American media took it upon themselves to confront the President or his Secretary of State about the June 2005 date, or for that matter the October 2004 review by the President of military plans to attack Iran in June 2005."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/1/6295/32418


From news at resist.ca  Fri Apr  1 07:09:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 15:09:04 -0000
Subject: [news] 7 Questions (Haiti)
Message-ID: <20050401150904.6902.qmail@resist.ca>

"At another level, we have sort of more brutal sweeps that are targeting the poor en masse. So literally going into poor neighbourhoods and opening fire, or going after known militants, organizers, local leaders in the community, and hunting them down. Nobody really knows how many people have been killed, but we know that just in March [2004], the first month after the coup, the morgue in Haiti had over 1000 bodies disposed of, and a normal month would be like a hundred. So the rate of killing is just astronomical, it's far worse that the '91-94 period, and some human rights people within Haiti estimate that as many as 10 000 people have been killed since February 29 of last year."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/31/125032/502


From news at resist.ca  Fri Apr  1 07:09:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 15:09:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Loblaws screws workers pockets profit
Message-ID: <20050401150905.6908.qmail@resist.ca>

Loblaws to close six warehouses in Ontario and Que Loblaw president's pay increases to $2.35-million

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/1/22354/16898


From news at resist.ca  Fri Apr  1 07:09:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 15:09:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Northerners calling on PM to block patronage appointment...
Message-ID: <20050401150905.6904.qmail@resist.ca>

"It surprises me that DIAND and our MP would be so arrogant as to reappoint this guy to another board, after what happened at the Review Board," said Joe Acorn, an environmental consultant who was fired from the MVEIRB. Acorn says he suspects the reason for Burlingame's appointment is the Mackenzie gas and pipeline project.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/31/145135/122


From news at resist.ca  Fri Apr  1 07:09:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 15:09:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Organizing terror? Painting protests as terrorism and the
	case of Tre Arrow
Message-ID: <20050401150905.6909.qmail@resist.ca>

Posted by Earth First! Bryna Hallam of Concordia University analyzes the latest trend in criminalizing protest: authorities tagging protesters with the label "terrorists." Are mass arrests, pre-emptive arrests, and hyped-up charges the new norm? Supporters of Tre Arrow argue the media conglomerates are happy to push this hysteria over "terrorism" because the hype boosts their profits.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/31/20452/9220


From news at resist.ca  Fri Apr  1 07:09:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 15:09:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Black officers confirmed profiling
Message-ID: <20050401150905.6916.qmail@resist.ca>

"The meeting was without precedent. Four of the Toronto Police Service's most senior and respected black officers, along with 38 other black officers from across the force, gathered on company time to have a frank discussion about what it was like to be a black member of a force facing allegations of racial profiling."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/31/193543/792


From news at resist.ca  Sun Apr  3 06:09:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 13:09:03 -0000
Subject: [news] ANWR supporters show strength in Yukon
Message-ID: <20050403130904.10937.qmail@resist.ca>

"If the caribou are chased out of the birthing grounds, there won't be any caribou, there won't be any Gwichin, and what's it all about?" said Phillipe Leblond, who took part in the noontime rally. "More oil for feeding the war machine?"

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/1/74015/51912


From news at resist.ca  Sun Apr  3 07:09:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 14:09:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Elections in the United States and Cuba
Message-ID: <20050403140905.28353.qmail@resist.ca>

"Kerry and his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, have a $747-million fortune, of which $14.8 million corresponds to the candidate. Meanwhile, Vice President Dick Cheney and his life Lynn Cheney possess private wealth to the tune of $111.2 million. Edwards has a fortune of $44.6 million and that of Bush stands at $18.9 million." -- "Another difference: the delegates who are elected [in Cuba] fulfill their services to the community without receiving any salary whatsoever and without abandoning their professions and occupations."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/2/0853/04783


From news at resist.ca  Sun Apr  3 07:09:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 14:09:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Rogue pigs kill 30 people in Brazil
Message-ID: <20050403140905.28352.qmail@resist.ca>

"A death squad has killed at least 30 people in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. Authorities say they are looking at the possible role of what they call rogue police, in a potential act of reprisal for recent arrests of eight officers. Rights groups accuse police of carrying out a 1993 massacre in the state. Twenty-one people were killed."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/1/12840/22542


From news at resist.ca  Sun Apr  3 07:09:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 14:09:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Developers Bankrolling Larry Cambell (& Friends)
Message-ID: <20050403140905.28354.qmail@resist.ca>

"VANCOUVER - Four major developers, all of whom are dealing with the city on major projects, put up $30,000 between them to sponsor this week's fundraiser for Mayor Larry Campbell's splinter group 'The Friends of Larry Campbell.'"

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/1/213431/8709


From news at resist.ca  Sun Apr  3 07:09:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 14:09:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Massive new oil strike in Mackenzie Valley [not good!!]
Message-ID: <20050403140905.28355.qmail@resist.ca>

"There has been a major oil and gas discovery southwest of Tulita that industry officials say will ignite more interest in exploration in the area. Oil company executives say it's the largest find in decades in the region, 600 kilometers northwest of Yellowknife [in the middle of the Mackenzie Valley!!]."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/1/9579/04078


From news at resist.ca  Sun Apr  3 07:09:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 14:09:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Subversive way to fight hunger
Message-ID: <20050403140906.28358.qmail@resist.ca>

Robin Hood would have grinned. "For six weeks, the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty has been holding special dietary clinics across the city. The purpose is to register welfare recipients for a special food allowance available to clients with health-related nutritional needs. Doctors, nurses and midwives are on hand to sign forms saying that applicants require the $250-a-month supplement."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/2/16316/07020


From news at resist.ca  Sun Apr  3 07:09:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 14:09:05 -0000
Subject: [news] VPD Chief Slams PIVOT
Message-ID: <20050403140905.28357.qmail@resist.ca>

Vancouver Police Chief Jamie Graham does not take kindly to criticism. Just weeks after publicly flaming Julie Berg, who has been campaigning for justice for her brother Jeff since he was killed after being struck in the neck and head by a violent cop (Graham also later said this thug "deserves a medal" for killing Jeff), Graham is on the offensive against the Pivot Legal Society, who he slams as an "activist group." Two pieces follow on Graham's contemptuous dismissal of Pivot's findings on systemic harassment and brutality against drug users and the homeless in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and Pivot's response to same (please note the Canadian Press headline which reports the Police Chief's dismissal of the Pivot report as fact).

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/2/338/17090


From news at resist.ca  Mon Apr  4 07:17:07 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 14:17:07 -0000
Subject: [news] Changes at Canada's first social-housing project
Message-ID: <20050404141707.18292.qmail@resist.ca>

"Michael lives in Regent Park, a 50-year-old housing project that was designed as a workers' paradise, only to degenerate into one of Canada's poorest and most violent neighbourhoods. Now, his world is about to undergo an unprecedented change in the hope of altering its dismal course. Beginning this fall, Regent Park will be demolished, making way for a $1-billion development that will mix subsidized housing with market rent units and owner-occupied homes."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/3/17328/78287


From news at resist.ca  Mon Apr  4 07:17:07 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 14:17:07 -0000
Subject: [news] Shots fired as sealers, protesters clash
Message-ID: <20050404141707.18293.qmail@resist.ca>

Posted by Earth First! FREDERICTON - Rifle shots were fired into the air Friday during a confrontation between sealers and protesters in the Gulf of St. Lawrence off the north coast of Prince Edward Island.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/3/161033/2576


From news at resist.ca  Mon Apr  4 07:17:07 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 14:17:07 -0000
Subject: [news] ANWR supporters show strength in Yukon
Message-ID: <20050404141707.18291.qmail@resist.ca>

"If the caribou are chased out of the birthing grounds, there won't be any caribou, there won't be any Gwich'in, and what's it all about?" said Phillipe Leblond, who took part in the noontime rally. "More oil for feeding the war machine?"

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/3/101428/6705


From news at resist.ca  Mon Apr  4 07:17:07 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 14:17:07 -0000
Subject: [news] Venezuela's Indigenous Protest Against Coal Mining in their
	Lands
Message-ID: <20050404141707.18290.qmail@resist.ca>

"Yesterday over six hundred Venezuelan indigenous people of the Wayu, Bari, and Yukpa ethnicities marched from the Plaza Morelos to the Presidential Palace of Miraflores in Caracas, protesting coal exploitation in the western state of Zulia. Alongside the indigenous people, civil society groups, political organizations, ecological and environment agencies and NGOs of the region walked the two miles to hand deliver a letter of protest to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/3/185510/5264


From news at resist.ca  Mon Apr  4 07:17:07 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 14:17:07 -0000
Subject: [news] The Death of Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtila)
Message-ID: <20050404141708.18297.qmail@resist.ca>

"A man is dead. We anarchists love life and we can't dislike that. Especially for the unspeakable cruelty of an agony indecently exhibited on the world by the ecclesiastical hierarchy. Anyway, this day that sees all politicians, from Fausto Bertinotti [PRC] to Alessandra Mussolini [ex-AN, 'neo-fascists'], bow down in front of the 'throne of Peter' we want to remember the man who was at the head of an absolute monarchy distinguished for centuries in its barbarity. The church that has perpetuated and blessed the massacre of millions and millions of men and women, tortured, burned, killed in the name of the cross isn't the memory of a now disowned past, but found in Wojtila, its deserving descendent."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/4/6237/21008


From news at resist.ca  Mon Apr  4 07:17:07 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 14:17:07 -0000
Subject: [news] Four Anti-Poverty Committee Members Arrested at
	Anti-(Gordon) Campbell Demo
Message-ID: <20050404141708.18296.qmail@resist.ca>

"(Police) grabbed (APC Organizer) David Cunningham, threw him to the ground and arrested him.  We surrounded him, demanding that he be released immediately, but he was picked up and carried into the hotel, out of sight....Three (other APC) members, Lily Loncar, Kim Kerr and Anton Pilipa, sat down and militantly refused to move until David was released.  The rest of the demonstration created a moving picket around the front of the hotel, screaming our demands that Dave be released.  One by one Lily, Kim and Anton were arrested and carried away."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/4/33043/64529


From news at resist.ca  Wed Apr  6 08:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 15:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Shell Shuts Down Flowstation in Anticipation of Attack By
	Youths
Message-ID: <20050406151705.28621.qmail@resist.ca>

"SHELL Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has shut down its flow station controlling Uzere East and West oil fields in anticipation of forceful invasion by the youths of Uzere in Isoko South local government area of Delta State following a breakdown of peace talks between them and the community."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/5/20048/84725


From news at resist.ca  Wed Apr  6 08:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 15:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Transgendered rights fight goes to higher court
Message-ID: <20050406151704.28629.qmail@resist.ca>

"The case of a transgendered woman who was prevented from working as a peer counsellor at Vancouver Rape Relief will be heard in the B.C Court of Appeal beginning on Monday. Kimberly Nixon won her claim of discrimination at the B.C. Human Rights tribunal. But that decision was overturned by a B.C. Supreme Court judge."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/6/74845/77028


From news at resist.ca  Wed Apr  6 08:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 15:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Nepal: Government-Backed Mobs Incite Civil War
Message-ID: <20050406151705.28623.qmail@resist.ca>

"Reports of highly orchestrated violence by mobs encouraged and supported by the military and ministers of the government appointed after the February 1 coup in Nepal are now arriving from Kapilabastu District in the south of the country. According to the reports, up to 700 homes have been burned and 30 people lynched on suspicion of being Maoist rebels by mobs of about a thousand people, sanctioned and led by the army. Nepal has now passed from the threshold of a country engulfed in violence and counter-violence. There is no internal force capable of restraining such violence, as it is the government itself that is leading it."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/5/223432/8618


From news at resist.ca  Wed Apr  6 08:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 15:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Hamas decides to join the Palestine Liberation Organisation
Message-ID: <20050406151706.28638.qmail@resist.ca>

Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic resistance group, has decided to join the PLO. The The political structure of the PLO, long dominated by the nationalist Fatah movement, will be transformed with Hamas' full and active participation. Hamas has widespread grassroots support in the occupied territories and is expected to inject a popular line into PLO's negotiations with Israel. This will include a more resolute stand on the issues of Jerusalem, Israeli settler-colonies, and the refugees. The complete story from the Al Ahram weekly is pasted below.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/5/6110/31802


From news at resist.ca  Wed Apr  6 08:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 15:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Pivot Calls for Public Review of Complaints Process and Role
	of VPD in RCMP Investigation
Message-ID: <20050406151706.28630.qmail@resist.ca>

"The RCMP uncovered evidence of 'assault' and 'abuse of authority.' It recommended an audit be done into the property office of the VPD to determine how much money has been seized without charges being laid and what steps have been taken to return the money. It also uncovered evidence of systemic problems with the VPD's internal investigation process, including lack of supervision, stalling, and that the VPD's complaint intake process was not respecting the Police Act." "Pivot is calling for the release of the RCMP report and a public review of the flaws of the complaints process, Chief Graham's reversal of the external investigation's findings, lack of transparency affecting the public and complainants, as well as widespread non-cooperation by both witness and respondent VPD officers."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/6/74513/84623


From news at resist.ca  Wed Apr  6 08:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 15:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Weyerhaeuser won't go to court
Message-ID: <20050406151706.28624.qmail@resist.ca>

The company says it is taking a wait-and-see approach to roadblocks. "About 50 Haida and non-native protesters have been operating two checkpoints on roads that access the active logging area in the interior of Graham Island for the past two weeks, barring access to loggers and Ministry of Forests employees. Supported by the Council of the Haida Nation as well as several non-native community leaders, the protesters are calling for what they consider sustainable forestry in the islands."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/5/13206/26537


From news at resist.ca  Fri Apr  8 08:17:09 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 15:17:09 -0000
Subject: [news] Bill 118, Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act,
	2004
Message-ID: <20050408151710.7791.qmail@resist.ca>

I am feeling bitter, sad and not a little vitriolic! This is because I understand that when people think of people with disability, they think of physiological illness and physically damaged people. As a result their bigotry is not intense, mostly just subject to misunderstandings or stereotyping based upon misinformation, i.e. without mens re, unlike the "stigma" pertaining to the "mental illness" label, wherein peoples' irrational fear, hate and denial is at times little more than a shunning and at other times akin to a biblical stoning. Both of these reactionary behaviours are frequently found within our loving families, administrated by professionals and profited by institutional "mental health" and corporate pharma. The constant nay-saying of the government to ODAC amendments was clearly not the voice of the people, but of the professionals in service to moneyed interests. Nothing changes so much as it stays the same!

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/7/21370/06938


From news at resist.ca  Fri Apr  8 08:17:09 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 15:17:09 -0000
Subject: [news] U.S. says Israel must give up nukes
Message-ID: <20050408151709.7789.qmail@resist.ca>

"The State Department Saturday called on Israel to forswear nuclear weapons and accept international Atomic Energy Agency safeguards on all nuclear activities. This is the second time in about two weeks that officials in the Bush administration are putting the nuclear weapons of Israel, India and Pakistan on a par."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/8/55355/36428


From news at resist.ca  Fri Apr  8 08:17:09 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 15:17:09 -0000
Subject: [news] Afghanistan: Drugs, Bases, and Jails
Message-ID: <20050408151710.7790.qmail@resist.ca>

"So the Afghanis go to hell while making drugs their export of choice; the Bush administration gets its bases; and if you happen to be one of the American conquerors of that benighted land, you don't return home to parade down a major thoroughfare in your chariot with your war booty and slaves before you (and a slave by your ear whispering about the vanity of conquerors) ? la the Romans, but you do get an American version of the same."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/7/2248/00462


From news at resist.ca  Fri Apr  8 08:17:09 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 15:17:09 -0000
Subject: [news] Military to stage Arctic exercise
Message-ID: <20050408151710.7794.qmail@resist.ca>

"A combined force of regular soldiers and elite reservists drawn from Ranger patrols across the country plans to stage a 'rescue' Friday on a remote, storm-pounded Arctic island that is closer to the magnetic North Pole than to anywhere else. 'We need to develop an ability to be first responders,' says Maj. Stewart Gibson of 1 Canadian Rangers Patrol Group."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/7/805/55896


From news at resist.ca  Fri Apr  8 08:17:09 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 15:17:09 -0000
Subject: [news] OCAP demands extra $250 for every person on social assistance
Message-ID: <20050408151710.7795.qmail@resist.ca>

"The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) and Ontario Common Front organizations across the province have kicked off a campaign to win back what Mike Harris took from people on Welfare and Disability Support Programs nearly a decade ago - we have found a way to start putting money back on peoples' cheques. OCAP and Ontario Common Front groups are demanding that a little known social assistance fund, the Special Diet Supplement, be released to everyone on welfare and disability. Currently, the fund is only available through medical practitioners. With the shortage of Doctors in Ontario, and even greater shortage of progressive ones, the Special Diet fund is extremely inaccessible."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/8/61041/05003


From news at resist.ca  Sat Apr  9 07:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 14:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] US Border Militia Avoids Charges in Immigrant Case
Message-ID: <20050409141706.26676.qmail@resist.ca>

DOUGLAS, Ariz. (Reuters) - Militia volunteers patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border were accused of holding a Mexican immigrant against his will and making him pose with a joke T-shirt but law enforcement officials ruled on Thursday no crime had been committed.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/8/0930/65776


From news at resist.ca  Sat Apr  9 07:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 14:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] When affinity is really an affront
Message-ID: <20050409141706.26674.qmail@resist.ca>

"[Bank of Montreal] has had [an] arrangement with Ottawa-based [anti-abortion group] LifeCanada for 10 years, and now that pro-choice customers know about it, they are beginning a drive to boycott the bank. When I ask whether BMO approached the anti-abortion group or it approached BMO, the bank says it doesn't keep records that old, which is odd. I do, and I'm not even a bank."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/8/6714/78428


From news at resist.ca  Sat Apr  9 07:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 14:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Pope John Paul The Reactionary
Message-ID: <20050409141707.26677.qmail@resist.ca>

Much of the recent coverage of the death of Pope John Paul II, critical and otherwise, has focussed on his conservative social views regarding women, queers and sexuality.  Less known are his reactionary political views and the role he played in facilitating the Cold War crusade against "communism."  One of my memories from the 1980's is of the Pope admonishing Catholic Sandinista supporters in Nicaragua to stop chanting revolutionary slogans before he would address them. Two excellent articles on Pope John Paul II's reactionary political views follow.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/7/2353/50970


From news at resist.ca  Sat Apr  9 08:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 15:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] A new play about Rachel Corrie,
	two silent years after her death
Message-ID: <20050409151704.2772.qmail@resist.ca>

Rachel Corrie, an activist with the International Solidarity Movement in Palestine, was killed two years ago by an Isreali Caterpillar D-9 bulldozer as she was protesting against house demolitions in Rafah, Gaza.  A new play opened in London recently about this talented 23 yr. old who believed in a cause and gave up her life acting on it. An unswerving activist with a wonderful imagination decimated by a state terrorist infrastructure.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/8/94619/10272


From news at resist.ca  Sat Apr  9 08:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 15:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Members of Mishkeegogamang First Nation and Ojibway Nation
	of Saugeen Defend Traplines
Message-ID: <20050409151704.2775.qmail@resist.ca>

As of April 6, Grandmothers and Mothers of Mishkeegogamang First Nation and Ojibway Nation of Saugeen have erected a blockade, which will serve as a gathering place, to prevent the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OMNR), Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines (OMNDM), and Bowater Corporation, from continuing the development known as the St. Raphael Signature Site. The proposed development threatens their Traditional Territory, and the right of future generations to continue to live as traditional peoples. The decision to actively resist the St. Raphael Signature Site, a manifestation of the ongoing process of colonization, was made after the MNR refused to stop Bowater from cutting traplines belonging to local trappers, thus violating Treaty 9, signed Nation to Nation.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/8/20280/61047


From news at resist.ca  Sat Apr  9 08:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 15:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] B.C. nations set up barricades once again
Message-ID: <20050409151704.2773.qmail@resist.ca>

For the first time in years some of the province's natives are turning to confrontation, after coming up with little to show for their efforts in negotiations and at court. Protests by native groups in recent days have stopped logging in the Queen Charlotte Islands and at Kingcome Inlet along the Central Coast and led to a moratorium on new mining projects near Telegraph Creek in northwestern B.C.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/8/182631/8275


From wolfdeck2003 at yahoo.com  Sat Apr  9 23:13:33 2005
From: wolfdeck2003 at yahoo.com (Private_MindSpace)
Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 23:13:33 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [news] RE: Webcast Bill 118: Accessibility for Ontarians with
	Disabilities Act, 2005; Summary Amendments Lost & Tabled
Message-ID: <20050410061333.62984.qmail@web14826.mail.yahoo.com>

Webcast
Bill 118: An Act  respecting the  development,  implementation and enforcement of  standards relating to  accessibility  with respect to goods, services,  facilities, employment,  accommodation,  buildings and all other things  specified in the act for  persons  with disabilities.
Legislative Assembly website at  www.ontla.on.ca  
http://www.ontla.on.ca/documents/Bills/38_Parliament/Session1/index.htm
Bill 118, Accessibility for Ontarians  with  Disabilities Act, 2005/Loi de 2005 sur l'accessibilit? pour  les personnes  handicap?es de l'Ontario. Hon. Mrs. Bountrogianni  (Minister of  Citizenship and Immigration). First Reading October  12, 2004. Second Reading  debated November 18, 22, 25. Second Reading  carried on division December 2.  Ordered referred to the Standing  Committee on Social Policy. Considered January  31; February 1,  2, 3, 7, 8, 28; March 29; April 4, 2005.
 
DAY 1 - Clause by Clause Amendments: Link reads Toronto March 29, 2005. 
 
Amendment Lost: Mr. Rosario Marchese (Trinity-Spadina NDP), ?I move  that section 1  of the bill be  struck out and the following substituted: "'Purpose'1.  The purpose of this act is '(a) to achieve a barrier-free Ontario  for  persons with disabilities through  the identification and  removal of existing  barriers and the prevention of  new barriers  that prevent persons with  disabilities from fully participating  in all aspects of life in Ontario; and (b) to ensure that persons  with disabilities  play a central role in the  mechanisms established  to achieve the goal  described in clause (a).'" Reason Given: ?The  current language says, 'The purpose of this act  is to benefit  all Ontarians  by developing, implementing and enforcing  accessibility  standards' etc.?
 
Amendment Lost: Mr. Marchese: ?I move that clause 1(a) of the bill  be amended by  striking out  'January 1, 2025' and substituting 'January 1,  2020.'" Reason Given: ?If there was any consistency from  the deputants about an  opinion  around this bill, it would be this: I  would say that 95% of the  people who made a deputation felt that the  20-year period was  simply too  long.?
 
Amendment Lost: Mr. Marchese: ?I move that clause 1(b) of the bill  be struck out  and the  following substituted: (b) providing for the involvement  of persons  with disabilities, of the  government of Ontario and  of representatives of  industries, of various  sectors of the  economy and of employees in those  industries and sectors in  the  development of the accessibility standards." Reason Given: ?What I am adding here is employees. If we follow  with the argument  that the  Liberal members of this committee have put forth  today  in their government  motion 2, which says the purpose of this act  is  to benefit all Ontarians,  then it would seem to me that we  should be  involving employees as well,  where it's applicable.  We make the argument that  employers should be  involved, and  we don't include the fact that  employees in those industries  or  sectors should be involved in the development  of the accessibility  standards.?
 
Amendment Lost Mr. Marchese: ?I move that section 6 of the bill  be amended by  adding the  following subsection: 'Same -- level of accessibility' (5.1)  Where an accessibility standard sets out a  measure, policy, practice  or other requirement for the removal of a barrier  and the subject  matter of  that accessibility standard was dealt with under  the  Ontarians with  Disabilities Act, 2001 as it read on the day this  act received royal assent  or under a standard or guideline that  was in  force under the Ontarians with  Disabilities Act, 2001  on that day, the  accessibility standard shall provide  equal  or greater protection to persons with  disabilities as was provided  by  the Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2001 or the  standard  or guideline under  that act." Reason Given: ?... I think  there were a number  of people who have expertise,  like Mr. Lepofsky, who is  here,  and others, who spoke to this in their  briefs, representing many  organizations. Part of what they
 were saying is  that there are  provisions in  the current ODA, 2001, which should be retained,  and they say specifically  sections 24 to 32 of the ODA, 2001,  which amend a  series of other Ontario  statutes, i.e. the Election  Act; the Election  Finances Act; the Highway  Traffic Act; the  Human Rights Code; the  Legislative Assembly Act; the  Municipal  Act; the Municipal Elections Act, 1996;  the Planning Act; and  the  Social Housing Reform Act, 2000 -- those  provisions, they  argue, should be  retained. My amendment attempts to deal with  all of those,  except in a very collective  way, so that whatever  was achieved under the  previous bill, we don't want to  lose.  This amendment says that we will provide  equal or greater protections  to persons with disabilities with this bill, but  nothing of  the previous  bill gets lost.? In Defense of his amendment, Mr. Marchese stated, ?whatever gains  people with disabilities  made  under Bill 125 should not be lost. Some argued 
 that unless  we include a  measure like mine, we could lose some of those  potential  gains that were  made. I read out a number of areas where gains  were made. I agree that it's  very general and not as specific  as it should be,  but those of you who have  the knowledge will  remember that gains were made  under the Election Finances  Act,  the Highway Traffic Act, and so on, and that  they could potentially  be  lost unless they are included.?
 
Amendment Tabled by Mr. Cameron Jackson ((Burlington PC), ?I move that section 6 of the bill be  amended by adding  the  following subsections: 'Interim standards ' (5.1) A regulation  may be made under this  section adopting an interim  accessibility  standard before a standards  development committee has  submitted  a proposed accessibility standard to  the minister under section  9. 'Same' (5.2) A regulation adopting an interim  accessibility  standard shall not be  made unless the minister has completed a  time-limited consultation process  that complies with the regulations." Reason Given: ?Much  of this has to do with the fact that there  was a considerable  amount of  progress made by the Accessibility Advisory  Council  of Ontario.? Mr. Jackson later clarified that, ?I'm having difficulty with this, and I'll keep  repeating  it, because we have  further amendments that address this issue,  that  we have no guidelines, no  criteria, no time frames for  the establishment of 
 the standards committees,  whether we're  going to compensate people, what  the composition of them will  be -- a whole series of outstanding questions. On the other hand,  in a couple of areas -- we're  very close within the  university  community, for example, with the  filing of their accessibility  reports within the 10-year accommodation  framework set out in  the previous  guidelines of Bill 125. ... That's why I crafted this motion. It came out of  those  two expressions of  frustration from the ODA committee saying,  'This  could take forever.' The  current access council has done  good work. The  previous act clearly states  that they can recommend  regulations, codes,  guidelines, penalties, all of  that, and  that work of the last three years  should not be undone.?
 
In consequence of the need for more discussion and the time constraints, the Chair adjourned the meeting.
 
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From news at resist.ca  Mon Apr 11 09:17:12 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 16:17:12 -0000
Subject: [news] Canada, Racism, Genocide, and the Bomb
Message-ID: <20050411161714.19845.qmail@resist.ca>

The uranium mine was developed by the Canadian government to satisfy US needs for the World War II effort to construct an atomic bomb. From 1942 to 1960, the Sahtugot'ine worked at the mine in Port Radium, unknowingly polluting their massive freshwater resource and irradiating themselves. In the early 1960s, the danger became apparent. The Sahtugot'ine workers started to die from lung, colon, and kidney cancers -- diseases previously unknown to them.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/11/84754/5049


From news at resist.ca  Mon Apr 11 09:17:12 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 16:17:12 -0000
Subject: [news] Indigenous Russians Unite Against Oil and Gas Development
Message-ID: <20050411161713.19838.qmail@resist.ca>

"Indigenous leaders of the island of Sakhalin in the far east of Russia have joined forces as a new wave of oil and gas development on the island is encroaching on their traditional lands."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/10/185625/251


From news at resist.ca  Mon Apr 11 09:17:12 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 16:17:12 -0000
Subject: [news] Kafka Comes to Canada
Message-ID: <20050411161714.19840.qmail@resist.ca>

"I've read Franz Kafka's 'The Trial' twice and still can't warm to it. Josef K is on trial, for what crime he doesn't know and neither do the judges who are equally ignorant of the evidence, but he should stop protesting his innocence as it doesn't look good in court....My mystification ended this week, when I joined a group of writers....in a fundraiser for five Muslim men jailed a collective 192 months under our American-style, secret-trial security certificates. Canada is about to deport them to various countries where they will be tortured, probably unto death. We are about to do a 'Maher Arar' on these men."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/10/135650/780


From news at resist.ca  Tue Apr 12 15:17:07 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 22:17:07 -0000
Subject: [news] US appears to have fought war for oil and lost it
Message-ID: <20050412221707.16983.qmail@resist.ca>

Sir, Your recent report that oil prices have reached an all-time nominal high and that Goldman Sachs has suggested the possibility of a "super spike" in prices to as high as $105 per barrel ("Crude at all-time high despite Opec's efforts", April 5) should be of no surprise to anyone who has studied the informed opinions of US energy experts in the period leading up to the invasion of Iraq.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/12/144442/700


From news at resist.ca  Tue Apr 12 15:17:07 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 22:17:07 -0000
Subject: [news] No Intelligence Failure in Iraq: Political Failure in America
Message-ID: <20050412221708.16985.qmail@resist.ca>

Before America bombed and burst apart the bodies of tens of thousands of breathing Iraqis, it quietly interred the corpse of its own moral integrity. By nurturing the most brazen lies to press its case for war, America buried its moral commitment to the principles of truth and reason, enabling the incineration of innocents abroad. The deadly result of abandoning these principles will neither be forgotten by history nor forgiven by a future which embittered histories produce - unless we move to change the present.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/12/14503/3008


From news at resist.ca  Tue Apr 12 15:17:08 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 22:17:08 -0000
Subject: [news] Canada ranked low in UN native report
Message-ID: <20050412221708.16989.qmail@resist.ca>

"Economic, social and human indicators of well-being, quality of life and development are completely lower among aboriginal people than other Canadians," said Stavenhagen, who also warns the housing, health and suicide situation is reaching crisis proportions. He said the condition of aboriginal people in the country was "the most pressing human rights issue facing Canada."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/12/144054/670


From news at resist.ca  Tue Apr 12 15:17:07 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 22:17:07 -0000
Subject: [news] New Skytrain Police Board Top Heavy with Cops
Message-ID: <20050412221708.16986.qmail@resist.ca>

Jennifer Efting, an organizer with the Bus Riders' Union, opposes the current make-up of the SkyTrain Police Board. Efting believes the community should have a say in the appointments....'The police shouldn't be there at all...'(she said). 'The key reason, I think, is to create a culture of fear on the SkyTrain.'

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/12/112712/527


From news at resist.ca  Wed Apr 13 06:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 13:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] It's official, Mohawks no more
Message-ID: <20050413131707.19204.qmail@resist.ca>

The Morden Mohawks (Winnipeg) are officially no more, following a vote by school division trustees last night to lay the controversial moniker to rest. Instead of the Mohawks, sports teams at Morden Collegiate will now be called The Thunder -- the name favoured by the majority of students in a vote held last month.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/13/53135/5075


From news at resist.ca  Wed Apr 13 09:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 16:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Webcast: First person with disability to present on Bill 118
Message-ID: <20050413161705.16870.qmail@resist.ca>

Webcast Debate--Ongoing: Bill 118, Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005/Loi de 2005 sur l'accessibilite pour les personnes handicapees de l'Ontario Mr. David Thomasson is the very first person with disability to give a presentation at the debate in Ottawa on February 8, 2005 and his presentation lasts 15 minutes including question period. Mr. Thomasson's scholarly presentation is pertinent to clause 41(r) of the (ODA) Ontarians with Disabilities Act, as it is presently written. David Thomasson, who self-identifies as bipolar and psychiatrically disabled is a recipient of ODSP (Ontario Disability Support Program).

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/12/23136/9197


From news at resist.ca  Wed Apr 13 09:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 16:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Privatise Aboriginal land rights? The lessons from Papua New
	Guinea
Message-ID: <20050413161705.16869.qmail@resist.ca>

"The federal government, backed by mining company-funded 'think tanks', has a new agenda for Aboriginal land rights: privatise them. And privatisation here, as elsewhere, means that the sharks will move in."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/13/5564/41572


From news at resist.ca  Wed Apr 13 09:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 16:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] COINTELPRO & The Case of John Graham
Message-ID: <20050413161705.16871.qmail@resist.ca>

"Secwepemc (Native Youth Movement) believes that no Indian should be forced into the white man's courts or prisons. The white man has come here to our Land and invaded every aspect of our lives. They have waged war on us and that has forced us to fight back and resist their invasion and forced assimilation. When we fight for the freedom of our People we have always been criminalized and thrown in their prisons."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/12/165232/636


From news at resist.ca  Thu Apr 14 01:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 08:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] A Practical Response
Message-ID: <20050414081706.31509.qmail@resist.ca>

"The first point that has to be grasped is that proposals for system-wide, top-down change - getting the Federal government to do something constructive about the situation, for instance - are a waste of time. That sort of change isn't going to happen. It's not simply a matter of who's currently in power, although admittedly that doesn't help. The core of the problem is that even proposing changes on a scale that would do any good would be political suicide."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/13/225230/586


From news at resist.ca  Thu Apr 14 01:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 08:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] "The Wackos are Back"
Message-ID: <20050414081707.31510.qmail@resist.ca>

"As always, they say they're not targeting the eastern Arctic seal hunt. But as the Inuit of the eastern Arctic know well, when Newfoundland seal hunters are attacked, Inuit seal hunters get hurt too. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, a small but useful renewable-resource economy based on the sale of adult seal pelts was ruined by a European ban on the importation of sealskin products. Because of this arbitrary restriction on trade in a legitimate commodity, the price of seal pelts plummeted, and many hunting families in Nunavut lost a vital source of cash income."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/13/22345/1889


From news at resist.ca  Thu Apr 14 01:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 08:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Wolfgang Droege to Join Pope in Hell
Message-ID: <20050414081707.31511.qmail@resist.ca>

"Former member of the KKK and founder of the Heritage Front, Wolfgang Droege was finally shot dead in his Toronto apartment (perhaps by agents of ZOG?!) OK, so there is no hell, but if there was, Wolfgang Droege would have a lot to talk to JPII about. JP wore a white robe with a pointy hat, Wolfie wore a white robe with a pointy hat. JPII was responsible for the deaths of millions of Africans, Wolfie wanted them all dead."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/13/201316/189


From news at resist.ca  Thu Apr 14 01:17:07 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 08:17:07 -0000
Subject: [news] U.S. Funnels $7 Million in Arms to Haiti's Puppet Regime,
	Death Squads
Message-ID: <20050414081707.31516.qmail@resist.ca>

"Flying in the face of a promising recovery strategy, the United States has quietly begun shipping arms to Haiti's interim government, despite a 13-year arms embargo on the Caribbean nation. The new arms are meant to brace up a shaky security force, but the reality is that they could actually undermine security by jeopardizing an innovative disarmament effort just getting under way." "The island is increasingly in chaos. Armed militia and former army soldiers terrorize the countryside and urban slums with impunity. More than 1,000 people have been killed since fighting began in late 2003, and several hundred since Jean-Bertrand Aristide was ousted as President in February of 2004. Fiefdoms controlled by various armed factions have emerged throughout the country, reminiscent of Iraq and Afghanistan."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/13/194814/557


From news at resist.ca  Thu Apr 14 02:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 09:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Seven Questions with the Anti-Poverty Committee
Message-ID: <20050414091706.5144.qmail@resist.ca>

Jill Chettiar is an organizier with Vancouver's Anti-Poverty Committee (APC). Similar to organizations like the "Ontario Coalition Against Poverty" (OCAP), APC take an uncompromising and militant approach to fighting for the rights of poor and marginalized people. Not surprisingly, such an approach has not been well received by the cops; the Vancouver Police Department have been escalating their repression of APC and last summer, Vancouver's "progressive" (sic) Mayor Larry Campbell denounced them as a "bunch of anarchists." Below, Jill answers seven questions from Gina Whitfield of the progressive online magazine "Seven Oaks."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/14/14057/3222


From news at resist.ca  Thu Apr 14 01:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 08:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] OCAP Diverts $1M to Needy but Still Comes Up Short
Message-ID: <20050414081707.31513.qmail@resist.ca>

"In the last two months, OCAP has won more than $1 million for people on social assistance but [they] still have less than $100 in the bank." It's time to stand behind activist organizations that get things done and fight to win - with more than just our words."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/13/194519/752


From news at resist.ca  Fri Apr 15 08:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 15:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Depressed? New York City Screens for People at Risk
Message-ID: <20050415151706.15113.qmail@resist.ca>

In an article in the NY Times, it is revealed that "Doctors in New York City have begun to use a simple questionnaire to determine if a patient is at risk for depression, a practice that health officials hope will become a routine part of primary care, much like a blood pressure test or cholesterol reading..." ------------------------- Unfortunately, they miss the basic point - that being - a simple questionnaire is not ANYthing similar to a biological test such as blood pressure test or cholesterol reading. The organic answers obtained by biological tests are in no way similar to answers obtained from a questionnaire. As people in the anti-psychiatry groups consistently make clear. There is no objective science proving that psychosocial/psychospiritual societal issues (systemically referred to as "mental illness") are biological diseases.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/14/72812/3698


From news at resist.ca  Fri Apr 15 08:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 15:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] End of the Wild: The extinction crisis is over. We lost.
Message-ID: <20050415151707.15115.qmail@resist.ca>

"Over the next 100 years or so as many as half of the Earth's species, representing a quarter of the planet's genetic stock, will either completely or functionally disappear. The land and the oceans will continue to teem with life, but it will be a peculiarly homogenized assemblage of organisms naturally and unnaturally selected for their compatibility with one fundamental force: us. Nothing--not national or international laws, global bioreserves, local sustainability schemes, nor even 'wildlands' fantasies--can change the current course. The path for biological evolution is now set for the next million years. And in this sense "the extinction crisis"--the race to save the composition, structure, and organization of biodiversity as it exists today--is over, and we have lost."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/14/18012/3293


From news at resist.ca  Fri Apr 15 08:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 15:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] A small village's victory against communist tyranny in China
Message-ID: <20050415151707.15117.qmail@resist.ca>

The gap between the urban rich and rural poor has been growing steadily in many parts of the so-called developing world. This inequality coupled with rampant environmental destruction is creating wide discontent among the people, sparking resistance against the tyranny of neo-liberal policies embraced by their central governments. However, this fight needs to be fought in two distinct arenas. First of course is the local people's struggle against the unfair status-quo validated by their own authorities, as exemplified by the following story of a small village in China. The second arena belongs to all of us in the wider 'global' community who yearn for socioeconomic justice - it is our responsibility to stop the pressure tactics of Northern governments which force policy makers in poor countries to comply with the neo-liberal agenda. Fight on... Read article from the UK Guardian

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/15/6237/56808


From news at resist.ca  Fri Apr 15 08:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 15:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] More Iraqi kids go hugry: Let them eat bombs
Message-ID: <20050415151706.15114.qmail@resist.ca>

Two articles on the recent UN report which shows Iraqi children better off under Saddam Hussein than they are now. "This, of course, comes as a bitter blow for all those of us who, like George Bush and Tony Blair, honestly believe that children thrive best when we drop bombs on them from a great height, destroy their cities and blow up hospitals, schools and power stations."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/15/71457/5962


From news at resist.ca  Fri Apr 15 08:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 15:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] VPD Chief Whitewashes Complaints
Message-ID: <20050415151707.15119.qmail@resist.ca>

"That bully who runs the Vancouver Police Department is at it again. This time Chief Jamie Graham is intent on whitewashing an external investigation into his own force by the (Royal Canadian Mounted Police)."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/14/133110/248


From news at resist.ca  Fri Apr 15 08:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 15:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Deh Cho communities struggle with pipeline impact
Message-ID: <20050415151707.15118.qmail@resist.ca>

"The Deh Cho is determined that a pipeline will be built only under their own terms and conditions, even if that means the whole project is delayed. The Deh Cho grand chief acknowledged this position hasn't made him or the region any friends in the rest of Mackenzie Valley. But Herb Norwegian doesn't care."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/14/82514/5221


From news at resist.ca  Sat Apr 16 09:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 16:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Fallujah: Dresden in Iraq
Message-ID: <20050416161705.29587.qmail@resist.ca>

"Although studiously ignored by the mainstream news media, last month came reports that the U.S. used napalm and chemical weapons in its assault upon the city of Fallujah. The assault of November 2004 resulted in the near-total destruction of the city, as well as the deaths of thousands of non-insurgent Iraqi civilians. If the reports about napalm and chemical weapons are true, not only would the U.S. be in violation of international law, it would be guilty of the very crimes against humanity that it previously leveled against Saddam Hussein and used as a justification for invading Iraq."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/15/21058/7232


From news at resist.ca  Sat Apr 16 09:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 16:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Capitalism Is Savagery - Hugo Chavez
Message-ID: <20050416161705.29589.qmail@resist.ca>

The following are excerpts from a speech given by Hugo Chavez at Gigantinho Stadium during the 2005 World Social Forum. A DVD containing the entire speech is available at the Z Store. To find out more, click http://www.zmag.org/store/Details.cfm?ProdID=142&category=2.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/15/17168/3640


From news at resist.ca  Sat Apr 16 09:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 16:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Torture Airlines
Message-ID: <20050416161706.29591.qmail@resist.ca>

The Road to Rendition Torture Air, Incorporated By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR - Counterpunch Weekend Edition; April 9 / 10, 2005 Oregon City, Oregon A sleek Gulfstream V jet with the tail number N379P has racked up more international miles than most passenger jets. Since October 2001, this plane has been spotted in some of the world's most exotic and forbidding airports: Tashkent, Uzbekistan; Karachi, Pakistan, Baku, Azerbaijan, Baghdad, Iraq, and Rabat, Morocco. It has also frequently landed at Dulles International, outside Washington, DC and enjoys clearance to land at US military air bases in Scotland, Cyprus and Frankfurt, Germany. Observers around the world have noticed men in hoods and chains being taken on and off the jet.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/16/1437/48874


From news at resist.ca  Sat Apr 16 09:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 16:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] First issue of online anti-capitalist journal &quot;
	Upping the Anti&quot; is now out!
Message-ID: <20050416161706.29590.qmail@resist.ca>

"We are pleased to announce that the first issue of Upping the Anti, a new journal of theory and action devoted to engaging with and contributing to debates and discussions taking place within anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, and anti-oppressive movements is now out! With a three person editorial collective and an advisory board of over twenty activists across Canada, we have created a new, radical journal to address various problems and successes of radical organizing in our communities."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/16/65748/4334


From news at resist.ca  Sun Apr 17 07:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 14:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Argentina Justice Minister Seeks To Declaw World Bank
	Tribunal
Message-ID: <20050417141703.27946.qmail@resist.ca>

"Buenos Aires -- In threatening to get a local court to void possibly adverse rulings by a World Bank-sponsored arbitration tribunal, Argentine Justice Minister Horacio Rosatti insists he is acting as any responsible attorney general would under the circumstances." "Argentine law 'gives the same civil and property rights to foreigners as (Argentine) nationals, but never did anyone think that the foreigner would have more rights than nationals,' Rosatti said."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/15/72215/0000


From news at resist.ca  Sun Apr 17 07:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 14:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Lessons for US Radicals: Students Rise Again in
	=?utf-8?q?Qu?= =?utf-8?b?w6liZWM=?=
Message-ID: <20050417141704.27949.qmail@resist.ca>

"Between 60,000 and 100,000 militant students marched in Montr?al on March 16. Thousands more marched in Qu?bec City, Sherbrooke, Trois-Rivi?re, and just about every other Qu?bec locality with a CEGEP (somewhat similar to U.S. community colleges) or University. Students blocked the Port of Montr?al, closed down the lucrative Montr?al casino, blocked Federal Highway 40, and occupied various government and Liberal party offices in Qu?bec City and Montr?al--often for days at a time. In all, close to 300,000 students went on strike, closing almost all public higher education in Quebec for up to seven weeks (and continuing on many campuses)."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/16/101448/899


From news at resist.ca  Sun Apr 17 07:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 14:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Canada and other west nations try to deport terror suspects
Message-ID: <20050417141704.27948.qmail@resist.ca>

"TORONTO - The United States, Britain, the Netherlands and Canada rely on 'flimsy' diplomacy in attempts to send foreign terror suspects back to countries that routinely use torture against their prisoners, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Friday. The 91-page report by the New York-based group said there was a growing practice among Western nations to seek reassurances of humane treatment of terror suspects while attempting to boot them back to countries with 'well-established' records of torture, such as Egypt, Syria, Uzbekistan or Yemen."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/16/64316/4128


From news at resist.ca  Mon Apr 18 06:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Confessions of a Drug Rep
Message-ID: <20050418131704.26337.qmail@resist.ca>

A forthcoming movie claims to spill the beans on Big Pharma Think big. Think money. Think drugs. And then think of all the sly, silly, ethically impaired things that people will do to sell drugs, and you'll have a taste of Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau's film, Side Effects. Slattery-Moschkau (pronounced Moscow, "like the city") sold drugs for a living for Bristol-Myers Squibb and Johnson & Johnson, until she found it increasingly difficult to "look myself in the mirror," and left her job after 10 years in the industry.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/17/224952/421


From news at resist.ca  Mon Apr 18 06:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Don't be fooled by the spin on Iraq: US failing
Message-ID: <20050418131704.26338.qmail@resist.ca>

"From last autumn's disastrous attack on Falluja to the huge increase in detention without trial, the casualties go on rising. After an amnesty last summer, the numbers of "security detainees" have gone up again and reached a record 17,000. The weekend's vast protest shows that opposition is still growing, in spite of US and British government claims to have Iraqis' best interests at heart."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/18/44019/8222


From news at resist.ca  Mon Apr 18 06:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Faking Righteousness
Message-ID: <20050418131704.26341.qmail@resist.ca>

Original to Resist Blackhand "The history and current actions of the United States show a distain for true conflict of moral principles and a love of enlightened self-interest. The evidence citied for the invasion of Iraq mirrored U.S. actions of the past and present, U.S. hypocrisy in dealing with Syria, and the U.S.'s deafening silence about war and genocide in Africa prove that the largely popular perception that a moral code has been injected into the foreign policy of the United States is false."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/16/113110/855


From news at resist.ca  Mon Apr 18 06:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] PETA Protestors labled Terrorists by KFC
Message-ID: <20050418131704.26340.qmail@resist.ca>

PETA? Terrorists? Well, folks, here we have is grade-A Texas nutjobs. I'm not the biggest fan of PETA (their tactics could use some work), but getting called terrorists for wanting to have an ethically sound food market is pretty out there.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/16/1075/20448


From news at resist.ca  Mon Apr 18 06:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] The System is the Scandal
Message-ID: <20050418131705.26345.qmail@resist.ca>

"If government is to play a positive role in society, as it must, honesty and integrity in our political institutions must be restored."     --from "Governing with Integrity", Chapter 6 of the federal Liberal Party's 1993 election platform The federal Liberals have failed in 11 years of governing to clean-up the system, despite promising to "govern with integrity" and to slay Canada's "democratic deficit." But so has every other government of every political stripe right back to Confederation. When all is said and done, much more has been said than done.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/18/5223/78239


From news at resist.ca  Mon Apr 18 06:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] MuchMusic refuses to air anti-war music video
Message-ID: <20050418131705.26342.qmail@resist.ca>

"The music video is one hundred percent Canadian content, produced professionally by working industry professionals, and is mastered to MuchMusic's guidelines, including Closed Captioning. "We've met their broadcast requirements," Sara Marlowe states. "I believe it is the political content of the song that they deem 'unfit for broadcast' and that 'does not fit their format.' "

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/17/184258/736


From news at resist.ca  Tue Apr 19 01:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 08:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Brit Soldiers Get Beat Up By Their NCOs
Message-ID: <20050419081704.5999.qmail@resist.ca>

"Several soldiers in the Royal Highland Fusiliers have complained that they were subjected to unprovoked attacks, known as 'bleaching', by colleagues as they slept. "Several members of the regiment have reported that they were regularly bullied and harassed by non-commissioned officers under the influence of drink and drugs."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/18/155051/859


From news at resist.ca  Tue Apr 19 01:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 08:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Violence and Our Revolution
Message-ID: <20050419081703.5997.qmail@resist.ca>

The non-violence edict of the current antiwar/anti-Bush movement is a joke. In a time of war the State will use all means to suppress opposition. Lincoln did it during the Civil War, Wilson did it during World War II, Roosevelt did it during World War II, etc. Antiwar/anti-Bush demonstrations are usually surrounded by riot cops and then attacked, without provocation, with chemical agents and batons. Violence, in most cases, does create more violence, as seen in Bush's many crusades. Yet, when the violence is against the oppressive agents of the State, the violence is necessary.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/18/1610/18739


From news at resist.ca  Tue Apr 19 01:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 08:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] A Message from the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
Message-ID: <20050419081703.5996.qmail@resist.ca>

A message from the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee PO Box 583, Lawrence, KS  66044-0583 785/842-5774 (Telephone); 785/842-5796 (Fax) info at leonardpeltier.org Oglala-The 6th Annual Oglala Commemoration Event is set to begin on June 26, 2005, at the Jumping Bull Property south of Oglala, South Dakota. Join us on this day as we come together in solidarity for the Freedom of Leonard Peltier. June 26 will mark 30 years since the shoot-out.   Thirty years of injustice. All family, friends and supporters are welcome. Annually, normal activities scheduled for this event include a prayer service near the gravesites of Jun Little and Joe Stuntz. A memorial walk for justice follows from the gravesites to the Jumping Bull Property. This is followed by a special memorial and giveaway for deceased relatives, sponsored by the Jumping Bull Family. Finally,a community feast and a concert for youth awareness is held, concluding this special day.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/18/171355/756


From news at resist.ca  Tue Apr 19 01:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 08:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] The Political History of Shoes
Message-ID: <20050419081704.6001.qmail@resist.ca>

Shoes. We all have some. We rarely think about them. But shoes are political. Charities buy poor kids shoes in every city. The type of shoes you have, and how many, are a sign of social status. (Remember Marcos' 1500 pairs of shoes?!) Women have endured foot binding and high heels. Some people wear wooden shoes, some wear sandals, some wear fur and skin boots. There are clown shoes, snow shoes, tap dancing shoes, Earth Shoes, and there are also shoe museums all over the world, including Seattle. Shoes have changed over the years due to new materials, such as rubber, becoming available, and due to design changes, such as the left and right shoes having different patterns. Studies of one Ice Age mummy suggested he did not travel further than 40 miles from home, and his shoes reflected that, both in utility and materials used. Even the ways we attach our shoes are changing. Learning how to tie shoelaces has been superceded by velcro shoe closures for younger kids.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/18/7558/61734


From news at resist.ca  Tue Apr 19 01:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 08:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] B.C.'s Coast: Statement of Practice AND the Harmful Effects
	of Seismic Testing
Message-ID: <20050419081704.6000.qmail@resist.ca>

To: Mr. John Efford, Minister of Natural Resources - Efford.J at parl.gc.ca cc: seismic-sismique at dfo-mpo.gc.ca RE: B.C.'s coast; Statement of Practice AND the harmful effects of seismic testing I have just been informed that the Government of Canada and the province of British Columbia, Newfoundland, Labrador and Nova Scotia have just released a Statement of Practice on seismic Noise in the marine environment. It is clear that, this statement is the first in a series of steps being taken by industry and government to start "exploring" for oil off of Canada's west coast. The Statement of Practice on Seismic Noise flies in the face of a moratorium on oil and gas development (including exploration) while ignoring widespread public opposition. 75% of British Columbians surveyed during the public review process have already made clear Canada's West Coast should stay oil and gas free including from harmful impacts of seismic testing.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/18/185030/701


From news at resist.ca  Tue Apr 19 01:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 08:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Creator Beats Up Canadian Military in Arctic Again
Message-ID: <20050419081704.6004.qmail@resist.ca>

"It was so bad that these Atco trailers that are situated on huge I-frames and three-foot diameter wheels were actually rocking in the wind," said Major Gibson. "It was just unbelievable." Plans to visit five nearby islands were downgraded to two. The crash exercise was delayed when reporters hoping to observe it had to remain in Resolute, then cancelled entirely when the Rangers ran out of time."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/18/95235/1075


From news at resist.ca  Tue Apr 19 07:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 14:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Case against Mexico City mayor awaits appeal
Message-ID: <20050419141704.17087.qmail@resist.ca>

Mexico City's leftist mayor, Manuel Obrador is currently facing charges regarding land expropriation after official immunity was lifted by the right-wing federal government who see him as most likely to win the next federal election. If Obrador is convicted, he will not be allowed to stand as a candidate and has already been stripped, at least temporarily of his mayorship. Bush has got to be worried about this guy and what it means for an increasing wave of socialist solidarity in the global south.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/19/6137/16187


From news at resist.ca  Wed Apr 20 02:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 09:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Venezuela Detains Colombian Troops
Message-ID: <20050420091705.12618.qmail@resist.ca>

"At least eight Colombian soldiers have been detained by Venezuelan authorities at a border post. The soldiers, who had been on leave for several days, were apparently arrested while trying to return to their unit. The governor of the north-eastern Colombian province of Arauca, Julio Acosta Bernal, urged their release."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/19/103823/882


From news at resist.ca  Wed Apr 20 02:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 09:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Coca-Cola Pulling an 'Enron' by Not Reporting Liabilities in
	India
Message-ID: <20050420091705.12620.qmail@resist.ca>

Wilmington, Delaware, US: "The Coca-Cola company is misleading its shareholders by not reporting serious liabilities the company has incurred in India. Coca-Cola is holding its Annual General Meeting in Wilmington on April 19, 2005, and over a hundred protesters will be speaking, both inside and outside the meeting, to bring attention to Coca-Cola's shortcomings."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/19/1165/40449


From news at resist.ca  Wed Apr 20 03:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 10:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Bank Says Saudi's Top Field in Decline
Message-ID: <20050420101705.30554.qmail@resist.ca>

"Speculation over the actual size of Saudi Arabia's oil reserves is reaching fever pitch as a major bank says the kingdom's - and the world's - biggest field, Gharwar, is in irreversible decline."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/19/62442/8593


From news at resist.ca  Wed Apr 20 03:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 10:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Venezuela to Raise Income Tax to 50% on Private Oil Projects
Message-ID: <20050420101705.30556.qmail@resist.ca>

"Venezuela said yesterday it will raise income tax on private oil projects to 50 per cent as part of a campaign by President Hugo Chavez to increase revenue from the energy sector." "Mr. Chavez, a self-described socialist revolutionary who often blasts U.S. foreign policy, has vowed to use Venezuela's oil revenue to fight poverty." "Mr. Chavez has criticized the 1990s [oil bidding] deals for 'robbing' Venezuela by giving foreign businesses access to natural resources under terms unfavourable to the OPEC nation. He has also launched investigations into tax payments by oil companies."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/19/61935/0999


From news at resist.ca  Wed Apr 20 03:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 10:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] "Lubicon Oil Project Runs into Another Hurdle"
Message-ID: <20050420101705.30566.qmail@resist.ca>

"A controversial heavy oil project on lands Alberta's Lubicon Lake First Nation claims as its own has run into another hurdle. The chief said it would be irresponsible for Ottawa to let the project proceed without dealing with the unresolved Lubicon land claim and without an independent assessment of environmental, social and economic impacts of the project."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/19/21217/6952


From news at resist.ca  Wed Apr 20 03:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 10:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] It's the Thought That Counts
Message-ID: <20050420101706.30558.qmail@resist.ca>

"Rejecting pleas for clemency from William Cottrell, a 24-year-old doctoral candidate in physics at the California Institute of Technology, U.S. District Judge Gary Klausner added more time to the sentence after finding that Cottrell was trying to sway consumers with his anti-SUV message."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/19/3257/13357


From news at resist.ca  Wed Apr 20 03:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 10:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] No Reins on Vancouver's Car-Loving Police Chief
Message-ID: <20050420101706.30567.qmail@resist.ca>

"(Jamie) Graham is clearly out of control....(Last month) the Georgia Straight reported our chief is riding around the countryside in cars provided gratis by auto manufacturers. I since discovered Graham posed for photos in the cars while in his VPD uniform. Those photos accompany articles complete with his impressions about the cars: 'outstanding handling and tremendous acceleration.'"

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/20/23628/6168


From news at resist.ca  Wed Apr 20 03:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 10:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Message-ID: <20050420101706.30559.qmail@resist.ca>

"Last summer, in the lull of the August media doze, the Bush Administration's doctrine of preventive war took a major leap forward. On August 5, 2004, the White House created the Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization, headed by former US Ambassador to Ukraine Carlos Pascual. Its mandate is to draw up elaborate 'post-conflict' plans for up to twenty-five countries that are not, as of yet, in conflict. According to Pascual, it will also be able to coordinate three full-scale reconstruction operations in different countries 'at the same time,' each lasting 'five to seven years.' Fittingly, a government devoted to perpetual pre-emptive deconstruction now has a standing office of perpetual pre-emptive reconstruction."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/19/62234/8071


From news at resist.ca  Wed Apr 20 03:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 10:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Papal Hopeful is a Former Hitler Youth
Message-ID: <20050420101705.30557.qmail@resist.ca>

The Sunday Times - World - April 17, 2005 "Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, whose strong defence of Catholic orthodoxy has earned him a variety of sobriquets -- including 'the enforcer', 'the panzer cardinal' and 'God's rottweiler' -- is expected to poll around 40 votes in the first ballot as conservatives rally behind him. Unknown to many members of the church, however, Ratzinger's past includes brief membership of the Hitler Youth movement and wartime service with a German army anti- aircraft unit."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/19/1934/37498


From news at resist.ca  Thu Apr 21 01:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 08:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Haida Open Seattle Front in Forest Fight
Message-ID: <20050421081703.15226.qmail@resist.ca>

"Members of the Haida Nation bring their insurgency against Weyerhaeuser to Seattle today, one day before the global forest-products giant holds an annual meeting at its Federal Way headquarters. Back home on the Queen Charlotte Islands, non-Indian residents and Haida have banded together to seize millions of dollars of logs from Weyerhaeuser. And they have set up land and sea barricades, paralyzing two huge sorting yards from which the company has loaded a wealth of logs onto barges to feed the world's hunger for timber."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/20/75824/3025


From news at resist.ca  Thu Apr 21 01:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 08:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Native Jew Haters
Message-ID: <20050421081704.15231.qmail@resist.ca>

An article of breath taking anti-Indian racism... from an Indian born Zionist...

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/20/84739/5387


From news at resist.ca  Fri Apr 22 01:17:17 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 08:17:17 -0000
Subject: [news] Canadian Involvement in Arar Torture
Message-ID: <20050422081718.29347.qmail@resist.ca>

"Just days after Arar arrived at a Syrian military prison, Pillarella's memos back to Ottawa say his Syrian contact has told him that Arar was being interrogated and had confessed to links with terrorist organizations, alluding to groups based in Pakistan. While Pillarella says the Syrians will allow Arar to have consular visits, nowhere does he note having asked about Arar's treatment or how the confessions were obtained."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/21/202638/328


From news at resist.ca  Fri Apr 22 01:17:19 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 08:17:19 -0000
Subject: [news] UN Commission Slams Israel on Settlements and Violence
Message-ID: <20050422081719.29358.qmail@resist.ca>

As Jews around the world celebrate 'freedom' this weekend during Passover, a holiday commemorating the exodus of the slaves from Egypt, we are reminded that the land of milk and honey, the land of freedom, has become a jail for those living behind the wall, separated from their own land and families. Geneva - "The United Nations Commission on Human Rights on Thursday condemned Israel's use of force against Palestinian civilians and called on Israel to stop building settlements in the occupied territories."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/21/211616/680


From news at resist.ca  Fri Apr 22 01:17:18 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 08:17:18 -0000
Subject: [news] The Courage Challenge
Message-ID: <20050422081719.29350.qmail@resist.ca>

"It is a public service to be courageous. Courage is something that needs to be built up, like a muscle, with exercise. It is a skill that one needs to practice, like any talent or interest. It is a calling that rises one above mediocrity and peer pressure. Courage is the seed of autonomy and independence. It is essential for the survival of life on this planet, and it is essential people begin to step up to the plate sooner, not later. This is my challenge to all reading this article right now, to make a pledge to become more courageous in one important arena of your life, starting today."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/21/154037/417


From news at resist.ca  Fri Apr 22 01:17:19 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 08:17:19 -0000
Subject: [news] N.S. Fishermen Blockade Oil Again
Message-ID: <20050422081720.29360.qmail@resist.ca>

"Fishermen have staged numerous protests against the government's quota system, which guarantees plant owners a fixed share of the supply. Fishermen, who say the decision is being imposed unilaterally, complain they will no longer be able to sell their catches to the highest bidder."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/21/203424/919


From news at resist.ca  Fri Apr 22 05:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 12:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Kanehsatake condemns closure of High School and... again
	faces stalled elections
Message-ID: <20050422121705.15052.qmail@resist.ca>

"It's outrageous to hear of the school [closing] because of lack of money when we see cash being spent hand over fist: $3,000 per week for a lavish hotel room, $17,000 per month for "National" Public Relations firm, $83,400 per month for Price Waterhouse Coopers, $26,000 per week for the police hotel accommodations, etc..."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/22/42238/1319


From news at resist.ca  Sat Apr 23 09:17:26 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 16:17:26 -0000
Subject: [news] Drug company rebuked
Message-ID: <20050423161726.5151.qmail@resist.ca>

A pharmaceutical company was yesterday found to have undermined an urgent safety restriction on its antidepressant drug and misquoted official guidance on the treatment of depression so as to favour its product. Wyeth has been forced to withdraw an information pack about the drug Effexor, which is now only allowed to be prescribed by specialists in mental health since it has been associated with more deaths and other side effects than others in its class.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/22/184012/470


From news at resist.ca  Sat Apr 23 09:17:26 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 16:17:26 -0000
Subject: [news] Argentinian jailed for throwing prisoners from plane
Message-ID: <20050423161726.5152.qmail@resist.ca>

"An Argentinian former naval officer who threw prisoners, drugged and naked, to their death from planes was convicted of crimes against humanity and jailed for a total of 640 years by a Spanish court yesterday for his part in the 'dirty war' against dissidents conducted by the Argentinian military regime in the 1970s." ... "His trial was the first successful prosecution under a Spanish law which allows crimes against humanity committed in other countries to be tried in Spain."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/22/63750/7917


From news at resist.ca  Sat Apr 23 09:17:26 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 16:17:26 -0000
Subject: [news] Government Indians selling Mohawk language to Microsoft
Message-ID: <20050423161727.5155.qmail@resist.ca>

The Canadian government Department of Indian Affairs band council in Kahnawake is launching a "language" auction. They're selling the Mohawk language to the highest bidder.  They're signing an agreement with multi-national corporation, Microsoft, to "co-develop an innovative Kanienkehaka language project"!

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/22/9031/87048


From news at resist.ca  Sat Apr 23 09:17:26 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 16:17:26 -0000
Subject: [news] Behind the smoke screen of the Gaza pullout
Message-ID: <20050423161726.5154.qmail@resist.ca>

"If Sharon intends to evacuate the Gaza settlements, he is doing so with outrageous inefficiency. He is far more efficient in the West Bank. There, plans are carried out precisely as scheduled. Right from the start, during the first agreements between Sharon and Netanyahu one year ago about the disengagement plan, it was agreed that the disengagement would not be put into effect before the 'separation fence' was completed on the western side of the West Bank. Indeed, the construction of the wall is moving towards completion."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/22/8837/67230


From news at resist.ca  Sat Apr 23 09:17:26 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 16:17:26 -0000
Subject: [news] Human rights ignored in Arctic Refuge decision
Message-ID: <20050423161727.5156.qmail@resist.ca>

Drilling in the Sacred Place Where Life Begins would be a violation of the human rights of the people of the Gwich'in Nation. This fact is something that is continually left out of the debate by the proponents of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. During the recent ANWR debate in Congress, senators in support of oil development disregarded the fundamental basis of our concerns about the risks of drilling and the importance we place on the area where drilling would occur.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/22/193447/774


From news at resist.ca  Sat Apr 23 09:17:26 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 16:17:26 -0000
Subject: [news] Canada Votes Against Resolution Condemning Islamaphobia
Message-ID: <20050423161727.5160.qmail@resist.ca>

Canada recently voted AGAINST a resolution condemning Islamaphobia and discrimination against Muslims, at the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. Below is a statement by Muslim Canadians condemning this decision and calling on Parliament to investigate the decision. Further on is the actual vote record where Canada lines up with the United States and other imperialist countries, such as Germany, France, Italy, Japan and the U.K., in opposing the resolution, along with U.S. client states like Australia, Hungary, Ukraine and the Dominican Republic. Finally, we have Canada's lame justification for it's opposition to the resolution, which also encourages other countries to vote against it, as well. Something tells me that despite Canada's stated opposition to this so-called "selective" resolution, had it been directed against persecution of Christians and others in some predominantly Muslim countries, the results would have been much different.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/22/22256/8883


From news at resist.ca  Sun Apr 24 09:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 16:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] ExxonMobil's Puppet: The Attorney General of Louisiana
Message-ID: <20050424161705.10766.qmail@resist.ca>

The students were on a public sidewalk outside the facility. They were taking pictures of the facility. As they were getting back into their van to leave, they were approached by a group of officers who were working for ExxonMobil, but were dressed in sheriff uniforms and were driving East Baton Rouge Sheriff vehicles. The students were told that it was illegal to take photos of an industrial facility. But apparently it is not against the law to take photos of an industrial facility.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/23/103017/278


From news at resist.ca  Sun Apr 24 09:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 16:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Heartcheck: A New Zine by Political Prisoners Jeff 'Free'
	Luers and Rob 'Los Ricos' Thaxton
Message-ID: <20050424161706.10773.qmail@resist.ca>

Announcing... a new zine by Political Prisoners Jeffrey 'Free' Luers and Rob 'los Ricos' Thaxton... ***Heartcheck*** Heartcheck is a 40 page zine with new, unpublished writings and artwork by political prisoners Jeff 'Free' Luers and Robert 'Los Ricos' Thaxton. The zine is printed on recycled paper by 1984 Printing in Oakland, California and has a 4 color cover.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/22/134728/618


From news at resist.ca  Sun Apr 24 09:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 16:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] U.S. "Donates" 10 Aircraft to Colombia
Message-ID: <20050424161707.10777.qmail@resist.ca>

"The United States has donated to Colombia four airplanes and six helicopters to support the South American country's efforts to "fight drug trafficking and terrorism," the Colombian Defense Ministry said Friday."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/23/221839/607


From news at resist.ca  Sun Apr 24 09:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 16:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Canada's Hand In Genocide
Message-ID: <20050424161706.10782.qmail@resist.ca>

"Canada's short-term memory about its role in the ongoing genocide against the Serbian people of Kosovo is a crime in itself. We must remember, for lest we forget, we are condemned to repeat the horrible acts once more."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/22/171453/581


From news at resist.ca  Sun Apr 24 09:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 16:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] WCWC Newspaper Banned by Elections BC
Message-ID: <20050424161706.10781.qmail@resist.ca>

"Yesterday, the Wilderness Committee was given written notice by Elections BC that they are banning the distribution of our 'Vote Wild' newspaper as of today. The reason given for suppressing the newspaper is because they've deemed it to be 'partisan advertising,' as it criticizes the government before an oncoming election."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/23/7717/72612


From news at resist.ca  Sun Apr 24 09:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 16:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Bush in the Netherlands: Censorship and Curtailment of
	Freedom of Speech Prior to Visit
Message-ID: <20050424161707.10775.qmail@resist.ca>

"George Bush will visit the province of Limburg in the Netherlands to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Europe's liberation on May 8. He will also attend several bilateral talks in the region around Maastricht on May 7th. Local activist groups and students are planning demonstrations to receive Bush in Maastricht. However, a website created to disseminate information about these protests has been censored and taken off air."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/24/25024/1727


From news at resist.ca  Mon Apr 25 09:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 16:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Argentina's Workers' Run Factory Under Attack
Message-ID: <20050425161706.2788.qmail@resist.ca>

The workers of Zanon and other social organizations mobilized in front of the central courthouse on April 21 to defend their factory against mounting attacks. At a moment when the courts and government must make a "political and legal decision" concerning the ceramics factory that has been producing under worker control since 2001 - legal attacks, death threats and physical attacks against the workers have increased.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/24/176/55720


From news at resist.ca  Mon Apr 25 09:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 16:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Build Underground Resistance, Not the 2010 Olympics
Message-ID: <20050425161706.2803.qmail@resist.ca>

Special to resist.ca The Green Monkey The Green Monkey is pleased to announce the launch of a new campaign of resistance here on the coast: BURN the 2010 Olympics. That stands for Build Underground Resistance, Not the 2010 Olympics. We're expanding on a campaign against the 2002 Olympics in Utah. But Vancouver has more reasons to BURN the Olympics than Utah ever did. The Green Monkey is here to tell you why.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/24/1948/76197


From news at resist.ca  Mon Apr 25 09:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 16:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Bringing You The News
Message-ID: <20050425161706.2791.qmail@resist.ca>

"Can you imagine the BBC and other major broadcasters apologising to a rogue regime which practises racism and ethnic cleansing; which has 'effectively legalised the use of torture' (Amnesty); which holds international law in contempt, having defied hundreds of UN resolutions and built an apartheid wall in defiance of the International Court of Justice; which has demolished thousands of people's homes and given its soldiers the right to assassinate; and whose leader was judged 'personally responsible' for the massacre of more than 2,000 people? Can you imagine the BBC saying sorry to Saddam Hussein's Iraq, or other official demons, for broadcasting an uncensored interview with a courageous dissident of that country, a man who spent 19 years in prison, mostly in solitary confinement? Of course not. Yet, last month, the BBC apologised 'confidentially' to a regime with such a record, so that its correspondent would be allowed back, having promised to abide by a system of censorship that continues to gag the dissident. The regime is Ariel Sharon's in Israel, whose war crimes, appalling human rights record and enduring lawlessness continue to be granted a certificate of exemption not only by the US-dominated west but by respectable journalism."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/25/01538/9001


From news at resist.ca  Mon Apr 25 09:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 16:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Belize In Chaos
Message-ID: <20050425161706.2796.qmail@resist.ca>

Three stories about the riots in Belize. "For almost a week there have been acts of arson and sabotage in Belize, seriously damaging a central bridge for public communication and disrupting telecommunication services."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/23/12209/3125


From news at resist.ca  Mon Apr 25 09:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 16:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] The Contradictions of a Contrarian: Andre Gunder Frank
Message-ID: <20050425161706.2792.qmail@resist.ca>

Among academic activists I know the two names most frequently cited for inspiring us to pursue our work are Noam Chomsky and Andre Gunder Frank. Yesterday we lost one of them in Andre Gunder Frank. Gunder must have put, literally, thousands on that path, who in turn reached perhaps millions of students in some fashion.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/25/82452/6212


From news at resist.ca  Mon Apr 25 09:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 16:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] General Motors Supports Public Health Care in Canada,
	but not in U.S.
Message-ID: <20050425161707.2804.qmail@resist.ca>

"So much does General Motors love Canada's socialized, taxpayer-funded 'single-payer' health care system, that the company's top executives in Canada, along with the top execs of Ford, Chrysler and a host of other U.S.-owned subsidiaries in Canada, actually have been lobbying the provincial and federal government(s) to expand the system to include other services such as pharmacy and home health care-and to increase funding of what is known in Canada as 'Medicare.'"

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/24/23235/9492


From news at resist.ca  Tue Apr 26 01:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 08:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Portland vs. The Police State
Message-ID: <20050426081703.8701.qmail@resist.ca>

"Citing irreconcilable differences with how the Federal Bureau of Investigation has operated in a post-Sept. 11 world, city officials in Portland, Oregon, said yesterday that they planned to pull their police officers out of an F.B.I.-run antiterrorism task force."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/24/231739/170


From news at resist.ca  Tue Apr 26 01:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 08:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Corporate Fraud - Behind the Paxil Scandals
Message-ID: <20050426081703.8702.qmail@resist.ca>

Z Magazine, April 2005 Corporate Fraud - Behind the Paxil Scandals By Bruce Levine In June 2004 New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer brought suit against Glaxo, alleging that it had engaged in repeated and persistent fraud with respect to Paxil (a $3.1 billion grossing drug in 2003). Spitzer had evidence that the giant pharmaceutical corporation Glaxo had suppressed the results of studies on children and adolescents that showed Paxil to be ineffective and to increase the risk of suicidal thinking and behavior. When he first announced the suit, Spitzer stated, "By concealing critically important scientific studies on Paxil, GlaxoSmithKline impaired doctors' ability to make the appropriate prescribing decision for their patients and may have jeopardized their health and safety." Spitzer had an internal Glaxo memo from 1998 stating that the company intended to "manage the dissemination of the data in order to minimize any potential negative commercial impact."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/25/135737/821


From news at resist.ca  Tue Apr 26 01:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 08:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] For Whom the Bell Tolls
Message-ID: <20050426081704.8703.qmail@resist.ca>

"Vanunu, who in 1986 disclosed to a British newspaper some of Israel's nuclear secrets, was kidnapped soon after by the Mossad, smuggled back to Israel, and put on trial. He served his sentence: 18 years in prison. For most of the time he was held in total isolation."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/24/2364/07375


From news at resist.ca  Tue Apr 26 02:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 09:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] U.S. Soldier Assaults Member of Iraqi Legislature
Message-ID: <20050426091703.15236.qmail@resist.ca>

"The assaulted (Member of Parliament), Fatah al-Shaik, was sporting a picture of anti-occupation Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in his vehicle. For that, member of the US-sponsored parliament or not, an American soldier had no hesitation in treating him just as US soldiers deal with other Iraqis every day."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/26/1241/22004


From news at resist.ca  Tue Apr 26 10:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Not All Blockades Are Bad: A Palestinian on Canadian
	Indigenous Resistance
Message-ID: <20050426171705.32181.qmail@resist.ca>

Through the resistance of the first Palestinian initfada (uprising) in 1987, a symbol emerged that represented the asymmetrical balance of power and the grassroots movement against the ongoing Israeli occupation. Just as the young Palestinian in front of a tank with a rock in his hand became a symbol of resistance and self-determination among indigenous communities, the people of Grassy Narrows have inspired a similar momentum.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/26/91648/8827


From news at resist.ca  Tue Apr 26 13:17:02 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:17:02 -0000
Subject: [news] Supreme Court of Canada to hear charter challenge to
	Campbell Liberals' contract-breaking law
Message-ID: <20050426201703.23684.qmail@resist.ca>

"Everyone knows that Gordon Campbell violated his pre-election commitment to health care workers that he would respect their collective agreements," says [Hospital Employees' Union secretary-business manager Judy] Darcy. "Now the Supreme Court will hear how he violated their constitutionally protected charter rights as well."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/26/123827/323


From news at resist.ca  Wed Apr 27 01:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 08:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Armenia Remembers Their Forgotten Genocide
Message-ID: <20050427081704.7820.qmail@resist.ca>

"When the Turkish authorities gave the orders for these deportations, they were merely giving the death warrant to a whole race; they understood this well, and, in their conversations with me, they made no particular attempt to conceal the fact. ... I am confident that the whole history of the human race contains no such horrible episode as this. The great massacres and persecutions of the past seem almost insignificant when compared to the sufferings of the Armenian race in 1915." - Henry Morgenthau Sr., U.S. Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/23/215714/276


From news at resist.ca  Wed Apr 27 01:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 08:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] The Canadian Dove Funds the U.S. Hawk
Message-ID: <20050427081705.7835.qmail@resist.ca>

"(W)hile the Gomery (Inquiry) issue built to a crescendo last week, hardly any attention was paid to the release of a defence policy review that signalled Ottawa's intention to make the Canadian military more part of the US war machine - a change that would likely offend most Canadians, if they were aware of it."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/26/233142/532


From news at resist.ca  Wed Apr 27 01:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 08:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Women, Are You Worth 45% Less Than Men?
Message-ID: <20050427081705.7822.qmail@resist.ca>

"The wage gap based on gender is still putting women at a significant financial disadvantage when compared to men in similar, or even the same, jobs, with equal qualifications. According to the American Association of University Women/AAUW (www.aauw.org/payequity), last year working women, with year round, full time employment, earned 24% less than males with the same employment perimeters. We see women of color taking the brunt of this inequity as well, with African American women receiving 34% less than men, and Latinas earning 45% less than men. It takes approximately 16 months of a woman's labor to equal 12 months of a man's."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/26/132939/841


From news at resist.ca  Wed Apr 27 01:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 08:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] The Real Breastfeeding Issue Goes Far Beyond Mere Guilt
Message-ID: <20050427081705.7823.qmail@resist.ca>

"The less a woman breastfeeds, the greater her risk of breast cancer. So concluded a landmark meta-analysis in 'The Lancet' medical journal, as reported on the front page of 'The Oregonian' ("Study finds key factors to lower risk of breast cancer," July 19)." "News like this is often met with concern about inducing guilt in women who don't breastfeed. But in no other area of health are people seen as needing emotional protection from the knowledge of risk. In fact, concealing risk is unethical and violates the principles of informed consent."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/26/916/38226


From news at resist.ca  Wed Apr 27 01:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 08:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Transparency in Drug Regulation: Mirage or Oasis?
Message-ID: <20050427081705.7834.qmail@resist.ca>

Joel Lexchin and Barbara Mintzes Dr. Lexchin is an Emergency Physician with the University Health Network, and Associate Professor, School of Health Policy and Management, York University, and is Associate Professor with the Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont. Dr. Mintzes is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. Correspondence to: Dr. Joel Lexchin, 121 Walmer Rd., Toronto ON M5R 2X8; fax 416 923-9515; joel.lexchin at utoronto.ca In Canada, the information used to approve new drugs is deemed commercially sensitive and hence confidential under the Access to Information Act and the Therapeutic Products Directorate (TPD) will not release such information without the manufacturer's approval. As a consequence, safety and efficacy information contained in unpublished trials submitted to the TPD is generally unavailable to researchers, physicians and patients, a situation that can potentially lead to the inappropriate prescribing and use of medications.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/26/20810/1084


From news at resist.ca  Wed Apr 27 01:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 08:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Immigrant Activist Deported from Canada
Message-ID: <20050427081705.7827.qmail@resist.ca>

"[Wendy Maxwell Edwards] became known for her outspoken and tireless activism, helping women leave sex work, working with victims of domestic and sexual violence, doing extensive HIV prevention work in the black community and working with gay rights and anti-racist groups. Her writing is scheduled to be published by McGill University and the Canadian AIDS Society in 'A New Look at Heterosexism and Homophobia.' She was also heavily involved in independent media, including hosting shows on a community radio station." "At an event celebrating International Women's Day on March 5 at Ryerson University in Toronto, this came to an end. She was arrested by police while selling cookies at the event, put in immigration detention at the local jail and nine days later deported to Costa Rica, despite public outcry and protests."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/26/11210/9194


From news at resist.ca  Thu Apr 28 06:17:09 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 13:17:09 -0000
Subject: [news] Sick Palestinian Held Without Charges
Message-ID: <20050428131710.1965.qmail@resist.ca>

He started to come to his senses a bit as he realized this was an opportunity to notify the outside world of his situation.  He was so tired, and so sick, he told us.  He kept saying "Biddi amoot"which could be translated as "I want to die" or "I'm going to die."  I'm not sure which he meant.  Maybe both.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/27/91754/7446


From news at resist.ca  Thu Apr 28 07:17:07 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 14:17:07 -0000
Subject: [news] Palestinian farmers say settlers poison their grazing land
Message-ID: <20050428141707.22267.qmail@resist.ca>

"SALIM al-Adra opens a plastic bag to display the green pellets that Palestinian villagers in the West Bank village of Tuwani say signify a dramatic and deadly escalation of attacks by Israeli settlers. The pellets, according to laboratory tests, are 2-fluoroacetamide, a rat poison banned or severely restricted in many countries but produced by two Israeli factories."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/27/15210/9277


From news at resist.ca  Thu Apr 28 07:17:07 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 14:17:07 -0000
Subject: [news] Haida Nation deal means end to blockade in sight
Message-ID: <20050428141708.22271.qmail@resist.ca>

"With an agreement looking likely, a lawsuit is now being prepared to bring against Weyerhaeuser based on Title, damages and breach of contract. The issue of damages is based on the land and timber taken from Haida Gwaii and the breach of contract relating to a violation of five parts of the Six Point Agreement, made with Weyerhaeuser in 2002, that the Haida allege was broken. This agreement covered things like respecting the Haida's cultural rights and the limitation of harvesting machinery... 'They just do not seem to be good stewards of the land,' said Mills about Weyerhaeuser. 'They're in the business of making money and they'll do that anyway they can.'"

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/28/64732/9283


From news at resist.ca  Thu Apr 28 07:17:07 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 14:17:07 -0000
Subject: [news] Chavez signs the decree to expropiate factory
Message-ID: <20050428141708.22270.qmail@resist.ca>

"In a meeting held at the Ayacucho Hall of the Miraflores Palace, the decree to nationalise the Constructora Nacional de Valvulas was signed. After two long years of struggle at long last the expropriation of the CNV was put into practice. The CNV had been taken over by the workers throughout this time."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/27/1501/60476


From news at resist.ca  Thu Apr 28 07:17:07 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 14:17:07 -0000
Subject: [news] Street battles follow Togo election
Message-ID: <20050428141707.22269.qmail@resist.ca>

"[T]he opposition are reporting that groups of armed men raided polling stations in areas where their support is traditionally strong and destroyed or took away the ballot boxes." "The stuffing of ballot boxes is occurring on a large scale and we haven't heard of a single polling station where everything is going well," Mr Akitani said. [from another story:] "Protesters threw up flaming barricades across Togo's capital and a furious opposition urged people to resist after Faure Gnassingbe, son of the late long-ruling president, was declared winner of a presidential poll marred by violence and fraud allegations."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/27/6528/41982


From news at resist.ca  Thu Apr 28 07:17:07 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 14:17:07 -0000
Subject: [news] Liberal Official Quits Over Dollars for Access
Message-ID: <20050428141708.22272.qmail@resist.ca>

"The BC Liberals' Skeena riding association president Lael McKeown stepped down Tuesday, after the District of Kitimat discovered that the $360 it paid to attend a forum was a political contribution to the Liberal party. Last May, when officials from several Northern BC towns were invited to a forum on economic diversification, the invitations were issued on government letterhead, giving the impression the event was official business. But the BC Liberal Party collected the attendance fees, according to Elections BC records."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/28/6382/14846


From news at resist.ca  Fri Apr 29 01:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 08:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] UK Rejects Compulsory Mental Health Treatment
Message-ID: <20050429081704.6001.qmail@resist.ca>

CMAJ* April 26, 2005; 172 (9). doi:10.1503/cmaj.050338. Government Legislation Colin Meek Wester Ross, Scotland Attempts to overhaul mental health law in England and Wales suffered a withering blow last month when a Joint Parliamentary Committee described the draft bill as "fundamentally flawed" and sent it back to committee.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/28/193234/554


From news at resist.ca  Fri Apr 29 01:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 08:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Ecuador: People Drive Out President
Message-ID: <20050429081704.6002.qmail@resist.ca>

"After four months of mounting political pressure and constitutional crisis, the people of Ecuador have driven President Lucio Gutierrez from office. In the face of unstoppable mass protest, and growing calls for the dissolution of Congress and establishment of popular assemblies, Ecuador's right-wing Congress abandoned Gutierrez, leaving vice-president Alfredo Palacio to assume the role."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/28/205156/349


From news at resist.ca  Fri Apr 29 01:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 08:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] How People Become Homeless
Message-ID: <20050429081705.6003.qmail@resist.ca>

"It is clear that the middle class do not understand what is going on when it comes to the struggles of people in poverty, because they are not being presented with those struggles. As a matter of fact, part of the job of the mainstream media, our government, and the police, is to HIDE homelessness and poverty struggles from the middle class and elite sectors of society. Part of the 'freedom' America is fighting for in Iraq, is the freedom to benefit from a wide capitalist class chasm WITHOUT GUILT. Without guilt is huge. It is no fun to have a mansion if everyone stands outside your gates calling you a pig and you are shamed and scorned as a glutton always. Mansions are only fun if everyone envies you and treats you as superior for such acquisitions. Having expensive trendy clothing is not fun if you are called a jerk, rather than cool, for having them. It is pretty easy to take the 'joy' out of exclusive perks for the privileged, by just pointing out how elitist they are. That is why they try to keep poor people out of sight, and out of mind, of the privileged classes. So part of class insulation is not having to be called out for gluttony, and to be gated and protected from seeing or hearing about the plights of the poor."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/28/12424/6229


From news at resist.ca  Fri Apr 29 02:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 09:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] National Consumer Drug Safety Network Launched
Message-ID: <20050429091704.11899.qmail@resist.ca>

CMAJ April 26, 2005; 172 (9). doi:10.1503/cmaj.050333. Drug Safety Alicia Priest, Victoria, BC Citing the recent withdrawal of refecoxib (Vioxx), members of a new national consumer network say Health Canada and Canadian doctors are failing in their duty to protect the public from harmful drugs.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/28/20952/0719


From news at resist.ca  Fri Apr 29 02:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 09:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Retired Canadian General Defends Former NDP Candidate
Message-ID: <20050429091705.11902.qmail@resist.ca>

"Retired Canadian Major-General Lewis MacKenzie says the (British Columbia New Democratic Party) was wrong to force one of its candidates to resign over his views of former Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic....MacKenzie, who commanded peacekeeping troops in Kosovo, says (Rollie) Keith was just telling the truth....And he says much that was said and reported about the Serbs has since been proven to be just 'propaganda' that many people believed."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/28/151222/585


From news at resist.ca  Fri Apr 29 02:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 09:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Grassy Narrows: History of the Fight
Message-ID: <20050429091705.11904.qmail@resist.ca>

"This article will examine how the Canadian state continues to undermine the livelihoods of the Anishinaabe and the political factors that are shaping Grassy Narrows' present fight for their lands."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/28/864/09009


From news at resist.ca  Fri Apr 29 02:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 09:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Kahnawake Band Council 'Backpedals' on Sale of Mohawk
	Language to Microsoft
Message-ID: <20050429091705.11905.qmail@resist.ca>

"There was some fast backpedaling on the secretly negotiated agreement between the Canadian government's Indian Affairs band council of Kahnawake and Microsoft of Seattle Washington. Many people attended a meeting that was called on short notice - elders, men, women, young people, even some children. People came from other Mohawk territories such as Akwesasne and Kanehsatake and even from as far away as British Columbia. The two band councillors stated they would not sign this agreement as it stands!"

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/28/163530/701


From news at resist.ca  Sat Apr 30 08:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 15:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] More homeless people on the street
Message-ID: <20050430151703.14385.qmail@resist.ca>

VANCOUVER - A new report says the number of homeless people in Greater Vancouver has doubled in the past three years from about 1,100 people to more than 2,100. That's the result from a survey conducted by hundreds of volunteers who fanned out across the Lower Mainland in a one-day blitz last month.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/29/114610/948


From news at resist.ca  Sat Apr 30 08:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 15:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] The New Assault on Women's Rights
Message-ID: <20050430151704.14386.qmail@resist.ca>

"The overwhelming majority of abortions after this point are performed only to save the health or life of the woman. In fact, only four one-hundredths of 1 percent of legal abortions are performed after the second trimester. And more than 95 percent of all abortions are performed during the first 15 weeks of pregnancy. With ever more outlandish discourse, the Christian Right has gained the upper hand in the battle over abortion in Bush's second term. But the pro-choice movement has helped pave the way."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/30/6924/19200


From news at resist.ca  Sat Apr 30 08:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 15:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Mackenzie Pipeline work halted? Imperial Oil trying to
	blackmail their way past the Indian problem
Message-ID: <20050430151704.14389.qmail@resist.ca>

Imperial Oil Ltd., speaking for the five-member consortium, said work scheduled for this summer is being cancelled because of a vague regulatory process and demands for "hundreds of millions" of dollars in spending from the four aboriginal groups in the Northwest Territories. As a result, Imperial said, it is not sure how much the project will actually cost, or how long it will take to build. "Right now, we don't have that certainty and confidence," Imperial senior vice-president Michael Yeager said in a conference call with reporters and analysts.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/29/132143/792