From news at resist.ca Tue Aug 2 11:17:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 18:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Private Prisons Experience Business Surge Message-ID: <20050802181704.25563.qmail@resist.ca> By DAVID CRARY | Associated Press National Writer | Sat Jul 30, 2005 NEW YORK - Though state governments are no longer fueling a private prison boom, the industry's major companies are upbeat -- thanks in large measure to a surge of business from federal agencies seeking to house fast-rising numbers of criminals and detained aliens. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/30/203120/768 From news at resist.ca Tue Aug 2 12:17:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 19:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Native leaders a force for change? Message-ID: <20050802191705.7553.qmail@resist.ca> [Globeandmail.ca] "We are, as off-reserve urban aboriginals, in an absolute crisis," he said. "Our statistics speak for themselves. We have the highest rate of incarceration. We have the highest rate of uneducated people in the province. We fall out of schools. We have an incredible amount of disease and health problems that are [exacerbated] by the poverty, the absolute poverty that exists in urban aboriginal areas all over this province. And there has been a leadership vacuum to represent that voice for some time now so I thought it important to get into office and represent those people in attacking those problems." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/2/105936/2629 From prms at alternatives.com Tue Aug 2 21:37:04 2005 From: prms at alternatives.com (Press Release Media Service) Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 21:37:04 -0700 Subject: [news] GVRD Board Holds The Line-of-sight On Wreck Beach Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.20050802213704.00906100@mail.alternatives.com> Media Release For Immediate Release From: Pacific Spirit Park Society and the Wreck Beach Preservation Society GVRD BOARD HOLDS THE LINE-OF-SIGHT ON WRECK BEACH Vancouver, BC -- August 2, 2005 -- In its plans to go ahead with more towers overlooking Wreck Beach, UBC isn't being a good neighbour, says the Pacific Spirit Park Society (PSPS) and Wreck Beach Preservation Society (WBPS). Unfortunately, UBC hasn't been listening -- prompting the Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD), at its full Board meeting on July 29, to pass a motion directing UBC to not build towers visible during the spring/summer foliage season from the beach -- or demonstrate that UBC has explored all reasonable locations and site design alternatives, and prove that there is no alternative that can be achieved without unreasonable hardship to UBC's student housing program. In the motion passed at the meeting, "Option (b) means the GVRD has the final say," said Anne Roberts, Vancouver City Councilor and GVRD Director, "UBC has to come back to the GVRD Board if they can't adhere to (a) or (c)." (The full text of the resolution is in the backgrounder below.) UBC is part of Electoral District A, which is administered by the GVRD. And GVRD staff have advised the Board that the GVRD has the authority to regulate building guidelines on the UBC site. At issue is whether the GVRD should allow UBC to continue developing residential towers that can be seen from low tide -- the best part of Wreck Beach. A Phase One tower is nearing completion, and UBC proposes to build more towers like it in Phase Two. "Just because UBC has managed to sneak the first tower in under the nose of both the public and the GVRD, it does not make it a just or correct benchmark," says Stephen Biduk, a member of PSPS and WBPS. Since it has already built one tower that has undermined the natural viewscape, UBC officials take the position that it should be allowed to build even more towers that will be visible from the beach. "There is much underutilized space at UBC that could be used for student housing," said Judy Williams, chair of the WBPS. The GVRD resolution asks UBC to consider other locations for student housing to preserve the viewscape from the beach. "Replicating more towers like the first one is unacceptable," stated Williams. At the July 29 meeting, the WBPS presented alternate locations for student housing, as well as alternative building designs for the Phase Two towers site. A full range of locations and design alternatives now exist, including a redesign of the Phase Two site where WBPS's architectural consultant demonstrated how UBC could lower the towers significantly, while maintaining virtually the same number of student beds as originally intended at the Phase Two site. The WBPS's design raises the towers' base and lowers their height, lowering the tower closest to the cliff to nine storeys. Also at the July 29 meeting, the GVRD added a fourth option, option (d), reconfirming the Board's request that UBC develop consultation guidelines that include broad consultation, sufficient advance notice, and a process to incorporate suggestions into any final decisions. Prior to the meeting, a public consultation plan developed by UBC had been rejected, with GVRD Directors raising concerns about inadequate public participation and disclosure. UBC has yet to release any new plan for Phase Two or conduct any public hearing. Any towers built higher than the GVRD line-of-sight analysis are not in compliance with the Official Community Plan for Electoral Area A (OCP), a bylaw of the GVRD adopted on July 25, 1997. The OCP requires Park values to be respected by all new development. -30- For more information please contact: Judy Williams - Chair, WBPS Email: judyw at wreckbeach.org Home Phone: 604-856-9598 Cell Phone: 604-308-6336 (cannot be reached if at home so try home number) James Loewen - Media Relations, WBPS Email: james3d at shaw.ca Phone: 604-689-9697 Kim Siren - Director, PSPS Email: siren1 at telus.net Phone: 604-738-5233 Background: The motion passed by the GVRD Board at its July 29, 2005, meeting: " That the GVRD Board: a) Recommend that the Marine Student Residences-Phase Two not be visible during spring/summer foliage season from Beach Zones "A", "B" and "C" as illustrated in Attachment 1 of the report dated July 8, 2005, titled "Pacific Spirit Regional Park and UBC?s Marine Drive Student Residences-Phase Two"; b) Relax recommendation a) to no visibility of the Marine Student Residences ? Phase Two during spring/summer foliage season from Beach Zones "A" and "B" and a maximum height limit of 53 meters including appurtenances be considered if UBC can demonstrate that: i) they have explored all reasonable locations and site design alternatives to minimize the visual impact from Beach Zone "C"; ii) there is no alternative that can be achieved without unreasonable hardship on the UBC student housing program; iii) the absence of any visual impact on Phase Two buildings on Beach Zones "A" and "B" has been proven by a verifiable study acceptable to GVRD and UBC staff; and iv) if any issues cannot be resolved by GVRD and UBC staff, that the matter be referred to the GVRD-UBC Joint Committee co-Chairs; c) Direct staff to review the GVRD-UBC Memorandum of Understanding regarding the process for institutional development that may have an impact on Pacific Spirit Regional Park; and d) Reconfirm that the Board request that UBC develop consultation guidelines that include broad consultation, sufficient advance notice, and a process to incorporate suggestions into any final decisions. " Attachment 1 of the report dated July 8, 2005, titled "Pacific Spirit Regional Park and UBC?s Marine Drive Student Residences-Phase Two" may be found on page 9 of http://www.gvrd.bc.ca/board/agendas/gvrd/july29regular/9.2.pdf Questions: - Will UBC look at alternative locations outside of the Phase One and Two areas, as the GVRD resolution directs it to do, in order to meet its student housing targets? - Will UBC ask its architects to develop design alternatives in order to protect viewscapes and Park values? - When will UBC release its revised plans for Phase Two to the public? And have meaningful public consultations? - Will UBC disclose all relevant information at least two weeks in advance of any public meetings? WBPS and PSPS releases of July 28 and July 13, as well as other press releases and photos of tower visibility from the beach, may be found at http://www.wreckbeach.org/towers#background Line-of-sight (viewscape) drawings and other background reports and presentations available upon request. -end- From news at resist.ca Wed Aug 3 07:17:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 14:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] "The village near the settlement is unlawful" Message-ID: <20050803141705.2794.qmail@resist.ca> "...On Tuesday, July 5, 2005, at around 8:30 A.M., I received a phone call from one of the shepherds in the area, who told me that the Israeli army was demolishing our houses. I immediately went there and when I was two and a half kilometers from the houses in Tana, Israeli soldiers in an army jeep prevented me from getting any closer. The soldiers left the area at around noon. In place of a house I found a pile of cinder blocks. My family and I live in two new structures built of cinder blocks and mud. We built the house to live in and protect ourselves from the cold in winter and the heat in summer. The soldiers also destroyed the livestock pen. We kept the taboun [a large brick oven] in the pen. They didn't leave us anything. They also demolished other houses and huts of people in the area." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/2/11716/23399 From news at resist.ca Wed Aug 3 07:17:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 14:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Dispatch from US political prisoner Jeff 'Free' Luers Message-ID: <20050803141705.2793.qmail@resist.ca> Back in '98 when a friend and I started the Fall Creek Treesit, we sat alone in that forest; no ground-support, no other treesits - just us. We watched from our perch high in the canopy as Grandmother and Grandfather trees were felled to build the road. I remember spilling the coffee I was brewing on our little stove as I watched. My friend, the most mean and cynical man I've ever known, said the first and only kind words I've ever heard escape his lips... URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/2/194635/6139 From news at resist.ca Thu Aug 4 09:17:09 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 16:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Without Strings: Autonomy For the Student Message-ID: <20050804161709.10223.qmail@resist.ca> The student should not have to worry about the government's few thousand dollars. Last fiscal year the Canadian government had a $9 billion surplus. $9 BILLION. Where did this money go? To the defunct, eroded and imperialist Canadian military, to corporate tax cuts, to programs to make the politicians more popular and the people more dependant. The student is at the bottom of the working ladder, and this is where change should start. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/4/0318/33204 From news at resist.ca Thu Aug 4 09:17:09 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 16:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Origins of Conservative Socialism, Part 1 Message-ID: <20050804161709.10222.qmail@resist.ca> Tracking the genealogy of the cabal of neo-conservatives who have so disastrously dominated foreign policy under George W. Bush, journalists have followed a political bloodline back to the 1960s, to cold war pamphleteers like Irving Kristol and Norman Podhoretz, and-more respectably if also more tenuously- to the postwar University of Chicago political theorist Leo Strauss. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/3/13749/10516 From news at resist.ca Thu Aug 4 09:17:09 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 16:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Surviving Deadly Heat at this Summer's Political Demonstrations Message-ID: <20050804161710.10224.qmail@resist.ca> Political protests in the middle of summer mix heat and adrenaline in what can be a deadly combination. Protests hold different demands than normal heat environments...Preparing for the heat with a protest environment in mind, will relieve the pressure on street medics who often get overwhelmed treating heat illnesses, and will give you more energy, and less discomfort, during protests in summer. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/3/192829/6316 From news at resist.ca Thu Aug 4 09:17:09 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 16:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Resist! News Summer Slowdown Message-ID: <20050804161710.10225.qmail@resist.ca> The Resist! News Collective is in the middle of what is shaping up to be an annual summer slow-down. The three active editors are all on the road for most of August so there will be fewer news stories and updates will be more sporadic until September when we all settle back into our routines and launch the new web site. Make sure you come back then and check it out. The new site will be bringing a lot of new features which we hope will help us help you create an even better, information rich site for activists and those wanting a different perspective on the world. See you then! ron -- for the collective. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/4/75646/63102 From ron at resist.ca Sun Aug 14 11:33:29 2005 From: ron at resist.ca (ron) Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 11:33:29 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [news] [Redwire] [Fwd: Urgent Call for Support Klappan Blockade] (fwd) Message-ID: ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Urgent Call for Support Klappan Blockade From: "Terri Brown" Date: Sun, August 7, 2005 7:35 pm To: ktab777 at hotmail.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello Everyone, Urgent Call for Support Klappan Blockade. (See Attachments) This is an urgent plea for support of the Tahltan Blocade. A Road Block has been set up near Iskut, B.C. by the Tahltan Nation. The Eulue Lake Road (Access Road to the Klappan near the junction at Highway #37 has been blocked since July 16,2005. The road leads to the Klappan Groundhog Coalfields in the Sacred Headwaters. Tahltan Nation members set up the Industrial Blockade to prevent companies and contractors from accessing the area to begin any level of disturbance to the sacred area. Tahltan Elders, families with small children and Tahltan supporters have kept a vigil to protect thier way of life and culture. The eldest person at the blockade is 84 and the youngest is one week old. Elders held council last night to make strategic decisions and formalize plans for this peaceful protest. We have just been threatened with a court injunction. We hope that as many people will come to support us. Let us know if you need some direction as the route to take. We are asking for your urgent assistance in protecting our territory. You can be in touch with us by emailing me back at ktab777 at hotmail.com and cc Rhoda at rhodaandpeter at yt.sympatico.ca or calling and leaving a message at 613-791-4492 or call Rhoda Quock 250-234-3023 or Fax 250-2343195 Thank you very much. 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She said that perhaps there was some way to support the local loggers in forested areas, but there was definitely no way to support outside corporations coming into the local forests and pillaging all they can for profit. In the same way, we may be able to support quite a large network of paid folks in our communities, if we could get the white middle-upper class to quit justifying their worth as 2-10 times the worth of those working (and volunteering) around them. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/5/25446/85038 From news at resist.ca Sat Aug 6 15:17:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 22:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada co-opts indigenous leadership internationally Message-ID: <20050806221706.8133.qmail@resist.ca> The first summit of indigenous peoples, also sponsored by the Canadian government under the theme ''Indigenous Peoples Connecting to the New Economy,'' took place in Ottawa in March 2001 three weeks before the third Summit of the Americas, held that year in Quebec City. Many indigenous organizations from across the continent are in disagreement with the planned official indigenous summit in Buenos Aires, which they see as being manipulated by the Canadian government. These groups have decided to organize a more independent indigenous summit in Mar del Plata (420 kilometers to the south on the Atlantic coast) on Oct. 30 and Nov. 1, three days prior to the presidents' summit. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/6/142844/0738 From news at resist.ca Sat Aug 6 15:17:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 22:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Canadian delegation in an armed conflict zone in Colombia Message-ID: <20050806221706.8130.qmail@resist.ca> Montreal, August 6rd 2005 - A Quebec-Ontario delegation is now in Colombia, in the region of Lower Atrato, department of Choco, in order to witness the illegal and illegitimate character of African palm plantations in areas recognized by Bill 70 of the Colombian legislation as Afro-Colombian ancestral territories. The Canadian delegation will join an international delegation including NGOs from Germany, Spain and the United States, to proceed to a pacific occupation of the illegal plantations. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/6/134951/2490 From news at resist.ca Sat Aug 6 15:17:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 22:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Welcome To War Week in Seattle! Message-ID: <20050806221706.8129.qmail@resist.ca> Every summer the U.S. Military invades Seattle with its unmuffled madness, simulating war in a manner that no Seattle citizen can ignore. For days now, the Blue Angels air squadron have been "practicing" over Seattle, and it is terrifying. It sounds like you are being bombed or are about to be bombed. The only time I have ever heard a war plane so close to my life other than the Blue Angels terror of Seattle every August, was right after Sept. 11, 2001. Apparently an aircraft had gone into space that was banned, and a military plane with the loudness and scariness of the Blue Angels dominated our air space momentarily, but it was unforgettable. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/5/102131/8160 From news at resist.ca Sat Aug 6 15:17:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 22:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Class Slurs and The "N" Word Message-ID: <20050806221705.8128.qmail@resist.ca> One of the most radical TV shows that I recall ever seeing was an episode of the Jeffersons. The black Jefferson family was arguing with their white friends. And George Jefferson did the unimaginable to progressive leftists: he spoke truth. He said, right there on TV, that the white guy was gonna pull the "n" word, as soon as he got really mad and the white guy did just that. It was certainly a historic moment for American TV. But I have found one of the reasons I simply cannot align with, nor trust, people in the middle to upper classes is that the minute they do not like what you are saying, or feel they have lost superiority, they will pull the class card just as quickly as whites will pull the "n" word, showing their true colors. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/6/11455/02880 From news at resist.ca Sun Aug 14 13:17:08 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 20:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Workers at brewery fight back Message-ID: <20050814201709.10827.qmail@resist.ca> TIVERTON, ON, Aug 4, 2005 - The workers at the Steelback Brewery in Tiverton have launched a Web site to publicize their ongoing fight for workers' rights at the brewery. The new site, SteelbackSweatshop.com, will carry updates on a public information campaign, including details of the various complaints filed against the brewery by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). "The launch of http://SteelbackSweatshop.com is a prelude to a much broader public information campaign," says Tom Galivan, SEIU spokesperson. "We plan to bring our message to the public and will not stop until the Steelback recognizes its workers have the right to form a union free from threats and intimidation". URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/8/45251/65156 From news at resist.ca Sun Aug 14 13:17:08 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 20:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] VPD Public Complaints Online Database Now On-line Message-ID: <20050814201709.10829.qmail@resist.ca> In response to the Vancouver Police Department's lack of accountability and transparency, community members working with the Work Less Party have created an online database for people to share their experiences with unlawful behaviour by the VPD. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/10/121145/532 From news at resist.ca Mon Aug 15 18:17:07 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 01:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Filipino women in Canada help mark global day of action for justice for World War II comfort women Message-ID: <20050816011708.16405.qmail@resist.ca> National Alliance of Philippine Women in Canada | August 11, 2005 At the steps of Vancouver's Japanese Embassy, Filipino women with children and babies in tow held signs which read: "Justice for our lolas (grandmothers) and all victims of sex trafficking!" Testimonies from comfort women survivors and solidarity messages from Canadian, Korean and Filipino communities were declared as part of the global day of action for justice for comfort women. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/12/13276/8236 From news at resist.ca Wed Aug 17 16:17:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 23:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Police under pressure over Menezes leak Message-ID: <20050817231703.16911.qmail@resist.ca> Matthew Tempest and Simon Jeffery | August 17, 2005 | The Guardian Family representatives and campaigners for the Brazilian man shot dead on a London tube train are demanding to know how Scotland Yard allowed misleading information to circulate about his killing. In the wake of a leak last night from the independent report, which revealed eyewitnesses seeing Jean Charles de Menezes being held by police in his seat before being shot in the head, attention has now turned to the initial accounts of his death. These claimed he ran from police, vaulted a ticket barrier and was shot on the floor of the carriage. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/17/131948/180 From news at resist.ca Wed Aug 17 16:17:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 23:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Play the Anarchy Scavenger Hunt #3! Message-ID: <20050817231703.16910.qmail@resist.ca> Win fun prizes! Learn cool stuff! It's FREE! Just answer the scavenger hunt questions correctly by Sept 15, and you will win fun stuff! Some sample questions from this month's hunt include: What is the name of Albert Einstein's first wife, who helped him with the Theory of Relativity, whom he gave all of his Nobel Prize money to secretly? What American company manufactured napalm for the U.S. Military from 1965-1969, napalm which was then dropped on innocent children in the Vietnam War? When and what was "Prague Spring?" When is "World Toilet Day?" In what year did the U.S. Supreme Court strike down the state ban on interracial marriage? URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/15/231726/883 From news at resist.ca Wed Aug 17 16:17:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 23:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Chief of CDN Armed Forces Bellows for an Imperial Canada Message-ID: <20050817231704.16913.qmail@resist.ca> If you had any doubts that the New Democratic Party deserves the title 'party of parliamentary cretinism', just read this article. And so forget the NDP. Permanently. The sooner a large part of the canadian Left loses its delusions about this thoroughly bourgeois "workers'" party, the better. A real mass workers' socialist party and movement is what is desperately needed, more than ever. This analysis describes the canadian angle on the descent of the anglo "Commonwealth" countries into open imperialist threat to the rest of the world (think of Oz imperialism in the Pacific) -- here, based on the recent statements of General Rick Hillier, Chief of Defence Staff. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/17/3214/09588 From news at resist.ca Wed Aug 17 16:17:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 23:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Lack of Planning Created Skills Shortage in Alberta Message-ID: <20050817231703.16912.qmail@resist.ca> By Eugene Plawiuk Having a plan for economic development is seen as being a "planned economy'" in some folks minds, like the ruling Tired old Tories in Alberta. Well all economies are planned, including the so called market economies. The plan can be obvious, such as government intervention in the economy ala Keynes or the plan can be, the Adam Smith secret hand of the marketplace, that is the corporate control of supply and demand. Yes market economies are planned economies, they are not 'free' associations of producers, so they have to plan. Unfortunately when right wing nuts run the government for their business friends they let them do all the planning. Dumb move that. Cause they plan in quarters and bottom lines and fail inevitalibly to take into account the business cycle of boom and bust. Which is why all this talk about a Skilled Labour shortage in Alberta and increasingly across Canada is a great example of the failure of neo-liberalism and conservative governments to plan for the economy. read the whole article at: http://plawiuk.blogspot.com/.../lack-of-planning... URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/17/143056/718 From news at resist.ca Wed Aug 17 16:17:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 23:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] NDP Supports Bank Mergers Message-ID: <20050817231704.16914.qmail@resist.ca> Bank mergers on the back burner, Globe and Mail August 7, 2005 NDP backs merging of banks, National Post August 10, 2005 Surprise shift clears way for Liberals to act, critics say URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/17/143646/630 From news at resist.ca Thu Aug 18 16:17:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 23:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Support Locked Out CBC Workers Message-ID: <20050818231704.31713.qmail@resist.ca> [editor's note, by ron] CBC locked out 5,500 workers August 15 after contract negotiations broke off over "future of employment" issues. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/17/14423/4861 From news at resist.ca Sat Aug 20 10:17:08 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 17:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Prisoner Support As Civil Rights Activism (A 3-Part Series/ Part 1) Message-ID: <20050820171709.13127.qmail@resist.ca> Prisoner Support may not be something you think about very often, but if you ended up being jailed due to a mistake or unfair sentencing due to politics, such as racism or classism, Prisoner Support organizations could literally be your only lifeline. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/19/7577/74383 From news at resist.ca Sat Aug 20 11:17:14 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 18:17:14 -0000 Subject: [news] Ottawa to give police more power to snoop Message-ID: <20050820181715.6126.qmail@resist.ca> By Bill Curry | August 19, 2005 | Globe and Mail OTTAWA -- The federal government will introduce legislation this fall that would give police and national security agencies new powers to eavesdrop on cellphone calls and monitor the Internet activities of Canadians, Justice Minister Irwin Cotler said yesterday. The bill would allow police to demand that Internet service providers hand over a wide range of information on the surfing habits of individuals, including on-line pseudonyms... URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/20/10634/4214 From news at resist.ca Mon Aug 22 12:17:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 19:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Weapons of Mass Instruction Message-ID: <20050822191705.27694.qmail@resist.ca> When it comes to education, people are fed up. Modern education has come down to a limited set of choices, like Pepsi or Coke, or Wal-mart or Costco. And with the indoctrination of Bush's "No Child Left Behind" Act, and more recently, his highly endorsed, "Intelligent Design" theory, state schooling is fast becoming a less enticing choice for our children's education, provoking many people to seek other alternatives. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/21/224211/149 From prms at alternatives.com Tue Aug 23 13:46:12 2005 From: prms at alternatives.com (Press Release Media Service) Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 13:46:12 -0700 Subject: [news] The Prosecution Of George W. Bush For Torture: An Update Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.20050823134612.00991360@mail.alternatives.com> The Prosecution Of George W. Bush For Torture: An Update For Immediate Release Tuesday, August 23, 2005 Vancouver, B.C. -- A Pre-Hearing Conference of the Application to review the December 6/04 decision blocking criminal charges against George Bush is scheduled for 10:00 am, Thursday, August 25th, 2005, at B.C. Supreme Court, 800 Smithe Street, Vancouver, B.C. The Attorney General wants to seal the courtroom at the pre-hearing conference. LAW says Canadians have the right to be there. On November 30 2004 Gail Davidson, co-chair of Lawyers against the War (LAW), filed an Information in the Provincial Court of B.C. charging George W. Bush as President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces with torture. When Davidson went to court on December 6th to secure a date for a process hearing, the Attorney General applied to declare the information a nullity on the grounds that, as head of state, Mr. Bush was immune from prosecution. In an extraordinary action and over the objections of the reporter present, the courtroom was sealed and the press and public were excluded. Behind closed doors, the charges against Bush were stopped before any evidence could be heard. An application for review of that decision was filed in the Supreme Court of B.C. The pre-hearing conference on Thursday is to determine a schedule for the exchange of arguments and authorities and to set a date for the review itself. The Attorney General wants to prevent the public and the press from attending this pre-hearing conference. Many individuals and organizations around the world allege that George Bush has used his position as President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces to carry out torture that has included among its victims at least one Canadian (a minor) and many, perhaps thousands, of other non-Americans. These allegations and the evidence supporting them are widely available. LAW wants to present this evidence in court. The Attorney General says that George Bush, as the President of the United States and a sitting head of state, is immune from prosecution. LAW insists that diplomatic immunity is irrelevant to this case of torture. Canadian jurisdiction to prosecute Mr. Bush was triggered when he came to Canada on November 30, 2004 and when a Canadian citizen became the victim of torture under Mr. Bush command. The law is very clear on torture and LAW simply wants the law to be applied. Under international and domestic law, Canadians have a responsibility to prevent torture and to prosecute those who commit torture. LAW wants the hearing to be public so that Canadians can see justice being done. Information note on the crime of torture: Torture is a unique international crime. Torture can only be committed by or through state officials. It is a crime universally condemned by Canada and other nations as one of the most egregious violations of both international human right law and international humanitarian law. Torture is a war crime and a crime against humanity. The prohibition against torture is absolute -- torture cannot be justified by any circumstances. No nation holds torture to be legal. The right to freedom from torture is universal and non-derogable -- it cannot be displaced even temporarily. Criminal law prohibits the torture of anyone. International law says Canada owes a duty to the whole world to prosecute Mr. Bush for torture. Canada has a duty to act effectively to prevent further torture of the people in Abu Ghraib and Guant?namo Bay and to deter other states from using torture. LAW is an international group of jurists and others based in Canada with members in 14 countries. http://www.lawyersagainstthewar.org/ -30- For further information, contact: Gail Davidson, Tel: 604 738 0338; Fax: 604 736 1175, Email: law at portal.ca From news at resist.ca Tue Aug 23 14:17:10 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 21:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Pat Robertson calls for assassination of Hugo Chavez (with response) Message-ID: <20050823211710.3103.qmail@resist.ca> By Gene Puskar | AP/USA Today | Aug 22, 2005 "You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he [Hugo Chavez] thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it. It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war...We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability." - Pat Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition of America URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/23/131511/640 From news at resist.ca Wed Aug 24 15:17:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 22:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] US vs China for Global Hegemony Message-ID: <20050824221704.5712.qmail@resist.ca> China developed it's Three Worlds Geo Political Policy to combat American and Russian Hegemony back in the 1970's about the same time after Mao's death that the slow privatization of the State began. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/23/172331/223 From news at resist.ca Wed Aug 24 15:17:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 22:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Anarchism and Authority Message-ID: <20050824221704.5711.qmail@resist.ca> A number of Socialists have latterly launched a regular crusade against what they call the principle of authority. It suffices to tell them that this or that act is authoritarian for it to be condemned. This summary mode of procedure is being abused to such an extent that it has become necessary to look into the matter somewhat more closely. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/23/171747/288 From news at resist.ca Wed Aug 24 15:17:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 22:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Part 2: Prisoner Support As Civil Rights Activism Message-ID: <20050824221704.5713.qmail@resist.ca> by Kirsten Anderberg Part Two of this three part series on the Anarchist Black Cross Network explores public misconceptions about prisoners, women prisoner needs, public defenders, and state harassment for prisoner support work. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/23/1475/26667 From news at resist.ca Wed Aug 24 15:17:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 22:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Cops Clear Killer Tasers Message-ID: <20050824221704.5714.qmail@resist.ca> Taser advantages outweigh risks: Cdn police report OTTAWA (CP) - The advantages of Tasers and other so-called "conducted energy devices" used by police far outweigh the risks, despite a lack of definitive research on the subject, concludes a report for Canadian police chiefs. Although there have been reports of deaths, no evidence exists that shows the devices - known in police parlance as CEDs - alone are to blame, says the study by the Canadian Police Research Centre, released Monday.The new study, presented at the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police annual meeting, acknowledges that there are "no known, scientifically tested, independently verified and globally accepted CED safety parameters." Read the whole article here: http://redbetweenthelines.modblog.com/core.mod?show=blogview&blog_id=718344 URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/23/17128/7213 From news at resist.ca Thu Aug 25 19:17:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 02:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] The Face of Terrorism Message-ID: <20050826021704.10940.qmail@resist.ca> Homeless security? U.S. warned of terrorists in disguise Washington -- Asking for increased vigilance in the wake of the London bombings, the government is warning that terrorists may pose as vagrants to conduct surveillance of buildings and mass transit stations to plot future attacks. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/24/93256/6521 From news at resist.ca Fri Aug 26 13:17:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 20:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Fair Elections in Haiti: Imagine the Possibilities! Message-ID: <20050826201703.6319.qmail@resist.ca> Jean Saint-Vil | Embassy | August 24th, 2005 So, could authentic elections be held in today's Haiti? The answer is linked to the willingness of powerful countries like Canada to let Haitians control their destiny and determine the political fate of their leaders. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/26/101050/509 From news at resist.ca Fri Aug 26 13:17:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 20:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Tahltan blockade not just "a couple of renegades" Message-ID: <20050826201703.6323.qmail@resist.ca> August 25, 2005 RE: MLA Dennis Mackay's Comments in the Terrace Standard and Smithers interior News. We are the Indigenous families and individuals who are currently protecting the traditional lands in the Klappan area by denying access to Fortune minerals and their associates. We've read the Terrace Standard and Smithers Interior News articles quoting MLA Dennis MacKay's view on what constitutes a crime by a "couple of renegades" with a mixture of sadness and hilarity. Mr. Mackay would be far better informed if he watched fewer John Wayne movies, and read more Supreme Court Decisions. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/26/95439/2317 From news at resist.ca Fri Aug 26 13:17:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 20:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] CBC Workers Strike Back! Message-ID: <20050826201703.6322.qmail@resist.ca> BC Workers Blog, Podcast, use student radio Its an on air strike back by locked out CBC workers. They are blogging, podcasting, doing an online webnews page, and working with Canada's University/College radio stations which have public fm access, to create an alternative to CBC, broadcasting your favorite shows on air, as mp3's, etc. Its a whole new era of high tech labour activism. Click here for links: http://redbetweenthelines.modblog.com/core.mod?show=blogview&blog_id=718792 URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/23/17831/8896 From news at resist.ca Fri Aug 26 13:17:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 20:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Free NYM Warriors, Kanahus Pellkey & Aluusta Message-ID: <20050826201703.6320.qmail@resist.ca> Native Youth Movement Mother and Warrior, Kanahus Pelkey (slave name: Amanda Soper Manuel) was captured on February 22nd 2003, in Ulkatcho Territory, "Aniham Lake, BC". Police were called in from several RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) divisions to hunt Kanahus, her baby, husband and 16 year-old sister down. They were heavily sought after leaving a Bella Coola hospital with her sisters 7 week-old baby who had passed over to the spirit world on the morning of the 22nd. As true Indians, they refused foreign doctors to take their baby, which the hospital tried to take ownership of, and wrapped the young Warrior up in his cradleboard and took him to a Sacred place in the mountains for his ceremonial burial. Her trial begins September 2 in Port Coquitlam. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/26/10131/5239 From news at resist.ca Fri Aug 26 16:17:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 23:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Arctic Youth Receive Standing Ovation at Dene National Assembly Message-ID: <20050826231704.27737.qmail@resist.ca> The Arctic Indigenous Youth Alliance (AIYA) received a standing ovation from Chiefs and delegates at the Dene National Assembly in Deline (August 18, 2005). AIYA presented a resolution to the 35^th Dene National Assembly to support the youth in their opposition to the proposed Mackenzie Gas Project. The Arctic Indigenous Youth Alliance has consulted with Indigenous youth and Elders across the Northwest Territories for the past two years. Based on these consultations, AIYA believes that in order to achieve a sustainable, balanced and healthy environment for future generations the proposed Mackenzie Gas Project must not proceed. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/26/15821/7542 From pnbrown at vcn.bc.ca Fri Aug 26 23:28:37 2005 From: pnbrown at vcn.bc.ca (Paul Browning) Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 23:28:37 -0700 Subject: [news] Fw: [stopwar_van] StopWar condemns Robertson's call to kill Hugo Chavez Message-ID: <010601c5aad0$8ecf0aa0$6401a8c0@PAUL> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Derrick O'Keefe" To: Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 2:48 PM Subject: [stopwar_van] StopWar condemns Robertson's call to kill Hugo Chavez > > August 25, 2005 > > *For immediate release* > > Stopwar.ca condemns Pat Robertson's call for the > assassination of Hugo Chavez > > Since the beginning of George W. Bush's so-called "War > on Terror," its supporters have argued that the battle > being fought is one of a "clash of civilizations," > while we critics have argued that it is merely about > resource control and geo-political strategy. In > calling for the assassination of the > democratically-elected president of Venezuela, which > has a large Catholic majority, powerful American > televangelist Pat Robertson has put to rest any > possible claims that Bush's foreign policy has > anything to do with the ghost of 'Islamic > fundamentalism' or the battle for political liberty. > > "Here is a major figure of the American right-wing > urging the assassination of a secular, democratic > leader of an oil-rich country on his very popular > television program," says bus driver Mable Elmore, > co-chair of Vancouver's Stopwar coalition. "If there's > any silver lining to this sick episode," she added, > "It's that no one can any longer say with a straight > face that this war isn't about oil -- if they ever > could." > > "The White House has tried to distance itself from > Robertson's statements, but you'd have to be an > amnesiac to fall for that," said Stopwar co-chair > Derrick O'Keefe, a local writer and UBC student. "Pat > Robertson is, unfortunately, far from a marginal > crank. This is a man with an established relationship > with the White House, a major American constituency, > and who in many ways represents the beliefs and > attitudes of George Bush and his entourage." > > "Less of an 'entourage,' and more like a Mafia crew," > mused Stopwar member Charles Demers. "When popular > political and religious figures start talking like > Tony Soprano - considering which human obstacles to > wealth need to be 'taken out' - it goes a long way > towards exposing the immorality, violence and avarice > governing U.S. foreign policy." Demers then added > with a laugh, "Unlike the viewers of Robertson's 700 > Club, though, people who watch Tony Soprano know that > he's a thug." > > StopWar.ca, a broad-based coalition in the Lower > Mainland, was initiated to protest the U.S. War on > Iraq, and continues to advocate against war and > occupation, and for self-determination. The coalition > plans to protest the upcoming visit of U.S. > Vice-President Dick Cheney, who will be in Alberta > September 8-9 to, among other things, inspect the > province's rich oil reserves. > > The main rally against Cheney will take place at > 5p.m., Thursday, September 8, at 1770 Burrard (at West > 3rd Ave), in front of the Vancouver headquarters of > the Fraser Institute. > > For more info, email contact at stopwar.ca > > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> > Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! > http://us.click.yahoo.com/VpgUKB/pzNLAA/cUmLAA/VSwplB/TM > --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopwar_van/ > > <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > stopwar_van-unsubscribe at yahoogroups.com > > <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > > From news at resist.ca Sat Aug 27 09:17:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 16:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Telus Gears up Censorship Machine Message-ID: <20050827161704.2612.qmail@resist.ca> BC Labour E-News Telecommunications Workers Union president Bruce Bell: "First they knocked down the Voices for Change website...Then Telus used its corporate pull to convince some radio stations not to run our ads...When that didn't achieve what they were after, they upped the ante and threatened us with legal action if we didn't pull our radio ads off the air." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/26/184233/721 From news at resist.ca Sat Aug 27 09:17:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 16:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Anti-Zionism is NOT Anti-Semitism Message-ID: <20050827161704.2611.qmail@resist.ca> Bakunin's denunciation of Nationalism and the State led him to denouncing Polish Nationalism in favour of Pan-Slavism. At the same time Bakunin denounced the Zionism of Herzl, who wanted Jews in Russia to leave for a new utopia, rather than to fight against the Tsarist Pogroms and for a social revolution. Anarchism opposes nationalism and the Nationalist State in all its forms. Read the article at: http://plawiuk.blogspot.com/2005/07/anti-zionism-is-not-anti-semitism.html URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/24/93843/1474 From news at resist.ca Sun Aug 28 10:17:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 17:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Jenin: Settlers Go, Soldiers Stay Message-ID: <20050828171704.8168.qmail@resist.ca> by Jon Elmer | The NewStandard | Aug 26, 2005 In the northern West Bank, where Sharon's "disengagement" does not include the withdrawal of military from evacuated settlements, bitter memories temper Palestinians' guarded optimism. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/28/92119/0483 From news at resist.ca Sun Aug 28 10:17:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 17:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Wolfowitz at the World Bank: A New Leaf? Message-ID: <20050828171705.8170.qmail@resist.ca> Identity Withheld | MRZine | 25/08/05 Paul Wolfowitz's first major act as the new head of the World bank has been to suspend World Bank loans to Ecuador, "ostensibly to punish the government for revising the rules of the special Fund established from its oil revenues. Nearly all the money from this fund was to go to repaying the debt owed to foreign banks. Apparently, Mr. Wolfowitz objects to a new Ecuadorian law...under which 20% of the Fund would now go towards social needs and 10% for national development in science and technology. When the special Fund was first established, Ecuador's oil was sold for $18 p/barrel. Today it is 400% more. Without this change, almost all of the windfall will be paid to the foreign banks." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/28/91549/0098 From news at resist.ca Sun Aug 28 10:17:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 17:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] US Government Asks for Extension in Cuban Five Case - Cubans Demand Their Release Message-ID: <20050828171704.8166.qmail@resist.ca> Prensa Latina | Aug 25 The US government has requested the Atlanta Appellate Court for an extension of [a 21 day] deadline, so that prosecutors have more time to appeal the pannel?s unanimous decision of August 9th that reversed the convictions of the Cuban Five and remanded a new trial. Also from Prensa Latina | Aug 25 "What would a jury say when they know that the Five were just trying to prevent terrorists such as Orlando Bosch, who walks the Miami streets free, from carrying out acts of terror like the mid-air bombing of a Cuban commercial plane in 1976?" Rojas commented. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/28/94132/2324 From news at resist.ca Sun Aug 28 10:17:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 17:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Set to Stun? Message-ID: <20050828171705.8169.qmail@resist.ca> by Richard Hindes | Znet | August 26, 2005 No doubt, proponents of tasers will interpose that - legitimate concerns aside - the occasionally lethal tasers are still preferable to nearly-always lethal firearms. This is an attractive argument, particularly in light of the extra-judicial execution of Jean Charles de Menezes on the tube in July. Unfortunately, what this defence overlooks is the way that the "non-lethal" appellation serves to lower the threshold prohibiting the use of weapons. That is, police are likely to use tasers in many circumstances where they would never even consider using firearms. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/28/85253/3679 From news at resist.ca Mon Aug 29 10:17:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Part 3: Prisoner Support As Civil Rights Activism Message-ID: <20050829171704.23619.qmail@resist.ca> Part Three of this 3 part series on the ABCN gives current information about how to get involved with prisoner support now, including the names of individual prisoners, different ways to get involved, and prisoner support resources to further your education on this subject. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/28/21115/4609 From news at resist.ca Mon Aug 29 10:17:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada's First Internment Camps Message-ID: <20050829171704.23620.qmail@resist.ca> PM reaches out to Ukrainians Ottawa to spend $2.5-million to mark internment of citizens in First World War Thursday, August 25, 2005 Ukrainian-Canadians victims of wartime hysteria City man's father endured internment and racial slurs, others were shot, Thursday, August 25, 2005 Before they interned the Japanese, the Canadian Government interned first and second wave Ukrainian immigrant. They did this creating the War Measures Act supposedly because Ukrainian immigrants were from Austro-Hungarian Empire and thus 'enemy aliens'. The real story is that they were interned for being communists, socialists, and labour radicals. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/29/3546/19968 From news at resist.ca Tue Aug 30 10:17:07 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Confront Cheney in Calgary, Sept. 8th Message-ID: <20050830171707.17388.qmail@resist.ca> Anti-Welcome Demonstration to Confront US Vice President Dick Cheney Thursday Sept. 8th, 5pm Palliser Hotel - 113 9th Ave SW Calgary, Alberta URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/29/103610/678 From news at resist.ca Tue Aug 30 10:17:07 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] The Emergency Broadcast System: This Is Not A Test... Message-ID: <20050830171707.17387.qmail@resist.ca> There are issues regarding the sole use of broadcast means to alert people of an impending crisis, such as with America's Emergency Broadcast System (EBS) and the newer Emergency Announcement System (EAS). The EAS simply cannot replace in-person warnings. There is a strange situation here where the government is dependent upon the media to get its emergency messages out, yet with the unleashing of indy media, which often does not fall under FCC control, the government is finding it is not as easy to rein in the media for its own means nowadays. Additionally, less people are using mainstream sources for their news, thus getting a standardized announcement to all the indy media venues now seems nearly impossible. In a world where the media was controlled by the government's agenda, emergency alerts at a national level seemed somewhat easy. But now, with successful media in America that is openly hostile to the government agenda, getting media to cooperate in any way, even as an emergency alert system, is getting more thorny by the day. Figuring out WHO to believe for your news has now also complicated emergency warning systems. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/30/75234/2220 From news at resist.ca Tue Aug 30 10:17:07 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] New pipeline proposal, from Fort Mac to the coast... Message-ID: <20050830171707.17389.qmail@resist.ca> A proposed pipeline running from Edmonton to a new marine terminal on the West Coast would run just south of Fort St. James. Company officials from Enbridge Inc. were unable to give the Courier details about how close the pipeline would be to the town by press time. The Carrier Sekani Tribal Council (CSTC) has raised some concerns about the pipeline. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/29/141353/325 From news at resist.ca Wed Aug 31 11:17:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Antidepressants and Suicide Message-ID: <20050831181704.26934.qmail@resist.ca> Did pills kill Tooker? Partner of eco commando, Angela Bischoff, probes tie between antidepressants and suicide By Stephen Humphrey | Now Magazine | AUGUST 4 - 10, 2005 Since the cold March of 2004 when Gomberg threw himself from a Halifax bridge, Bischoff has been shifting direction and raising her own kind of dust, not Gomberg-style with flaming passports or Robin Hood outfits, but in a series of info meetings. These appearances have nothing to do with the revival of the coal industry or the almost daily smog warnings, but with the antidepressant Remeron RD, which Bischoff links to the morbidly agitated state Gomberg was in when he ended his life. Her message concerns the sadly underplayed connection between pharmaceuticals and suicide. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/30/142630/876 From news at resist.ca Wed Aug 31 12:17:09 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 19:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Surviving Canada: August 15: Reflections from The Valley Message-ID: <20050831191709.7668.qmail@resist.ca> The following article was written with pen and paper while I sat at the edge of the Deh Cho (Mackenzie) at Tulita (Fort Norman), where the Great Bear River flows down from the Great Bear Lake, and from the village of Deline (Franklin). This article is not based on any research, other than the influence of previous research on my thoughts and feelings. It is rather then, a set of thoughts and feelings I was somewhat overwhelmed with that, after minor editing on screen, I have decided to share-- even if it is a personal rant about my primarily emotional reactions to Denendeh and the beautiful Valley. If you choose to reproduce it, I ask this disclaimer be included. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/30/12141/6077 From news at resist.ca Wed Aug 31 12:17:09 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 19:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada's Talisman Energy genocide case in Sudan to proceed Message-ID: <20050831191709.7669.qmail@resist.ca> Larry Neumeister | Associated Press NEW YORK - A judge refused to dismiss a church's lawsuit alleging that a Canadian energy company aided genocide in its pursuit of oil in Sudan, despite efforts by the United States and Canada to stop the suit. In the lawsuit, Talisman Energy Inc., a Calgary-based oil and gas producer, is accused of such crimes as ethnic cleansing, killings, war crimes, confiscation of property, enslavement, kidnapping and rape in Sudan. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/31/73348/1997