From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 1 05:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 13:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Porto Allegre Declaration on Haiti Message-ID: <20050201130904.13258.qmail@resist.ca> Launched at the World Social Forum January 26-31, 2005 WHEREAS, Haiti became the first Black Republic in 1804 when its enslaved people defeated Napoleon's army, the most powerful of its day, and abolished slavery. Ever since, Haiti has stood for Black liberation and the liberation of oppressed people everywhere. Haiti offered Simon Bolivar refuge, guns and other supplies, and led the way for the abolition of slavery throughout the Americas. The colonial powers have punished Haiti ever since: among other things the U.S. led a 60-year political boycott, and France forced Haiti to pay the modern equivalent of $21 billion U.S. for its slaveowners' losses, which led to a crippling debt and the world's first structural adjustment policy. From 1915-1934, the U.S. occupied Haiti, and an act of the U.S. Congress established the Haitian army; URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/31/144835/459 From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 1 05:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 13:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Venezuela's Chavez closes World Social Forum with call to transcend capitalism Message-ID: <20050201130905.13259.qmail@resist.ca> "The Venezuelan President visited the Lagoa do Junco agrarian settlement in Tapes set up by Brazil's Landless Movement (MST), and later held a press conference with more than 120 media organizations, where he criticized the U.S. government for claiming to lead a fight against terrorism while undermining democracy in Venezuela." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/31/171247/597 From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 1 05:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 13:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] India Campaign against Coke and Pepsi Message-ID: <20050201130905.13261.qmail@resist.ca> "On Jan 15, 2005 the community at Plachimada celebrated 1000 days of resistance against Coca-Cola. For the past year the Coke plant at Plachimada has been closed because of the determined resistance of Advasi women who started [an] anti-Coke agitation and the Perumatty Panchayat (Local Government) [which] served notice to the company and went to the High Court." "Coke and Pepsi are threating the fundamental right to life by mining ground water and creating local water famine. They are also threatening the right to life by selling hazardous soft drinks loaded with toxic chemicals." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/31/173621/403 From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 1 05:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 13:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Halliburton to End Iran Operations Message-ID: <20050201130905.13262.qmail@resist.ca> Halliburton Co. will pull out of Iran after its current contracts there are wound down, its chief executive said Friday. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/31/165224/515 From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 1 05:09:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 13:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Government-commissioned study says =?utf-8?q?Qu=C3=A9bec?= P3 long-term care home to be more expensive Message-ID: <20050201130905.13271.qmail@resist.ca> "This was a bad week for the P3-happy Charest government as a study it commissioned into building a P3 long-term care home in Quebec City determined that it would cost $14 million less to build it publicly." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/31/125513/443 From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 1 05:09:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 13:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Swamped NGOs call for [Mackenzie/ Deh Cho] pipeline review delay Message-ID: <20050201130905.13264.qmail@resist.ca> "In the meantime, the group says it's concerned they may be overwhelmed by the volume of information they're having to digest. They're also worried about the panel rushing the review process unnecessarily." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/31/17940/1837 From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 1 10:09:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 18:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Hospital cleaners vote to unionize Message-ID: <20050201180905.23008.qmail@resist.ca> VANCOUVER ? Nearly 700 people who work as hospital cleaners in the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority have voted to unionize. An overwhelming majority ? 84 per cent ? cast their ballots in favour of joining the Hospital Employees' Union. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/1/9956/07337 From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 2 07:09:02 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 15:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Kerry rejects call for Iraq troop withdrawal Message-ID: <20050202150903.6698.qmail@resist.ca> For any of his erstwhile supporters who cling to illusions about what might have been had the vote gone a bit differently on November 2, the defeated Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry provided a definitive answer Sunday ?Do you agree with Senator Kennedy that 12,000 American troops should leave at once?? asked NBC?s Tim Russert. ?No,? replied Kerry. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/1/8168/70093 From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 2 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] US firms win Libyan energy contracts Message-ID: <20050202150903.6699.qmail@resist.ca> "Libya has awarded its first contracts to US companies in 18 years, handing oil and gas exploration licences to three American firms. US bid winners Occidental Petroleum Corp, Amerada Hess Corp and ChevronTexaco were among more than 120 companies that registered bids or expressed interest in the offers, Libyan officials said." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/31/16445/2105 From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 2 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Ramsey Clark: Why I'm willing to defend Hussein Message-ID: <20050202150903.6700.qmail@resist.ca> Former Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark explains his offer to help the deposed dictator. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/31/7116/24039 From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 2 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] We'll take what Newfoundland got: NWT Message-ID: <20050202150903.6703.qmail@resist.ca> "The premier of the Northwest Territories says the N.W.T. needs a revenue-sharing deal just as desperately as Newfoundland. NWT Premier Joe Handley says his territory deserves the same sort of deal as Newfoundland." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/1/165525/2292 From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 2 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] C.I.A. Won't release documents on cooperation with Nazi war criminals after VE Day Message-ID: <20050202150903.6701.qmail@resist.ca> "The Central Intelligence Agency is refusing to provide hundreds of thousands of pages of documents sought by a government working group under a 1998 law that requires full disclosure of classified records related to Nazi war criminals, say Congressional officials from both parties." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/31/204910/576 From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 2 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] B.C. court questions evidence from U.S. in John Graham case Message-ID: <20050202150903.6704.qmail@resist.ca> "A B.C. Supreme Court judge questioned Tuesday what she called 'layers of hearsay on hearsay' evidence used to support the extradition of a Canadian man to the United States for a murder committed almost 30 years ago." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/1/211716/7034 From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 4 08:09:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 16:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Protesting Prisons: Rights and Reforms Message-ID: <20050204160905.14408.qmail@resist.ca> "Jail is a place where dehumanization is high on the agenda of the state and guards, and thus humane interactions from the outside are greatly needed for the preservation of prisoners' sanity." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/3/182024/6223 From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 4 09:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 17:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Abused domestic helper seeks refuge at the Kalayaan Centre Message-ID: <20050204170904.9742.qmail@resist.ca> Precious (not her real name) recently arrived in Canada to work for a Taiwanese family. Unlike her contract which stated she would only work six hours a day for $8.50 per hour, she found herself working 17 hour days and receiving the equivalent of 59 cents an hour with no overtime or holiday pay. She was also only granted one day off in her two months of work. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/3/13720/51993 From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 4 09:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 17:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada, Haiti, Life After Coup: Interview with Jean Saint-Vil Message-ID: <20050204170904.9741.qmail@resist.ca> Haiti: The mess after the coup - An interview with journalist and activist, Jean Saint-Vil "When people talk about the coup, they talk about it being against President Aristide, they don't recognize that it's also the elected officials from the year 2000 elections that were cancelled. In place of those elected officials are criminals, gang leaders, former CIA employees that were hiding in the Dominican Republic and armed by the US and used to overthrow the government." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/3/225750/0995 From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 4 12:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 20:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Half of Bankruptcy Due to Medical Bills Message-ID: <20050204200903.30809.qmail@resist.ca> Half of all U.S. bankruptcies are caused by soaring medical bills and most people sent into debt by illness are middle-class workers with health insurance, researchers said on Wednesday. "Among those whose illnesses led to bankruptcy, out-of-pocket costs averaged $11,854 since the start of illness; 75.7 percent had insurance at the onset of illness." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/2/17156/12206 From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 4 12:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 20:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] =?utf-8?q?Ch=C3=A1vez?= Says Venezuela Intends To Sell Its U.S. Refinery Holdings Message-ID: <20050204200903.30808.qmail@resist.ca> "Ratcheting up his battle against Washington, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he intends to sell Venezuela's interests in eight U.S. oil refineries, part of a broader bid to reduce his government's oil dealings with its biggest customer and ideological adversary." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/4/111046/0218 From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 4 12:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 20:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Stigma and Discrimination are Fuelling the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Canada Message-ID: <20050204200903.30810.qmail@resist.ca> "Federal and provincial governments in Canada have a legal obligation to ensure that the rights of people living with and vulnerable to HIV/AIDS are respected," said Glenn Betteridge, Senior Policy Analyst at the Legal Network. "If they do not fulfil this obligation, they are allowing the stigma and discrimination related to HIV continue to worsen the impact of AIDS in Canada." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/4/8533/07428 From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 5 11:09:12 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 19:09:12 -0000 Subject: [news] Early tallies hint at defeat for Allawi Message-ID: <20050205190912.1942.qmail@resist.ca> Baghdad -- "Partial Iraqi election results released yesterday suggest that interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's coalition is being roundly defeated by a roster backed by a senior cleric with links to Tehran." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/5/9412/13840 From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 5 11:09:12 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 19:09:12 -0000 Subject: [news] Notes defending Ward Churchill Message-ID: <20050205190912.1940.qmail@resist.ca> They wonder why they are not seen as cute as baby seals or whales so that some of the limousine liberals of Hollywood might contribute to lawful avenues for exposing the ongoing genocide and realities of Indian Country. They wonder when the SUV-driving liberals, with their "Free Tibet" bumper stickers, will finally try looking a little closer to home and to the realities around them; perhaps they can actually stop for awhile and really look around them the next time they pass through one of the Rezes to buy tax-free cigarettes or booze or perhaps some "prima dope." They wonder why so many of the U.S. and Canadian populace can so reflexively lecture foreigners about the need to respect "human rights" in their countries of origin and yet not be able;e to find those countries on a blank world map or show any awareness of the extent to which their own states practice state-sponsored terrorism and violations of basic human rights right under their noses and at levels far greater than the nations being criticized. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/4/18636/45888 From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 5 11:09:12 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 19:09:12 -0000 Subject: [news] Wrongful Convictions and the Questionably Dead: TruthinJustice.org Message-ID: <20050205190912.1941.qmail@resist.ca> TruthinJustice.org (http://www.truthinjustice.org/) is a great resource for anyone desiring concrete and recent evidence that serious problems exist within the criminal justice system in the U.S. today. For those people who still live with their heads in the sand, insisting only "criminals" plead "guilty," and that only "guilty" people end up in prison, this site is here to burst that insulated bubble. Long lists of actual names, and court cases, on this site, document a wide swath of abuse from the state that no one can deny. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/3/11510/71893 From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 5 11:09:12 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 19:09:12 -0000 Subject: [news] Palestinian ceasefire ends four-year intifada Message-ID: <20050205190913.1944.qmail@resist.ca> "The Palestinians will officially declare an end to four years of armed confrontation with Israel when they announce a ceasefire at a summit in Egypt next week, Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, said yesterday." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/5/93842/26289 From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 5 11:09:12 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 19:09:12 -0000 Subject: [news] protesters killed at chevron-texaco plant in nigeria Message-ID: <20050205190913.1943.qmail@resist.ca> Hundreds of men and women have invaded an oil installation operated by Chevron Texaco in Nigeria's Delta region. The protesters from Ugborodo village said the company had failed to deliver promises for community development. A spokesman from ChevronTexaco - which operates Escravos in partnership with the Nigerian government - say that the incident was handled by the security forces, and refused to go into any more details. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/4/225142/4245 From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 5 11:09:12 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 19:09:12 -0000 Subject: [news] Montreal Jewish resident assaulted by Israeli army in Palestine Message-ID: <20050205190913.1945.qmail@resist.ca> "Currently, Montreal resident, Aaron Lakoff is in occupied Palestine. Yesterday, Lakoff, a volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) and several Palestinians were beaten for protesting construction of an Israeli settlement road through Palestinian territory near Hebron. If built, the new road will connect the two illegal Israeli settlements of Kiryat Arba and Hagai. In the Hebron district alone there are more than 120 km of bypass roads connecting the Israeli settlements and with Israel. These roads carve up the Palestinian areas into isolated ghettos." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/5/94946/22950 From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 7 08:09:10 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 16:09:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Once Lula was a hero of the left - now they heckle him off stage Message-ID: <20050207160911.1077.qmail@resist.ca> "Brazil's president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was heckled on the stage at the World Social Forum [...] by the same international activists who hailed him as a saviour when he swept to office two years ago. The left-wing firebrand sat stony-faced on stage as he was booed before delivering the keynote address at the annual alternative gathering timed to coincide with the World Economic Forum at the luxury Swiss ski resort of Davos." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/7/64626/55590 From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 7 08:09:10 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 16:09:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Class Exploitation Versus Racial Colonization Message-ID: <20050207160911.1074.qmail@resist.ca> Today, I was listening to a recording of a "Free Huey Newton" Rally, held in Oakland, Ca. in 1968. Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown gave moving revolutionary speeches, full of social commentary and relevant insight, still right on the mark today. Many of the comments made in this nearly 40 year old speech, sound as if they came from today's headlines: "...our political situation must become international; it cannot be national...It must be international because if we knew anything, we would recognize that the honkys just don't exploit us, they exploit the whole Third World: Asia, Africa, Latin America. They take advantage of Europe, but they don't colonize Europe, they colonize Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Understand that! URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/5/141735/2048 From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 7 08:09:10 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 16:09:10 -0000 Subject: [news] More Haitians Executed by RCMP/UN-Backed Haitian Police Message-ID: <20050207160911.1078.qmail@resist.ca> 5 more persons were killed by police in the last 3 days and several left wounded by gunshots. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/6/131533/2413 From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 7 08:09:11 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 16:09:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Border blitz targets 'invaders' from Mexico Message-ID: <20050207160911.1082.qmail@resist.ca> Washington -- "Accusing the U.S. government of failing to protect the border from an influx of illegal immigrants, a California man is hoping to seal off a swath of the U.S.-Mexico boundary with the help of hundreds of volunteers. According to the group's website, the United States is heading toward 'political and social mayhem' and will be taken over by a 'tangle of unassimilated, squabbling cultures.'" URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/7/7644/20768 From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 7 08:09:11 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 16:09:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Fidel's master stroke: An oil-for-aid deal that really works Message-ID: <20050207160912.1087.qmail@resist.ca> "As the UN struggled with the fallout from its tainted Iraqi venture this week, Eliecer Hernandez and 15,000 other Cuban doctors were busy improving the health of Venezuela's poor and in return sending precious fuel to their beleaguered island home." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/6/9346/60611 From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 7 08:09:11 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 16:09:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Graham extradition now in the hands of judge Message-ID: <20050207160912.1088.qmail@resist.ca> "The defence has submitted its final statement in the extradition case of John Graham, the former Yukoner who has been charged in South Dakota with the 1976 murder of Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/6/103035/0713 From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 7 08:09:11 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 16:09:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Dene made 'radioactive' to help nuke Japan in WWII Message-ID: <20050207160912.1092.qmail@resist.ca> "[S]ix members of the Deline Dene, all living with the pain and suffering of family and friends dying of radiation poisoning, are going to Hiroshima to join in the services commemorating the dropping of the atomic bomb on that city on August 6, 1945." ... "During the beginning of the war efforts, the mine was kept running at a very high pace, utilizing non-Native miners brought in from all over the country. The Dene were employed as 'coolies' packing 45-kilogram sacks of radioactive ore for three dollars a day, working 12 hours a day, six days a week for four months of the year." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/6/13850/60348 From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 8 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Building an Anti-Capitalist Organization and an Anti-Capitalist Front Message-ID: <20050208150903.24409.qmail@resist.ca> "As we build a movement for radical change the question is always posed, what should be the 'dividing line' or what should people unite under. Generally the idea for mass organizations or organizations as a whole is to have the largest numbers out there in a rally or protest. The argument is made that in order to build the Anti-War Movement or the Anti-Globalization movement we can't and we shouldn't call out Capitalism as the root cause or we shouldn't be upfront about the economic infrastructure of power. The idea put forward is that we should be first anti-war or anti-corporate and then anti-capitalist, meaning first win people to resistance of what the ruling class is carrying out, and then take on the power structure which carries out the injustices in the first place." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/8/63032/35848 From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 8 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Organizing God's army against equal rites Message-ID: <20050208150903.24410.qmail@resist.ca> "James Dobson, an evangelist preacher credited by many as a main force in the re-election of U.S. President George W. Bush, is turning his ministry's sights on Canada. His Focus on the Family group is mobilizing Canadians to fight the federal government's plan to legalize same-sex marriage." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/8/62155/88280 From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 8 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] U.S. invokes secrets privilege in torture lawsuit Message-ID: <20050208150903.24408.qmail@resist.ca> New York - "The Justice Department has again asserted 'state secrets privilege' in seeking to dismiss a lawsuit by Maher Arar, a Syrian-born Canadian citizen who was detained in the United States in 2002 and sent against his will to Syria, where he says he was tortured until his release a year later." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/8/62249/37318 From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 8 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Ottawa Group Launches New Campaign to Support Lubicon Land Settlement Message-ID: <20050208150903.24412.qmail@resist.ca> WELLS, PIPELINES AND BROKEN PROMISES OTTAWA - Outaouais Lubicon Solidarity (OLS) is launching a new protest campaign today to push the Canadian government to negotiate a just settlement of Lubicon Lake Indian Nation land rights and finally end this long-standing Canadian human rights tragedy. The Lubicon Lake Indian Nation, a First Nation of approximately 500 people living in northern Alberta, retain their Aboriginal and treaty rights to their traditional lands. Negotiations with the federal and provincial governments have so far failed to resolve their outstanding land rights. Meanwhile over $13 billion in oil and gas has been taken from their Traditional Territory. The United Nations, Amnesty International and the World Council of Churches have all called on Canada to resolve this dispute. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/7/94632/26218 From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 8 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] [Vancouver] Council Won't Tackle Policing Message-ID: <20050208150903.24411.qmail@resist.ca> "A critic of the Vancouver police department says he is disappointed that city council won't look at his group's recommendations to enhance police accountability. Lawyer John Richardson, executive director of the Pivot Legal Society, told the Georgia Straight that he thinks city council has the jurisdiction and responsibility to examine his group's 28-page report, 'Towards More Effective Police Oversight'. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/7/12049/46873 From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 9 09:09:09 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 17:09:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Halliburton doing business with the 'Axis of Evil' Message-ID: <20050209170909.9541.qmail@resist.ca> "You might not think that a charter member of President Bush's "axis of evil" could enlist the oil-services firm once run by Vice President Cheney to bolster its bargaining position with an international community intent on curbing its nuclear ambitions." [editor's note, by ron] (OMG, an American oil company going after dirty money?! who whould ever think it could be true!!) "But that is apparently what happened last month." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/9/7521/28647 From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 9 09:09:09 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 17:09:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Apocalypse now: how mankind is sleepwalking to the end of the Earth Message-ID: <20050209170909.9543.qmail@resist.ca> "Floods, storms and droughts. Melting Arctic ice, shrinking glaciers, oceans turning to acid. The world's top scientists warned last week that dangerous climate change is taking place today, not the day after tomorrow. You don't believe it? Then, says Geoffrey Lean, read this..." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/9/74249/88630 From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 9 09:09:09 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 17:09:09 -0000 Subject: [news] US Air Force launches space-based war game Message-ID: <20050209170910.9544.qmail@resist.ca> Monday, February 7, 2005 WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- "The U.S. military Saturday launched a five-day war game to see how space-based assets such as satellite communications and precision bomb guidance systems would fare in a hypothetical war against terrorism in 2020." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/8/144611/9079 From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 9 09:09:09 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 17:09:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Education system failing Innu: report Message-ID: <20050209170910.9545.qmail@resist.ca> ST. JOHN'S -- "A federally commissioned report on the education of Innu children in Labrador details major failures." "Only three students have graduated from high school in Natuashish or Davis Inlet in the last 11 years." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/9/7594/64034 From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 9 09:09:09 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 17:09:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Grand Chief tells cops he won't participate in "flawed" shooting investigation Message-ID: <20050209170910.9546.qmail@resist.ca> It's an olive branch he says he can't accept. Grand Chief Dennis White Bird of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs has rejected Winnipeg police Chief Jack Ewatski's offer to allow a representative to observe the investigation into the fatal police shooting of an aboriginal teen. "I don't want to get myself involved in a process that is flawed. That's what we've been saying from the beginning. The police cannot investigate themselves. I use the same scenario here, that if I am convicted or if I am accused of wrongdoing, do I investigate myself?" URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/9/81712/61805 From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 10 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] General who led US Marines in Iraq says "It's fun to shoot some people" Message-ID: <20050210140903.16170.qmail@resist.ca> "A three-star Marine general gave an indication of the homicidal ethos guiding the US occupation forces in Iraq and Afghanistan when he declared during a military conference in San Diego Tuesday that "It's fun to shoot some people." Responding to a question about fighting the Iraqi resistance, Lieutenant General James N. Mattis--who is in charge of developing Marine war-fighting doctrine and tactics--said, "Actually, it's a lot of fun to fight. You know, it's a hell of a hoot. It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right up front with you, I like brawling." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/10/53344/3375 From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 10 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Dam Locally, Warm Globally Message-ID: <20050210140904.16174.qmail@resist.ca> Boreal forest, aboriginal peoples threatened by new push for exploitation "...Manitoba Hydro wants to build the Wuskwatim dam. This is to be the first in a series of hydroelectric projects, further threatening the boreal forest by cutting roads and transmission lines through some of North America's last unspoiled wilderness. The plans to construct hydroelectric projects in Manitoba's boreal forest are in large part to supply US consumers." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/10/54627/6137 From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 10 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] What Ward Churchill Didn't Say Message-ID: <20050210140903.16171.qmail@resist.ca> When you're not an indigenous person (or an anti-capitalist radical), you can say practically anything. For example, if you're a Marine Corp General, you can say how much "fun" it is to kill Afghans and have a room full of like-minded folks cheer. It should come as no surprise then that in today's overtly racist & pre-fascist United States, indigenous activist and scholar Ward Churchill enjoys no such immunity. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/9/16551/97887 From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 10 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Brooklyn Copwatchers Arrested Message-ID: <20050210140903.16172.qmail@resist.ca> "Three members of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Lumumba Bandele, Dasaw Floyd, and Djbril Toure were arrested in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn just past midnight this morning. At the time of their arrest, the three were engaged in the legal monitoring of police activities as part of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement Copwatch Program." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/10/52540/5850 From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 10 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] American Indian Movement still FBI target Message-ID: <20050210140903.16173.qmail@resist.ca> "Former AIM member, John Graham is facing extradition to the USA on charges of a murder. The 1976 murder of Anna Mae Aquash is widely belived to be carried out by the FBI. Sentancing will take place in Vancouver BC, Canada on February 21, 2005. Given that extradition hearings are basically a rubber stamp process, John Graham sentance will most likely be unfavorable." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/9/13334/61417 From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 10 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Tahltan Band Office Occupation (Day 25) Message-ID: <20050210140904.16177.qmail@resist.ca> Elders continue demand: "Tahltan chief step down" by Ron Collins | Original to Resist.ca "Jerry Asp is the elected Indian Act chief of the Tahltan First Nation. Last month, he was the poster boy for the BC Liberal government's new "BC Mining Plan" which promoted a new synergy between native communities and the mining industry. Now he is not even welcomed in his own office. 35 Tahltan elders, between the ages of 55 and 84, have been occupying their band council's office in Telegraph Creek for 25 days. They say their chief has abandoned traditional values in pursuit of a fast buck and are asking him to step down." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/10/51841/7281 From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 11 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Interview: Israeli Anarchism - Being Young, Queer, and Radical in the Promised Land Message-ID: <20050211150903.11360.qmail@resist.ca> Yossi is a young resident of Jerusalem and a member of the International Solidarity Movement. He is part of many social movements in Israel and Palestine, including Anarchists Against the Wall and Black Laundry, a radical queer group. Yossi is currently working at the Alternative Information Center. Here he speaks about anarchism in Israel, it's relationship to the Palestinian struggle, and radical anarchist and queer culture. Interviewed by Aaron Lakoff URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/11/61930/4321 From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 11 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Armed Revolutionary Group Has First Gay Marriage Message-ID: <20050211150903.11359.qmail@resist.ca> "As the first same-sex marriage in the NPA (New People's Army), theirs is a union long awaited by comrades who support gay rights in the movement. It is also a manifestation of the communist movement's recognition of the right to engage in gay relations and to marry." [Contributor's note by yang: the NPA are the armed faction of the Communist Party of the Phillipines and is one of the few non-Islamic groups on the US "terrorist list".] URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/10/20510/1902 From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 11 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Sexual Abuse in Activist Communities Message-ID: <20050211150903.11358.qmail@resist.ca> "(A) lot of us want to believe that activist men really are different from our fathers, brothers, old boyfriends, and male strangers we confront in our daily routines. We want to have some faith that the guy who writes a position paper on sexism and posts it on his website is not writing it just to make himself look good, get pussy, or cover up some of his dangerous practices towards women....And we would like to think that 'security culture'....includes thinking proactively about how to deal with misogyny, patriarchy and heterosexism both outside of and within the activist scenes....But all of these wishes, all of these dreams obviously tend to go unaddressed." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/10/205343/415 From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 11 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Feds, Deh Cho prepare to face judge [over pipeline] Message-ID: <20050211150903.11361.qmail@resist.ca> "It looks almost certain a lawsuit over aboriginal involvment in the review of the MacKenzie Valley pipeline will go to trial." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/10/9250/06579 From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 11 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Unionized Wal-Mart to Close Message-ID: <20050211150903.11364.qmail@resist.ca> "Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Wednesday it will close a Canadian store whose workers are on the verge of becoming the first ever to win a union contract from the world's biggest retailer. The closest a U.S. union has ever come to winning a battle with Wal-Mart was in 2000, at a store in Jacksonville, Texas. In that store, 11 workers -- all members of the store's meatpacking department -- voted to join and be represented by the UFCW. That effort failed when WalMart eliminated the job of meatcutter companywide, and moved away from in-store meatcutting to stocking only prewrapped meat." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/10/133238/676 From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 11 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Canadian Government to Unleash Terminator Bombshell at UN Meeting Message-ID: <20050211150903.11365.qmail@resist.ca> All-out push for commercialisation of Sterile Seed Technology "A confidential document leaked today to ETC Group reveals that the Canadian government, at a United Nations meeting in Bangkok (Feb 7-11), will attempt to overturn an international moratorium on genetic seed sterilisation technology (known universally as Terminator). Even worse, the Canadian government has instructed its negotiators to 'block consensus' on any other option." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/10/154356/664 From news at resist.ca Sun Feb 13 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Castro Warns of Threat Against Chavez Message-ID: <20050213140903.27264.qmail@resist.ca> "The close relationship between Castro and Chavez has irked many in Washington. Venezuela provides much of Cuba's oil on favorable terms, and Cuba has sent thousands of health care workers, teachers and sports trainers to poor neighborhoods in Venezuela to bolster Chavez's government." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/12/202332/951 From news at resist.ca Sun Feb 13 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Baghdad Burning: An Iraqi Woman's Blog Message-ID: <20050213140903.27265.qmail@resist.ca> Saturday, February 12, 2005 "The results won't really matter when so many people boycotted the elections. No matter what the number say, the reality of the situation is that there are millions of Iraqis who will refuse to submit to an occupation government. After almost two years of occupation, and miserable living conditions, we want our country back." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/12/211147/935 From news at resist.ca Sun Feb 13 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Don't confuse "good" theocracies with "bad" Message-ID: <20050213140903.27266.qmail@resist.ca> "In a heightened display of saber rattling, President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have been saying nasty things about Iran's 'unelected mullahs.' This is apparently so we'll be able to tell the difference between the theocracy in place in Tehran and the one coalescing in Baghdad." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/11/65834/3929 From news at resist.ca Sun Feb 13 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Native groups speak out against mine Message-ID: <20050213140904.27269.qmail@resist.ca> "The Taku River Tlingit First Nation in British Columbia and the Douglas Indian Association in Juneau issued a joint statement against the proposed Tulsequah Chief mine on Thursday." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/11/165827/544 From news at resist.ca Sun Feb 13 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Peace Without Justice Message-ID: <20050213140903.27267.qmail@resist.ca> by Robert Fisk ; The Independent; February 11, 2005 "So, the Palestinians will end their occupation of Israel. No more will Palestinian tanks smash their way into Haifa and Tel Aviv. No more will Palestinian F-18s bomb Israeli population centres. No more will Palestinian Apache helicopters carry out 'targeted killings' - ie: murders - of Israeli military leaders." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/11/234429/643 From news at resist.ca Sun Feb 13 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Why Ottawa likely won't join Bush's missile plan Message-ID: <20050213140904.27270.qmail@resist.ca> "Barring an unforeseen reversal, the Liberal government will almost certainly not endorse the U.S. ballistic-missile defence program. It is simply not possible to bring a motion before the House of Commons affirming Canadian participation in BMD. Opposition within the Liberal caucus is so strong that such a motion could not pass without the solid support of the Conservatives. And Conservative Leader Stephen Harper is unwilling, and possibly unable, to guarantee that support." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/11/7922/41249 From news at resist.ca Sun Feb 13 07:09:02 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 15:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] NOII: Group aims for " regularization of everyone" through solidarity, not charity Message-ID: <20050213150902.14265.qmail@resist.ca> "Jaggi Singh, a member of the campaign, says that NOII's role 'is to act as allies with the people directly affected. We believe very strongly that people who are directly affected by injustices are the ones who should determine how their struggle is led and how it is determined.'" URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/13/6238/91459 From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 14 08:09:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Teen Suffers Cardiac Arrest After Stun Gun Message-ID: <20050214160905.15977.qmail@resist.ca> "A 14-year-old boy went into cardiac arrest after police shot him with a Taser stun gun, raising new questions about a weapon that is already the subject of scrutiny by federal regulators and the Arizona attorney general." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/14/65626/4253 From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 14 08:09:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Russia Dismisses US "Concerns" about Weapons Sales to Venezuela Message-ID: <20050214160905.15978.qmail@resist.ca> "Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russian weapons sales to Venezuela 'do not go beyond any international norms and obligations.' Lavrov said this in response to U.S. 'concerns' that State Department spokesperson Adam Ereli reiterated yesterday about Venezuela's purchase of 100,000 Russian AK-47 assault rifles and several helicopters. An article published by the Washington Times reported yesterday that the Bush administration had sent a secret letter of complaint to the Russian Embassy in Washington, about the arms deal. According to the U.S. State Department, the Bush administration fears that the assault rifles could fall into the hands of Colombian rebel forces, since they believe that the Chavez government enjoys close ties to these." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/14/7028/36424 From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 14 08:09:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Canadian Peace Alliance Joins Call for Protests on Anniversary of Haiti Coup Message-ID: <20050214160906.15980.qmail@resist.ca> Actions are planned across the country to mark and protest the 1-year anniversary of the coup d'etat in Haiti against the government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who was overthrown on February 29, 2004 with the backing of the United States, France and Canada. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/13/103836/874 From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 14 08:09:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Two years after the fall of Saddam, the resistance controls all major roads Message-ID: <20050214160905.15979.qmail@resist.ca> "Sectarian attacks by fundamentalist Sunni fighters, whom Iraqis refer to as Salafi or Wahhabi, have been expected during the lead-up to the Shia feast of Ashura commemorating the martyrdom of Imam Hussein in 680AD. Suicide bombers among the Ashura crowds in Baghdad and Karbala killed 171 people last year. The borders of Iraq are to be shut next week but this is unlikely actions to stop the bombers." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/13/1219/48470 From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 14 08:09:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Guard told man 'hang yourself,' says inmate Message-ID: <20050214160906.15981.qmail@resist.ca> "An angry guard at Stony Mountain Penitentiary told a mentally unstable inmate to 'just go hang yourself' a few days before the man committed suicide in his cell, an inquest probing the death heard on Friday." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/13/17835/7827 From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 14 08:09:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] String of Wal-Mart bomb threats in Quebec Message-ID: <20050214160906.15984.qmail@resist.ca> Granby, Que. -- "A Wal-Mart store in this city about 80 kilometres east of Montreal was evacuated Saturday after police received a noon-hour bomb threat." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/14/44123/3752 From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 15 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Deh Cho gov. Indians renew legal challenge to pipeline Message-ID: <20050215140903.5820.qmail@resist.ca> "Proponents of a $7-billion Arctic natural gas pipeline are worried legal manoeuvres by a northern aboriginal group could add a new layer of regulation and delay an already halting process. The Deh Cho First Nation, which claims land on 40 per cent of the pipeline's route, has reactivated a lawsuit calling for any pipeline approvals to be declared invalid, said Grand Chief Herb Norwegian. Talks on an out-of-court settlement have stalled and a big part of any deal would be a new permitting agency giving his group final control over development, he said." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/13/9378/40235 From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 15 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Parents protest student computer ID tags Message-ID: <20050215140903.5818.qmail@resist.ca> "The only grade school in this rural town is requiring students to wear radio frequency identification badges that can track their every move. Some parents are outraged, fearing it will take away their children's privacy." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/14/171521/370 From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 15 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Police Version of Fatal Shooting "Absurd": Expert Message-ID: <20050215140904.5821.qmail@resist.ca> "The police version of a fatal shooting involving two city officers makes no sense, says a former combat and tactical instructor to members of the Vancouver Police Department." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/14/71748/6502 From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 15 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Chocolate and Child Labor Message-ID: <20050215140903.5819.qmail@resist.ca> "Of the $1.1 billion in boxed chocolates that Americans are expected to buy on Valentine's Day, very little will be untainted by the scourge of child labor. Although some who buy those bonbons will do so without knowing the sinister history of their purchases, others, like the chocolate makers, will have known for at least two years, if not longer that cocoa beans imported from the Ivory Coast -- used to make nearly half the chocolate consumed in this country -- are harvested in large part by children, some as young as 9, and many of whom are considered slaves, trafficked from desperately poor countries like Mali and Burkina Faso." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/14/12289/2848 From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 15 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Ottawa seeks sanctions against U.S. [over softwood lumber] Message-ID: <20050215140904.5823.qmail@resist.ca> "The Canadian government, increasingly frustrated by U.S. intransigence in the lengthy softwood battle, is asking a global trade body for the right to slap retaliatory sanctions on a record $4.1-billion worth of American goods." ... "The action is a sign of increasingly frayed tensions between Ottawa and Washington over U.S. stalling in the 41-month dispute. Canada has won several key victories in trade courts, but the United States still refuses to drop a hefty 21-per-cent levy on Canadian softwood." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/11/7536/71756 From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 15 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Ward Churchill and the Respectable Left Message-ID: <20050215140904.5824.qmail@resist.ca> Macdonald Stainsby | Original to Resist.ca Yes, many of our best were able to look at the McCarthyizing of Sunera Thobani and see it for what it was. The womens studies professor from Canada who had the nerve to allow the phrase "[T]he path of U.S. foreign policy is soaked in blood!" to escape her lips without asking what John Ashcroft thought (before his fortunately early, unforeseen retirement) was defended by many of us. From across the settler state of Canada, and even well into the belly of the militaristic oil monster itself, the United States, people saw the hunting of Thobani for uttering such a benign and observable fact as a threat against their own right to utter benign and observable facts. People stood with her. She was invited to speak at conference after conference, given a prominent place in many antiwar demonstrations, and often seen as a heroine for her defiance of the gag on ideas--for indeed, it seemed she was, for the time being, just that. Yet, as I said, many of us still felt a solid need to take part in the tar-and-feathering of our more erstwhile colleagues. [...] URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/14/14554/4301 From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 16 09:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Brazil and Venezuela Establish a "Strategic Alliance" Message-ID: <20050216170904.25964.qmail@resist.ca> "In hopes of cementing what both Venezuela and Brazil have referred to as a strategic alliance and a model for South American integration, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Brazilian President Luis Inacio "Lula" da Silva signed 20 agreements in oil and energy projects as well as in defense yesterday." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/16/75148/2520 From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 16 09:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] "Tragedy of the commons" revisited Message-ID: <20050216170904.25965.qmail@resist.ca> "Way back in 1968, U.S. ecologist Garrett Hardin sketched the dilemma that today besets the Kyoto Protocol, the UN's global warming pact which takes effect on Wednesday. In a landmark essay, 'The Tragedy of the Commons,' Hardin evoked the case of common land where everyone has the right to graze their cattle." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/15/73113/5175 From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 16 09:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Can West spin of Tahltan Occupation Message-ID: <20050216170904.25967.qmail@resist.ca> "Elders such as those occupying the band office in Telegraph Creek, for example, have a moral suasion in aboriginal communities that simply does not exist in mainstream society, where seniors are routinely marginalized -- turn 65 and you're out -- and their social role trivialized. Second, elected aboriginal councils with which mainstream government and industry prefer to deal, remain a colonial -- and therefore suspect -- veneer upon these older forms of government." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/14/102515/641 From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 16 09:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Sweetgrass burning banned in Alberta jails Message-ID: <20050216170904.25969.qmail@resist.ca> "In provincial jails in Alberta, a ban on smoking tobacco products has been extended to include the burning of Sweetgrass, a plant considered sacred to Aboriginal people and burned to send prayers to the Creator on the smoke." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/16/83447/8436 From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 16 09:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] At-Tuwani - 500 years and counting Message-ID: <20050216170904.25970.qmail@resist.ca> By Aaron Lakoff "On a seemingly harmless day in 1980, a Jewish-Israeli group entered the southern tip of the West Bank and planted a patch of trees. Four years later, this little ranch expanded into a settlement project named Ma'on, which fell just a few hundred meters away from the small Palestinian village of At-Tuwani. So began the most recent troubles of this 500-year old village." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/15/82019/0411 From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 17 06:09:02 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Ward Churchill is Right Message-ID: <20050217140903.3036.qmail@resist.ca> "The main thesis (Ward) Churchill put forward in 'Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens' is an accurate account of the depravity of U.S. foreign policy and its relationship to terrorism....at a moment when right-wing forces have targeted not only Churchill but academic freedom and the left in general, it is more important than ever to stand firm on that point." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/16/195858/433 From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 17 06:09:02 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Arms Buying by Venezuela Worries U.S. Message-ID: <20050217140903.3037.qmail@resist.ca> "President Hugo Chavez's government is moving toward purchasing combat planes from Brazil, the latest step in what the Bush administration has cast as a worrisome arms buildup by the left-leaning government in an already tumultuous region." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/15/8750/49834 From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 17 06:09:02 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Syria & Iran Talk Alliance Message-ID: <20050217140903.3038.qmail@resist.ca> "Iran and Syria - both locked in rows with the US - have said they are to form a common front to face challenges and threats." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/16/14557/8084 From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 17 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Mackenzie/ Deh Cho pipeline violates Kyoto? Message-ID: <20050217140903.3039.qmail@resist.ca> "Environmentalists are sounding the alarm about the Mackenzie Gas Project, just as Ottawa is set to enact the Kyoto Protocol. They say it will increase Canada's greenhouse gas emissions at a time when Ottawa is supposed to be cutting them. That's because they're worried that a clean-burning gas will be diverted to refine the dirty oil of northern Alberta's oil sands." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/16/20232/7789 From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 17 09:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 17:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Welfare claim angers poverty advocates Message-ID: <20050217170905.8492.qmail@resist.ca> "Some groups that work with the poor are taking issue with the provincial government's trumpeting of reduced welfare numbers, saying it's a misleading claim." "[...] while the number of recipients is down, the number of poor people needing assistance is way up." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/17/8432/88155 From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 17 09:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 17:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] The Election In Iraq: The U.S. propaganda system is still working in high gear Message-ID: <20050217170905.8491.qmail@resist.ca> "Once again the media do not discuss whether the conditions of a free election have been met, and whether a genuine free election can be held under a military occupation and in the midst of violent warfare. They were sure that the Soviet occupation of Poland in 1947 precluded a free election and they were doubtful it could be free under Sandinista rule in 1984 with that government's 'pugnacity' and 'awesome monopoly of force' (Time). But the U.S. army in Iraq is seen only as protecting the election, not in any way influencing its outcome, which is the official and patriotic view and reflects a durable double standard" URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/17/7385/64230 From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 18 08:09:10 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 16:09:10 -0000 Subject: [news] A Social Justice Quiz: Twenty Questions Message-ID: <20050218160911.28768.qmail@resist.ca> 20 questions by Bill Quigley 1. In 1968 the minimum wage was $1.60 per hour. How much would the minimum wage be today if it had kept pace with inflation? 2. In 1965, CEOs in major companies made 24 times more than the average worker. In 2003, CEOs earned how many times more than the average worker? URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/18/7823/99393 From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 18 08:09:10 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 16:09:10 -0000 Subject: [news] U.S.to Build Robot Army Message-ID: <20050218160911.28769.qmail@resist.ca> Now this is synchronicity, I just finished a major blog article which I posted at LE REVUE GAUCHE on Tuesday, February 15, 2005 : GOTH CAPITALISM- http://plawiuk.blogspot.com/2005/02/gothic-capitalism.html It's about artificial life, robots, zombies, golems and ghouls as metaphors of the struggle of the proletariat, alienation and the dehumanization of capitalism. And what should show up in my email box today, but these 2 articles from newspapers in the UK about the US military building Killer Robots, ok they are only four foot tall but still... My article which includes a section entitled, 'Revolt of the Robots' seems even more appropriate in light of this news item . Excepted is a portion of my article and then the news items. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/17/183327/496 From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 18 08:09:10 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 16:09:10 -0000 Subject: [news] To Deline's relief, days numbered for uranium freighter Message-ID: <20050218160911.28770.qmail@resist.ca> "For years, a freighter called the Radium Gilbert sat rusting on the shore of Great Bear Lake. More than a half-century ago it hauled the uranium that was used to destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Many of the Dene of Deline worked at the Port Radium mine on Great Bear Lake. And many of them died of cancer." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/17/95012/0030 From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 18 08:09:11 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 16:09:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Suspected terrorist freed on $50,000 bail Message-ID: <20050218160911.28772.qmail@resist.ca> "[The] Federal Court [has decided] to release secret trial detainee Adil Charkaoui on bail. He and his family are expected to have an emotional reunion tomorrow, after almost two years of separation. Charkaoui had been detained since May 2003 without charge in Montreal." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/18/72826/0360 From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 18 08:09:11 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 16:09:11 -0000 Subject: [news] The End of Public ACCESS Message-ID: <20050218160911.28771.qmail@resist.ca> "This week CHUM Ltd. purchased up all the shares of the Learning TV Network which includes ACCESS. It's part of its move into the Alberta media marketplace with its purchase of A-Channel in Edmonton and Calgary and its launch of a new FM radio station in Edmonton. This is the final act of fire sale piracy that sacrificed public access to media on the altar of privatization." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/17/185135/334 From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 18 08:09:11 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 16:09:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Defiant Palestinian Sheppards Face Down Settler and Army Violence Message-ID: <20050218160911.28773.qmail@resist.ca> By Aaron Lakoff | Original to Resist.ca "Dov Dribin was an Israeli settler who lived in Ma'on. Over the years, he had gained a fearful reputation with the Palestinian sheppards in his area. He must have felt it was his duty to beat, harass, or insult any Palestinian within range. Then, on one day in April, 1998, Dov took his hatred of his neighbors to the extreme. He came across two sheppards in the field, and shot one of them in the leg with his gun. The other sheppard, fearful for his life, struggled with Dov, managed to grab his gun, and fired a lethal blow into his body. Dov's death still lingers in the air today, and is reason enough for the occupation forces to consider At-Tuwani to be dangerous." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/18/6534/56804 From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 19 06:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 14:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] New gas wells being dug in Mackenzie Delta (by the Arctic Ocean)? Message-ID: <20050219140904.19044.qmail@resist.ca> A gas-drilling company is considering boring another well on Richards Island in the Mackenzie Delta. The company, Encana, has already spent at least $50 million drilling two exploratory wells there. Though they're not releasing details of what they found, they call the results "encouraging." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/18/101334/298 From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 19 06:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 14:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] The termination and removal of Ward Churchill Message-ID: <20050219140904.19045.qmail@resist.ca> "It's been a bad couple of weeks for Ward Churchill. After being savaged by the corporate media for an essay he wrote over three years ago, then finding himself abandoned by an academic culture that used to profess belief in freedom of thought and expression, it was finally revealed that ... gasp ... Ward Churchill might not even be an Indian. Stop the presses! Outside of his personal circle of aging enemies, did anyone really care that much about Churchill's enrollment status before this controversy?" URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/18/1079/08908 From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 19 06:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 14:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] New anti-capitalist website: prole.info Message-ID: <20050219140904.19046.qmail@resist.ca> Announcing a new anti-capitalist website: http://www.prole.info It has lots of pamphlets in PDF form, as well as a number of online texts. Check it out. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/19/02819/7883 From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 19 06:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 14:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Dempsey Bob, Master Carver, Returns Home to Support Tahltan Elders Message-ID: <20050219140905.19048.qmail@resist.ca> "In an interview, Dempsey Bob firmly stated, 'We have to protect our animals and fish. If we lose our animals it will be forever, we can't eat oil, gas and minerals.'" URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/18/123244/026 From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 19 06:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 14:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Skydome - The political economy of sports Message-ID: <20050219140905.19051.qmail@resist.ca> "As Toronto Sun Reporter Ken Fidlin asks; 'But, lost in the latest solution to the CFL's problems in Toronto is how SkyDome became such an abhorrent relic in the span of 15 years. How does a place go from one of the wonders of the world in 1989, to a has-been in 2004?' How does it happen, they outsourced the computer and electrical infrastructure for the facility which would end up costing millions in upkeep. Being one of the early P3's-public private partnerships-during the economic downturn and the regime of Mike Harris, and his hell-bent on privatization Tory Government, the privatize at any cost forgot about the costs of outsourcing and privatization." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/17/184536/766 From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 19 06:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 14:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Hey Ralph, show us the money Message-ID: <20050219140904.19047.qmail@resist.ca> "Well our tubby Premier showed the other night that he listens and hears Albertans. Of course he has been deaf to the screams of pain of Martha and Henry for years, but 2005 is the provinces birthday, and being a magnanimous ruler, King Ralph has decided to throw a few crumbs to the 'little people'. With Ralph it's never a royal proclamation it's always a thought, a suggestion, an idea, he will test the waters see the response and if the fishing looks good he will throw out the line, hook and sinker." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/17/184820/014 From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 19 06:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 14:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] BCGEU Workers Set to Strike Message-ID: <20050219140905.19052.qmail@resist.ca> "'The BCGEU has refused to budge from a wage offer of 0% in the first two years and 2% in the third,' says Randy Pearson, President of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union Local 467....'That's the kind of wage controls the Campbell government has imposed on BCGEU members who have been forced to strike at community colleges and B.C. Place. Now the BCGEU is treating its own employees exactly the same way....'" URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/18/144416/506 From news at resist.ca Sun Feb 20 20:09:11 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 04:09:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Leave our country now Message-ID: <20050221040912.16130.qmail@resist.ca> "We see it as our duty to defend the country's resources. We reject and will oppose all moves to privatise our oil industry and national resources. We regard this privatisation as a form of neo-colonialism, an attempt to impose a permanent economic occupation to follow the military occupation. We as a union call for the withdrawal of foreign occupation forces and their military bases. We don't want a timetable - this is a stalling tactic. We will solve our own problems. We are Iraqis, we know our country and we can take care of ourselves. We have the means, the skills and resources to rebuild and create our own democratic society." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/20/123614/965 From news at resist.ca Sun Feb 20 20:09:12 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 04:09:12 -0000 Subject: [news] On Travelling in Palestine Message-ID: <20050221040912.16133.qmail@resist.ca> by Aaron Lakoff | Original to Resist.ca "Even though I love being in Palestine, I have to admit that I hate traveling around it. The idea of movement here scares me, but movement seems to be intimidating for most." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/20/175919/985 From news at resist.ca Sun Feb 20 20:09:11 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 04:09:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada is Legitimizing Suppression of Haitian Democracy: Filmmaker Message-ID: <20050221040912.16129.qmail@resist.ca> Kevin Pina slams role of Canadian government, media "California-born, Haiti-based filmmaker Kevin Pina recently finished a tour of Canadian cities. He was showing his film, Haiti: Harvest of Hope, which covers the elections that brought Jean Bertrand Aristide's Lavalas Party to power. Crowds of hundreds in Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver and Victoria also saw parts of Pina's forthcoming documentary, Haiti: Betrayal of Democracy, which covers the events surrounding the events (one year ago as of this writing) which led to the removal of an entire elected government and its replacement with a military occupation and an 'interim government' led by US citizen, Florida resident and former talk show host Gerard Latortue." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/19/213931/276 From news at resist.ca Sun Feb 20 20:09:11 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 04:09:11 -0000 Subject: [news] CCPA recommendations for $45B budget surplus Message-ID: <20050221040912.16131.qmail@resist.ca> "The federal government will have an estimated $45 billion in surplus over the next three years - money that could significantly reduce poverty and inequalities in Canada and lay to rest overheated squabbles over cash transfers to the provinces, says the 2005 Alternative Federal Budget." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/20/191633/032 From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 21 05:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 13:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Ward Churchill & Liberal Outrage Message-ID: <20050221130903.28372.qmail@resist.ca> "I would observe that no matter how liberals may object to the notion of American exceptionalism, nothing makes them angrier than pointing out that the American standard of living has less to do with democracy than it does with empire. My house, and most likely yours, sits on land that was stolen at gunpoint. I can drive to the train station as cheaply as I do because people are tortured and enslaved on the Arabian peninsula." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/20/235355/699 From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 21 05:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 13:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Escaped Haiti officials recaptured Message-ID: <20050221130903.28373.qmail@resist.ca> "A former prime minister and interior minister belonging to Jean Bertrand Aristide's deposed Haitian government have been recaptured after a short-lived escape from prison." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/19/173743/867 From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 21 05:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 13:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Dozens of Words for Snow, None for Pollution Message-ID: <20050221130903.28374.qmail@resist.ca> "Perched atop the Arctic food chain, the people of the Far North face an impossible choice: abandon their traditional foods, or ingest the rest of the world's poisons with every bite." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/21/43445/9181 From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 22 09:09:07 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:09:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Iraq: the real sanctions scandal Message-ID: <20050222170907.28287.qmail@resist.ca> "The recent interim report by the independent commission investigating the United Nations oil-for-food programme accuses UN officials of favouritism, violation of competitive bidding rules, and a dangerous lack of auditing. But the truth may be far more complicated." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/21/54223/7221 From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 22 09:09:07 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:09:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Haiti Prison Break Another Diversion to Distract From Lavalas Repression? Message-ID: <20050222170907.28289.qmail@resist.ca> Haiti's Top Political Prisoners Forced From Prison in Daylight Attack, Returned Next Day By Benjamin Melancon, Posted on Sun Feb 20th, 2005 Three or four men dressed in black and armed with assault rifles drove up in a jeep and began firing into the air and at the prison, killing at least one guard, Associated Press reported. Poorly armed prison guards fled the National Penitentiary in Port-au-Prince, reported Xinhau, the Chinese news agency. Hundreds of prisoners may have escaped after the attack, though the AP reported that dozens of police immediately swarmed around the prison, setting up roadblocks and searching cars. Also see the report from the Washington Times. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/20/23119/4133 From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 22 09:09:07 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:09:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Former NWT Premier Blasts Deh Cho Pipeline Review Message-ID: <20050222170908.28290.qmail@resist.ca> A former Northwest Territories premier is condemning hearings on the proposed Mackenzie Valley pipeline as "sad and absurd," and says the process must be stopped and fixed. A pipeline can't go ahead without proper consultation with communities, Kakfwi says ... URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/21/115610/444 From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 22 09:09:07 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:09:07 -0000 Subject: [news] IDF panel recommends ending policy of house demolitions Message-ID: <20050222170907.28288.qmail@resist.ca> "A military committee...reached the conclusion that...no effective deterrence was proven, [regarding the policy of house demolitions] except in a few cases, and that the damage to Israel caused by the demolitions was greater than the benefits because the deterrence, limited if at all, paled in comparison to the hatred and hostility toward Israel that the demolitions provoked among the Palestinians." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/22/81628/5609 From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 22 09:09:07 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:09:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Ward Churchill: What He Said and Why Message-ID: <20050222170908.28294.qmail@resist.ca> By WARD CHURCHILL; February 21, 2005 - Counterpunch "I am the man, it is said on the talk shock radio in the Denver area, who has called for the deaths of millions of Americans. Someone show me where I said that. I am the man who has justified what I consider to be natural and inevitable. You do not justify the natural or the inevitable, you may comment on it. You do not have to advocate it, you don't have to justify it, you simply point to it." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/21/18552/2338 From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 22 09:09:07 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:09:07 -0000 Subject: [news] B.C. Judge allows extradition of John Graham to the US Message-ID: <20050222170908.28293.qmail@resist.ca> Justice Elizabeth Bennett, a B.C. Supreme Court judge, has ruled that John Graham should be extradited to the United States to stand trial for the 1976 murder of Anna Mae Pictou Aquash. Graham and Pictou Aquash were members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) in the 1970's. Many have pointed to the patently unfair trial of AIM member and now political prisoner Leonard Peltier after himself being extradited to the U.S. from Canada in 1976, as well as to the revelation of campaigns of repression and violence of AIM by the FBI as reasons to deny the United States' request. Just over a year ago, family members of Anna Mae put out a public statement calling for Graham's extradition which prompted rebuttals from others in the Human Rights and Indigenous communities. Read on for the corporate news' account. [editor's note, by ron] Also see the statement from the John Graham Defense Committee. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/21/153043/916 From lml at sfu.ca Tue Feb 22 16:26:43 2005 From: lml at sfu.ca (Louise Leclair) Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:26:43 -0800 Subject: [news] I'm receiving two copies of everything Message-ID: How can I unsubscribe once but keep one coming? Louise Leclair Communications Representative 604.291.1940 (c) 604.454.4711 Check the CUPE BC website at www.cupe.bc.ca or CUPE's national website at www.cupe.ca From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 23 05:09:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] The world's most dangerous job? Message-ID: <20050223130905.13865.qmail@resist.ca> "The news of the death of 213 miners following a gas blast at a colliery in Liaoning on February 14 barely registered outside China, but it was further evidence of an ongoing tragedy, and symbolic of the enormous human cost that China is paying for its phenomenal economic growth." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/23/24126/5446 From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 23 05:09:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Imperial Entropy Message-ID: <20050223130905.13864.qmail@resist.ca> "All empires collapse eventually[. Y]ou name them, they all fell, and most within a few hundred years. The reasons are not really complex. An empire is a kind of state system that inevitably makes the same mistakes simply by the nature of its imperial structure and inevitably fails because of its size, complexity, territorial reach, stratification, heterogeneity, domination, hierarchy, and inequalities." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/22/94115/7775 From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 23 05:09:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Greenland warmer than Greece Message-ID: <20050223130905.13868.qmail@resist.ca> "Temperatures in Greenland broke all winter heat records on Saturday. The weather was warmer in Paamiut than on Crete and many other Southern European getaways." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/22/94632/0501 From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 23 05:09:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Gothic Capitalism Message-ID: <20050223130905.13867.qmail@resist.ca> THE HORROR OF ACCUMULATION AND THE COMMODIFICATION OF HUMANITY. By Eugene Plawiuk A six part article with appendices http://plawiuk.blogspot.com/2005/02/gothic-capitalism.html URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/23/31015/2810 From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 23 06:09:17 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:09:17 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada Already Part of US Missile Defense??? Message-ID: <20050223140918.23269.qmail@resist.ca> According to the newly appointed ambassador to the U.S, Frank McKenna, Canada is already part of this system, we just don't know how to show it! URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/22/124527/878 From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 23 06:09:17 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:09:17 -0000 Subject: [news] Alberta Families say: Show Us the Money, Ralph Message-ID: <20050223140918.23270.qmail@resist.ca> "Despite his public musings, Ralph Klein has yet to formally announce any sharing of the wealth with Martha, Henry and their family. Albertans and their families need a Living Wage, not just an increase in the minimum wage of a mere $1.10 after ten years. Alberta still has the lowest minimum wage in Canada and even an increase to $7 will still leave us behind B.C., Ontario and Quebec." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/23/25845/7542 From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 24 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Report reveals horrific truths of life in Haiti Message-ID: <20050224150903.24383.qmail@resist.ca> "For 10 days in November, Thomas Griffin traveled throughout the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. It was his 10th trip to Haiti in a decade and by far his most horrifying. 'The inhumanity that is happening just off our shores is appalling,' said Griffin, a Philadelphia attorney and former Justice Department official who has been investigating human rights abuses in Haiti and Latin America for years." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/22/81850/5911 From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 24 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Social Insecurity - The Phony Pension Crisis Message-ID: <20050224150903.24382.qmail@resist.ca> By Eugene Plawiuk George Bush announced his plan to "reform" Social Security in his State of the Union address this week. Of course the plan is not to increase funding for Social Security but to allow for the privatization of social security and consequently a reduction in benefits. He would do well to look east to Russia which has done just that, and the consequences have been thousands of Baba's in the streets protesting against Putin. (See Russia's Patriotic Faction Plans Hunger Strike Protesting Pension Reform Moscow News Stories on Pension Reform Crisis in Russia) The attack on workers pensions and on social security is now another peg in the agenda of global free trade and the privatization of the State. It is occurring world wide, in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, in the majority of G8 and G20 industrialized countries workers are seeing attacks on both social security and on their workplace pensions. Read the rest of the article at Le Revue Gauche: http://plawiuk.blogspot.com/ URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/23/3355/22822 From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 24 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Midwifery may bring babies back to Hub [Hay River] Message-ID: <20050224150903.24384.qmail@resist.ca> "The Hay River hospital wants to have babies again - and the passage of midwifery legislation last year could be just what the doctor ordered." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/23/9112/71226 From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 24 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Arctic a "reservoir of resources" for the South Message-ID: <20050224150904.24385.qmail@resist.ca> "The Arctic region is an economic powerhouse, but little of that stays in the region, says the Arctic Human Development Report, released in Reykjavik on Sunday. The planet's circumpolar region produces $230 billion, mainly in the form of natural resources. That's an amount roughly equivalent to the total gross national product of Belgium or 80 per cent of Saudi Arabia's oil-rich economy." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/22/15723/9087 From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 24 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Sun Peaks Update Message-ID: <20050224150904.24386.qmail@resist.ca> "In removing the camp and arresting those Skwelkwek'welt defenders who refused to leave, the police were enforcing a provincial court injunction ordering local Aboriginal activists and their supporters off the mountain. These arrests represent just one instance in the ongoing repression of Secwepemc peoples fighting for their land and dignity; during the past six years of the conflict, 54 Skwelkwek'welt defenders have been arrested." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/23/85524/4335 From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 24 08:09:08 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:09:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Let Our Roadie Go! A Benefit for Eco-radical Tre Arrow Message-ID: <20050224160908.3362.qmail@resist.ca> An outlaw roadie, the FBI's Most Wanted, and a freakout jam with a couple hot bands next Sunday in Vancouver. A limited number of free passes are still available, contact earth_first [@] resist { dot } ca for more info. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/23/213748/278 From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 25 07:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Upcoming Trials in Germany, Political Prisoners Targeted Message-ID: <20050225150904.30885.qmail@resist.ca> Spanish, Belgian and German anarchists are now targets of international investigations. Trials upcoming in April...Solidarity requested. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/24/1654/22529 From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 25 07:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] CKUT Radio: Hariri, Lebanon & the Economics of Poverty Message-ID: <20050225150904.30886.qmail@resist.ca> "Rafik Hariri, former Lebanese Prime Minster, was killed along with 14 others in a massive bomb blast in downtown Beirut on Monday February 14th. In the wake of Hariri's death, extraordinary political pressure internationally and internally within Lebanon has been directed toward Syria to withdraw their 15,000 troops stationed in Lebanon." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/24/16223/5060 From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 25 07:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] ...and who doesn't get deported Message-ID: <20050225150905.30887.qmail@resist.ca> "An immigration judge in Miami-Dade County has prohibited the deportations to Venezuela of two former national guard lieutenants accused of bombing diplomatic missions in Caracas in 2003 -- but gave the U.S. government the discretion to send them to another country." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/23/133737/648 From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 25 07:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] 'We Can't Eat Oil, Gas and Minerals' Message-ID: <20050225150905.30889.qmail@resist.ca> "The Tahltan elders who took over their band's Telegraph Creek administration building more than a month ago have promised to stay put until their elected chief resigns. 'Jerry Asp has lost all credibility,' said the elders-women and men between the ages of 55 and 84-in a February 17 statement. 'He is far too cozy with industry and government, and poses a threat to our very existence.' URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/25/64021/8846 From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 25 07:09:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Tl'azt'en Nation Statement - Tailings Dam Failure Message-ID: <20050225150905.30891.qmail@resist.ca> Tl'azt'en Traditional Territory, Tache, B.C. - "We feel it's a disgrace that a tailings pond can spill its mercury-laden waste into a lake and somehow this is 'not expected to hurt the water quality,' as the province's chief inspector of mines, Fred Hermann, said in a news report out of Prince George last week." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/25/53811/3020 From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 25 07:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Who gets deported... Message-ID: <20050225150905.30888.qmail@resist.ca> "A British Columbia judge has ruled that there's enough evidence to recommend that John Graham be extradited to the United States, where the former Yukoner faces charges he murdered an aboriginal activist 30 years ago." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/23/13420/8224 From news at resist.ca Sun Feb 27 06:09:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 14:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] NATO chips in to train Iraqis Message-ID: <20050227140905.741.qmail@resist.ca> "U.S. President George W. Bush's mission to charm his allies paid off when all NATO nations, including Canada, committed troops and money to Iraq, a conflict that had divided the military alliance." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/26/135545/728 From news at resist.ca Sun Feb 27 06:09:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 14:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] 18 shot dead in Haiti in past 24 hours Message-ID: <20050227140906.745.qmail@resist.ca> "At least 18 people died in shootings on Thursday and Friday around Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince, a police source said. Thirteen people were killed late on Thursday by armed individuals in the Eternal City slum neighborhood of the capital, a police officer said." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/25/221151/571 From news at resist.ca Sun Feb 27 06:09:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 14:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Defying U.S., Venezuela's Chavez embraces socialism Message-ID: <20050227140905.744.qmail@resist.ca> "Chavez, who won a referendum in August ratifying his rule until early 2007, said previous experiences of socialism in the world -- an apparent reference to the former Soviet Union -- might not be the example to follow. 'We have to invent the socialism of the 21st century,' he added." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/25/175433/724 From news at resist.ca Sun Feb 27 06:09:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 14:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] John Graham Solidarity Statements from Wolverine and Secwepemc Native Youth Movement Message-ID: <20050227140906.747.qmail@resist.ca> "Secwepemc Native Youth Movement stands with our Brother John Graham. Secwepemc NYM believes that no Indian should be forced into the white man's courts or prisons." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/25/16510/4648 From news at resist.ca Sun Feb 27 06:09:06 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 14:09:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Tahltan Elders Declare a Moratorium on Resource Development Within Their Territory Message-ID: <20050227140906.751.qmail@resist.ca> On the 33rd day of the Tahltan Elders' sit in at the band offices in Telegraph Creek, B.C., Tahltan Elders have come to a consensus using a traditional decision-making process. The statement is named "Dena nenn Sogga neh 'ine" meaning, "Keepers of the Land" in the Tahltan Language. We are putting the Federal, Provincial and Indian Act Governments on notice that "the scam is over". The elders declare a moratorium on resource development within traditional Tahltan Territory. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/25/7820/54564 From news at resist.ca Sun Feb 27 06:09:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 14:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Taking on Dow, Coke and the Royal Bank Message-ID: <20050227140906.746.qmail@resist.ca> February 19 marked a national day of action that saw trade unionists, students and activists leafleting Royal Bank of Canada branches across the country. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/26/25023/0759 From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 28 06:09:11 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 14:09:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Transcript: U.S. OK'd 'dirty war' in Argentina Message-ID: <20050228140911.18063.qmail@resist.ca> "New evidence suggests that Henry Kissinger gave the Argentine military 'a green light' in its 1970s-80s campaign against leftists." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/28/54918/4182 From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 28 06:09:11 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 14:09:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Iraq, Iran, Syria, North Korea.....China?!! Message-ID: <20050228140911.18064.qmail@resist.ca> (contributors note: Is there no limit to U.S. imperial arrogance and sabre-rattling? Apparently not, even when dealing with a potential "enemy" which actually has the means to defend itself) "...the long battle between those in the Republican Party who favor engagement with China has begun to tip in favor of those who advocate confrontation and encirclement...The confrontationist's goals are much the same as they were in the opening years of the Cold War: ring China with military bases, support Taiwanese independence and....'Work for the fall of the Communist Party oligarchy in China.'" URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/27/18183/4220 From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 28 06:09:11 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 14:09:11 -0000 Subject: [news] New Anarchist Anthology Message-ID: <20050228140912.18065.qmail@resist.ca> Black Rose Books will be publishing at the end of March 2005 Volume One of Robert Graham's much anticipated anthology of anarchist writings, Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas, From Anarchy to Anarchism (300 CE - 1939). URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/26/194454/050 From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 28 06:09:11 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 14:09:11 -0000 Subject: [news] A Year After Exile of Arisrtride, Protest Calls Attention to Nation's Plight Message-ID: <20050228140912.18067.qmail@resist.ca> Haitians cry out for country in turmoil: Violence surging. A year after exile of Aristide, protest calls attention to nation's plight "Give us liberty or death!" chanted members of Montreal and Ottawa's Haitian communities as they marched downtown yesterday, demanding peace and democracy for Haiti. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/27/16350/6686 From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 28 06:09:11 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 14:09:11 -0000 Subject: [news] The State of "Democratic Discourse" in Canada Message-ID: <20050228140912.18074.qmail@resist.ca> On February 18, 2005 - in response to a rally called by the Montreal-based Indigenous Peoples' Solidarity Movement (IPSM) - a group of about ten individuals convened in front of the OMNI hotel, the location of a conference organized by the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, entitled "Canada in the World". [...] In preparation for the rally, IPSM produced leaflets which contained information about the policies supported by some of the more odious invited speakers (Paul Cellucci, Pierre Pettigrew, Aileen Carroll, Benoit Pelletier, William Graham and Raymond Chretien) and our reasons for protesting them. [...] Initially, the group was able to get up to the second floor of the hotel and leaflet registrants just as they prepared to enter the conference room. Soon after, as conference organizers realized that our presence was aimed at expressing dissent, we were kicked out of the hotel by security personnel. The following is a more detailed account of the day's events. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/26/22124/8357 From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 28 06:09:11 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 14:09:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Bush Team Readying Backdoor Route to Drill Arctic Refuge Message-ID: <20050228140912.18069.qmail@resist.ca> "Having been thwarted repeatedly in its effort to open Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to drilling for oil, the Bush Administration and its Congressional leadership have come up with a plan for a sneak attack on the issue. Rather than holding a straightforward vote on the Senate floor, where strong public opposition halted drilling in the past few years, House and Senate members are quietly planning instead to attach the drilling measure to upcoming budget legislation, where it would be all but impossible to stop (budget bills are exempt from filibuster or extended debate)." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/26/204236/896