From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 4 07:09:02 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 15:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Too Angry...For What? Message-ID: <20050104150903.17572.qmail@resist.ca> I am often told I am "too angry." I have never totally understood what that means, honestly. "Too angry for what?" is what I always think. Too angry to be a submissive housewife? Okay, I agree with that. Too angry to be a complacent wage slave? Okay, that is true too. Too angry to sit silently by while my government commits what constructively amounts to international war crimes? Okay. Too angry to allow sexism without a counterargument of intellectual feminism? Guilty as charged. I guess maybe what I wonder about is not the "angry" part, but the "too" part. "Too angry" implies my anger exceeds what the situation warrants. "Too angry" implies irrationality, a loss of perspective, an emotional irresponsibility. I agree that I am angry. Even angry as hell. But I am not convinced that I am "too angry." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/30/44758/915 From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 4 07:09:02 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 15:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] The Better World Handbook Festival- March 26, 2005 Message-ID: <20050104150903.17573.qmail@resist.ca> TITLE: The Better World Handbook Festival DATE: 3/26/2005 START TIME: 2:00 PM- Midnight LOCATION DETAILS: 50 East Pender St., next to the beautiful Sun Yat-Sen Gardens. TOPIC: Festival of Music & Activism CONTACT EMAIL: gillian at sefacfoundation.org CONTACT PHONE: 604.253.7465 SEFAC Foundation is teaming up with Code Pink Vancouver and 'The Work Less Party' to present the 'Better World Handbook Festival', on March 26th, at 50 East Pender St., next to the beautiful Sun Yat-Sen Gardens. This Festival is organized around The Seven Foundations of a Better World - Economic Fairness, Comprehensive Peace, Ecological Sustainability, Deep Democracy, Social Justice, A Culture Of Simplicity, and Revitalized Community. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/30/222435/85 From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 4 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] On Thinning Ice Message-ID: <20050104150903.17574.qmail@resist.ca> "The polar bears stare forlornly at Hudson Bay. It's late November and they should be out on the sea ice hunting ring seals, but the ice hasn't formed and the bears are starving. Ursus maritimus doesn't hunt on land and normally fasts for months each summer. Now, however, the summers are growing longer across most of the Arctic, and the waters of Hudson Bay are ice-free for three weeks longer than they were thirty years ago. In a decade or two, polar bears won't be found this far south; by the end of the century, they might exist only in zoos." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/31/10439/727 From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 4 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Peruvian soldiers take police hostage Message-ID: <20050104150903.17578.qmail@resist.ca> "About 150 army reservists have stormed a police station in Peru, taking 10 officers hostage and demanding the resignation of the country's president. The assault was led by a retired army major, Antauro Humala, who is described as an ultra-nationalist." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/1/165441/7873 From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 4 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] When women kill for justice Message-ID: <20050104150903.17585.qmail@resist.ca> "Fed up with delays in the judicial process, police inaction, fear of being victimized again by alleged rapists who procure easy bail, the women of Nagpur have decided to take the law into their own hands. The razing of the alleged rapists' homes follows a series of high-profile cases that began in August when Akku Yadav, a gang leader who faced 24 criminal charges including murder, was stabbed and stoned to death in a court by a mob led by women." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/2/231619/9075 From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 4 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Navajo President Blasts Iraq War Message-ID: <20050104150903.17575.qmail@resist.ca> Calling it a waste of life and money, [Navajo Nation] President Joe Shirley Jr. lashed out Monday against the war in Iraq. "I ask myself why (we are fighting the war)," Shirley said during a year-end press conference in his office. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/31/103935/38 From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 4 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] History will show U.S. lusted after oil Message-ID: <20050104150904.17579.qmail@resist.ca> by Linda McQuaig "Gaining control over oil is crucial to extending U.S. power, and will be even more so in the coming years as the world's easily-accessible oil reserves are depleted, creating ever fiercer competition for what remains. All this will make controlling the Middle East that much more crucial. Or, as Cheney put it in a speech to the London Institute of Petroleum in 1999, when he was CEO of oil giant Halliburton: 'The Middle East, with two-thirds of the world's oil and lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies.'" URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/2/2445/94829 From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 5 08:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 16:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Iraqi Resistance Shells U.S. & U.K. Consulates in Basra Message-ID: <20050105160904.28229.qmail@resist.ca> "The US and UK consulates in Basra came under heavy attack....hours after a car bomb ripped through a bus carrying Iraqi National Guard personnel in the city of Balad." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/2/18958/77117 From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 5 08:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 16:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Weyerhaeuser Will Pay $6M for Toxic Cleanup Message-ID: <20050105160904.28230.qmail@resist.ca> "Weyerhaeuser Company has agreed to reimburse the US Environmental Protection Agency for cleanup costs at a Michigan river choked with tons of highly-toxic polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/4/204352/3469 From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 5 08:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 16:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Plan to Keep Detainees in Jail for Life Criticized by Senators Message-ID: <20050105160905.28232.qmail@resist.ca> WASHINGTON -- "The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Sunday dismissed as "a bad idea" a reported U.S. government plan to keep some suspected terrorists in custody for their lifetime, even if there was not enough evidence to bring them before a judge." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/3/123125/8311 From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 5 08:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 16:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Angry Kamloops inmates try to set two fires Message-ID: <20050105160905.28237.qmail@resist.ca> "Anger over what was on the breakfast menu triggered a small-scale riot at Kamloops Regional Correctional Centre Monday." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/4/124955/8185 From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 5 08:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 16:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Yukoner petitioning to let refugee claimants stay Message-ID: <20050105160905.28234.qmail@resist.ca> "A Whitehorse businessman wants Yukoners to send a signal to federal immigration officials. He's asking residents to sign a petition showing support for refugee claimants in the territory. More than 50 refugee claimants moved to Whitehorse earlier this year. Rick Karp is determined to keep them here." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/1/3937/69974 From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 6 08:09:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 16:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] 13 Hour Bus Ride From Caracas Message-ID: <20050106160906.29614.qmail@resist.ca> "What appears to be the great strength of the Bolivarian Revolution would naturally also appear to be its greatest weakness. The lack of clear definition about what it means precisely to be "Bolivarian" (besides anti-imperialist) has created the possibility of a great social movement of incredible breadth under the leadership of President Hugo Chavez Frias. But this ideological ambiguity has left open the door also to right-wing opportunists welcomed in by that very ambiguity." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/4/15314/23539 From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 6 08:09:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 16:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Why Do the ACLU and National Lawyers Guild Protect Violent Riot Police? Message-ID: <20050106160906.29615.qmail@resist.ca> On June 2, 2003, I was falsely imprisoned and violently assaulted by Seattle riot police on 5th Avenue in downtown Seattle. On March 22, 2003, my son and I were not just falsely imprisoned and assaulted by Seattle Police, but also Federal riot police, and several Federal agencies, including the Department of Immigration, who were armed and on site as well. We were not attacked alone. About 300 hundred, or more, fellow unarmed citizens, committing no crimes, in an area with a city permit for the protest, also suffered my fate, in both instances. After these incidents, the National Lawyers Guild, the Washington American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Seattle City Council, and the Office of Police Accountability (OPA) solicited our written accounts of these illegal cop riots. Additionally, two "activist" lawyers, Larry Hildes and Paul Richmond, showed up on the scene, and solicited their services to the pool of victims. I gave my two city claim cards, filled out, to Paul, and that was basically the end of that. Never heard about it again. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/5/102754/0195 From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 6 08:09:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 16:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] The lefties who believe in pleasure Message-ID: <20050106160906.29616.qmail@resist.ca> Left-wing political movements, as Petrini has acknowledged, tend to be uncomfortable with the idea of pleasure. In the past, he has written, "people on the left, no matter how sophisticated and modern they might be, had an odd relationship to gastronomy". This remains broadly true today. Environmentalists find it hard to rid themselves of their earnest, do-gooding image. And there is something horribly joyless and negative about the approach of many anti-globalisation protesters. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/2/124411/3189 From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 6 08:09:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 16:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Tribe shoots arrows at aid flight Message-ID: <20050106160906.29617.qmail@resist.ca> "An Indian helicopter dropping food and water over the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands has been attacked by tribesmen using bows and arrows. There were fears that the endangered tribal groups had been wiped out when massive waves struck their islands." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/4/183546/3221 From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 6 09:09:20 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 17:09:20 -0000 Subject: [news] Media as the Judge: The case of accused Eco-Terrorist Tre Arrow Message-ID: <20050106170920.9296.qmail@resist.ca> The Tre Arrow Defense Committee launches a national speaking tour this month. Two supporters are leading the roadshow across Canada to discuss Tre's case: how he came to the attention of the FBI during his peaceful forest defense work in Oregon, why he's fighting extradition to the US, and how American domestic terrorism policies unfairly target forest activists more than abortion clinic bombers and neo-Nazi groups, for example. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/5/203035/9033 From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 6 09:09:20 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 17:09:20 -0000 Subject: [news] The Seal Hunt: Canada's Cowardly Face Message-ID: <20050106170921.9297.qmail@resist.ca> Those who followed last year's hunt, which brought death to some 350,000 pups, will remember such typical scenes as one seal trying to escape as another is clubbed nearby; the creature makes it to water's edge but, too young to even swim, must wait there as the man with the club approaches. Other footage -- seen across the world, however unfairly, as the face of Canada -- showed sealers routinely dragging conscious pups across the ice with boat hooks, or shooting the seals and leaving them to suffer. Yet standing there, ankle deep in gore and innocent blood, the sealers just can't understand why anyone would object. And we're all supposed to feel sorry for them, these fine, upstanding fellows so unappreciated by the modern world. Mr. Efford, back when he led Newfoundland's fisheries department, demonstrated the mindset when he proposed to ban all cameras from the scene of the hunts -- as if the problem were public knowledge of the event, rather than the event itself. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/5/20382/53983 From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 7 07:09:10 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 15:09:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada has a gambling problem Message-ID: <20050107150910.22941.qmail@resist.ca> Revenues from government-run gambling operations exceeded $11.8-billion in 2003. That is a four-fold increase in just a decade. (And, to put that number in perspective, consider that the goods and services tax, the dreaded GST, brings in about $29-billion a year.) The health and social costs of gambling -- and problem gambling in particular -- are a lot more difficult to quantify. But they include increased costs for policing, courts, prisons, medical care, social assistance and economic losses to individuals and businesses. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/7/53938/08515 From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 7 07:09:10 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 15:09:10 -0000 Subject: [news] "Smart Cards" to be used on Indians Message-ID: <20050107150910.22944.qmail@resist.ca> The Mohawks of Kahnawake and Crees of Quebec are the targets of an American company wishing to use them as the guinea pigs for a worldwide `Smart Card' system. "The work is being done in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/7/6523/36141 From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 7 07:09:10 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 15:09:10 -0000 Subject: [news] 2005 Anarchist People of Color Conference Set for Houston Message-ID: <20050107150910.22943.qmail@resist.ca> Following up a successful 2003 Anarchist People of Color conference in Detroit, Michigan, the next Anarchist People of Color conference is being proposed for October in Houston, Texas. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/4/11597/99198 From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 7 07:09:10 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 15:09:10 -0000 Subject: [news] China Expands. Europe Rises. And the United States . . . Message-ID: <20050107150910.22940.qmail@resist.ca> "[T]he signposts, at the end of this year, are ominous. As an economic power, the United States no longer sets the rules, much less rule the game. As a military power, it vastly outguns the rest of the world, but has a harder time translating armed might into influence." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/7/62410/13459 From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 7 07:09:10 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 15:09:10 -0000 Subject: [news] "Animal rights" as Genocide: the seal hunt and the Inuit Message-ID: <20050107150911.22945.qmail@resist.ca> The federal government's bill to modernize Canada's century-old animal cruelty act could lead to "cultural genocide" for aboriginal hunters, a Liberal senator said yesterday. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/6/94351/37977 From news at resist.ca Sat Jan 8 08:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 16:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Israel faces a tough sell [to Canadians] in increasingly brutal conflict Message-ID: <20050108160903.24424.qmail@resist.ca> Calgary Sun "[N]ot all is well for those in Canada running interference for Israel's inhuman subjugation of its neighbours. A poll conducted by the pro-Israel lobby released in November proved unnerving to its sponsors by showing 89% of Canadians believe both sides in the conflict share equal blame and that 83% insist on Ottawa remaining neutral on the issue." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/8/72920/87708 From news at resist.ca Sat Jan 8 08:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 16:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] The Balata film collective Message-ID: <20050108160903.24425.qmail@resist.ca> A new film collective has started in Balata refugee camp, the biggest refugee camp in the west bank. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/8/5441/26203 From news at resist.ca Sat Jan 8 08:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 16:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Governor Tough Guy Beats Up on Nurses Message-ID: <20050108160903.24426.qmail@resist.ca> "(California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger) uses his rather sophisticated brand of self-mocking, self-parodying machismo to present the image of a take-charge, independent-minded, no-politics-as-usual, principled public servant....the reality is that he is a blustering, corporations-first, favor-returning servant of Big Business." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/8/2536/76229 From news at resist.ca Sat Jan 8 08:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 16:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Assassination of governor fuels fears for Iraqi election Message-ID: <20050108160903.24427.qmail@resist.ca> "Baghdad and Washington -- In a bold and stunning daylight attack yesterday, Sunni insurgents seeking to derail Iraq's election killed the governor of Baghdad province and six of his bodyguards." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/8/73150/40018 From news at resist.ca Sat Jan 8 08:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 16:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Hunger strike continuing in front of Immigration Canada offices Message-ID: <20050108160904.24432.qmail@resist.ca> Friday Jan 7 midnight Members of Iranian Federation of Refugees, friends and families of refugees facing deportation, and supporters from No One is Illegal have been maintaining a hunger strike outside CIC offices (300 West Georgia) since noon on Friday in support of an Iranian refugee facing deportation. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/8/1270/41985 From news at resist.ca Sat Jan 8 08:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 16:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada Plays Big Role in Propping up Haiti Regime Message-ID: <20050108160903.24428.qmail@resist.ca> VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- The Canadian government is taking a leadership role in propping up the U.S.-installed regime in Haiti and keeping Fanmi Lavalas, the party of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, from returning to power. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/8/03911/40595 From waldern at sfu.ca Mon Jan 10 13:11:03 2005 From: waldern at sfu.ca (waldern at sfu.ca) Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:11:03 -0800 Subject: [news] forum: state terror, Hac.Luisita case Message-ID: <200501102111.j0ALB3O2012697@rm-rstar.sfu.ca> An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: not available URL: From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 10 11:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Venezuela to seize aristocrat's cattle ranch Message-ID: <20050110190904.11014.qmail@resist.ca> Venezuelan authorities backed by troops are on Saturday expected to seize a 32,000-acre ranch owned by Lord Vestey, an English aristocrat and meat tycoon. Lord Vestey, known as "Spam" to friends because his family's wealth comes from the meat trade, is one of Britain's richest men and a close friend of Prince Charles. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/9/1498/77113 From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 10 11:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] UN Squashing Aristide's Backers in Haiti Message-ID: <20050110190904.11013.qmail@resist.ca> January 7, 2005 Port-au-Prince,Haiti(HIP)-Corralling residents and kicking down doors, heavily armed troops of the UN and the Police Nationale de Haiti (PNH) invaded several neighborhoods of Cite Soleil one day after an alleged attack on the headquarters of the mission of the Sisters of St. Vincent de Paul. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/9/94532/34713 From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 10 11:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Abbas declares victory in election for Palestinian Authority chair Message-ID: <20050110190904.11016.qmail@resist.ca> "Palestine Liberation Organization chief Mahmoud Abbas declared victory Sunday in the election for Palestinian Authority chairman and dedicated his victory to Yasser Arafat." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/10/73221/4106 From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 10 11:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Interview with the Earth Liberation Front Message-ID: <20050110190904.11015.qmail@resist.ca> Direct action gets the goods: The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) is an underground network responsible for acts of arson and sabotage against development, urban sprawl, and sport utility vehicles. ELF actions have caused hundreds of millions of dollars in property damage in the United States. The Green Monkey, Coop Radio's environmental action programme on 102.7 FM in Vancouver, BC, interviewed the anonymous spokesperson for the ELF Press Office (ELFPO) last year. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/9/165431/5707 From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 10 11:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Update on Hunger Strike Outside CIC Message-ID: <20050110190905.11017.qmail@resist.ca> Saturday, January 8th, 2004 9:00pm Ali Reza's family, friends and supporters have now been out in the cold, without food for over 32 hours. A number of refugees from Iran, Turkey and other countries have joined the hunger strike and the protest outside the CIC. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/8/224228/0594 From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 10 11:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Study to look at Dene culture in the workplace Message-ID: <20050110190905.11018.qmail@resist.ca> The Dene Nation intend to study how its culture, traditional values and language can be protected in the work place. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/8/122055/0248 From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 11 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Senior trade union leader tortured and killed Message-ID: <20050111150903.5362.qmail@resist.ca> The ICFTU today expressed its deep shock and revulsion at the brutal torture and murder of Hadi Salih, International Secretary of the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU) at his Baghdad home on Tuesday night (4 January). "This vicious murder is nothing less than an attack on the right of Iraqi workers to trade union representation. It is aimed at destabilising and undermining the development of trade unions as cornerstones of development and respect for human rights", said ICFTU General Secretary Guy Ryder. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/11/55749/6018 From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 11 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Oil Running out, planet heating... Message-ID: <20050111150904.5363.qmail@resist.ca> World oil production will peak on Thanksgiving Day 2005, according to Kenneth Deffeyes of Princeton University. "After the peak, the world's production of crude oil will fall, never to rise again," Deffeyes wrote in an abstract. "If the predictions are correct, there will be enormous effects on the world economy. Even the poorest nations need fuel to run irrigation pumps. The industrialized nations will be bidding against one another for the dwindling oil supply. The good news is that we will put less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The bad news is that my pickup truck has a 25-gallon tank." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/9/105757/7200 From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 11 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Quebec liquor store strike escalates Message-ID: <20050111150904.5367.qmail@resist.ca> Windows were smashed at seven SAQ (Societe des alcools du Quebec) liqour store outlets over the weekend as the SAQ strike drags into its ninth week. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/10/11223/5591 From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 11 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Corporate "Development" Caused Tsunami Deaths Message-ID: <20050111150904.5364.qmail@resist.ca> How the mangrove shield was lost - Thursday January 6, 2005; The Guardian Powerful business interests left Asian coastal protection in tatters before the tsunami, reports John Vidal. As the clear-up from the Asian tsunami starts and the full damage is assessed, there is growing consensus among scientists, environmentalists and Asian fishing communities that the impact was considerably worsened by tourist, shrimp farm and other industrial developments which have destroyed or degraded mangrove forests and other natural sea defences. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/10/142043/932 From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 11 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] McKenna's appointment to US embassador coup for corporate Canada Message-ID: <20050111150904.5366.qmail@resist.ca> The role of U.S. envoy will position McKenna to play handmaiden to corporate aspirations in Canada, including Canadian-based subcontracts for the U.S. military. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/10/221149/222 From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 11 07:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Victory for Vancouver Refugee (edited for grammar) Message-ID: <20050111150904.5368.qmail@resist.ca> Re-posted from Victoria Indymedia In a surprise last-minute decision, Citizenship and Immigration Canada decided to cancel the deportation of Ali Reza Monemi scheduled for Tuesday. Supporters rallied outside CIC offices at 5 PM Monday afternoon and called it an important victory for refugee rights in Canada. CIC has been increasing hostile to legitimate refugee claimants in the last few years. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/10/194239/943 From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 12 07:09:16 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:09:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Is the FTAA dead, or just resting? Message-ID: <20050112150916.21065.qmail@resist.ca> "...Latin American populations are no longer listening to the old "prosperity is just around the corner" tune of the neo-liberal crowd, whose policies have ruined their countries. In nation after nation, democratic elections have resulted in centre-left governments gaining power on promises of activist government, and moderating neo-liberal policies. Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela are among them, and Bolivia and Uruguay have followed suit. The unintended consequence of U.S. neo-liberal policies has been to revive a powerful Latin American nationalism." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/12/54448/4903 From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 12 07:09:16 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:09:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Hate Groups Against Homeless People in America Message-ID: <20050112150916.21064.qmail@resist.ca> "You know what a hate group is. You know what a hate crime is. You know there are hate crimes based on race, nationality, gender, and religion. Well, there are also hate crimes based on economic class. But they do not break any laws, because economic equality is not guaranteed in our Constitution anywhere." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/10/161723/975 From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 12 07:09:16 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:09:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Slave Sovereignty Message-ID: <20050112150916.21063.qmail@resist.ca> Palestinian Presidential Elections Under Occupation "[E]lecting a Palestinian president while still under the boot of the occupier is an oxymoron. Sovereignty and occupation are mutually exclusive. The world, including many well-informed readers, seem to think that the Palestinian people is actually practicing the ultimate form of sovereignty by freely choosing its own president. This is easily extrapolated in the heads of many to mean that Palestinians are in a way free." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/12/6141/85065 From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 12 07:09:16 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:09:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Graham's fate could hinge on Looking Cloud appeal Message-ID: <20050112150916.21066.qmail@resist.ca> "A man serving a life sentence for killing Anna Mae Aquash is seeking to overturn his conviction - and the appeal could determine the fate of a former Yukoner facing the same charges." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/10/112658/082 From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 12 07:09:16 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:09:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Victory for Ali Reza Monemi Message-ID: <20050112150917.21072.qmail@resist.ca> January 11, 2005 At 5 pm last night, less than twelve hours prior to his deportation, Ali Reza received news that he was granted a Stay of Deportation from Federal Court. Unable to contain her joy at two major victories within one day (the release of Ali from detention and his stay), his mother merely smiled throughout the rally with an occassional "Stop the Deportations! No One is Illegal." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/11/95946/3484 From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 12 07:09:16 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:09:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Tsunami Victim Beaten & Arrested by Vancouver Cops Message-ID: <20050112150917.21067.qmail@resist.ca> Another case of brutality from the thugs otherwise known as the Vancouver Police Department. According to victim Luke Norman, who had lost all his identification and incurred injuries to his fingers as a result of the tsunami in Asia, "(I) was arrested and assaulted by police Sunday night after a 'thank God we're alive' party because (I) did not have any identification." As per usual, cops are blaming the victim saying he was "intoxicated, belligerent and aggressive with police." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/11/14175/9782 From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 13 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Regulations, data lacking on less-lethal weapons Message-ID: <20050113150903.3891.qmail@resist.ca> By Brian MacQuarrie, Globe Staff | January 11, 2005 "Manufacturers are competing aggressively to put less-lethal weapons in the hands of police officers across the country, but critics say the quickly evolving industry remains unregulated, training is sporadic, and product information is often incomplete." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/13/6109/55151 From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 13 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] "White Man's Burden" and the Iraq War Message-ID: <20050113150903.3890.qmail@resist.ca> "How different is Bush's Global Democratic Revolution: the melodious sounding euphemism for racial warfare and subjugation? Don't deny it; the evidence is everywhere. The third world has entered Bush's crosshairs and racist ideology is fueling the hysteria." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/13/6398/32151 From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 13 07:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 15:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Environmentalists lose NW NPR-A lawsuit [Alaska] Message-ID: <20050113150904.3895.qmail@resist.ca> "The U.S. District Court for Alaska has ruled against the Northern Alaska Environmental Center and other plaintiffs that filed a 2004 lawsuit challenging Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton's decision to open the Northwest National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska to oil and gas leasing." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/12/74451/5741 From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 13 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] US ends fruitless Iraq WMD search Message-ID: <20050113150904.3892.qmail@resist.ca> Months of searching Iraq uncovered no sign of any WMDs The search for elusive weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has officially ended, the Washington Post says. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/12/8050/70369 From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 13 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Bolivian Government makes ambiguous contract to end water deal Message-ID: <20050113150904.3894.qmail@resist.ca> Jim Shultz, The Democracy Center "As public strikes mount, Bolivian government announces it will end contract with foreign water company in El Alto neighborhood. Neighborhood organizations reject offer as too ambiguous. Bolivia - As the city of El Alto finished the second day of a citywide general strike, demanding ouster of the multinational corporation that controls its water, the Bolivian government announced that it has decided to cancel the company's water contract. Neighborhood organizations, however, rejected the government's offer Tuesday night, claiming that it included no firm date for the company's departure and no real guarantee that the company would leave." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/13/63734/3242 From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 13 07:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 15:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Who killed Anna Mae? Message-ID: <20050113150904.3897.qmail@resist.ca> Rex Weyler recounts the evidence in the John Graham extradition case. "In the 1970s, two First Nations youths, John Graham from Yukon and Anna Mae Pictou from Nova Scotia, set out to help win native rights. They stumbled into a violent American maelstrom that cost Pictou her life and left Graham facing a murder charge." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/13/61335/8153 From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 14 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] BRU Fare Strike January 14! Message-ID: <20050114150903.13311.qmail@resist.ca> Don't Pay for Bus Cuts, Don't Pay for Transit Racism, Don't Pay for Privatization Join the Bus Riders Union Fare Strike On Friday, January 14 bus riders will be on Fare Strike. The Vancouver Bus Riders Union (BRU) has organized this Fare Strike in response to TransLink's fare increase that came into effect January 1. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/13/205339/617 From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 14 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] 2 Killed Protesting Glamis Gold Message-ID: <20050114150903.13310.qmail@resist.ca> January 12, 2005 - URGENT OPEN LETTER to officials with the Canadian government, Glamis Gold mining company and the World Bank. CONCERNING: On January 11, 2005, Guatemalan farmers Raul Castro Bocel and Miguel Tzorin Tuy were killed by Guatemalan authorities while protesting the transportation of machinery to be used in the Glamis Gold "Proyecto Marlin" mining operation that is funded by the World Bank and promoted and supported by the Canadian government. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/13/95036/9822 From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 14 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Mark Thatcher pleads guilty to attempting to finance an African coup plot Message-ID: <20050114150904.13312.qmail@resist.ca> like mother like son... CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - "Sir Mark Thatcher pleaded guilty Thursday to unwittingly helping to finance a foiled coup in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, accepting a $609,150 Cdn fine and a suspended jail sentence." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/13/9481/49440 From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 14 07:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 15:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Ibdaa is the Intifada Message-ID: <20050114150904.13320.qmail@resist.ca> The following story comes from Aaron Lakoff, CKUT (Montreal) reporter currently traveling in Palestine. More from Aaron can be found at aaron.resist.ca. "The residents of the camp certainly need this place acknowledged. The kids who are serving as our guides for the afternoon tell us that a few years ago, the children and residents of the camp were skeptical and cold to Westerners coming into the camp with cameras and recorders, but after years of the Intifada and desperation, they see it as beneficial and necessary for the eyes of the world to be here." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/13/122151/362 From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 14 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Is Al Qaeda just a Bush Boogeyman? Message-ID: <20050114150904.13313.qmail@resist.ca> "If Osama bin Laden does, in fact, head a vast international terrorist organization with trained operatives in more than 40 countries, as claimed by Bush, why, despite torture of prisoners, has this administration failed to produce hard evidence of it?" URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/14/65133/8206 From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 14 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] We pay too little for gas, not too much. Message-ID: <20050114150904.13315.qmail@resist.ca> "Canadians live in a big, cold country. We depend on fossil fuels to heat the place in winter and to transport virtually everything we need to survive over vast distances within the country. On a per capita basis we are the world's largest trading nation, totally dependent on fossil fuels to connect us materially to the world. Thanks to production agriculture and industrial food processing, the food we eat now "contains" more fossil energy than solar energy. In fact, for all the paper wealth being generated by high-tech and Internet stocks, the country's entire post-industrial economy still floats on a stream of oil and gas." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/13/202830/252 From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 14 07:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 15:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Live-In Caregiver Program Exploits Women: Reform Needed Now Message-ID: <20050114150905.13316.qmail@resist.ca> Citizenship and Immigration Canada is reviewing Canada's domestic worker program this week. Grassroots Women notes that the review is long overdue and changes are needed now. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/13/202753/319 From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 17 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Palestinian Resistance Groups Warn Abbas About Siding with Israel Message-ID: <20050117140903.28119.qmail@resist.ca> "Palestinian resistance fighters are preparing to battle (Palestinian Authority) leader Mahmud Abbas should he take his condemnation of violence a step further and begin a clampdown on anti-Israeli attacks....'We will fight him if he even so much as thinks about fighting against the resistance and helping Sharon,' said Abu Hafsa, a leader in Hamas' armed wing...." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/16/15169/4790 From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 17 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Rome and Milan to curb private cars amid pollution scare Message-ID: <20050117140903.28118.qmail@resist.ca> ROME (AFP) - "Several Italian cities, and notably Rome and Milan, are to ban private cars from their central neighbourhoods this Sunday due to excessive air pollution." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/15/14416/2043 From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 17 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] U.S. to Start Fingerprinting at 50 Busiest Land Border Crossings Message-ID: <20050117140903.28120.qmail@resist.ca> Tuesday January 4, 2005 12:01 AM By LESLIE MILLER WASHINGTON (AP) - "Foreign visitors at the 50 busiest land border crossings in 10 states are now being fingerprinted as part of the government's new biometric screening system, the Homeland Security Department announced on Monday. The system, called US-VISIT, scans photographs of the visitor's face and index fingers into a computer, which are matched with federal agencies' criminal databases." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/16/16623/9604 From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 17 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Council at loggerheads over police budget hike Message-ID: <20050117140904.28126.qmail@resist.ca> "Vancouver's famously split city council is headed for another battle over the next four months, as councillors tussle over whether to give more money to police and to maintain new social programs." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/17/52325/0221 From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 17 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] High Arctic deposits: Gassed up, ready to go Message-ID: <20050117140905.28125.qmail@resist.ca> "The two big discoveries total 10 trillion cubic feet of gas - about one-sixth of the known gas reserves in all of Western Canada." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/15/10520/9137 From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 18 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] America's war with itself Message-ID: <20050118150903.21572.qmail@resist.ca> Bush's attempt to wreck the climate talks follows an established pattern of self-destruction I have a persistant mental image of US foreign policy, which haunts me even in my sleep. The vanguard of a vast army is marching around the globe, looking for its enemy. It sees a mass of troops in the distance, retreating from it. It opens fire, unaware that it is shooting its own rear. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/18/63423/6234 From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 18 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Palestinian security forces told to prevent attacks Message-ID: <20050118150903.21573.qmail@resist.ca> "'A decision was taken that we will handle our obligation to stop violence against Israelis anywhere,' cabinet minister Saeb Erekat said. He did not provide details." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/17/61829/7567 From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 18 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] All Charges Dismissed Against IWW Organizer Daniel Gross Message-ID: <20050118150903.21574.qmail@resist.ca> "The [U.S.] Government dismissed the case against IWW Starbucks Workers Union co-founder Daniel Gross today in the New York Criminal Court, citing an inability to prove the charges. Mr. Gross was set to stand trial on resisting arrest and disorderly conduct charges stemming from a march at the Republican National Convention against the Bush Administration's collaboration with union-busting at Starbucks." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/17/15549/0059 From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 18 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] New fund helps communities to negotiate pipeline deals Message-ID: <20050118150903.21575.qmail@resist.ca> "Aboriginal groups and tax-based communities in the Northwest Territories are dipping into a new pot of money to cut deals with the developers of the Mackenzie Valley gas pipeline project." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/17/182827/166 From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 18 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Deportation stayed minutes before departure to Somalia Message-ID: <20050118150904.21577.qmail@resist.ca> "After spending Monday night in nightmarish suspense, Mohamed, his wife Shamis, and their four sons received word at 11 am yesterday morning that he could stop packing his bags, and did not have to be at the Toronto International airport for pre-deportation processing at 1:30pm." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/18/62245/9012 From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 18 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] The NDP is Not the Solution, it is Part of the Problem Message-ID: <20050118150904.21578.qmail@resist.ca> "The purpose of social democratic parties is to demobilize, disorient, and derail any mass movement that shows signs of becoming a threat to the interests of the ruling class. They're part of the ideological control apparatus. The people who run these parties understand exactly what their job is, and are well paid for their services. As long as this scam keeps working, why would they abandon it? To do so might impair their future career prospects." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/17/225925/768 From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 19 07:09:08 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:09:08 -0000 Subject: [news] EPA charges DuPont hid Teflon's risks Message-ID: <20050119150908.2659.qmail@resist.ca> "More than 50 years after DuPont started producing Teflon near this Ohio River town, federal officials are accusing the company of hiding information suggesting that a chemical used to make the popular stick- and stain-resistant coating might cause cancer, birth defects and other ailments." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/18/10828/0893 From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 19 07:09:08 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:09:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Colombia Admits It Hired Agents to Abduct Rebel in Venezuela Message-ID: <20050119150909.2660.qmail@resist.ca> "Colombia's defense minister acknowledged Wednesday that the government paid bounty hunters to seize a Marxist rebel from neighboring Venezuela, a kidnapping that has soured ties between the countries." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/18/112611/397 From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 19 07:09:08 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:09:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Before Iraq, There was Yugoslavia Message-ID: <20050119150908.2658.qmail@resist.ca> "Muted by the evidence of the Anglo-American catastrophe in Iraq, the international 'humanitarian' war party ought to be called to account for its largely forgotten crusade in Kosovo, the model for Tony Blair's 'onward march of liberation'. Just as Iraq is being torn apart by the forces of empire, so was Yugoslavia, the multi-ethnic state that uniquely rejected both sides in the cold war." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/19/2811/63756 From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 19 07:09:08 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:09:08 -0000 Subject: [news] PM will back missile plan, Cellucci says Message-ID: <20050119150909.2662.qmail@resist.ca> Ottawa -- "The United States is optimistic Canada will sign on to President George W. Bush's missile-defence plan before the end of March, American Ambassador Paul Cellucci told The Canadian Press." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/18/195221/008 From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 19 07:09:09 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:09:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Mayor urges ban on street sleeping Message-ID: <20050119150909.2666.qmail@resist.ca> "Toronto Mayor David Miller issued a plan yesterday to ban people from sleeping in Nathan Phillips Square and other public spaces." The mayor's winter sweep is couched in cozy liberal talk of "arrest as a last resort" but he ignores the fact that police are routinely abusive when dealing with the homeless and that despite this, many people living on the street are there because they don't want to live in shelters. These temporary lodgings can be dangerous, dirty, noisy and are simply not home. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/18/19578/7371 From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 19 07:09:09 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:09:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Tearing Down Al Walaja Message-ID: <20050119150910.2667.qmail@resist.ca> "It is apparent that the Israeli authorities love acting under Kafkaesque terms in the West Bank. Everything here boggles the mind once it appears before your eyes. For instance, on our way to Al Walaja, we hear the army has declared the area an official closed military zone. While this term may conjure up the image of a barren war zone with land mines exploding left, right, and center, this is simply military double-speak for any area they want to tear to the ground and where there is a good chance the locals might resist." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/18/115418/829 From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 20 06:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Women and Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution Message-ID: <20050120140904.12773.qmail@resist.ca> With the fall of the dictatorship of Perez Jimenez in 1958, Venezuela tentatively took its first steps towards the aperture of a fragile, exclusionary democracy. In practice, democracy proved to be a gender-exclusive phenomenon. Although the Constitution of 1960 declared that men and women were formally equal under the law, women who had been active in the struggle for democracy found themselves devoid of its privileges and marginalized from politics. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/19/74133/3587 From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 20 06:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Firebomber sentenced to prison Message-ID: <20050120140905.12775.qmail@resist.ca> MONTREAL - "Sleiman Elmerhebi, 19, has been sentenced to two more years in prison for firebombing a Jewish elementary school last April." When the school was firebombed last April, a note left at the scene claimed the attack was in retaliation for Israel's killing of Hamas spiritual leader, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/19/193732/638 From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 20 06:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Fisk: Not even Saddam could achieve the divisions this election will bring Message-ID: <20050120140905.12774.qmail@resist.ca> Sunday 30 January will be the day when myth and reality come together with - I fear - an all too literal bang. The magic date upon which Iraq is supposed to transform itself into a democracy will no doubt be greeted as another milestone in America's adventure and, I suspect, another "great day for Iraq" by Lord Blair of Kut al-Amara. He, of course, doesn't have to be blown up in the polling stations or torn to pieces by suicide bombers on the way home. The "martyrs of democracy", as I am sure the dead will be feted, will be those Iraqis who have decided to go along with an election so physically dangerous that the international observers will be "observing" the poll from Amman. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/17/182225/413 From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 20 06:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Judge Sentences Cheam Members for Fishing Message-ID: <20050120140905.12777.qmail@resist.ca> "The (Cheam) band, located across the Fraser River from Agassiz, and its members may disagree with the law, but they cannot do so with impunity from prosecution, (Provincial Court Judge Jim) Jardine ruled in one of two separate cases in provincial court that date back to September 1999." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/19/183954/826 From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 20 06:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Guards union warns B.C. federal prison 'powder keg' after search turns up bullet Message-ID: <20050120140905.12776.qmail@resist.ca> "The Union of Canadian Correctional Officers warned Matsqui Institution is ripe for an inmate rebellion, possibly combined with escape attempts." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/19/135744/903 From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 20 06:09:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Over 5000 Bus Riders Participate in Fare Strike! Message-ID: <20050120140905.12780.qmail@resist.ca> Vancouver - "On January 14th, over 5000 bus riders in Greater Vancouver engaged in collective direct action in the Bus Riders Union's first-ever fare strike. The Bus Riders Union called the fare strike to protest TransLink's latest fare increase. The fare increase will steal $41 million from the pockets of bus riders over the next three years. TransLink is raising bus riders' fares while pouring money into the privatized RAV line that will benefit corporate interests at the expense of bus riders." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/19/19368/2038 From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 21 06:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 14:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Ben Dupuy Denounces =?utf-8?q?Bush=C3=A8s?= Haiti Crimes at Counter-Inauguration Message-ID: <20050121140904.13578.qmail@resist.ca> Statement of Ben Dupuy, Secretary General of the National Popular Party (PPN) Counter-Inaugural Rally, Washington, DC Sisters and Brothers, On behalf of the Haitian people, we salute the ANSWER Coalition for organizing this historic counter-inauguration rally, and we salute all of you for turning out on this cold day to protest against the policies and conduct of the administration of George W. Bush. Never before in world history has a government wielded so much power and been so dangerous to the peace and security of the world's people. Bush and his clique are clearly intent on world domination and have already killed hundreds of thousands to have it. Millions of people are now faced with four more years of war and aggression. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/20/231435/975 From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 21 06:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 14:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Autonome.org: An Inspiring Site for Class Revolution Message-ID: <20050121140904.13579.qmail@resist.ca> Autonome (http://www.autonome.org) is a stark site, yet still wonderfully inspirational. They have a nice cache of downloadable posters which I wish were on light poles everywhere I went. One poster says, "We Don't Want The Bread, We Don't Even Want The Bakery, We Want The Whole Damn Wheat Field Back" over a background of wheat. Another poster shows children in a factory, and says, "Minimum wage is the smallest amount necessary to keep us all from revolting in the streets. Therefore, the more often we revolt, the higher minimum wage will be." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/18/54220/3917 From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 21 06:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 14:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Venezuela Nationalizes Venepal Paper Factory Message-ID: <20050121140905.13580.qmail@resist.ca> CARACAS, 20 January, 2005--"Venezuela's largest paper plant Venepal was nationalized yesterday, after battling bankruptcy for the past two years. The troubled company stopped production in September, 2004 threatening to sell off the plant's machinery to pay off creditors. Workers at the plant who had not been paid since September, organized a national campaign to encourage the expropriation of the factory, which culminated in yesterday's official announcement. According to [The Secretary-General of Venepal's union, Edgar] Pe?a, Venepal workers prepared a detailed report on the viability of worker's control at Venepal for the National Assembly. Pe?a identified the report as instrumental in precipitating the National Assembly's decision." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/20/181057/424 From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 21 07:09:02 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 15:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] U.S. State Department intervenes to protect Occidental against lawsuit for human rights crimes Message-ID: <20050121150902.20920.qmail@resist.ca> "On December 13, 1998, the Colombian Air Force, which has received millions of dollars of assistance from [US based] Occidental Petroleum, bombed the small hamlet of Santo Domingo, Colombia, killing 17 civilians, including 7 children. As the LA Times later exposed, this bombing was planned in Room G of Occidental Petroleum's offices in CaZo Limon." "In response to this bombing, Colombian Plaintiffs who lost relatives in this bombing commenced an action in a federal court in Los Angeles[...]" "The State Department complied with this request, and, on December 23, 2004, sent a [...] letter to the court in L.A., now indicating that it believed the lawsuit would adversely impact U.S. foreign policy in Colombia and urging the court to dismiss the case." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/21/55734/7196 From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 21 07:09:02 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 15:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Pig who beat boy gets $1.6m Message-ID: <20050121150903.20922.qmail@resist.ca> A US policeman who was filmed punching a black youth and slamming him against a car has been awarded $1.6m (?890,000) in a race discrimination case. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/20/14419/7133 From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 21 07:09:02 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 15:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Police Violence marks York University demonstration Message-ID: <20050121150903.20924.qmail@resist.ca> "Recent trends of harassment and intimidation of student dissidents came to a head early today at York University, as security worked with police to forcibly disperse a demonstration marking the inauguration of US President George W. Bush." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/20/134549/672 From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 21 07:09:02 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 15:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada to lead chorus of support for sham election Message-ID: <20050121150903.20923.qmail@resist.ca> "At the behest of the federal Liberal government, Canada's election commission has created and now leads an International Mission for Iraqi Elections (IMIE). The IMIE's ostensible purpose is to determine whether the January 30 vote for a 275-member provisional Iraqi National Assembly and subsequent votes to ratify a new constitution and elect a fresh National Assembly before the year's end are free and fair. But the IMIE's real mandate--as the mission's origins, composition, and conduct demonstrate--is to drum up international support for the sham elections the US is staging in Iraq so as to lend legitimacy to the continuing military occupation of the oil-rich country." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/21/52946/7570 From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 21 07:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 15:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Anti-Semitic Firebombings in Montreal: Really Combating Racism. Message-ID: <20050121150903.20925.qmail@resist.ca> "Zionism, like all political forms that elevate the status of one peoples at the expense of the basic individual human rights of others, will cease being acceptable or else one can not realistically combat the anti-Semitism now sweeping much of 'Canada' and elsewhere; Zionism has institutionalized both anti-Semitism and Jewish supremacy structurally. That is simply because anti-Semitism must be de-politicized; we do not respond with revulsion against anti-Semitism in the one-sided and implicitly racist way that political leaders did in and around Montreal this week: It wasn't an attack on 'our values', and we shouldn't identify with the target because it was directed against Jews, but because it was the lowest form of vulgar racism period." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/20/182427/330 From news at resist.ca Sat Jan 22 08:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 16:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Drilling slated for Alaska oil reserve lands/ Gwitch'in Territory Message-ID: <20050122160904.29785.qmail@resist.ca> "Citing a need for domestic energy, the U.S. government plans to open thousands of hectares of Alaska's North Slope for exploratory drilling. The land, home to nesting areas for migratory birds and prime caribou range, has been protected for decades." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/21/18489/1071 From news at resist.ca Sat Jan 22 08:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 16:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] More Crap Arrests (#10 - 15) Message-ID: <20050122160904.29784.qmail@resist.ca> In this installment of "Crap Arrests," we see cops (and in one case, the Israeli Army) defend liberty by arresting folk for having work tools, babysitting, having scissors in school, playing soccer, painting the town red, and acting like Grandma. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/21/112611/157 From news at resist.ca Sat Jan 22 08:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 16:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Vancouver Cops Choke & Beat Elderly Man Message-ID: <20050122160904.29790.qmail@resist.ca> "This case illustrates how lack of proper oversight and a violent police culture puts everyone in society at risk," said John Richardson, executive director of Pivot Legal Society. "There is no public safety without police accountability, not even for the elderly." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/21/182350/567 From news at resist.ca Sat Jan 22 08:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 16:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Protestors in Washington DC send a message to Bush! Message-ID: <20050122160905.29793.qmail@resist.ca> January 20th was the day that Americans grew a backbone and stood up by the 10,000 to oppose George W. Bush. The nation had no choice but to recognize the voices of angry and disenfranchised people! Bush could not even go the length of his inauguration parade route without having to face angry protestors with their signs and loud voices yelling "Fuck Bush." I am proud to have been able to be there and be a part of a new and growing American dissent. [editor's note, by ron] The story contains links to IMC coverage. Some corporate spin on the story here. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/21/641/87657 From news at resist.ca Sat Jan 22 08:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 16:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] "The very core of Inuit life was abolished by the slaughter" Message-ID: <20050122160904.29789.qmail@resist.ca> "Quebec's Inuit want a government apology and financial compensation for a mass slaughter of sled dogs that they claim plunged their remote communities into decades of dependency. Without access to the sled dogs, hunters were unable to trap and provide income for their families. It created a level of dependency and physical inaction that prompted many to drink heavily and simply wait for monthly welfare cheques, Echo of the Last Howl states." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/21/10324/2809 From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 24 06:17:17 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:17:17 -0000 Subject: [news] Bush's Grand Plan: Incite Civil War Message-ID: <20050124141717.10925.qmail@resist.ca> "Civil war can be messy. Inciting religious and sectarian hatreds tends to disrupt the smooth execution of business; like the purging of potential enemies and the extracting of vital resources. Never the less, Rumsfeld is nearly out of options; "divide and conquer" may be all that's left. If we glance at the last 3 imperial projects; Kosovo, Haiti and Afghanistan, the very same strategy was applied. All three nations have been effectively carved up, delivered to US multi-national corporations, and reduced to warlordism or [chaos]. Their outcome sets the precedent for similar results in Iraq. Will Iraq be Balkenized along ethnic and religious lines?" URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/23/194850/273 From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 24 06:17:17 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:17:17 -0000 Subject: [news] Fight or Walk: The Chicago Transit Fare Strike Message-ID: <20050124141717.10927.qmail@resist.ca> Details and analysis of the fare strike campaign in Chicago. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/22/113252/221 From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 24 06:17:17 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:17:17 -0000 Subject: [news] 6, 000+ Choke Seattle Streets, Protesting Bush Presidency & Policies Message-ID: <20050124141717.10926.qmail@resist.ca> "A crowd of well over 6,000 people from across Washington state converged on downtown Seattle to deny the Bush administration a mandate for its agenda of war and repression. The Westlake Park rally hosted by Not In Our Name was held at 2 p.m. Answering the call for 'No Work, No School, No Business As Usual,' people took the day off work and students from more than 20 schools--ranging from middle and high schools to community colleges and universities--walked out." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/24/11218/8081 From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 24 06:17:17 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:17:17 -0000 Subject: [news] Secret Unit Expands Rumsfeld's Domain Message-ID: <20050124141717.10928.qmail@resist.ca> "The Pentagon, expanding into the CIA 's historic bailiwick, has created a new espionage arm and is reinterpreting U.S. law to give Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld broad authority over clandestine operations abroad... The previously undisclosed organization, called the Strategic Support Branch, arose from Rumsfeld's written order to end his 'near total dependence on CIA' for what is known as human intelligence. Designed to operate without detection and under the defense secretary's direct control, the Strategic Support Branch deploys small teams of case officers, linguists, interrogators and technical specialists alongside newly empowered special operations forces." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/23/231251/866 From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 24 06:17:17 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:17:17 -0000 Subject: [news] Judicial Review of Church House Fish Farm Site Message-ID: <20050124141718.10929.qmail@resist.ca> "The Judicial Review of the process that, in the fall of 2002, led to the approval of the Church House fish farm site commences today in B.C. Supreme Court. The site, which is located directly in front of the traditional village and reserve of the Homalco First Nation, known as Church House, is at the mouth of Bute Inlet and on the migration route of wild salmon that spawn in Southgate, Homathco and Orford Rivers in Bute Inlet." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/23/20253/0013 From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 24 06:17:17 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:17:17 -0000 Subject: [news] Who Owns the Healing Secrets of Plants? Message-ID: <20050124141718.10930.qmail@resist.ca> In Heather Ramsay's review of Nancy Turner's new book "Plants of Haida Gwaii", she finds a curious passage which notes that the knowlege of medicine derived from some plants is "considered to be private knowledge and because of this, and the danger of misuse, uninformed people should keep away..." When she enquired about this, she was told "[i]t's because in the past everything has been taken from us. How can you ask us to give you more when you have taken our children, our culture, our land, our ocean, our trees? What have we got left?" URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/23/123230/260 From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 25 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] What does he have to smile about? Message-ID: <20050125140903.7855.qmail@resist.ca> "I know Republicans no longer care what the world thinks of them. They don't give a liquefied Krispy Kreme (yes, they're selling doughnuts as drinks now) that a buncha furriners think they run a hick one-party government replete with torturers. Brand America isn't selling well. Big deal. But as the American torturers of Abu Ghraib are in court this week, you'd think Republicans would worry about what the publicity will do should Americans ever end up in the numerous Abu Ghraibs of other countries." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/23/19558/7785 From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 25 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Fares are Unfair: Just Where is Translink Taking Us? Message-ID: <20050125140905.7862.qmail@resist.ca> By Dave Olsen "Translink's latest fare increase on January 1st continues a number of trends that are worrisome at best." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/25/5339/78782 From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 25 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Secret gas was issued for IRA prison riots Message-ID: <20050125140903.7857.qmail@resist.ca> Papers from 1976 released under the government's freedom of information legislation show that the use of 'CR' or Dibenzoxazepine- a skin irritant 10 times more powerful than other tear gases - was permitted from 1973 to be used on prison inmates in the event of an attempted mass breakout. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/24/164322/572 From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 25 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Violence and hatred in Russia's new skinhead playground Message-ID: <20050125140903.7856.qmail@resist.ca> Fascism is vilified in Russia after the sacrifices the nation endured to defeat Nazi Germany. But a racist skinhead culture is on the rise - and it is becoming increasingly vicious, reports Andrew Osborn. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/24/164656/546 From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 25 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Report on New Brunswick Social Assistance Benefits Message-ID: <20050125140904.7858.qmail@resist.ca> A report on the state of social assistance in New Brunswick shows that "[a] single employable person simply cannot afford housing, as the average rent for a bachelor or one-room apartment in any New Brunswick city far exceeds the monthly assistance." "The report also reminds that working full-time at the New Brunswick minimum wage will still not get a person above the poverty line. For those on social assistance, the situation is much more grim." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/24/19210/9760 From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 25 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Imperialist solidarity? Message-ID: <20050125140904.7859.qmail@resist.ca> The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia--People's Army--FARC-EP--have recently seen Colombian special agents enter the Venezuelan capital of Caracas and kidnap a man who has unofficially been FARC's foreign minister and face to the world -- Rodrigo Granda. When Israeli Mossad agents infiltrate Syria and shoot down top ranking leaders of the Palestinian resistance--whether this is someone from Hamas or someone equally as abhorrent to left intellectuals on Turtle Island or in Europe--we are quick to condemn this. It is not difficult to see what is at stake by not making such a statement against such state led perfidy: the conditions created by Israel give rise to resistance to Zionist policies and the left sees the targeting of such forces as attacking the leaves of the tree, not the root. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/24/84515/3898 From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 26 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Shadows and ghosts Message-ID: <20050126140904.20744.qmail@resist.ca> "Just five survivors remain today from the three Soviet divisions which liberated Auschwitz concentration camp in January 1945. I am the youngest - I was only 19 when the war ended. But the events of 60 years ago are as fresh in my memory as if they happened yesterday. [...] The experience gave us a new energy and determination to put an end to the abomination of nazism. Our men did not spare their lives - we knew our cause was just. In a few days we moved on to the west, and I was again gravely wounded, now on German territory, at a place called Lonau." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/25/72337/5136 From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 26 06:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Fired reporters challenge Fox TV license Message-ID: <20050126140904.20745.qmail@resist.ca> "For what is believed to be the first time ever, two television journalists have challenged the broadcast license of a station on grounds it deliberately broadcast false and distorted news reports. Veteran reporters Jane Akre and Steve Wilson filed the petition Monday against WTVT Fox-13, in Tampa, a unit of Rupert Murdoch's Fox Television empire. The formal Petition To Deny the station's pending license renewal presents the Federal Communications Commission with 98 pages of what the journalists say is 'clear and convincing support for the claim that the licensee is not operating in the public interest and lacks the good character to do so.'" URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/24/203911/241 From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 26 06:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] 1000+ York Students, Faculty and Staff Oppose Vicious Police Brutality: Message-ID: <20050126140904.20748.qmail@resist.ca> Demonstration in Vari Hall Rotunda marks beginning of fight-back (VIDEO LINK TO POLICE BRUTALITY FOOTAGE BELOW) January 21, 2005 More than one thousand York community members gathered in Vari Hall Rotunda at approximately 1pm today to hear speeches and watch videos depicting vicious police repression of a demonstration which took place in the same space the day before. The previous demonstration, organized by GRAIN (Grassroots Anti-Imperialist Network), had been timed to coincide with the inauguration of US President George W Bush and to draw links between York's campus and empire. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/25/152834/785 From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 26 06:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Woodward's injunction overturned Message-ID: <20050126140905.20749.qmail@resist.ca> CBC News | Jan 25 2005 VANCOUVER - "The B.C. Court of Appeal has ruled the injunction used to oust protesters from the old Woodward's building in the fall of 2002 should be set aside. ...the Court of Appeal says there were legal errors in granting that injunction - that the protesters should have had an opportunity to tell the court how it would affect them." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/25/2289/66670 From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 26 06:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] This is the Colour of Happiness? Message-ID: <20050126140905.20753.qmail@resist.ca> By offthemap The Guatemalan military is doing battle with the indigenous people of Los Encuentros as they try to protect their land from a subsidiary of Glamis Gold. Montana Explorada is moving in equipment to begin the extraction process despite not having obtained permission from the community as required by ILO conventions to which Guatemala is bound. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/25/105235/864 From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 26 06:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] US asks South American Nations to Pressure Venezuela Message-ID: <20050126140904.20746.qmail@resist.ca> Caracas, January 24, 2005--"In a letter sent to South American nations yesterday, the United States called for these countries to pressure Venezuela for its alleged soft-stance on Colombian guerillas, according to a report in Brazil's Folha de Sao Paulo on Sunday." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/25/82749/9540 From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 27 06:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] The End of Oil? Message-ID: <20050127140904.25642.qmail@resist.ca> "If the actions--rather than the words--of the oil business's major players provide the best gauge of how they see the future, then ponder the following. Crude oil prices have doubled since 2001, but oil companies have increased their budgets for exploring new oil fields by only a small fraction. Likewise, U.S. refineries are working close to capacity, yet no new refinery has been constructed since 1976. And oil tankers are fully booked, but outdated ships are being decommissioned faster than new ones are being built. If those clues weren't enough, here's a news item that came out of Saudi Arabia on March 6, 2003. Though it went largely unremarked, the kingdom's announcement that it could not produce more oil in response to the Iraq War was of historic importance." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/23/202043/175 From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 27 06:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Canadian oil imperialism: Kalaallit Nunaat [Greenland] Message-ID: <20050127140904.25645.qmail@resist.ca> "Canadian oil company EnCana Corporation and Nunaoil, the national oil company of Greenland, were granted oil-drilling rights in Greenlandic waters, Greenland's National Radio (KNR) reported on Friday." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/25/63843/5915 From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 27 06:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] U.S. declares Iraqis can not save their own seeds Message-ID: <20050127140904.25644.qmail@resist.ca> "As part of sweeping 'economic restructuring' implemented by the Bush Administration in Iraq, Iraqi farmers will no longer be permitted to save their seeds, which include seeds the Iraqis themselves have developed over hundreds of years. Instead, they will be forced to buy seeds from US corporations. That is because in recent years, transnational corporations have patented and now own many seed varieties originated or developed by indigenous peoples. In a short time, Iraq will be living under the new American credo: Pay Monsanto, or starve." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/26/211039/329 From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 27 06:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Homeless Riot After Two Die in Seoul Station Message-ID: <20050127140904.25643.qmail@resist.ca> "Some 100 homeless people smashed station furniture in Seoul Station on Saturday in a two-hour-long stand-off with police following the discovery of two dead vagrants. Ticket sales were suspended for more than an hour." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/26/152756/067 From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 27 06:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Graham lawyer asks that extradition proceedings be dismissed Message-ID: <20050127140904.25646.qmail@resist.ca> "Graham's lawyers told the Supreme Court of British Columbia on Tuesday that mistakes in identification and the possibility of perjured witnesses cast doubt on the case the United States has presented as part of its extradition application." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/26/154718/552 From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 27 06:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Land claims rush greets new online system Message-ID: <20050127140905.25649.qmail@resist.ca> Rights to more B.C. land acquired in past two weeks than during all of last year Vancouver Sun | Tuesday, January 25, 2005 A new Internet-based system for staking mineral claims has triggered an exploration rush in B.C. Using keystrokes instead of hammers and stakes, miners have acquired rights to more land during the past two weeks than they did through all of last year. The provincial ministry of energy and mines quietly launched the system, called Mineral Titles Online, on Jan. 12. By the time it was formally announced on Jan. 20, the website had already attracted 2.56 million hits and processed 3,110 claims representing 1.2 million hectares. By comparison, in 2004, the best year for exploration in the last 13, the industry laid claim to 1.1 million hectares. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/25/221123/712 From darcy_robinson at hotmail.com Thu Jan 27 17:13:26 2005 From: darcy_robinson at hotmail.com (darcy robinson) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 01:13:26 +0000 Subject: [news] Land claims rush greets new online system In-Reply-To: <20050127140905.25649.qmail@resist.ca> Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 28 08:09:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Oil firms fund campaign to deny climate change Message-ID: <20050128160905.27152.qmail@resist.ca> "Lobby groups funded by the US oil industry are targeting Britain in a bid to play down the threat of climate change and derail action to cut greenhouse gas emissions, leading scientists have warned." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/27/45446/4596 From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 28 08:09:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Tsunami devastates migrant workers and villagers from Burma Message-ID: <20050128160905.27153.qmail@resist.ca> "More than 3000 migrant workers from Burma have been killed in the South of Thailand following the tsunami. They have been denied access to government aid and have been unable to claim and bury their dead. The Thai government has also used the tsunami as an excuse to crackdown and deport people back to Burma. In Arakan State, which is in the west of Burma, 96 people were killed and 788 displaced in 17 villages, but there has been no government assistance to those affected." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/27/181420/972 From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 28 08:09:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Allies should have bombed Auschwitz, McGovern says Message-ID: <20050128160906.27154.qmail@resist.ca> Despite detailed information on the Auschwitz death camp, the Roosevelt administration rejected calls from Jewish organizations to bomb the camp or rail lines coming into the camp as "impracticle". US bombers flew directly over the camp and bombed near by oil fields at a time when hundreds of Jews were being gassed daily. They were never given the order to strike. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/28/65057/7262 From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 28 08:09:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Protesters Target Liberal Caucus in Fredericton Message-ID: <20050128160906.27155.qmail@resist.ca> Raging Grannies confront Defense Minister Bill Graham in Fredericton IMC Maritimes reports URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/27/183245/858 From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 28 11:09:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 19:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Tahltan elders continue occupation over mining deals (day 12) Message-ID: <20050128190906.7960.qmail@resist.ca> by Ron Collins | Original to resist.ca Approximately 35 Tahltan's, lead by their Elders, have been occupying their band office in Telegraph Creek BC (Turtle Island) since January 17 in protest of mineral extraction deals being made without consultation by Chief Band Councilor (Indian Act Chief), Jerry Asp. When Asp returned from negotiations with Shell Canada in Calgary, the elders demanded Asp's resignation saying "Our land, resources and rights are being sold out from under us." They went on to say, "He has done enough harm to our People, and puts us in danger of losing everything." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/28/105148/809 From news at resist.ca Sun Jan 30 09:09:13 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 17:09:13 -0000 Subject: [news] This election is a sham Message-ID: <20050130170913.32166.qmail@resist.ca> "[E]ven as the Americans proclaimed their mission as one designed to introduce democracy and human rights in Iraq, they fought against demands for early elections even from putative allies like the Shiite Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. They also maneuvered to put into place a self-governance and electoral plan that, through carefully circumscribed United Nations involvement, they thought would ensure that the hand-picked Iraqi leadership would enjoy some legitimacy, with the elections scheduled for Sunday providing an added boost of Shiite support." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/30/75244/4316 From news at resist.ca Sun Jan 30 09:09:13 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 17:09:13 -0000 Subject: [news] Don't mistake elections for democracy Message-ID: <20050130170913.32167.qmail@resist.ca> "The notion that, you know, somehow we're not making progress [in Iraq] I -- I just don't subscribe to. I mean, we're having elections." George W. Bush URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/30/75522/1385 From news at resist.ca Sun Jan 30 09:09:13 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 17:09:13 -0000 Subject: [news] Haiti Lies in Canada Message-ID: <20050130170913.32168.qmail@resist.ca> Haiti lies yves engler The Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper, finally decided to report on Canadian operations in Haiti. In Saturday's paper Marina Jimenez wrote about Canada's ongoing role in the hemisphere's poorest nation. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/28/225818/501 From news at resist.ca Sun Jan 30 09:09:13 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 17:09:13 -0000 Subject: [news] Delta Hotel Targeted at Stonechild Film Premiere Message-ID: <20050130170913.32169.qmail@resist.ca> A group of individuals acting in solidarity with Secwepemc traditionalists defending their territory against the expansion of Sun Peaks Resort distributed flyers at the January 26 screening of the NFB film "Two Worlds Colliding". The film premiere was being held at the Delta Bessborough in Saskatoon and featured the important film by local Saskatoon filmmaker Tasha Hubbard on the freezing deaths of Lawrence Wegner, Rodney Niastus and Neil Stonechild. The event was attended by over 300 people both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/29/7550/76361 From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 31 09:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Gonzales excludes CIA from rules on prisoners Message-ID: <20050131170904.690.qmail@resist.ca> "WASHINGTON - Officers of the Central Intelligence Agency and other nonmilitary personnel fall outside the bounds of a 2002 directive issued by President George W. Bush that pledged the humane treatment of prisoners in U.S. custody, Alberto Gonzales, the White House counsel, said in a document." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/31/71229/3751 From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 31 09:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Race to Our Credit Message-ID: <20050131170905.691.qmail@resist.ca> "Despite being an obvious institutionalized phenomenon to people of color and even some of us white folks, white privilege is typically denied, and strongly, by most of us. Usually, this denial plays out in one of two ways: either we seek to shift the focus of discussion to our status as members of some other group that isn't socially dominant (so, for example, whites who are poor or working class will insist that because of their economic marginalization, they effectively enjoy no racial privilege at all), or we retreat to the tired but popular notion that all have an equal opportunity in this, our colorblind meritocracy." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/30/122810/508 From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 31 09:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Breaking the Ice: Anarchist Men and Sexism in the Movement Message-ID: <20050131170905.692.qmail@resist.ca> Anarchist People of Color's Ernesto Aguilar writes on sexism in the movement, with an emphasis on legitimacy and systemic change and a critique of personal-is-political approaches. Although he's direct in pointing out men having weak gender politics, he also takes anarchists to task for failing to develop an anti-sexist political culture as well. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/31/73157/3814 From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 31 09:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Bolivians celebrate autonomy move Message-ID: <20050131170905.694.qmail@resist.ca> "Tens of thousands of people have been celebrating at an open meeting in the Bolivian province of Santa Cruz which has initiated moves towards autonomy. The meeting agreed to set up a provincial assembly, but stopped short of unilaterally declaring self-rule." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/30/20131/1278 From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 31 09:09:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] PEI to go GE-free? Message-ID: <20050131170906.698.qmail@resist.ca> "[T]he Prince Edward Island Legislative Assembly [is] to hold committee hearings into the pros and cons of genetically engineered (GE) products. The committee will set the dates for hearings today. This landmark discussion could inform a decision that would establish PEI as Canada's first GE-free province." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/31/74421/2622 From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 31 09:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] AMS critical of Iraq elections Message-ID: <20050131170905.693.qmail@resist.ca> "Iraq's influential Association of Muslim Scholars has told Aljazeera that the low turnout by Sunni Arabs in elections was due to a lack of real choice and military occupation." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/31/72722/3447