From news at resist.ca Fri Jul 1 15:17:09 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 22:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] U.S. to Seize California Prison Health System Message-ID: <20050701221710.5268.qmail@resist.ca> By Jenifer Warren | LA Times Staff Writer | Fri Jul 1, 2005 SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal judge said Thursday that he would seize control of prison healthcare from the state and place it under a receiver, declaring that "extreme measures" were needed to fix a system that kills one inmate each week through medical incompetence or neglect. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/1/144734/3470 From news at resist.ca Fri Jul 1 16:17:07 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 23:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Working People Go Hungry Message-ID: <20050701231707.17339.qmail@resist.ca> "Why do we have so much hunger in Toronto, at a time when the economy is doing quite well? For a significant majority of people using food banks, the reason is that welfare has become a trap, and work does not pay enough to live and eat in Toronto." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/1/8566/00281 From news at resist.ca Sat Jul 2 08:17:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 15:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Emperor Larry Message-ID: <20050702151705.8541.qmail@resist.ca> Little Larry has resigned after 2.5 years in office and a trail of broken promises to the surprise of nobody. Vancouver lefties voted him in in the hopes that he hopes that he would do something better and in some ways he did, but he never sacrificed the greater corporate good for the small sacrifices needed appear a "rational humanitarian". "So Mayor Campbell will become Emperor Campbell. Trains will run on time, and if the buses are late those who might have complained will be deep in underground prisons. The Olympic referendum will be re-run, just to make the vote unanimous. A Wal-Mart will open in Tim Louis' living room. Sam Sullivan will be re-zoned for industrial use." -- The Tyee URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/2/65615/11353 From news at resist.ca Sat Jul 2 08:17:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 15:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Delegates agree [Mackenzie] pipeline info too sparse Message-ID: <20050702151705.8540.qmail@resist.ca> Delegates to a conference about the Mackenzie Valley pipeline have agreed that they don't have enough information to figure out the environmental impact the project could have on the N.W.T. The delegates, meeting in Yellowknife this week, are discussing what is needed to launch the $7-billion pipeline's environmental review. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/28/20634/4157 From news at resist.ca Sat Jul 2 08:17:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 15:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Strange sights in the Arctic light Message-ID: <20050702151705.8542.qmail@resist.ca> It's not just the rising water and more frequent storms. The ice breaks weeks earlier, and much faster, than it used to in spring, and forms more slowly each fall. The weather is less predictable. These are hazards for the many residents who still go out on the land to hunt seal, polar bears, muskox and caribou. The wind blows from the south more often. Long-time residents see grizzly bears, ravens, white-throated sparrows, chickadees and other creatures that never used to venture this far north. Shrubs are poking up beyond the tree line. Permafrost is starting to melt. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/1/9016/79874 From news at resist.ca Sat Jul 2 08:17:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 15:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Child Labour Returns to Alberta Message-ID: <20050702151705.8543.qmail@resist.ca> Province eases child labour laws "Are there no workhouses, are there no poor houses, are there no orphanages?" Ebenezeer Scrooge. Your server today is a 12-year-old Children unable to stand up to abuse or recognize safety hazards, critics say URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/30/4330/30835 From news at resist.ca Tue Jul 5 13:17:06 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 20:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Ralph's World: Homophobic Hate Speech and Gay Bashing Message-ID: <20050705201706.5397.qmail@resist.ca> Bill C-38, the Same Sex Marriage Act, passed the house this week. It was the last act of parliament prior to the summer recess. The gnashing of teeth, whining and breast beating of the Alberta Conservatives, both provincial and Federal, both Klein and Harper, was predictable and expected. The last bastion of Republican Lite Politics, Alberta produced the usual redneck response from the usual suspects. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/1/15581/63524 From news at resist.ca Tue Jul 5 13:17:06 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 20:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Support the Secwepemc Defenders! Message-ID: <20050705201706.5399.qmail@resist.ca> "Let's be clear: this is not about a ski hill. It is about a plan to build a small city in the mountains, a place for urbanites to have a weekend getaway -- and for developers to make a killing on real estate. Let's be clear about something else: the massive expansion of the Sun Peaks Resort is an act of violence. British Columbia's First Nation peoples have already been robbed of so much. It is the duty of all Canadians living on stolen land to join in the struggle." - Naomi Klein, author of No Logo For information on concrete ways to support the courageous indigenous warriors jailed for defending their land, see the statement below, provided by No One is Illegal - Vancouver. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/5/121727/0760 From news at resist.ca Thu Jul 7 13:17:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 20:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] ARGENTINA: First-Ever Permit for Indigenous Community Radio Message-ID: <20050707201704.14015.qmail@resist.ca> By Marcela Valente Send your comments to the editor editors at ipsnews.net Copyright (C) 2005 IPS-Inter Press Service. All rights reserved. BUENOS AIRES - The first operating licence ever granted by the Argentine government to an indigenous community radio station is being hailed as a major step forward in giving a voice to this sector of the population, while posing formidable challenges. The FM radio station, which has been operating without a licence for six years and has yet to be given a name, is run by the Mapuche Indian community of Linares, made up of around 700 members and located in the municipality of Aucapan, in the southern province of Neuquen. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/7/94210/18838 From news at resist.ca Thu Jul 7 13:17:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 20:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] The G8 Summit: A Fraud And a Circus Message-ID: <20050707201704.14016.qmail@resist.ca> June 24, 2005 By John Pilger The illusion of an anti establishment crusade led by pop stars - a cultivated, controlling image of rebellion - serves to dilute a great political movement of anger. In summit after summit, not a single significant "promise" of the G8 has been kept, and the "victory for millions" is no different. It is a fraud - actually a setback to reducing poverty in Africa. Entirely conditional on vicious, discredited economic programmes imposed by the World Bank and the IMF, the "package" will ensure that the "chosen" countries slip deeper into poverty. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/6/17337/95486 From news at resist.ca Thu Jul 7 15:17:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 22:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] 16th Annual "Under the Volcano" Info Fair: Registration Open Message-ID: <20050707221704.21878.qmail@resist.ca> Attention All Political Groups and Service Agnecies It is time to register your group for a table at the 16th Annual Under the Volcano Festival of Art and Social Change. For those who haven't been before, Under the Volcano is an awesome day filled with great music, inspiring speakers and the convergence of hundreds of local activists, artists and groups in one place. This year, the festival is on August 7th from noon until 9 pm at Cates Park in North Vancouver (same place as always). Table rental for the info fair is unchanged at $25 per organization. Subsidies are available for groups who can't afford this (dependent on larger groups paying more). Please contact utvinfofair at gmail.com for more information. Please register (and pay) by July 31, 2005 to ensure you get a table and to help us put the deposit down on the equipment rental. Please see the full story for a copy of the registration form and important information for participating groups. Hope to see you all August 7th! Under the Volcano Organizing Collective URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/5/134336/5653 From news at resist.ca Thu Jul 7 15:17:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 22:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Arbeit Macht Frei Message-ID: <20050707221704.21879.qmail@resist.ca> Child labour law will work, minister says. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/5/10848/02581 From news at resist.ca Fri Jul 8 02:17:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 09:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] The Sexual Revolution Continues Message-ID: <20050708091704.30992.qmail@resist.ca> Stephanie Coontz is a socialist feminist and an academic. She has written a controversial essay in the New York Times, which I have reprinted below, reminding us that it was the Sexual Revolution of the Sixties that opened the doors to Same Sex Marriage. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/7/14215/05060 From news at resist.ca Fri Jul 8 02:17:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 09:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Corporate Governance Message-ID: <20050708091704.30991.qmail@resist.ca> The old saying he who pays the piper calls the tune applies to Canada's two main governing parties. It gives new meaning to 'corporate governance'. Tories were top fundraisers in 2004. Figures released Monday by Elections Canada show the Grits raised $5.2 million from private-sector sources in 2004 -- less than half the $10.9 million raked in by the rival Conservatives. More than 68,000 Canadians wrote cheques to the Tories last year, compared with 17,501 to the Liberals and 30,097 to the New Democratic Party. The Liberals received $5.2-million in donations in 2004, just ahead of the $5.1-million raised by the NDP. The Bloc Quebecois raised $892,117. According to the parties' financial statements, only the NDP is not running a deficit. The New Democrats are listed as having $3.7-million in the bank, while the Tories and Liberals list debts of about $1.3-million. The Bloc has a $936,000 debt. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/7/142457/7965 From news at resist.ca Sat Jul 9 06:17:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 13:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Kyoto's Dirty Little Secret Message-ID: <20050709131703.12001.qmail@resist.ca> Kyoto: Your Global Warming Solution. Sure. Grandinite Blog from Alberta, has exposed another nasty little aspect of Kyoto that the liberal left like the NDP and the Bloc don't talk about nor does the right wing. Kyoto is promoting the expansion of nuclear energy! Whoa lets all hold on here, did you say nuclear power plants. Yep sure did. And of course Canada is a major global manufacturer and exporter of such plants. Read more about the Kapitalist Kyoto Accord at: http://redbetweenthelines.modblog.com/ URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/7/151452/6306 From news at resist.ca Sat Jul 9 06:17:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 13:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Tape Recorders as Self-Defense Against Welfare Workers Message-ID: <20050709131703.12002.qmail@resist.ca> By Kirsten Anderberg A trait of a batterer is they often wait until no one else can witness their abuse. I have personally seen police, jail guards and welfare workers act like this most often. The minute they think no one is watching, or you are alone with them, their true sadist comes out. Knowing that welfare workers are very often equal to domestic violence abusers and batterers in behavior, I felt a need to protect myself when alone with sadist welfare workers in their offices. Little did I know a tape recorder would strike the ultimate fear in social workers! I want to spread the word. Arm yourself with a visible tape recorder for all interactions with anyone employed by a state welfare office. Even a broken tape recorder will work! URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/8/175748/8283 From news at resist.ca Sat Jul 9 06:17:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 13:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] London Blitz Message-ID: <20050709131703.12003.qmail@resist.ca> By Eugene Plawiuk Osama Bin Laden Inc. is a corporation, a combination of banking and engineering enterprise one of the largest in the Middle East. Osama Bin Laden Inc. is in inter-imperialist competition with his former employer the United States Government and its spy agency the CIA. As such he is an extension of the Saudi Arabian State in its competiton to maintain its hegemony in the Middle East. Osama Bin Laden Inc. is engaged in an asymmetrical war of terror,one that is set out to determine the future of the Middle East in favour of his Saudi masters over their neighbours. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/8/123953/6478 From news at resist.ca Sat Jul 9 06:17:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 13:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Surviving Canada Report: June 24: St'at'imc Nation Message-ID: <20050709131703.12004.qmail@resist.ca> By Macdonald Stainsby Millions of people a year travel a couple of hours north of Vancouver to visit Whistler. Using an image of being nestled in pristine wilderness, ski slopes have shaved off the sides of the mountains, housing has sprawled throughout the forest and concrete has been poured throughout the area. While most animals have fled to safer grounds, when the village town for disposable incomes does contact wildlife, the outcome for the animals is often deadly, with many bears being "destroyed" annually after addiction to human waste sets in. Further north on Highway 99, there is a valley visited by perhaps thousands of people a year; animals from grizzlies to wolverines continue to roam, wild berries and vegetables grow abundantly, life itself maintains dominance in the area. The St'at'imc Nation has lived with, off and as a part of this land and in an area from just north of what is now Vancouver to Lillooet, and east over the mountains to Harrison Hot Springs "from time out of mind". URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/8/202137/9811 From news at resist.ca Sun Jul 10 08:17:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 15:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] CKUT Radio: Lebanon - Elections, Direct Action & Democracy.... Message-ID: <20050710151703.30557.qmail@resist.ca> By Stephan Christoff | CKUT Radio Listen to an interview with Lokman Sleem an activist based in Beirut Lebanon and co-founder of "Hayya Bina!". During Lebanon's recent Parliamentary elections, "Hayya Bina!", which translates from Arabic to "Let's Go!", organized a campaign of direct action, which called on people to vote with spoiled ballots in protest of Lebanon's sectarian political system. The spoiled ballots, which were cast simply read, 64 Muslim MP's plus 64 Christian MP's, equals zero Lebanese MP's. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/10/65758/3518 From news at resist.ca Sun Jul 10 08:17:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 15:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Covering up Napalm in Iraq Message-ID: <20050710151703.30555.qmail@resist.ca> by Mike Whitney | ZNet | June 28, 2005 Two weeks ago the UK Independent ran an article which confirmed that the US had "lied to Britain over the use of napalm in Iraq". (6-17-05) Since then, not one American newspaper or TV station has picked up the story even though the Pentagon has verified the claims. This is the extent to which the American "free press" is yoked to the center of power in Washington. As we've seen with the Downing Street memo, (which was reluctantly reported 5 weeks after it appeared in the British press) the air-tight American media ignores any story that doesn't embrace their collective support for the war. The prospect that the US military is using "universally reviled" weapons runs counter to the media-generated narrative that the war was motivated by humanitarian concerns (to topple a brutal dictator) as well as to eliminate the elusive WMDs. We can now say with certainty that the only WMDs in Iraq were those that were introduced by foreign invaders from the US who have used them to subjugate the indigenous people. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/10/7233/50382 From news at resist.ca Sun Jul 10 08:17:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 15:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] No Negotiations Message-ID: <20050710151703.30554.qmail@resist.ca> by Neve Gordon | ZNet | June 29, 2005 "No less important is the substance, and particularly the two words with which Sharon concluded his sentence; namely, "contiguous territory." This seemingly benign phrase is well worth noting, since the attempt to create a contiguous territory from the Jewish settlement blocs is tantamount to declaring war." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/9/175358/0548 From news at resist.ca Sun Jul 10 08:17:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 15:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] A look at the media coverage of the Ipperwash incident Message-ID: <20050710151703.30558.qmail@resist.ca> On September 7, 1995, Anthony (Dudley) George was fatally shot by OPP officer Kenneth Deane during a peaceful protest at Ipperwash Park. This was the first time that a Native American was killed by a police officer during peacetime. The OPP maintain that the natives had guns and shot at them first, which is why they responded back with gunfire. The natives maintain that they never had any weapons and it was the OPP who shot at them first. The media portrayed this tragedy as a clash between militant savages and the honest cops, playing up the violence and anger, but not digging into the deeper story- the reason behind the natives' occupation of Ipperwash Park. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/9/173837/7774 From news at resist.ca Sun Jul 10 08:17:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 15:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Iranian Bar Owner Beaten by Toronto Police Message-ID: <20050710151704.30559.qmail@resist.ca> This is an open letter by an Iranian bar owner who was brutally assulted in his establishment by Toronto Police officers during Gay Pride celebrations. The police also roughed up his elderly parents, trashed his business, and then tried to deny medical care to him the next day. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/9/22241/33284 From news at resist.ca Sun Jul 10 08:17:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 15:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Surviving Canada: June 30: Lax Kw'alaams Message-ID: <20050710151704.30560.qmail@resist.ca> Macdonald Stainsby | Surviving Canada The village of Lax Kw'alaams, officially a reserve and still usually referred to as Port Simpson, is a short floatplane ride or ferry trip from Prince Rupert. This band of the Tsimshian Nation have settled here on and off for tens of thousands of years, living off of Pacific Ocean fishing--salmon (spring, pink, coho and sockeye), halibut and north up the coast, oolichan-- along with some hunting, on the central west coast of what is today known as British Columbia. A visitor will notice immediately the large number of eagles, hawks and equally powerful crows everywhere along the water. They fly in and around the area called Rose Island where they nest, as majestic as they have ever been. The eagles and hawks may not be here much longer; their diet consists strongly of various fish--fish that have been nearly wiped out. This lack of fish threatens more than these birds; the whole Nation is threatened. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/8/201717/0577 From news at resist.ca Mon Jul 11 01:17:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 08:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Synopsis of Bush's Speech at Fort Bragg Message-ID: <20050711081703.30158.qmail@resist.ca> Pascal Rich, a journalist for the French Daily "Liberation" has kindly posted on his blog a synopsis of the speech by Bush at Fort Bragg, leaving in only those most important words that conveyed the core of the message that Karl Rove wanted to get across to the American people. (Note: all of these words appeared in this order in Bush's speech.) URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/9/18525/14640 From news at resist.ca Mon Jul 11 01:17:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 08:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Canadian Spooks Try to Have Colombian Trade Unionist Deported Message-ID: <20050711081704.30160.qmail@resist.ca> "A Toronto trade union activist and 50-year-old mother of three has been identified by Canada's intelligence service as a secret member of the Colombian 'terrorist' (sic) group FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia)....Ms. Torres denied the allegations in an affidavit filed in Federal Court and said there are 'numerous inaccuracies and omissions' in the (CSIS - Canadian Security and Intelligence Service) report. She claims that CSIS is trying to recruit her." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/10/205433/513 From news at resist.ca Mon Jul 11 01:17:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 08:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] UN Occupation Force Carries Out Massacre of Poor in Haiti Message-ID: <20050711081703.30159.qmail@resist.ca> By A US Labor/Human Rights Delegation (details below) On Wednesday morning, July 6th, at approximately 3:00 AM, UN occupation forces in Haiti carried out a major military operation in the working-class neighborhood of Cite Soleil, one of the poorest in Port-au-Prince and also a stronghold of support for Haiti's majority political party Lavalas and President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Presumably, the purpose of the operation was to crack down on illegal "gang activity", in particular on "gang" leader Dread Wilme. In actuality, a US trade union and human rights delegation in Port-au-Prince discovered evidence of a massacre conducted by the UN forces, targeting the larger community itself. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/8/93344/76659 From news at resist.ca Tue Jul 12 07:17:07 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 14:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Settlers Broke The Public's Heart Message-ID: <20050712141708.15579.qmail@resist.ca> by Gideon Levy | ZNet | July 08, 2005 The media is to blame: For months, it portrayed the story of the "great sacrifice" the evacuated settlers must make. For years, it ignored the injustices they inflicted on their neighbors and thus helped portray the settlers in a false light. The result: broad public sympathy for their bitter fate and shock over their brutal behavior, as if blocking roads or even the lynching of a Palestinian teenager is something new or unusual. But in the territories, the settlers have been violently blocking roads for years, and harsh brutality toward Palestinians is also nothing new. The only novelty is that suddenly they are showing this on television. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/12/6959/76093 From news at resist.ca Tue Jul 12 07:17:08 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 14:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] This Is How We Do It: An Anarchist Account of the G8 Actions Message-ID: <20050712141708.15580.qmail@resist.ca> karantina [@t] riseup {d0t} net Five miles and a heavy police presence stretched before us and our only destination in sight: Motorway 9 (M9). This motorway was one of the crucial motorways that delegates and support staff to the G8 Summit expected to travel down in a few hours. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/11/171621/498 From news at resist.ca Tue Jul 12 07:17:07 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 14:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Bolivia Worries About New U.S. Base In Paraguay Message-ID: <20050712141708.15578.qmail@resist.ca> El Deber | 07/11/05 The installation of a military base on Paraguayan territory, some 200 kilometers from the border of Bolivia, created worry yesterday in the Legislature, to the point that a commission of the Lower House announced an investigation. The Director of the CBO (Central Workers Union) Luis Choquetijlla, denounced that "the United States has threatened us with a military intervention through friendly countries", with the [aim] of controlling the Natural Gas riches of Bolivia. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/12/61248/9128 From news at resist.ca Tue Jul 12 07:17:08 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 14:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] London: Netanyahu knew Message-ID: <20050712141708.15581.qmail@resist.ca> British police told the Israeli Embassy in London minutes before Thursday's explosions that they had received warnings of possible terror attacks in the city, a senior Israeli official said. Benjamin Netanyahu had planned to attend an economic conference in a hotel over the subway stop where one of the blasts occurred, and the warning prompted him to stay in his hotel room instead, government officials said. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/11/203445/435 From news at resist.ca Tue Jul 12 07:17:08 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 14:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Rebel Yell Message-ID: <20050712141709.15582.qmail@resist.ca> by: eugene plawiuk | Le Revue Gauche | July 12, 2005 The origins of Western Alienation, embraced today by the Conservative Right in Alberta, was in the Northwest Rebellion. And it was the Conservative government of MacDonald that imposed it's colonial, read Ontario, domination over Western Canada to avoid the creation of an autonomous government. In short to stop the creation of a Quebec in the prairies. Ironic isn't it, that the loudest voices crying out that the 'West Wants In' are the heirs of the Ontario Imperialists of the Conservative party of MacDonald. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/11/17031/8286 From news at resist.ca Tue Jul 12 07:17:08 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 14:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Alarm: Deh Cho to drop Mackenzie Valley pipeline lawsuits Message-ID: <20050712141709.15583.qmail@resist.ca> CBC News | Jul 11 2005 The Deh Cho First Nation has agreed to drop lawsuits that stand in the way of a Mackenzie Valley pipeline in exchange for millions of dollars for economic development programs. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/11/195348/251 From tony at riseup.net Tue Jul 12 16:38:40 2005 From: tony at riseup.net (Tony Tracy) Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 20:38:40 -0300 Subject: [news] New Socialist magazine - July/August - Issue #52 - Available Now! Message-ID: N E W S O C I A L I S T M A G A Z I N E Ideas for Radical Change Issue 52 (July/August, 2005) LEARNING FROM THE PAST, LOOKING TO THE FUTURE * What the history of workers' councils tells us about socialist democracy * Interviews with three socialists who radicalized in different times * 100 years of revolutionary folk culture from the I.W.W. * What it means to build and sustain communities of struggle * Understanding and addressing the isolation of the far left INTERNATIONAL * How Canada, the US and France subverted democracy in Haiti * How Bolivian mass protests toppled another president * How Ukraine's democratic struggles became the Orange Revolution HOMEFRONT * How the English-speaking left botched its response to the Gomery scandal * How the recent Quebec student strike became the largest in its history * How the government is breaking its promise to tsunami victims * How to become an ally of indigenous struggles in Canada * How psychiatrists and their staff violate human rights REVIEWS * Darren O'Donnell's Your Secrets Sleep with Me * Michael Albert's Thought Dreams * Plus: plugs for urban legends, girl pirates and other cultural finds... Contributers: Jose Bazin, Neil Braganza, Dave Brophy, Mark Connery, Jackie Esmonde, Joseph Grim Feinberg, Alison Fisher, Chris Ford, Katherine Grzejszczak, Sabastian Lamb, Alex Levant, David McNally, Sandra Sarner, Alan Sears, Carlos Torchia & Shiraz Vally, Kevin Skerrett, Jean St-Vil, Jeffery R. Webber, Don Weitz, Sheila Wilmot. With art/design by Claire Sauve & Sonya Scott. $4.95 at newsstands (or $2.00 if purchased at a New Socialist Group event or directly from members or supporters of the NSG) To purchase a magazine SUBSCRIPTION, visit: http://newsocialist.org/index.php?id=84 Questions or suggestions: magazine at newsocialist.org www.newsocialist.org *** From news at resist.ca Wed Jul 13 07:17:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 14:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] There's a settler in every Israeli Message-ID: <20050713141703.27433.qmail@resist.ca> By Amira Hass | Ha'aretz The hunting season is at its height, and the settlers are the prey. They have become a target for criticism in the media to an extent whose like is hard to remember. They are criticized for sending their children to block roads, for hitting and cursing soldiers, for the disappearance of blue-and-white ribbons on cars (and sometimes the antennas, as well), for occupying a Palestinian house in Muasi and for throwing stones at a Palestinian youth. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/11/194532/570 From news at resist.ca Wed Jul 13 07:17:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 14:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] The disengagement as smoke screen Message-ID: <20050713141703.27431.qmail@resist.ca> By Jonathan Pollack | haaretz | July 11th Exactly one year ago the International Court of Justice in the Hague ruled that the fence that Israel is building in the territories is illegal. However, one hardly needs to mention that the construction has been affected only cosmetically. During the past two years we - Israelis, Palestinians and international activists - have been conducting a joint, popular and nonviolent struggle against what appears to us as one of the most significant moves, with destructive implications in the long term, in the history of the occupation in the territories. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/12/163837/303 From news at resist.ca Wed Jul 13 07:17:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 14:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Greek Anarchist Solidarity with Spanish and Italian Anarchist Prisoners Message-ID: <20050713141703.27432.qmail@resist.ca> Unknown Source 60 anarchists occupied the Cervantes Institute in Athens for an hour on July 12 as an act of solidarity with anarchists recently jailed in Spain and Italy. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/12/135342/295 From news at resist.ca Wed Jul 13 07:17:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 14:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Save Our Grizzly Bears Message-ID: <20050713141704.27434.qmail@resist.ca> by eugene plawiuk | Le Revue Gauche Humans leading cause of death for grizzlies, report finds URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/13/42333/3868 From news at resist.ca Wed Jul 13 07:17:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 14:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Two Tier Alberta Message-ID: <20050713141704.27438.qmail@resist.ca> by eugene plawiuk | Le Revue Gauche 'Alberta sets the agenda for Canada' Jean Charest 1996 No truer words were ever spoken about the Klein Revolution, and they come back to haunt us again and again as Canadians and as long suffering Albertans. "I don't think it's two tier," Mr. Klein said. "I guess it's subjective." Today Ralph announced his plans for introducing two tiered health care in Alberta. And it will have a major impact on Health Care across Canada. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/12/232531/056 From news at resist.ca Wed Jul 13 07:17:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 14:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] =?utf-8?q?Qu=C3=A9bec?= Student Strike: A Battle Won... The Struggle Continues Message-ID: <20050713141704.27436.qmail@resist.ca> by Jose Bazin | New Socialist | July/August The seven week Quebec student strike launched on February 24 ended with the government backing down on certain issues and a radicalization of many Quebecois youth. It is time for the Quebec student movement to take stock. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/13/53919/4820 From news at resist.ca Fri Jul 15 06:17:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] San Diego Activists Jailed for Refusing to Cooperate with Federal Grand Jury! Message-ID: <20050715131705.24165.qmail@resist.ca> Author Unknown On Tuesday, July 12th, David Agranoff and Danae Kelley appeared before Judge Irma Gonzalez at the District Court in San Diego for refusing to cooperate with a federal grand jury. Judge Gonzalez, with the prosecution's encouragement, ordered the two jailed immediately for civil contempt. David and Danae are currently being held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in San Diego. They are imprisoned tonight, not because they have committed or are suspected of committing any actual crime but because they have refused to cooperate with the federal government's latest witch hunt. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/13/194145/061 From news at resist.ca Fri Jul 15 06:17:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] ARGENTINA: Remains of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Identified Message-ID: <20050715131706.24166.qmail@resist.ca> Jul 8, 2005 | IPS The Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team announced Friday that it had identified the remains of three of the founders of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who were forcibly disappeared in 1977. The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, a human rights group, was founded during the 1976-1983 military dictatorship by mothers searching for their children, who were victims of forced disappearance. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/15/51646/2951 From news at resist.ca Fri Jul 15 06:17:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Diet Supplement Under Attack Message-ID: <20050715131706.24170.qmail@resist.ca> OCAP | Email Communication | July 14, 2005 Toronto's top welfare bureaucrats have quietly changed their Special Diet policy. The Special Diet Supplement provides up to $250 a month per person on top of regular welfare, as long as a medical provider deems it necessary. Over the last months,as a result of a campaign initiated by OCAP, thousands of those facing poverty and hunger in this City have obtained the Supplement. Through OCAP's Special Diet clinics alone close to 2000 people have gotten the supplement. Now an edict from welfare officialdom seeks to deny access to it and to take it from families who are benefiting from it. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/15/52237/6154 From news at resist.ca Fri Jul 15 06:17:06 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Ralph Blinks Message-ID: <20050715131708.24176.qmail@resist.ca> Alberta to recognize same-sex marriage ?We will proceed to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, much to our chagrin, following proclamation of the federal Civil Marriage Act,? Mr. Klein said in a press conference in Calgary Tuesday. The provincial Conservative government has long opposed same-sex marriage and said it would use every legal option to fight it. However, Mr. Klein said Tuesday that after consulting with his legal advisers, ?that our chances of winning are virtually none.? URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/12/233014/173 From news at resist.ca Fri Jul 15 06:17:06 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Weyerhaeuser illegally logging Canadian Boreal to supply Xerox, investigation finds Message-ID: <20050715131706.24171.qmail@resist.ca> Friday, July 15, 2005 New Report Exposes Illegal Logging In Canada's Boreal Forests By Weyerhaeuser Operations Supplying Xerox -Saskatchewan residents and Weyerhaeuser loggers speak out in controversial new grassroots documentary. -Clear-cut case study provides government documents proving Weyerhaeuser violations. -Saskatchewan Environmental Society retains Sierra Legal Defence Fund to call on -Minister of Justice Frank Quennell to investigate Weyerhaeuser. -Illegal Weyerhaeuser operations certified as "sustainable" by the Canadian Standards Association. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/14/1692/60740 From news at resist.ca Sat Jul 16 07:17:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 14:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Aristide in Exile Message-ID: <20050716141703.28164.qmail@resist.ca> by Naomi Klein | The Nation | July 15, 2005 It was only ten years ago that President Clinton celebrated Aristide's return to power as "the triumph of freedom over fear." So what changed? Corruption? Violence? Fraud? Aristide is certainly no saint. But even if the worst of the allegations are true, they pale next to the rap sheets of the convicted killers, drug smugglers and arms traders who ousted Aristide and continue to enjoy free rein, with full support from the Bush Administration and the UN. Turning Haiti over to this underworld gang out of concern for Aristide's lack of "good governance" is like escaping an annoying date by accepting a lift home from Charles Manson. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/16/54132/4327 From news at resist.ca Mon Jul 18 06:17:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 13:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] The G8 and World Bank Cementing Israeli Apartheid and Occupation Message-ID: <20050718131703.18253.qmail@resist.ca> StopTheWall | July 7, 2005 As world leaders gather in Scotland for the G8 summit, the Palestinian people and solidarity groups across the world will mark the first anniversary of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling on the Apartheid Wall. The court, having taken up the popular appeals from Palestine, stipulated that the Wall is illegal and must be dismantled while directing the international community "not to render aid or assistance in maintaining the situation created by [the Wall's] construction". Popular resistance in Palestine is gearing up to respond to the G8 leaders' lip service on "support for Palestinian economic development and reform" that completely disregards the fundamental basis of the Palestinian struggle in all its terms of discourse. The contrast between the actions of the G8 and the legal mandates of the ICJ, the countless UN resolutions and the Palestinian right to existence and self-determination could not be starker. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/16/7712/30443 From news at resist.ca Mon Jul 18 06:17:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 13:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Migrants backbone of farm labour: Fatal crash shines light on middlemen Message-ID: <20050718131703.18254.qmail@resist.ca> Support groups for field workers want rules on who bears responsibility for safety JEFF HEINRICH | The Gazette | Friday, July 08, 2005 A $50, a $20 and another $20 thrown in the envelope as a bonus - $90 cash is what farm labourer Tabu Bigirimana was paid yesterday for a workday that ended in a terrible accident and a trip to a hospital. She was one of 10 African immigrant farm workers injured Monday night when the schoolbus taking them back to Montreal collided on a rural highway with a car driven by a local women, who died in the crash. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/16/131027/450 From news at resist.ca Mon Jul 18 06:17:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 13:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Vancouver Police burst Festival bubble for Bike Bus Pilot Message-ID: <20050718131703.18255.qmail@resist.ca> At the stroke of midnight Sunday, the Free Bike Bus was turned into a pumpkin by Officer 2150 of the Vancouver Police Department. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/18/33038/5960 From news at resist.ca Mon Jul 18 14:17:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 21:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Made in Secret: The Story of the East Van Porn Collective Message-ID: <20050718211706.15829.qmail@resist.ca> A thought-provoking and genre-bending look behind the scenes of what might be the world's only underground, DIY, anarcho-feminist porn collective. It's sexy, it's funny, it's political, and it's finally coming to Vancouver! URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/17/145716/069 From news at resist.ca Mon Jul 18 14:17:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 21:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Terrible Tyson-Lakeside Workers Vote to Strike Message-ID: <20050718211707.15836.qmail@resist.ca> Packers ready to strike as early as Wednesday. 60 per cent of the workers are immigrants and refugees. http://redbetweenthelines.modblog.com/?show=blogview&blog_id=679635 Click the above for more information on (the) Terrible Tyson Lakeside Workers Strike support page and articles on Tyson Foods, corporate criminals and racism in Brooks, Alberta. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/17/71613/4654 From news at resist.ca Tue Jul 19 20:17:06 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 03:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Terror in London or Terror of London? Message-ID: <20050720031706.27524.qmail@resist.ca> "The anger that has led to (the London terrorist) attacks has its roots not in American or British freedom and democracy (as we are told); instead it has roots in the absolute opposite -- the government's commitment and historical record of colonialism, military and economic terrorism, and occupation. How dare Bush and Blair speak so boldly and hypocritically of terrorism when their own regimes have consistently used terror, torture, extrajudicial killings, bombings to kill democracy and continue an illegal occupation?" URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/19/114835/459 From news at resist.ca Tue Jul 19 20:17:06 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 03:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Surviving Canada: Tahltan Nation Message-ID: <20050720031706.27525.qmail@resist.ca> The Stikine Canyon is one of the more beautiful places in the world of nature; the area is loaded with grizzlies, brown and black bears, moose, grouse, bighorn sheep, elk and every river is traditionally a run for salmon of many kinds. The north end of the Coast Mountain range runs through the whole of Tahltan Territory, very imposing and producing creek water that, to this day, is "potable" and so clean you can barely taste it. The reason that all of these things described remain true is the resistance of the Tahltan Nation to Canadian colonialism, successfully, in recent decades. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/19/121717/456 From news at resist.ca Fri Jul 22 13:17:07 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 20:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Scientists Worried by Riot Control Ray Gun Message-ID: <20050722201707.7216.qmail@resist.ca> Scientists are questioning the safety of a Star Wars-style riot control ray gun due to be deployed in Iraq next year. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/20/155642/456 From news at resist.ca Fri Jul 22 13:17:07 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 20:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Thirteen Die in Yemen Riots Over Fuel Price Rises Message-ID: <20050722201708.7218.qmail@resist.ca> "Yemenis were protesting against a government announcement on Tuesday to cut fuel subsidies as part of a 1995 reform program backed by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. The government says the economy could collapse without reforms." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/20/164829/091 From news at resist.ca Fri Jul 22 13:17:07 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 20:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Fortune Minerals Blocked From Entering the Mount Klappan Coal Fields Message-ID: <20050722201708.7219.qmail@resist.ca> Oscar Dennis | Email communication | July 19, 2005 Telegraph Elders,Tl'ab anot'in Clan and Iskut First Nations Block the passage of heavy Industrial Equipment from entering the Sacred Headwaters Fortune Minerals plan to begin drilling for coal in the Kla-bon-a-tine Sacred Headwaters /Mount Klappan area hit a roadblock over the weekend. In a display of growing Tahltan unity in opposition to failed leadership, the Iskut First Nations, Telegraph Tahltan Elders and Tl'ab anot'in families put up a Blockade at the junction of Hwy 37 and the Eulue Lake road in northern British Columbia on Saturday July 16, 2005. The Eulue lake road is the current access way into the Mount Klappan Coalfields. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/22/61129/1559 From news at resist.ca Fri Jul 22 13:17:08 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 20:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Telus Workers Set to Strike Message-ID: <20050722201708.7226.qmail@resist.ca> "The Telecommunications Workers Union announced early Thursday (July 21) that it is setting up picket lines across Alberta and British Columbia effective 6:00 a.m., local time. This is 18 hours in advance of the Friday deadline when Telus intends to impose its contract on employees." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/21/12332/5305 From news at resist.ca Fri Jul 22 13:17:07 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 20:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Alberta Workers Angry at Government and Union Message-ID: <20050722201708.7220.qmail@resist.ca> "Some 2,000 workers at the Lakeside Packers beef-processing plant in the small Alberta town of Brooks were ready to walk off the job this morning with a 70-percent strike mandate. But both the Alberta government and their union interfered." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/20/19456/2110 From news at resist.ca Sat Jul 23 11:17:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 18:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Link Byfield Historical Revisionist Message-ID: <20050723181705.20250.qmail@resist.ca> eugene plawiuk | Le Revue Gauche | July 22, 2005 Link Byfield son of Ted and Virgina Byfield, former Editor Publisher of Alberta Report, scion of the Right in Canada has a column in todays Sun, Calgary, blasting the Sun, Toronto, for belittiling Harpers Tarnished Image. No problem with that. Let the right wing regionalists fight amongst themselves about Wiley E. Harper. What I have a problem with is his historical revisionism where he blames the victim and extolls the virtues of colonial expansion into Western Canada. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/23/15135/3057 From news at resist.ca Sat Jul 23 11:17:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 18:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Tyrant Time-Tempus Fug'it Message-ID: <20050723181706.20251.qmail@resist.ca> eugene plawiuk | Le Revue Gauche | July 23, 2005 The creation of the clock is a defining moment in the history of capitalism. It allowed for the regimintation of work, and for the development of industrialization as clock works were applied to steam power. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/21/32055/1883 From news at resist.ca Sat Jul 23 11:17:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 18:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Yemenis killed in riots over fuel prices Message-ID: <20050723181705.20249.qmail@resist.ca> aljazeera | Wednesday 20 July 2005 At least eight people have been killed in Yemen in clashes with police as demonstrators threw stones at government buildings to protest against subsidy cuts doubling petrol prices. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/23/103856/860 From news at resist.ca Sat Jul 23 11:17:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 18:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] An old workers dying wish Message-ID: <20050723181706.20253.qmail@resist.ca> Since Thursday, June 23, Joseph McNeil has been sitting outside a McDonalds restaruant in uptown Barrie, Ontario, on a hunger strike against McDonalds Corporation. This former security guard, now 50-something and sleeping under a tarp in a nearby forest, has three seemingly simple demands: (1) Corporations must abide by all laws; the same laws applied to individuals should be applied to corporations as well. (2) All workers holding management and supervisor positions should be trained bi-annually on the laws; labour and beyond; that apply to their business. (3) All workers, especially the most vulnerable of the workforce - young workers and new Canadian citizens - should be treated to bi-annual courses reviewing their rights as employees, how these rights are most often violated, and how to properly assert these rights. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/20/15245/3590 From news at resist.ca Sat Jul 23 11:17:06 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 18:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] The Ethanol Scam: ADM and Brian Mulroney Message-ID: <20050723181706.20255.qmail@resist.ca> eugene plawiuk | Le Revue Gauche | July 18, 2005 Ethanol burns more than it saves: study Researchers at Cornell University and the University of California-Berkeley say it takes 29 per cent more fossil energy to turn corn into ethanol than the amount of fuel the process produces. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/23/13835/3952 From news at resist.ca Sat Jul 23 11:17:06 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 18:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Motives for settler removal from Gaza Message-ID: <20050723181706.20254.qmail@resist.ca> By Uri Davis, Ilan Pappe, and Tamar Yaron | Counter Punch | July 15, 2005 Confirming our worst fears, General (Res.) Eival Giladi went on record in print and on television to the effect that "Israel will act in a very resolute manner in order to prevent terror attacks and [militant] fire while the disengagement is being implemented" and that "If pinpoint response proves insufficient, we may have to use weaponry that causes major collateral damage, including helicopters and planes, with mounting danger to surrounding people." We believe that one primary, unstated motive for the determination of the government of the State of Israel to get the Jewish settlers of the Qatif (Katif) settlement block out of the Gaza Strip may be to keep them out of harm's way when the Israeli government and military possibly trigger an intensified mass attack on the approximately one and a half million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, of whom about half are 1948 Palestine refugees. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/23/103236/912 From news at resist.ca Mon Jul 25 07:17:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 14:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] 100 years of the Avante-Garde 1905-2005 Message-ID: <20050725141703.23438.qmail@resist.ca> One hundred years ago in Zurich; Lenin, Tristan Tzara and James Joyce were in exile, drinking coffee in cafes, and writing. Einstein published his General Theory of Relativity, workers in Russia called a General Strike and organized workers councils for the first time. It was the birth of Modernism. And I celebrate this movement with a cut and paste of the avante-garde manifestos that have influenced the 20th century. http://plawiuk.blogspot.com/.../100-years-of-avante-garde... URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/23/15457/6994 From news at resist.ca Mon Jul 25 07:17:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 14:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Haiti: The Gaza Strip of the Caribbean Message-ID: <20050725141703.23437.qmail@resist.ca> by Shirley Pate | ZNet | July 20, 2005 "Two helicopters flew overhead. At 4:30 AM, UN forces launched the offensive, shooting into houses, shacks, a church, and a school with machine guns, tank fire, and tear gas. Eyewitnesses reported that when people fled to escape the tear gas, UN troops gunned them down from the back." Haiti is Gaza and Gaza is Haiti because occupation always yields the same things: relentless provocations of the population, murder on a massive scale, oppression, persecution, incarceration, disenfranchisement, joblessness, homelessness, starvation and resistance. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/24/9161/27430 From news at resist.ca Mon Jul 25 07:17:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 14:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Toronto Reverses Special Diet Changes Message-ID: <20050725141704.23440.qmail@resist.ca> OCAP | OCAP List | July 24, 2005 Less than two weeks ago, top Toronto welfare bureaucrats informed us that they were implementing immediately, two devastating changes to the City's Special Diet Policy. All those who had obtained the Supplement would be required to get it approved all over again on a new municipal form. Moreover, only doctors would now be able to fill this in. Nurse Practitioners, dieticians and midwifes would be banned from doing this. On Friday, July 22, OCAP received a letter from Social Services Division General Manager, Heather MacVicar, announcing the City's decision to retreat and call off the attack. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/25/63021/4686 From news at resist.ca Mon Jul 25 07:17:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 14:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] The Labor Movement: It's More than We Bargain for Message-ID: <20050725141704.23439.qmail@resist.ca> by Kim Fellner | Monthly Review Zine The battle over labor's future is heading toward a showdown at the AFL-CIO Convention, beginning Monday July 25th in Chicago. But the confrontation pitting a team of insurgent unions led by the Service Employees International Union against the AFL-CIO establishment is shaping up to be organizationally bloody, but spiritually bloodless. We're fighting for the heart and soul of the labor movement as though we had neither. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/24/11828/3519 From news at resist.ca Tue Jul 26 02:17:06 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 09:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Telus Blocks TWU Website-You Can Unblock it Message-ID: <20050726091707.7112.qmail@resist.ca> Telus blocks access to union-run photo website http://www.canada.com/vancouver/theprovince/news/story.html?id=b26ceb13-6695-48cb-9128-c06e9d8bb01d If you are on Telus Internet and can't get to the TWU Voices for Change site here's how to do it. http://anon.free.anonymizer.com It provides a free url for FREE Private Surfing that bypasses Telus blocks! put in the url: http://www.voices-for-change.com Or you can use this proxy site link: http://vfc.proxy.pfak.org/index.asp URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/25/14257/1482 From news at resist.ca Tue Jul 26 02:17:06 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 09:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada's Dubious Role in Haiti Message-ID: <20050726091707.7111.qmail@resist.ca> The Toronto Star, July 25th, 2005 Aaron Mate Recently the Council of Sages, the Western-backed body that has overseen Haiti's political affairs since the February 2004 ouster of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, made a startling recommendation. Blaming the exiled Aristide and his Lavalas party for continuing "to promote and tolerate violence," the council urged the interim regime that it appointed to "disqualify the Lavalas Family Party from the electoral process." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/25/10248/1479 From prms at alternatives.com Wed Jul 27 13:38:01 2005 From: prms at alternatives.com (Press Release Media Service) Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 13:38:01 -0700 Subject: [news] UBC Proposes To Divert Storm Water Into Bathing Waters At Wreck Beach Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.20050727133801.009dd1d0@mail.alternatives.com> Media Advisory For Immediate Release From: Pacific Spirit Park Society and the Wreck Beach Preservation Society UBC PROPOSES TO DIVERT STORM WATER INTO BATHING WATERS AT WRECK BEACH Vancouver, BC -- July 26, 2005 -- UBC wants to sink a directional pipe into the waters behind the North Arm Breakwater for all South Campus storm water run-off and to divert waters from Trail 7 Creek and Botanical Garden Creeks into this pipe thereby drying up water for the lush vegetation beside those creeks and has scheduled an open mic public hearing for the community to amend the Official Community Plan for school, community centre, hight of seniors building, and designated traffic movements. Folks, however, may address any of their concerns regarding the South Campus development from detention ponds, tower heights, and stormwater management. What: South Campus Public Hearing When: Wednesday, July 27, 2005, 7 p.m. Where: Room 216, Student Union Building (6138 Student Union Boulevard), UBC Campus. The Pacific Spirit Park Society (PSPS) and the Wreck Beach Preservation Society (WBPS) do not want UBC to dump its storm water into salmonid rearing and Wreck Beach bathing receiving waters. It is not good enough to say that water quality control will be up to the DFO not the GVRD or UBC. Representatives of the Wreck Beach Preservation Society, Pacific Spirit Park Society, the public and students will be speaking. "Water doesn't respect boundaries with respect to pollution flow," said Judy Williams, WBPS chair. "What happens below the surface effects the foreshore cliff face and beach," continued Williams. -30- For more information please contact: Judy Williams - Chair, WBPS Email: judyw at wreckbeach.org Home Phone: 604-856-9598 Cell Phone: 604-308-6336 (cannot be reached if at home so try home number) James Loewen - Media Relations, WBPS Email: james3d at shaw.ca Phone: 604-689-9697 Kim Siren - Director, PSPS Email: siren1 at telus.net Phone: 604-738-5233 From prms at alternatives.com Thu Jul 28 13:01:59 2005 From: prms at alternatives.com (Press Release Media Service) Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:01:59 -0700 Subject: [news] The Battle Over Wreck Beach Towers Moves To Full GVRD Board Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.20050728130159.009a7720@mail.alternatives.com> Media Advisory For Immediate Release From: Pacific Spirit Park Society and the Wreck Beach Preservation Society THE BATTLE OVER WRECK BEACH TOWERS MOVES TO FULL GVRD BOARD Vancouver, BC - July 28, 2005 - The battle over Wreck Beach Towers moves to the full GVRD Board. What: Full GVRD Board Meeting When: Friday, July 29, 2005, 11:30 a.m. Where: 2nd Floor Board Room, 4330 Kingsway, Burnaby The GVRD Board is expected to vote on GVRD Staff recommendations regarding Phase Two of the UBC Towers project. Representatives of the Wreck Beach Preservation Society (WBPS), Pacific Spirit Park Society (PSPS), the public and students will be speaking. The first tower, Phase One, is now being completed. The proposed Phase Two, including three more towers, has not yet received a building permit and is now the issue of the controversy. The issue is expected to receive lively and heated debate. The WBPS and PSPS release of July 13, as well as other press releases and photos of tower visibility from the beach, may be found at http://www.wreckbeach.org/towers#background Additional new information is in a backgrounder below. Line-of-sight (viewscape) drawings and other background reports and presentations available upon request. -30- For more information please contact: Judy Williams - Chair, WBPS Email: judyw at wreckbeach.org Home Phone: 604-856-9598 Cell Phone: 604-308-6336 (cannot be reached if at home so try home number) James Loewen - Media Relations, WBPS Email: james3d at shaw.ca Phone: 604-689-9697 Kim Siren - Director, PSPS Email: siren1 at telus.net Phone: 604-738-5233 Background: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words http://www.wreckbeach.org/images/master33.jpg http://www.wreckbeach.org/images/compcu.jpg (high resolution colour) http://www.wreckbeach.org/images/compcu-b&w.jpg (high resolution black & white) left image caption: WBPS illustration of the planned tower (April 2004) right image caption: Photo of the rear tower at same location (June 2005) By Judy Williams and James Loewen, WBPS ? In February 2004, UBC announced a plan for four 20-storey towers to be built on the bluffs above Wreck Beach (http://www.wreckbeach.org/towers/im000582.jpg). ? On April 10, 2004, WBPS retained a professional firm to help conduct a visual impact study by raising a blimp to the exact height of the towers closest and farthest from the cliff, at the towers' exact location. Only those two towers were measured because of the expense and the Society's limited budget. The height of the blimp is clearly shown in the top right hand corner of the photo that was later used to illustrate the view of the towers from Wreck Beach (http://www.wreckbeach.org/images/imag2.jpg). ? On April 12, 2004, UBC and GVRD administrators and staff were sent a memo by respected facilitator, Raymond Penner, reminding them of the commitment by both groups to preserve the viewscapes of Wreck Beach (within Pacific Spirit Regional Park) "and vice versa." This commitment was in the Cliff-Erosion Mitigation Plan which was the result of UBC, GVRD, and the surrounding communities including the WBPS. ? On May 3, 2004, WBPS released an illustration produced by an architectural grad student who took UBC's own plans and measurements and superimposed the closest and farthest towers onto a photograph taken April 10, 2004 (http://www.wreckbeach.org/towers/towers_superimposed_4-01-04.pdf). WBPS has never made any attempt to disguise the process used to produce this illustration. The illustration is an accurate representation of UBC's original plan of the tower now built (Phase 1) and towers yet to be built (Phase 2). ? When UBC disputed the results of the visual impact study, WBPS and GVRD arranged to conduct a second test in which UBC was invited to participate. The day before the second test, UBC denied WBPS and GVRD access to the site and refused to allow the test to proceed. ? On or before May 17, 2004, Dennis Pavlich, VP of External and Legal Affairs for UBC, said that the tower farthest from the cliff edge (the Phase 1 tower now built) would not be visible from Wreck Beach and UBC would proceed to build the towers despite widespread community opposition and no public hearing (http://www.wreckbeach.org/towers/wbps0517.htm). ? On November 22, 2004, UBC announced plans to drop the height of the Phase 1 tower. UBC was forced to lower that rear tower to 18 storeys when it was discovered that their original plan did not comply with the Official Community Plan for Electoral Area A, a bylaw of the GVRD adopted on July 25, 1997. Electoral Area A includes UBC. (http://www.wreckbeach.org/towers/wbps1124.htm). ? Petitions were launched by the WBPS where, to date, 27,000 people have signed calling on UBC to find another way. Visitors from all provinces in Canada except PEI, 45 communities within BC but outside the Lower Mainland, 30 states in the US, and 18 foreign countries in addition to thousands of Lower Mainland residents, have supported preservation of Wreck's magnificent vistas. ? In less than 54 hours this summer, over 3000 persons have signed a petition calling for comprehensive public consultation and supporting the GVRD Staff line-of-sight which would preserve the remaining panorama viewscape from Wreck Beach toward the forested cliff tops. Of those 3000 persons, 500 have been students and 200 have been alumni from UBC. ? On July 6, 2005, Tourism Vancouver issued a letter asking the GVRD to preserve the viewscapes near the tip of Point Grey, at Wreck Beach, and including portions of Pacific Spirit Park. Many international and local guidebooks refer visitors and tourists to Wreck Beach, as do six Tourism Vancouver information centres, describing Wreck as "one of the worlds' great beaches", "very beautiful", "undeveloped (and unspoiled)", and "pristine". (http://www.wreckbeach.org/towers/tvan0706.jpg). ? On July 20, 2005, a guest editorial appeared in the Vancouver Sun (Soundoff, page A11), where UBC made a number of claims that are patently false and omitted several facts about the process that the University has followed to date about the UBC towers development. UBC has yet to release any new plan for Phase 2 of the towers development nor has UBC ever conducted a "public hearing" on Phase 2. Furthermore, Wreck Beach is not "man-made" as claimed by UBC. A public consultation plan developed by UBC was rejected, with GVRD Directors raising concerns about inadequate public participation and disclosure. Come to the beach at low tide and see the impact of the tower for yourself. Then imagine more towers of the same height. By doing this you'll be following in the footsteps of the GVRD Directors who visited the beach recently, and you'll be one step ahead of UBC's spokesmen Dennis Pavlich and Brian Sullivan. The GVRD has recommended that no more towers be visible from Wreck Beach, and has required that UBC develop and consider alternatives to preserve the beach viewscapes. Judy Williams is chair, and James Loewen is vice-chair, of the Wreck Beach Preservation Society. From news at resist.ca Thu Jul 28 15:17:07 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 22:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] "We're the Canadian Forces and Our Job is to be able to Kill People" Message-ID: <20050728221708.26227.qmail@resist.ca> "We're the Canadian Forces, and our job is to be able to kill people," said Rick Hillier, Canada's top military officer, announcing last week the deployment of more than 2,000 soldiers to Afghanistan, including commandos mandated to "take down" (Afghan resistance). In a press conference in Washington last February, Hillier outlined Canada's new defence policy . Canada's first priority is to conduct operations on its own territory. Second, Canadian Forces are committed to the defence of North America. Finally, providing troops to serve in hot spots around the world, what used to be our top priority, is now third. Action abroad appears to have been redefined; it is no longer to stop the killing. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/26/14220/7821 From news at resist.ca Fri Jul 29 14:17:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 21:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] George Bush's Philosophers Message-ID: <20050729211704.4387.qmail@resist.ca> The politics of George W. Bush, unlike earlier American conservatisms, is animated by ideas and not merely by interests. That is, at least, what Bush's friends assert, and what his foes usually concede. But is it so? URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/28/10334/5647 From news at resist.ca Sat Jul 30 13:17:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 20:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Ski resort resurfaces, alarms St'at'imc Nation Message-ID: <20050730201705.13207.qmail@resist.ca> PEMBERTON - Native bands in the Pemberton and Lillooet areas say they are alarmed that a proposed $500-million ski resort in the Melvin Creek watershed is being resurrected by Nancy and Al Raine. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/29/17855/2646 From news at resist.ca Sat Jul 30 13:17:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 20:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] In the Canadian Boreal Forest, a Conservation Ethic at Work Message-ID: <20050730201705.13204.qmail@resist.ca> For thousands of years, the people of the Poplar River First Nation have relied on the trees, plants and wildlife of the Canadian boreal forest for food, medicine and the survival of their cultural beliefs and traditions. Spanning rugged granite cliffs, dense evergreen woods and tranquil marshlands on the eastern shore of Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba, the Poplar River community lands are accessible only by air or water for most of the year; an ice road allows for limited ground travel during the winter months. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/29/1701/36356 From news at resist.ca Sat Jul 30 13:17:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 20:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Iran is running Iraq, Says Iraqis Message-ID: <20050730201705.13203.qmail@resist.ca> Asked about the Islamic gangs who force women to wear headscarves and prevent the sale of alcohol and music, a member of the writers' union immediately started trembling. "I'm sorry, I can't talk about that. This is a dangerous thing," he said. "I have three kids and I love life. The Islamic movement is very hard. Al- Qaeda is not a problem here. The Iranian revolution is the problem." The various Islamic parties, most of whom spent years of exile from Saddam Hussein's Iraq in neighbouring Iran, deny any link to the violence and blame al-Qaeda. But officials say that the parties are closely linked to Iran, receiving funding and reciprocating with intelligence. Samir Jassim Khadair, a spokesman for the Southern Oil Company in Basra, was blunt. "Iran is running Iraq, frankly speaking," he said. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/29/21817/4497