From news at resist.ca  Wed Jun  1 08:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 15:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Death and Humiliation in Iraq
Message-ID: <20050601151704.27555.qmail@resist.ca>

"My sources in Baghdad...said there have been fierce clashes today in the al-Amiriya district of Baghdad between resistance fighters and Iraqi and US soldiers. 'Open gun battles in the streets,' as one friend told me, 'And as soon as the Iraqi and US soldiers leave the area, the resistance takes it back over'....Keep in mind that all of this is against the backdrop of well over 50 per cent unemployment, horrendous traffic jams, and an infrastructure in shambles that continues to degrade with next to no reconstruction occurring in Baghdad."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/31/155613/407


From news at resist.ca  Wed Jun  1 09:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Israel's Walter Cronkite chastises Israeli policy
Message-ID: <20050601161705.21001.qmail@resist.ca>

"Israel's Walter Cronkite, a respected TV journalist who has delivered the main evening news since 1968, has stepped out from behind the shield of measured neutrality with an angry indictment of Israel's settlement policy and occupation of the Palestinians." "Haim Yavin's five-part documentary -- part one was being broadcast Tuesday -- prompted calls from settlers for his dismissal, but could also mark a watershed in how the nation views its four-decade rule over Palestinians."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/1/8844/19626


From news at resist.ca  Wed Jun  1 09:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Tapes show Ontario Tories pushed for lethal police assault
	at Ipperwash
Message-ID: <20050601161706.21005.qmail@resist.ca>

By Lee Parsons | 31 May 2005 "Taped conversations between senior Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers have exploded the claim of former Premier Mike Harris that he and his Tory provincial government played no part in the police action that led to the killing of an unarmed native protester at Ipperwash Provincial Park in 1995. The tapes, which were played earlier this month at a public inquiry into the police killing of Dudley George, indicate that the Tory government was, on the contrary, intimately involved in directing the police and that the premier and others in his administration helped instigate the use of excessive and lethal force against a small group of aboriginal people demanding fulfillment of a land claim."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/31/75641/8285


From news at resist.ca  Wed Jun  1 09:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Imperialists hold Montreal conclave over Haiti at same time
	as CLC convention
Message-ID: <20050601161705.21002.qmail@resist.ca>

According to Cuba's Prensa Latina news service, the junior imperialists in Ottawa are hosting a conference in Montreal on just what to do with Haiti, over two days, June 16th and 17th -- days which just happen to coincide with the CLC's (Canadian Labour Congress) week-long national convention in the very same city... This seems to be a tailor-made opportunity for north american Labor and activists to stick it to canadian & U.S. imperialism in a big way, and finally do haitians the good turn they've waited so long for.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/31/231927/859


From news at resist.ca  Wed Jun  1 09:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] LEBANON Living War - A Call for Financial Support! For an
	Independent Media Initiative.
Message-ID: <20050601161706.21003.qmail@resist.ca>

A Fundraising Appeal for an Independent MEDIA Initiative....! This is a call for financial support and solidarity for an independent media initiative of CKUT Radio's Community News Collective in Montreal, with the collaboration of the Electronic Intifada, Free Speech Radio News and members of the Independent Media Center in Beirut. Between June & September 2005, Stefan Christoff, an independent journalist and community organizer in Montreal, will travel to Lebanon to produce written, audio, and visual reports on present-day struggles for social justice in Lebanon. He will be the Electronic Intifada's "Special Correspondent" in Lebanon. Christoff will also be producing regular radio reports for Free Speech Radio News and recording material for a radio documentary series to be produced at CKUT Radio in Montreal and distributed to community radio stations throughout the world in the fall of 2005.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/31/121159/508


From news at resist.ca  Wed Jun  1 09:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Solidarity Across Borders: March for Immigrant & Refugee
	Rights
Message-ID: <20050601161706.21004.qmail@resist.ca>

The NO ONE IS ILLEGAL MARCH ON OTTAWA will begin in less than three short weeks! The march, organized by Solidarity Across Borders in Montreal, will begin on June 18 and walk from Montreal to Ottawa (over 200 kilometres), arriving on June 25. The four basic demands of the Solidarity Across Borders network are: the regularization of all non-status people in Canada; an end to deportations; an end to detentions; and the abolition of security certificates. Solidarity Across Borders is a Montreal-area campaign initiated by several groups active in defending the rights of migrants, immigrants and refugees. The majority of groups within Solidarity Across Borders are self-organized committees of persons directly affected by repressive anti-immigrant and "anti-terrorist" laws and regulations.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/31/153550/593


From news at resist.ca  Thu Jun  2 01:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 08:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] What Indians And Palestinians Share
Message-ID: <20050602081704.487.qmail@resist.ca>

"Like the European colonization of America, the colonization of Palestine began with the imperial mindset that particularly flourished in the 19th century. We give Israel billions of dollars annually in aid, weapons and political support to underwrite those 19th-century colonial practices for which, surely, most 21st century Americans and Europeans are ashamed, however much they may want to forget....We cannot return to colonial America to undo the degradation of our own native peoples. But we can act to make sure ethnic cleansing doesn't continue in Palestine, now, in our names and with our money."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/2/0414/23507


From news at resist.ca  Thu Jun  2 01:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 08:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] "Shocked" Councillor Withdraws "Straight Pride" Motion
Message-ID: <20050602081704.491.qmail@resist.ca>

CBC News | May 30 2005 YELLOWKNIFE - The city of Yellowknife rescinded its proclamation of Heterosexual Day at a special meeting Monday. Councillor Alan Woytuik introduced the proclamation last week in response to a request for the city to proclaim Gay Pride Day. At the time, he said there's no reason why heterosexual people shouldn't be recognized. --- Councillor Mark Heyck says: "I'm sure no one can imagine a councillor proclaiming National White Man's day in response to National Aboriginal day. Or Caucasian Heritage Month in response to Black Heritage Month. But it seemed okay to proclaim Heterosexual Day in response to Gay Pride day. That tells me we have some way to go before we can consider ourselves a fully inclusive society."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/1/112022/3617


From news at resist.ca  Thu Jun  2 01:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 08:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Real Estate Bubble Inflates Over Vancouver
Message-ID: <20050602081704.492.qmail@resist.ca>

"No wonder so many see parallels between the current housing market and the hi-tech market just prior to its crash in 2001. In fact, one of the prophets of that crash, Yale economist Robert Shiller -- whose book, Irrational Exuberance, was published just before the tech bubble burst -- recently stated on Report on Business Television that 'This is the biggest national bubble that the U.S. has seen in over a century'. This is 'not a sustainable situation,' claimed Shiller. Then Shiller directed his attention to Vancouver. The bubble was especially extended in 'glamour cities and glamour vacation areas,' he warned, and 'Vancouver is the most bubbly city in the world.'"

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/2/02031/17854


From news at resist.ca  Thu Jun  2 01:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 08:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Travailleurs sociaux : des precaires au service de la
	precarite
Message-ID: <20050602081704.488.qmail@resist.ca>

A-Infos "On conna?t l'ambigu?t? de la fonction du travailleur social. Nous l'avons souvent d?nonc?e dans les colonnes du Combat Syndicaliste. Charg? de venir en aide aux plus exploit?s et aux plus d?munis, le travailleur social est aussi un des instruments de la paix sociale, condition n?cessaire au bon fonctionnement de cette soci?t? d'exploitation et de profit. Vivant au quotidien cette situation schizophr?nique, il est sans cesse confront? au cynisme du pouvoir et ? la d?tresse des populations marginalis?es, paup?ris?es, mises au rebut."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/1/11343/04595


From news at resist.ca  Thu Jun  2 01:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 08:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] June 10/05: Anarchy to Activism at Vancouver Public Library
Message-ID: <20050602081704.489.qmail@resist.ca>

Anarchist thinkers throughout the ages tried to reconcile utopian ideals with practical realities. Come hear Robert Graham discuss his new book, Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas, Volume 1: From Anarchy to Anarchism (300CE to 1939), a long overdue anthology of anarchist writings from ancient China to the Spanish Revolution. Also featured in this evening of challenging ideas will be local authors Roger Farr discussing the anarchist poetics of Phyllis Webb, and Ron Sakolsky on anarchism and surrealism. A stimulating evening of anarchism, activism, belles lettres and art, beginning at 7 PM in the Alma VanDusen Room, Lower Level, Vancouver Central Public Library, 350 West Georgia Street, Friday, June 10, 2005. Admission free. All welcome.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/1/143924/4202


From news at resist.ca  Thu Jun  2 09:17:09 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 16:17:09 -0000
Subject: [news] Amnesty report blasts U.S. for 'gulag'
Message-ID: <20050602161709.5365.qmail@resist.ca>

Globe and Mail | May 25, 2005 "Nearly four years after Sept. 11, 2001, the promise to make the world a safer place remains hollow, Amnesty International says in an annual report that, in biting language, condemns the United States for setting up a modern-day gulag. The 308-page report, to be released today, says that the administration of President George W. Bush has engaged in one of the most damaging assaults on global values by weakening what is supposed to be an absolute ban on torture."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/2/783/29325


From news at resist.ca  Fri Jun  3 06:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 13:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Exploitation or deportation,
	that is the question for Turkish workers (in Occuppied Palestine)
Message-ID: <20050603131703.504.qmail@resist.ca>

Ha'aretz | May 26, 2005 "Six months ago, two human rights organizations asked the High Court of Justice to allow 800 Turkish workers employed here [Occupied Palestine] by a Turkish company, Yilmazlar, to switch employers, alleging that the firm had mistreated them. The workers petitioned the court because the state had refused permission for them to switch employers. But at the request of Yilmazlar and the state, the hearing has been postponed repeatedly[...]. Meanwhile, the workers must choose between staying at Yilmazlar and being exploited, or quitting and risking deportation."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/3/55438/22592


From news at resist.ca  Fri Jun  3 06:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 13:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Assata Shakur: The Government's Terrorist is Our Community's
	Heroine
Message-ID: <20050603131703.505.qmail@resist.ca>

"Rapper and actor Mos Def presents the case for Assata Shakur (Joanne Chesimard), recently redefined by the US government as a "domestic terrorist" with a $1,000,000 bounty on her head. The US government's labelling of this woman as a terrorist, while until recently considering Luis Posada Carriles, speaks volumes about the political nature of defining terrorism."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/2/23426/83276


From news at resist.ca  Fri Jun  3 07:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 14:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Canada - U.S. Conflicts:  A View from Japan
Message-ID: <20050603141704.25032.qmail@resist.ca>

"(W)ith the problems and failures of the U.S. occupation of Iraq -- to say nothing of the Bush administration's international misconduct -- anti-Bush sentiment has grown strong among Canadians. Canadians feel that cooperating with the United States in the Ballistic Missile Defense system is supporting global U.S. imperialism. Martin's decision to withdraw from the BMD agreement simply reflects strong Canadian sentiment at this time. And with the United States implying that invasions of Iran and Syria might be imminent, criticisms of the Bush administration are sharply increasing in Canada. With more than half the members of Martin's own Liberal party at odds with Washington, in order to avert a collapse of the government, Martin had to take an anti-American stance."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/2/19191/64962


From news at resist.ca  Fri Jun  3 07:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 14:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Immigration appeals board grants Algerian-born Quebec man
	refugee status
Message-ID: <20050603141704.25034.qmail@resist.ca>

June 1, 2005, 9:43 PM EDT MONTREAL (AP) _ The Board of Immigration Appeals in Buffalo, N.Y., has granted Algerian Mohamed Cherfi refugee status in the United States. Cherfi's lawyer, Noel Saint-Pierre, confirmed the news Wednesday to Radio-Canada. The American decision paves the way for Cherfi to seek permission from Citizenship and Immigration Canada to return to Quebec, since he is no longer at risk of being deported to Algeria.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/2/92411/48891


From news at resist.ca  Fri Jun  3 07:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 14:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Demonstrations signal a growing opposition to Canada's
	involvment in Haiti
Message-ID: <20050603141704.25033.qmail@resist.ca>

Buenaventura Durruti - Contributor, The Excalibur | Wednesday, 01 June 2005 On May 18, people from cities across Canada took part in the first-ever International Day of Solidarity with Haiti with a series of coordinated demonstrations, petitions and workshops meant to draw attention to and challenge Canada's role in the destabilization of Haiti and its support for an illegal interim government. Among the key demands put forth were for the interim authorities to abide by Haiti's constitution; to condemn the killings, illegal imprisonment and confiscation of property; the release of all political prisoners; and an investigation into the circumstances surrounding President Aristide's removal.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/2/91921/46541


From news at resist.ca  Fri Jun  3 07:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 14:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Surviving Canada Report: Grassy Narrows
Message-ID: <20050603141704.25036.qmail@resist.ca>

Macdonald Stainsby "Many years before the arrival of the white man to the land of the Anishinabe Nation, there was a prophecy that when the white people arrived they would bring with them the destruction of the forests and the land that sustains the Anishinabe people. When the corporation Abitibi started to carry out their illegally obtained logging contracts in the latter half of the 1980's, the sounds of the machines were enough to cause great concern for many of the elders. After years of ecological damage started to take very serious tolls on the Anishinabe population living in Grassy Narrows, by 1996 members of the nation decided that it was time to try and do something about it."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/2/17525/58232


From news at resist.ca  Fri Jun  3 07:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 14:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Exemptions to Economic Unit Policy Prove Widespread
	Discrimination Against the Poor
Message-ID: <20050603141704.25035.qmail@resist.ca>

Fredericton, June 1, 2005 "The Fredericton Anti-Poverty Organization says that the proposed exemptions to the province's Economic Unit Policy that were leaked yesterday to the press only prove the widespread discrimination which prevents the poorest of the poor from living together to share their meagre resources. Dan Weston, Coordinator of the Anti-Poverty Organization said the three or four exemptions planned by the Lord government are just a 'drop in the bucket' and are solid proof of the widespread discrimination against welfare recipients that exists in government's Economic Unit Policy. He called the move to exempt only certain groups sleazy' and 'an example of politics determining human rights, not human rights determining politics.'"

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/1/114036/3199


From news at resist.ca  Sat Jun  4 07:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2005 14:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] The Process of Transfer Continues
Message-ID: <20050604141703.19443.qmail@resist.ca>

"The Municipality of Jerusalem intends to demolish an entire East Jerusalem neighborhood -- 88 homes housing 1000 residents -- in the el-Bustan area of Silwan village in East Jerusalem, close to the walls of the Old City." ... "The operation, the largest demolition of Palestinian homes in Jerusalem since 1967, is code-named 'The Cherry in the Crown.'" ... "Since the Israeli government zoned almost all the unbuilt-upon land of Palestinian East Jerusalem as 'open green space' after the 1967 war (and since Palestinians would not be allowed to live in Jewish West Jerusalem), there is little space for them at all. The reasons are political, not urban."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/4/64030/94158


From news at resist.ca  Sat Jun  4 07:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2005 14:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Agitation as Effective Protest
Message-ID: <20050604141703.19444.qmail@resist.ca>

"Authority HATES the agitator. Authority cannot predict the moves of, cannot organize to stop, cannot control, the "agitator." To find out who is trying to control you, agitate."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/3/91713/66377


From news at resist.ca  Sat Jun  4 07:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2005 14:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Stripping Rumsfeld and Bush of impunity
Message-ID: <20050604141703.19445.qmail@resist.ca>

alternet.org | May 31, 2005 "Both Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International USA say there is [sufficient] evidence against Rumsfeld for war crimes and torture. Amnesty International USA says there is also [...] evidence against Bush for war crimes and torture." "[W]e have to ask ourselves, where is the accountability? Who has the authority to ascertain whether these high officials committed war crimes and torture, and if they did, to bring them to justice?" "Amnesty International USA, Human Rights Watch, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the ACLU, the American Bar Association, and Human Rights First [...] have joined in a call for a special prosecutor. But that decision is up to Gonzales [implicated elsewhere in the article] and ultimately Bush."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/4/65836/56212


From news at resist.ca  Sat Jun  4 08:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2005 15:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Activists Lock down to stage at Paper Summit
Message-ID: <20050604151707.714.qmail@resist.ca>

Vancouver, BC - Two Canadian women from Vancouver's Environmental Direct Action Network disrupted a meeting by locking down to each other at the Global Forest and Paper Summit today. Their action was an effort to criticize the timber corporations that were in attendance at the summit who are responsible for destroying endangered ecosystems, local economies and First Nations communities across Canada and the world. Also see Ms Lorax's account of her arrest and Summit Blocked: Activist's life hanged in balance.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/3/161458/0313


From news at resist.ca  Sat Jun  4 08:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2005 15:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Criminal investigation started into N.W.T. police violence
Message-ID: <20050604151706.713.qmail@resist.ca>

CBC News | June 1st 2005 "YELLOWKNIFE - A Crown prosecutor in the Yukon has been asked to look into a case of alleged police brutality in the N.W.T. community of Fort Smith. The prosecutor will decide whether there's enough evidence to proceed with charges against officers in the case of Russell Sikyea. Sikyea says he was being held in the cells in Fort Smith when he started banging on the door, trying to get the officers' attention. When they came, he says one was angry. 'He smacked me. He smacked me across the face. And he grabbed my ear and he started choking me out,' says Sikyea. 'I couldn't yell, I don't know what sound I was making, he was just choking me out.'"

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/1/11526/87665


From news at resist.ca  Sat Jun  4 08:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2005 15:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Activists Block Global Forest and Paper Summit: Activist's
	life hanged in balance.
Message-ID: <20050604151706.707.qmail@resist.ca>

Vancouver, BC - While 60 corporate CEO's and over 400 executives from some of the world's largest logging companies meet behind closed doors to divide up the worlds last remaining forests and plot to increase consumption activists will give their own message outside the meeting of the Global Forest and Paper Summit. Members of the newly formed Vancouver Environmental Direct Action Network (VEDAN), a international coalition of members of the Pagan Cluster, the Environmental Direct Action Network, and others, set up a structure and suspended a woman over 35 feet in the air in an attempt to send delegates a very clear message.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/3/134458/7406


From news at resist.ca  Sat Jun  4 08:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2005 15:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Six Canadian Cities Join World Naked Bike Ride
Message-ID: <20050604151706.710.qmail@resist.ca>

"On June 11, 2005, six Canadian cities will be joining over 50 cities world wide in the World Naked Bike Ride. The World Naked Bike Ride is an international celebration of the power and individuality of our bodies as well as a protest against oil dependency. All cyclists, roller bladers, joggers and skate boarders are invited to attend. The dress code is bare as you dare. The decision as to how naked participants are is determined by ride participants."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/3/113429/2508


From news at resist.ca  Sat Jun  4 08:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2005 15:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Amnesty International's Response to Rumsfeld
Message-ID: <20050604151707.716.qmail@resist.ca>

"Twenty years ago, Amnesty International was criticizing Saddam Hussein's human rights abuses at the same time Donald Rumsfeld was courting him. In 2003 Rumsfeld apparently trusted our credibility on violations by Iraq, but now that we are criticizing the US he has lost his faith again."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/4/72257/49456


From news at resist.ca  Sun Jun  5 07:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 14:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Deep Throat is no hero
Message-ID: <20050605141703.26472.qmail@resist.ca>

The former FBI official who is Deep Throat has a legacy that includes his felonious abuse of the Fourth Amendment as much as it does his anonymous championship of the First. The man who says he leaked details to The Washington Post of the Nixon administration's coverup of the break-in at the Watergate headquarters of the Democratic Party is the same man who authorized illegal break-ins targeting antiwar activists.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/5/65930/11310


From news at resist.ca  Sun Jun  5 08:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 15:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Immigration Canada denies Wendy Maxwell
Message-ID: <20050605151704.7691.qmail@resist.ca>

"During the second week in May 2005, counsel for Wendy Maxwell Edwards (also known as Queen Nzinga) received Immigration Canada's decision on the application for permanent residence on Humanitarian and Compassionate Grounds (H&C Application), filed more than a year before her recent deportation to Costa Rica. It was a negative decision."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/4/19416/50404


From news at resist.ca  Sun Jun  5 08:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 15:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Radical Teaching
Message-ID: <20050605151703.7689.qmail@resist.ca>

"....I readily plead guilty to not being neutral about the topics addressed in my own courses, from sexism, racism and homophobia to what I view as the destructive nature of globalizing corporate capitalism, virulent nationalism and the misuses of religion. As a student I was invariably put off by teachers who feigned neutrality about the grievous state of our world: 'Okay, Native Americans (or holocaust survivors, domestic abuse victims, starving children in Africa, etc.) we've heard your story, now let's be fair and give equal moral weight to the other side!'"

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/4/133754/2237


From news at resist.ca  Sun Jun  5 08:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 15:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Du Watergate =?utf-8?b?w6A=?=
	la Crise d'octobre - Les crimes de Nixon et de Trudeau 30 ans
	=?utf-8?b?YXByw6hz?=
Message-ID: <20050605151704.7690.qmail@resist.ca>

[editor's note, by ron] Two articles on Watergate's Deep Throat. One in english, one in french. This past week brought us news of the identity of the infamous "Deep Throat" who brought down the U.S. Nixon regime in 1972. At the same time it was also revealed that this man, the No. 2 man at the FBI -- second only to J. Edgar Hoover -- was himself guilty of everything he had exposed at the Nixon White House, and more. Meanwhile in Canada, an equally odious dirty tricks campaign was being waged against the Parti Quebecois and the Quebec separatiste movement by the Trudeau Liberal regime, which culminated in the 1970 "October Crisis" and the suspension of civil liberties. The author of this piece (in french), a first-hand observer, reflects on how the outcome was very different for the guilty parties of both countries, for political crimes which occurred within roughly the same time frame. What we have here is truly "just us", canadian-style.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/4/22914/51985


From news at resist.ca  Sun Jun  5 08:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 15:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] It's Time To Act... Atlas reveals global devastation
Message-ID: <20050605151703.7688.qmail@resist.ca>

"The devastating impact of mankind on the planet is dramatically illustrated in pictures published on Saturday showing explosive urban sprawl, major deforestation and the sucking dry of inland seas over less than three decades." Why are we letting this happen? Why does man feel nothing for our Mother Earth? Something needs to be done. Drastic measures must be taken. We must stop ourselves before we make Earth as barren as the Moon.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/4/20187/40656


From news at resist.ca  Mon Jun  6 01:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 08:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Happy Father's Day, Dud!
Message-ID: <20050606081705.19545.qmail@resist.ca>

"Daddy's Home...So? You say that like it means somethin' to me. You've been gone a mighty long muthaf*ckin' time for you to be comin' home talkin' that 'daddy's home' shit. We been getting along fine just without you. Me, my brother, and my mother. So if you don't mind, you can step the f*ck off, pops. F*ck you!" - Tupac Shakur, "Papa's Song" Father's Day. "What can I say? Fathering doesn't run in my family. My sister and I got so disgusted with my father, that we stopped calling him 'dad,' referring to him only as 'dud' now for decades, even to his face..."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/5/105147/1611


From news at resist.ca  Mon Jun  6 01:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 08:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] "A Most Dangerous Woman" - The Legacy of Anarchist &
	Activist Emma Goldman
Message-ID: <20050606081705.19546.qmail@resist.ca>

"A Most Dangerous Woman" Emma Goldman Dr. Barry Pateman - Associate Editor, The Emma Goldman Papers, University of California, Berkeley Saturday June 11, 2005 12:45 - 1:30 PM Room 1600, Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre In association with The IWW - The First 100 Years and Thinking Through Action Conferences "EMMA GOLDMAN (1869-1940) stands as a major figure in the history of American radicalism and feminism. An influential and well-known anarchist of her day, Goldman was an early advocate of free speech, birth control, women's equality and independence, union organization, and the eight-hour work day. Her criticism of mandatory conscription of young men into the military during World War I led to a two-year imprisonment, followed by her deportation in 1919. For the rest of her life until her death in 1940, she continued to participate in the social and political movements of her age, from the Russian Revolution to the Spanish Civil War."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/6/01543/56014


From news at resist.ca  Mon Jun  6 01:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 08:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] "Without Breaking the Rules,
	the Fight Against Injustice is a Waste of Time"
Message-ID: <20050606081705.19544.qmail@resist.ca>

"Those in power can handle people going on the occasional police-controlled march. They can also, let's be honest, handle small groups of people doing actions that no one else gets involved in. What they can't handle is people making alliances, building links, supporting and learning from each other through action. We've always been at our best when we've joined up with others - supporting the Liverpool dockers when their union deserted them, shutting down the World Trade Organisation in Seattle alongside NGOs, faith groups and many others - and been at our worst when we've retreated into subcultures that revel in being different from everyone around us...That doesn't mean we should never do anything that offends people who think you can change the world by asking politicians nicely. But most people wanting to resist capitalism (as opposed to talking about it) know instinctively that you're not going to achieve anything if you play by capital's rules."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/5/173955/1926


From news at resist.ca  Tue Jun  7 01:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 08:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Hooking Women on Cigarettes
Message-ID: <20050607081706.20670.qmail@resist.ca>

By: The Associated Press "Internal documuents reveal tobacco companies' elaborate efforts to lure female smokers." Boston - Tobacco companies did elaborate research on women to figure out how to hook them on smoking- even toying with the idea of chocolate- flavored cigarettes that would curb appetite. Researchers at Harvard University's School of Public Health say that they examined more than seven million documents- some dating back to 1969, others as recent as 2000- for new details about the industries efforts to lure more women smokers.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/6/85413/03419


From news at resist.ca  Tue Jun  7 01:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 08:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Strangers Everywhere: About Some Anarchists Arrested in
	Lecce, Italy
Message-ID: <20050607081706.20671.qmail@resist.ca>

"I do not know whether those arrested had anything to do with the activities for which they are charged, nor do I care. Guilt or innocence do not interest me since such terms belong to the justice system and the state. My solidarity is based an seeing my own struggle in that of the comrades, seeing possibilities for complicity and mutuality, even across an ocean."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/6/16457/36347


From news at resist.ca  Tue Jun  7 01:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 08:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Gender Hustling the Left
Message-ID: <20050607081706.20674.qmail@resist.ca>

"As a woman of color, it remains difficult to locate the voices and actions that may motivate me, and others like me, to connect with what remains a heterosexist, white male dominated popular left....(W)e have moved to a rudimentary center and made silent the theories and practices that could flourish by incorporating the voices and actions of those on the margins. The cost of what is in effect the intellectual segregation of the voices of radical women of color is immeasurable: by somewhat unconsciously choosing an easy center, we stifle the dialogue and critique which could meaningfully question what it is we stand for....Instead, we tacitly support pornographers like Larry Flynt of Hustler Magazine. Flynt has gained credit for squeezing the work of progressive authors between images of violent degradation. By hiding behind this fact, Flynt is able to repel criticisms about the racist and misogynistic culture he perpetuates. Hustler Magazine now publishes articles of popular left icons such as Greg Palast and Christian Parenti. It is important to understand the type of magazine that Larry Flynt publishes: Hustler is not erotica or sex-positive in any sense of those terms, instead it is pro-capitalist hard-core pornographic degradation."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/6/153812/1760


From news at resist.ca  Tue Jun  7 01:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 08:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Arrest of International Indigenous Youth Conference Delegate
Message-ID: <20050607081706.20673.qmail@resist.ca>

"We are the Mapuche Nation Collective-Auki? Nawel based here in Traditional Coast Salish Territory otherwise known as Vancouver, BC Canada. As we prepare for the 2nd international indigenous youth conference we recieved news today that at approximately 8:30 am Eastern Time, one of the delegates that was to represent the Mapuche Nation at the Conference, Pedro Cayqueo Millaqueo, was unbelievably and questionably arrested and jailed as he left his home town of Nueva Imperial in the South of Chile."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/6/83446/26652


From news at resist.ca  Tue Jun  7 01:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 08:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Eco-Defense Speech-A-Thon Online: June 10-12
Message-ID: <20050607081707.20675.qmail@resist.ca>

Eco-Defense Speech-A-Thon Online: June 10-12 International actions will be occurring June 10-12, 2005, in solidarity with eco-defense/political prisoner Jeff "Free" Luers, now serving a 23 year prison term in Salem, Or. Seattle will be joining in the support of this prisoner, all eco-prisoners, and our Earth, by offering an online Eco-Defense Speech-A-Thon during the weekend. Different speeches by inspirational eco-defense warriors will be rotated for the 3 days, available for free downloads (see below). The speeches will address a wide range of eco-defense techniques and issues, such as guerrilla gardening, monkeywrenching, Gandhi to guerrilla tactics, gentrification, the importance of direct action, permaculture, the FBI stealing Judi Bari's fiddle, and more! We will be featuring speeches from inspirational speakers such as Craig Rosebraugh (former ELF spokesperson), Judi Bari, Julia Butterfly, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Derrick Jensen, Alan Watts, Helen Caldicott, Jane Doe, and others. (This collection of speeches came to a Seattle activist via an anonymous source in the UK and she is sharing this resource in real time during the weekend, the speeches will not be archived online.) Join us in this celebration of courage in the defense of Mother Earth!

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/6/102819/2697


From news at resist.ca  Tue Jun  7 01:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 08:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Testimony at Arar Inquiry Paints Disturbing Picture
Message-ID: <20050607081707.20676.qmail@resist.ca>

"(Maher) Arar is the Syrian-born Canadian computer engineer arrested by U.S. authorities in October 2002, while changing planes in New York. He was interrogated, accused of terrorism and secretly deported to Syria to be jailed and tortured....The Americans acted against Arar only because Canadian intelligence agencies placed his name on a terrorist watch list....The (Royal Canadian Mounted Police - RCMP, Canada's national police force) discussed the Arar case with U.S. authorities while he was still in custody in New York....The RCMP and the (Canadian Security Intelligence Service - CSIS, Canada's 'Spy' agency), it appears, were far more forthcoming with Washington than they were with their own government."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/6/204728/7689


From news at resist.ca  Wed Jun  8 08:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 15:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Desperate for Work, Blind to Dangers
Message-ID: <20050608151706.22471.qmail@resist.ca>

AMMAN, Jun 7 (IPS) - Ahlam Najam just needed a job. At 25, she had a university degree in education but could not find work as teacher. When Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR), subsidiary of the U.S. firm Halliburton offered her a job as a security guard at a U.S. base in Iraq, she took it. On May 18 last year she was shot twice in the head as she waited for a taxi to take her to work. Her injuries left her blind, and she lost her sense of smell.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/7/12548/67445


From news at resist.ca  Wed Jun  8 08:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 15:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Japan penal system advertises prison labour for companies in
	need of workers
Message-ID: <20050608151707.22474.qmail@resist.ca>

Need workers? Japan's penal system has the answer: prison labour. The Justice Ministry began advertising its captive labour supply on its website this year in hopes of getting more company work orders as the prison population rises. The advertisement, started in March, praises the benefits of labour in prison, outlines the types of products available and provides links and phone numbers for companies to call.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/7/19555/17318


From news at resist.ca  Wed Jun  8 08:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 15:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Emma Goldman and Immigrant Anarchist Movements
Message-ID: <20050608151706.22470.qmail@resist.ca>

On Saturday, June 11, Barry Pateman, associate editor of the Emma Goldman Papers at the University of California in Berkeley, will talk at the Purple Thistle Centre in Vancouver on Emma Goldman's connection to the Mexican and Italian anarchist immigrant movements of the early 1900s, including anarchist martyrs Ricardo Flores Magon and Sacco and Vanzetti.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/7/205624/0208


From news at resist.ca  Wed Jun  8 08:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 15:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Boycott Norm Stamper's "Breaking Rank" Book Tour
Message-ID: <20050608151707.22473.qmail@resist.ca>

"Norm Stamper was the Seattle Police Chief during the Seattle WTO riots in 1999. He has now reemerged to profit off his terrorist reign, by presenting a fuzzy package of remorse. He is now trying to make more capitalist profit off of his past terrorism through a book about his 'mistakes' during WTO. Guess what Stamper? We SAW your mistakes. The world SAW your mistakes. We do not need your new spin-for-profit on it."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/7/93753/10052


From news at resist.ca  Wed Jun  8 08:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 15:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Reversing the Tide in Bolivia
Message-ID: <20050608151707.22475.qmail@resist.ca>

"'While the poor don't have food, the rich won't have peace,' reads the graffiti scrawled onto the wall adjoining the dual carriageway that sweeps breathlessly from one of the world's highest airports into Bolivia's Andean city of La Paz....Suddenly the traditional centre of power has been full of those excluded from power for centuries - indigenous women with swirling skirts and bowler hats, Aymara men in deep-red ponchos with mouths bulging with coca leaves, rural farmers with weathered faces shaded by faded baseball caps, miners with sticks of dynamite ready to storm the Congress building."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/7/123841/2664


From news at resist.ca  Wed Jun  8 08:17:07 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 15:17:07 -0000
Subject: [news] Yet More Casualties in War on Indigenous Activists
Message-ID: <20050608151708.22479.qmail@resist.ca>

MEXICO CITY, May 23 (IPS) - The "war" waged on indigenous environmental activists by loggers in Mexico has claimed the lives of two more victims, including a nine-year-old boy, while local and international non-governmental organisations report continued arbitrary arrests of campesinos struggling to protect the forests.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/7/12109/94838


From news at resist.ca  Fri Jun 10 01:17:10 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 08:17:10 -0000
Subject: [news] Haitian Regime Aiming to Disenfranchise the Poor
Message-ID: <20050610081711.24383.qmail@resist.ca>

Haitian regime aiming to disenfranchise poor Author: Tim Pelzer People's Weekly World Newspaper, 06/09/05 09:51 With five months to go before elections are held in Haiti, its Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) is planning to disenfranchise many voters by refusing to register residents in poorer neighborhoods. CEP President Max Mathurin announced that the council will not set up voter registration offices in the so-called "popular neighborhoods" through the country -- hotbeds of support for the Lavalas Party of deposed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide -- where much of the population resides. Mathurin provided no justification for the decision except to say that it will remain in force "until the situation changes." Only 56,000 people have been registered so far out of 4.4 million eligible to vote. The CEP intends to end its voter registration drive July 31.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/9/23350/33783


From news at resist.ca  Fri Jun 10 01:17:10 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 08:17:10 -0000
Subject: [news] Markets Take Heart as Uruguay Breaks Leftwing Mould
Message-ID: <20050610081711.24382.qmail@resist.ca>

"The tone is not what you might expect from the economy minister of a leftwing government that includes communists and former guerrillas. But less than 100 days after the Broad Front coalition took power, Mr Astori's words are heartening markets and impressing Wall Street."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/9/153726/5647


From news at resist.ca  Fri Jun 10 01:17:11 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 08:17:11 -0000
Subject: [news] Recent Developments in the Attack on Ward Churchill
Message-ID: <20050610081711.24403.qmail@resist.ca>

"Dear friends and colleagues, My apologies for not keeping you updated on a more regular basis regarding the ongoing efforts to discredit and/or fire Ward Churchill. Although the national media coverage has abated, the local media continues to attack Ward relentlessly and much of our energy has been absorbed into the current phase of the University's "investigation." There are a number of recent developments."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/10/0424/32376


From news at resist.ca  Fri Jun 10 06:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 13:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] [Health care] ruling not a license to privatize
Message-ID: <20050610131705.17386.qmail@resist.ca>

OTTAWA - Today's Supreme Court ruling on private health care, while applying only to Quebec, highlights the urgent need for all governments to move swiftly and decisively to strengthen public health care. "This ruling, while disappointing, is far from a license to privatize," said CUPE National President Paul Moist. "It is a reminder that if public health care is properly managed and administered, bans on private health care can withstand a Charter challenge."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/10/54145/8817


From news at resist.ca  Fri Jun 10 06:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 13:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Hot Box for Campbell: Vote Reform
Message-ID: <20050610131705.17385.qmail@resist.ca>

More people voted for STV than for anything else in the history of British Columbia. But despite nearly a million `yes' votes, the initiative still failed and polls have electoral reform trailing far behind health care, education, and the environment as a priority for BC voters. Call it the conundrum of the losing majority. Which raises a big question: What next for electoral reform?

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/10/5458/14530


From news at resist.ca  Sat Jun 11 07:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 14:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Global military spending reaches $1 trillion
Message-ID: <20050611141704.12778.qmail@resist.ca>

Stockholm, Sweden -- "Global military spending in 2004 broke the $1 trillion US barrier for the first time since the Cold War, boosted by the U.S. war against terror and the growing defence budgets of India and China, a European think-tank said Tuesday."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/11/62721/0485


From news at resist.ca  Sat Jun 11 07:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 14:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] &quot; War on Terror&quot;
	Has Indigenous People in Its Sights
Message-ID: <20050611141704.12776.qmail@resist.ca>

"The 'war on terror', identified in Amnesty International's annual report as a new source of human rights abuses, is threatening to expand to Latin America, targeting indigenous movements that are demanding autonomy and protesting free-market policies and 'neo-liberal' globalisation."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/11/1330/01304


From news at resist.ca  Sat Jun 11 07:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 14:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Abu Mazen Is Right: Freedom, Too, Is Needed
Message-ID: <20050611141704.12777.qmail@resist.ca>

"There was a striking exchange of contrasting views that took place during the Rose Garden event with President George W. Bush and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas... In his remarks, President Bush waxed poetic about his near mystical notion that democracy liberates the human spirit, creates peace and prosperity and ends violence. Abu Mazen countered that democracy is but one side of a coin, the other side being freedom. Abu Mazen noted that while Palestinians were moving on the democracy and reform fronts, they are still not free. Without freedom, democracy is not sustainable and can collapse in a disaster of renewed violence."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/11/62417/5166


From news at resist.ca  Sat Jun 11 07:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 14:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Call for solidarity with IMC Bolivia and the Bolivian people
Message-ID: <20050611141704.12779.qmail@resist.ca>

Since May 17th, tens of thousands of Bolivians have flooded the streets, blockaded highways, and laid seige to Congress, demanding the nationalization of hydrocarbons, successfully forcing the resignation of sellout President Carlos Mesa, and calling for Congress to be replaced by a People's Assembly. Of course, you would never hear the voices of these groups in the corporate media, which has been falling all over itself to cover the reactions of the transnational corporations that are slated to lose money if Bolivia's resources fall into the hands of Bolivia's people. And that's why you should support Bolivia Indymedia--they are amplifying the voices of the social movements.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/11/6432/58794


From news at resist.ca  Sat Jun 11 07:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 14:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Walking Lorne Mayencourt's Mean Streets
Message-ID: <20050611141705.12785.qmail@resist.ca>

"The Safe Streets Act has been sold, by the Liberals and by the Bill Goods of the talk show world, as a means of protecting people from unwanted harassment and solicitation. Over and over, I've heard the rationale that this legislation will make women, among others, safer when they're out alone. In this way, women are being used as a justification for poor-bashing and criminalization of the most disadvantaged. Personally, as (a) young woman who often walks or drives alone, I've never feared for my safety when asked for spare change. The homeless, whose numbers in the downtown area have doubled in four years of Liberal government, are a constant feature of my neighbourhood. I suppose a key point of the legislation is to insulate the middle class from this reality. If you're destitute, you can be seen but not heard."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/11/13913/5769


From news at resist.ca  Sat Jun 11 07:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 14:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Haiti and the Canadian Media
Message-ID: <20050611141705.12780.qmail@resist.ca>

"You wouldn't know it by reading the Globe and Mail or even listening to CBC, but many on the left are beginning to talk about the situation in Haiti as similar to Iraq and Palestine - all brutal occupations that have led to thousands of deaths. To commemorate Haiti's May 18 flag day, anti-occupation groups held events from banner drops to information pickets to marches in Vancouver, Ottawa, Halifax and around the world. The actions were in solidarity with the tens of thousands who took to the streets of Port au Prince and a number of cities outside Haiti's capital."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/11/14819/2656


From news at resist.ca  Sat Jun 11 07:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 14:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Jewish group wants Kazemi exhibit restored
Message-ID: <20050611141705.12781.qmail@resist.ca>

CBC News MONTREAL - A Jewish group in Montreal is accusing city authorities of censorship over its decision to remove a library exhibit showcasing the work of murdered photojournalist Zahra Kazemi. "They [city officials] should be offended, but not by the fact that the photos were taken, or [are] being shown. They should be offended by what's being shown, which is a brutal military occupation," Thau-Leff says.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/11/63540/9150


From news at resist.ca  Sun Jun 12 10:17:08 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 17:17:08 -0000
Subject: [news] Latin America defies US over Venezuela at OAS
Message-ID: <20050612171708.16089.qmail@resist.ca>

By Jonah Gindin | Venezuelanalysis.com | June 7, 2005 Ft. Lauderdale, FL, June 6, 2005--An American proposal to reform the Organization of American States' (OAS) democratic charter has been rejected by a majority of Latin American countries. The draft of the US proposal, called the "Declaration of Flordia: Delivering the Benefits of Democracy," is considered to be too interventionist by at least 28 countries who have refused to sign it.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/12/92810/0772


From news at resist.ca  Sun Jun 12 10:17:08 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 17:17:08 -0000
Subject: [news] Conservatives shut down housing witnesses
Message-ID: <20050612171709.16092.qmail@resist.ca>

Lisa Barber | Rabble.ca | June 10, 2005 It was too good to be true. The Parliamentary Finance Committee had set aside a full hour on Thursday, June 9, to hear from three groups on housing. It would have allowed for ample questions and debate on how the NDP-revised budget would have affected affordable housing. But it was not to be. The Conservatives intervened time and time again with points of order that prevented the presentations from taking place. Housing advocates took a clear message to Parliament Hill to politely ask that approval be given to the NDP-Liberal budget agreement and its $1.6 billion investment in desperately needed social housing and $100 million in energy retrofit funding for low income households which is long overdue. But, unfortunately, the Conservative members of the committee refused to allow advocates to speak.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/11/93740/6294


From news at resist.ca  Sun Jun 12 10:17:08 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 17:17:08 -0000
Subject: [news] Longevity Crisis? Kill Grandma.
Message-ID: <20050612171708.16091.qmail@resist.ca>

Barbara Ehrenreich | LA Times | June 6, 2005 A specter is stalking the Western world, and it looks a lot like Grandma. As President Bush has repeatedly put it, the problem with Social Security is that "baby boomers will be living longer." Not "too" long, he's careful to say, but long enough to create a fiscal catastrophe. And it's not just Social Security. Medicare, as well as any company rash enough to have offered pensions, may eventually sink under the weight of its obligations to the elderly.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/12/9158/18894


From news at resist.ca  Sun Jun 12 10:17:08 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 17:17:08 -0000
Subject: [news] Canadian Labour Congress has First Contested Election in a
	Decade
Message-ID: <20050612171710.16094.qmail@resist.ca>

John Baglow | Monday, June 06, 2005 For the first time in more than a decade, an incumbent President of the Canadian Labour Congress will face opposition. Taking on Ken Georgetti at the upcoming CLC Convention is Carol Wall, a long-time African-Canadian labour activist and currently a CLC Vice-President representing workers of colour.... With more than two decades of hands-on labour experience, shop-floor, bargaining and pay equity work for the Southern Ontario Newspaper Guild; National Representative for the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada in 1995; CEPs first Human Rights Director; and now a national negotiator for the Public Service Alliance of Canada, Wall is no starry-eyed neophyte. A realist, she knows that she is fighting an uphill battle, but she is determined to force a debate on the direction of the CLC. Rhetoric, says Wall, needs to be matched by action.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/11/201532/133


From news at resist.ca  Sun Jun 12 10:17:08 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 17:17:08 -0000
Subject: [news] Canadian welfare policy assailed
Message-ID: <20050612171709.16093.qmail@resist.ca>

Norma Greenaway | Vancouver Sun | June 8, 2005 Report says many families are worse off now than they were five years ago Ottawa -- Many families on welfare were worse off in 2004 than they were in 1998 when the federal Liberal government introduced the National Child Benefit, a program it repeatedly lauds as a major weapon in the battle against poverty, according to a new report. The report, released Tuesday by the National Council of Welfare, is a harsh assessment of welfare policy over the last 15 years. Declaring the system an "utter disaster," it said the vast majority of benefits peaked years ago and welfare incomes in many provinces and territories reached modern-day lows last year.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/11/65241/1720


From news at resist.ca  Mon Jun 13 01:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 08:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] U.S. Killing Yet Another Hope in Afghanistan
Message-ID: <20050613081706.12982.qmail@resist.ca>

"The Empire and its junior partners continued to talk of freedom, democracy, human rights with emphasis on women's rights, development and a life away from misery. If one had to listen to Tony Blair's or Bush's passionate speeches, one was led to believe that all the soldiers and bombs dropped on Afghanistan were feminists, little agents of democracy and were all humanitarian in nature. The masses have indeed been `enduring' the Empire's designated `freedom' over the last three and a half years expecting something might change for better. With no signs of improvement in the lives of ordinary people, the limits of endurance seem to have been reached and signs of frustration are manifest in various forms. People have began to ask some fundamental questions...."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/13/02913/3960


From news at resist.ca  Mon Jun 13 01:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 08:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] There is No Political Persecution in Haiti
Message-ID: <20050613081706.12983.qmail@resist.ca>

Haiti Information Project June 12, 2005 There is no political persecution in Haiti. On June 11, Special Representative and Head of the U.N. Mission in Haiti Juan Gabriel Valdes, made a statement on Haitian radio stations declaring he had lived through the Pinochet dictatorship and, "compared to that experience, there is no political persecution in Haiti." Although his comment was broadcast throughout Haiti's capital, it was ridiculous enough to be ignored by the mainstream international media. More ominously, Valdes comments mirror those of Haiti's traditional economic and political elites, the very forces that are working to close the door on national reconciliation and to exclude Aristide's Lavalas party from participating in the upcoming elections. His words also represent a dangerous shift in U.N. policy in Haiti following what appeared to be a period of acknowledgement of the daily reality of political repression against Lavalas supporters.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/12/221644/738


From news at resist.ca  Mon Jun 13 11:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 18:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Court To The Rescue Of Coca Cola in India
Message-ID: <20050613181703.22982.qmail@resist.ca>

By Karthika Thampan | 04 June, 2005 | Countercurrents.org In an unprecedented judgement Division Bench of the Kerala High Court directed Perumatty gramapanchayath (local council) to renew within one week from Wednesday, the licence granted by the panchayat to Hindustan CocaCola Beverages Ltd to run its plant at Plachimada in Palakkad district, in the south Indian state of Kerala. The court ordered that if a formal licence is not issued by the panchayat within the time prescribed, it should be deemed that the company possesses the renewed licence, and the company will have the right to carry on its functions for a period of two years with effect from June 10, 2004.direction was issued by the Bench consisting of Justice M. Ramachandran and Justice Balachandran while allowing a writ petition filed by the company praying to direct the panchayat to comply with the court's judgment on April 7, 2005, declaring that the company was entitled to function, drawing half a million litres of ground water per day.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/13/93642/6580


From news at resist.ca  Mon Jun 13 12:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 19:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Status, Survival, and Solidarity
Message-ID: <20050613191705.6838.qmail@resist.ca>

by Aaron Lakoff and Seth Porcello | June 13, 2005 From June 18-25, Solidarity Across Borders, a coalition of refugees, migrants, and their supporters, will be marching from Montreal to Ottawa to make demands for regularization on Immigration Canada. The following article seeks to explore and outline the analysis and politics behind this march. Status, Survival, and Solidarity Non-Status people and the politics of precarity

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/13/85735/5215


From news at resist.ca  Mon Jun 13 12:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 19:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Somali mom and 7 kids face deportation
Message-ID: <20050613191705.6837.qmail@resist.ca>

Ontario Coalition Against Poverty | June 13, 2005 SUPPORT A FAMILY FIGHTING DEPORTATION: TAKE 5 MINUTES TO CALL IMMIGRATION! Kalthoom Warsama and 6 of her children must show up for deportation to the US on July 12 or a federal warrant will be issued for their arrest.  Only Ms. Warsama's youngest child (3) will be legally spared from forced deportation because he happens to have been born on Canadian state soil. Ms. Warsama has been offered the "choice" to leave her 3 year old here alone, but the remaining family members must leave, including 20 year old Hibo who has severe disability issues and is confined to a wheelchair.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/13/10379/8633


From news at resist.ca  Tue Jun 14 07:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 14:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Surviving Canada: Regina,
	Saskatchewan: Colonizing Decolonization
Message-ID: <20050614141704.7016.qmail@resist.ca>

Macdonald Stainsby | Surviving Canada | June 13, 2005 The Queen of England just visited Regina last week, and was quoted as saying about a hunk of rock presented as a gift: "It symbolizes the rights of First Nations peoples, reflected in treaties signed with the Crown during her reign," as well as being a "reminder of the special relationship between the sovereign and all First Nations peoples." In perhaps one of the grandest perversions, she spoke it while standing in the First Nations University of Canada. The CBC had nothing negative to say about this visit, instead uncritically quoting the remarks of a sovereign whose history and present includes the attempted legislation of Indians out of existence, one nation at a time, in particularly British fashion.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/14/61815/6484


From news at resist.ca  Tue Jun 14 07:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 14:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Revealed: the new scramble for Africa
Message-ID: <20050614141704.7014.qmail@resist.ca>

David Leigh and David Pallister | The Guardian | June 1, 2005 Tony Blair is pushing hard for African debt relief agreements in the run-up to the G8 summit in Scotland in July. But while sub-Saharan Africa is the object of the west's charitable concern, billions of pounds' worth of natural resources are being removed from it. A Guardian investigation beginning today reveals that instead of enriching often debt-ridden countries, some big corporations are accused by campaigners of facilitating corruption and provoking instability - so much so that organisations such as Friends of the Earth talk of an "oil curse".

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/14/62153/0572


From news at resist.ca  Tue Jun 14 07:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 14:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] British Ministers were told of need for Gulf war excuse
Message-ID: <20050614141704.7015.qmail@resist.ca>

Michael Smith | The Times (London) | June 12, 2005 Ministers were warned in July 2002 that Britain was committed to taking part in an American-led invasion of Iraq and they had no choice but to find a way of making it legal. The warning, in a leaked Cabinet Office briefing paper, said Tony Blair had already agreed to back military action to get rid of Saddam Hussein at a summit at the Texas ranch of President George W Bush three months earlier.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/14/62748/3862


From news at resist.ca  Wed Jun 15 08:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 15:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Minister flees with family after home raid by anarchists
Message-ID: <20050615151706.31656.qmail@resist.ca>

By Roger Boyes | timesonline | June 10, 2005 DENMARK'S cosy idyll of bicycling monarchs and accessible politicians was shattered yesterday by the torching of the Immigration Minister's car. Flames spread from the garage of Rikke Hvilsh?j, the Minister, and engulfed the roof of her home but no one was hurt. Anarchists opposed to Denmark's tough asylum laws claimed responsibility.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/14/154259/678


From news at resist.ca  Wed Jun 15 08:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 15:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Afghanistan: A harvest of despair
Message-ID: <20050615151706.31655.qmail@resist.ca>

By Paul Watson | Los Angeles Times | May 29, 2005 The lure of opium wealth is a potent force in Afghanistan Western officials warn of a nascent narco state as drug traffickers act with impunity, some allegedly with the support of top officials

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/14/20014/4351


From news at resist.ca  Wed Jun 15 08:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 15:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Canada may move toward U.K. [health care] system
Message-ID: <20050615151706.31657.qmail@resist.ca>

By Alan Freeman | Globe and Mail | June 10, 2005 Washington -- Health care in Canada is likely to become a lot more like Britain's two-tier system as a result of the Supreme Court of Canada's ruling that struck down Quebec's ban on private health-care insurance, several international experts say.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/14/19520/9242


From news at resist.ca  Thu Jun 16 10:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 17:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Let Africa use oil wealth to save Africa
Message-ID: <20050616171707.14388.qmail@resist.ca>

Naomi Klein | The Nation | June 9, 2005 Gordon Brown has a new idea about how to "make poverty history" in time for the G-8 summit in Scotland. With Washington so far refusing to double its aid to Africa by 2015, the British Chancellor is appealing to the "richer oil-producing states" of the Middle East to fill the funding gap. "Oil wealth urged to save Africa," reads the headline in London's Observer. Here is a better idea: Instead of Saudi Arabia's oil wealth being used to "save Africa," how about if Africa's oil wealth was used to save Africa--along with its gas, diamond, gold, platinum, chromium, ferroalloy and coal wealth?

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/16/93555/4857


From news at resist.ca  Thu Jun 16 10:17:07 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 17:17:07 -0000
Subject: [news] Bush's Top Aides Have Significant Wealth
Message-ID: <20050616171707.14391.qmail@resist.ca>

They're on the government payroll, but some of President Bush's top aides have millions of dollars in stocks, real estate and other investments, according to financial disclosure forms released Wednesday. Senior adviser Karl Rove saw his stock and bond funds rise in value last year to between $1 million and $2.4 million.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/15/2368/34298


From news at resist.ca  Thu Jun 16 10:17:07 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 17:17:07 -0000
Subject: [news] Ontario Liberals lied about coal plant closure
Message-ID: <20050616171707.14393.qmail@resist.ca>

CBC News | 15 Jun 2005 Ontario won't shut down its worst polluting power plant as early as it planned because it still needs the power the old, coal-fired generator produces. Nanticoke's plume contains 14 per cent of the province's small particulate matter, a prime cause of asthma attacks, heart attacks and bronchitis, according to the Ontario Clean Air Alliance.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/15/203444/169


From news at resist.ca  Thu Jun 16 10:17:07 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 17:17:07 -0000
Subject: [news] Censoring the Dead
Message-ID: <20050616171707.14394.qmail@resist.ca>

By Naomi Klein and Aaron Mat? | No Logo | June 15, 2005 Even after her death, it seems the attacks on Zahra Kazemi will not end. It was only two months ago that Canadians were stunned by new evidence that the Montreal photojournalist was tortured to death while in Iranian custody. Kazemi was arrested in June 2003 while taking photographs outside of a prison in Iran, the country of her birth. To punish her for this transgression, Kazemi?s captors raped and beat her, according to a doctor who fled Iran to tell the story. Close to two years later, there are new attempts to cover Kazemi?s lens, to prevent her photographs from reaching public eyes - only now the censorship is happening inside her adopted country of Canada.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/16/94141/8590


From news at resist.ca  Fri Jun 17 03:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 10:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] "Justice" Minister Cotler Deports Medical Marijuana Advocate
	to Long Prison Sentence
Message-ID: <20050617101704.11519.qmail@resist.ca>

"Shock waves are spreading through the Canadian marijuana activist community as a result of a decision released yesterday by "Justice" (sic) Minister Irwin Cotler in the Boje Extradition Case. Renee Boje, who is married to a Canadian citizen and is the mother of a Canadian son, is being sent back to US authorities to serve a ten year mandatory minimum to life sentence for her involvement in a medical marijuana growing operation in California, shortly after the state of California legalized marijuana for medical purposes."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/16/223645/229


From news at resist.ca  Fri Jun 17 03:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 10:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Iraq's Other Resistance
Message-ID: <20050617101704.11517.qmail@resist.ca>

"Faced with daily reports of car bombs and kidnappings, it's difficult to feel optimistic about Iraq. But last week in the south of the country I heard a very different story. A story of the movement that has formed to rebuild the country's economy and national pride, to create an Iraq with neither the tyranny of Saddam nor the pillage of military occupation...."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/17/2412/03065


From news at resist.ca  Fri Jun 17 03:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 10:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] UN Condemns Secret Trials in Canada
Message-ID: <20050617101704.11518.qmail@resist.ca>

(Note: The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has been in Canada the past few weeks exploring the detention of immigrants and refugees. They have visited the Secret Trial Five in prison and Mr. Charkaoui (under draconian bail) as well as met with individuals working on the issue. In the first sentence of this Canadian Press story it is important to note the ongoing misconception that those held on security certificates (no charge, usually no bail, case based on secret "evidence" neither the detainee nor their lawyer ever sees) are NOT "terror suspects" but rather people that the government has "reasonable grounds to believe" may be inadmissable on undisclosed security grounds. None has actually been accused of doing anything. All face deportation to torture, a fact which drew the ire of another UN Committee, the Committee Against Torture, on May 20.) Human Rights Watch earlier this year called for the abolition of the secret trial security certificate process. On June 27 in Toronto, secret trial detainee Hassan Almrei, who has spent almost four years in solitary confinement in Toronto, without charge, seeks release on bail.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/16/164850/621


From news at resist.ca  Sat Jun 18 08:17:15 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 15:17:15 -0000
Subject: [news] Parents uniting to keep military recruiters from high
	schoolers
Message-ID: <20050618151716.25428.qmail@resist.ca>

CNN | June 17, 2005 PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Nancy Carroll didn't know schools were giving military recruiters her family's contact information until a recruiter called her 17-year-old granddaughter. That didn't sit well with Carroll, who believes recruiters unfairly target minority students. So she joined activists across the country who are urging families to notify schools that they don't want their children's contact information given out.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/18/7438/20924


From news at resist.ca  Sat Jun 18 08:17:15 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 15:17:15 -0000
Subject: [news] Online Anarchy Scavenger Hunt!
Message-ID: <20050618151716.25429.qmail@resist.ca>

Play The Online Anarchist Scavenger Hunt! Win fun prizes! Learn Cool Stuff! It's Free! Answer questions like: What 1989 action put the Barbie Liberation Army on the map? What does the street medic term/remedy "L.A.W." stand for? Who is Fannie Lou Hamer? What is the popular free/open source browser that is rivaling the Internet Explorer browser monopoly? Name the two Olympic track medal winners who raised their black-gloved fists during the medals ceremony in protest of poverty and social injustice at the 1968 Olympics?

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/17/1039/81568


From news at resist.ca  Sat Jun 18 08:17:16 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 15:17:16 -0000
Subject: [news] Secwepemc Defenders Sent to Jail
Message-ID: <20050618151717.25434.qmail@resist.ca>

"I deplore the imprisonment of my people for upholding our sacred responsibility to protect our land from destruction by Sun Peaks Resort Corporation," said Secwepemcul'ecw Traditional Peoples Government spokesperson Janice Billy. She added, "the imprisonment of our people is just one of the many immoral tactics used by the (British Columbia) provincial courts, government, and corporations to continue the theft and destruction of our unceded lands. Rather than deal honorably with us, the government uses the (Royal Canadian Mounted Police), courts, and media to carry out their theft and destruction. The young people jailed have shown tremendous courage to stand up to this oppressive and racist system."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/17/124542/196


From news at resist.ca  Sat Jun 18 08:17:15 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 15:17:15 -0000
Subject: [news] Microsoft joins hands with Yahoo!,
	Google to censor China's web
Message-ID: <20050618151716.25430.qmail@resist.ca>

Agence France Presse | June 13, 2005 Users of Microsoft's new China-based Internet portal have been blocked from using the words "democracy", "freedom" and "human rights" in an apparent move by the US software giant to appease Beijing. Other words that could not be used on Microsoft's free online blog service MSN Spaces include "Taiwan independence" and "demonstration".

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/17/111120/590


From news at resist.ca  Sat Jun 18 08:17:16 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 15:17:16 -0000
Subject: [news] Angry parents torch Indian Act
Message-ID: <20050618151717.25436.qmail@resist.ca>

The Birdtail Sioux First Nation owes Park West School Division $800,000 and angry parents want to know where the money is. Yesterday, up to 40 protesters stood outside their locked-up band office for the second consecutive day and burned the Indian Act. "It's no use to us if they're not going to listen to us," Sabrina Hanska Eashappie said about the chief and council.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/17/11439/8394


From news at resist.ca  Sun Jun 19 18:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 01:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] British bombing raids were illegal, says Foreign Office
Message-ID: <20050620011705.16937.qmail@resist.ca>

By Michael Smith | The Times (London) | June 19, 2005 A sharp increase in British and American bombing raids on Iraq in the run-up to war "to put pressure on the regime" was illegal under international law, according to leaked Foreign Office legal advice. The advice was first provided to senior ministers in March 2002. Two months later RAF and USAF jets began "spikes of activity" designed to goad Saddam Hussein into retaliating and giving the allies a pretext for war.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/19/172412/357


From news at resist.ca  Sun Jun 19 18:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 01:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] US soldier is charged with murdering two of his officers in
	Iraq
Message-ID: <20050620011705.16938.qmail@resist.ca>

By Francis Harris | Telegraph | 18/06/2005 An American staff sergeant in Iraq has been charged with the premeditated murder of two of his officers. From 1969 to 1971 the army reported 600 fraggings, resulting in 82 American dead and 651 injured. But such attacks are as old as organised warfare for military leaders regarded as incompetent.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/19/134846/875


From news at resist.ca  Sun Jun 19 18:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 01:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Canada the Corrupt
Message-ID: <20050620011705.16940.qmail@resist.ca>

I recently talked with a man who had come to live in Canada from Argentina a few years ago. We talked comparing the situations of the two countries and he mentioned the serious corruption of the Agentinian and other Latin American governments. While recognizing that Canada was not perfect, he seemed to think that Canada the good cop to the American bad cop. I mentioned examples of corruption and undemocratic policies such as residential schools, Japanese internment camps, the treatment of peaceful protestors and the sytem of police regulation in which the police investigate themselves. Then today, I saw Murray Dobbin's article in the Tyee which outlined a few more recent examples to add to the list.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/19/171251/613


From news at resist.ca  Sun Jun 19 18:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 01:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Day 1: No One Is Illegal March on Ottawa for Regularization
Message-ID: <20050620011706.16941.qmail@resist.ca>

June 18, 2005 -- The No One Is Illegal March on Ottawa began today in Montreal. A spirited and diverse demonstration of up to 1000 people (at the high point), marched through downtown Montreal, and north to two mainly immigrant neighborhoods: Parc Extension and Cote-des-Neiges.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/19/15554/5280


From news at resist.ca  Sun Jun 19 18:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 01:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Pierre Pettigrew Splattered With Red Paint At Montreal
	Conference On Haiti
Message-ID: <20050620011706.16943.qmail@resist.ca>

June 17 2005 Yves Engler, an activist with Haiti Action Montreal, interrupted a press conference at the Montreal International Conference on Haiti to splatter red paint -- a symbol of Haitian blood -- on the hands of Canadian Foreign Minister Pierre Pettigrew. Shouting "Pettigrew Lies, Haitians Die!", Engler was tackled to the floor by several RCMP agents and arrested.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/18/93627/0561


From news at resist.ca  Sun Jun 19 20:17:22 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 03:17:22 -0000
Subject: [news] 10 ways to deal with aboriginals
Message-ID: <20050620031723.22294.qmail@resist.ca>

EDMONTON -- The city's embattled police force faced renewed turmoil over a leaked e-mail that listed 10 demeaning ways for police to deal with natives.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/18/19252/4754


From news at resist.ca  Mon Jun 20 15:17:12 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 22:17:12 -0000
Subject: [news] How Glo-Bono-Phonies and Trojan Horse NGOs Sabotage the
	Struggle Against Neo-Liberalism
Message-ID: <20050620221712.29212.qmail@resist.ca>

Are large NGO's fighting poverty in a serious way or are they part of the problem? An article from Counterpunch ties together a series of questionable actions taken by those organizations most in the "anti-poverty" spotlight. For instance, Oxfam -- who leads the "Make Poverty History" mega-campaign -- decided to tone (down) any message relating war to poverty for fear of embarrassing Tony Blair. The campaign also ironically purchased 500,000 wrist bands from a sweatshop in China. Such organizations have also watered down the message being sent to the G8 asking only that "unpayable" debt be relieved leaving lots of room for the creators of this poverty to continue their task, while looking like the good guy's for eliminating debt they would otherwise have never been able to collect.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/20/8318/97558


From news at resist.ca  Mon Jun 20 15:17:12 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 22:17:12 -0000
Subject: [news] You Can't Always Get What You Want
Message-ID: <20050620221712.29213.qmail@resist.ca>

"On the CBS "news" show, "60 Minutes," which aired June 19, 2005, in Seattle, Wa.(see link below), Lesley Stahl harped upon a Hispanic woman who earned her way into the University of Texas (UT) by being in the top 10% of her high school, actually coaxing her to say she did not deserve her education at UT! The racist argument that CBS put forth about the University of Texas' "10% Rule" was like something thrown back from the 50's. It seems the racist arguments remain exactly the same throughout the decades. The CBS site says, "As Correspondent Lesley Stahl reports, it (The 10% Rule) appears to have worked too well at the University of Texas in Austin." What does it "worked too well" mean? It means too many poor and minority students got in! THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT IT MEANS! Yet, the CBS site also reports, "Still, most of the kids entering under the Top 10 plan are white, because the guarantee applies to every high school in Texas." So tell me, why did CBS target a Hispanic gal for this piece? Why did it not target a white person since they are who are predominantly taking all these spots that white people are complaining about not having access to now? I charge blatant racism upon both Lesley Stahl and CBS for this piece."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/19/214714/386


From news at resist.ca  Mon Jun 20 15:17:12 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 22:17:12 -0000
Subject: [news] Pivot Critical of Solicitor-General's Proposed Police Audit
Message-ID: <20050620221712.29214.qmail@resist.ca>

"Pivot Legal Society's position is that the audit announced yesterday is not the audit of the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) requested by the Police Complaint Commissioner. Instead, it is a general review of all municipal police forces, a review that has been under discussion for almost a year, and is too broad to address effectively the specific problems with the VPD identified in (Independent Police) Commissioner (Dirk) Ryneveld's report. In particular, Ryneveld called for a focused investigation of systemic issues of non-cooperation, mismanagement, and rights violations specific to the VPD, and the new audit will not achieve that objective."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/19/215532/289


From news at resist.ca  Mon Jun 20 15:17:12 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 22:17:12 -0000
Subject: [news] Neo-Nazis in Downtown Peterborough
Message-ID: <20050620221713.29218.qmail@resist.ca>

"A group of 8-12 young white male skinheads have been reported by a number of witnesses as harassing and attacking members of the community in Peterborough. These young men have been mostly seen in the downtown area, particularly in Fleming Park (Brock & Aylmer Street). These young men are aggressive, and use swarming as a tactic to surround and harass people. They appear to have staked out Fleming Park as their territory and incidents have been escalating."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/20/71411/0867


From news at resist.ca  Mon Jun 20 15:17:12 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 22:17:12 -0000
Subject: [news] Greece: Kurdish Refugee on 35th Day of Hunger Strike
Message-ID: <20050620221712.29216.qmail@resist.ca>

"Zulkuf Murat Bora (known as Bahoz) from Diyarbakir (Turkey/Kurdistan), who moved to Greece in 1995 and demanded political asylum because of the political repression he had faced, started a hunger strike on the 17th of May, 2005, despite 10 years of having been passed over and his demand of political asylum having not been accepted yet."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/20/143418/231


From news at resist.ca  Tue Jun 21 12:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 19:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] A Tolerance of Violence On the U.S. - Mexico Border
Message-ID: <20050621191705.20895.qmail@resist.ca>

A Tolerance of Violence On the Border by Rodolfo F. Acuna - Znet; June 20, 2005 In trying to make sense as to why most Americans and even a large number of Latinos are so complacent about so-called minutemen running amok on the border, searching for undocumented people, I recently re-read Herbert Marcuse's 1965 essay on "Repressive Tolerance." Marcuse wrote that "[t]olerance is an end in itself" and necessary for the preservation of the status quo and the strengthening of "the tyranny of the majority..." When tolerance is turned into a passive state it promotes laissez-faire, entrenching the established attitudes and ideas of the right wing. The result is that we passively tolerate ideas and actions that are damaging to man (sic) and nature.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/21/25223/5683


From news at resist.ca  Tue Jun 21 12:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 19:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] U.S. Grad Students Seen as "Hostile to Israel"
Message-ID: <20050621191705.20894.qmail@resist.ca>

The report being issued this week by The Israel Project, a Washington, D.C.-based group seeking to strengthen Israel's image, finds that "tomorrow's leaders ... are hostile to the Jewish state," a growing trend that could jeopardize American foreign policy toward Israel in the near future.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/20/171831/138


From news at resist.ca  Tue Jun 21 15:17:07 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 22:17:07 -0000
Subject: [news] War in Chiapas Likely to Resume - Zapatistas Issue Red Alert
Message-ID: <20050621221707.28683.qmail@resist.ca>

Last Sunday, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation put her regular army and her militia on red alert. The motivations for the red alert are unknown right now. It is very likely that the shooting war, that cost hundreds of lives in January of 1994, will be resumed. Dozens of members of autonomous regional Zapatista governments, the Councils of Good Government, fled to the mountains of Chiapas, Mexico's southernmost state. From now on they will work in a clandestine and nomadic manner. The offices of the autonomous municipalities and regions have been closed. Members of civil society who are in Chiapas right now are urged to leave rebelious territory, or stay at their own risk.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/21/12436/3893


From news at resist.ca  Wed Jun 22 08:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 15:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Evo Morales - Movement Towards What?
Message-ID: <20050622151706.12186.qmail@resist.ca>

Federico Fuentes No one can talk about the crisis in Bolivia, the site of continuous waves of mobilisation, road blockades and general strikes that have thrown out two presidents already, without mentioning Evo Morales. No matter what the viewpoint of the analyst, Morales and his party, the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), are seen as key to understanding the unfolding situation.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/22/71418/4877


From news at resist.ca  Wed Jun 22 08:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 15:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Bush economist doubts 9-11 story
Message-ID: <20050622151706.12187.qmail@resist.ca>

WorldNetDaily | June 15, 2005 Morgan Reynolds, former chief economist for the Department of Labor during President George W. Bush's first term, says the official story about the collapse of the Twin Towers is "bogus" and that it is more likely that a controlled demolition destroyed them and adjacent Building No. 7.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/22/71020/7280


From news at resist.ca  Wed Jun 22 08:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 15:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Aristide: "People in the Canadian government have Haitian
	blood on their hands"
Message-ID: <20050622151707.12188.qmail@resist.ca>

On June 20, Canadian journalist Naomi Klein conducted an extensive interview with ousted Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide for a forthcoming book. The interview took place in Pretoria, South Africa, where President Aristide is living in exile. For the first time, President Aristide spoke on record about the role played by Canada in his February 2004 ouster and the tumultuous period since.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/22/73112/8989


From news at resist.ca  Wed Jun 22 08:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 15:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Surviving Canada: June 18: Blackfoot Country
Message-ID: <20050622151707.12189.qmail@resist.ca>

The way that "George" Sikappi Yellowhorn found out that he was going to begin attending Residential School was when his mother woke him up early one morning, just shy of his seventh birthday. After eating breakfast, Sikappi's mother began to dress him up. He asked why, quite confused. He was told by his mother that she had received a letter from the Indian Agent informing her that her son was to go to school, or else the RCMP would seize him for the same. Every detail of the morning is spelled out when Sikappi tells the story.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/21/164127/883


From news at resist.ca  Thu Jun 23 10:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 17:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Giving up Gaza to win West Bank
Message-ID: <20050623171705.2921.qmail@resist.ca>

The Guardian | June 22, 2005 | By Avi Shlaim Withdrawal is a prelude to annexation Sharon decided to cut his losses in Gaza when he realised that the cost of occupation is not sustainable. Gaza is home to 8,000 Israeli settlers and 1.3 million Palestinians. The settlers control 25% of the territory, 40% of the arable land and most of the water. This is a hopeless colonial enterprise, accompanied by one of the most prolonged and brutal military occupations of modern times. Bush publicly endorsed Sharon's plan to withdraw from Gaza and retain the four main settlement blocks on the West Bank without consulting the quartet - a reversal of the US position since 1967 that viewed the settlements as an obstacle to peace. Last year Sharon proposed handing the remaining Israeli assets in Gaza to an international body. Now he proposes to destroy the homes and farms.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/23/84526/0951


From news at resist.ca  Thu Jun 23 10:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 17:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Crocodile tears are not enough
Message-ID: <20050623171705.2922.qmail@resist.ca>

By Gerald Caplan | Globe and Mail | June 22, 2005 Let's stop despoiling Africa and then blaming Africans for their continent's underdevelopment, says UN adviser Gerald Caplan. Getting it wrong about Africa is a venerable tradition in the rich world, and music has played its role. Remember the great famine concerts of 20 years ago and the giant hit Do They Know It's Christmas? It's just been rerecorded, with its inane lyrics of Africa as a land "underneath a burning sun . . . where nothing ever grows" and "no rain nor river flows." Get it? Natural causes and bad luck are at the root of Africa's problems.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/23/91318/5566


From news at resist.ca  Fri Jun 24 08:17:10 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 15:17:10 -0000
Subject: [news] When threats turn to firebombs,
	Canaccord cuts loose on client
Message-ID: <20050624151711.21928.qmail@resist.ca>

By SHIRLEY WON AND LEONARD ZEHR | The Globe and Mail | June 24, 2005 Vancouver-based Canaccord Capital has resigned as the broker for British biotech firm Phytopharm after the car of a Canaccord exec was firebombed, apparently by animal rights activists.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/23/155316/623


From news at resist.ca  Fri Jun 24 09:17:18 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 16:17:18 -0000
Subject: [news] Canada's richest regain big share of income
Message-ID: <20050624161720.14463.qmail@resist.ca>

By JOHN PARTRIDGE | Globe and Mail | June 23, 2005 The top 1 per cent of Canada's wealthiest citizens have returned to their pre-Second World War glory by recapturing a double-digit share of the nation's income, a study by two university economists shows. And they did it pretty well all between 1980 and 2000, partly riding on the coattails of their U.S. counterparts.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/23/213124/201


From news at resist.ca  Sat Jun 25 07:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 14:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Leter from Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos of the Zapatista
	Army of National Liberation
Message-ID: <20050625141705.29602.qmail@resist.ca>

Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos of the EZLN releases a very personal letter of thanks to those which have supported the Zapatista indigenous struggle for self-determination and justice. This latest communication was preceeded by three formal communiques from the Zapatista Army of National Liberation over the past few days.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/24/123229/940


From news at resist.ca  Sun Jun 26 19:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 02:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] 83 [Iraqi] MPs ask al-Jaafari to put a timetable for the
	withdrawal of foreign troops
Message-ID: <20050627021703.24901.qmail@resist.ca>

by Abdel-Wahed Tohmeh & Al-Hayat | ZNet | June 22, 2005 Baghdad -- One-third of the members of the National Assembly (83 MPs) [out of 275] have asked for a timetable for the withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq, accusing the Assembly itself of not caring "about the demands of millions of Iraqis." During a press conference that they organized, Falah Hassan Shneishel MP, a member of the "Independent National Bloc," said that "the presence of the occupation forces gives a pretext for the continuation of violence and terrorism that have taken the lives of thousands of Iraqis." In reply to a question from Al-Hayat about the attitude that he would take with his colleagues if the Assembly did not comply with their requests, he said that "they would take a stand," without giving further details.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/26/181619/228


From news at resist.ca  Sun Jun 26 19:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 02:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Italy judge orders arrest of 13 CIA agents
Message-ID: <20050627021703.24903.qmail@resist.ca>

By Aidan Lewis | Associated Press | June 24, 2005 An Italian judge ordered the arrests of 13 people in the purported CIA abduction of an imam, who then was sent to Egypt, the Milan prosecutor's office said Friday. An Italian official said earlier the 13 were CIA officers involved in U.S. anti-terrorism efforts. The 13 are suspected of seizing Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, known as Abu Omar, on the streets of Milan on Feb. 17, 2003, and sending him to Egypt, where he reportedly was tortured, Milan prosecutor Manlio Claudio Minale said in a statement.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/26/181916/740


From news at resist.ca  Tue Jun 28 09:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] U.S. Military to Expand Prisons in Iraq
Message-ID: <20050628161704.17282.qmail@resist.ca>

By FRANK GRIFFITHS, Associated Press Writer June 27, 2005 BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. military said Monday it plans to expand its prisons across Iraq to hold as many as 16,000 detainees, as the relentless insurgency shows no sign of letup one year after the transfer of sovereignty to Iraqi authorities. ...and the number of trained Iraqi judges has doubled.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/27/2317/43224


From news at resist.ca  Wed Jun 29 14:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 21:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Indigenous Resistance as "Terrorism"
Message-ID: <20050629211704.29274.qmail@resist.ca>

"Two prominent First Nations activists, who say they're on a mission to help native youth, were arrested in a full-scale police takedown on the Burrard bridge (in Vancouver, B.C.) on Monday....David Dennis, James Ward and a third man were pulled over, at gunpoint, by heavily-armed Vancouver police and members of the (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) special anti-terrorism unit - the Integrated National Security Enforcement Team, or INSET."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/29/133318/281


From news at resist.ca  Thu Jun 30 13:17:10 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 20:17:10 -0000
Subject: [news] Israeli pilots bombing in Dene Lands
Message-ID: <20050630201711.24507.qmail@resist.ca>

"Ten F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter-bombers of the Israeli Air Force participated in Exercise Maple Flag, which ran until last Friday at Cold Lake, and stayed for some extra training. The U.S.-supplied Israeli aircraft arrived with an Israeli Boeing 707 aerial tanker for refuelling. "Israel arrived two weeks early and is staying a few extra weeks to take advantage of Cold Lake Air Weapons Range, one of the world's largest unrestricted air spaces," said Lieutenant Sonia Connock, public affairs officer for Maple Flag. She said Israel was invited as a "friend and ally" for its first participation in the exercise..."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/28/105345/776


From news at resist.ca  Thu Jun 30 13:17:10 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 20:17:10 -0000
Subject: [news] White Collar Crime Pays in Canada
Message-ID: <20050630201711.24510.qmail@resist.ca>

Corporate Crime is given less attention than the poor who shoplift. Proving once again under capitalism, which of course is legalized theft, crime pays if you are rich enough. http://www.livejournal.com/users/plawiuk/26936.html

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/30/4024/27831


From news at resist.ca  Thu Jun 30 13:17:10 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 20:17:10 -0000
Subject: [news] DIAND gung-ho for [Mackenzie] pipeline to proceed
Message-ID: <20050630201711.24511.qmail@resist.ca>

The federal government says public hearings into the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline should go ahead, a statement that some groups say is a dramatic reversal in policy.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/29/155915/382