From news at resist.ca Tue Mar 1 07:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 15:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] U.S. Planning Arab-Language TV Broadcasts to Europe Message-ID: <20050301150904.7672.qmail@resist.ca> "The Bush administration plans to begin Arab-language satellite-television broadcasts to Europe later this year in a new escalation of its information war against Islamic extremism, officials say." "Start-up funding for the $3.5 million venture would come from President Bush's $81 billion supplemental budget request for military operations in Iraq." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/27/142223/256 From news at resist.ca Tue Mar 1 07:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 15:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] UN-Backed Haitian Police Fire on Haiti Protestors, at least 3 Killed Message-ID: <20050301150904.7674.qmail@resist.ca> Feb 28, 2005 -- PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - Three people were killed on Monday when Haitian police opened fire on a crowd of demonstrators protesting the ouster of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide a year ago, witnesses and officials said. Also see A first hand account by Bill Quigley. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/28/173942/654 From news at resist.ca Tue Mar 1 07:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 15:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] A Tribe, Nimble and Determined, Moves Ahead With Nuclear Storage Plan Message-ID: <20050301150904.7673.qmail@resist.ca> SKULL VALLEY, Utah - "The Goshute Indians are not mighty in number, financial capital or political clout....But over the last eight years the Goshutes (formally the Skull Valley Band of Goshutes) have outlasted, outwitted and outplayed powerful forces arrayed against them, as they have sought to build what would be the nation's biggest bunker for the storage of highly radioactive waste...." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/28/183155/398 From news at resist.ca Tue Mar 1 07:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 15:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Sex Workers' Input Sought on Prostitution Laws Message-ID: <20050301150905.7676.qmail@resist.ca> VANCOUVER - "The Parliamentary Subcommittee that is set to review the criminal laws on prostitution is coming to Vancouver to speak with local sex workers from March 28 to 30, 2005. The Subcommittee, which reconvened in November, has asked Pivot to appear before it, and has also requested Pivot's assistance in reaching out to sex workers to get their firsthand opinions on law reform." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/1/64943/93613 From news at resist.ca Tue Mar 1 07:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 15:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Wildlife, yes; drilling, no Message-ID: <20050301150905.7677.qmail@resist.ca> "The 19-million-acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska brings to mind images of polar bears and other wildlife living in wilderness undisturbed by man. West of the refuge is Prudhoe Bay, whose image brings to mind all of the ugliness, however necessary, associated with pumping oil -- pipelines, wells, roads, airports, air and noise pollution, housing, gravel mines, production plants, power plants and frequent spills." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/28/11482/0907 From news at resist.ca Tue Mar 1 07:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 15:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Coming Soon To A River Near You Message-ID: <20050301150905.7683.qmail@resist.ca> Community members were among the 200 protesters who marched on Premier Jean Charest's office on Valentine's Day and their message was clear: Kahnawake will not stand idly by and allow industrial hog farms to pollute our water. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/28/135945/004 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 2 06:09:06 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 14:09:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Man Tasered By Police [at Chuck E. Cheese] Message-ID: <20050302140906.4293.qmail@resist.ca> The argument escalated until Gale was shoved into the lap of Mayo's sister, who was sitting two booths away, holding a 10-month-old baby. That's when police pulled out a Taser stun gun to subdue him. "They beat this man in front of all these kids then Tased him in my sister's lap," Mayo told the newspaper. "They had no regard for the effect this would have on the kids. This is Chuck E. Cheese, you know." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/1/23730/38801 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 2 06:09:06 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 14:09:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Right confronts Lula as social movements smolder Message-ID: <20050302140906.4292.qmail@resist.ca> "Rio de Janeiro. The murder of Dorothy Stang, a 73 year-old American nun who helped peasants engage in sustainable agriculture in the Amazonian rain forest, comes as oligarchic interests and the parliamentary right are on a political offensive against the government of Luis Inacio "Lula" da Silva. This takes place as fissures are opening up within Lula's governing Workers Party while social organizations are mobilizing to demand the implementation of reforms Lula aligned himself with before he became president." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/2/52439/08795 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 2 06:09:06 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 14:09:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Worst labour laws in Canada Message-ID: <20050302140906.4295.qmail@resist.ca> FINNING'S ACTIONS TANTAMOUNT TO UNION BUSTING - NDP Edmonton - NDP Opposition critic Ray Martin sharply criticized Finning Canada today, as the company laid off some 260 people in the pat year, including 70 people just two weeks ago. "Alberta's weak labour laws are once again putting profits over people. Big corporations like Finning are profiting off layoffs and union busting, and the Tory government is letting them get away with it," says Ray Martin. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/2/4269/37799 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 2 06:09:06 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 14:09:06 -0000 Subject: [news] No Indians Allowed on Aboriginal Territory at Sun Peaks Message-ID: <20050302140907.4296.qmail@resist.ca> On September 22, 2004, the RCMP raided a First Nation camp on the golf course of the Sun Peaks Resort, near Kamloops, British Columbia, arresting three people and destroying the camp. Members of local Secwepemc (also known in English as Shuswap) communities had established the camp, called the Skwelkwek'welt Protection Centre in late August to oppose the continued development of Sun Peaks on the traditional territory of the Secwepemc, Neskonlith and Adams Lake bands. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/1/181923/3069 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 2 06:09:06 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 14:09:06 -0000 Subject: [news] NORTEL: Canada's Enron Message-ID: <20050302140907.4297.qmail@resist.ca> Is there anyone working at Nortel anymore? At one time Canadian Telecom giant Nortel had over 100,000 employees, by last year it had cut its workerforce again leaving the company with 30,000 workers. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/2/41518/47020 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 2 06:09:06 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 14:09:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Residential School Healing Programs Face Cuts Message-ID: <20050302140907.4301.qmail@resist.ca> "Nearly two dozen healing programs for native residential school victims in B.C. are on the federal government chopping block. Forty-four of the 70 programs shut down last year and funding for the rest is running out." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/1/21425/02871 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 3 08:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Haiti's Year of Terror Message-ID: <20050303160904.29006.qmail@resist.ca> ASHLEY SMITH reports on Washington's crimes during the first year of its occupation of Haiti. GEORGE W. BUSH promised that the U.S. would bring democracy, stability and respect for human rights. Instead, one year of a U.S. and United Nations (UN) occupation of Haiti has brought a new reign of terror. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/2/22033/42261 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 3 08:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] $9B goes missing in Iraq Message-ID: <20050303160904.29009.qmail@resist.ca> "...[S]ome Democratic lawmakers are concerned that profiteering may have achieved stratospheric dimensions in the case of the $9 billion that is missing from the sale of Iraqi oil. This money was to have been used for humanitarian aid and reconstruction for Iraq. It seems no one is watching the store. The fund was transferred to Iraqi government ministries, which lacked the proper financial controls, security and staff to keep close tabs on the money flow." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/3/73451/17558 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 3 08:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Shift to the left in Uruguay sets off alarm bell Message-ID: <20050303160904.29007.qmail@resist.ca> "The inauguration on Tuesday of Uruguay's new president, Tabar?; V?zquez, looks on the surface at least like a jamboree for the leftwing interests that are growing in influence across Latin America." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/2/20579/19027 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 3 08:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] BC drops Abroriginal title cases for fear of losing Message-ID: <20050303160905.29014.qmail@resist.ca> (Coast Salish Territory/Vancouver, February 25, 2005) "The Province of British Columbia has all but admitted that it will lose in court if it proceeds next week with two cases regarding Aboriginal title - one with the Okanagan Band and the other with the Spallumcheen, Adams Lake and Neskonlith Bands." "By shamelessly weaselling out of the court proceedings and attempting to run away, the Province is deliberately obstructing First Nations in their efforts to achieve the outcome of the Supreme Court of Canada's Haida decision in terms of reconciliation, consultation and accommodation." - Chief Phillip URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/3/72833/16682 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 3 08:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Climate 'threatens' Arctic lakes Message-ID: <20050303160905.29013.qmail@resist.ca> "Communities of creatures living in Arctic lakes are undergoing dramatic changes in response to global warming, according to Canadian experts. Groups of aquatic organisms in the Arctic show patterns of change over the last 150 years that are consistent with man-made climate warming, they claim." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/2/205238/7020 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 3 08:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Maximum pain is aim of new US weapon Message-ID: <20050303160905.29010.qmail@resist.ca> The US military is funding development of a weapon that delivers a bout of excruciating pain from up to 2 kilometres away. Intended for use against rioters, it is meant to leave victims unharmed. But pain researchers are furious that work aimed at controlling pain has been used to develop a weapon. And they fear that the technology will be used for torture. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/2/215713/5331 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 4 05:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 13:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Youth Rally in Swaziland Message-ID: <20050304130903.22452.qmail@resist.ca> January 22, 1996 is a day not to be forgotten amongst days when Swaziland made headlines around the world. There was a mass action led by the leading trade unions, political parties-movement. Many people who took part/witnessed, their blood get cold when they hear anything associated with similar activities. The violent way of whipping, baton-beating, torturing, tear-gassing, water-cannoning and shooting by the police and army left many people crippled, disfigured subsequently dying and missing. The open shooting of Noxolo Mdluli, a 16 year old girl by the army on this day proved to everyone on which side the police and army stood. The fear of these forces is visible all over their surroundings. You have to always look over your shoulders when talking and disseminating. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/4/135/88263 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 4 05:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 13:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] The dangerous implications of the Hariri assassination and the U.S. response Message-ID: <20050304130904.22455.qmail@resist.ca> "The broader implications of the February 14 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, who was seen by many as the embodiment of the Lebanese people's efforts to rebuild their country in the aftermath of its 15-year civil war, are yet to unfold. A Sunni Muslim, Hariri reached out to all of Lebanon's ethnic and religious communities in an effort to unite the country after decades of violence waged by heavily-armed militias and foreign invaders." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/4/04423/24715 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 4 05:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 13:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Ten panelists in Cox-2 drug vote had ties to manufacturers Message-ID: <20050304130903.22454.qmail@resist.ca> "Ten members of the Food and Drug Administration advisory panel who voted that a group of powerful pain killers should continue to be sold had ties to the drug makers, a new analysis shows." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/4/0463/28542 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 4 05:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 13:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Anti-WTO demonstrations in Kenya lead to dozens of arrests Message-ID: <20050304130904.22458.qmail@resist.ca> "Chaos greeted the World Trade Organisation (WTO) mini-ministerial conference yesterday as lobby groups tried to invade the venue in Mombasa's South Coast. Reports indicated that a total of 41 protesters were placed into custody and are due to be charged this morning. Another group of about 100 protesters were also blocked enroute to Ukunda airstrip where the delegates were due to land by plane from a trip to Maasai Mara Game Reserve." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/3/232055/2607 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 4 05:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 13:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] For US media, 'calm' means 'calm for Israel' Message-ID: <20050304130904.22456.qmail@resist.ca> "Indeed, there was a period of calm between January 15, when the president of the Palestinians assumed office, and February 25, the day of the bombing that killed 4 Israeli civilians. During this period, no Israelis were killed by Palestinians. And in fact, this so-called period of calm started as far back as November 1st, 2004. But at the same time, there was no such period of calm for the Palestinians during those months, since their people continued to be violently attacked by the Israelis." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/4/11143/59523 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 4 05:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 13:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Sutikalh update Message-ID: <20050304130904.22459.qmail@resist.ca> On May 2, 2000, members of the St'at'imc nation and their allies established a permanent camp near Melvin Creek, located off Highway 99 between Mt. Currie/Pemberton and Lillooet, in the southern Interior region of BC. Known as Sutikalh, the St'at'imc winter spirit of the area, the camp was set up to stop government and corporate plans to build a $500 million all-season ski and recreation resort in an untouched Alpine mountain area. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/27/0346/03492 From news at resist.ca Sun Mar 6 08:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 16:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] How NHL Owners are Destroying Professional Hockey Message-ID: <20050306160903.6820.qmail@resist.ca> "(The National Hockey League's) road to (armageddon) began thirteen years ago when they hired a slick (basketball) marketing whiz named Gary Bettman to be their commissioner. Bettman stated proudly that he had never set foot in an NHL arena, but knew how to 'grow' the sport....Bettman took one look at this blue-collar league built on the backs of hardscrabble French Canadians, toothless grins, and rabid fans, and recoiled....As sportswriter Dan Wetzel put it, 'There is no denying that under (Bettman's) stewardship the NHL has been run into the grave. The league has been mismanaged, misplaced, overexpanded and overpriced, all because Bettman turned his back on the core fans - believing there was a pot of television and corporate (fool's) gold at the end of the small market rainbow.'" URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/5/161012/0540 From news at resist.ca Sun Mar 6 09:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 17:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Letter to George Bush from an Iraqi Message-ID: <20050306170903.29412.qmail@resist.ca> Below is a letter written by an Iraqi living in "liberated" Iraq to U.S. President George Bush. Ghazwan Al-Mukhtar is a 60 year-old engineer, a 1967 graduate of Marquette University, living in Baghdad, who had criticized Saddam Hussein in his time as a "ruthless dictator" and has no intention of holding his tongue now. He has previously been interviewed from Baghdad by Amy Goodman's Democracy Now! and wrote "I am (an) independent person and never joined any political party and I will never join a party." And when asked about whether he wanted his name used or withheld, he added: "If, after everything we have gone through over the last 22 months makes me scared, then I have news for them, NOW NO ONE CAN STOP ME FROM TALKING. I AM FREE." His letter to George Bush from outside the American bubble follows. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/5/15307/72282 From news at resist.ca Sun Mar 6 09:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 17:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Venezuela: Indigenous Fight Coal Mine Message-ID: <20050306170903.29413.qmail@resist.ca> On February 23, more than 500 Bari indigenous people mobilized against coal mining operations in their territory on the southern edge of the Perija mountains in the western Venezuelan state of Zulia, near the Colombian border. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/5/171818/3493 From news at resist.ca Sun Mar 6 09:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 17:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Anti-police riot in Nigerian town of Makurdi Message-ID: <20050306170903.29415.qmail@resist.ca> "Armed soldiers and police are patrolling the central Nigerian town of Makurdi after an anti-police riot. Police fired in the air to disperse protesters and dismantled roadblocks. There are few details about the violence but there are unconfirmed reports that two police stations were burnt to the ground." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/4/135350/2873 From news at resist.ca Sun Mar 6 09:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 17:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] America urges UN to renounce abortion rights Message-ID: <20050306170903.29414.qmail@resist.ca> "The Bush administration was accused yesterday of trying to roll back efforts to improve the status of the world's women by demanding that the UN publicly renounce abortion rights. America's demand overshadowed the opening yesterday of a conference intended to mark the 10th anniversary of the Beijing conference on the status of women, an event seen as a landmark in efforts to promote global cooperation on women's equality." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/6/74343/42125 From news at resist.ca Sun Mar 6 09:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 17:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Elders stage month-long sit-in waiting to speak to their chief Message-ID: <20050306170903.29416.qmail@resist.ca> "When Tahltan elders concerned about resource development in their area went looking for Chief Jerry Asp, they didn't expect to be kept waiting so long. But now, more than a month after they walked into the band offices in Telegraph Creek, they say they are still waiting for Mr. Asp and information on the progress of proposals for mines in a region claimed by the Tahltan in northwestern British Columbia." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/6/7340/57483 From news at resist.ca Sun Mar 6 09:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 17:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Squamish Hereditary Chief supports John Graham Message-ID: <20050306170904.29418.qmail@resist.ca> On March 2, 2005, John Graham's legal defense successfully filed an appeal to counter his approved extradition. His appeal date is set for November 7, 2005, in Vancouver Canada. From now until that date, Graham will be able to stay at his daughters' house, and is required to report a parole officer twice weekly. This is a victory, as previously, he had to live with a friend whom signed a $10,000 waiver to get him released from prison. He was also required to report to the Vancouver City Police everyday. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/5/18916/34109 From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 7 06:09:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 14:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Aristide's Lavalas puts UN duplicity to the test in Haiti Message-ID: <20050307140906.10006.qmail@resist.ca> "Evidence continues to mount of the United Nation's complicity in an on-going campaign by the US-installed government of Gerard Latortue to terrorize and exterminate sympathizers of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's political party known as Lavalas. Despite detailed documentation of innumerable massacres committed by the Police Nationale de Haiti (PNH) over the last five months, the UN insisted in a new report released on February 25 that "the general security environment across Haiti has improved." Any sensible observer of Haiti must ask, "improved for whom?" The recent attack by the PNH against unarmed demonstrators demanding Aristide's return on February 28 destroyed the credibility of several such statements made recently by the UN in Haiti and exposed the duplicitous role of their forces in propping up an unpopular regime." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/5/2344/88732 From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 7 06:09:06 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 14:09:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Banned as human food, StarLink corn found in food aid Message-ID: <20050307140906.10007.qmail@resist.ca> "More than 70 environmental, consumer, farmer, human rights groups and unions from six Central American and Caribbean countries held simultaneous press conferences today to denounce the presence of unauthorized genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in food aid distributed by the UN World Food Programme (WFP), and in commercial imports of food originating mostly from the United States." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/6/75315/74782 From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 7 06:09:06 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 14:09:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Chavez: US used mustard gas in Fallujah Message-ID: <20050307140906.10008.qmail@resist.ca> "Venezuela President Hugo Chavez said that according to Iraqi Health Department's reports US soldiers used nerve and mustard gas during the Felluce (Fallujah) operation." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/5/234211/7657 From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 7 07:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 15:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada Says No To Star Wars Jr. Message-ID: <20050307150904.31135.qmail@resist.ca> Tweedledumb and Tweedledumber Defend the Defenseless John Gibson of FOX Calls Canada Dumb. Quissling Canadian Ezra Levant Agrees. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/6/115344/7216 From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 7 07:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 15:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Update & Support Call-Out for the "Hastings 7" Message-ID: <20050307150904.31136.qmail@resist.ca> "One year ago, seven East Vancouver residents were brutally beaten by members of the Vancouver Police. Adding insult to substantive injury, the assaulted individuals were then slapped with trumped-up charges that they now face in court. The trial of the 'Hastings Seven' (also known as the 'Waldorf 7') is scheduled for April 13-22 and they need your help." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/6/16503/65243 From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 7 07:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 15:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] China issues human rights record of the United States Message-ID: <20050307150904.31134.qmail@resist.ca> "In 2004 the atrocity of US troops abusing Iraqi POWs exposed the dark side of human rights performance of the United States. The scandal shocked the humanity and was condemned by the international community. It is quite ironic that on Feb. 28 of this year, the State Department of the United States once again posed as the 'the world human rights police' and released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2004. As in previous years, the reports pointed fingers at human rights situation in more than 190 countries and regions (including China) but kept silent on the US misdeeds in this field. Therefore, the world people have to probe the human rights record behind the Statue of Liberty in the United States," said the report. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/6/75254/55468 From news at resist.ca Tue Mar 8 05:09:08 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 13:09:08 -0000 Subject: [news] The growing DU scandal in Iraq Message-ID: <20050308130908.24024.qmail@resist.ca> "This malady (from uranium munitions), that thousands of our military have suffered and died from, has finally been identified as the cause of this sickness, eliminating the guessing. The terrible truth is now being revealed." "...Out of the 580,400 soldiers who served in GW1 (the first Gulf War), of them, 11,000 are now dead! By the year 2000, there were 325,000 on Permanent Medical Disability. This astounding number of `Disabled Vets' means that a decade later, 56% of those soldiers who served have some form of permanent medical problems!" The disability rate for the wars of the last century was 5 percent; it was higher, 10 percent, in Viet Nam. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/6/74124/76880 From news at resist.ca Tue Mar 8 05:09:08 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 13:09:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Cops Attack Women on International Women's Day Message-ID: <20050308130908.24023.qmail@resist.ca> "Turkish police have detained dozens of protesters after using pepper spray, batons and boots to break up a demonstration by women's rights supporters." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/7/03730/28918 From news at resist.ca Tue Mar 8 05:09:08 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 13:09:08 -0000 Subject: [news] First Internacional Post-Capitalist participatory Democracy Message-ID: <20050308130908.24025.qmail@resist.ca> If Cockburn, Tariq Ali, St. Claire, Chavez, MST Brazil/Bolivia, Felipe Quispe, James Petras, Walden Bello, Vandana Shiva, Arhundati Roy, Ken Livingston, Ward Churchill, German Greens/EU Nordic/Left Blocs, Uruguayan Leftists, Chilean Communist Party, Ruben Zamora, Cubans, radical ecologists, other activists and professors would come with all their power to support a clear plan for a new type of participatory socialist - or solidaristic - economy, many people, activists and movements would come together from around the world to promote this vision. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/6/162322/3554 From news at resist.ca Tue Mar 8 05:09:08 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 13:09:08 -0000 Subject: [news] president of Bolivia resigns Message-ID: <20050308130909.24026.qmail@resist.ca> Bolivian President Carlos Mesa has handed in his resignation, a day after making a surprise announcement that he would quit. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/7/102240/8840 From news at resist.ca Tue Mar 8 05:09:08 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 13:09:08 -0000 Subject: [news] General Motor: Canada's newest P3 Message-ID: <20050308130909.24029.qmail@resist.ca> Despite record car sales in Canada, General Motor with the aid of the auto workers union, CAW, has successfully pulled off another corporate welfare scam. Both the Federal and Ontario governments have promised GM a half billion dollars to upgrade it's Canadian plants and operations. It is the biggest P3 in automotive history. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/6/12249/19347 From news at resist.ca Tue Mar 8 05:09:08 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 13:09:08 -0000 Subject: [news] New Sea Lice Epidemic in BC Threatens Salmon Message-ID: <20050308130909.24028.qmail@resist.ca> Posted by: earth_first {at} resist [dot] ca Alexandra Morton studies fish farms, parasites and their impact on wild salmon. She has just released these notes from her field studies of juvenile pink and chum salmon starting on their journey from freshwater streams to the open ocean. Thanks to an epidemic of sea lice, these tiny fry may not survive to return to their spawning channels. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/6/173642/2951 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 9 06:09:13 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 14:09:13 -0000 Subject: [news] Assassination of Hariri is only the prelude Message-ID: <20050309140914.30980.qmail@resist.ca> "Indulging in speculation regarding the identity of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri's real assassins is of little value now. What demands urgent scrutiny is how his murder was intended to play a large part in the remolding of Lebanon's role in the overall Arab-Israeli conflict and the balances of power in the region." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/9/5232/06410 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 9 06:09:13 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 14:09:13 -0000 Subject: [news] Seven Theses on the Anti-War Movement and Student Resistance Message-ID: <20050309140914.30982.qmail@resist.ca> "The old SDS dictum, `People have to be organized around the issues that really affect their lives,' is really true... That is to say, that racism and imperialism really are issues that affect people's lives. And it was these things that people moved on, not dorm rules, or democratizing university governance, or any of that bullshit." --Mark Rudd, "Columbia--Notes on the Spring Rebellion" URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/8/113813/5177 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 9 06:09:13 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 14:09:13 -0000 Subject: [news] Attack on fuel pipeline south of Baghdad Message-ID: <20050309140914.30983.qmail@resist.ca> An oil pipeline feeding Al-Dura refinery south of Baghdad was blown up Tuesday near Jorf al-Sakhr, 60 kilometres (35 miles) south of the capital, an Iraqi oil official said. "Unknown assailants placed explosives on the 'strategic' pipeline," said Muayyed al-Shemmari, a local oil official. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/8/18500/14424 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 9 06:09:14 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 14:09:14 -0000 Subject: [news] N.W.T. "promises" pipeline "readiness" office in Hay River by end of March Message-ID: <20050309140915.30986.qmail@resist.ca> "The N.W.T. government says it is set to open its pipeline readiness office in Hay River by the end of the month. The new office will co-ordinate the territorial government's response to the Mackenzie Gas Project." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/8/164550/1080 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 9 06:09:14 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 14:09:14 -0000 Subject: [news] Inuit slam TV channel's language policy Message-ID: <20050309140915.30990.qmail@resist.ca> "Prominent Nunavummiut are criticizing a popular television broadcaster for a new policy they say damages the Inuktitut language." "The policy of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network requires films in an aboriginal language be dubbed in English or French." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/6/83747/52197 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 9 06:09:14 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 14:09:14 -0000 Subject: [news] Alberta's Beef with the USA Message-ID: <20050309140915.30987.qmail@resist.ca> The Beef crisis is another example of the failure to have a producers cooperative, and the death of meat packing in Alberta. Again any form of producers cooperative will have to be done by the farmers and ranchers themselves, since such a 'monopoly' runs counter to right wing ideology, while it is the only way for farmers to get a fair deal under capitalism, and the only way to avoid a take over by agribusiness, which is what has happened across Canada. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/6/11598/42403 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 10 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Rule change lets C.I.A. freely send suspects abroad to jails Message-ID: <20050310140903.9925.qmail@resist.ca> "The Bush administration's secret program to transfer suspected terrorists to foreign countries for interrogation has been carried out by the Central Intelligence Agency under broad authority that has allowed it to act without case-by-case approval from the White House or the State or Justice Departments, according to current and former government officials." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/10/52049/1281 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 10 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Iraqi Resistance Group Distances Itself From Civilian Bloodshed Message-ID: <20050310140903.9927.qmail@resist.ca> "The Islamic Front for the Iraqi Resistance (Jama`) has urged all its members to remain committed to the Front's guidelines in fighting the US-led occupation, chiefly avoiding the use of booby-trapped cars inside the cities, the slaughter of hostages and the killing of any Iraqi." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/9/173721/4741 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 10 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Progressive Anarchist Think Tank Message-ID: <20050310140903.9926.qmail@resist.ca> We would like to announce the opening of the Progressive Anarchist Think Tank (PATT), a collectively run site created for constructive discussion of the libertarian-socialist movement, both in terms of where it is now and progressive discussions of how to further it in the future. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/9/75320/70999 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 10 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Smelter maintenance worker dies Message-ID: <20050310140904.9930.qmail@resist.ca> A worker has collapsed and died while doing cleanup work in a boiler at Teck Cominco's lead-zinc smelter in Trail. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/9/123452/9451 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 10 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] US promotes hard-liner to UN embassador Message-ID: <20050310140903.9929.qmail@resist.ca> "In an Orwellian twist, [Condoleezza] Rice recently called Mr. Bolton a man with 'a proven track record of effective multilateralism.' She also said he would focus on UN reform. John Bolton might want to 'reform' the United Nations right out of existence. At the very least, he will try to ensure that no embarrassment reminiscent of the UN's rejection of the U.S.-led Iraq war is likely to happen again. This alone may explain the appointment of the man who thinks there is no such thing as the UN as the new ambassador to the UN." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/10/5154/68535 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 10 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Stop the deportation of Wendy Maxwell Message-ID: <20050310140904.9932.qmail@resist.ca> "On Saturday, March 5, at the end of a diverse and lively International Women's Day march, Toronto police came on to the Ryerson University campus and arrested Wendy Maxwell, a well-respected feminist and queer activist. At the time Wendy was selling cookies at the IWD fair to raise funds for CKLN, a local community radio station. She is currently being held at the Vanier Women's detention centre.Wendy has been fighting the Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration for status in Canada since she arrived from Costa Rica in July, 1997. Her application for refugee status was turned down in early 2004 and she has been living underground ever since. Despite the risks, Wendy never stopped her activism on behalf of others." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/10/5430/18978 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 11 05:09:02 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 13:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Human Wrongs Activist Inspires Bush Message-ID: <20050311130902.18271.qmail@resist.ca> "(Israelis) first heard of Natan Sharansky (actually Anatoliy Shcharansky, but the name was simplified and Hebrewized when he came here) as a 'dissident' in the Soviet Union. After attracting international attention in Moscow, he was arrested by the KGB and sentenced for treason, in what looked like a particularly clumsy attempt to silence him. As we heard it, he was not broken in the hell of the Gulag but remained a proud fighter for his rights and ideas. A huge international campaign demanded his release....In the end the Soviets decided to get rid of him and exchanged him for a valuable Soviet spy held in America....From then on, the great human rights fighter gradually became an uncompromising activist against the human (and any other) rights of the Palestinians in the occupied territories....The idea that the teachings of this particular political philosopher are the guiding star of the mightiest leader in the world, the commander of the biggest military machine in history, is rather frightening." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/11/03934/0569 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 11 05:09:02 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 13:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] The World's Richest People Message-ID: <20050311130903.18272.qmail@resist.ca> "The rich had a very good year. The collective net worth of the 691 billionaires we could find is $2.2 trillion, up $300 billion from the combined worth of the 587 people listed last year. Every region saw gains. The world's richest moguls now hail from 47 countries, including, for the first time, Kazakhstan, Poland, Ukraine and even Iceland. The newcomers include 69 Americans and 38 Europeans." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/10/232046/654 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 11 05:09:02 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 13:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] How and Why People Squat Message-ID: <20050311130903.18273.qmail@resist.ca> Adverse possession, or legal squatting, has been in place in Europe since the 1400's, and in America since the 1600's. Reasons for squatting vary from political motivations to economic necessities. Some reasons for squatting are bringing community and media attention to the homeless and affordable housing crisis, to save lower income housing from demolition, to create community and lifestyle alternatives, to monkeywrench capitalism, and to challenge land ownership systems. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/10/95621/0504 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 11 05:09:02 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 13:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Community Leaders Sound the Alarm Message-ID: <20050311130903.18274.qmail@resist.ca> "A delegation of community leaders will speak at the Ontario Regional offices of Citizenship and Immigration Canada tomorrow, in opposition to the imminent deportation of community activist and artist Wendy Maxwell Edwards. A request to meet with Irene Bader, Director of Ontario Regional, in order to call for a positive decision on Ms. Edward's Humanitarian and Compassionate Application, has gone unanswered." "Over 1,000 individuals and organizations have signed a petition in support of Ms. Edwards, and the Immigration Minister's office has been flooded with calls. A support rally has been scheduled for 12 noon on Friday at Vancouver's Immigration Canada offices, and a solidarity hunger strike is underway at Ryerson University." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/11/43650/0639 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 11 08:09:11 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:09:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Democracy if necessary, but not ... Message-ID: <20050311160911.27073.qmail@resist.ca> "[I]n 1990, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a Canadian-educated priest who built a movement working in the slums, won Haiti's first democratic election with 67.5 per cent of the vote. The U.S.-backed candidate came second with 14.2 per cent. It was called 'a textbook example of participatory, "bottom up" and democratic political development.' He was overthrown by a U.S.-backed coup in 1991, then reinstalled by U.S. troops in 1994 on condition he scrap his equalizing social policies and implement a brutal 'austerity' agenda." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/11/6474/73904 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 11 08:09:11 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:09:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Feds approve use of wastewater on sacred site Message-ID: <20050311160911.27074.qmail@resist.ca> Leaders of the Hopi and Navajo tribes are blasting a decision to use "reclaimed water" on a sacred site to accommodate a wealthy ski lodge situated in the Arizona mountains. "Once again the federal government has made a decision that is clearly in opposition to the passionate pleas of Native American nations who hold the peaks as sacred," Hopi Chairman Wayne Taylor Jr. said, adding that the tribal council will review the ruling and "explore what options we have." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/11/7318/74033 From news at resist.ca Sun Mar 13 07:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 15:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] The Right to Return & Missile Defense: Vikings, Kalaallit Nunaat & "The Discarded" Message-ID: <20050313150905.7366.qmail@resist.ca> "What currently remains of the antiwar movement in many places-- in particular Canada-- has rightly seen an importance to discussing Ballistic Missile Defense, or BMD, as an antiwar issue in the age of the 'War on Terror'. However, there are issues involving BMD not even being discussed by the antiwar movement that sorely need exposure, education and hopefully, organization. And it all begins where the first European settlers, the Vikings, ended: on the largest island in the world. The foreign affairs minister of Denmark spoke to Colin Powell at a ceremony that received next to no fanfare on August 6, 2004, and the attention it did receive was unduly celebratory. One can imagine what kind of celebration was going on here, when FM Per Stig Moeller stated 'It was from here the Vikings went out to discover - and civilize - America'.1 To say this while standing on the Inuit island homeland of Kalaallit Nunaat (still usually referred to as "Greenland") it is clear the colonial mindset is alive and well." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/11/213733/598 From news at resist.ca Sun Mar 13 07:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 15:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Kosovo PM charged with war crimes Message-ID: <20050313150905.7367.qmail@resist.ca> "The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Ramush Haradinaj, has resigned after being charged with war crimes by the UN tribunal in The Hague. Kosovo government officials said Mr Haradinaj, a former commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), would fly to The Hague on Wednesday. Mr Haradinaj was investigated over his role in the 1998-99 Kosovo conflict." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/13/63048/7167 From news at resist.ca Sun Mar 13 07:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 15:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Congress Rejects [Bolivian President] Mesa's Resignation [- Blockades Continue] Message-ID: <20050313150905.7368.qmail@resist.ca> "On May 6, President Carlos Mesa caught Bolivia off-guard. He announced that as a result of continual protests and growing blockades, he was no longer willing to, 'govern based on the crazy things different sectors demand,' and planned to submit his resignation to Congress the next day." The right-wing Bolivian congress has since rejected the resignation in an effort to rally support for Mesa. Opposition groups are digging in, continuing blockades and building alliances. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/13/62629/4397 From news at resist.ca Sun Mar 13 07:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 15:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Profiles of Vancouver Police Killings for IDAPB Message-ID: <20050313150905.7369.qmail@resist.ca> Profiles of the cases of Gerald Chenery, Benny Matson, Robert Wayne Bagnell, Roman Andreichikov, Jeff Berg and Frank Paul, for the Ninth International Day Against Police Brutality (Tuesday, March 15, 7:00pm at Victory Square on the corner of Hastings and Cambie). URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/12/214458/133 From news at resist.ca Sun Mar 13 07:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 15:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Documentary 'Oil on Ice' Used in Surge of Nationwide Grassroots Efforts to Protect the ANWR Message-ID: <20050313150905.7370.qmail@resist.ca> "We are caribou people. It is our clothing, our story, our song, our dance and our food that is who we are. If you drill for oil here, you are drilling right into the heart of our existence," said Sarah James, Gwich'in from Arctic Village. -- " 'Oil on Ice' brings to life the beauty of this god-given environment and gives voice to the native Alaskans who know the impact of drilling in a wildlife refuge better than anyone in Washington. The majority of Americans support preserving the Arctic Refuge and the surge in grassroots support of protecting this precious area has been truly impressive," said Boxer, who spoke at today's event. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/11/13311/0715 From news at resist.ca Sun Mar 13 07:09:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 15:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Iskut First Nation Joins Moratorium on Resource Development Message-ID: <20050313150905.7372.qmail@resist.ca> "Dressed in traditional regalia Iskut Chief Louis Louie lead the protest and announced to the Shell Canada representatives, 'There will be no business on Tahltan lands in respects to resource development as of yesterday, due to the moratorium that was imposed by our hereditary elders' council of Telegraph BC on March 1st 2005.'" URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/11/84929/7811 From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 14 06:09:10 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:09:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Suing "God"; and "Satan" Versus Glorifying "Him" in the Supreme Court Message-ID: <20050314140910.15868.qmail@resist.ca> "It was an extremist reaction to 'communism,' not unlike the current portrayal of all things Arab as terrorist and insidiously dangerous, that put the 'In God We Trust' on our money in the first place. That same hysteria, that went on to kill untold numbers of Vietnamese and Americans in the Vietnam War 'fighting communism,' is responsible for the insertion of the 'One Nation Under God' part of the pledge of allegiance. Let us not use the hysteria of past prejudices, to justify current prejudices. And let's not pretend that displaying Christian propaganda on government property is returning to the foundation of America." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/10/94658/5968 From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 14 06:09:10 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:09:10 -0000 Subject: [news] What do you think about suicide bombers? Message-ID: <20050314140910.15870.qmail@resist.ca> "The common motivation behind this frequently asked question is by no means an innocent one. In fact, the question itself is quite strange: why ask about suicide bombers rather than about bombers simpliciter? Is the questioner interested in our view about suicide bombers as distinct from non-suicide ones? Surely, whether a perpetrator of a bombing commits suicide in the act is -- morally speaking -- not the principal issue: what matters most is the bombing. And why confine the question to bombing? Can our judgment about firing a machine-gun indiscriminately into a crowd differ from that about detonating a bomb in a crowded place?" URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/13/72314/7026 From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 14 06:09:10 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:09:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Climate change exposes progress as a myth Message-ID: <20050314140910.15869.qmail@resist.ca> "And this is surely one of the reasons why we find it so hard to accept what the climatologists are now telling us. In our mythologies, an early spring is a reward for virtue. 'For, lo, the winter is past', Solomon, the beloved of God, exults. 'The rain is over and gone; / The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come'. How can something which feels so good result from something so bad? URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/12/22511/6993 From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 14 06:09:10 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:09:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Activists seek to hold Canadian government to account in Haiti Message-ID: <20050314140911.15872.qmail@resist.ca> "A delegation of human rights activists has called on the Canadian government to put pressure on Haiti to release all political prisoners and end summary executions. 'Canada is financing the oppression of Haiti, there's no other way to put it,' said Pierre-Antoine Lovinsky, a Haitian who has been living in exile in Washington since the departure of president Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Lovinsky said there has been more than 10,000 assassinations in Haiti by police, military and United Nations forces since Aristide left during an uprising in February 2004." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/13/224747/815 From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 14 06:09:10 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:09:10 -0000 Subject: [news] MLAs angered over appointment to Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board Message-ID: <20050314140911.15873.qmail@resist.ca> YELLOWKNIFE - MLAs in the Northwest Territories reacted angrily to news the Minister of Indian Affairs Andy Scott ignored Northern candidates when he appointed non-resident Todd Burlingame as the new chair of the Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board. Under the rules set out for appointing the chair Scott was supposed to choose from among the three candidates nominated by the board. Instead he chose Burlingame and MLAs say that smacks of the old days when the North was run by Ottawa bureaucrats who felt they knew best. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/11/12563/2632 From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 14 06:09:10 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:09:10 -0000 Subject: [news] AFL-CIO Helps Defend U.S. "Security Interests" Message-ID: <20050314140910.15871.qmail@resist.ca> "The (Advisory Committee on Labor Diplomacy) is an effort to restore a process in the State Department known as 'Labor Diplomacy.' In reading reports and meeting minutes from its website, it is clear that the State Department is using U.S. labor leaders to help them target overseas unions for political purposes-and that these labor leaders readily and actively participate....There is a lot of talk within these reports of the importance of labor rights and democracy but, as can be quickly seen, workers' rights anywhere are only important if they help advance U.S. security. While great concern is expressed again and again in the report for US national security, concern for the well-being of the world's workers and any possible expressions of mutually beneficial, solidarity-based action by the AFL-CIO are all-but-absent." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/13/144930/105 From news at resist.ca Tue Mar 15 06:09:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] US ready to recognize Hezbollah Message-ID: <20050315140905.16082.qmail@resist.ca> "After years of campaigning against Hezbollah, the radical Shiite Muslim party in Lebanon, as a terrorist pariah, the Bush administration is grudgingly going along with efforts by France and the United Nations to steer the party into the Lebanese political mainstream, administration officials say." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/13/71925/3486 From news at resist.ca Tue Mar 15 06:09:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] How To Include The Poor in Community Events Message-ID: <20050315140905.16083.qmail@resist.ca> "It is not enough to say you would like more class diversity in whatever political group you affiliate with. The growth of the class chasm has gotten so precarious, that a reactive stance to classism is not enough. A proactive stance of class inclusion is required. Below are a few things that I think should always be done to try to include the widest range of economic classes, when it comes to organizing and participating in community events." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/10/94944/1024 From news at resist.ca Tue Mar 15 06:09:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Counter-recruiters charged with felony assault Message-ID: <20050315140905.16084.qmail@resist.ca> "Three undergraduate students at the City College of New York (CCNY) were arrested Wednesday in the course of a peaceful protest against military recruiters. Hadas Thier, Nick Bergreen, and Justino Rodriguez, along with approximately a dozen other protesters attended a job fair organized by the college, and stood up in front of a National Guard recruitment table chanting anti-war slogans. Private security and campus peace officers immediately surrounded the protesters, pushed them into an empty hallway outside of the job fair, closed the hall door and assaulted two protesters and arrested a third who was taking pictures. The two students who were assaulted are now being charged with felony assault, and the third with obstruction of a government administrator." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/13/7405/48509 From news at resist.ca Tue Mar 15 06:09:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] NDP's McDonough on Haiti Human Rights Message-ID: <20050315140905.16086.qmail@resist.ca> OTTAWA - NDP Foreign Affairs Critic Alexa McDonough is growing increasingly concerned about reports of human rights violations in Haiti. "There have been numerous reports of human rights violations taking place in Haiti.Canada has a presence in that country. Accordingly, we have a moral obligation to investigate these reported violations and ensure that we are accomplishing our intended goals of peace-building and capacity building in that country," said McDonough. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/13/223827/429 From news at resist.ca Tue Mar 15 06:09:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] The Pew Foundation: Smothering Environmental Resistance Message-ID: <20050315140905.16085.qmail@resist.ca> The Pew Charitable Trust, which claims to "serve... the public interest", came into existence through money from the family of Sun Oil Company founder Joseph N. Pew. While posing as a grassroots activist-type organization, it's been involved in funding, subverting, and dulling mainstream environmental groups like the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS), and the Canadian Boreal Initiative (CBI). Read on for a longer article on how the Pew Charitable Trust is smothering the environmental movement by Counterpunch. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/14/91226/4637 From news at resist.ca Tue Mar 15 06:09:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] 50 arrested as cops bust up student protest in Montreal Message-ID: <20050315140906.16088.qmail@resist.ca> MONTREAL -- "Nearly 50 people were arrested yesterday after riot police evicted students from a University of Quebec at Montreal building. The accused have been ordered to appear in municipal court in May on charges of unlawful assembly and mischief, students said at a news conference." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/14/9951/51158 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 16 06:09:02 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Chavez Casts Himself as the Anti-Bush Message-ID: <20050316140903.4240.qmail@resist.ca> "President Hugo Chavez has recently accused President Bush of plotting to assassinate him, made suggestive comments about Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, visited Fidel Castro in Cuba, bashed the United States on the al-Jazeera television network and traveled to Libya to receive an award from Moammar Gaddafi. Such bluster and anti-American showmanship are nothing new from the fiery former paratrooper. But concern in Washington has been rising as Chavez has worked feverishly in recent months to match his words with deeds." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/15/14126/1436 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 16 06:09:02 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Anti-Terrorism legislation under fire in US and UK Message-ID: <20050316140903.4241.qmail@resist.ca> "American and British judges have ruled that their governments cannot go on detaining suspects without giving them acceptable recourse to the courts. In the latest such ruling in America, last week, a judge found that Mr Bush had greatly exceeded his powers in continuing to detain without charge Jose Padilla, who is accused of conspiring to build a radioactive 'dirty bomb'. And on Thursday March 10th, Mr Blair was in a head-on confrontation with Parliament's upper house, the Lords, which voted, for the third time in four days, to reject key parts of a new anti-terror bill that the prime minister is trying to rush in. The bill must be made law by this weekend, otherwise a court ruling will force the government to let the Belmarsh detainees walk free." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/13/72735/5330 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 16 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Remember Rachel Corrie Message-ID: <20050316140903.4243.qmail@resist.ca> (contributors note: March 16 is the second anniversary of the death of International Solidarity Movement activist Rachel Corrie. The Palestinian-led ISM and their international volunteers represent the best traditions of anti-imperialist internationalism, no less so than the volunteers from who went to Spain in the 1930's to fight fascism): "On March 16th, let us not only remember the life of Rachel Corrie but let us also remember the possibilities of our own life. On March 16th, let us remember that Rachel Corrie at the age of 23 was full of life, a life that can continue to live through us." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/16/11724/3400 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 16 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Protesters in Guatemala prevent lawmakers from voting on CAFTA Message-ID: <20050316140903.4244.qmail@resist.ca> GUATEMALA CITY -- "Hundreds of protesters blocked lawmakers from voting on a free-trade agreement between Central America and the United States on Tuesday and authorities said they were prepared to send troops if the demonstrations continued." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/14/91534/4944 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 16 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Wendy Maxwell Edwards / Queen Nzinga Deported Message-ID: <20050316140904.4246.qmail@resist.ca> "At 9am [March 14], Wendy Maxwell Edwards was escorted on board a flight to Costa Rica, the country she fled nearly a decade ago." ... "Immigration Canada has stated that ONE MONTH OR SO is all that is needed to examine Wendy's Application for Landing on Humanitarian and Compassionate Grounds. This Application continues to be processed despite deportation." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/16/52433/3171 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 16 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Nations demand the halt of the Crown's early decision to create a panel for Kemess North mine Message-ID: <20050316140903.4245.qmail@resist.ca> "On March 14, 2005, Canada and British Columbia announced they were commencing the formal environmental assessment phase of Northgate Minerals Corporation's Kemess North mine application through the establishment of a joint review panel. The 4 Nations strongly oppose this decision. We demand that Canada and B.C. immediately halt this move until they have meaningfully addressed our interests to the area being targeted by unsustainable mining activities. It is premature for the Crown to proceed without a consultation and accommodation protocol agreement in place that addresses our Aboriginal title and rights. Both levels of government were aware of our intent to negotiate such a protocol before the review commenced. We are afraid the government is bowing to the will of the company and other stakeholders who want this project to move ahead at any cost." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/15/21347/7309 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 17 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Piss on Bush Message-ID: <20050317140903.21099.qmail@resist.ca> Admittedly, this is a bit juvenile, but I can't think of a better use for George Bush's mug: "The colourful (George Bush) 'piss-stickers' are still working their way around schools, pubs and youth clubs, even after Air Force One's stop (possibly to go to the toilet, we don't know) as part of Bush's Euro'pee'on walkabout a couple of weeks ago." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/12/1514/81183 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 17 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Haiti: the forgotten milestone in Bush's crusade for " freedom" Message-ID: <20050317140903.21101.qmail@resist.ca> Haiti: the forgotten milestone in Bush's crusade for "freedom" By Bill Van Auken 12 March 2005 Dozens of Haitian men, women and children drowned when their rickety homemade craft went down in the waters of the Caribbean, the Associated Press reported Thursday. Some 50 people had crowded onto the boat, which sank under their weight. Three survivors made it ashore to tell of the disaster, while officials reported recovering nine bodies, which were buried in a mass grave. "There's nothing we can do," said Cap-Haitien Mayor Apile Fleurent. "We're just waiting to see how many bodies are brought in by the waves." While the victims were in all likelihood trying to reach the United States, their deaths passed unnoticed in the American media. They were only a relative handful among the thousands of refugees attempting to flee the island nation, an exodus that has grown dramatically in the year since the Bush administration orchestrated a coup that overthrew the country's elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/13/195726/415 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 17 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] IDAPB Vancouver - More Info re Robert Bagnell Message-ID: <20050317140903.21100.qmail@resist.ca> Thank you for remembering Robert (Bobby) Bagnell - he was a kind and gentle person, with an incredible talent for art and a wonderful sense of humour. He loved people and was loved by many. His death has been our greatest loss. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/14/164534/661 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 17 07:09:06 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 15:09:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Anglo-American passive genocide in occupied Iraq and Afghanistan Message-ID: <20050317150906.10466.qmail@resist.ca> "Mass mortality in an occupied country constitutes 'passive genocide' when it derives from inadequate provision by the occupying powers of medical and other services required for human survival. In Occupied Iraq the per capita medical expenditure is about 100 times LESS than in the occupying country Australia and this is reflected in a 100-fold GREATER under-5 infant mortality in Iraq. The post-invasion avoidable mortality in Occupied Iraq of 0.4 million - including 0.2 million under-5 infant deaths - is 'passive genocide' by the occupying powers (the situation in conquered Afghanistan is 3-4 times WORSE)." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/16/03537/5155 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 17 07:09:06 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 15:09:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Protestors in Kenya battle with police Message-ID: <20050317150907.10467.qmail@resist.ca> "Kenyan police have arrested nine people and used tear gas and water cannons in running battles with protesters before the opening of parliament. Some 200 people were waving placards demanding a referendum on a new draft constitution which would limit the president's powers." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/16/104818/513 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 17 07:09:06 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 15:09:06 -0000 Subject: [news] What is Syria's role in Lebanon? Message-ID: <20050317150907.10468.qmail@resist.ca> "Since the Feb. 14 bombing that killed Rafik Hariri, the popular opposition leader and Lebanon's former prime minister, thousands of Lebanese have poured into the streets to protest Syria's military presence in their small Mediterranean country. The world, too, has turned its attention to Syria's role there. Correspondent Annia Ciezadlo looks at the historical roots of the tension between these two countries." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/13/71526/7307 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 17 07:09:06 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 15:09:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Pirates attack Indonesian gas tanker Message-ID: <20050317150907.10469.qmail@resist.ca> "Pirates have attacked a gas tanker in the Malacca Strait, kidnapping its captain and chief engineer for ransom, a watchdog said. The International Maritime Bureau (IMB) said about 35 pirates with rocket launchers stormed the Indonesian-owned MT Tri Samudra late on Saturday. They diverted the Belawan-bound vessel to a different part of Sumatra, before disappearing with the hostages." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/14/9616/82446 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 17 07:09:06 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 15:09:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada's Billion Dollar Rip Off Message-ID: <20050317150907.10471.qmail@resist.ca> Canada's Ruling Class Hides Billions Offshore File This Under; Capitalism is a Criminal Enterprize URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/16/71757/5161 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 18 05:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 13:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Sharon's cellmate Message-ID: <20050318130904.8313.qmail@resist.ca> I read Ken Livingstone's article on these pages in which he explained his position on Israel and anti-semitism with great care, and agreed with it. I have always respected his unequivocal stance against racism and I don't believe that he is anti-semitic. And yet I am angry. I am angry with Ken and with the British left generally. Please allow me to explain why. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/15/16328/3600 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 18 08:09:21 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:09:21 -0000 Subject: [news] It's the Labour Theory of Value, stupid Message-ID: <20050318160922.10777.qmail@resist.ca> In Libertarian Dialectics and in other comments I have made on my blogs I have challenged what I call the price, distribution, production economic model of the Austrian School of Economics, Von Mises and Hayek, and their heirs at the Chicago School of Economics, Friedman et al. It is also called neo-classical economics, what could also be called liberal economics. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/16/7314/55265 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 18 08:09:22 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:09:22 -0000 Subject: [news] Senate Votes to Open Alaskan Oil Drilling Message-ID: <20050318160923.10782.qmail@resist.ca> WASHINGTON - "Amid the backdrop of soaring oil and gasoline prices, a sharply divided Senate on Wednesday voted to open the ecologically rich Alaska wildlife refuge to oil drilling, delivering a major energy policy win for President Bush. The Senate, by a 51-49 vote, rejected an attempt by Democrats and GOP moderates to remove a refuge drilling provision from next year's budget, preventing opponents from using a filibuster - a tactic that has blocked repeated past attempts to open the Alaska refuge to oil companies." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/16/16219/4569 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 18 08:09:21 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:09:21 -0000 Subject: [news] Crap Arrests #16 - 20 Message-ID: <20050318160923.10781.qmail@resist.ca> More cops do their duty by arresting folks for breakdancing, flying the flag of the U.S. upside down, telling a joke about lawyers, having eye drops, and for being Kurdish. Five examples of abusive (and often stupid) cop behaviour follows: URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/18/12646/3728 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 18 08:09:22 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:09:22 -0000 Subject: [news] Supporting Tony Blair is Supporting Mass Murder Message-ID: <20050318160923.10787.qmail@resist.ca> "Let's pause to consider the truth. When (Tony) Blair demonstrably lied about weapons of mass destruction in order to help an extremist regime launch an unprovoked attack on Iraq, a defenceless country, the Foreign Office's deputy legal adviser Elizabeth Wilmshurst resigned, calling it, correctly, a 'crime of aggression'....The blood shed by more than 100,000 civilians killed and 300,000 injured is her and our witness....Almost everything about a Blair regime was known before it was elected. Blair's Vichy-like devotion to Washington was known: read his speeches about a 'new order led by America'. His devotion to (right-wing Australian newspaper magnate & union buster) Rupert Murdoch, who flew him and Cherie Booth around the world first class, was known. His devotion to an extreme neoliberal Thatcherite economics was known....His class contempt for the poor was known; his pre-election attacks on single mothers passed quickly into law, assisted by the majority of his new, opportunistic female MPs....If shame has no place in what is called 'public life', then the rest of us should break their silence for them. The Guardian says the electorate is 'cross' with Blair. Cross? Such a genteel word. Supporting Blair, in his propaganda and his contemptuous need for another term of office, is supporting mass murder." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/16/151721/384 From news at resist.ca Sun Mar 20 05:09:16 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:09:16 -0000 Subject: [news] 22 Arrested thus far in Biscuit Blockades at Fiddler Mountain Message-ID: <20050320130917.10012.qmail@resist.ca> "Reigning in a dark new era of wilderness destruction, the logging of 'protected' old-growth reserves has begun at the Biscuit timber sale, atop Fiddler Mountain. 11 people, including a 72-year old womyn from rural Selma, Oregon was arrested on Monday. Another 11 were arrested on Wednesday, including one man who locked down to the rear axle of a police vehicle with a steel lockbox." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/18/83411/5721 From news at resist.ca Sun Mar 20 05:09:16 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:09:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Greece Blames Olympics for Rising Deficit Message-ID: <20050320130916.10010.qmail@resist.ca> "The finance ministry has yet to announce the Olympic price tag, but has indicated the cost of the Athens Games would climb to about 9 billion euros (nearly $12 billion), by far the most expensive ever. Greece had initially slated 4.6 billion euros ($6.2 billion) as the total cost for the games, but increased spending for security and last-minute completion of delayed venues." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/18/181715/132 From news at resist.ca Sun Mar 20 05:09:16 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:09:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Libertarian Anti-Imperialism Message-ID: <20050320130916.10009.qmail@resist.ca> William Appleman Williams I had come across Joseph Stromberg's libertarian analysis of Anti-Imperialist American Historian William Appleman Williams, some time ago on the web and had the opportunity to cruise Stromberg's column at antiwar.com again and thought it important enough to share. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/16/73317/2908 From news at resist.ca Sun Mar 20 05:09:16 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:09:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Protect the Sacred Land Where Life Begins: The Gwich'in Nation needs your help now! Message-ID: <20050320130917.10014.qmail@resist.ca> "The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is the Sacred Place Where Life Begins, the calving and nursery grounds of the Porcupine Caribou Herd. Desecration of the Arctic Refuge would cause serious detriment to caribou and the people of the Gwich'in Nation who have depended on the caribou since time immemorial. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge must remain off limits to any oil or gas development and must be put in permanent protection status as Wilderness." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/18/12614/2643 From news at resist.ca Sun Mar 20 05:09:16 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:09:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Former CIA Agent Affirms Possibility of Chavez's Assassination in Venezuela Message-ID: <20050320130916.10011.qmail@resist.ca> "Caracas, Venezuela, March 15, 2005 -- In an interview on Miami's Spanish-language Channel 22, the former CIA agent Felix Rodriguez said that the U.S. government has plans to 'bring about a change in Venezuela.' When pressed as to what type of plans these might be, Rodriguez responded that the Bush administration 'could do it with a military strike, with a plane.'" URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/19/192043/685 From news at resist.ca Sun Mar 20 05:09:16 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:09:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Nations celebrate pipeline ruling Message-ID: <20050320130917.10013.qmail@resist.ca> "A northern aboriginal group fighting the environmental review process for the proposed Mackenzie Valley pipeline is celebrating a court victory that could expose how politics influenced the project's regulatory panel." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/18/1234/51393 From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 21 13:17:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Haiti Cursed by elites and foreign interventions Message-ID: <20050321211704.15552.qmail@resist.ca> The Japan Times March 21, 2005, Monday Special court can right Haitian wrongs By CESAR CHELALA, Special to The Japan Times PORT-AU-PRINCE - Known as the "Perle des Antilles" at the time of its independence in 1804, Haiti has gone through several periods of upheaval and terror that have stymied a once promising future. Human rights violations are widespread, and justice is nonexistent in the country today. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/20/203632/298 From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 21 13:17:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Interior city cracking down on homeless Message-ID: <20050321211704.15551.qmail@resist.ca> KELOWNA, B.C. - Street people in Kelowna have been told by the RCMP they have until April 1 to surrender their shopping carts, or have them seized. Police say the carts are stolen property, and they they're just enforcing the law - responding to calls by the city and the business community. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/20/111723/997 From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 21 13:17:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Vancouver Report from the International Day Against Police Brutality Message-ID: <20050321211705.15560.qmail@resist.ca> March 15th, 2005, was the ninth annual International Day Against Police Brutality (IDAPB). URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/20/211117/152 From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 21 13:17:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] The Open Veins of Venezuela [Mining, forestry and indigenous nations] Message-ID: <20050321211705.15553.qmail@resist.ca> The presence of mining companies like Crystallex and Hecla is a highly controversial issue among many NGOs and indigenous groups in Venezuela. The main reason for the controversy over their activities is the fact that the mining takes place in the Imataca Forest, a large forest reserve along the border with disputed Guyana. Though it doesn't have the status of a national park, the area is under special administration. The Imataca forest reserve, which is bordered by the Orinoco delta in the north and the area of Las Claritas in the south, was created in 1963 and measures 3.8 million (!!!) hectares of land, which makes it roughly as big as The Netherlands. The area is rich in different wood arts, gold, diamonds, copper, bauxite, magnesium, water, genetic diversity, and energy. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/20/205153/119 From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 21 13:17:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Colombian Vice President Interrogated in Bristol, UK Message-ID: <20050321211704.15554.qmail@resist.ca> On Tuesday the 15th March Colombian Vice President Franciso Santos came to speak in Bristol, England, in a talk entitled "Colombia - a democratic response to terrorism". Expecting an uncritical audience he expounded the Colombian State's military attack on social protest - 'democratic security policy' and claimed success in the "war on drugs" and human rights. He was met with a combiation of direct action and informed critical interrogation... URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/17/43113/7530 From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 21 13:17:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] The Money Behind the Debate Over Drilling in ANWR Message-ID: <20050321211704.15556.qmail@resist.ca> After years of trying, Senate Republicans on Wednesday succeeded in easing the path to opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling, a development that promises to intensify a decades-old lobbying battle as proponents of drilling move into the homestretch of their effort. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/20/19857/6531 From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 21 13:17:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Kelowna Police Target Shopping Carts Message-ID: <20050321211705.15561.qmail@resist.ca> Homeless advocates are reacting with outrage to Kelowna RCMP's latest target in cleaning up the downtown: The shopping cart. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/21/84358/4656 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 23 07:09:12 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:09:12 -0000 Subject: [news] As more land is taken from the Palestinians... Message-ID: <20050323150912.7156.qmail@resist.ca> "For the last two months the reformist left parties in Israel, the Labour party, Yahad, together with "Peace Now", had prepared a demonstration that was supposed to be a large one and show that the supporters of Sharon's disengagement plan are many more than the 100,000 who came out a month ago in support of the settlers in a demo in Jerusalem. Contrary to the expectation of the organisers, the demonstration was small, with only 10,000 people attending a rally in support of disengagement last Saturday, March 19, at the end of the demo that started off from Rabin Square and ended in Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/22/121829/126 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 23 07:09:12 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:09:12 -0000 Subject: [news] Guatemalan Government Approves CAFTA Under Cloud of Tear Gas Message-ID: <20050323150913.7157.qmail@resist.ca> "The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), a precursor to the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and an extension of the existing North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA), was passed by the legislature of Guatemala on Thursday, March 10. Massive anti-CAFTA protests in Guatemala City had delayed the vote on the treaty, but CAFTA was finally passed with thousands of police surrounding the Guatemalan congress and tear gas wafting throughout downtown." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/22/191257/297 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 23 07:09:12 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:09:12 -0000 Subject: [news] Palestinian Refugees in Canada Face Discrimination Message-ID: <20050323150913.7158.qmail@resist.ca> "In November of 2004, Canada deported another unsuccessful Palestinian refugee claimant, Ahmed Nafa, to the US. He is currenly being held in indefinite detention after his refugee claim was refused by US immigration authorities....Starting in January 2004, a Montreal campaign run by The Coalition against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees attempted to halt the Canadian government from what it said was the unjustified deportation of dozens of Palestinians....The members of the coalition heavily criticised what they saw as a bureaucratic and ineffective immigration policy, which discriminates specifically against Palestinian refugees arriving from Lebanon and the Occupied Territories." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/22/12536/2693 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 23 07:09:12 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:09:12 -0000 Subject: [news] Skypigs Get Guns Message-ID: <20050323150913.7159.qmail@resist.ca> "VANCOUVER - The 82 officers who patrol Vancouver's rapid transit SkyTrain system will be allowed to carry guns, the regional transit authority says." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/23/02512/5685 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 23 07:09:13 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:09:13 -0000 Subject: [news] SNC-Lavalin Declares War on Homes not Bombs! Message-ID: <20050323150913.7161.qmail@resist.ca> Dozens of Police, Mounted Units, Police Wagons Greet Toronto Vigil of 10 People Protesting Production of Canadian Bullets for U.S. Forces in Iraq, Afghanistan.... URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/22/95641/8909 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 24 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] For a Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing Message-ID: <20050324140903.11481.qmail@resist.ca> I have to thank the folks over at the Coffee Shop for the excellent article entitled Socratic Marx, which discusses this letter from Marx which was published in the Tucker Anthology The Marx and Engels Reader as: For a Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing (1843). This is one of my favorites short radical writings by Marx which expresses exactly what revolutionary thought is, philosophy in action. It is here we find the essence of Marx's revolutionary thought, and the phrase For a Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing, was not lost on me when I first read this thirty-five years ago. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/23/14452/4321 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 24 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] CUBA: UN Commission on Human Rights has lost legitimacy Message-ID: <20050324140903.11483.qmail@resist.ca> The following statement was made at the 61st session of the Commission of Human Rights by Felipe Perez Roque, minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba "The Commission on Human Rights - despite the efforts by those who honestly believe in its importance and wage a battle to return it to the spirit of respect and cooperation of its founders - has lost legitimacy. It is not credible. It allows the impunity of the powerful. It is handcuffed. In it, there are plenty of lies, double standards and empty speeches by those who, while enjoying their wealth, squander and pollute, look the other way and pretend not to see how millions of human beings endure the violation of the right to life, the right to peace, the right to development, the right to eat, to learn, to work; in brief, the right to live in dignity." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/24/55748/7056 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 24 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Haida protesters blockade two log-sorting facilities Message-ID: <20050324140904.11486.qmail@resist.ca> QUEEN CHARLOTTE CITY - "Two groups of protesters, one in Queen Charlotte City and one an hour north in Port Clements, blockaded roads to Weyerhaeuser's two main log-sorting facilities on the Queen Charlotte Islands Tuesday to draw attention to what the Haida say is an ongoing violation of their rights. At issue is the planned transfer of a Weyerhaeuser tree farm licence to Brascan as part of an impending sale. The Haida say they aren't being properly consulted about the transfer, in spite of a recent Supreme Court of Canada decision requiring such consultation." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/24/1041/42966 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 24 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Bono Enters Stage Right Message-ID: <20050324140903.11484.qmail@resist.ca> "Though egomania and naivete may well lead him to believe that he can coerce (Paul) Wolfowitz to implement more humanitarian policies, Bono's de facto endorsement of this explicit advocate of imperialism is way beyond the pale. And it marked the culmination of my disillusionment with the politics of the man whose lyrics are permanently embedded in the heads of people my age, if not of people of all ages, so long has been their hold on the title of world's No.1 band." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/23/23359/6522 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 24 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Support Federal Anti Scab Legislation Message-ID: <20050324140904.11485.qmail@resist.ca> URGENT: Bill C-263 will go to a vote in the House of Commons on April 7, 2005 URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/23/13282/4147 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 24 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Student Arrested at Gunpoint for Having a Crappy Car Message-ID: <20050324140905.11488.qmail@resist.ca> "When you go through life abiding by all the rules and conforming to all the regulations of society, and one day you look out your car window and there stands a slew of cops barking orders and pointing guns at you and your girlfriend's head, your immediate feeling is that you are part of some elaborate prank. I waited for my friends to emerge from a bush, laughing hysterically, but they never appeared....Instead, more cop cars pulled up, their lights and sirens blazing frantically. The officer yelled at us to spread our arms wider and lie face down on the cold, oil-covered concrete." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/23/184223/049 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 25 07:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 15:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Venezuela: The Great Anguish of George W. Bush Message-ID: <20050325150905.7115.qmail@resist.ca> "The following is an inexorable truth: the U.S. government does not know what to do with the Bolivarian government of President Chavez. Our revolution is too democratic, too humanistic, too profound and too transcendent; and is therefore beyond traditional capitalist analysis and beyond the comprehension of a government of a country where values revolve around individualism." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/24/114719/267 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 25 07:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 15:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Irish Republicanism at a Crossroads Message-ID: <20050325150904.7116.qmail@resist.ca> "(Northern Ireland's) Catholics and Protestants both celebrated the 1998 Good Friday (Peace) Agreement....With over thirty years of brutal violence during 'the Troubles' behind them, Catholics and Protestants both were eager to grasp any sign of peace. The Agreement, along with its accompanying ceasefire between pro-British (Loyalist or Unionist) and Republican forces, was to formally end sectarian violence, and provide a way to relax Britain's rule with a Northern Ireland Assembly. It was also supposed to end the racist laws used by the British government to persecute Catholics and deny them political and civil rights, supposedly on behalf of the Protestant majority....It proved to be an empty promise." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/24/18217/9517 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 25 07:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 15:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Isreal to build 3,500 new houses in West Bank Message-ID: <20050325150905.7119.qmail@resist.ca> MAALE ADUMIM, West Bank - "Israel has publicly confirmed plans to build 3,500 new housing units in the largest Jewish settlement in the West Bank, Maale Adumim, and Palestinians angrily responded that such an action would violate the Middle East peace plan and would be a major obstacle to resolving bitter disputes over nearby Jerusalem." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/24/61926/7549 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 25 07:09:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 15:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Alberta Fleeced by Enron Message-ID: <20050325150906.7124.qmail@resist.ca> Well you know the good ship of state in Alberta is teetering towards toppling and leaking like a sieve when its main propagandist gives it a good backhand slap. Edmonton Sun columnist Neil Waugh the apologist for all things Klein and Tory has thrown up his hands in disgust over the cover up by the government of the fleecing it got from Enron when it deregulated the energy market. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/23/145622/799 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 25 07:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 15:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Experts fear day when oil runs low - The Sacramento Bee Message-ID: <20050325150905.7118.qmail@resist.ca> "Within a couple of hours last week, crude oil prices hit a record $56 a barrel, President Bush fretted publicly over world oil shortages and the Senate voted to open an Alaskan wildlife refuge to drilling. The converging events drew attention to what administration officials call a temporary global energy crunch. But bigger worries also are bubbling to the surface - fears of a day of reckoning over world oil reserves." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/24/192736/755 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 25 07:09:05 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 15:09:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Let's flip reality: Blaming Indians for disappearing fish... Message-ID: <20050325150905.7123.qmail@resist.ca> "A parliamentary committee is expected today to cite unauthorized native fishing and federal mismanagement as two key reasons for the disappearance of up to 1.6 million sockeye salmon from the Fraser River last year. A draft copy of the House of Commons fisheries committee report, obtained Monday by The Vancouver Sun, rejects the original assertion of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) that unusually warm water temperatures on the Fraser were the likely cause of what the committee calls a 'major ecological disaster.'" URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/24/202310/955 From news at resist.ca Sat Mar 26 05:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 13:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Cuba, Venezuela News Agencies Sign Cooperation Pacts Message-ID: <20050326130903.23344.qmail@resist.ca> CARACAS (AP)--Venezuelan and Cuban officials signed a cooperation agreement Wednesday between the countries' news agencies controlled by the self-described "revolutionary" governments of Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/24/192045/838 From news at resist.ca Sat Mar 26 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Why Venezuela has voted again for their 'Negro e Indio' President Message-ID: <20050326140903.29698.qmail@resist.ca> Let's begin with this: 77% of Venezuela's farmland is owned by 3% of the population, the 'hacendados.' I met one of these farmlords in Caracas at an anti-Chavez protest march. Oddest demonstration I've ever seen: frosted blondes in high heels clutching designer bags, screeching, "Chavez - dic-ta-dor!" The plantation owner griped about the "socialismo" of Chavez, then jumped into his Jaguar convertible. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/25/135230/441 From news at resist.ca Sat Mar 26 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] The Sterilized Easter Bunny and His Plastic Eggs Message-ID: <20050326140903.29700.qmail@resist.ca> "...Most kids [...] could not tell you what the relationship between an Easter bunny and Easter is, would be my guess. Much less how the male bunny goes with a basket of eggs or how eggs fit into it all." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/10/13441/9121 From news at resist.ca Sat Mar 26 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Here come the Wobblies! Message-ID: <20050326140903.29702.qmail@resist.ca> In a labor battle with roots dating back 100 years, independent truckers and Starbucks employees are now joining the wild and contentious Wobblies On a fog-soaked December morning, near an Interstate 5 offramp on the outskirts of Stockton, about a dozen men huddled in a loose circle. Some wore the traditional long beards and Sikh turbans of their native India. The younger men were mostly clean-shaven and sported brand-name windbreakers. To the north was a truck dealership. To the south, shrouded in the fog, was a dog-food factory. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/25/212327/167 From news at resist.ca Sat Mar 26 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Residential Schools: edtorial from Windspeaker Message-ID: <20050326140903.29699.qmail@resist.ca> "In the first phase of the crime spree, children were beaten for speaking their own languages, for having their own culture, all in the name of the assimilation policy of the government. Innocent little kids were terrorized by the men and women of God. Some were left to the nonexistent mercy of pedophiles who found a comfortable, and easy place among them. The children were of a certain race, and to remove that race from the child, the government went to extreme lengths." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/26/5147/77966 From news at resist.ca Sat Mar 26 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] The Hitchhikers Guide to the Revolution Message-ID: <20050326140903.29704.qmail@resist.ca> What was important about this network of hitchhiking support was that it allowed thousands of people to move from city to city, protest to protest, with very little money. The mobilization effort to stop the war including having very flexible humans willing to dedicate themselves to the effort for long periods of time with little or no money. --- I will keep picking up hitchhikers, especially now that I heard that last week a young woman hitchhiking from the Redwoods was murdered near Brookings, Oregon. I will develop my knowing of when I am safe and keep picking up people on the roadside. And, I will find something I have in common with every person I meet. I will start from that point. And finally, I will talk about the war on Iraq and nature and I will listen. I don't have the answer for the way out of this war on the world, we all have it. And, we need to start listening to each other. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/24/224418/422 From news at resist.ca Sat Mar 26 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Bus riders say no to guns on skytrain Message-ID: <20050326140904.29705.qmail@resist.ca> Criminalization of bus riders on the increase in 2005 2005 has brought three attacks on bus riders in as many months. After raising bus fares and increasing fines by 270%, now TransLink Skytrain police will be carrying guns. TransLink's Special Constables are becoming the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority (GVTA) Police Service and will have the same powers as the RCMP, including bearing arms, and the power to detain and arrest people for outstanding warrants and arrest people on and off skytrain property. Their jurisdiction will include all parts of the transit system, including the buses. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/25/13553/8815 From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 28 06:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Let's Talk About Cuban Democracy Message-ID: <20050328140904.23008.qmail@resist.ca> The Island's reality has been so distorted around the world, that the rumor has run around that voting is not one of the rights Cubans have. The authorized opinion of Ricardo Alarcon de Quezada, President of the National Assembly of People's Power, whom we have been talking with several times about democracy and it's many aspects, reflects, analyzes and expands about that popular issue. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/25/144257/584 From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 28 06:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Thai government silencing refugee voices Message-ID: <20050328140904.23010.qmail@resist.ca> The Thai government is sticking by a March 31 deadline to relocate all urban-based refugees from Burma who have Person of Concern (POC) status from UNHCR. This is despite an obvious lack of resources to house the estimated 2000 refugees, and an inability to ensure their security. While the majority are being relocated to refugee camps on the Thai Burma border, refugees who will be resettled to third countries in April are being forced to go to Bangkok's Special Detention Centre. Children will also be detained there. Refugees who do not comply can face arrests, deportation and lose their chances of resettlement and all protection provided by UNHCR. This policy has drawn widespread anger from refugees and activist and human rights groups. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/26/62912/1220 From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 28 06:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Occupation is Not (Women's) Liberation Message-ID: <20050328140904.23009.qmail@resist.ca> "I have attempted to illuminate the stakes of feminist collusion in U.S. imperialism, by questioning which women the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan have aided, and attempting to demonstrate how these occupations have only helped solidify patriarchal interests. Violence and sexual assault, unemployment, and political marginalization in Iraq and Afghanistan are only some impacts of occupation that have been gendered - rendering the political forces and concerns affecting occupied men and women distinct, even potentially at odds. However, meaningful change must be built and can be claimed by Iraqi and Afghani women and people as their own - without compromising appeals to U.S. military might and economic dominance." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/27/175514/886 From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 28 06:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Northern strategy could trigger change for the North Message-ID: <20050328140905.23011.qmail@resist.ca> "Blondin-Andrew used the example of Sachs Harbour, a tiny community on the western point of Banks Island. She described the hamlet as 'inconsequential' now, but 'totally critical' as an entry-way to the Northwest Passage that could eventually become a shipping route." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/27/124133/965 From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 28 06:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] =?utf-8?q?Qu=C3=A9bec?= Students Strike, Occupy, Blockade Message-ID: <20050328140905.23012.qmail@resist.ca> "Over 230,000 students are now on strike in Quebec, in opposition to $103 million in cuts to bursary programs by Jean Charest's Liberal government. Other demands made by the students include an end to tuition hikes for international students, and "end the privatization of Universities and CEGEPs"." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/28/5446/28544 From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 28 06:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] CSIS studies anti-globalization forces Message-ID: <20050328140905.23014.qmail@resist.ca> OTTAWA (CP) - "Canada's spy agency believes the anti-globalization movement might be trading balaclavas for peace signs as it morphs into an anti-war alliance to rival that of the Vietnam era." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/26/12168/0148 From news at resist.ca Tue Mar 29 05:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Israel's Record is "Not Reassuring" Message-ID: <20050329130904.11367.qmail@resist.ca> "Palestinians are victims, and their rights, security and welfare should be the priority of the international community. Israel has no right to demand security from its victims; it lost that right the moment it breached international law when its tanks rolled onto Palestinian land....Shortly before his untimely death, Palestinian-American Professor Edward Said wrote in Al-Ahram Weekly: 'So far all we hear is that Palestinians must give up violence and condemn terror. Is nothing substantive ever demanded of Israel? Can it go on doing what it has without a thought for the consequences? That is the real question of its existence: Whether it can exist as a state like all others, or must always be above the constraints and duties of all other states in the world today. The record is not reassuring.'" URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/27/18532/6554 From news at resist.ca Tue Mar 29 05:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] A Practical Guide to Prisoner Support Message-ID: <20050329130904.11368.qmail@resist.ca> "Prisons are there to isolate people, so we must be actively keeping the link to the outside world open." Not long ago, someone in a Books for Prisoners program mailed me a small zine entitled, "A Practical Guide to Prisoner Support." The zine gives practical advice about writing prisoners and interacting with prisoners inside and outside prison walls, and lists prison activist networks. Many people are intimidated by the idea of writing someone they do not know in jail. People are not sure what to talk about, nor is the process for sending prisoners correspondence clear either. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/27/9255/23244 From news at resist.ca Tue Mar 29 05:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Radio Host Ditched by CBC During Alberta-Enron Investigation Message-ID: <20050329130904.11369.qmail@resist.ca> CBC Radio has terminated Don Hill as host of Wild Rose Forum, the popular province-wide public affairs show. It's a decision that has thousands of Albertans up in arms because it was announced just while Hill was investigating a connection between Enron and the Klein government. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/28/192423/261 From news at resist.ca Tue Mar 29 05:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Anti-war Movement Denial: Dishonesty Leads to Demobilization Message-ID: <20050329130905.11372.qmail@resist.ca> "I need a dream, a vision. So do you, anti-war activist, and that's the problem. Almost exactly a year ago, I (Macdonald) wrote an article called 'Is Ignorance our answer?' and to this day it seems that much of this point needs to be brought up and fleshed out all over again. A year ago, I was watching Noam Chomsky speak in Vancouver. This year I was listening to a few trade unionists speaking in Montreal, along with some of their allies in various good organizations: for example PAJU (Palestinian and Jewish Unity). Our numbers have gotten smaller, yet the global resistance has gotten larger. The situation is more stark globally speaking, but more of our people stay home. What's going on here?" URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/28/10549/8241 From news at resist.ca Tue Mar 29 05:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Pro-Life BMO Mastercard Message-ID: <20050329130905.11370.qmail@resist.ca> Here is something insidious, the Bank of Montreal (BMO) Mastercard has a co-sponsorship program for organizations in Canada. Its called the Mozaik program. It's latest partner is the Pro-Life movement, the Anti-Abortion fundamentalist fanatics who would deny a woman's right to choose. The credit card allows Lifecanada to collect fees from users. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/28/192719/041 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 30 05:09:02 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 13:09:02 -0000 Subject: [news] FBI Subpeonas flag.blackened.net, Imposes Gag Order Message-ID: <20050330130903.25134.qmail@resist.ca> Posted by Earth First! The Oakland FBI is demanding IP info to track down the individuals responsible for alleged terrorist commentary on Infoshop, an anarchist open publishing news website. Dave is the administrator of the host server, flag.blackened.net. Here is his response to the subpeonas and gag order imposed on him. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/29/164554/966 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 30 06:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 14:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] 58 Bullets for Every Iraqi Adult and Child Message-ID: <20050330140904.993.qmail@resist.ca> "I heard that the US military had purchased 1,500,000,000 bullets for use in the coming year. That is 58 bullets for every Iraqi adult and child." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/30/54359/2670 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 30 06:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 14:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Students in Quebec turn up the heat Message-ID: <20050330140905.1000.qmail@resist.ca> Port blockade ends in six arrests. Protesters throw rocks at riot police. Barricades snarl rush-hour traffic; more disruptions promised for today About 200 protesters spent the morning behind barricades of old clothing, tires and other rubbish erected to block traffic outside a Port entrance at Notre Dame and Boucherville Sts. Slogans like "the social peace is over" were emblazoned on the road in orange spraypaint. The protest was the first event in the CASSEE's so-called "economic disruption week," which is expected to continue this afternoon with a surprise activity. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/29/13312/6873 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 30 06:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 14:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Nicaraguan Banana Workers Dying from Pesticides Message-ID: <20050330140904.994.qmail@resist.ca> "[A] delegation [of American students] visited a protest camp [in Nicaragua] of several thousand banana and sugar cane farmers who have been lethally infected by the chemical Nemagon. Nemagon is a virulent pesticide used in banana and sugar cane plantations in Central America, the Caribbean, and the Philippines. Approximately 5000 protesters, who are living in makeshift tents of black plastic and sticks across the street from the National Assembly, say that they will not leave until their government has acted justly by recognizing the horrible conditions in which they've been left to die, covering their burgeoning medical costs, and discontinuing the use of all pesticides that contain Nemagon." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/30/5400/18890 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 30 06:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 14:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Canadian Mining CEO is Panama Swindler Message-ID: <20050330140904.995.qmail@resist.ca> Petaquilla Minerals chairman-CEO steps aside temporarily due to legal issues Richard Fifer the chairman and chief executive of Petaquilla Minerals Ltd. has stepped aside temporarily due to an investigation into allegations of irregularities while he was the governor of Panama's Cocle province. Petaquilla is a Canadian-based mineral explorer focused on developing a property in north-central Panama containing copper, gold, silver and molybdenum, a specialty industrial metal. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/30/51342/7890 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 30 06:09:04 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 14:09:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Right to Life=Right to Work Message-ID: <20050330140905.996.qmail@resist.ca> Those on the right who oppose gay marriage also oppose a womans right to choose abortion, they also oppose publicly funded day care and a living wage for day care workers. They also oppose unions and while not saying it outright they support "right to work" laws, those that would end 'forced unionization' in the work place the ending of the Rand Formula. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/28/191849/902 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 31 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Tens of Thousands Demonstrate in Haiti Message-ID: <20050331140903.9765.qmail@resist.ca> Tens of thousands of Fanmi Lavalas supporters demonstrate in Port-au-Prince to commemorate the 18 years that the Constitution has been in effect Port-au-Prince, March 29, 2005 (AHP)- "Several tens of thousands of supporters of Fanmi Lavalas demonstrated this Tuesday in the populist district of Bel-Air to call for an end to the violations of the Constitution of 1987 and for the return of democratic government, which was interrupted, they said, by the sudden departure of President Aristide on February 29, 2004." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/30/231646/025 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 31 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Dixie Anarchists Fight Attacks on Homeless Message-ID: <20050331140903.9766.qmail@resist.ca> "(The Unemployed Worker's Union) will make an example of Dennis & the Gourmet shop to show that attacks on the poor and homeless will no longer be tolerated. We will organize ourselves for our own interests, outside the control of politicians and businessmen. We have nothing to gain by capitalist-oriented development of the city, and we will resist the encroachment from those who stand to profit by increasing our misery." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/30/174656/996 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 31 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Forestry Hacks Point to "Consultation Process" with Pride Message-ID: <20050331140904.9768.qmail@resist.ca> The Abitibi-Consolidated owned Kenora Daily Miner and News published a story today entitled "Few objections so far to Kenora Forest harvest plan" which makes the bold and dubious claim that little opposition has surfaced to the 2006-2011 clear-cutting plan for the Kenora area which has been cooked up by government and industry officials. Have they failed to notice the over two-year long ongoing logging blockade in Grassy Narrows in response to the plan's predecessor, Abitibi's "Whiskey Jack Forest management plan"? Did they miss that many First Nations have taken to boycotting "consultations" after decades of being ignored when they've come to raise their concerns? No, the Kenora paper has noticed. Buried inside the article we find that all First Nations bodies have dropped out of the planning process, and that "there is also no First Nations representation on the local citizens committee." But the overall tone is one of relief; as long as natives aren't participating, industry can churn out PR assuring us that there was very little opposition to the plan, and that it was well received by the community. It's time to join our voices with those of the Anishinabek to protect the land, and to give the state-corporate industrial machine a whole lot more to worry about. URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/30/10112/4634 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 31 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] U.S. Troops Storm Hospital Message-ID: <20050331140903.9767.qmail@resist.ca> "US soldiers have stormed a women and children's hospital in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, a hospital director says....Dr Ahmad Ibrahim, the assistant director of the city's paediatric hospital, told Aljazeera on Saturday that the soldiers entered the hospital on Friday after an explosion on Ramadi's main road." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/30/173324/667 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 31 06:09:03 2005 From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca) Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:09:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Haida seize Weyerhaeuser timber Message-ID: <20050331140904.9769.qmail@resist.ca> "Haida Indians say they have seized a large quantity of cut timber from Weyerhaeuser for alleged breach of contract. 'We hope we can use this money to get hospitals here ... and all our schools are in debt because they've been funded like everywhere else in the province,' said Guujaaw, president of the Council of the Haida Nation." URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/30/213816/285