From news at resist.ca  Sun May  1 06:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 13:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] FARC Wins Militarily, but Loses "Politically"
Message-ID: <20050501131704.12842.qmail@resist.ca>

"The attack (by the FARC) directly in the heart of Proyecto Nasa, winner of the National Peace Prize, symbol of nonviolent resistance to war, is not only a violation of indigenous autonomy, built over many years of communal processes: it is also a violation of the right of the civilian population to not be involved in hostilities. The FARC has once again made itself look like Uribe's government, which also does not want to recognize the Peace Community of San Jose de Apartado and its decision for `active neutrality'."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/30/16611/5111


From news at resist.ca  Sun May  1 06:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 13:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Isn't Marriage Queer? A Socialist Take on Same-Sex Unions
Message-ID: <20050501131704.12844.qmail@resist.ca>

"For many on the left, the bill marks a significant step forward, clearing the way for queers to be fully accepted into society. Others argue that demanding such acceptance is more accurately viewed as capitulating to the cultural norms and institutions of a patriarchal capitalist society, and a step backward from the sexual radicalism that once characterized the movement for queer liberation. We should be knocking down pillars of the current social order, critics argue, not rapping on the system's doors, asking to be let in. Such a critique is powerful, and has the merit of keeping the broader goals of the movement for radical change in plain sight. It doesn't engage, however, at the level on which the debate is actually occurring."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/28/7654/15421


From news at resist.ca  Sun May  1 06:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 13:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] The Fourth World is Right Here: Surviving the Nation Called
	Canada
Message-ID: <20050501131704.12848.qmail@resist.ca>

Regular readers of Resist! will know of Macdonald Stainsby's passion for the north. The people, and the land that have been under attack since the arrival of European colonizers. As a regular contributor to this news wire, he has been dedicated to bringing awareness to "Canada's" Indigenous peoples' struggles on issues of sovereignty, resource extraction and environmental devastation. He has brought to light stories that are shaping our history but are simply not given the weight they deserve in other media. Macdonald will combine his love for the north with his love for hitchhiking this summer as he heads out across the Canadian State in an effort to further explore and expose the stories hidden from most people. Follow his journey here, and at his website, Surviving Canada throughout the summer and consider financially supporting this important effort. Below is the announcement of his trip plan.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/30/83744/1587


From news at resist.ca  Sun May  1 06:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 13:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Protesters take fight to courthouse lawn
Message-ID: <20050501131704.12845.qmail@resist.ca>

While two Tsimshian men are on trial and facing upto $50,000 in fines and one year in prison for picking an endangered shellfish, others are protesting outside the courthouse saying the DFO has mismanaged the resource and that they should have controll of the abalone stock which has fed their people for centuries.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/1/54946/50479


From news at resist.ca  Sun May  1 08:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 15:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Happy May Day!
Message-ID: <20050501151703.19987.qmail@resist.ca>

THE EFFORT to win "eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, and eight hours for what we will" became a crusade for U.S. labor in the years after the Civil War of 1861-65. Many people hoped to win shorter hours through reform laws, and by the 1870s, several states and a number of cities had passed eight-hour legislation. But these proved to be empty promises--filled with loopholes and routinely ignored by employers, leaving workers with nowhere to turn to get them enforced. Under the influence of the growing socialist movement in the U.S., labor turned to more militant tactics. "The way to get [the eight-hour day]," Peter McGuire of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners wrote in 1882, "is by organization...We want an enactment by the workingmen themselves that on a given day, eight hours should constitute a day's work, and they ought to enforce it themselves."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/1/74238/81499


From news at resist.ca  Mon May  2 06:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 13:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Mike Lebowitz on May Day in Caracas
Message-ID: <20050502131704.1334.qmail@resist.ca>

"I marched for several hours today in the May Day march with workers from Alcasa, the state aluminum company, and other workers from state companies in the state of Bolivar. Well, 'march' is not quite an accurate way to describe the stop-start pattern of our progress. In fact, far better to describe it as a street party, which occasionally lurched forward when streams of marchers coming from other streets lessened: infectious dance music blared from the sound truck leading us, and dancing was occurring throughout the crowd--- most impressively from two older women and a man (occasionally joined by others) in front, who periodically shared the microphone to lead us in chants. The main chant, which everyone happily shouted, was 'Without co-management, you cannot have a revolution!'"

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/1/224447/8182


From news at resist.ca  Mon May  2 06:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 13:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Gaza and the Fragmentation of Palestinian Nationhood: The
	Disengaged
Message-ID: <20050502131704.1333.qmail@resist.ca>

"In a recent editorial typical of the commentary on events in Israel/Palestine, The New York Times counseled us that "it would be churlish to greet [Sharon's] historic decision with anything other than enthusiasm. The prime minister has risked enormous political capital in boldly going where his predecessors feared to tread: agreeing to evacuate settlements without first wringing something out of the Palestinians." On this latter point the New York Times' editors agree with Sharon's chief rival, Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who condemns "disengagement" on the grounds that it exacts no concessions from the Palestinians. Most of the "pro-Israel" camp in the US is agreed that Israel has taken a significant step towards peace by unilaterally relinquishing Gaza, a step that apparently justifies the Bush-Sharon agreement of April 2004 effectively allowing Israel to annex its largest West Bank settlements, referred to as "major Israeli population centers"."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/2/41656/28375


From news at resist.ca  Mon May  2 06:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 13:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] No Lifeblood for Oil
Message-ID: <20050502131704.1336.qmail@resist.ca>

"Near the town of Peace River in northern Alberta is the 10,000 square kilometer Lubicon Lake First Nation traditional territory -- home to about 500 Crees. When the abundance of resources -- in particular, heavy oil -- became apparent on Lubicon traditional territory, the Alberta provincial government began to sell the resource rights to multinational corporations. -- A short time ago the Lubicon subsisted from the land. The Ottawa-based group Outaouais Lubicon Solidarity describes the change: "Between 1979 and 1983, annual trapping income dropped 90%. The number of moose killed for food dropped 90% and the number of people on welfare jumped from 10% to over 90%."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/1/232557/8263


From news at resist.ca  Mon May  2 06:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 13:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] ISM Dispatch: anti-Wall demo attacked by military
Message-ID: <20050502131704.1335.qmail@resist.ca>

"The Israeli military did not produce a closed military area warrant and so had no legal grounds to disperse the demonstration. The confrontation then escalated to stone throwing from some of the Palestinian youth, and Israeli soldiers began shooting live rounds in the direction of the protesters."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/2/53043/10593


From news at resist.ca  Mon May  2 06:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 13:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Tahltan elders continue occupation
Message-ID: <20050502131704.1337.qmail@resist.ca>

About a month ago, I wrote an article about how the Tahltan elders were occupying the office of the Indian Act Cheif, Jerry Asp over his conflict of interest in handing over the resouces of the band to a company he directs as well as to other oil and mining multi-nationals. The elders were passionate about defending their traditional lands against those that would sell them off to the highest bidder for the sake of profit. I was skeptical when sent a press release from the Asp camp stating that the issues had been resolved with the support of the elders. Today, the situation has been clarified as the elders have sent out their own relase stating that they are indeed continuing the occupation, and that this "Elders Gathering" was scheduled during a mourning period when they would not be able to attend and did not have their support. Both press releases follow.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/2/53649/10625


From news at resist.ca  Tue May  3 02:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 09:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Russian Leader Signals he's Ready to Resume Moscow's Role as
	Palestinian's Chief Patron
Message-ID: <20050503091703.4109.qmail@resist.ca>

Jerusalem -- "In what could mark the rebirth of a Cold War alliance of interests, Russian President Vladimir Putin offered aid and military equipment yesterday to Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, who welcomed the Russian leader as 'a precious friend and comrade.' Capping off his historic tour of the Middle East, which included the first visit by a Russian or Soviet leader to Israel and the Palestinian territories, Mr. Putin made it plain that he wants Moscow to resume its historic role as chief patron to the Palestinians."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/2/6916/17093


From news at resist.ca  Tue May  3 06:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 13:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Slipping Gordon Campbell a Pink One
Message-ID: <20050503131706.22259.qmail@resist.ca>

VANCOUVER - Pop-culture, pink-wigged sensations, the Pink Slips have released their latest single and music video "Fifty Lies We're Told By Liberals" to heavy rotation on http://pink-slips.com/. "Gordo and his BC Lie-berals broke so many promises from the last election that we needed to write a song about it to keep count," said Pink Diva, Gordina. Although she admitted that the official count of fifty lies had not been scientifically verified in a double blind trial.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/3/54132/32892


From news at resist.ca  Tue May  3 06:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 13:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] "Mock" BC Election Website Test-Drives STV
Message-ID: <20050503131706.22260.qmail@resist.ca>

"What if the upcoming election were run using the Single Transferable Vote system? What would the ballot look like?  How would your vote count? A new website, bc.demochoice.org, hopes to answer these questions by inviting all British Columbians to try out BC-STV in a simulated version of the upcoming provincial election."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/3/53833/96950


From news at resist.ca  Tue May  3 07:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 14:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Navajo President to Sign Historic Uranium Mining Ban
Message-ID: <20050503141704.10712.qmail@resist.ca>

"The President's signing of the first Navajo Nation law ever enacted banning uranium mining and processing in 'Navajo Indian Country' will take place in front of the Chapter House water station where thousands of people haul water from every year."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/3/63249/50547


From news at resist.ca  Wed May  4 02:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 09:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Pentagon Screw-Up Reveals "Classified" Document
Message-ID: <20050504091706.18476.qmail@resist.ca>

"In an incredible online cock-up, the full details of a classified US military report into the shooting of Italian secret agent Nicola Calipari in Iraq have been made widely and publicly available. The error was caused by the US military itself, which posted an unclassified version of the report on the internet as a PDF file with large chunks blacked out. However, the Pentagon had failed to save the file with the edit lines in place so a simple copy-and-paste of the document into a word processing application revealed the report in full."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/3/162631/6986


From news at resist.ca  Wed May  4 02:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 09:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] A Tale of Two Demonstrations
Message-ID: <20050504091706.18477.qmail@resist.ca>

"The day before yesterday, two demonstrations were held, just a few dozen kilometers apart....One took place at the Homesh settlement, not far from Jenin. Tens of thousands of settlers and their sympathizers came to demonstrate against the planned evacuation of this settlement....Hundreds of soldiers and policemen were stationed along the route to protect (these) demonstrators against all eventualities....At the same time, another demonstration took place at Bil'in, west of Ramallah. The inhabitants of that and the neighboring villages, together with Israeli peace activists, demonstrated against the "Separation Fence" that is being put up on their land....This demonstration was savagely attacked by soldiers and policemen, who assaulted them, beat, injured and arrested them, using old and new weapons. The security people, as the Hebrew expression goes, 'had murder in their eyes'."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/4/1215/45533


From news at resist.ca  Wed May  4 02:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 09:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Exposing the Fraud - PhRMAcare
Message-ID: <20050504091707.18478.qmail@resist.ca>

Dangers of Psychiatric Drugs (AAL Series 1 - 11 Archived) Dear AAL Family Network, Friends, Supporters, and Loved ones: THE SHOW MANY OF YOU HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR IS NOW HERE! -This Thursday Night - May 05, 2005 - 5:00pm -6:00pm PST AAL Series:  Dangers of Psychiatric Drugs Part 11 AAL Talk Radio Presents Guest Legend Dr. Thomas Szasz ALSO...

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/3/122733/8652


From news at resist.ca  Wed May  4 02:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 09:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Mackenzie Pipeline Challenged
Message-ID: <20050504091707.18479.qmail@resist.ca>

"A trio of environmental groups is asking the federal and territorial governments to fess up about the real implications of the proposed Mackenzie Gas Project. The Sierra Club of Canada, Ecology North and the Arctic Indigenous Youth Alliance charge that the pipeline will cripple Canada's attempt to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to meet Kyoto targets by 2010."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/3/1998/11953


From news at resist.ca  Wed May  4 02:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 09:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Censorship in the Okanagan: City of Kelowna Shuts Down Video
	Screening/Commission
Message-ID: <20050504091707.18481.qmail@resist.ca>

KELOWNA, BC: Censorship in the Okanagan; City of Kelowna cancels the premiere screening of Temporal Transmissions, an innovative video compilation commissioned by the City of Kelowna as a Centennial public art project that was to be inaugurated at the Mary Irwin Theatre, Rotary Centre for the Arts. In lieu of this cancellation, an alternative screening will be held next door at the Alternator Gallery, 421 Cawston Ave., same day and time as originally planned, Wed. May 4th, 8:00PM.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/4/02240/97803


From news at resist.ca  Wed May  4 10:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 17:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] 
	Rift between Tahltan Elders and &quot; elected officials&quot; grows
Message-ID: <20050504171704.10574.qmail@resist.ca>

Sit-in at Telegraph Creek to Continue In response to a misleading press release from the Tahltan Central Council, issued on April 25, the Tahltan Elders from the sit-in at the Band office in Telegraph Creek wish to present their side of what happened at the April 23-25 Special Elders Gathering of the Tahltan Nation.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/4/71242/06825


From news at resist.ca  Thu May  5 01:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 08:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] No Right to Use the Bathroom in "Democratic" Israel
Message-ID: <20050505081703.23010.qmail@resist.ca>

"Learned helplessness stemming from a sense of lost control over the environment has been associated with depression and the intensification of physical problems. Is it the Israeli occupation's main objective to teach the Palestinians to be helpless, depressed and subjecting us to physical-mental problem(s)?"

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/3/22596/14709


From news at resist.ca  Thu May  5 02:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 09:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] State Senator Calls Out Drug Industry;
	Wants Accounting of Firms' Expenses
Message-ID: <20050505091703.29915.qmail@resist.ca>

Pasadena Star-News By Gary Scott, Staff Writer; Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - PASADENA -- California now spends more than $4 billion a year on prescription drugs, and one Democratic law maker says it is time for the companies reaping the profits to make an accounting. Sen. Jack Scott, D-Pasadena, has introduced a bill that would require pharmaceutical companies doing business with the state to reveal how much they spend on marketing each year relative to what they spend on research. Scott said the state has the right to know if sky rocketing drug prices are due to massive investments in research, as the pharmaceutical companies contend, or massive investments in television advertising to sell the popular medications.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/4/122349/3113


From news at resist.ca  Thu May  5 02:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 09:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Anti-fence Demonstrators Chain Themselves to Olive Trees in
	Bil'in
Message-ID: <20050505091703.29917.qmail@resist.ca>

"Activists from the 'Anarchists Against the Fence' movement chained themselves to olive trees near the West Bank village of Bil'in on Wednesday in a bid to prevent their removal to make way for the separation fence."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/4/133849/3373


From news at resist.ca  Thu May  5 02:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 09:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Hundreds of HIV+ Foster Children in NYC Subjected to
	Experimental Drug Trials
Message-ID: <20050505091703.29916.qmail@resist.ca>

* Hundreds of HIV+ Foster Children in NYC Subjected to Experimental Drug Trials New York City's child welfare department opens an investigation into whether they forced HIV positive children in foster care to submit to experimental AIDS drug trials. We (Democracy Now with Amy Goodman) speak with the commissioner for New York's Administration for Children's Services, New York City councilman Bill Perkins and Vera Sharav of the Alliance for Human Research Protection.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/4/152942/7005


From news at resist.ca  Thu May  5 02:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 09:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] U.S. Troops Accused of Arming Colombian Death Squads
Message-ID: <20050505091703.29918.qmail@resist.ca>

"Colombian police arrested two U.S. soldiers for alleged involvement in a plot to smuggle thousands of rounds of ammunition -- possibly to outlawed right-wing death squads, authorities said today."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/4/184420/3415


From news at resist.ca  Fri May  6 01:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 08:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Oil Giant Admits Nigeria Aid Woes
Message-ID: <20050506081703.2340.qmail@resist.ca>

"Giant US oil firm Chevron-Texaco is to change the way it distributes aid in Nigeria amid fears the present system is stoking conflict."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/4/184219/6406


From news at resist.ca  Fri May  6 01:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 08:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Ganienkeh Must be Treated as Sovereign, Spokesman Insists
Message-ID: <20050506081704.2345.qmail@resist.ca>

"We are not a tax-exempt people, said Tekarontake, a spokesman for the Mohawk community in Altona. We are non-taxable. We are not New York state citizens; we are not U.S. citizens."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/5/154228/2942


From news at resist.ca  Fri May  6 01:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 08:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Brazil Turns Down U.S. AIDS Funds
Message-ID: <20050506081703.2342.qmail@resist.ca>

"AIDS campaigners have welcomed a decision by Brazil to turn down US funds because of a clause in the agreement condemning prostitution."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/4/18232/51891


From news at resist.ca  Fri May  6 01:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 08:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Israeli Spy Ring Exposed
Message-ID: <20050506081703.2341.qmail@resist.ca>

"The inquiry has cast a cloud over the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which employed the two men who are said to have received the classified information from Mr. Franklin. The group, also known as AIPAC, has close ties to senior policymakers in the Bush administration, among them Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who is expected to appear later this month at the group's annual meeting. The investigation has proven awkward as well for a group of conservative Republicans, who held high-level civilian jobs at the Pentagon during President Bush's first term and the buildup toward the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and who were also close to AIPAC."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/5/184259/4638


From news at resist.ca  Fri May  6 01:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 08:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Yvon Neptune Nears Death
Message-ID: <20050506081704.2343.qmail@resist.ca>

"The IGH has chosen a precarious place to take this stand. (Yvon) Neptune was arrested pursuant to a valid warrant last June 27 (he turned himself in when he heard about it on the radio), but since then the government has not taken even the first step in prosecuting the case against him. Although Haiti's constitution requires that a judge confirm any detention within forty-eight hours, 155 forty-eight hour periods have elapsed without Neptune seeing the judge on his case."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/5/184732/3403


From news at resist.ca  Fri May  6 02:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 09:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Colombia Hands Over U.S. Soldiers
Message-ID: <20050506091703.10666.qmail@resist.ca>

"Colombia has handed over to the US two American soldiers suspected of trafficking weapons to paramilitaries. The United States said the allegations were 'extremely troubling' and would be investigated fully."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/5/184352/6645


From news at resist.ca  Fri May  6 02:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 09:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Colombian Traffickers Still Provide 90% of Cocaine in the
	U.S.
Message-ID: <20050506091703.10665.qmail@resist.ca>

Five years and $3 billion into the most aggressive counternarcotics operation ever here, U.S. and Colombian officials say they have eradicated a record-breaking area of coca plants. Yet cocaine remains as available as ever on American streets, perhaps more so.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/5/112416/4338


From news at resist.ca  Fri May  6 06:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 13:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Ottawa to "re-examine" responsibility for social costs of
	pipeline
Message-ID: <20050506131704.2111.qmail@resist.ca>

Earlier this week, Imperial Oil said they were suspending the development process of the planned Mackenzie Valley pipeline. This article shows how this -- as feared by those fighting the destruction of their land -- may have been a ploy to get the 'Canadian' government to step in and clear the way of pesky regulations that may impede Imperial's ability to exploit resources for profit, at any cost. "Ottawa will re-examine who should be responsible for the social costs of building a Mackenzie Valley pipeline, a federal official said Wednesday after meetings on how to get the $7 billion project moving again."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/6/52650/05313


From news at resist.ca  Sat May  7 12:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 19:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Plight of Turkey's Kurds Ignored by West
Message-ID: <20050507191704.7690.qmail@resist.ca>

"The plight of the Kurdish people is one that has been in the news recently. Supporters of the War on Iraq are quick to point out that the Kurds, who suffered heavily under the rule of Saddam Hussein, are now better off. But you don't hear much....about the Kurds who live in Turkey - who have been victimised by widespread acts of State violence that include extra-judicial killings, torture, large-scale destruction of homes, forced evacuations, and the denial of basic human rights- such as the right to speak their own language or even call themselves Kurds....You see Turkey, as friends of the west, like Saudi Arabia and Israel, can do no wrong despite massive human rights abuses in their countries, while 'enemies' like Iran and Syria have the threat of military invasion never far away for behaving in much the same way but not towing the Western line."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/6/17597/38819


From news at resist.ca  Sat May  7 12:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 19:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] U.S. Raises Bounty on Assata Shakur to $1 Million
Message-ID: <20050507191705.7691.qmail@resist.ca>

"The former Black Panther and Black Liberation Army member was granted political asylum in Cuba after being broken out of jail by supporters in 1979. This might also signal an increase of US aggression against Cuba."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/6/155510/6190


From news at resist.ca  Sat May  7 12:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 19:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] KELOWNA, BC: Censorship in the Okanagan
Message-ID: <20050507191706.7695.qmail@resist.ca>

"City of Kelowna cancels the premiere screening of Temporal Transmissions, an innovative video compilation commissioned by the City of Kelowna..." "This videotape, "untitled part 4: terra incognita", by Jayce Salloum features members of the Westbank/Okanagan First Nations speaking frankly about the history of "contact" including the legacies of the residential school system and relations with the settlement history."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/7/115845/1478


From news at resist.ca  Sun May  8 05:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 12:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Venezuela asks U.S. to hand over a Cuban wanted in plane
	bombing
Message-ID: <20050508121704.17311.qmail@resist.ca>

"Challenging the United States to make good on its pledge to hunt down terrorists, Venezuela on Thursday formally requested the extradition of a radical Cuban exile [Luis Posada Carriles] who is reportedly hiding in Florida and is wanted here in connection with an airline bombing that killed 73 people." "Posada is a Bay of Pigs veteran and collaborated with the Central Intelligence Agency in numerous attempts to depose Cuban President Fidel Castro. He is wanted in Venezuela in the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner en route from Caracas to Havana."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/7/201924/6749


From news at resist.ca  Sun May  8 05:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 12:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Fascism Grows in USA by the Minute
Message-ID: <20050508121705.17312.qmail@resist.ca>

"You may wonder why anyone would try to use the word "fascism" in a serious discussion of where America is today. It sounds like cheap name-calling, or melodramatic allusion to a slew of old war movies. But I am serious. I don't mean it as name-calling at all. I mean to persuade you that the style of governing into which America has slid is most accurately described as fascism, and that the necessary implications of this fact are rightly regarded as terrifying."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/4/1356/48414


From news at resist.ca  Sun May  8 05:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 12:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Interview With First U.S. Navy War Resister: Pablo Paredes
Message-ID: <20050508121705.17313.qmail@resist.ca>

On May 11, 2005, Pablo Paredes, a U.S. Navy Petty Officer, 3rd Class, will face very serious charges, including a court martial, from the U.S government for refusing to fight in the Iraq war. In Dec. 2004, Pablo refused to board a Navy ship as it left San Diego, Ca., becoming the first Navy personnel to openly refuse to cooperate with the U.S. military actions in Iraq. Pablo tried to submit a conscientious objector (CO) file, but the file was dismissed as not meeting proper criteria, leaving Pablo inevitably vulnerable to prosecution. I interviewed Pablo by email on May 6, 2005.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/7/15254/89407


From news at resist.ca  Sun May  8 05:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 12:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Proof Bush Fixed The Facts
Message-ID: <20050508121705.17315.qmail@resist.ca>

In emotionless English, Dearlove tells Blair and the others that President Bush has decided to remove Saddam Hussein by launching a war that is to be "justified by the conjunction of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction." Period. What about the intelligence? Dearlove adds matter-of-factly, "The intelligence and facts are being fixed around the policy." At this point, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw confirms that Bush has decided on war, but notes that stitching together justification would be a challenge, since "the case was thin." Straw noted that Saddam was not threatening his neighbors and his WMD capability was less than that of Libya, North Korea or Iran.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/7/203555/4018


From news at resist.ca  Sun May  8 06:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 13:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] The Arar case: Too secretive, but we can't say why
Message-ID: <20050508131705.23840.qmail@resist.ca>

"Last year, Arar commissioner Mr. Justice Dennis O'Connor appointed Ronald Atkey as amicus curiae (friend of the court) at the Arar investigation. Mr. Atkey -- a lawyer, former cabinet minister and first chair of the Security Intelligence Review Committee -- was asked to test the federal government's request to limit disclosure at the investigation on grounds of national security. Civil-rights groups say Ottawa and the commission are limiting disclosure too zealously. What follows is adapted from Mr. Atkey's submissions to the commission on May 3."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/7/201034/5025


From news at resist.ca  Sun May  8 06:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 13:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] SNC-Lavalin CEO doesn't know what happens to all those
	bullets
Message-ID: <20050508131705.23841.qmail@resist.ca>

SNC-Lavalin CEO says he doesn't know and has no way of finding out who uses all those fancy bullets they produce. Apparently, the way these things work is that SNC notices their sales are up last month and starts putting more bullets out on the shelves in hardware stores in Washington where anonymous people purchase them, presumably for dear hunting or target practice. Apparently, even when you buy those really big boxes of amo, the ones with 300-500 million bullets in them, they don't bother to ask your name so that they might send you a Christmas card or a thank you note.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/7/203256/4890


From news at resist.ca  Mon May  9 06:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 13:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Alberta's next CEO
Message-ID: <20050509131705.16678.qmail@resist.ca>

http://plawiuk.blogspot.com/2005/05/albertas-next-ceo.html Will he? Won't he? When will he? Who Cares! Bring on our new CEO King Ralph is playing coy about when he will actually abdicate, err resign. Pundits say after the Queen comes and Alberta celebrates its one hundred years of Solitude, he will step down. Others say maybe in 2006. Ralph says 'Nah', maybe 2008. Oh he is such a kidder our Fuerher. He doesn't want to be overshadowed in our Centennial Year by a leadership race. Even though one is already happening in the Tory backrooms.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/8/65516/57994


From news at resist.ca  Mon May  9 06:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 13:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Open Letter from Assata Shakur
Message-ID: <20050509131705.16680.qmail@resist.ca>

"My name is Assata Shakur, and I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from the political repression, racism and violence that dominate the US government's policy towards people of color. I am an ex-political prisoner, and I have been living in exile in Cuba since 1984."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/8/85459/34867


From news at resist.ca  Mon May  9 06:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 13:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Happy Mothers Day: Real Wages for Housework
Message-ID: <20050509131705.16679.qmail@resist.ca>

http://redbetweenthelines.modblog.com/?show=blogview&blog_id=590087 Mom's labour worth $163,852 (Canadian) Motherhood may indeed be its own reward, but that isn't stopping labour analysts from putting a price tag on stay-at-home parenting. And if their estimates are correct, Mother's Day is going to cost a lot more in compensation than a box of chocolates.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/8/72129/81890


From news at resist.ca  Mon May  9 06:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 13:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] 26 years to life for cheating on a driver's license test
Message-ID: <20050509131705.16682.qmail@resist.ca>

One of the most egregious examples of injustice under the three-strikes law is the case of Santos Reyes, who was sentenced to 26 years to life for cheating on a driver's license test. Reyes took the test for his illiterate cousin. "I felt like I needed to help him because he was going to work with me as a roofer, and he needed a California driver's license first," he said.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/8/20620/67880


From news at resist.ca  Mon May  9 06:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 13:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Scandal in the Alberta Stock Exchange
Message-ID: <20050509131706.16684.qmail@resist.ca>

Welcome to the Alberta Reich. Once again, Herr Klein has allowed the fox to run the hen house. In doing so the all too predictable has happened. Instead of admitting that provincial regulation (or non regulation ) of the Alberta stock exchange is a FAILURE and a SCANDAL of insider trading proportions. The Alberta Reichstadt circles the wagons in defense of its own, while Ralph goes golfing.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/8/7130/88703


From news at resist.ca  Mon May  9 06:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 13:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] The Top 5 Things I Need When I Am Homeless
Message-ID: <20050509131705.16683.qmail@resist.ca>

I am going through homelessness in America yet again, due to being borne into the non-land owning caste, and class prejudice that is unconscionable. And as I battle through this insane maze that defies logic and humanity, putting profits before people and their right to dignity, I am identifying certain reoccurring needs throughout these repeating homelessness cycles in life. My current needs are 1) Daily Storage, 2) Phone Contact, 3) Privacy, 4) Daily Space I Am Allowed to Be In, and 5) Access to Bathrooms. Those are the things I need just to survive and stay homeless. To actually obtain housing, I also need access to a never ending stream of $40 application fees, and some land owner who will rent to someone with a perfect rental history for the last 5+ years, but who has bad credit.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/8/92421/14983


From news at resist.ca  Mon May  9 06:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 13:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Iraq and the Cynical Silence of the NDP and Greens
Message-ID: <20050509131706.16685.qmail@resist.ca>

"Seven weeks ago (New Democratic Party) leader Carole James and Green Party leader Adriane Carr were emailed information regarding the $4.6 billion in (British Columbia) pension funds that have been invested in corporations producing, among other things, the munitions, missiles, landmines, cluster bombers, attack choppers, tanks, fighters and depleted uranium weapons for use by U.S. armed forces in their occupation of Iraq....On April 26, James and Carr were mailed a registered letter signed by 14 individuals asking for (them) to clarify the NDP's position in regard to divestment of these funds, and ending BC's complicity in the occupation of Iraq....There has been no formal response from James or Carr yet, but the position of both is increasingly clear from their echoing silence."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/8/205041/0886


From news at resist.ca  Tue May 10 02:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 09:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] "Reporters without Borders" Admits it's a U.S. Front
Message-ID: <20050510091703.20205.qmail@resist.ca>

"The secretary general of Reporters without Borders acknowledges that his organization is financed by the United States."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/9/21432/58835


From news at resist.ca  Tue May 10 02:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 09:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Gitmo Soldier Talks Of Torture
Message-ID: <20050510091703.20204.qmail@resist.ca>

"Erik Saar, an Arabic speaker who was a translator in interrogation sessions, has produced a searing first-hand account of working at Guantnamo (Bay). It will prove a damaging blow to a White House still struggling to recover from the abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq. In an exclusive interview, Saar told The Observer that prisoners were physically assaulted by 'snatch squads' and subjected to sexual interrogation techniques and that the Geneva Conventions were deliberately ignored by the US military."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/8/52155/16197


From news at resist.ca  Tue May 10 02:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 09:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Vigilante Men
Message-ID: <20050510091703.20206.qmail@resist.ca>

"Vigilantes have always been to the American West what the Ku Klux Klan was to the South: vicious and cowardly bigotry organized into a self-righteous mob. Almost every decade, some sinister group of self-proclaimed patriots mobilizes to repel a new invasion from some subversive threat or other....The most publicized of today's vigilantes, of course, are the so-called Minutemen....The Tombstone, Arizona-based group is the latest incarnation of the anti-immigrant patrols that have plagued the borderlands for more than a decade. Vowing to defend national sovereignty against the Brown Peril, a series of shadowy paramilitary groups, ordinarily led by racist ranchers and self-declared 'Aryan warriors'....have harassed, illegally detained, beaten, and possibly murdered immigrants crossing through the desert cauldrons of Arizona and California."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/9/71859/41717


From news at resist.ca  Tue May 10 02:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 09:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] We Need a Living Wage
Message-ID: <20050510091704.20208.qmail@resist.ca>

NEO LIBERALISM A FAILURE IN CANADA "Public Policy wonks, both from the left and right, the soul of capitalism; the TD Bank, and Stats Canada all agree that for twenty boom years of capitalism in North America, Canadian workers still have yet to benefit. Tax cuts have produced no measurable effect for the average Canadian family for twenty years. And in fact have contributed to the continuing immizeration of Canadian workers. When Jim Stanford of the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) and the Chief Economist for the TD.Bank agree on this empirical fact, when will the Conservative right wing admit that their policies do nothing for us but lots for our bosses."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/8/64517/31758


From news at resist.ca  Tue May 10 02:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 09:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Investigation Launched into "Jumping Death" of Indian
Message-ID: <20050510091705.20212.qmail@resist.ca>

"(Brent) Abbott was being escorted over a railway bridge when police say he suddenly jumped over the guard rail and into the Fraser River."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/8/192327/0793


From news at resist.ca  Tue May 10 02:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 09:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Childcare Study to be Launched Today Reveals Working Women
	are Losers in Childcare Tug of War
Message-ID: <20050510091704.20207.qmail@resist.ca>

"All levels of government are claiming to support childcare, but our study exposes the reality for working class women," explains Monica Urrutia. Quality childcare is completely unaffordable leaving women to `make do' their own by quitting work or dropping out of school, relying on extended family including siblings, or even being forced to leave young children at home alone. The lack of universal childcare is really an attack on women's equality and right to development."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/9/18654/77198


From news at resist.ca  Wed May 11 02:17:02 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 09:17:02 -0000
Subject: [news] At least 13 Injured in Riot at Trial of Papua
	Pro-Independence Activist
Message-ID: <20050511091702.27059.qmail@resist.ca>

"At least 13 people including two policewomen were injured when an angry crowd threw stones at the trial of a popular pro-independence activist in Indonesia's Papua province, officials said."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/10/144918/222


From news at resist.ca  Wed May 11 02:17:02 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 09:17:02 -0000
Subject: [news] The Occupation, Year Two
Message-ID: <20050511091703.27061.qmail@resist.ca>

"Two years after 'Mission Accomplished', whatever moral stature the United States could claim at the end of its invasion of Iraq has long ago been squandered in the torture and abuse and deaths at Abu Ghraib. That the symbol of Saddam Hussein's brutality should have been turned by his own enemies into the symbol of their own brutality is a singularly ironic epitaph for the whole Iraq adventure. We have all been contaminated by the cruelty of the interrogators and the guards and prison commanders....But this is not only about Abu Ghraib. There are clear and proven connections now between the abuses at Abu Ghraib and the cruelty at the Americans' Bagram prison in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/11/1911/78501


From news at resist.ca  Wed May 11 02:17:02 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 09:17:02 -0000
Subject: [news] Mr. Harper Friend of the Working Man
Message-ID: <20050511091703.27062.qmail@resist.ca>

To hear Conservative Leader Stephen Harper, the former mouthpiece of the employers and bosses lobby, the National Citizens Coalition (folks who promote the idea of keeping Canada union-free), speak of the "NDP betraying workers" in their deal "with the devil" to support the Liberals budget is, well the kettle calling the pot black if we continue on with the cliches.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/8/7165/23461


From news at resist.ca  Wed May 11 02:17:02 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 09:17:02 -0000
Subject: [news] Spain Grants Amnesty to 700,000 Migrants
Message-ID: <20050511091703.27060.qmail@resist.ca>

Spain grants amnesty to 700,000 migrants Giles Tremlett in Madrid - Monday May 9, 2005; The Guardian "Spain declared an amnesty yesterday for about 700,000 illegal immigrants, bucking a Europe-wide trend of cracking down on economic migrants, while striking at exploitation of those working secretly and fearfully in the black economy."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/8/222026/1229


From news at resist.ca  Wed May 11 02:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 09:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Real Costs of a Pipeline
Message-ID: <20050511091703.27063.qmail@resist.ca>

A letter to the editor written in opposition to recent editorials appearing in the north that call on the federal government to over-ride both the Deh Cho and environmental regulation in the lead-up to any proposed Mackenzie Gas Project (pipeline).

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/10/105834/545


From news at resist.ca  Wed May 11 02:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 09:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] For a Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing
Message-ID: <20050511091703.27065.qmail@resist.ca>

Dialectical Magick 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).

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/8/7957/91964


From news at resist.ca  Thu May 12 07:17:10 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 14:17:10 -0000
Subject: [news] C.A.I.R. Reports 52% Increase in Anti-Muslim Hate Crimes
Message-ID: <20050512141711.30877.qmail@resist.ca>

"Hate crimes against Muslims rose 52 percent to 141 last year compared with 2003, and civil rights violations reported to the Council on American-Islamic Relations jumped 49 percent to 1,522."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/11/201433/587


From news at resist.ca  Thu May 12 07:17:09 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 14:17:09 -0000
Subject: [news] Abbas questions Israel's belief in democracy
Message-ID: <20050512141710.30876.qmail@resist.ca>

Ha'aretz     11/05/2005 "Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas questioned Israel's belief in democracy on Tuesday after an Israeli official suggested a victory for Hamas militants in Palestinian parliamentary elections could put Israel's pull-out from Gaza at risk."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/12/64252/2453


From news at resist.ca  Thu May 12 07:17:10 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 14:17:10 -0000
Subject: [news] Canada's Lenin
Message-ID: <20050512141711.30885.qmail@resist.ca>

Comrade Gilles Duceppe Under the leadership of Comrade Duceppe, the BQ has adopted a working class program as a left social democratic party, much more so than the mushy social democrats in the NDP. While sovereignty is their goal, it is the sovereignty of the CSN, which was the union Duceppe, was an organizer for and which has been one of the strongest supporters of Quebec nationalism.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/8/6494/30354


From news at resist.ca  Thu May 12 07:17:10 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 14:17:10 -0000
Subject: [news] Bush-backed Drug Marketing Schemes
Message-ID: <20050512141711.30880.qmail@resist.ca>

By Evelyn Pringle - Online Journal Contributing Writer April 25, 2005--At an FDA hearing on the safety of psychotropic drugs on Feb 2, dozens of despondent parents testified that their children had committed suicide or other violent acts after being prescribed the same drugs that are being marketed in the Bush-backed pharmaceutical industry schemes aimed at recruiting the nations 52 million school children as customers. In July 2003, the Bush appointed New Freedoms Commission on Mental Health (NFC)recommended screening all children for mental illness and designated TeenScreen as a model program to ensure that every student receives a mental health check-up before finishing high school.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/9/124111/9038


From news at resist.ca  Thu May 12 07:17:11 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 14:17:11 -0000
Subject: [news] Cathedral Grove Tree-sit Update
Message-ID: <20050512141712.30886.qmail@resist.ca>

"In the forest just off highway 4, a hardy band of forest folks are spending their days. Climbing trees, setting lines and platforms, swimming in the chilly river and living their lives. All the while preventing the construction of a huge parking lot on the Cameron river flood plain. For 16 months they have kept a vigil and they show no signs of leaving anytime soon."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/11/18512/8725


From news at resist.ca  Thu May 12 07:17:10 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 14:17:10 -0000
Subject: [news] Cuba 'plane bomber' was CIA agent
Message-ID: <20050512141711.30881.qmail@resist.ca>

BBC "Declassified US government documents show that a man suspected of involvement in the bombing of a Cuban passenger plane worked for the CIA. Luis Posada Carriles, a Cuban-born Venezuelan and anti-Castro dissident, was an agent and informer."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/11/75910/0880


From news at resist.ca  Fri May 13 01:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 08:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Barcelona Autonomous Gathering 2005
Message-ID: <20050513081705.4418.qmail@resist.ca>

The 1st Mediterranean Social Forum takes place in Barcelona from 16-19 June 2005. It is expected to attract hundreds of activists from the Middle East, North Africa and Europe with diverse backgrounds under the banner of "Another World is Possible"

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/12/12053/5875


From news at resist.ca  Fri May 13 01:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 08:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Logging Protesters Win Pepper Spray Case
Message-ID: <20050513081706.4420.qmail@resist.ca>

"After eight years and three trials, a group of protesters whose eyes were swabbed with pepper spray during a series of anti-logging demonstrations finally won their case Thursday against Humboldt County sheriff's deputies and Eureka police -- but were awarded only $1 each in damages."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/12/8029/48609


From news at resist.ca  Fri May 13 01:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 08:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Jordan Asked to Pardon Neo-Con Star Chalabi
Message-ID: <20050513081706.4419.qmail@resist.ca>

"Chalabi's Iraq National Congress, with the support of the neoconservative movement, help(ed) start the war that's killed at least 21 000 (maybe as many as 100 000) Iraqis. Chalabi's offices were later raided by American troops in 2004 for his role in selling military info to Iran. Now Chalabi is one of four deputy prime ministers of Iraq. Jordan is considering a request by Iraq to pardon Iraqi politician Ahmad Chalabi in a possible deal that would return millions of dollars a court accused him of embezzling in a bank scandal."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/12/23345/1073


From news at resist.ca  Fri May 13 01:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 08:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] The Indigenous Peoples Of Canada in Section 35: A Discourse
	on Indigenous Law
Message-ID: <20050513081706.4422.qmail@resist.ca>

By Tim Maton April 17, 2005 "The meaning of Section 35 is a hotly debated issue in Canadian courts. The outcome of this debate will have long standing affects on the future of Indigenous peoples in Canada. The underlying principles within Section 35 carry importance in the way that we relate to and understand the process of reconciliation between the Crown and Aboriginal people. Reconciliation for past wrongs and finding resolution to Indigenous conflicts with the Crown in Canada have spurred numerous court battles and parliamentary decisions, including the decision to add section 35 into the Constitution."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/12/21254/8406


From news at resist.ca  Fri May 13 01:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 08:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] The 2010 Olympics, Economic Uncertainty,
	and Indigenous Struggle
Message-ID: <20050513081706.4425.qmail@resist.ca>

By Tim Maton April 24, 2005 A conglomerative report. "Canada has recently received the invitation from the International world to host the 2010 Olympics. The Olympics will come to British Columbia in the winter of 2010, and the building of facilities to host the Olympics has already begun."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/12/211213/430


From news at resist.ca  Fri May 13 01:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 08:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Historic Bill 118 Unanimously Passes (Ontarians
	w/Disabilities Act)
Message-ID: <20050513081706.4423.qmail@resist.ca>

ONTARIANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT COMMITTEE UPDATE BILL 118 UNANIMOUSLY PASSES ON THIRD READING ONE GIANT LEAP FOR ONTARIANS WITH DISABILITIES! May 10, 2005 SUMMARY Around 3:40 p.m. on Tuesday, May 10, 2005,the Ontario Legislature unanimously passed Bill 118 on Third Reading. Once it receives Royal Assent, the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act will be a valid law. Speaking in support of the bill's passage at the news conference were Citizenship Minister Dr. Marie Bountrogianni, ODA Committee chair David Lepofsky, and Retail Council of Canada spokesperson Doug Derabbie. There was an important message conveyed not only by their words, but by the very fact of the unity of these representatives of government, business and the ODA Committee, following right after the powerful showing of unity on the floor of the Legislature by the all-party support for this new law.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/12/103939/599


From news at resist.ca  Fri May 13 01:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 08:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] The Growing Arab-Latin American Economic Alliance
Message-ID: <20050513081707.4426.qmail@resist.ca>

"The 'Declaration of Brasilia' to be endorsed this Wednesday calls for close political and economic ties between South America and the Arab world; demands that Israel disband its settlements in the West Bank, including 'those in East Jerusalem', and retreat to its borders before 1967; criticizes US 'unilateral economic sanctions against Syria', which violates principles of international law; and forcefully condemns terrorism. Israel is also implicitly criticized for holding an undeclared nuclear arsenal. The declaration also calls for a global conference to define the meaning of terrorism, and defends peoples' rights to 'resist foreign occupation in accordance with the principle of international legality and in compliance with international humanitarian law'."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/11/225755/352


From news at resist.ca  Sat May 14 08:17:10 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 15:17:10 -0000
Subject: [news] The CIA's New Client in Sudan
Message-ID: <20050514151711.6463.qmail@resist.ca>

"It was Woodrow Wilson who called the Armenian Holocaust 'sad, but necessary to quell an internal security threat.' Today it appears that the Bush administration, only eight months after former Secretary of State Colin Powell announced that Sudan's pro-government militias were committing genocide, has changed its mind and now is once again ignoring victims of genocide and allowing a government to quell a 'security threat.'"

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/13/164137/428


From news at resist.ca  Sat May 14 08:17:10 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 15:17:10 -0000
Subject: [news] Leftists commemorate Palestinian dead
Message-ID: <20050514151710.6461.qmail@resist.ca>

May 11, 2005 | YNET News TEL AVIV - Left-wing anarchist activists put up dozens of posters around Tel Aviv on Wednesday that showed pictures of Palestinian children killed by the army during more than four years of violence. The protest aimed to emphasize Palestinian losses in the face of the more than 21,000 Israelis commemorated during the annual Memorial Day for fallen soldiers and terror victims.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/13/121832/933


From news at resist.ca  Sat May 14 08:17:10 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 15:17:10 -0000
Subject: [news] EPA on Threshold of Brave New World of Human Testing
Message-ID: <20050514151711.6464.qmail@resist.ca>

Washington, DC - In the wake of the recent cancellation of the CHEERS study in which parents were to be paid to expose their infant children to pesticides, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is finalizing a new policy that encourages the same type of human dosing studies by industry. Today EPA closes public comment on its "no safeguards" policy of accepting all human subject experiments submitted by industry, according to a filing today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/13/1483/42965


From news at resist.ca  Sat May 14 08:17:10 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 15:17:10 -0000
Subject: [news] Canada, SNC-Lavalin, and the Haitian Right-Wing
Message-ID: <20050514151711.6465.qmail@resist.ca>

THE CANADIAN CORPORATE/STATE NEXUS IN HAITI BY ANTHONY FENTON - Haiti-Progres, May 12, 2005 Haiti's de facto government will soon announce the appointment of Robert Tippenhauer as its new ambassador to Canada... Should the Canadian government accept Tippenhauer's credentials, it will mark Canada's clearest official alignment with Haiti's right-wing elites. Prior to the...ouster of democratically elected President Jean Bertrand Aristide, Tippenhauer was Jamaica's honorary consul in Haiti. His ideological leanings were apparent...when he "resigned in protest against the decision by the Jamaican government to host former President Jean Bertrand Aristide, which he reportedly described as a 'slap in the face' to the Haitian people."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/13/11476/1089


From news at resist.ca  Sat May 14 08:17:10 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 15:17:10 -0000
Subject: [news] Supreme Court Rejects BC Forestry Program as Unconstitutional
Message-ID: <20050514151711.6466.qmail@resist.ca>

"In another major court victory for First Nations, the Huu-ay-aht First Nation (HFN) have received a decision from the Supreme Court of 'British Columbia' which holds that the BC Ministry of Forests program designed to address aboriginal interests on forestry matters fails to meet the Province's constitutional duty to First Nations. The Province had established a program of resource and revenue sharing based upon First Nations' population. The program, called the 'Forest and Range Agreement Program', did not consider a First Nation's claim to territory or the extent of forestry operations within that territory."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/14/65031/5206


From news at resist.ca  Sun May 15 06:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 13:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] New  law aims to distance the FDA from the drug industry
Message-ID: <20050515131703.5888.qmail@resist.ca>

BMJ 2005;330:1106 (14 May), doi:10.1136/bmj.330.7500.1106-a News Jeanne Lenzer New York http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/ Legislation aimed at ending the close relationship between the US Food and Drug Administration and the drug industry was introduced last week in the House of Representatives by Congressman Maurice Hinchey (Democrat) of New York. The Food and Drug Administration Improvement Act 2005 has been endorsed by the Center for Science in the Public Interest in Washington, DC, a non-profit education and advocacy organisation. Merrill Goozner, director of the centre's integrity in science project, said it was "exactly what is needed to restore public confidence in the FDA."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/14/154229/096


From news at resist.ca  Sun May 15 06:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 13:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Response to "Transparency in Drug Regulation: Mirage or
	Oasis? "
Message-ID: <20050515131704.5889.qmail@resist.ca>

CMAJ November 23, 2004; 171 (11). doi:10.1503/cmaj.1041446. Transparency in Drug Regulation: Mirage or Oasis? AND e-Letter Response by Diane C Gorman, Health Canada. http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/171/11/1363 The reality which forms the base of the article by Joel Lexchin and Barbara Mintzes makes moot any Health care professional honour code. Because to prescribe medical intervention based upon beliefs (dogma) in the matter of efficacy and safety - instead of evidence (transparency and independent over-sight of all the facts) based upon objective science about same - is without authority, complementarity, justifiability, nor honesty in advertising/editorial policy BUT it has total confidentiality of/by/for/with the for-profit Health care industry. Specific to the "Mental Health" industry this would necessarily include professional, institutional, Federal/Provincial government and corporate (PhRMA).

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/14/153039/308


From news at resist.ca  Sun May 15 07:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 14:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] How to End the War (plus counterarguments)
Message-ID: <20050515141704.28753.qmail@resist.ca>

By: Naomi Klein [editor's note, by ron] followed by a response by Michael Neumann The central question we need to answer is this: What were the real reasons for the Bush administration's invasion and occupation of Iraq? When we identify why we really went to war--not the cover reasons or the rebranded reasons, freedom and democracy, but the real reasons--then we can become more effective anti-war activists. The most effective and strategic way to stop this occupation and prevent future wars is to deny the people who wage these wars their spoils--to make war unprofitable. And we can't do that unless we effectively identify the goals of war.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/12/9751/51606


From news at resist.ca  Sun May 15 07:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 14:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Notes for Bill 118 - Accessibility Standards Regulatory
	Committee
Message-ID: <20050515141704.28758.qmail@resist.ca>

Assimilation - A Successful Survivalist Programming I would like my constitutional rights realized as being in existence by Ontario Works and Ontario Disability Departments of the Government. This has not been the case since December 2001, when I was accepted into OW. It is for this reason that I have a Human Rights Case. The last letter from OW is written such that it is their first recognition that I possess human/civil rights other than that of slave status to Ontario government sovereignty.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/14/143249/447


From news at resist.ca  Sun May 15 07:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 14:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Zine Review: "Heartcheck" by Jeffrey Luers and Rob Thaxton
Message-ID: <20050515141704.28755.qmail@resist.ca>

"Hearthcheck" zine, by political prisoners Jeffrey "Free" Luers and Rob "los ricos" Thaxton (both currently serving time in Salem, Oregon), is an exceptional booklet of information, inspiration, and tactical insight. What I seriously appreciated in this zine was the lack of weighted down dogmatic anarchist lingo and boring revolutionary rhetoric. Written in concise language, lacking pretense, this zine made me feel I am not alone, not only in my beliefs regarding the urgency of the situation, but also in the need for desperate measures for desperate times. Luers' statement, "Maybe you'll wait until you have to kill for water" sums it up nicely.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/14/19858/6830


From news at resist.ca  Sun May 15 07:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 14:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Nakba Day marked by pilgrimage to abandoned Israeli Arab
	villages
Message-ID: <20050515141704.28754.qmail@resist.ca>

Nakba Day marked by pilgrimage to abandoned Israeli Arab villages By Yoav Stern, Haaretz Correspondent The Palestinian Nakba ("Catastrophe") Day, which commemorates the establishment of Israel in 1948, was marked Thursday by mass pilgrimages to abandoned Palestinian villages. In the morning, families of internally displaced Palestinians visited the sites of the villages that they left or from which they were expelled in 1948. In the afternoon, 5,000 people held a rally at the site of Khirbet Husha and Khirbet Ksair near Kibbutz Usha in the Galilee.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/13/15715/6171


From news at resist.ca  Sun May 15 07:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 14:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Bill Undermines Democratic Control over Food: Scientists
Message-ID: <20050515141704.28756.qmail@resist.ca>

The Dominion - Dru Oja Jay "Canada is giving away its ability to set health and safety standards on food that crosses the border, say several US and Canadian scientists. They refer to Bill C-27, which Parliament will vote on in the coming months if an election is not called."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/14/19432/4065


From news at resist.ca  Sun May 15 15:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 22:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Former B.C. Liberal Supporter Decries Attacks on the Poor,
	Senior's and the Environment
Message-ID: <20050515221705.16725.qmail@resist.ca>

"This premier and this government, with a couple of exceptions, have been mean-spirited, philosophically opposed to helping those who need it, destructive in the extreme of the environment and come to the people with no vision except to say elect us, we're better than the NDP."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/15/141640/455


From news at resist.ca  Mon May 16 17:17:12 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 00:17:12 -0000
Subject: [news] Health...Not an Immediate Entitlement to a Citizen in the
	U.S.
Message-ID: <20050517001713.26428.qmail@resist.ca>

United States stands alone in denying health rights "OK we all know this but now it's official. 'The right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health' is 'not an immediate entitlement to a citizen' in the United States. The U.S. stands alone in denying that right." (At least on paper)

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/12/8167/84953


From news at resist.ca  Mon May 16 17:17:12 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 00:17:12 -0000
Subject: [news] 
	The Borders of Democracy: Immigrants Killed, Rebels in Prison
Message-ID: <20050517001713.26434.qmail@resist.ca>

On Thursday, May 12, the occupied spaces and homes of several anarchists across Italy were raided by police and five arrests were made. These five anarchists are being targeted because of their well-known and constant opposition to immigrant detention centres.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/16/15438/6142


From news at resist.ca  Tue May 17 09:17:15 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 16:17:15 -0000
Subject: [news] Report: Use of Psychological Torture by US Forces is
	Systematic
Message-ID: <20050517161716.9401.qmail@resist.ca>

"One year after the release of scandalous photographs of US personnel torturing Iraqi detainees at the US-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, a new report provides extensive evidence that psychological torture was systematic and central to the interrogation process of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/16/18466/1472


From news at resist.ca  Tue May 17 09:17:15 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 16:17:15 -0000
Subject: [news] Uzbekistan on the brink as clashes spread
Message-ID: <20050517161717.9407.qmail@resist.ca>

Up to 500 protesters feared dead "The violence that has reportedly killed hundreds of protesters in eastern Uzbekistan appeared to be spreading to neighbouring towns last night, raising fears that the volatile Central Asian state could erupt into a full-scale revolution. America gives $10 million a year in aid to the Uzbek security services and police, agencies which it says indulge in torture as a 'routine investigation technique'."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/16/18422/6476


From news at resist.ca  Tue May 17 09:17:15 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 16:17:15 -0000
Subject: [news] Anarchist Scholar Fired by Yale
Message-ID: <20050517161716.9403.qmail@resist.ca>

"Recently David Graeber and I wrote an article together attempting to explain why anarchist ideas have received almost no attention in the academy. When you think of it, academia is full of Marxist radicals, but only a handful of professed anarchists. We came to a conclusion that it must have something to do with anarchism's concern with forms of practice; with its insistence that one's means must be consonant with one's ends; with its stubborn rejection of the idea that we can create freedom through authoritarian means, embracing instead the position that we should embody the society we wish to create....All of this does not square very well with operating within a university. The university has survived in much the same form since the middle ages, waging intellectual battles at conferences, re-enforcing class distinctions, making cabalistic decisions in secret rooms. As we stated in our article: 'At the very least, one would imagine being an openly anarchist professor would mean challenging the way universities are run and that, of course, is going to get one in far more trouble than anything one could ever write'...Ironically enough, as if he was testing his own hypothesis, internationally respected anarchist anthropologist, David Graeber, was fired from Yale University a few days ago."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/17/34927/0279


From news at resist.ca  Tue May 17 09:17:15 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 16:17:15 -0000
Subject: [news] Inmate Dies After Fight With Guards
Message-ID: <20050517161716.9402.qmail@resist.ca>

"BALTIMORE - An inmate at an overcrowded and long-troubled jail died after a fight with guards. An attorney for his family said he was beaten and stomped to death in his cell. Since 2002, 27 inmates have died at central booking, according to state Sen. Verna Jones, who called for a task force to investigate the jail."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/16/175413/581


From news at resist.ca  Tue May 17 09:17:16 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 16:17:16 -0000
Subject: [news] Senior dies following hunger strike
Message-ID: <20050517161717.9410.qmail@resist.ca>

CBC "EDMONTON - An 86-year-old woman who launched a hunger strike to protest conditions at Alberta's long-term care facilities has died." "Alberta's long-term care centres have come under scrutiny in recent weeks. In a recent report, Alberta's auditor general concluded that one third of the province's long term care centres are failing basic standards, including adequate staffing."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/17/75455/0396


From news at resist.ca  Tue May 17 09:17:16 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 16:17:16 -0000
Subject: [news] WCB Protest in Hope, BC
Message-ID: <20050517161717.9408.qmail@resist.ca>

A 63 year old man has been sitting on top of a tree since Wed. May 11th at 6pm and refuses to come down until WCB reverses their decision on his case.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/17/25135/0917


From news at resist.ca  Wed May 18 04:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 11:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Chavez Promises New Venezuelan Education Model to Combat
	Imperialist Values
Message-ID: <20050518111704.20353.qmail@resist.ca>

Caracas, Venezuela, May 16, 2005--During his weekly television program, Alo Presidente, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez announced yesterday the initiation of a new stage in Venezuelan education, based on "coexisting, knowing, and doing" and called upon the Venezuelan youth to reject "imperialistic anti-values" cultivated during previous governments and to "rescue the authentic Christian values, lost by the capitalist model."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/17/141943/477


From news at resist.ca  Wed May 18 04:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 11:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Ecuador's new Prez too Moderate for Bush
Message-ID: <20050518111704.20354.qmail@resist.ca>

George Bush has someone new to hate. Only twenty-four hours after Ecuador's new president took his oath of office, he was hit by a diplomatic cruise missile fired all the way from Lithuania by Condoleezza Rice, then wandering about Eastern Europe spreading "democracy." Condi called for "a constitutional process to get to elections," which came as a bit of a shock to the man who'd already been constitutionally elected, Alfredo Palacio. What had Palacio done to get our Secretary of State's political knickers in a twist? It's the oil--and the bonds. This nation of only 13 million souls at the world's belly button is rich, sitting on 4.4 billion barrels of known oil reserves, and probably much more. Yet 60 percent of its citizens live in brutal poverty; a lucky minority earn the "minimum" wage of $153 a month. a The obvious solution--give the oil money to the Ecuadoreans without money--runs smack up against paragraph III-1 of the World Bank's 2003 Structural Adjustment Program Loan. The diktat is marked "FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY," which "may not be disclosed" without World Bank authorization. TheNation.com has obtained a copy.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/16/184312/407


From news at resist.ca  Wed May 18 04:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 11:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Steel Strike Continues
Message-ID: <20050518111704.20356.qmail@resist.ca>

The Steel strike at Modern Auto Plating in Vancouver was supposed to be over, but continues for now.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/17/225722/990


From news at resist.ca  Wed May 18 04:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 11:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] "All of Our Problems are Due to the Americans"
Message-ID: <20050518111704.20355.qmail@resist.ca>

"(Condoleeza) Rice traveled to the heavily entrenched 'green zone' in central Baghdad where the U.S. 'embassy' is located. She addressed a crowd in the former Republican Palace, the perfect setting for her symbolic visit to Iraq where more and more Iraqis are referring to the devastating occupation which has beset their country as their new 'bloodocracy'....Rather than a welcoming parade with ticker-tape and rose petals for the US Secretary of State who was one of the architects of the invasion, 34 corpses of men shot, beheaded or with their throats slit were discovered across Iraq today."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/17/215534/972


From news at resist.ca  Wed May 18 04:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 11:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Tories on 'testosterone high' over Ipperwash: OPP
Message-ID: <20050518111705.20357.qmail@resist.ca>

FOREST - Senior government officials seemed to be on a "testosterone high" when they told the Ontario Provincial Police they wanted native protestors immediately removed from Ipperwash Provincial Park, the public inquiry into the death of native activist Anthony (Dudley) George has heard. "This whole (expletive) group is on some sort of ... testosterone high," OPP Insp. Ron Fox tells fellow officer, Insp. John Carson, in a previously-unreleased tape of a telephone conversation on Sept. 5, 1995.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/17/194926/870


From news at resist.ca  Wed May 18 04:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 11:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Vancouver Cop Says "Activists" are "Cruising Streets Looking
	for Conflict"
Message-ID: <20050518111705.20358.qmail@resist.ca>

"On April 10, Vancouver Cop Mark Tonner, in his regular Vancouver Province column, accused the PIVOT Legal Society of, among other things 'mobliz(ing) counter-culture activists.'  He further states '(A)ctivists are now cruising Downtown Eastside streets looking for conflict with the law.'  According to Tonner, these meddlesome folk have been deliberately stepping between police officers and suspects 'demanding' to inform them of their rights by handing them something 'claiming it contains legal advice.'"

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/17/184848/327


From news at resist.ca  Wed May 18 08:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 15:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Campbell wins 2nd majority government
Message-ID: <20050518151704.29278.qmail@resist.ca>

NDP exceeds expectations Referendum too close to call Here's the breakdown: Campbell - 45, NDP - 33, Democracy - 0.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/18/73043/0124


From news at resist.ca  Thu May 19 02:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 09:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Barbarous Oaxaca
Message-ID: <20050519091705.27876.qmail@resist.ca>

"Just over 100 days since his inauguration as governor of the southwestern Mexican state of Oaxaca, Ulises Ruiz Ortiz has been internationally condemned for his regime's acts of political revenge; for its violent suppression of protests; for its imprisonment and murder of dissidents; for its attacks upon the press; for its manipulation of votes; for its miscarriages of justice; and for the numerous ways it has abused human rights."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/19/11052/8071


From news at resist.ca  Thu May 19 02:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 09:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Ontario's Poor Get Left Behind
Message-ID: <20050519091706.27877.qmail@resist.ca>

The 600,000 Ontarians who depend on social assistance got nothing [in the provincial budget] -- not even protection from inflation -- from the Liberal government. This directly contravenes McGuinty's election committment.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/18/181828/337


From news at resist.ca  Thu May 19 02:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 09:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Tories "Rednecks" on Ipperwash:  OPP Inspector
Message-ID: <20050519091706.27881.qmail@resist.ca>

FOREST, Ont. - "Former Premier Mike Harris was a 'redneck' and 'gun-loving' and believed he could direct the Ontario Provincial Police to take action against native protestors, according to a senior police officer who met with him hours before the massive police operation which ended in the shooting death of native activist Anthony (Dudley) George. 'He believes he has the authority to direct the OPP,' Insp. Ron Fox says in a telephone conversation to a fellow officer, moments after Fox met with Harris and senior government officials, including then solicitor-general Bob Runciman, attorney-general Charles Harnick and minister of natural resources Chris Hodgson at Queen's Park."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/18/17583/4355


From news at resist.ca  Thu May 19 02:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 09:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] More Nations Standing up to Mackenzie Pipeline
Message-ID: <20050519091706.27878.qmail@resist.ca>

Dene Tha' Launches Legal Action Against Mackenzie Pipeline Calgary--The Dene Tha' First Nation filed a judicial review application in the Federal Court of Canada in Calgary against the federal government for failing to consult with Dene Tha' about the proposed Mackenzie Gas Project. Dene Tha' alleges that the proposed mega project will cause adverse environmental effects and will infringe its Treaty and Aboriginal Rights and Titles that it holds in the Northwest Territories (NWT) and Alberta.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/17/205958/527


From news at resist.ca  Thu May 19 02:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 09:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Looking for Colour in the Anti-War Movement
Message-ID: <20050519091706.27882.qmail@resist.ca>

"As a speaker at a San Francisco anti-war rally last fall, I tried to emphasize the importance of seeing the threatened war on Iraq in terms of this country's racism here and around the world. In that spirit, I ended my comments with a chant by some activists of color marching to the rally: 'One, two, three, four/We don't want your racist war!'....Few people in that mostly white crowd of some 15,000 chanted with me or clapped. I was troubled, but later that day a Bay Area anti-war movement leader told me, 'You got off easy. In the 1970s, Black Panther leaders like Bobby Seale and Dave Hilliard were booed when they mentioned racism at early anti-Vietnam war rallies'....Seeing racism as a separate, secondary issue is an old problem in the U.S. peace movement, which does not always realize that it must be anti-racist as well as anti-war. Today, with the 'Permanent War' becoming all too permanent, that realization is all the more crucial. Do people really think the expanding U.S. empire will be stopped by white folks alone?"

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/18/16737/5962


From news at resist.ca  Fri May 20 13:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 20:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Australian Professors Advocate Torture
Message-ID: <20050520201705.27972.qmail@resist.ca>

Two Australian academics have caused outrage by advocating torture. In an article to be published in the University of San Francisco's Law Review Journal in July, the Law School head and a colleague argue for legalized torture of terrorist suspects.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/19/191955/397


From news at resist.ca  Fri May 20 17:17:08 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 00:17:08 -0000
Subject: [news] Federal NDP Attacks Quebec Sovereigntists
Message-ID: <20050521001708.9789.qmail@resist.ca>

"(We) have watched with some stupefaction as (federal NDP leader) Jack Layton has climbed up on the Liberal battle horse and accused the Conservatives of allying themselves with the separatists. Is it because Buzz Hargrove (leader of the Canadian Auto Workers' Union - CAW) recommended that he leave Quebec to the (sovereigntist and centre-left) Bloc Quebecois that Mr. Layton now feels authorized to campaign in English Canada on the back of Quebec? The English-Canadian left should call Mr. Layton to order before his remarks poison relations between progressives in both nations....We understand the complexity of the situation facing English-Canadian progressives and their concerns at the possibility of a Conservative win. We had the same concerns regarding the ADQ (Quebec based right-wing party) in Quebec. But we do not believe that the Liberals constitute an alternative, either directly or through the NDP."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/20/162458/019


From news at resist.ca  Sat May 21 08:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 15:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Ottawa to spend $5M to track missing native women
Message-ID: <20050521151705.1133.qmail@resist.ca>

"The federal government is set to announce $5 million in spending to help reduce the lost ranks of murdered or missing aboriginal women." ... "It's part of a spending blizzard whipped up by the minority Liberals as they gird for an expected election. Politics aside, however, the Native Women's Association of Canada says the cash is needed to send a vital message."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/21/71516/5578


From news at resist.ca  Sat May 21 08:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 15:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] More Fumigation in Colombia
Message-ID: <20050521151705.1130.qmail@resist.ca>

BOGOTA, May 20 (Tierram?rica) - "The Colombian government plans to renew fumigation in nature reserves using the herbicide glyphosate to wipe out illicit drug crops. The practice was suspended in March 2004 in those areas as a result of protests by activists who argued that it violated international treaties, national laws, and agreements with local indigenous and peasant farming communities."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/20/23425/2215


From news at resist.ca  Sat May 21 08:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 15:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] In U.S. Report, Brutal Details of 2 Afghan Inmates' Deaths
Message-ID: <20050521151705.1131.qmail@resist.ca>

"The Iraqi people are now free. And they do not have to worry about the secret police coming after them in the middle of the night, and they don't have to worry about their husbands and brothers being taken off and shot, or their wives being taken to rape rooms. Those days are over."--Paul Bremer, Administrator, [Iraq] Coalition Provisional Authority, Sept. 2, 2003 ... "Even as the young Afghan man was dying before them, his American jailers continued to torment him..."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/20/201543/777


From news at resist.ca  Sun May 22 05:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 12:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Anatomy of the Iraqi Resistance
Message-ID: <20050522121703.7956.qmail@resist.ca>

"(T)he Iraqi resistance is made up of both political and martial forces, thus all of the major resistance groups in the country are tied to a greater political framework that has been clear and consistent in its hopes for the country. What is more important, however, is that the methods and goals of the resistance have always been made public. There has been no major Iraqi resistance group that has condoned the targeting of innocents in the country, none. Conveniently the US only invokes public claims to the contrary when they are made on websites to which the authors are unavailable for comment, verification or elaboration. The political members of the Iraqi resistance have been constantly available to the media as spokespersons of the armed effort, yet no western media source has inquired as to their feelings or analysis of what is happening in their country."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/22/01816/7863


From news at resist.ca  Sun May 22 05:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 12:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Political and Ideological Offensive Against B.C. Working
	Class Intensified
Message-ID: <20050522121703.7957.qmail@resist.ca>

- Charles Boylan - "Listening to the political pundits on the mass media, one hears repeatedly from all the so-called major parties the refrain that all is now well again in B.C. because the balance of the two-party system has been restored in the Legislative Assembly." ... "A majority Liberal government means that once again all decision-making can take place in the Premier's office. A 'strong NDP opposition' means a self-righteous chorus will condemn vociferously all the attacks made against the working class on the socio-economic front, and against the entire polity on the political front, while behind-the-scenes collaboration takes place against their interests. The configuration in the legislature covers all the bases for the financial oligarchy. The people, most especially the working class is entirely left out of this equation."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/21/183220/804


From news at resist.ca  Sun May 22 05:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 12:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Iranian Refugees in B.C. Oppose Potential U.S. Invasion
Message-ID: <20050522121704.7958.qmail@resist.ca>

"The Iranian Federation of Refugees in BC is a community based group with hundreds of members and supporters. Our organization is a vital part of the anti-war movement and the movement for justice for immigrants and refugees. Today it is our duty to speak out against any potential invasion of Iran by the U.S. government and to voice our opposition amidst all other voices to protect the lives of thousands of Iranians in Canada and within Iran."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/21/17428/1824


From news at resist.ca  Mon May 23 01:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 08:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] U.S. Police State
Message-ID: <20050523081703.31389.qmail@resist.ca>

"It's always been an article of faith on the 'loony' right that the black helicopters of the Jewish-United Nations fascist government would arrive to take over America and turn it into a hellish police state through the machinations of the liberal Democrats. Who would have thought that it would be the conservative Republicans who would be waving the landing lights to guide the troop planes in?"

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/22/163648/999


From news at resist.ca  Mon May 23 06:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 13:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Displaced Iraqis Simmering with Anger in Jordan
Message-ID: <20050523131704.11298.qmail@resist.ca>

"Ismael...left Baghdad fifteen years ago because he overtly opposed the regime of Saddam Hussein. His once-valid political refugee status is now in question in Jordan, and he does not wish to return to Iraq since his country is in flames. He openly voices his support of the armed resistance in Iraq....'I support the resistance in Iraq,'....'They are honorable people and the Americans deserve to be killed since they invaded our country.'"

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/22/165254/805


From news at resist.ca  Mon May 23 06:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 13:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] U.S. Anglicans eyeing divestment criticize Israel W. Bank
	policy
Message-ID: <20050523131704.11297.qmail@resist.ca>

"The U.S. Episcopal Church, considering a review of investments in companies that do business with Israel, said on Thursday a high-level fact-finding team came back deeply disturbed after visiting the West Bank and nearby areas. 'Israel has a right to defend itself. But it appears that, in the name of security, injustices are being done to the Palestinians that amount to collective punishment,' said Jacqueline Scott, a member of the Standing Commission on Anglican and International Peace with Justice Concerns." "It is not known how much of the church's roughly $3.6 billion portfolio might be affected or what companies could be involved, but the issue is heating up in America where the Presbyterian Church USA also has a study under way that could lead to divestments. The latter, with 2.4 million members, has a portfolio valued at $8 billion."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/23/54725/9078


From news at resist.ca  Mon May 23 06:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 13:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Cuba wants jetliner bombing suspect turned over
Message-ID: <20050523131704.11299.qmail@resist.ca>

"Cuban President Fidel Castro led hundreds of thousands of Cubans past the U.S. mission in his capital yesterday to demand the United States arrest a Cuban exile sought in the bombing of an airliner, accusing Washington of hypocrisy in its war on terror." "Posada, a former CIA operative and Venezuelan security official, is wanted in the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/23/54026/3664


From news at resist.ca  Mon May 23 06:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 13:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Iraqi journalists 'disappear' in US army hands
Message-ID: <20050523131704.11300.qmail@resist.ca>

"The US-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). is demanding an explanation from US and Iraqi military forces regarding the whereabouts of least eight Iraqi journalists who have been detained since March 2005. A US military spokesman told CPJ that the journalists pose a 'security risk to the Iraqi people and coalition forces.' No further details were given. All work for Western news organisations. None of the journalists have been formally charged."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/23/54310/2309


From news at resist.ca  Tue May 24 07:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 14:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] New uprising in Bolivia
Message-ID: <20050524141703.21136.qmail@resist.ca>

"Almost four decades after Che's murder, Bolivia's poor and indigenous masses are keeping his revolutionary legacy very much alive as they fight to secure their country's resources and future. Left with no more cards to play, on May 17, Bolivian President Carlos Mesa succumbed to passing the country's controversial new gas bill. As the country enters into a new pre-insurrectional stage -- with many of Bolivia's poor once again hitting the streets, clamouring for the nationalisation of gas -- many believe it will be game over for Mesa."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/24/62955/1715


From news at resist.ca  Tue May 24 07:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 14:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] UN: Iraqis endure worse conditions than under Saddam
Message-ID: <20050524141703.21135.qmail@resist.ca>

"A major study by the UN and Iraqi officials found that life in Iraq has decayed significantly since foreign forces invaded, following a general trend seen in most sectors since the imposition of a global embargo in 1990."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/24/63439/3297


From news at resist.ca  Tue May 24 07:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 14:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Amnesty International offers to support U.S. deserter
Message-ID: <20050524141704.21139.qmail@resist.ca>

Toronto -- "Prominent human-rights group Amnesty International has declared that it will adopt a young American war dodger as a 'prisoner of conscience' if Canada deports him to the United States and he ends up in jail. Amnesty says it considers Jeremy Hinzman a legitimate conscientious objector to the war in Iraq, even though Canadian immigration authorities have decided otherwise."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/24/6463/06012


From news at resist.ca  Tue May 24 07:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 14:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Geriatrics Fund Pays For Guns
Message-ID: <20050524141704.21138.qmail@resist.ca>

"Canada is knee deep in the Iraq war. Even though it didn't send any troops along with the coalition of the killing, the federal and provincial governments have invested billions of dollars in corporations that contribute weapons and services for the illegal invasion. As long as it continues to profit from the war, Canadian governments are complicit to the destruction."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/24/63150/8930


From news at resist.ca  Tue May 24 07:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 14:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] We don't need a doctor's note to tell us we're hungry!
Message-ID: <20050524141704.21140.qmail@resist.ca>

"On May 12, a crowd of over four hundred poor people and supporters took the fight for decent income right to the doorstep of the Liberal most responsible for imposing hunger on our communities, Minister of Social Services Sandra Pupatello. OCAP, ...and supporters... marched to the Ministry to demand that the $250 a month special diet supplement be given to all 760,000 welfare and disability recipients in Ontario without their having to jump through bureaucratic hoops. Right now people can access the previously little known supplement only by finding a medical practitioner ready to state the obvious - that the pittance provided by the McGuinty Government does not allow people to pay the rent and eat properly at the same time."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/24/64328/2127


From news at resist.ca  Thu May 26 02:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 09:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] New Website:  S.W.A.R.M. The Minutemen
Message-ID: <20050526091703.32126.qmail@resist.ca>

"We reject everything about the minutemen. The minutemen function and exist when the rest of us, the vast majority of us, remain silent. Even in an environment of fear and uncertainty we all know that immigrants are not the reason for America's problems, nor should they be the powerless scapegoat. Because the vast majority of us look upon slavery, japanese interment and manifest destiny as sick, tragic pages in our history, we have no tolerance for these hyper-patriotic bigots, masquerading as virtuous citizens."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/26/13851/0194


From news at resist.ca  Thu May 26 06:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 13:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] China's advances into South America have U.S. on edge
Message-ID: <20050526131705.1584.qmail@resist.ca>

Washington -- It's not news that China has become trade enemy No. 1 in Washington. But the harsh anti-China rhetoric on the home front is really just a sideshow to a global race for power, influence and resources. The Bush administration has slapped tariffs on imported Chinese clothes and is threatening further sanctions if China doesn't inflate its currency in the next few months. An angry U.S. Congress is vowing much worse -- a blanket 30-per-cent tariff on the hundreds of billions of dollars worth of Chinese goods imported into the United States every year.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/26/53943/9834


From news at resist.ca  Fri May 27 01:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 08:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Denmark: Greenpeace Charged Under Anti-Terror Laws
Message-ID: <20050527081703.18895.qmail@resist.ca>

"The Danish branch of Greenpeace, the international environmental campaigning organization, was charged yesterday (11 May 2005) under laws adopted to implement UN and EU laws on the financing of acts of terrorism....The acts in question occurred on 13 October 2003 when Greenpeace activists staged a protest against the widespread use of GMOs (genetically modified organisms) in animal feed on Danish farms."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/27/04755/5122


From news at resist.ca  Fri May 27 02:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 09:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Have-Nots Facing Steeper Ladder
Message-ID: <20050527091704.30396.qmail@resist.ca>

"It is stunning to see the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times simultaneously devote a series to the American class divide. The Journal reported last Friday, 'Despite the widespread belief that the US remains a more mobile society than Europe, economists and sociologists say that in recent decades the typical child starting out in poverty in continental Europe or in Canada has had a better chance at prosperity'....In an echo, the Times wrote vitually the same thing, adding that in America, a child's economic background is a better predictor of school performance than in Denmark, the Netherlands, or France. The best that could be said was that class mobility in the United States is 'not as low as in developing countries like Brazil, where escape from poverty is so difficult that the lower class is all but frozen in place'....Oh joy. This is what we have come to? Comparisons to developing countries?"

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/27/05358/3297


From news at resist.ca  Fri May 27 02:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 09:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] PEI: Suicide Hotline Only Open from 9 to 5
Message-ID: <20050527091704.30397.qmail@resist.ca>

"Prince Edward Island, a small province on Canada's East Coast, says it is too expensive to operate the hotline around the clock. Starting June 1, it will be open only between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. The hotline cost about C$30,000 ($24,000) a year to run."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/26/234016/459


From news at resist.ca  Fri May 27 02:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 09:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] U.S. Allying With Illegal Militias as Iraqi Resistance Gets
	Stronger
Message-ID: <20050527091704.30395.qmail@resist.ca>

"According to Asia Times Online contacts, (the) US-backed militias will comprise three main segments - former Kurdish peshmerga (paramilitaries), former members of the Badr Brigade and those former members of the Ba'ath Party and the Iraqi army who were part of the Saddam regime but who have now thrown in their lot with the new Iraqi government."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/26/183247/316


From news at resist.ca  Fri May 27 02:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 09:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Welfare Rolls Down, Homelessness Up
Message-ID: <20050527091704.30398.qmail@resist.ca>

"Provincial government changes to welfare rules have doubled the severity of Vancouver's dire and growing homeless problem, according to (Jill Davidson), the city's policy co-ordinator for the homeless....To qualify under the new rules, individuals must make a three-week job search and document their efforts. They must also have been employed for two years out of the previous five, a significant barrier for young people with little work experience....'The steps to get welfare are pretty daunting, especially if you're cold and hungry and bewildered,' Ms. Davidson said."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/26/2142/06962


From news at resist.ca  Fri May 27 02:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 09:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] "Freedom of Speech" No Defence for Homophobic Teacher
Message-ID: <20050527091704.30400.qmail@resist.ca>

"On April 22, 2005, the (British Columbia Civil Liberties Association) argued at the BC Court of Appeal in the Kempling case....The BCCLA argued that the disciplinary action by the (BC College of Teachers) was justified because Mr. Kempling's public utterances interfered with his professional obligation to ensure a tolerant, respectful and safe environment for gay and lesbian students."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/27/14332/0102


From news at resist.ca  Sat May 28 09:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 16:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Sick Strategies For Senseless Slaughter
Message-ID: <20050528161705.19801.qmail@resist.ca>

"It happened quite by accident, as most revelations do. And it is seen by most of the world as the most revolting of the American/Israeli atrocities in the past few years, although it's hard to prioritize that claim because of the level and frequency of barbaric acts that are committed on a regular basis by those affluent automatons who call themselves the good guys....Yet everyone but the comatose American populace - blinded by its Orwellian media and stupefied by its demented diet of physical and mental poisons - can see it."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/28/13051/4003


From news at resist.ca  Sat May 28 09:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 16:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Gay Anarchist consciencious objector Mehmet Tarhan arrested
	for more than 45 days
Message-ID: <20050528161705.19804.qmail@resist.ca>

[...] Turkish conscientious objector - Mehmet Tarhan - [...] is currently being held in a military prison in Sivas, Turkey. After the press and the public opinion were informed on Monday and Tuesday in Ankara and Istanbul about the torture, lynch attempts, mistreatment, extortion and sponging of his money in prison, right now Conscientous Objector Mehmet Tarhan's hair is being forcefully cut as a punishment and he is not allowed to see his lawyers.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/27/11342/2925


From news at resist.ca  Sat May 28 09:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 16:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Qu'ran Abuse Confirmed
Message-ID: <20050528161705.19802.qmail@resist.ca>

"The Pentagon admitted last night it had substantiated five occasions when US military personnel at Guantanamo Bay prison "mishandled" the Koran of Muslim detainees. But it said it found no credible evidence to confirm a complaint that the Islamic holy book had been flushed down a toilet."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/26/183615/986


From news at resist.ca  Sat May 28 09:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 16:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Starving The World's Seas
Message-ID: <20050528161706.19808.qmail@resist.ca>

"It has arrived early; it's bigger than ever and it promises a summer of death and destruction. The annual 'dead zone' in the Gulf of Mexico - starved of oxygen, and thus killing fish and underwater vegetation - has appeared earlier than usual this year....This is just one sign of a rapidly growing crisis. The number of similar dead zones in the world's seas has doubled every decade since 1960, as a result of increasing pollution."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/28/212/98333


From news at resist.ca  Sat May 28 09:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 16:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Kingston study proves racial bias
Message-ID: <20050528161706.19813.qmail@resist.ca>

Kingston, Ont.--"A tearful Police Chief Bill Closs apologized yesterday to black people in Kingston after being confronted with proof they are stopped by officers three times more often than whites. Then Closs challenged police chiefs across Canada to monitor their forces for racial profiling."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/28/73425/7206


From news at resist.ca  Sat May 28 09:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 16:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Protesters occupy Poundmaker office
Message-ID: <20050528161706.19807.qmail@resist.ca>

"The problem-plagued Poundmaker Cree Nation is experiencing more tumult after dozens of band members took over the office of the chief and council on Tuesday, saying they plan to remain there until a new election is called. Many band members allege the results of last year's vote, which gave Chief Ted Antoine his fourth consecutive term, are erroneous." ... "In the past, he has collected hundreds of thousands of dollars for untendered contracts while other councilors have received band contracts from him."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/28/75013/5782


From news at resist.ca  Sat May 28 09:17:05 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 16:17:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Adoption Records Maybe Open in Ontario?
Message-ID: <20050528161706.19805.qmail@resist.ca>

Finally we have a chance to get adoption records open in Ontario! Monday May 30th is a last chance for you to get down to Queens Park in Toronto and show your support for Bill 183, a Bill to open records to all adults involved in the adoption process. If your life has been one of wondering what your history is or where your children have ended up, now is your chance to show your support for what is known as Bill 183's "RETRO-ACTIVITY" which will enable all affected today, and yesterday to get access to identifying information. Visit http://web.ncf.ca/news.html for details. Get involved, create and wear the T-shirt suggested and show up at Queens Park in Room 1!

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/27/81023/4537


From news at resist.ca  Sun May 29 07:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 14:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] How Government Cunning can Subvert Access to Laws
Message-ID: <20050529141706.8795.qmail@resist.ca>

By Ian Macleod Hamilton Spectator The Principle of freedom on information is straightforward: government information - public information- belongs to the public.  Unless governments have a good reason to conceal it, for example harm to national security or personal privacy, people are entitled to get answers to reasonable questions about what their governments are up to.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/28/132125/222


From news at resist.ca  Sun May 29 07:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 14:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Wideo from 15 may in Warsaw
Message-ID: <20050529141706.8796.qmail@resist.ca>

Movie clip from 15 may, anti-summit against "radzie europy" (EU institution founded to guard human rights but dosn't work). When police stop a legal demonstration, the black block start a riot. 11 people were arrested, including an IMC reporter: see it here.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/28/172715/531


From news at resist.ca  Sun May 29 07:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 14:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] America's Memorial Day Is Not Just For Veterans Anymore
Message-ID: <20050529141707.8800.qmail@resist.ca>

I cannot compartmentalize America's Memorial Day to just be about veterans of war. I feel a compulsion to include the victims of these veterans' killings and torture on Memorial Day, perhaps even above honoring vets and their victimhood in American political messes. I understand this angers people. But as an American, I feel an obligation to speak out about my own country's crimes. I see little difference between the immorality behind the Vietnam War, and the endless victims of American aggression there during my lifetime, and the quagmire of atrocities going on in the name of "freedom" by my country in oil-rich Middle Eastern countries now. I refuse to blindly honor all veterans of war as heroes. I see many of them as criminals, not heroes. I see others of them as victims, but very few, if any, war veterans do I view as "heroes."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/29/0332/77529


From news at resist.ca  Sun May 29 07:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 14:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Kurds Still Without Govt After January Poll
Message-ID: <20050529141707.8798.qmail@resist.ca>

"By way of putting pressure on the parties, 17 newly elected Kurdish MPs threatened on May 17 that they will enter the parliament building Wednesday (May 25) and take their seats even if the parties fail to reach agreement. They say the differences should be settled in parliament itself. But only two of the 17 turned up at the parliament building Wednesday."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/27/151438/389


From news at resist.ca  Sun May 29 07:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 14:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Women's Health and War in Nepal
Message-ID: <20050529141706.8797.qmail@resist.ca>

"To officials who rarely set foot outside Kathmandu Valley, it is difficult to understand how the conflict is affecting the health of women....Going by the child and maternal mortality figures at the number crunchers in the capital, the health status of Nepalis is improving dramatically. Government officials are in a state of denial. I have often heard them say: 'Our health programs are progressing on schedule, maternal mortality and morbidity rates have been reduced and our grassroots level health workers are doing a fantastic job....'The reality is very different."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/28/2721/94227


From news at resist.ca  Sun May 29 07:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 14:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] US Social Security Reforms Linked to Corporate Welfare
Message-ID: <20050529141707.8801.qmail@resist.ca>

"[...A]s United Airlines prepares to dump its pension obligations on the federal government in the largest default in U.S. history, it looks like the last curtain is about to fall on traditional pension programs. When the government insurer, PBGC, takes over pension plans, benefits are often reduced due to legal limits. Of United's underfunded $9.8 billion, just $6.6 billion is guaranteed. The government estimates that defined-benefit programs are underfunded by $450 billion."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/28/125355/713


From news at resist.ca  Sun May 29 08:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 15:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Canada's Culture of Secrecy
Message-ID: <20050529151706.21661.qmail@resist.ca>

By Robert Cribb and Fred Vallance Jones | the Hamilton Spectator | May 2, 2005 "Freedom of Information? It's a farce at worst and selective at best. A nationwide investigation shows that the government quite often tells us what it wants us to know; and the more contentious the subject matter, the tougher it is to get at." "Canadians who went in search of basic government data on matters such as restaurant inspections an complaints against police were regularly sonewalled by a culture of beuraucratic secracy."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/28/132259/279


From news at resist.ca  Sun May 29 08:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 15:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Rainy River First Nation signs Ontario's largest-ever land
	claim
Message-ID: <20050529151706.21662.qmail@resist.ca>

"Indian Affairs Minister Andy Scott joined with provincial cabinet ministers and First Nations leaders in signing the province's largest land claim Friday. More than 90 years after the land was taken away from them, Rainy River First Nation band members can now begin the process of reclaiming more than 46,000 acres of traditional lands."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/28/134014/018


From news at resist.ca  Mon May 30 01:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 08:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Developing Nations Losing Spam Battle, Report Says
Message-ID: <20050530081704.12298.qmail@resist.ca>

More spammers are setting up shop in less-developed countries as authorities and Internet service providers in the United States and Europe crack down on them. As ISP's in developing nations harbor more spammers, those providers increasingly land on international "block lists." That jams up e-mail services for their customers--spammers and regular Web users alike. In countries with a single ISP providing e-mail services, landing on a block list can cut the entire country off from e-mail access. That's just what happened in Costa Rica a few years ago, when antispam campaign group Spamhaus blocked e-mail from the country for two whole days.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/28/18219/7008


From news at resist.ca  Mon May 30 01:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 08:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Racist White Australia Deports Brown Australian Citizen
Message-ID: <20050530081704.12300.qmail@resist.ca>

"[I]n 2001 a BROWN Australian citizen, Vivian Alvarez (Solon) (married name Vivian Young), was taken from a Lismore hospital (in a wheel chair, confused from mental illness and with her head bandaged from car accident injuries) and fairly promptly and secretly deported by plane to the Philippines. She was not heard of since UNTIL LAST WEEK (when, thanks to media reportage, she was fortuitously found to be in a Catholic hospice in the Philippines), even though Immigration became aware of their mistake several years ago. Vivian Alvarez has family in Australia including her 2 young children. The conservative government refuses to have a proper judicial inquiry."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/29/224437/872


From news at resist.ca  Mon May 30 01:17:04 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 08:17:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Mandatory Donations: Free Versus Fee
Message-ID: <20050530081704.12301.qmail@resist.ca>

"The capitalist perversion of 'donations,' 'free,' and 'tips,' have now rendered new definitions for those old concepts and words. When I was young, people tipped according to the quality of service rendered. Tipping was voluntary and it actually was 'earned.' Nowadays, if a person simply hands you a cup of coffee, from less than a foot away, they glare if you do not tip. My assessment of this is capitalist employers are using 'tips' as a supplement to substandard wages, forcing employees to aggressively panhandle, really, under the guise of 'voluntary tipping.' Another dirty capitalist ploy is advertising something as 'free,' but blocking all entrances to the event with aggressive 'donations' volunteers who literally will not let you enter the event without glares and often a scene, if you actually try to go to the 'free' event without paying. Often 'suggested donation' really means 'admission price,' and I wish people would be honest and just say what they mean."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/28/213610/120


From news at resist.ca  Mon May 30 01:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 08:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] RAWA's View of Afghanistan Protests
Message-ID: <20050530081704.12299.qmail@resist.ca>

"Afghan Women's Mission recently asked RAWA (the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan) what they thought of the anti-US protests in Afghanistan, the desecration of the Koran, and the prisoner abuses. The answer of RAWA member Selay is printed below."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/30/0010/01414


From news at resist.ca  Mon May 30 09:17:10 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 16:17:10 -0000
Subject: [news] poll: government, not private companies,
	should provide public services
Message-ID: <20050530161711.26005.qmail@resist.ca>

Three out of four Ontario residents agree that communities are better off when governments and not private companies provide public services, according to poll results released by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/30/74612/2517


From news at resist.ca  Tue May 31 00:17:03 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 07:17:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Muslim Lives are Desecrated, Not Just their Book
Message-ID: <20050531071704.19070.qmail@resist.ca>

"Could the hypothesis be true that Muslims, despite their alleged backwardness, had access to TV news, print media and the Internet and might've accidentally run across hundreds of photos of physically humiliated and sexually abused Iraqi prisoners? Could it be possible that they learned of harrowing testimonies of former prisoners at Guantanamo detailing what numerous human rights groups unhesitatingly described as 'war crimes?'"

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/28/203655/874


From news at resist.ca  Tue May 31 01:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 08:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Critical Condition
Message-ID: <20050531081706.10585.qmail@resist.ca>

Critical Condition by Chris Anderson; The Indypendent (New York City) "The whoops and hollers grew louder as thousands of bicyclists streamed from the West Side Highway through the Battery underpass. It was a warm, summer night and there were no cars, no angry SUVs, no impatient taxicabs. The 20-block-long procession had tied Midtown in knots and moved on. As the cyclists emerged from their underground echo chamber onto the FDR, they looked out over the East River and saw a full moon rising over the Brooklyn skyline."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/30/184056/750


From news at resist.ca  Tue May 31 01:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 08:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Ignorance Is Not Bliss
Message-ID: <20050531081706.10583.qmail@resist.ca>

"Two years ago, my home burnt to the ground after a fire swept through it. When the crews were rebuilding, I had erected an outdoor altar on the grounds so I would still have a place to honor deity. I was shocked beyond words when I witnessed the workmen touching sacred objects on the altar and making references to 'voodoo' and 'black magic.'"

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/30/01446/5934


From news at resist.ca  Tue May 31 01:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 08:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] WCB Demonstration - Wed June 1/2005
Message-ID: <20050531081707.10589.qmail@resist.ca>

COME TO OUR WCB DEMONSTRATION RALLY WEDNESDAY JUNE 1/2005 We will be celebrating Willi's 3rd week of protest in the tree. This is a big media event who said they will be there to cover the story. It starts between 5pm on Wednesday and ends at 7pm. For more details drop by the protest site, or call Jennifer at 1-604-807-9638 There will be a huge amount of people! Willi counts on you showing up. Please bring your friends and family. The website is: www.wcbprotest.com

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/30/124543/174


From news at resist.ca  Tue May 31 01:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 08:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Bolivia: Gas Protests Continue
Message-ID: <20050531081706.10584.qmail@resist.ca>

"On May 23, some 5,000 Bolivian coca growers (cocaleros) from the Chapare region of Cochabamba department arrived in La Paz after a four-day, 200-kilometer march from the town of Caracollo in Oruro department to press for national control of oil and natural gas resources and the convening of a constitutional assembly. The Federation of Neighborhood Committees (FEJUVE) in the neighboring city of El Alto began an open-ended general strike the same day. As the cocaleros passed through El Alto into La Paz, El Alto's oganized indigenous majority chanted demands for 'not 30%, nor 50% royalties--nationalization!' Bolivia's popular movements are pressing for full nationalization of hydrocarbons resources, while Movement to Socialism (MAS) leader Evo Morales, who headed the cocalero march, has reaped harsh criticism for his compromise proposal that the government increase gas royalties to 50%."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/30/124130/456


From news at resist.ca  Tue May 31 01:17:06 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 08:17:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Shitting In The...City
Message-ID: <20050531081707.10587.qmail@resist.ca>

"Remember when you were a kid traveling with your parents, and you had to pee, and you had to hold it in until the next stop? Remember the pain you would endure and how it got to a point where you could think of nothing else as you waited to pee? Well, homeless folks potentially go through that experience several times a day. One of the worst parts of being homeless is the illegality of bodily functions in society. Not only are public bathrooms nearly nonexistent, but urinating (peeing) and defecating (shitting) in public is also illegal, for obvious health reasons. This issue of bathroom access for the homeless is a huge one."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/29/9857/06961


From news at resist.ca  Tue May 31 01:17:07 2005
From: news at resist.ca (Resist!ca)
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 08:17:07 -0000
Subject: [news] Cops Who Assaulted Elder Get to Investigate Themselves
Message-ID: <20050531081708.10590.qmail@resist.ca>

"'I had put the Tylenols in my mouth when someone grabbed my throat and shoulder and literally dragged me out of the car,' said Woodward. 'There were two officers. One slammed me into a wall face first, and yelled 'Spit it out!' 'When I spit out the pills, my teeth came out as well.' Woodward suffered serious cuts to his left hand and right shoulder, and his stomach started to bleed from old injuries that split open."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/30/163050/536