From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 1 10:17:14 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:17:14 -0000 Subject: [news] Factories, Bedrooms, and Battlefields: Emma Goldman and Anarchist Opposition to World War Message-ID: <20061201181715.596.qmail@resist.ca> ![Anarcha feminism][1]**** by Aaron Lakoff Of all the great women in American history, not many have left as profound a mark as Emma Goldman. At one point called ?one of America's most dangerous radicals? by the New York Times, Goldman was an influential anarchist feminist who was loved by her comrades and workers all around the world, and hated by bosses and politicians. Perhaps one of the most remarkable things about this woman is that she was involved in struggles around a plethora of social issues, including women's rights to birth control, workers' rights, and prisoner justice. However, in 1917, the year that American President Woodrow Wilson made a dramatic decision to send his troops across the Atlantic Ocean to fight in World War 1, Goldman decided to devote herself entirely to opposing the war and many of its consequences, both abroad and at home. [read more][2] [1]: http://aaron.resist.ca/sites/aaron.resist.ca/files/images//spunkpress.thumbnail.png (Anarcha feminism) [2]: http://mostlywater.org/node/14841 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/14841 From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 1 10:40:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Preventative Justice Message-ID: <20061201184010.20528.qmail@resist.ca> Activist Jaggi Singh is arrested for what he _might_ do and threatened with six months in detention. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/14805 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/14805 From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 1 23:40:07 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 07:40:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Sham Community Consultation on National Security Disrupted by Immigrant Community Organizers Message-ID: <20061202074007.21092.qmail@resist.ca> CSIS, RCMP and (Border Services) representatives will not be allowed to carry on as business-as-usual while claiming to have ?ethnic? support for their repressive policies and actions. Our communities have repeatedly rejected and opposed the campaign of fear and humiliation that continues to be carried out against us through escalating detentions and deportations... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/sham_community_consultation_on_national_security_disrupted_by_immigrant_community_organizers URL: http://mostlywater.org/sham_community_consultation_on_national_security_disrupted_by_immigrant_community_organizers From news at resist.ca Sat Dec 2 15:40:39 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 23:40:39 -0000 Subject: [news] The Spirit of Resistance in Mexico Message-ID: <20061202234040.353.qmail@resist.ca> National Action Party (PAN) candidate Felipe Calderon had center stage at 12:01 AM, December 1 at the presidential residence of Los Pinos as Mexico's new president addressed the country on national television after a brief stealth swearing-in ceremony for him to the office he didn't win and will now assume illegitimately because of the fraud-laden electoral coup d'etat that gave it to him. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_spirit_of_resistance_in_mexico URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_spirit_of_resistance_in_mexico From news at resist.ca Sat Dec 2 16:40:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 00:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Bolivia Passes Major Land Reform Message-ID: <20061203004009.24456.qmail@resist.ca> [![Morales with Martin Condori: The Bolivian president, Evo Morales, shakes hands with Martin Condori, one of the peasants' leaders, after signing the land reform bill. Photograph: Aizar Raldes/AP][1]][2]**Morales with Martin Condori: **The Bolivian president, Evo Morales, shakes hands with Martin Condori, one of the peasants' leaders, after signing the land reform bill. Photograph: Aizar Raldes/APThe Guardian Rory Carroll, Latin America correspondent Wednesday November 29, 2006 The Bolivian president, Evo Morales, has secured a sweeping land reform bill with the help of thousands of indigenous peasants who marched on the capital, La Paz. The law is intended to reverse centuries of discrimination against the indigenous majority by seizing 77,000 square miles of land - an area around three-quarters the size of Britain - deemed unproductive or illegally owned and redistributing it to the poor. [read more][3] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/system/files/images/Morales+Land+Reform.thumbnail.jpg (Morales with Martin Condori: The Bolivian president, Evo Morales, shakes hands with Martin Condori, one of the peasants' leaders, after signing the land reform bill. Photograph: Aizar Raldes/AP) [2]: http://mostlywater.org/ [3]: http://mostlywater.org/bolivia_passes_major_land_reform URL: http://mostlywater.org/bolivia_passes_major_land_reform From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 3 02:17:07 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 10:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Mohawk Political Prisoner Challenges Jurisdiction of Colonial Courts Message-ID: <20061203101707.4483.qmail@resist.ca> Over 50 people packed the Cayuga courthouse on Wednesday for Trevor Miller, a Six Nations Mohawk of the Turtle Clan, as Trevor declared to the court that the colonial Canadian system has no jurisdiction over him. When the judge walked into the courtroom for the pre-trial hearing of Trevor Miller, and the bailiff called ?all rise?, only the cops and the lawyers stood up. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/mohawk_political_prisoner_challenges_jurisdiction_of_colonial_courts URL: http://mostlywater.org/mohawk_political_prisoner_challenges_jurisdiction_of_colonial_courts From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 3 14:17:06 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 22:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] "Death to the Pigs!" - Angry Crowd Confronts Cops After Murder of Sean Bell Message-ID: <20061203221707.23678.qmail@resist.ca> The man gunned down in a spray of 50 police bullets was buried Saturday as hundreds of angry demonstrators honored him with a moment of silence before going jaw-to-jaw with police in a bitter confrontation outside a Queens precinct house...Tensions were high in the neighborhood where 23-year-old Sean Bell was killed one week ago outside a local nightclub, with demonstrators waving signs proclaiming "Death to the pigs" and "Shoot back." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/death_to_the_pigs_angry_crowd_confronts_cops_after_murder_of_sean_bell URL: http://mostlywater.org/death_to_the_pigs_angry_crowd_confronts_cops_after_murder_of_sean_bell From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 3 14:17:06 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 22:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Palestinian Human Rights Vs. Human Rights Watch Message-ID: <20061203221707.23677.qmail@resist.ca> It is at times like this that we expect human rights organizations to speak out. How has Human Rights Watch responded to the challenge? It criticized Israel for destroying Gaza's only electrical plant, and also called on Israel to "investigate" why its forces were targeting Palestinian medical personnel in Gaza and to "investigate" the Beit Hanoun massacre. On the other hand, it accused Palestinians of committing a "war crime" after they captured an Israeli soldier and offered to exchange him for Palestinian women and children held in Israeli jails. (Israel was holding 10,000 Palestinians prisoner.) [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/palestinian_human_rights_vs_human_rights_watch URL: http://mostlywater.org/palestinian_human_rights_vs_human_rights_watch From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 3 14:40:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 22:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Labour Media, Neoliberalism and the Crisis in the Labour Movement Message-ID: <20061203224011.11005.qmail@resist.ca> Thanks to a highly sophisticated, multi-pronged corporate effort, the labour movement is in crisis. How bad is the situation? Really bad. In the U.S. today, the portion of the working population that is represented by unions is at its lowest level since the 1920s. Meanwhile, corporations are rampaging unchecked. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/labour_media_neoliberalism_and_the_crisis_in_the_labour_movement URL: http://mostlywater.org/labour_media_neoliberalism_and_the_crisis_in_the_labour_movement From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 3 17:17:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 01:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] An Immigration SOS Message-ID: <20061204011709.21397.qmail@resist.ca> Around 150 immigrants facing removal from Britain are to be freed on bail to make room for some of those held at the troubled Harmondsworth Detention Centre in Middlesex. News of the releases came as officials said unrest at the centre, Britain's biggest, had been "contained" after day-long protests by inmates. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/an_immigration_sos URL: http://mostlywater.org/an_immigration_sos From news at resist.ca Mon Dec 4 12:17:17 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 20:17:17 -0000 Subject: [news] Chavez Reelected President of Venezuela: 61.4% of Vote Message-ID: <20061204201718.7383.qmail@resist.ca> Caracas, December 3, 2006-- According to the first preliminary results from Venezuela's National Electoral Council, President Hugo Chavez won the presidency with 61.4% of the vote to his challenger's 38.4%. This is with 78.3% of the votes counted. [![Chavez greets supporters: Hugo Ch?vez after his own re-election][1]][2]**Chavez greets supporters: **Hugo Ch?vez after his own re-election [read more][3] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/system/files/images/chavez_victory2_p.thumbnail.jpg (Chavez greets supporters: Hugo Ch?vez after his own re-election) [2]: http://mostlywater.org/ [3]: http://mostlywater.org/chavez_reelected_president_of_venezuela_61_4_of_vote URL: http://mostlywater.org/chavez_reelected_president_of_venezuela_61_4_of_vote From news at resist.ca Mon Dec 4 17:40:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 01:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Repression on the Menu in Mexico Message-ID: <20061205014010.23749.qmail@resist.ca> ...(R)epression is right at the top of (Mexican President Felipe) Calderon's menu as evidenced by his cabinet appointees, many of them like him chosen from the right wing of the rightist (PAN) party. The new interior secretary...Ramirez Acuna was notorious for ordering the brutal repression of an anti-globalization demonstration during a Latin American-European Union summit in Guadalajara in May 2004 in which a hundred protestors were jailed and beaten, tortured for days by state police and thrown into Jalisco's maximum lock-ups for months... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/repression_on_the_menu_in_mexico URL: http://mostlywater.org/repression_on_the_menu_in_mexico From news at resist.ca Mon Dec 4 17:40:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 01:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] The End of the Bush Dynasty Message-ID: <20061205014009.23745.qmail@resist.ca> How George Bush's Presidency has led to the decline of the Bush political family dynasty. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_end_of_the_bush_dynasty URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_end_of_the_bush_dynasty From news at resist.ca Mon Dec 4 19:40:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 03:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Ethnic Cleansing and =?utf-8?q?Israel=E2=80=99s?= Racist Discourse Message-ID: <20061205034009.28467.qmail@resist.ca> (I)t is important that when we examine the subject of ethnic cleansing in Palestine, we take into account its various dimensions, one of which is the accompanying racist discourse, which has become part and parcel of Israel?s ethnic cleansing policies. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/ethnic_cleansing_and_israel_s_racist_discourse URL: http://mostlywater.org/ethnic_cleansing_and_israel_s_racist_discourse From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 6 00:40:07 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 08:40:07 -0000 Subject: [news] To Sow the Oil or Give it Away? Canada and Venezuela Pursue Different Oil Policies Message-ID: <20061206084008.28402.qmail@resist.ca> Canada and Venezuela represent the most important sources of oil outside the Middle East?and as heavy oil extraction methods improve, they may surpass even that black-gold mine. But their approaches to oil revenue could not be more different. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/to_sow_the_oil_or_give_it_away_canada_and_venezuela_pursue_different_oil_policies URL: http://mostlywater.org/to_sow_the_oil_or_give_it_away_canada_and_venezuela_pursue_different_oil_policies From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 6 01:17:06 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 09:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Ho Ho Hold the CUPE Concessions Message-ID: <20061206091707.2945.qmail@resist.ca> Some 600 of Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) most valued employees will inevitably have somewhat of a blue Christmas, a Christmas without the reassurance of a new collective agreement resolved and their future secured. Workers have been without a contract for a year and are facing major concession demands from their union employer. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/ho_ho_hold_the_cupe_concessions URL: http://mostlywater.org/ho_ho_hold_the_cupe_concessions From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 6 09:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Where Have All The Fishes Gone? Message-ID: <20061206171704.22380.qmail@resist.ca> **Newfoundland losing lakes to mining waste** by Tracy Glynn The reclassification of the two lakes in Newfoundland marks the first time that Schedule 2 was used to allow a known fish-bearing water body to be used as a tailings impoundment area. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/15004 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/15004 From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 6 16:17:05 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] P3s, Nazis and Polite Canadian Fascism Message-ID: <20061207001705.2279.qmail@resist.ca> An often overlooked attribute of the Nazi Party was their close relationship to German industry. In fact they received a lot of their funding from big industrialists like August Borsig (Berlin locomotive manufacturer), Emil Kirdorf (Coal Syndicate) and Fritz Thyssen (United Steel Works and president of German Industrial Council). They were rewarded for their support when the Nazis obtained political power. The Nazis shifted a lot of the once fully public assets into joint public-private control. [1] Does this sound familiar Canada? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/p3s_nazis_and_polite_canadian_fascism URL: http://mostlywater.org/p3s_nazis_and_polite_canadian_fascism From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 6 18:17:26 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 02:17:26 -0000 Subject: [news] What We're Up Against: Lessons from Guatemala Message-ID: <20061207021726.10019.qmail@resist.ca> There are many battles being fought in the name of social justice...some more pitched than others. In general, however, these struggles do not result in victory thanks to a petition, a candlelight vigil, or a ballot pull. In other words, those seeking peace, justice, and solidarity should never underestimate the relentless and brutal power of what they are up against. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/what_were_up_against_lessons_from_guatemala URL: http://mostlywater.org/what_were_up_against_lessons_from_guatemala From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 6 18:17:26 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 02:17:26 -0000 Subject: [news] Remembering a Massacre & Demanding Women's Equality Message-ID: <20061207021726.10020.qmail@resist.ca> Now well into the 21st century, men are still...killing or abusing women. How they get away with it...has something to do with the continuing structural inequality and sexism prevalent in society...The (Montreal) massacre...was an expression of attitudes toward women that are still latent today and seek to hold women back. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/remembering_a_massacre_demanding_womens_equality URL: http://mostlywater.org/remembering_a_massacre_demanding_womens_equality From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 6 19:40:07 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 03:40:07 -0000 Subject: [news] The Global Trade in Sex Toys Message-ID: <20061207034007.8674.qmail@resist.ca> Globalization shows that the world is round and everything eventually comes full circle. From the Dickensian sex toy factories in China to the glamour of New York's Kiki de Monparnasse (selling a $450 titanium vibrator) or Henri Bendel (which sells a $688 silk whip), sex toys have become an important accoutrement to the market driven sex economy. From Bangkok to Las Vegas, Amsterdam to San Francisco, Tokyo to Rio, sexual culture has become universalized. Being post-modern means adopting (or at least accepting) an international appetite toward sexual pleasure. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_global_trade_in_sex_toys URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_global_trade_in_sex_toys From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 6 23:40:20 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 07:40:20 -0000 Subject: [news] It's Hard Being a Woman in Iraq Message-ID: <20061207074020.15312.qmail@resist.ca> "The Kurds want Kirkuk (an oil-rich city they consider the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan), and the Shias want the Islamic Republic of Iraq, just like Iran's"..."The genie is out of the bottle in terms of political Islam (by Shias) and the resistance (by Sunnis). America will tolerate any conclusion so they can leave, even if it means destroying women's rights and civil liberties. They have left us a regime like the Taliban." --Yanar Mohammed, one of Iraq's staunchest women's right's advocates [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/its_hard_being_a_woman_in_iraq URL: http://mostlywater.org/its_hard_being_a_woman_in_iraq From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 8 09:17:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 17:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Race and Waste in Nova Scotia Message-ID: <20061208171709.19200.qmail@resist.ca> Accusations of "environmental racism" take centre stage during fight against new landfill development by Hillary Bain Lindsay [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/15076 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/15076 From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 8 09:17:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 17:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Six Nations Update: How the Land was Taken Away Message-ID: <20061208171709.19201.qmail@resist.ca> Jock had put together a document written in the Cayuga Language that outlined our presentation that day. He stood and read this document to the Crown representatives in the traditional language, and then he translated it into english for them. He also asked them to sign this document to verify that they had heard this presentation today. None of the Crown representatives would sign. At that point Jock then thanked them for proving our point. Our ancestors were faced with this throughout our history, with Crown representatives being the ones who not only drafted the documents, but also translated it, having the opportunity to give false information to our people. The difference being is our people trusted the Crown, and this is where we went wrong. They were continually being scammed and mislead, and the evidence was clearly represented that day because what was written and what was handed down orally through our history was not the same thing. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/six_nations_update_how_the_land_was_taken_away URL: http://mostlywater.org/six_nations_update_how_the_land_was_taken_away From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 8 12:17:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 20:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] The Spirit of Democracy in Venezuela Message-ID: <20061208201708.11385.qmail@resist.ca> The reelection of Hugo Chavez was a model of the democratic process unlike the illusion of one in the US [Celebrations] continued all night in the [...] streets of Caracas echoing Chavez's words repeating "Libertad" (liberty) and telling the crowd this was a victory for them, for socialism and for the Bolivarian Revolution he now wants to advance to the next stage. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_spirit_of_democracy_in_venezuela URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_spirit_of_democracy_in_venezuela From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 8 12:17:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 20:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Anarchist Federation Organise #67 - Open Letter for the Anarchist Federation's 20th Year Message-ID: <20061208201709.11386.qmail@resist.ca> [![Logo][1]][2] The Anarchist Federation, formerly Anarchist Communist Federation, has now been going 20 years. We have written an open letter to enlist responses from people who we've worked with over the last decade and other people who we know, including Organise! readers. Get the knives (or fireworks) out! The Anarchist Federation is marking its 20th year with an article in Organise! magazine looking at the last decade and we'd like to enlist the help of groups and individuals in and around the anarchist movement to make this an interactive piece! [read more][3] [1]: http://www.ainfos.ca/images/jpg/ainfos2.jpg [2]: http://www.ainfos.ca/en/indiez.html [3]: http://mostlywater.org/node/15081 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/15081 From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 8 14:40:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 22:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] NYPD's Death Squads Message-ID: <20061208224009.9310.qmail@resist.ca> Sean Bell's murder is one of the most outrageous police killings since Amadou Diallo was shot 41 times by police who claim they thought the wallet he was taking out of his pocket looked like a gun...Like Diallo, Bell and his two friends, Trent Benefield and Jose Guzman, were unarmed. But that didn't stop police from firing 50 bullets into the car that carried the three. "It was an execution," (Bell's Fiance) Nicole Paultre told a New York radio station. "They barricaded him in and executed him." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/nypds_death_squads URL: http://mostlywater.org/nypds_death_squads From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 8 16:17:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 00:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] U.S. Prisons Resemble Those Used in "War on Terror" Message-ID: <20061209001708.29867.qmail@resist.ca> Observers didn't regard conditions and behaviours in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq as abnormally brutal. That's because they so closely resembled conditions in ordinary supermax prisons in the US...Since April 2003 over 5,000 civilian prison guards have been called up for active military duty and the American Corrections Association estimates the figure could reach 9,000. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/u_s_prisons_resemble_those_used_in_war_on_terror URL: http://mostlywater.org/u_s_prisons_resemble_those_used_in_war_on_terror From news at resist.ca Sat Dec 9 17:17:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 01:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada's Wannabe Media Americans Message-ID: <20061210011711.27924.qmail@resist.ca> Much has been written...about how the horror of 9/11 enabled George Bush's administration to extend its international and domestic campaigns of repression. Much less has been written...about how these and other events have altered Canadian foreign policy, bringing it more closely in line with that of the U.S. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/canadas_wannabe_media_americans URL: http://mostlywater.org/canadas_wannabe_media_americans From news at resist.ca Sat Dec 9 21:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 05:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Can You Hear Me Now? Message-ID: <20061210051704.26177.qmail@resist.ca> ![The FBI is in your pocket: They know when you've been bad or good, even when it's off.][1]**The FBI is in your pocket: **They know when you've been bad or good, even when it's off.ABC News Cell phone users, beware. The FBI can listen to everything you say, even when the cell phone is turned off. A recent court ruling in a case against the Genovese crime family revealed that the FBI has the ability from a remote location to activate a cell phone and turn its microphone into a listening device that transmits to an FBI listening post, a method known as a "roving bug." Experts say the only way to defeat it is to remove the cell phone battery. "The FBI can access cell phones and modify them remotely without ever having to physically handle them," James Atkinson, a counterintelligence security consultant, told ABC News. "Any recently manufactured cell phone has a built-in tracking device, which can allow eavesdroppers to pinpoint someone's location to within just a few feet," he added. [read more][2] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/system/files/images/nsa_phone.thumbnail.jpg (The FBI is in your pocket: They know when you've been bad or good, even when it's off.) [2]: http://mostlywater.org/can_you_hear_me_now URL: http://mostlywater.org/can_you_hear_me_now From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 10 14:40:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 22:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Augusto Pinochet Dead, Escapes Justice Message-ID: <20061210224009.9449.qmail@resist.ca> Chile's former military leader Augusto Pinochet has died at the age of 91. The general entered a Santiago hospital a week ago after a heart attack. He was thought to be recovering when his condition suddenly worsened on Sunday. Gen Pinochet seized power in a coup against an elected government in 1973. More than 3,000 people were killed or "disappeared" over the next 17 years. He was accus [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/15213 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/15213 From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 10 14:40:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 22:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Messages 'Hidden in Yuletide Carols' Message-ID: <20061210224009.9462.qmail@resist.ca> Vancouver Province, December 24, 1991 Reuter, London Some of the best-loved English Christmas carols bear more than tidings of comfort and joy, expert Ian Bradley believes. Some, he says, could be coded calls to revolution. "Those who protest that (carols) have been robbed of their original religious purpose, by being turned into the endless tinkly Muzak which keeps us filling supermarket trolleys extra high throughout the festive season, should pause," Bradley wrote. "Some of our best-loved Christmas hymns are not quite what they seem." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/messages_hidden_in_yuletide_carols URL: http://mostlywater.org/messages_hidden_in_yuletide_carols From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 10 15:17:05 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 23:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Britain Starts Playing Pre-Olympic Event Called 'How much?!!' Message-ID: <20061210231705.17168.qmail@resist.ca> By Vaughn Palmer "Most Londoners reacted with joy when the International Olympic Committee awarded the 2012 Summer Games to their city in July last year," wrote the venerable newsmagazine. "That most Olympics lose money, often in vast amounts, was ignored in the spasm of patriotic pride. But now there is an increasingly acrimonious row over how much the Games will cost and who will end up paying for the overrun." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/britain_starts_playing_pre_olympic_event_called_how_much URL: http://mostlywater.org/britain_starts_playing_pre_olympic_event_called_how_much From news at resist.ca Mon Dec 11 00:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 08:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Unrest in Chile in Wake of Pinochet's Death Message-ID: <20061211081704.13426.qmail@resist.ca> Violent clashes broke out between Chilean police and opponents of former dictator Augusto Pinochet, who died Sunday. Others mourned that Pinochet will never be brought to justice. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/unrest_in_chile_in_wake_of_pinochets_death URL: http://mostlywater.org/unrest_in_chile_in_wake_of_pinochets_death From news at resist.ca Mon Dec 11 18:40:17 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 02:40:17 -0000 Subject: [news] Jeff Hogg & the Liberation of Dissent Message-ID: <20061212024019.31080.qmail@resist.ca> The IWW union hall in North Portland was filled to capacity at the Liberating Dissent Anti-Green Scare event on December 9 as Grand Jury resister Jeff Hogg shared his six month ordeal as a Green Scare political prisoner. Until his release from the Josephine County Jail on November 11 of this year, Jeff found himself caught in the snare of the government war on dissent. His speaking presentation occurred as part of an international call to mark the weekend of December 7 as a display of unity and opposition to government repression. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/jeff_hogg_and_the_liberation_of_dissent URL: http://mostlywater.org/jeff_hogg_and_the_liberation_of_dissent From news at resist.ca Mon Dec 11 18:40:17 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 02:40:17 -0000 Subject: [news] The Atrocities of General Augusto Pinochet and the United States Message-ID: <20061212024020.31087.qmail@resist.ca> "I don't see why we need to stand idly by and watch a country go Communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people." --U.S. National Security advisor Henry Kissinger on the election of Socialist Salvador Allende as President of Chile, before a U.S.-backed military coup that overthrew his government [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_atrocities_of_general_augusto_pinochet_and_the_united_states URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_atrocities_of_general_augusto_pinochet_and_the_united_states From news at resist.ca Mon Dec 11 19:17:49 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 03:17:49 -0000 Subject: [news] What's the Deal with the Dalai Lama? Message-ID: <20061212031752.8179.qmail@resist.ca> "The prevalence of anti-communism as a near religion in the United States has made it easy to sell slave masters as humanitarians. The Dalai Lama is not much different from the former slave owners of the Confederate South." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/whats_the_deal_with_the_dalai_lama URL: http://mostlywater.org/whats_the_deal_with_the_dalai_lama From news at resist.ca Tue Dec 12 10:17:05 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] 25 Years Later, Mumia Abu-Jamal's Best and Last Chance, as French Supporters Face Charges Message-ID: <20061212181705.10396.qmail@resist.ca> [ ![][1]][2] World-renowned [black death-row prisoner and journalist [Mumia Abu-Jamal][3] was convicted of killing white Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner in a 1982 trial that [Amnesty International has deemed unfair][4] [(see report)][5]. [Supported][6] [internationally][7] by [a variety of activists][8], [workers][9], and [educators][10], his [books][11] and [radio essays][12] [challenging injustice everywhere][13] have earned the [former Black Panther][14] the [nickname "The Voice of the Voiceless."][15]][16] [His court case][17] has now hit the fast track with oral arguments beginning any month. The [3rd Circuit Court of Appeals is considering four issues][18] in regards to [granting Abu-Jamal a new trial][19]. Supported by [the NAACP][20], [NLG][21], [UK Lawyers][22], and [The German Parliament][23], [Philly Journalists][24] [Linn Washington][25] and [Dave Lindorff][26] have optimistically written of Abu-Jamal's [chances for a new trial.][27] [read more][28] [1]: http://www.indymedia.org/or/main-features-content.rss/icon/2006/12/876387.jpg [2]: http://www.indymedia.org/or/main-features-content.rss/images/2006/12/876387.jpg [3]: http://www.freemumia.org/mumiabooklet05.pdf [4]: http://www.commondreams.org/news2000/0217-02.htm [5]: http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/engAMR510012000 [6]: http://www.zmag.org/mlkjr.htm [7]: http://www.mumia.de/ [8]: http://www.zmag.org/CrisesCurEvts/Mumia/mumiacrisis.htm [9]: http://www.millions4mumia.org/voices/labor.html [10]: http://www.emajonline.com/index.php?action=1&extra=educators_list.php&cat_id=53 [11]: http://www.emajonline.com/index.php?action=1&extra=&cat_id=48 [12]: http://www.prisonradio.org/mumia.htm [13]: http://www.counterpunch.org/cruz06262006.html [14]: http://www.prisonradio.org/MumiaInterviewBlockOct.htm [15]: http://www.zmag.org/CrisesCurEvts/Mumia/ratmsong.htm [16]: http://www.emajonline.com/index.php?action=1&extra=&cat_id=51 [17]: http://www.emajonline.com/index.php?action=0&extra=&cat_id=42 [18]: http://www.emajonline.com/index.php?action=4&content_id=45 [19]: http://www.freemumia.org/NyashaBryanInterview2.pdf [20]: http://www.naacpldf.org/content.aspx?article=957 [21]: http://www.nlg.org/news/statements/amici_nlgMumia2006.pdf [22]: http://www.freemumia.com/UKpress.html [23]: http://www.freemumia.org/articlesnewspg/Mumia6-22-06.pdf [24]: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2879 [25]: http://www.counterpunch.org/washington12102005.html [26]: http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff12072005.html [27]: http://insubordination.blogspot.com/2006/11/mumias-best-and-last-chanc_116433982878097950.html [28]: http://mostlywater.org/node/15122 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/15122 From news at resist.ca Tue Dec 12 10:40:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Aboriginal Right to Log Upheld by Canadian Court Message-ID: <20061212184010.30587.qmail@resist.ca> Top court upholds aboriginal logging rights on Crown land Native people have the right to log Crown lands for personal use, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a unanimous judgment on two New Brunswick cases. The high court judges decided three New Brunswick men who took Crown wood to make furniture, build a home and burn as firewood were exercising their treaty rights, not stealing. The ru [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/15085 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/15085 From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 13 10:40:13 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:40:13 -0000 Subject: [news] Meatpacking plants raided this morning Message-ID: <20061213184014.14436.qmail@resist.ca> Pre-holiday immigrant raids are being conducted across several states at a large meatpacking plant in the USA. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/meatpacking_plants_raided_this_morning URL: http://mostlywater.org/meatpacking_plants_raided_this_morning From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 13 10:40:13 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:40:13 -0000 Subject: [news] Alcoholism Is Colonialism Message-ID: <20061213184014.14435.qmail@resist.ca> Many of our urban poor in Western Canada are displaced aboriginal peoples driven to drink thanks to poverty and the wretched history of White Folks poisioning them with firewater. Today the same problem exists for the San People of the Kalahari desert. The direct result of British Colonialism and its treatment of indigenous peoples in Africa and Canada, and other Commonwealth colonies. Today the same problem exists for the San People of the Kalahari desert. The direct result of British Colonialism and its treatment of indigenous peoples in Africa and Canada, and other Commonwealth colonies. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/alcoholism_is_colonialism URL: http://mostlywater.org/alcoholism_is_colonialism From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 13 16:40:23 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:40:23 -0000 Subject: [news] Afghanistan: The Bloodiest Field for Slaughtering Human Rights (From RAWA) Message-ID: <20061214004025.8761.qmail@resist.ca> ...America never wants peace and stability in Afghanistan. The US government sacrificed our people for its political and economical interests by establishing a government full of traitors, criminals and drug-lords. It does not matter who rules in Kabul, the US wants just a puppet regime. An American military presence in Afghanistan has no benefit for our people. In addition, thousands of civilians lost their lives because of radioactive and cluster bombs, and "friendly fire". This fact is obviously a disgrace for those who strongly defend the American military presence in Afghanistan. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/afghanistan_the_bloodiest_field_for_slaughtering_human_rights_from_rawa URL: http://mostlywater.org/afghanistan_the_bloodiest_field_for_slaughtering_human_rights_from_rawa From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 13 22:40:28 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 06:40:28 -0000 Subject: [news] Naked Imperialism Message-ID: <20061214064028.9475.qmail@resist.ca> The global actions of the United States since September 11, 2001, are often seen as constituting a "new militarism" and a "new imperialism." Yet, neither militarism nor imperialism is new to the United States, which has been an expansionist power?continental, hemispheric, and global?since its inception. What has changed is the nakedness with which this is being promoted, and the unlimited, planetary extent of U.S. ambitions. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/naked_imperialism URL: http://mostlywater.org/naked_imperialism From news at resist.ca Thu Dec 14 09:40:15 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:40:15 -0000 Subject: [news] Omissions In the Iraq Study Group Report Message-ID: <20061214174015.15461.qmail@resist.ca> What's not in the Iraq Study Group is more important than what's in it. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/omissions_in_the_iraq_study_group_report URL: http://mostlywater.org/omissions_in_the_iraq_study_group_report From news at resist.ca Thu Dec 14 09:40:15 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:40:15 -0000 Subject: [news] In Canada, Work Kills Message-ID: <20061214174015.15462.qmail@resist.ca> A new study issued today says that five Canadians die every day on the job. That is 1100 workers every year killed on the job. That does not include the number injured on the job or who suffer the health affects from workplace dangers. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/in_canada_work_kills URL: http://mostlywater.org/in_canada_work_kills From news at resist.ca Thu Dec 14 10:17:24 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:17:24 -0000 Subject: [news] Toward an Anti-Corporate Strategy for the Peace Movement Message-ID: <20061214181724.23948.qmail@resist.ca> Discussion document written by the Anti-War Organization of London, at Huron University College. Huron-AWOL aims to contribute to the building of a grassroots anti-capitalist movement against profit-driven militarism and imperialism. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/15313 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/15313 From news at resist.ca Thu Dec 14 13:40:11 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 21:40:11 -0000 Subject: [news] MGP hearings "adjusted" for Dene Tha' court victory. Message-ID: <20061214214012.19062.qmail@resist.ca> The panel reviewing the Mackenzie Valley gas pipeline project has revised its schedule in response to the landmark ruling in which the Dene Tha' First Nation won the right to delay the project. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/mgp_hearings_adjusted_for_dene_tha_court_victory URL: http://mostlywater.org/mgp_hearings_adjusted_for_dene_tha_court_victory From news at resist.ca Sat Dec 16 16:17:05 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 00:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Everyone Needs to Stop Using the Term 'Eco-Terrorist:' Absolute Discharge for Guelph Man Message-ID: <20061217001706.32523.qmail@resist.ca> The idea was to inject humour into people's lives by spray-painting a politically satirical stencil, and to provoke thought on the use of the word 'terrorism.' I went out with this stencil -- an image of a bulldozer with the word 'eco-terrorist' below -- and at one point during a midsummer night, I turned, mid-spray-paint, to see a police car behind me. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/everyone_needs_to_stop_using_the_term_eco_terrorist_absolute_discharge_for_guelph_man URL: http://mostlywater.org/everyone_needs_to_stop_using_the_term_eco_terrorist_absolute_discharge_for_guelph_man From news at resist.ca Sat Dec 16 17:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 01:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Canadian Workers Poorer Today Than Yesterday Message-ID: <20061217011704.26045.qmail@resist.ca> I said this the other day, some things never change.....In Canada, the richest got richer and the poorest stayed poor. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/canadian_workers_poorer_today_than_yesterday URL: http://mostlywater.org/canadian_workers_poorer_today_than_yesterday From news at resist.ca Sat Dec 16 17:40:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 01:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] The Other Victims of Denial Message-ID: <20061217014008.29944.qmail@resist.ca> Mr. President (of Iran), I write to you following the announcement of your intention to organize a conference on the Holocaust...(A)llow me to introduce myself: Mahmoud Al-Safadi, a former prisoner from occupied Jerusalem...I (was) locked up for eighteen years for having been a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and having taken an active part in resistance to the occupation during the first Intifada...I am furious about your insistence on claiming that the Holocaust never took place and about your doubts about the number of Jews who were murdered in the extermination and concentration camps, organized massacres, and gas chambers... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_other_victims_of_denial URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_other_victims_of_denial From news at resist.ca Sat Dec 16 20:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 04:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Canadian Media Distorting Events in Lebanon Message-ID: <20061217041703.5914.qmail@resist.ca> Tadamon! is concerned with the way in which Canadian media are portraying current events in Lebanon...We encourage all who share these concerns to respond to inaccuracies and distortions in coverage of the crisis...(These) tools are available to help you respond: [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/canadian_media_distorting_events_in_lebanon URL: http://mostlywater.org/canadian_media_distorting_events_in_lebanon From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 17 03:40:12 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 11:40:12 -0000 Subject: [news] Call for Actions Against the War in Iraq - March 19 and 20th 2007 Message-ID: <20061217114013.5785.qmail@resist.ca> Our organizing experiences have left us feeling disappointed in ourselves and in the movement as a whole. Organizing against the war in Iraq has led us to believe that marching and chanting has not made enough of an impact nor done enough to end the brutal realities of the occupation. This has got to change. On March 19 and 20th 2007, we call for worldwide days of resistance to the imperialist, racist and senseless war in Iraq. We propose occupations, acts of civil disobedience, and direct action. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/call_for_actions_against_the_war_in_iraq_march_19_and_20th_2007 URL: http://mostlywater.org/call_for_actions_against_the_war_in_iraq_march_19_and_20th_2007 From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 17 12:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 20:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Christians Protest Halloween Then Push for Christmas Message-ID: <20061217201703.5686.qmail@resist.ca> Recently a Rabbi asked the Sea-Tac Airport outside Seattle, Wa. to display an 8 foot menorah alongside the 8 large Christmas trees they had on display. The airport blew him off. He threatened to sue. Immediately a Sea-Tac employee went to the local media and made the Rabbi out to be a Grinch, if not anti-Christian. Outraged Christians lodged 500+ complaints with Sea-Tac and threatened the Rabbi with violence. Under public pressure, the Rabbi said he would not sue Sea-Tac so they have now put the 8 trees back up...but what about the menorah? Nope. Sea-Tac will not allow it to go up. One more example of Christians acting as though they have entitlements no one else does. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/christians_protest_halloween_then_push_for_christmas URL: http://mostlywater.org/christians_protest_halloween_then_push_for_christmas From news at resist.ca Mon Dec 18 16:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 00:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Kingdom of Fear Message-ID: <20061219001703.26212.qmail@resist.ca> "It's a country where women don't have the vote and aren't allowed to drive; where they are forced to cover themselves from head to toe while out in public; where gender apartheid is practiced in schools and institutes, and where a woman is not even allowed to leave the house without the express permission of a male family member." What country are we talking about? Iran? Afghanistan? Read on to find out... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/kingdom_of_fear URL: http://mostlywater.org/kingdom_of_fear From news at resist.ca Mon Dec 18 16:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 00:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Why the U.S. Government Hates Democracy: Lessons from Italy Message-ID: <20061219001704.26213.qmail@resist.ca> ...(W)e can't put forward enough reminders of how the U.S. government, and the corporations that own it, do business. Platitudes about peace, freedom, justice, etc. aside, the land of the free is not even remotely interested in spreading democracy. There is an abundance of evidence to back up this assertion. For now, I offer the example of post-World War II Italy. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/why_the_u_s_government_hates_democracy_lessons_from_italy URL: http://mostlywater.org/why_the_u_s_government_hates_democracy_lessons_from_italy From news at resist.ca Mon Dec 18 16:40:19 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 00:40:19 -0000 Subject: [news] Cliques Retard Growth Message-ID: <20061219004020.14518.qmail@resist.ca> Hippies get mad at my anarchist tendencies. Anarchists get angry at my feminist leanings. The feminists are angered by my class politics...I learned long ago that you cannot please everyone and that one clique is too restrictive for my character. And it appears the alternative to clique mentality is individualism. I would prefer to be an independent agent, moving freely where my interests lead me, than to restrict myself to one prescribed clique and its agenda. And I have yet to find one clique that encompasses all of my beliefs, interests, and goals. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/cliques_retard_growth URL: http://mostlywater.org/cliques_retard_growth From news at resist.ca Mon Dec 18 19:17:06 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 03:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] BC Liberals Play Blame Game on Homeless & Mentally Ill Message-ID: <20061219031706.5409.qmail@resist.ca> The B.C. Liberal government is launching a public-relations campaign to avoid being blamed for rising homelessness and mentally ill people on the street, internal government documents obtained by "24 hours" indicate...The [Ministry of Employment & Income Assistance] presentation highlights as "myths" the results of a series of controversial restrictions on income assistance introduced by the government in recent years that poverty advocates say severely limit benefits and eligibility. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/bc_liberals_play_blame_game_on_homeless_mentally_ill URL: http://mostlywater.org/bc_liberals_play_blame_game_on_homeless_mentally_ill From news at resist.ca Tue Dec 19 01:17:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 09:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Afghan MP's Predict "Very Big War" Message-ID: <20061219091710.9505.qmail@resist.ca> In a series of interviews...a number of Afghan politicians said a mass uprising against NATO-led forces will soon begin, driving out the foreign troops and igniting a civil war. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/afghan_mps_predict_very_big_war URL: http://mostlywater.org/afghan_mps_predict_very_big_war From news at resist.ca Tue Dec 19 11:40:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 19:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Tories Fail Arar Message-ID: <20061219194010.21022.qmail@resist.ca> Arar considered threat to US, Wilkins says CTV.ca So much for Conservative White House buddy buddy diplomacy. Neither formal letters from Public Security Minister Stockwell Day to the US government, nor tuff talk, in the house, from PM Stephen Harper have availed Marher Arar of his right to enter the United States. He remains a security threat despite the Harpocrites claims to have done all they can to rectify this injustice. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/tories_fail_arar URL: http://mostlywater.org/tories_fail_arar From news at resist.ca Tue Dec 19 17:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 01:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] "Welcome to Vancouver, Land of the Homeless and Hopelessly Wealthy" Message-ID: <20061220011704.9988.qmail@resist.ca> ...(W)hen the B.C. Liberal government cuts social programs to pay for big tax cuts for corporations and the rich, drastically reduces eligibility for welfare, fails to provide enough drug treatment programs, doesn't create adequate low- income housing and increases costs for medical services, the results are crystal clear...And those results sleep and beg on our streets and in our alleys today. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/welcome_to_vancouver_land_of_the_homeless_and_hopelessly_wealthy URL: http://mostlywater.org/welcome_to_vancouver_land_of_the_homeless_and_hopelessly_wealthy From news at resist.ca Tue Dec 19 17:40:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 01:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Toronto Marks 500th Homeless Death Message-ID: <20061220014010.14243.qmail@resist.ca> Nestled behind the Eaton Centre, in front of Holy Trinity Anglican Church, is a stark, shocking memorial...It lists the names of those who have perished on the streets of Toronto for lack of housing. Many are only known as "Jane Doe" or "John Doe"...The 500th name will be added to this death toll today. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/toronto_marks_500th_homeless_death URL: http://mostlywater.org/toronto_marks_500th_homeless_death From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 20 18:17:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 02:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Paranoia and the Security State Message-ID: <20061221021709.9007.qmail@resist.ca> So why did the Arar affair happen? Because the State is paranoid, and the most paranoid of the State's apparatchiks are the police, especially the 'secret police', or official 'state police'. Those who protect secrets and weed out secret conspiracies opposed to the the state. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/paranoia_and_the_security_state URL: http://mostlywater.org/paranoia_and_the_security_state From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 20 18:17:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 02:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Chavez Landslide Tops All in US History Message-ID: <20061221021709.9008.qmail@resist.ca> Hugo Chavez scores two impressive landslide electoral victories. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/chavez_landslide_tops_all_in_us_history URL: http://mostlywater.org/chavez_landslide_tops_all_in_us_history From news at resist.ca Wed Dec 20 18:17:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 02:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Navajo Traditional Elders Blockade Power Plant Site Message-ID: <20061221021709.9009.qmail@resist.ca> Elderly Navajo women and their children formed a blockade, built a fire and camped at the site of a proposed power plant on tribal land in northwest New Mexico. The blockade of traditional Navajos halted site work in a region that is already toxic with air and water pollution from power plants, oil and gas wells and scattered radioactive tailings from the Cold War. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/navajo_traditional_elders_blockade_power_plant_site URL: http://mostlywater.org/navajo_traditional_elders_blockade_power_plant_site From news at resist.ca Thu Dec 21 03:17:12 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 11:17:12 -0000 Subject: [news] Where Next after the Iraqi Genocide? Message-ID: <20061221111713.19218.qmail@resist.ca> The definition of genocide from Article 2 of the Convention on Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide is intent to wholly or partially destroy any religious, ethnic or national group through killing or causing bodily or mental harm. The wholesale sectarian slaughter between Iraqi Sunnis and Iraqi Shia undoubtedly qualifies as mutual attempts at genocide. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/where_next_after_the_iraqi_genocide URL: http://mostlywater.org/where_next_after_the_iraqi_genocide From news at resist.ca Thu Dec 21 03:40:14 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 11:40:14 -0000 Subject: [news] Neo-Cons Wanted Israel to Attack Syria Message-ID: <20061221114015.23130.qmail@resist.ca> Neo-conservative hawks in and outside the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush had hoped that Israel would attack Syria during last summer's Lebanon war, according to a newly published interview with a prominent neo-conservative whose spouse is a top Middle East adviser in Vice President Dick Cheney's office. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/neo_cons_wanted_israel_to_attack_syria URL: http://mostlywater.org/neo_cons_wanted_israel_to_attack_syria From news at resist.ca Thu Dec 21 23:40:24 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 07:40:24 -0000 Subject: [news] US Marines Face Iraq Murder Trial Message-ID: <20061222074025.28264.qmail@resist.ca> Eight US marines have been charged over the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha last year...Men, women and children were killed by marines who said they were under attack from insurgents at the time. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/us_marines_face_iraq_murder_trial URL: http://mostlywater.org/us_marines_face_iraq_murder_trial From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 22 14:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 22:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Provoking Civil War in the Occupied Territories Message-ID: <20061222221704.20051.qmail@resist.ca> Britain is no longer simply boycotting a democratically elected Palestinian government. Following Tony Blair's visit, it is committing millions of pounds to Fatah militias that wish to overthrow it. Naturally enough, Blair's foreign policy initiative came two weeks after the US reportedly did the same thing, sending a shipment of 6,000 assault rifles to Fatah's elite Force 17 unit. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/provoking_civil_war_in_the_occupied_territories URL: http://mostlywater.org/provoking_civil_war_in_the_occupied_territories From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 22 23:17:05 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 07:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Tannenbaum Message-ID: <20061223071706.31978.qmail@resist.ca> Lets get Christ out of Christmas and just go back to celebrating it as a pagan heathen holiday. Ever since a bunch of evangelical right wingers and their Fox media syncophants decided to put Christ back into Christmas everyone is attacking poor Christmas Trees. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/tannenbaum URL: http://mostlywater.org/tannenbaum From news at resist.ca Fri Dec 22 23:40:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 07:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] On Israel's "Right to Exist" Message-ID: <20061223074009.3249.qmail@resist.ca> To demand that Palestinians recognize "Israel's right to exist" is to demand that a people who have for almost 60 years been treated, and continue to be treated, as sub-humans publicly proclaim that they ARE sub-humans -- and, at least implicitly, that they deserve what has been done, and continues to be done, to them. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/on_israels_right_to_exist URL: http://mostlywater.org/on_israels_right_to_exist From news at resist.ca Sat Dec 23 15:40:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 23:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Reflections on Pinochet's Death Message-ID: <20061223234010.17131.qmail@resist.ca> When I was teenager growing up in post-Pinochet Chile, I struggled to convey my feelings about the dictatorship to my friends and classmates, many of them who were pro-Pinochet. Some of them...said things like: ?Pinochet is a hero? or ?it's too bad so many had to die but it was in our country's best interest.? Now I am continually shocked...[to] hear the same defenses from educated adults, people who cowardly refuse to see the thousands dead as more than...collateral damage. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/reflections_on_pinochets_death URL: http://mostlywater.org/reflections_on_pinochets_death From news at resist.ca Sat Dec 23 16:17:05 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 00:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Cop Assaults Activist at Lockheed Protest Message-ID: <20061224001705.24106.qmail@resist.ca> As activist Patrick J. Elder began to give a talk about [Lockheed Martin's] role in the making and distribution of...deadly cluster bombs, he was interrupted by a group of three or four Montgomery County, MD police officers. They were yelling at him to "get off the grass." Elder...immediately complied with the officer's request. While Elder was standing on the sidewalk discussing the need for such a hostile attitude by the police, one of the officers walked directly up to him and in a very aggressive manner pushed him hard with both of his arms to the ground. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/cop_assaults_activist_at_lockheed_protest URL: http://mostlywater.org/cop_assaults_activist_at_lockheed_protest From news at resist.ca Sat Dec 23 18:40:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 02:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] The Great Wealth Transfer Message-ID: <20061224024010.15516.qmail@resist.ca> Rising inequality isn't new. The gap between rich and poor started growing before Ronald Reagan took office, and it continued to widen through the Clinton years. But what is happening under [President George W.] Bush is something entirely unprecedented: For the first time in our history, so much growth is being siphoned off to a small, wealthy minority that most Americans are failing to gain ground even during a time of economic growth -- and they know it. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_great_wealth_transfer URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_great_wealth_transfer From news at resist.ca Sat Dec 23 20:40:07 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 04:40:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Walls, Amnesty, and False Choices Message-ID: <20061224044007.18680.qmail@resist.ca> ...(L)et's take note of the obvious: in the U.S. the majority of undocumented immigrants are coming from Central America and Mexico. Equally obvious is that this is an area of the world that has been almost completely under the influence of U.S. foreign policy since at least World War II...(T)he U.S. has militarily occupied numerous countries in Latin America, among them Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic, as well as a long and brutal occupation of an Asian country, the Philippines. Not coincidentally, the largest Asian immigrant population in the U.S. comes from the Philippines. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/walls_amnesty_and_false_choices URL: http://mostlywater.org/walls_amnesty_and_false_choices From news at resist.ca Sat Dec 23 22:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 06:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Urgent Appeal on Behalf of Mohawk Political Prisoner Message-ID: <20061224061704.1263.qmail@resist.ca> At his bail review hearing [December 11], Six Nations political prisoner Trevor Miller was again denied bail, and has been remanded to the Hamilton detention center until the date of his next hearing, which is not until January 8...Funds are urgently needed to pay for the legal costs incurred by Trevor and his family in fighting these charges. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/urgent_appeal_on_behalf_of_mohawk_political_prisoner URL: http://mostlywater.org/urgent_appeal_on_behalf_of_mohawk_political_prisoner From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 24 03:40:13 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 11:40:13 -0000 Subject: [news] Women's Rights Another Victim of Iraq War & Occupation Message-ID: <20061224114014.3403.qmail@resist.ca> The invasion of Iraq...changed the status of Iraqi women for the worse. The United States elevated a new group of leaders, most of whom were allied with ultraconservative Shiite clerics. Among the Sunni minority, the quick disappearance of their once-dominant political power led to a resurgence of religious identity...(T)he Kurds...were able to reclaim traditions such as honor killings, putting thousands of women at risk. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/womens_rights_another_victim_of_iraq_war_occupation URL: http://mostlywater.org/womens_rights_another_victim_of_iraq_war_occupation From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 24 04:17:11 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 12:17:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Women Asylum-Seekers in UK: "Everything in my Life has Crumbled" Message-ID: <20061224121713.9636.qmail@resist.ca> A new study says that women asylum seekers who claim to have been raped in their own countries are rarely believed in British courts. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/women_asylum_seekers_in_uk_everything_in_my_life_has_crumbled URL: http://mostlywater.org/women_asylum_seekers_in_uk_everything_in_my_life_has_crumbled From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 24 04:17:11 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 12:17:11 -0000 Subject: [news] New World Order Jobs Message-ID: <20061224121712.9633.qmail@resist.ca> Those who wonder why there are 47 million workers in the U.S. today without any form of health insurance should consider the effects of corporate job restructuring and the 43.6 million part-time, temp, independent contract, and related self-employed. Not more than 10 to 20 percent of the 43.6 million have any health insurance...60 million workers in the U.S. don?t have a regular, permanent, full-time job any more in America. That?s more than 40 percent of the entire employed U.S. work force. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/new_world_order_jobs URL: http://mostlywater.org/new_world_order_jobs From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 24 16:17:06 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 00:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Mostly Water Taking Holiday Break Message-ID: <20061225001707.2529.qmail@resist.ca> The Mostly Water collective is taking a break over the holiday season, from December 24 - January 1. We wish all our viewers and comrades a non-sectarian season's greetings. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/mostly_water_taking_holiday_break URL: http://mostlywater.org/mostly_water_taking_holiday_break From news at resist.ca Sun Dec 24 16:17:06 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 00:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Playing With the Devil: Investigating U.S. Labor Support for Imperialism Message-ID: <20061225001707.2528.qmail@resist.ca> The US labour centre, the AFL-CIO, has a Solidarity Center in South Africa. Few unionists know what it does or stands for. Kim Scipes, in this revealing article, exposes some of its worldwide operations and wonders why (the Congress of South African Trade Unions) has a relationship with it. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/playing_with_the_devil_investigating_u_s_labor_support_for_imperialism URL: http://mostlywater.org/playing_with_the_devil_investigating_u_s_labor_support_for_imperialism