From news at resist.ca  Wed Feb  1 13:12:06 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 21:12:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Polls Show Many Americans are Dumber Than Bush
Message-ID: <20060201211206.9229.qmail@resist.ca>

The total lack of rationality and competence in the White House and the inability of half of the US population to acquire and understand information are far larger threats to Americans than terrorism...America has become a rogue nation, flying blind, guided only by ignorance and hubris. A terrible catastrophe awaits.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3929


From news at resist.ca  Wed Feb  1 14:12:15 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 22:12:15 -0000
Subject: [news] Toronto clinic violates Canada Health Act: Coalition
Message-ID: <20060201221215.27174.qmail@resist.ca>

January 31, 2006 | The Dominion | Dru Oja Jay

Plans by a Toronto health clinic to allow quick access to medical expertise and more time with doctors for a fee is a violation of the Canada Health Act, according to the Ontario Health Coalition (OHC).

According to a legal opinion prepared for the OHC by a Toronto law firm, doctors who accept fees for "queue jumping" and patients who pay them could be fined as much as $10,000. The planned clinics, run by Vancouver-based Copeman Healthcare Inc., will charge patients a $3,500 registration fee.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3930


From news at resist.ca  Thu Feb  2 11:12:27 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 19:12:27 -0000
Subject: [news] Wrong Direction for Canada
Message-ID: <20060202191228.26877.qmail@resist.ca>

2006 is an important year for elections in the Americas...  
The gains for the left are fueled by popular rejection of ?free trade?...and by popular rejection of the US?s aggressive military posture in the world. The right-wing and elite in most countries identify with US interests. Leftists, who claim (and sometimes do) represent the victims of US foreign and economic policies, are gaining as US military aggression and neoliberal economics are repudiated...If the Americas are moving left, why did Canada move in the wrong direction? There are several reasons, some of which are structural.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3935


From news at resist.ca  Thu Feb  2 13:12:31 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 21:12:31 -0000
Subject: [news] Super Valu/Extra Foods Strike Turns Ugly As Westfair Cuts
	Benefits To Injured Workers, Brings In Security Goons
Message-ID: <20060202211233.12907.qmail@resist.ca>

The strike involving 100 members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1518 (UFCW) at the Super Valu/Extra Foods store at the Park Royal Mall in West Vancouver has seen the company become aggressive to the point of violence...The strike took (an) ugly turn last week as Westfair, the corporate giant that controls the store, brought in security goons in an attempt to intimidate four union members on the picket line. At least 26 Westfair security goons showed up late at night on January 25-26, and at least one union member was assaulted.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3936


From news at resist.ca  Thu Feb  2 14:12:07 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 22:12:07 -0000
Subject: [news] Does Post-Fire Logging Make Ecological or Economic Sense?
Message-ID: <20060202221208.30893.qmail@resist.ca>

Betting on Biscuit

Does Post-Fire Logging Make Ecological or Economic Sense?  
by Matthew Koehler  
www.dissidentvoice.org  
February 1, 2006

It?s rare to find two diametrically opposed sides using the same exact posterchild to support their views. However, that?s essentially what?s developed over the past few years as the logging industry have locked horns with conservation groups and scientists in a battle over so-called ?healthy forests? policy and the future of America?s public lands following wildfires.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3937


From news at resist.ca  Thu Feb  2 14:12:07 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 22:12:07 -0000
Subject: [news] An Interview with Hamas' Ismail Haniya
Message-ID: <20060202221208.30898.qmail@resist.ca>

February 2, 2006  
An Interview with Hamas' Ismail Haniya  
In the Footsteps of Arafat

http://counterpunch.org/hass02022006.html  
By AMIRA HASS

There was no point asking Ismail Haniya, head of the victorious Hamas list, whether his movement would recognize Israel's right to exist, for two reasons. First, the answer was obvious--no, the movement would not recognize Israel's right to exist. Some say for religious reasons, as Palestine is a Muslim WAQF. Others say the reason is purely nationalist--the banished party cannot recognize the occupier's right to usurp its land. Others still say Hamas is umbilically tied to the Muslim Brothers movement, which alone is authorized--but unlikely--to alter the basic position.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3938


From news at resist.ca  Thu Feb  2 14:12:08 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 22:12:08 -0000
Subject: [news] Alberta headed for U.S.-style health system
Message-ID: <20060202221208.30901.qmail@resist.ca>

Alberta headed for U.S.-style health system

Among members of the EU, health insurance tends to be more universal and more comprehensive than Canada's, covering a wider range of benefits such as pharmaceuticals, dental care and long-term care.

Rabble.ca  
by Diana Gibson  
February 2, 2006

Alberta Premier Ralph Klein has wasted no time challenging the election promises of Stephen Harper's Conservative minority government.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3939


From news at resist.ca  Thu Feb  2 14:12:08 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 22:12:08 -0000
Subject: [news] UN Human Rights Committee condemns Canadian government
	inaction on Lubicon land claim
Message-ID: <20060202221208.30902.qmail@resist.ca>

UN Human Rights Committee condemns Canadian government inaction on Lubicon land claim  
[http://briarpatchmagazine.com/news/?p=47][1]

By Richard Milligan  
Briarpatch Magazine  
December 2005

ON OCTOBER 17, representatives of the Lubicon Cree delivered a formal complaint to the United Nations Human Rights Committee in Geneva. The delegation sought the UN?s help to pressure the Canadian government on two demands: to return in good faith to land claim negotiations, and to cease its support for the systematic destruction of Lubicon land through illegal resource extraction for narrow corporate interests.

    [1]: http://briarpatchmagazine.com/news/?p=47

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3940


From news at resist.ca  Fri Feb  3 16:12:08 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 00:12:08 -0000
Subject: [news] Activists plan mock Bush, Blair trial
Message-ID: <20060204001208.2839.qmail@resist.ca>

Al Jazeera Sunday 29 January 2006

Activists plan mock Bush, Blair trial

International activists and lawyers involved in the defence of Saddam  
Hussein say they will hold a mock trial of George Bush, the US president,  
and the British and Israeli prime ministers for alleged war crimes committed  
in Iraq and the Palestinian territories.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3941


From news at resist.ca  Fri Feb  3 16:12:08 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 00:12:08 -0000
Subject: [news] The WSF in Search of Itself
Message-ID: <20060204001208.2840.qmail@resist.ca>

The WSF in Search of Itself  
Thursday, Jan 26, 2006

By: Solana Larsen - OpenDemocracy  
[http://venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1657][1]

When 100,000 optimistic activists get together in one of the most colourful and dynamic events the world has ever seen, you've got to expect a good deal of music and dancing, clapping and stomping. But as the sixth World Social Forum slowly unravels, first in Bamako, Mali and now in Caracas, Venezuela, there is also a great deal of frustration over the fact that "nothing" seems to be coming out of this enormous effort.

    [1]: http://venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1657

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3942


From news at resist.ca  Fri Feb  3 16:12:08 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 00:12:08 -0000
Subject: [news] 15 Prisoners Have Been Elected to the Palestinian Parliament
Message-ID: <20060204001208.2841.qmail@resist.ca>

15 Prisoners Have Been Elected to the Palestinian Parliament  
A Parliament of Prisoners  
[http://counterpunch.org/haddad02032006.html][1]

By TOUFIC HADDAD

Most attention surrounding the 25 January 2006 election has focused upon the sweeping victory of Hamas at the polls, and with good reason. But there are other aspects to this year's election that will also leave permanent impressions upon the future of Palestinian national activity. Among the 132 Palestinians who won seats in the Legislative Council, 15 of them are prisoners. 14 are imprisoned in Israeli jails, and one sits in a Palestinian administered jail in Jericho, with CIA and British Intelligence oversight. 11 of them are affiliated with Hamas, 3 with Fateh, and one with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

    [1]: http://counterpunch.org/haddad02032006.html

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3943


From news at resist.ca  Fri Feb  3 16:12:08 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 00:12:08 -0000
Subject: [news] Oil and 2 ways of life in Alaska
Message-ID: <20060204001208.2842.qmail@resist.ca>

Oil and 2 ways of life in Alaska  
Native villagers divided over drilling debate

Zachary Coile, Chronicle Washington Bureau  
[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/03/ANWR.TMP][1]

Friday, February 3, 2006

Washington -- President Bush's surprising call during his State of the Union speech Tuesday for America to end its addiction to oil has rekindled debate in Congress among advocates and opponents of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

    [1]: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/03/ANWR.TMP

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3945


From news at resist.ca  Fri Feb  3 17:12:22 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 01:12:22 -0000
Subject: [news] Oil and 2 ways of life in Alaska
Message-ID: <20060204011223.31859.qmail@resist.ca>

Oil and 2 ways of life in Alaska  
Native villagers divided over drilling debate

Zachary Coile, Chronicle Washington Bureau  
[http://www.sfgate.com/...][1]

Friday, February 3, 2006

Washington -- President Bush's surprising call during his State of the Union speech Tuesday for America to end its addiction to oil has rekindled debate in Congress among advocates and opponents of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

    [1]: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/03/ANWR.TMP

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3945


From news at resist.ca  Fri Feb  3 17:12:23 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 01:12:23 -0000
Subject: [news] "Canadian Soldiers Ready for Afghanistan," says General
Message-ID: <20060204011223.31861.qmail@resist.ca>

Large numbers of new Canadian soldiers have begun arriving in perilous southern Afghanistan, where they will be deployed in the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar...The Canadian troops are set to take over control of the coalition operations in the troubled province from the United States.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3947


From news at resist.ca  Fri Feb  3 17:12:22 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 01:12:22 -0000
Subject: [news] Afghanistan Five Years Later: Buildings Down, Heroin Up
Message-ID: <20060204011223.31860.qmail@resist.ca>

Afghanistan is Bush's dystopia, a failed narco-state run by American puppets, Islamic fundamentalists and human rights abusers. The corporate media has done the American people a grave disservice by characterizing this drug-dependent settlement as a burgeoning democracy. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Karzai regime has no popular mandate and will vanish in the first hours after the American occupation ends...And, it should end immediately.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3946


From news at resist.ca  Sat Feb  4 16:12:08 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 00:12:08 -0000
Subject: [news] U.S. Courting Iraqi Resistance to Balance Influence of
	Pro-Iran Shi'ites
Message-ID: <20060205001209.31836.qmail@resist.ca>

U.S. concern about the pro-Iranian leanings of the militant Shi'ite parties that will dominate the next government has grown as the administration presses a campaign to take Iran's nuclear program to the UN Security Council, with the military option "on the table." A Western diplomat told Associated Press that the United States needed to find "some other allies who will not turn against them if things heat up with Iran"...Even the possibility of a separate peace between the United States and the Sunni insurgency, which is inherent in these negotiations, signals to the Shi'ites that the United States is no longer wedded to the option of supporting Shi'ite military and police.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3949


From news at resist.ca  Sat Feb  4 17:12:09 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 01:12:09 -0000
Subject: [news] "We Will not Sell our People or Principles for Foreign Aid"
Message-ID: <20060205011209.29158.qmail@resist.ca>

The day Hamas won the Palestinian democratic elections the world's leading democracies failed the test of democracy. Rather than recognise the legitimacy of Hamas as a freely elected representative of the Palestinian people, seize the opportunity created by the result to support the development of good governance in Palestine and search for a means of ending the bloodshed, the US and EU threatened the Palestinian people with collective punishment for exercising their right to choose their parliamentary representatives...Our message to the US and EU governments is this: your attempt to force us to give up our principles or our struggle is in vain.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3950


From news at resist.ca  Sun Feb  5 05:12:14 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 13:12:14 -0000
Subject: [news] Chavez threatens American Oil Refineries
Message-ID: <20060205131214.32298.qmail@resist.ca>

Chavez warns U.S. over refineries if cuts ties 

[http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060204/wl_nm/energy_venezuela_usa_dc][1]

CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez warned on Saturday he could shut his government's U.S.-based refineries and sell oil to nations other than the United States if Washington decided to cut diplomatic ties, as relations between the two countries continue to worsen. 

    [1]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060204/wl_nm/energy_venezuela_usa_dc

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3959


From news at resist.ca  Sun Feb  5 05:12:14 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 13:12:14 -0000
Subject: [news] Arctic summer in Arctic wintertime
Message-ID: <20060205131214.32300.qmail@resist.ca>

Arctic summer in Arctic wintertime  
Jan 26, 2006, 20:39 GMT

OSLO, Norway (UPI) -- It may still be January, but the Arctic region is reportedly experiencing record, summerlike temperatures.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3960


From news at resist.ca  Sun Feb  5 05:12:13 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 13:12:13 -0000
Subject: [news] The Cuban Response to USIS Propaganda
Message-ID: <20060205131214.32296.qmail@resist.ca>

The Cuban Response to USIS Propaganda 

Progreso Weekly - Feb 2, 2006  
By Manuel Alberto Ramy 

On Tuesday, January 24, over one million Cubans (1.4 million according to Cuban media) marched in an almost endless demonstration in front of the U.S. Interest Section in Havana.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3958


From news at resist.ca  Sun Feb  5 09:12:12 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 17:12:12 -0000
Subject: [news] Women To The Superbowl
Message-ID: <20060205171212.26569.qmail@resist.ca>

In an effort to bring gender equity to the sports arena, Seattle taxpayers recently funded a new $500 million dollar Women?s Sports Arena. The arena will have a capacity for 67,000 fans... The venue will also have an adjoined Exhibition Center highlighting women?s sports, costing another $70 million. [...N]ot only do they have male ?Sea Guy? cheerleader squads scantily clad at each event, but this year, there is a new 2004 Junior Sea Guy Program, for boys aged 7-14 to participate in the areas of dance, cheer, teamwork, physical well being and self esteem....

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3961


From news at resist.ca  Sun Feb  5 11:12:12 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 19:12:12 -0000
Subject: [news] U.S. Orders Venezuelan Diplomat Out,
	Rumsfeld Likens Chavez to Hitler
Message-ID: <20060205191213.7670.qmail@resist.ca>

Bloomberg - Feb 3, 2006 | by Janine Zacharia

(Bloomberg) -- The U.S. ordered a Venezuelan embassy official to leave the country within 72 hours after Venezuela yesterday expelled the U.S. naval attach? at the American embassy in Caracas for alleged espionage.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3962


From news at resist.ca  Sun Feb  5 11:12:13 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 19:12:13 -0000
Subject: [news] Bush 'plotted to lure Saddam into war with fake UN plane'
Message-ID: <20060205191214.7671.qmail@resist.ca>

5 February 2006 | By Andy McSmith | The Independent (UK)

George Bush considered provoking a war with Saddam Hussein's regime by flying a United States spyplane over Iraq bearing UN colours, enticing the Iraqis to take a shot at it, according to a leaked memo of a meeting between the US President and Tony Blair.

The two leaders were worried by the lack of hard evidence that Saddam Hussein had broken UN resolutions

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3963


From news at resist.ca  Sun Feb  5 11:12:13 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 19:12:13 -0000
Subject: [news] Studies show safe injection site has a series of positive
	benefits
Message-ID: <20060205191215.7675.qmail@resist.ca>

VANCOUVER (CP) - 31/01/2006

The co-author of two new medical studies on a controversial safe injection site for illegal drug users in the city says researchers have only been able to find positive benefits from the program so far.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3964


From news at resist.ca  Sun Feb  5 15:12:09 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 23:12:09 -0000
Subject: [news] Facist illegally publish personal data of polish activists
Message-ID: <20060205231210.14335.qmail@resist.ca>

The polish facist organization krew i honor (blood and honor) make against law an action called "redwatch"

They publish photos, names, adresses, and other personal data of social activists, punks, jurnalists, gay movements activists, univercity teachers, squatters, anarchists and other people that are enough brave to opposite the facist movment in poland or have ideology of freedom and antiauthoritarism.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3965


From news at resist.ca  Sun Feb  5 15:12:10 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 23:12:10 -0000
Subject: [news] Super Bowl; Super Hypocrisy
Message-ID: <20060205231210.14336.qmail@resist.ca>

Every Super Bowl Sunday, corporate executives and politicians exchange besotted, sodden backslaps, amidst an atmosphere that would shame Jack Abramoff. Only this year the bacchanalia -- complete with ice sculptures peeing Grey Goose vodka and two tons of frozen lobster flown directly to the stadium -- is happening in the United States' most impoverished, ravaged city: Detroit. Detroit's power elites in government and the auto industry are rolling out the red carpet while many of its people shiver in fraying rags.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3966


From news at resist.ca  Sun Feb  5 18:12:08 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 02:12:08 -0000
Subject: [news] The Top 10 Censored Stories of 2005
Message-ID: <20060206021209.26857.qmail@resist.ca>

Last year's top 10 censored news stories cuts to the chase about what the power elite in North America don't want you to know or hope you won't notice.

Researched and generously brought to you by Project Censored - specializing in covering the top news stories which were either ignored or downplayed by the mainstream media each year. Project Censored is a research team composed of nearly 200 university faculty, students, and community experts who review about 1,000 news story submissions for coverage, content, reliability of sources, and national significance. The top 25 stories selected are submitted to a panel of judges who then rank them in order of importance. The results are published each year in an excellent book available for purchase at their website, amazon.com, and most major book stores.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3968


From news at resist.ca  Sun Feb  5 20:12:18 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 04:12:18 -0000
Subject: [news] How I stalked my Girlfriend
Message-ID: <20060206041220.22779.qmail@resist.ca>

How I Stalked My Girlfriend

Ben Goldacre  
Wednesday February 1, 2006  
The Guardian

For the past week I've been tracking my girlfriend through her mobile  
phone. I can see exactly where she is, at any time of day or night,  
within 150 yards, as long as her phone is on. It has been very  
interesting to find out about her day. Now I'm going to tell you how I  
did it.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3969


From news at resist.ca  Mon Feb  6 03:12:07 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 11:12:07 -0000
Subject: [news] Road To Turin: Torch Relay Hits Protest
Message-ID: <20060206111209.4143.qmail@resist.ca>

The Olympic torch relay was surrounded Sunday by the shouts of protesters, prompting organizers to skip the valley stretch near the town of Susa and instead head straight to the next stop.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3967


From news at resist.ca  Mon Feb  6 10:12:30 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 18:12:30 -0000
Subject: [news] The End of the Internet?
Message-ID: <20060206181233.8224.qmail@resist.ca>

by Jeff Chester | Source: The Nation

The nation's largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run and branded service that would charge a fee for virtually everything we do online.

Verizon, Comcast, Bell South and other communications giants are developing strategies that would track and store information on our every move in cyberspace in a vast data-collection and marketing system, the scope of which could rival the National Security Agency.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3973


From news at resist.ca  Mon Feb  6 12:12:20 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 20:12:20 -0000
Subject: [news] Zambia Deports Spies w/CIA-Freedom House Ties
Message-ID: <20060206201222.25209.qmail@resist.ca>

Sunday Mail (Harare) - February 5, 2006

SUSPENDED MDC leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai and his eight-member team were deported from Zambia after they allegedly held a secret meeting with officials from a US-funded organisation called Freedom House headed by former CIA and FBI agents, it has emerged.

It has also emerged that the US embassy in Harare arranged the meeting, with the American team raising suspicion that the meeting could have been organised to plot ways of causing an upheaval in Zimbabwe.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3975


From news at resist.ca  Mon Feb  6 12:12:21 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 20:12:21 -0000
Subject: [news] India on a slum demolition spree to benefit the rich
Message-ID: <20060206201222.25210.qmail@resist.ca>

By Maya Valecha of the Inquillabi Comminist Sangathan  
Friday, 03 February 2006

India with its 7% GDP growth rate of last year and a target of 8% for this year has occupied the top position in a global survey of business confidence by Grant Thornton International pushing behind not only G8 giants but also its nearest rival China. To sustain this position, providing infrastructure to local and foreign investors is on top of the Indian Government?s priority list. Land acquisition on a large scale by the government in both rural and urban areas and passing it on to industrial houses, builders at nominal price is at its historical peak.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3976


From news at resist.ca  Mon Feb  6 13:12:27 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 21:12:27 -0000
Subject: [news] Military's name changes, role expands in North
Message-ID: <20060206211228.6508.qmail@resist.ca>

Feb 3 2006 | CBC News

The military in the North took on a new name and some new responsibilities literally overnight this week, with the creation of a "Joint Task Force North" for the three northern territories.

The military now plans to boost its numbers and their presence in the North.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3977


From news at resist.ca  Mon Feb  6 16:12:14 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 00:12:14 -0000
Subject: [news] Letter from Chief Terrance Nelson regarding National Post
	hypocrisy and racism
Message-ID: <20060207001215.13272.qmail@resist.ca>

[Chief Terrance Nelson of Roseau River [Manitoba] has been targetted by the Asper Press for some time now, all in response to his rather mild observation that to attack anti-Jewish comments in the press while ignoring anti-indigenous comments would inevitably cause a backlash. He recently wrote a letter to the editor for the Winnipeg Free Press (owned independent of the Asper family) regarding what he sees as the hypocrisy of the Asper papers. they refused to run his letter. Here we reproduce it below.]

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3978


From news at resist.ca  Mon Feb  6 17:12:11 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 01:12:11 -0000
Subject: [news] Robertson AGAIN calls for Chavez's assassination
Message-ID: <20060207011211.14978.qmail@resist.ca>

Media Matters for America  
- Feb. 3, 2006

[http://mediamatters.org/items/200602030003][1]

During the February 2 edition of Fox News'  
Hannity & Colmes, Christian Coalition founder  
and 700 Club host Pat Robertson reiterated his  
call for the assassination of Venezuelan  
President Hugo Chavez.

    [1]: http://mediamatters.org/items/200602030003

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3979


From news at resist.ca  Tue Feb  7 09:12:11 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 17:12:11 -0000
Subject: [news] The Haitian Revolution and Black History
Message-ID: <20060207171212.2197.qmail@resist.ca>

Interviewed by Aaron Lakoff and Leslie Bagg

We spoke with Patrick Elie in Port au Prince about Haiti's history and the slave revolt in the context of Black History Month. Elie asserts that the Haitian revolution was not only a momentous event for Haitians, but for people all over the world in demonstrating that freedom, not slavery, was the natural state of humankind.

Elie elloquently makes the links between Haiti's distant past, and the current political situation, as imperialist forces are once again meddling in the country's affairs. Just like in 1791, Haitians are today embroiled in a struggle against racist imperialism and colonization. The characters and terms have changed, but the game largely remains the same.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3986


From news at resist.ca  Tue Feb  7 09:12:11 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 17:12:11 -0000
Subject: [news] Ex-President Carter: Eavesdropping Illegal
Message-ID: <20060207171212.2198.qmail@resist.ca>

By KATHLEEN HENNESSEY | The Associated Press | February 7, 2006

Former President Jimmy Carter criticized the Bush administration's domestic eavesdropping program Monday and said he believes the president has broken the law.

"Under the Bush administration, there's been a disgraceful and illegal decision _ we're not going to the let the judges or the Congress or anyone else know that we're spying on the American people," Carter told reporters. "And no one knows how many innocent Americans have had their privacy violated under this secret act."

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3987


From news at resist.ca  Tue Feb  7 09:12:11 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 17:12:11 -0000
Subject: [news] "God Given Right" - Palestine and Native America
Message-ID: <20060207171212.2196.qmail@resist.ca>

By ROBERT ROBIDEAU | Counterpunch | February 1, 2006

The Palestinian people continue to struggle through various groups like Hamas in self defense of their sovereignty and to keep their remaining lands. So too, has North American Indian people continued to struggle to keep what is left of their lands and recover stolen lands.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3981


From news at resist.ca  Tue Feb  7 09:12:12 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 17:12:12 -0000
Subject: [news] [US] Feds seizing Canadian prescription drugs [from seniors]
Message-ID: <20060207171213.2199.qmail@resist.ca>

Mark Brunswick, Star Tribune | February 04, 2006

Minnesotans buying mail-order prescription drugs from Canada are having medications confiscated by U.S. Customs in escalating numbers, a step that has some worried that life-saving supplies may not reach customers on time.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3988


From news at resist.ca  Tue Feb  7 12:12:13 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 20:12:13 -0000
Subject: [news] The Row Over the Danish Cartoons
Message-ID: <20060207201213.7699.qmail@resist.ca>

(I)t is not a Western over-tolerance of multiculturalism that has fueled this indignation; it is a shallow multiculturalism that is hypocritical and invisiblizes the bigoted policies of Western domination and racism. Therefore the huge outcry against these cartoons has less to do with the doctrinal limitations of Islam itself than the social context in the post 9/11 climate and the never-ending ?War on Terrorism? within which Muslim and Arab communities operate today. The construction of the Arab terrorist in a Danish cartoon is not harmless or a simple experiment in free speech, it is deeply hateful and affects the inherent dignity of all Arab and Muslim people.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3989


From news at resist.ca  Tue Feb  7 13:12:05 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 21:12:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Israel & South Africa Under Apartheid
Message-ID: <20060207211206.7478.qmail@resist.ca>

Israelis have always been horrified at the idea of parallels between their country, a democracy risen from the ashes of genocide, and the racist system that ruled the old South Africa. Yet even within Israel itself, accusations persist that the web of controls affecting every aspect of Palestinian life bears a disturbing resemblance to apartheid. After four years reporting from Jerusalem and more than a decade from Johannesburg before that, the Guardian's award-winning Middle East correspondent Chris McGreal is exceptionally well placed to assess this explosive comparison. Here we publish the first part of his two-day special report.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3990


From news at resist.ca  Wed Feb  8 11:12:05 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 19:12:05 -0000
Subject: [news] The Real Danger of Presidential Spying
Message-ID: <20060208191205.10633.qmail@resist.ca>

JURIST Guest Columnist Brian J. Foley of Florida Coastal School of Law says that the greatest threat posed by President Bush's domestic surveillance program is not to the privacy of ordinary Americans but rather to the independence of potential political rivals, journalists, and activists who would balance, constrain or oppose executive power...

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3996


From news at resist.ca  Wed Feb  8 12:12:06 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 20:12:06 -0000
Subject: [news] 2007 US Budget Favors Defense
Message-ID: <20060208201206.31750.qmail@resist.ca>

The Washington Post - Feb 5, 2006

Medicare Takes Biggest Hit in $2.7 Trillion Plan

President Bush plans to propose a $2.7 trillion budget tomorrow that would shrink most parts of the government unrelated to the nation's security while slowing spending on Medicare by $36 billion during the next five years, according to White House documents.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3997


From news at resist.ca  Thu Feb  9 14:12:05 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 22:12:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Challenging Patriarchy in Political Organizing
Message-ID: <20060209221205.25845.qmail@resist.ca>

"Working with progressive men can have its own frustrations as male comrades feel they are not guilty of sexism...without truly analyzing their actions within a framework of privilege...Being better than ?mainstream? society does not absolve (men of their) responsibility for taking even seemingly minor incidents seriously...Believing in equality does not mean that men no longer experience male privilege."

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3999


From news at resist.ca  Fri Feb 10 10:12:10 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 18:12:10 -0000
Subject: [news] Destruction of world's wetlands exacerbating global disasters
Message-ID: <20060210181211.7226.qmail@resist.ca>

February 3, 2006 | by Ed Stoddard | REUTERS

JOHANNESBURG - The destruction of the world's wetlands is exacerbating global disasters such as floods and famines and is a potential source of conflict in volatile regions, environmentalists said on Thursday.

The poor suffer the most because wetland loss often denies them access to safe drinking water or sources to irrigate their small plots, contributing to food insecurity.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4009


From news at resist.ca  Fri Feb 10 11:12:10 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:12:10 -0000
Subject: [news] OCAP takes over McGuinty's housing tribunal
Message-ID: <20060210191211.21587.qmail@resist.ca>

At roughly 9.30 AM this morning, OCAP took over the Ontario Rental Housing Tribunal at 47 Sheppard Ave. East. This is the location where a huge chunk of the evictions that fuel the homeless crisis are given the legal stamp of approval.

The Harris Tories set up the Tribunal as part of their so called ?Tenant Protection Act?. Having cut welfare rates by 21.6% and made it impossible for people to pay their rent, the Tories then created a streamlined eviction process to enable landlords to put tenants on the street with ease.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4010


From news at resist.ca  Fri Feb 10 13:12:09 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 21:12:09 -0000
Subject: [news] Brothers in Arms - Israel's Secret Pact with Apartheid South
	Africa
Message-ID: <20060210211210.9470.qmail@resist.ca>

During the second world war the future South African prime minister John Vorster was interned as a Nazi sympathiser. Three decades later he was being feted in Jerusalem. In the second part of his remarkable special report, Chris McGreal investigates the clandestine alliance between Israel and the apartheid regime, cemented with the ultimate gift of friendship - A-bomb technology.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4011


From news at resist.ca  Fri Feb 10 15:12:05 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 23:12:05 -0000
Subject: [news] CUPE Ontario to strike if Bill 206 unchanged by third reading
Message-ID: <20060210231206.6621.qmail@resist.ca>

CUPE Ontario to strike if Bill 206 unchanged by third reading  
|Feb 10, 2006 03:53 PM|

CUPE Ontario President Sid Ryan told media today that members would strike if the government introduced its OMERS reform bill 206 for third reading without making changes to it.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4014


From news at resist.ca  Sun Feb 12 11:12:11 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 19:12:11 -0000
Subject: [news] Update on Gloria & Jacobo,
	Mexican Political Prisoners & Other Campaign/Informe sobre
	Gloria & Jacobo, presos politicos mexicano
Message-ID: <20060212191212.751.qmail@resist.ca>

This is to inform you of what has been happening in Mexico, with respect to Gloria Arenas Ag?s and Jacobo Silva Nogales (Mexican political prisoners) and their participation in The Other Campaign. 

[At the begining of The Other Campaign, Marcos] read a poem by Mexican political prisoner Jacobo Silva Nogales, entitled ?Secondary Effects.? Marcos also called for the recognition of both Gloria and Jacobo as political prisoners and so that their rights be respected. Gloria and Jacobo remain in prison after more than 6 years ... on false accusations obtained under torture; they each face a sentence of 52 years.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4016


From news at resist.ca  Sun Feb 12 15:12:11 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 23:12:11 -0000
Subject: [news] The Role of the International Indigenous Movement and What
	the Left is Missing
Message-ID: <20060212231212.8343.qmail@resist.ca>

The Role of the International Indigenous Movement and What the Left is Missing  
What Brought Evo Morales to Power?  
Counterpunch.org

By ROXANNE DUNBAR-ORTIZ

What has been left out of reports and analysis in both the mainstream press and among anti-imperialists and leftists about the triumph of Evo Morales' election as President of Bolivia is the role played by the three-decade international indigenous movement that preceded it. Few are even aware of that powerful and remarkable historic movement, which springs from generations of grassroots organizing.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4021


From news at resist.ca  Sun Feb 12 15:12:11 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 23:12:11 -0000
Subject: [news] Dick Cheney "Going Postal"?
Message-ID: <20060212231212.8344.qmail@resist.ca>

Cheney shoots fellow quail hunter

Associated Press  
Globe and Mail, Feb 12, 2006

Washington ? U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and injured a man during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, his spokeswoman said Sunday.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4022


From news at resist.ca  Sun Feb 12 15:12:12 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 23:12:12 -0000
Subject: [news] Muslims protest in Montreal
Message-ID: <20060212231213.8347.qmail@resist.ca>

Muslims protest in Montreal  
By DANIEL BEAULIEU  
Saudi cleric calls for action  
[http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2006/02/11/1437557-cp.html][1]

MONTREAL (CP) - Muslims insulted by caricatures of the prophet Muhammad staged peaceful protests in Canada's two biggest cities on Saturday.

    [1]: http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2006/02/11/1437557-cp.html

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4023


From news at resist.ca  Sun Feb 12 17:12:27 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 01:12:27 -0000
Subject: [news] Muslims protest in Montreal
Message-ID: <20060213011228.20576.qmail@resist.ca>

By DANIEL BEAULIEU  
Saudi cleric calls for action

MONTREAL (CP) - Muslims insulted by caricatures of the prophet Muhammad staged peaceful protests in Canada's two biggest cities on Saturday.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4023


From news at resist.ca  Sun Feb 12 17:12:27 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 01:12:27 -0000
Subject: [news] Paul First Nation Suing CN Rail Over Oil Spill
Message-ID: <20060213011229.20577.qmail@resist.ca>

By JIM MACDONALD| Canoe News| Feb. 7th 2006

EDMONTON (CP) - A major oil spill near a popular Alberta resort lake has led to a multimillion-dollar lawsuit by an aboriginal band that has lived on the east shore for hundreds of years.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4024


From news at resist.ca  Mon Feb 13 01:12:09 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:12:09 -0000
Subject: [news] UK Troops Caught On Video Beating Iraqi Youths
Message-ID: <20060213091210.20473.qmail@resist.ca>

A UK corporal videotaped other UK soldiers beating on Iraqi youths. The corporal narrates the video and is clearly enjoying the violence.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4026


From news at resist.ca  Mon Feb 13 08:12:10 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:12:10 -0000
Subject: [news] GNWT budget cuts corporate tax
Message-ID: <20060213161211.21570.qmail@resist.ca>

YELLOWKNIFE (CP) - Large corporations will pay less tax as the Northwest Territories tries to build on the success of its booming diamond industry and the economic promise of the Mackenzie Valley natural gas pipeline.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4027


From news at resist.ca  Mon Feb 13 17:12:09 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 01:12:09 -0000
Subject: [news] Occupation Hazard: Review of Norman Finkelstein's "Beyond
	Chutzpah"
Message-ID: <20060214011210.8224.qmail@resist.ca>

(O)utside the universities, particularly in the United States, public figures continue to be embarrassingly and unapologetically pro-Israeli. Few have dared to challenge these self-appointed ambassadors because many of them are quite often influential journalists, highly placed lawyers, or former politicians, ex-hostages of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in its most active years...Norman G. Finkelstein is one of the few who has.....(I)n "Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History," Finkelstein goes after bigger targets and challenges some of the most sacred taboos in the American public arena regarding Zionism and Israel.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4044


From news at resist.ca  Tue Feb 14 00:12:06 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 08:12:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Hamas Reiterates Necessary Conditions for Peace
Message-ID: <20060214081207.11818.qmail@resist.ca>

|AlJazeera.net|February 13, 2006| 

Hamas leader Khalid Mishaal has stated again that the only thing needed for Hamas to halt its armed struggle is for Israel to withdraw from the Palestinian territories it occupies. "If Israel recognises our rights and pledges to withdraw from all occupied lands, Hamas, and the Palestinian people together with it, will decide to halt armed resistance." This comes as Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has indicated that he might take over diplomatic contacts with Israel, leaving domestic issues to a Hamas government and Vladimir Putin has extended an invitation to Hamas to begin talks on the future of the Middle East peace process.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4036


From news at resist.ca  Tue Feb 14 00:12:06 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 08:12:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Sri Lanka - Tamil Tigers Agree to Peace Talks
Message-ID: <20060214081207.11817.qmail@resist.ca>

|Reuters|Feb. 6, 2006| 

Sri Lanka's government and the Tamil Tiger's have set a date to begin peace talks later this month. On Monday, Erik Solheim, a Norwegian peace broker told reporters by telephone that "a date has been agreed between the government, the Tigers and Oslo". The climate appears positive, but cautiously optimistic for implementation of a ceasefire agreed upon in 2002.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4035


From news at resist.ca  Tue Feb 14 00:12:07 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 08:12:07 -0000
Subject: [news] Somebody's Watching Me: Vancouver Activists Under
	Surveillance
Message-ID: <20060214081207.11820.qmail@resist.ca>

Innocent people are often targeted by security agencies based solely on their political beliefs or association with other radicals. This report presents a snapshot of the tactics the police like to think of as "secret,? like spying on individuals and infiltrating groups. These tactics can be extremely dangerous and destructive, even for activists who have never committed a crime. By studying these incidents, we can start to dispel the mystery surrounding covert operations and begin to understand the big picture.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4047


From news at resist.ca  Tue Feb 14 00:12:07 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 08:12:07 -0000
Subject: [news] Clashes Erupt Over Haiti Election
Message-ID: <20060214081207.11822.qmail@resist.ca>

At least one person has been killed and several injured in clashes in Haiti, as tensions mount over the results of last Tuesday's election...Supporters of presidential front-runner Rene Preval manned burning roadblocks in the capital and occupied a hotel, demanding he be declared the winner.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4051


From news at resist.ca  Tue Feb 14 09:12:12 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 17:12:12 -0000
Subject: [news] Emergency Shelters - Too Little, Too Late, Too Expensive
Message-ID: <20060214171213.3880.qmail@resist.ca>

|Monday Magazine| Feb. 1, 2006|

Liberals failing to address rising homeless.

As the Gordon Campbell Government attempts to apply band-aid solutions to the gushing wounds of poverty and homelessness in BC their response appears too little too late, and their too expensive, too few cold wet weather beds serve to illustrate further that when it comes to addressing homelessness they just don't have a clue what their doing, and they don't seem to care.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4031


From news at resist.ca  Tue Feb 14 12:12:19 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 20:12:19 -0000
Subject: [news] Concordia University Blocks Israeli Apartheid Week
Message-ID: <20060214201220.11101.qmail@resist.ca>

February 10, 2006

Just days before the February 13th opening of Israeli Apartheid Week in Montreal, Toronto, Kitchener-Waterloo, and Oxford (UK), members of Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) were told by the Concordia University administration that they would not be allowed to use the room the university had already confirmed for the event.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4056


From news at resist.ca  Tue Feb 14 12:12:19 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 20:12:19 -0000
Subject: [news] Cyber Wargame
Message-ID: <20060214201220.11100.qmail@resist.ca>

|Associated Press|Technology Review|February 13, 2006|

The Homeland Security Department ran a mock Internet attack last week. The biggest-ever exercise of its kind to test how it would respond to devastating attacks over the Internet from anti-globalization activists, underground hackers, and bloggers. The results are due out this summer.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4055


From news at resist.ca  Tue Feb 14 15:12:14 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 23:12:14 -0000
Subject: [news] Captain Planet Resurfaces As Leader Of Clandestine
	Eco-Terrorist Group
Message-ID: <20060214231214.29424.qmail@resist.ca>

[![captain planet][1]][2]
captain planet & burning suv

Earth Liberation Front (E.L.F.) leader 'Captain Planet' led an attack on a car dealership in Seattle last week which claimed the lives of 15 innocent SUV's.

    [1]: http://mostlywater.org/sites/mostlywater.org/files/images/1139399344_101.1.jpg
    [2]: http://mostlywater.org/node/4048

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4049


From news at resist.ca  Tue Feb 14 18:12:06 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 02:12:06 -0000
Subject: [news] International Day of Trade Union Action in Support of Iran
Message-ID: <20060215021207.20370.qmail@resist.ca>

|Global Unions| Feb. 14, 2006|

An international day of action has been organised in numerous countries on Wednesday February 15 with support from Global Unions (the ICFTU, the Global Union Federations and TUAC-OECD) and, notably, the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF), in response to the continued repression being experienced by the Greater Tehran United Bus Company (Sherkate-Vahed), and for Iranian labour rights to be recognized.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4059


From news at resist.ca  Tue Feb 14 22:12:15 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 06:12:15 -0000
Subject: [news] The Danish Cartoons & the American Neo-Con
Message-ID: <20060215061216.18840.qmail@resist.ca>

(L)et?s look at the guy who started this whole cartoon escapade. He?s Flemming Rose, the cultural editor of the Danish newspaper...(T)here is absolutely no mention of the fact that Rose is a close confederate of arch-Islamophobe Daniel Pipes...How bad is Pipes? He wants the utter military obliteration of the Palestinians; indeed, from the Muslim world, his racism is about as blatant as that of the Holocaust denying Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Pipes? frequent outbursts of racism...earned him a Bush nomination to the U.S. Institute of Peace, a congressionally funded think tank. Rose came to America to commune with Pipes in 2004, and it was after that meeting the cartoon gambit materialized.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4060


From news at resist.ca  Wed Feb 15 01:12:11 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:12:11 -0000
Subject: [news] US Terror Suspect List Growing Fast
Message-ID: <20060215091213.29505.qmail@resist.ca>

The US National Counterterrorism Center maintains a list of 325,000 names of alleged international terrorism suspects or people who aid them.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4061


From news at resist.ca  Wed Feb 15 12:12:03 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:12:03 -0000
Subject: [news] 2010Watch Events
Message-ID: <20060215201204.28710.qmail@resist.ca>

Start: 2006-02-26 10:30

End: 2006-03-01 17:30

Start: 2006-02-26 10:30

End: 2006-03-01 17:30

Description:  


2010watch will be attending the following events, please try and attend and raise your critical voice, and witness the development of the 2010 olympics and how its impacting your community.

1. Feb 26, Library Square, the Vancouver Olympic Committee (VANOC) will be hosting a Torino closing ceremonies party. 10:30am -2 pm.  
Let's all show up and show the other side. We will have our own film crew there. 

Address:  
Vancouver area

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4058


From news at resist.ca  Thu Feb 16 11:12:10 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 19:12:10 -0000
Subject: [news] The Real Outrage About the Anti-Islamic Cartoons
Message-ID: <20060216191211.28125.qmail@resist.ca>

(T)he cartoon depicting Muhammad as a terrorist is a crude racist stereotype. The implication is that every Muslim is a potential terrorist....This is the sort of nonsense that leads to Islamophobia....Muslims have every right to protest, but the overreaction was unnecessary. In reality, the number of original demonstrators was tiny: 300 in Pakistan, 400 in Indonesia, 200 in Tripoli, a few hundred in Britain....What I find interesting is that these demonstrations and embassy-burnings are a response to a tasteless cartoon...The occupation of Iraq has costs tens of thousands of Iraqi lives. Where is the response to that or the tortures in Abu Ghraib? Or the rapes of Iraqi women by occupying soldiers? Where is the response to the daily deaths of Palestinians?

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4065


From news at resist.ca  Wed Feb 15 12:12:04 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:12:04 -0000
Subject: [news] The Poor Don't Belong in Prisons
Message-ID: <20060215201204.28713.qmail@resist.ca>

A CALL for INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY and PRESSURE to CONTINUE DERAILING WTO:  
International Action Week, Feb 27th - March 5th 2006

In solidarity with 3 anti-WTO political prisoners who stand trial in Hong Kong, thousands of political prisoners behind bars worldwide, and millions of prisoners of WTO-related policies.

Women, Poor people, Farmers, Migrants, Workers don't belong in WTO prisons!

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4062


From news at resist.ca  Thu Feb 16 12:12:09 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:12:09 -0000
Subject: [news] Native Youth Prisoners Shackled During Sacred Sweat Lodge
	Ceremony
Message-ID: <20060216201211.6563.qmail@resist.ca>

Justice for Girls

We are writing to inform you that the Ministry of Children and Family Development, which is responsible for youth prisons in BC, orders all youth to be put in ankle restraints during the Sacred Sweat Lodge Ceremony at the Burnaby Youth Secure/Open Custody Center ? the youth prison. 

[![Shackling policy snippet][1]][2]
>From the Burnaby Youth Secure Custody Cenre's operations manual.

    [1]: http://mostlywater.org/sites/mostlywater.org/files/images/Shackling-policy snippet.jpg
    [2]: http://mostlywater.org/node/4066

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4069


From news at resist.ca  Thu Feb 16 12:12:09 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:12:09 -0000
Subject: [news] Ipperwash memory muddle began at a very odd meeting
Message-ID: <20060216201211.6564.qmail@resist.ca>

[![Mike Harris takes the stand][1]][2]
Former premier Mike Harris testifiing about the occupation of Ipperwash Provincial Park by Stoney Point First Nations.

MURRAY CAMPBELL | Globe and Mail | February 16, 2006

Dudley George, 38, died within 12 hours of [a] meeting [between] Mr. Harris and his ministers [who] have been dogged ever since by allegations that their aggressive response to the park occupation contributed to that tragedy.

Charles Harnick, his attorney-general, said he arrived late at the meeting to hear Mr. Harris say, "I want the fucking Indians out of the park." The former premier denies the allegation. [duh]

    [1]: http://mostlywater.org/sites/mostlywater.org/files/images/mike harris.thumbnail.jpg
    [2]: http://mostlywater.org/node/4068

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4070


From news at resist.ca  Thu Feb 16 15:12:14 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 23:12:14 -0000
Subject: [news] Britain's Next War
Message-ID: <20060216231216.16286.qmail@resist.ca>

Has Tony Blair, the minuscule Caesar, finally crossed his Rubicon? Having subverted the laws of the civilised world and brought carnage to a defenceless people and bloodshed to his own, having lied and lied and used the death of a hundredth British soldier in Iraq to indulge his profane self-pity, is he about to collude in one more crime before he goes?...And now he is threatening to take Britain into the nightmare on offer in Iran.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4071


From news at resist.ca  Thu Feb 16 17:12:09 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 01:12:09 -0000
Subject: [news] Dick Cheney's Fox Trot
Message-ID: <20060217011209.11534.qmail@resist.ca>

February 16, 2006

Dancing Around Accountability  
Dick Cheney's Fox Trot

By NORMAN SOLOMON

When Dick Cheney surfaced on Wednesday long enough for an interview with Fox News eminence Brit Hume -- an event that CNN?s Jack Cafferty promptly likened to ?Bonnie interviewing Clyde? -- the vice presidential spin emerged from a timeworn bag of political tricks. Cheney took responsibility. Whatever that means.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4072


From news at resist.ca  Thu Feb 16 17:12:09 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 01:12:09 -0000
Subject: [news] Shell makes record $23bn profit
Message-ID: <20060217011209.11539.qmail@resist.ca>

Shell makes record $23bn profit  
Feb 03, 2006  
Online Independent  
By Michael Harrison

The oil giant Royal Dutch Shell defended itself yesterday against charges of profiteering at the expense of motorists and householders after announcing the biggest profit in UK corporate history.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4073


From news at resist.ca  Thu Feb 16 17:12:09 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 01:12:09 -0000
Subject: [news] Israel de facto annexing Jordan Valley
Message-ID: <20060217011210.11541.qmail@resist.ca>

The Jerusalem Post February 13, 2006

Betselem: Israel de facto annexing Jordan Valley

A prominent Israeli human rights organization on Monday accused Israel of  
imposing severe restrictions on the movement of Palestinians in the Jordan  
Valley, essentially annexing the eastern strip of the West Bank.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4074


From news at resist.ca  Thu Feb 16 22:12:11 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 06:12:11 -0000
Subject: [news] Israel de facto annexing Jordan Valley
Message-ID: <20060217061211.30710.qmail@resist.ca>

The Jerusalem Post February 13, 2006

Betselem: Israel de facto annexing Jordan Valley

A prominent Israeli human rights organization on Monday accused Israel of imposing severe restrictions on the movement of Palestinians in the Jordan Valley, essentially annexing the eastern strip of the West Bank.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4074


From news at resist.ca  Sat Feb 18 14:12:06 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 22:12:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Conflict Over Oil Expands: Nigerian People Declares Total
	War on Oil Interests
Message-ID: <20060218221207.10003.qmail@resist.ca>

|BBC News International| Feb. 17, 2006|

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta has given oil companies and their employees until midnight on Friday night to leave the region. The movement wants greater control of the oil wealth produced on their land, because despite the money generated from oil, many people still live in poverty and are bullied by government supported military action and occupation on behalf of Shell.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4082


From news at resist.ca  Sat Feb 18 14:12:07 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 22:12:07 -0000
Subject: [news] Preval declared winner in Haiti
Message-ID: <20060218221207.10012.qmail@resist.ca>

[![Rene Preval][1]][2]
Rene Preval

16 Feb 2006 | CBC News

Haiti's interim government and the electoral council have declared Rene Preval the winner of the presidential election, ending frantic negotiations to stop violent street demonstrations in the impoverished Caribbean nation.

    [1]: http://mostlywater.org/sites/mostlywater.org/files/images/preval_rene.thumbnail.jpg
    [2]: http://mostlywater.org/node/4083

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4084


From news at resist.ca  Sat Feb 18 14:12:06 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 22:12:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Great Bear Rainforest: Saved
Message-ID: <20060218221207.9996.qmail@resist.ca>

[![Great Bear Rainforest][1]][2]
The Great Bear Rainforest on the coast of British Columbia.

Greenpeace International | 07 February 2006

Take ten years of difficult, dangerous, and at times, heartbreaking work. Add thousands of activists from around the world -- some who sent emails, some who stood on the blockades, some who voted against destruction with their wallets.

Some who were beaten, some who were sued, some who were arrested. Today it added up to victory. Common sense has prevailed and one of the world's treasures, the Great Bear Rainforest, is saved from destruction.

    [1]: http://mostlywater.org/sites/mostlywater.org/files/images/the-great-bear-rainforest.thumbnail.jpg
    [2]: http://mostlywater.org/node/4079

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4081


From news at resist.ca  Sat Feb 18 14:12:06 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 22:12:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Hackers Rebel Against Surveillance
Message-ID: <20060218221206.9993.qmail@resist.ca>

|By Ann Harrison|Open Flows|04-01-06|

BERLIN - When the Austrian government passed a law this year allowing police to install closed-circuit surveillance cameras in public spaces without a court order, the Austrian civil liberties group Quintessenz vowed to watch the watchers, employing a whole manner of tactics they've tried to push back the unprecedented onslaught of surveillance technologies.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4080


From news at resist.ca  Sat Feb 18 14:12:07 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 22:12:07 -0000
Subject: [news] U.S. War Plans Included Invasion of Canada
Message-ID: <20060218221207.10026.qmail@resist.ca>

(T)he core of the militarism that is endangering America and driving us into bankruptcy, disdain, and dishonor is not new. The fundamental causes of the Iraq war cannot be found in contemporary geopolitics nor in the personalities of the Bush administration, as so many critics of the war think. There is something wrong at a much deeper level in American political culture. The American malady of militarism extends across decades, across generations, and is so deeply rooted in the American mind that attacking another nation seems to be the natural, spontaneous reaction of choice.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4086


From news at resist.ca  Sat Feb 18 14:12:07 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 22:12:07 -0000
Subject: [news] Mom Learns Police Shot Son in Back of Head
Message-ID: <20060218221208.10029.qmail@resist.ca>

The mother of a Houston man shot dead by police says news the bullet struck the back of Ian Bush's head is difficult to comprehend..."It would have been one thing if it was an accident. This is hard to see as an accidental thing. It's very hard," said Linda Bush.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4087


From news at resist.ca  Sat Feb 18 14:12:08 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 22:12:08 -0000
Subject: [news] Media advisory - First Nation trip to Israel
Message-ID: <20060218221208.10032.qmail@resist.ca>

Media advisory - First Nation trip to Israel

Phil Fontaine, National Chief, Assembly of First Nations stated, "Indigenous people in Canada have much in common with the people of Israel, including a respect of the land...? Perhaps Mr. Fontaine and other native leaders are unaware of Israel?s well documented practices of polluting or stealing water from stolen Palestinian land, uprooting, destroying and stealing olive trees, destroying farmland and olive grows in the process of building Israel?s illegal wall on stolen Palestinian land....It is astounding and so sad to witness Canada?s own native people accepting to visit Israel,...

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4090


From news at resist.ca  Sat Feb 18 14:12:07 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 22:12:07 -0000
Subject: [news] Union Coalition Calls on Province to Stop OMERS Bill 206 -
	Strike Action Pending
Message-ID: <20060218221207.10023.qmail@resist.ca>

|[CUPE Ontario][1]|February 17, 2006 09:31 AM|

Coalitions Of Unions in Ontario released their concerns and demands regarding Bill 206 yesterday. Are awaiting a response from the Ontario provincial government to determine whether further stike actions will be taken.

    [1]: http://cupe.on.ca/www/Governance/20076

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4085


From news at resist.ca  Sun Feb 19 11:12:15 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 19:12:15 -0000
Subject: [news] United Nations inquiry demands immediate closure of
	Guantanamo
Message-ID: <20060219191217.15232.qmail@resist.ca>

The Daily Telegraph | February 13th.

A United Nations inquiry has called for the immediate closure of America's Guantanamo Bay detention centre and the prosecution of officers and politicians "up to the highest level" who are accused of torturing detainees.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4096


From news at resist.ca  Sun Feb 19 11:12:16 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 19:12:16 -0000
Subject: [news] Rice wants $75m for Iran propaganda
Message-ID: <20060219191217.15246.qmail@resist.ca>

Copyright 2006 People's Press Printing Society Ltd  
All Rights Reserved  
Morning Star  
February 17, 2006 Friday

World - Rice wants $75m for Iran propaganda

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice asked Congress on Wednesday for a $75 million supplemental appropriation to send destabilising propaganda into Iran.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4098


From news at resist.ca  Sun Feb 19 11:12:16 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 19:12:16 -0000
Subject: [news] UK radiation up fourfold during Iraq war
Message-ID: <20060219191219.15249.qmail@resist.ca>

Chris Busby, from Liverpool University, north-west England, and a founder of environmental consultancy Green Audit, told the newspaper he believed "uranium aerosols" from Iraq were released into the atmosphere and blown across Europe.

"This research shows that rather than remaining near the target as claimed by the military, depleted uranium weapons contaminate both locals and whole populations hundreds to thousands of miles away," he said.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4097


From news at resist.ca  Sun Feb 19 11:12:17 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 19:12:17 -0000
Subject: [news] More foreign oil workers kidnapped in Nigeria
Message-ID: <20060219191219.15275.qmail@resist.ca>

Feb. 18, 2006  
via Pan African Press (PANA)

Another set of foreign oil workers  
kidnapped in Nigeria

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Suspected militants  
Saturday kidnapped nine foreign oil workers  
in Nigeria's restive oil-producing Niger Delta  
region, the second such incident in as many  
months, according to sources close to the  
joint military task force operating in the  
region.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4099


From news at resist.ca  Sun Feb 19 11:12:18 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 19:12:18 -0000
Subject: [news] Trapper questions Imperial Oil plans
Message-ID: <20060219191219.15293.qmail@resist.ca>

Trapper questions Imperial Oil plans  
By BOB WEBER

INUVIK, N.W.T. (CP) - Randall (Boogie) Pokiak has been hunting and trapping everything from mink to grizzly bear on the very tip of the Mackenzie Delta for most of his 56 years, and if anyone feels social or environmental effects from a proposed $7-billion energy development down the Mackenzie Valley, it'll be him.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4101


From news at resist.ca  Sun Feb 19 15:12:11 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 23:12:11 -0000
Subject: [news] Israel Imposes Sanctions on Palestinian Authority,
	Seals Gaza in Effort to "Crush" Economy
Message-ID: <20060219231212.27365.qmail@resist.ca>

Two articles from the corporate press on Israel's pressure campaign against the Palestinian Authority's Hamas-led government.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4103


From news at resist.ca  Sun Feb 19 16:12:17 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 00:12:17 -0000
Subject: [news] Filmmaker Arrested For Filming Arrest of Homeless
Message-ID: <20060220001218.18547.qmail@resist.ca>

The poor bashing Victoria Police Department have long been engaged in the social cleansing of homeless and marginalized people in the capitol city, who they view as a blight on Victoria's squeeky-clean, tourist-friendly image. Apparently, they also don't like being held accountable for their misdeeds, as Victoria filmmaker Andrew Ainsley discovered when he was himself arrested for videotaping the arrest of two homeless dumpster divers.

An account from the mainstream press is followed by one from Victoria activist and anti-poverty ally Janine Bandcroft. Finally, there's a web link where you may view Andrew's video of the incident.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4104


From news at resist.ca  Sun Feb 19 18:12:12 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 02:12:12 -0000
Subject: [news] Past experience with energy industry makes Mackenzie
	pipeline trust difficult
Message-ID: <20060220021213.6262.qmail@resist.ca>

Past experience with energy industry makes Mackenzie pipeline trust difficult

By BOB WEBER

FORT MCPHERSON, N.W.T (CP) - Carolyn Kay shakes her gnarled, 91-year-old fingers, still bloody from the caribou she's been butchering, as she emphasizes the message she wants taken to hearings on a northern gas pipeline.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4105


From news at resist.ca  Mon Feb 20 04:12:14 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 12:12:14 -0000
Subject: [news] Legal Challenge to Pipeline Review Returns
Message-ID: <20060220121215.6281.qmail@resist.ca>

Legal challenge to pipeline review returns to court as hearing reveal  
aboriginals split  
By BOB WEBER

INUVIK, N.W.T. (CP) - As environmental hearings into massive energy  
development in the Mackenzie Delta head into their second week, legal  
efforts to derail the whole process are resurfacing in a Vancouver  
courtroom.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4106


From news at resist.ca  Mon Feb 20 15:12:06 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:12:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Protests Greet US Troops in Dominican Republic
Message-ID: <20060220231206.16817.qmail@resist.ca>

?For Dominicans, the presence of foreign military troops on our soil is unacceptable ... even more so when these troops are from a nation that has invaded us militarily on two occasions on the pretext of ?saving lives,? with the result of thousands of deaths,?

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4112


From news at resist.ca  Mon Feb 20 16:12:11 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 00:12:11 -0000
Subject: [news] Macho Men and State Capitalism - Is Another World Possible?
Message-ID: <20060221001212.11197.qmail@resist.ca>

While nationalization of resources to some may seem an attractive alternative to the pounding progress of privatizing forces, we have to remember that states have never sided with those most oppressed, just ask the indigenous peoples of the world. Another world is not possible without the knowledge of indigenous cultures that have lived sustainably within the mega biodiversity that is the Amazon rainforest. We need to support these movements while allowing them to decide their own destiny. We must struggle to ensure that they can continue to live their lives as they wish.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4113


From news at resist.ca  Mon Feb 20 18:12:08 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 02:12:08 -0000
Subject: [news] A Chilling Heartlessness
Message-ID: <20060221021209.9882.qmail@resist.ca>

The Hamas team had not laughed so much in a long time. The team, headed by the (Israeli) prime minister's advisor Dov Weissglass...convened for a discussion with Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on ways to respond to the Hamas election victory. Everyone agreed on the need to impose an economic siege on the Palestinian Authority, and Weissglas...provided the punch line: "It's like an appointment with a dietician. The Palestinians will get a lot thinner, but won't die," the advisor joked, and the participants reportedly rolled with laughter...But Weissglas' wisecrack was in particularly poor taste...With a single joke (he)...demonstrated the chilling heartlessness that has spread throughout the top echelon of Israel's society and politics.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4114


From news at resist.ca  Tue Feb 21 09:12:14 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 17:12:14 -0000
Subject: [news] Victory: Toxic warship Clemenceau turned back to France!
Message-ID: <20060221171215.30224.qmail@resist.ca>

French President Chirac has announced a dramatic recall of the asbestos-laden warship Clemenceau -- it will be turning around and going back to France. Our actions, emails to Chirac and an embarrassing international scandal left France with little choice but to abandon the misguided attempt to dump its own toxic mess on India.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4116


From news at resist.ca  Tue Feb 21 09:12:15 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 17:12:15 -0000
Subject: [news] Occupation of a Youth Prison Building Site in Nantes, France
Message-ID: <20060221171216.30238.qmail@resist.ca>

Since Monday morning, February 20th 2006, a few dozen people occupy the building site for a youth prison (called EPM in french, standing for ?tablissement P?nitentiaire pour Mineurs) in Orvault, in the suburbs of Nantes, France.

Part of the activists are occupying trees, in which they have set up four tree-houses. Meanwhile, others gather on the ground in solidarity. By this action, activists intend to prevent the construction of this new prison, since occupied trees are to be cut for the building work to start.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4124


From news at resist.ca  Tue Feb 21 10:12:45 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:12:45 -0000
Subject: [news] Bolivia Prepares for Pullout of US Agencies
Message-ID: <20060221181247.20983.qmail@resist.ca>

Prensa Latina | Feb 15, 2006

The Bolivian government has  
announced it will begin talks with the US on removal of the DEA and some other agencies operating in central Chapare, a coca producing region.

Tuesday, the congress of El Chapare coca-leaf growers in Cochabamba requested the withdrawal of the DEA, as well as the US  
Antinarcotics Office, the Alternative Development Program and the  
Community Habitat and Finances Cooperation Agency.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4125


From news at resist.ca  Tue Feb 21 10:12:45 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:12:45 -0000
Subject: [news] Guantanamo Britons win court victory
Message-ID: <20060221181245.20984.qmail@resist.ca>

The Independent | 17 February 2006 | By Kim Sengupta 

Three British residents held in Guantanamo Bay have won a legal battle which could lead to the [UK] Government demanding that they are freed by the US. 

They were granted leave to seek a court order by a High Court judge with the comment that the United States' view of what constitutes torture "is not the same as ours and doesn't appear to coincide with that of most civilised countries."

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4126


From news at resist.ca  Tue Feb 21 12:12:21 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 20:12:21 -0000
Subject: [news] The Olympic spectacle: Next stop, Vancouver
Message-ID: <20060221201224.17915.qmail@resist.ca>

by Am Johal | Rabble | February 21, 2006

The referendum in Vancouver over the 2010 Winter Olympic Games passed with 64 per cent support three years ago. But what lies behind every Games is the untold story of what happens to cities and communities as they make way for large and expensive infrastructure projects. The Olympic Games never pay for themselves since they require host cities to come up with the costs of infrastructure which in the case of Winter Olympics can be over $700 million.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4127


From news at resist.ca  Tue Feb 21 15:12:28 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 23:12:28 -0000
Subject: [news] Why Poverty is Worse than it was 30 Years Ago
Message-ID: <20060221231230.30241.qmail@resist.ca>

Why are so many storefronts in the Downtown Eastside boarded up? Look no further than government policies for a big part of the answer. Low-income residents have lost a huge amount of purchasing power...Thirty years ago, as now, most Downtown Eastside residents depended on low-wage work, pensions, unemployment insurance or welfare for their income. The purchasing power of three of those sources of income has declined drastically.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4128


From news at resist.ca  Tue Feb 21 23:12:05 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 07:12:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Would Someone Please Interfere in Our Elections?
Message-ID: <20060222071206.21596.qmail@resist.ca>

As the US has established the precedent for interfering in the internal affairs of other countries...how could Washington complain if some other country were to help the American people by financing an American political party that represents American values and civil liberties. It would be wonderful for America to have a party committed to diplomacy, peace, financial soundness, and the best interests of the American people, as opposed to a Jacobin ideology of death that represents the neoconservative agenda of the Bush regime...(T)he US is in desperate need of the UN to oversee our elections to prevent Republicans with low approval ratings from winning elections that exit polls show they lost.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4129


From news at resist.ca  Wed Feb 22 02:12:06 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 10:12:06 -0000
Subject: [news] For U.S. Right, Canada is the Great White Hope
Message-ID: <20060222101206.15625.qmail@resist.ca>

Paul Weyrich, widely considered one of the founding fathers of the United States' modern conservative movement, is looking north these days with hopes that Prime Minister Stephen Harper's newly elected government will transform the social and political landscape of Canada.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4130


From news at resist.ca  Wed Feb 22 09:12:16 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:12:16 -0000
Subject: [news] OCAP Victory Against Toronto Cops
Message-ID: <20060222171217.30598.qmail@resist.ca>

Ontario Coalition Against Poverty | 21 Feb 2006

In September 2003 OCAP Member Gaetan Heroux was witness to Intelligarde officers harassing a man at the corner of Dundas and Sherboune. Metro police arrived at the corner, arrested and assaulted Gaetan, who was simply observing the situation. Police did no investigating before arresting Gaetan who was well known to them for his decades of OCAP organizing in Toronto's east end.

Gaetan and the OCAP legal team filed suit against the Toronto Police for false arrest and negligent investigation and assault. Today the cops offered a cash settlement for their heavy handed tactics- not wanting to go through with a lawsuit that was bound to expose their illegal actions.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4131


From news at resist.ca  Wed Feb 22 13:12:17 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:12:17 -0000
Subject: [news] Perpetual Surveillance: Welcome To The 21st Century
Message-ID: <20060222211217.17740.qmail@resist.ca>

|By George Monbiot|The Guardian| Feb. 21, 2006|

New technological advances could make us susceptible to perpetual surveillance. George Monbiot glimpsed the future last week when he learned of an Ohio company implanting two tiny transmitters, the size of a grain of rice, into the arms of two of its employees. This technology opens the doors to many possibilities, questions, debates and challenges to civil liberties.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4132


From news at resist.ca  Thu Feb 23 10:12:08 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:12:08 -0000
Subject: [news] Fontaine Gump: Stupid is as stupid does
Message-ID: <20060223181209.25815.qmail@resist.ca>

Janice G.A.E. Switlo

The recent "delegation" to Israel, listed below from the available backgrounder (I do not know who actually attended as yet) has seriously mislead Israel should the local journalist reports be an accurate account:

"The Assembly of First Nations, which represents all the indigenous nations of Canada, wants to establish a diplomatic mission in Israel. An AFN delegation that included several chiefs of various nations met on Wednesday with President Moshe Katsav to tell him how much they have been inspired by Israel in their quest to reclaim their own national identities, cultures and territories."

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4134


From news at resist.ca  Thu Feb 23 13:12:11 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:12:11 -0000
Subject: [news] Highway of Tears: An Urgent Call for a Community Symposium
Message-ID: <20060223211212.1076.qmail@resist.ca>

Highway of Tears  
An Urgent Call for a Community Symposium

It is clear that the recent murder of 14 year-old Aielah Saaric-Auger  
has not only stunned Aboriginal communities and the city of Prince  
George, but it has also brought to the forefront the critical issues of  
race, poverty, women's rights, the isolation of our youth and our  
justice system.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4133


From news at resist.ca  Thu Feb 23 13:12:11 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:12:11 -0000
Subject: [news] Inquiry to blow whistle on Ottawa's war on terror
Message-ID: <20060223211213.1092.qmail@resist.ca>

Inquiry to blow whistle on Ottawa's war on terror

Investigation into Maher Arar case expected to spark public debate

By Elizabeth Thompson

Ottawa -- The inquiry investigating the deportation and imprisonment of  
Maher Arar is poised to blow the whistle on what has been going on behind  
the scenes in the war on terror -- revelations that will likely spark a  
public debate into the way the government has been conducting itself, says  
the lead counsel for the inquiry.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4136


From news at resist.ca  Thu Feb 23 13:12:12 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:12:12 -0000
Subject: [news] Constitution Allows for Aristide Return
Message-ID: <20060223211214.1120.qmail@resist.ca>

Constitution Allows for Aristide Return 

President-elect Rene Preval has pointed out that Haiti?s Constitution allows for the return home of former president Jean Bertrand Aristide, who was forcedly ousted in a US-backed coup in 2004.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4138


From news at resist.ca  Thu Feb 23 13:12:11 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:12:11 -0000
Subject: [news] Rumsfeld Declares War on 'Bad' Press
Message-ID: <20060223211212.1085.qmail@resist.ca>

Rumsfeld declares war on 'bad' press  
By Emad Mekay  
Asia Times

WASHINGTON - Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld has signaled that he plans  
to intensify a campaign to influence global media coverage of the United  
States, a move that is likely to heighten the debate over press freedom  
and propaganda-free reporting.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4135


From news at resist.ca  Thu Feb 23 13:12:12 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:12:12 -0000
Subject: [news] Stakes are high as miners and natives square off
Message-ID: <20060223211214.1110.qmail@resist.ca>

Stakes are high as miners and natives square off  
Remote site's platinum riches touch off fight over land rights 

JULIUS STRAUSS 

BIG TROUT LAKE, ONT. - It may not look like much: a white canvas tent, a five-kilowatt diesel generator throbbing on the frozen muskeg and two miners puffing in the winter air. In fact, the setup was so small that the men and their equipment had fit into the belly of a Twin Otter plane that landed on a nearby frozen lake the day before.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4137


From news at resist.ca  Thu Feb 23 13:12:13 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:12:13 -0000
Subject: [news] Gwich'in once more into the breach for ANWR
Message-ID: <20060223211215.1124.qmail@resist.ca>

Gwich'in once more into the breach for ANWR  
CBC News

Gwich'in leaders from the Yukon are packing their bags for yet another trip to Washington to fight against proposals to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Earlier this week Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski promised to try once again to hitch a vote on oil drilling to an overall vote on the U.S. budget.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4139


From christoff at resist.ca  Sat Feb 25 16:34:57 2006
From: christoff at resist.ca (Stefan Christoff)
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 16:34:57 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [news] [Montreal] TADAMON! Photos & Audio Online! - Voice for
 Justice from BEIRUT to MONTREAL.... 
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0602251634320.17458@resist.ca>


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 16:13:16 -0800 (PST)
From: Tadamon! <tadamon at resist.ca>


TADAMON! Launch: Photos & Audio Online!
Voice for Justice from BEIRUT to MONTREAL.

Tadamon! Montreal launch event, featuring music, visuals, presentations & 
films, brought together upwards of 250 people on January 22nd, 2006. Movements 
for social and economic justice in Lebanon were highlighted during the event, 
which created an important space for political discussion & debate on the 
historic political changes that Lebanon has witnessed throughout the last year.

Tadamon! [Solidarity in Arabic], is an social justice initiative based in 
Montreal, aimed at supporting movements for social & economic justice in 
Lebanon, while also working within the Lebanese Diaspora in Montreal, to 
address struggles facing the Lebanese community, such as immigration, racism, 
poverty and labour rights.

The Tadamon! launch in Montreal featured a performance from the Hassan el-Hadi 
band, featuring Oud, Arabic Flute, Banjo & Arabic Percussion. Also the Tadamon! 
launch featured the screening of 'War Generation', a documentary film by Jean 
Chamoun & Mai Masri filmed on the streets of Beirut during the country's 15 
year civil-war. Finally the launching event featured a presentation from 
independent journalist & member of Tadamon!, Stefan Christoff, who spent the 
summer of 2005 in Lebanon, reporting on movements for social and economic 
justice.

----> To view photos of the Tadamon! launch in Mnontreal visit the Independent 
Media Center of Quebec at: http://gallery.cmaq.net/tadamon

----> To listen / download selected songs from a live performance of the Hassan 
el-Hadi band at the Tadamon! launch visit: 
http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/02/8405.php

----> To listen to the presentation given by Stefan Christoff, independent 
journalist & member of Tadamon! in Montreal visit: 
http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/02/8409.php

For more information or to get involved with Tadamon! in Montreal contact: 
tadamon[at]resist.ca / 514 690 8499


TADAMON!: Basis of Unity....

Tadamon! [solidarity in Arabic], is a Montreal based collective of social 
justice activists, working to lend support and solidarity to grassroots 
political movements for social and economic justice in Lebanon.

In the context of historic political changes taking place in Lebanon, Tadamon! 
through it's political work, aims to support struggles for social justice and 
human rights of ALL people living in Lebanon, through direct coordination and 
organization between activists in Beirut & Montreal.

In Montreal, Tadamon! aims to organize within the Lebanese Diaspora, through 
popular education, cultural work and political action, which address struggles 
facing the Lebanese community, such as immigration, racism, poverty and labour 
rights.

Through organizing work both locally and internationally, Tadamon! aligns 
itself with social justice movements in Lebanon, Canada and internationally 
which are anti-capitalist & anti-authoritarian in nature.

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From news at resist.ca  Tue Feb 28 15:40:10 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 23:40:10 -0000
Subject: [news] Liberals Continue Harris' Attack on the Poor
Message-ID: <20060228234011.11242.qmail@resist.ca>

OCAP Press Advisory | February 26, 2006

Michael Bryant, the Attorney General of Ontario, said that the bill was ?a joke? when it was under debate. He also called the bill ?worse than the status quo?, said parts of it were ?offensive? and that it was ?an insult to the intelligence of Ontario voters.?* Now he is working to continue that insult by having his government defend the Act.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4165


From news at resist.ca  Tue Feb 28 15:40:13 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 23:40:13 -0000
Subject: [news] US Has Tortured "at Least 8" to Death
Message-ID: <20060228234013.11323.qmail@resist.ca>

02/23/06 "The Australian"

At least eight detainees of the roughly 100 who have died in US military custody in Iraq and Afghanistan were tortured to death, human rights lawyers said in a report released today.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4176


From news at resist.ca  Tue Feb 28 15:40:13 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 23:40:13 -0000
Subject: [news] U.S. Renews War on the American Indian Movement
Message-ID: <20060228234013.11319.qmail@resist.ca>

Last month, an article published online by writer Michael Connelly for CounterPunch titled "Getting Away with Murder, Killing Anna Mae Aquash, Smearing John Trudell"...was written in response to an article I wrote for Earth First! called "The US Renews It's War against the American Indian Movement-The Anna Mae Picou-Aquash Story" (included below)...CounterPunch made accusations against John Graham, including the outright lie that "John confessed to murdering Anna Mae in 2001." That is a very grave lie to make, and that CounterPunch needs to be called on.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4155


From news at resist.ca  Tue Feb 28 15:40:11 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 23:40:11 -0000
Subject: [news] Vancouver Women Gearing Up to Take to the Streets Against
	Privatization
Message-ID: <20060228234015.11282.qmail@resist.ca>

|Grassroots Women| February 27th, 2006|

Sunday March 5th, women and participants from diverse communities across the Lower Mainland will gather at the 'Building Anti-Imperialist Solidarity' Conference in Vancouver as a part of culminating activities leading up to International Women's Day March 8th. Key to the discussions at this conference will be the role of privatization in women's lives and how it relates to imperialist globalization.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4174


From news at resist.ca  Tue Feb 28 15:40:13 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 23:40:13 -0000
Subject: [news] Dudley George's Killer Cop Dead in Car Crash
Message-ID: <20060228234013.11324.qmail@resist.ca>

CP | February 27, 2006

The public inquiry scrutinizing the death of Dudley George has lost a central witness to the decade-old tragedy following the death of the former police officer who fatally shot the native protester.

"What we were wanting to know was: Why was he there? Who put him there? We were hoping that he would be able to answer some of these questions when he took the stand." said Sam George.

Deane is the third provincial police officer involved in the Ipperwash crisis to die before testifying before the inquiry.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4175


From news at resist.ca  Tue Feb 28 15:40:13 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 23:40:13 -0000
Subject: [news] Oil prices surge on fresh wave of Nigerian sabotage
Message-ID: <20060228234013.11322.qmail@resist.ca>

The Independent - 21 February 2006 | By Philip Thornton

Oil prices surged in London yesterday after Nigerian militants blew up a pipeline in the latest act of sabotage against the world's eighth largest exporter. 

Markets were already reeling from a weekend of violence that saw attacks on Shell installations that knocked out of a fifth of production from the west African state.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4178


From news at resist.ca  Tue Feb 28 15:40:11 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 23:40:11 -0000
Subject: [news] Does Activism Matter?
Message-ID: <20060228234015.11283.qmail@resist.ca>

Every activist has heard people say: "Nothing ever changes. Things are the way they are and that?s how it is and always will be. All your complaining and noise will do nothing to change anything"...But imagine what the world would be like without activists....

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4172


From news at resist.ca  Tue Feb 28 15:40:13 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 23:40:13 -0000
Subject: [news] Gwich'in turning against Mackenzie gas pipeline
Message-ID: <20060228234015.11325.qmail@resist.ca>

John King | Northern News Services | Feb 27/06

Fort McPherson - The mood is changing in the Mackenzie Delta. 

As the Joint Review Panel continues to hear all voices, people are starting to realize the Mackenzie Gas Project (MGP) is not, afterall, a done deal.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4181


From news at resist.ca  Tue Feb 28 16:40:33 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:40:33 -0000
Subject: [news] Grassy Narrows warns Weyerhaeuser,
	Abitibi against destruction of homeland
Message-ID: <20060301004034.16569.qmail@resist.ca>

GRASSY NARROWS, Ont. (CP) - Frustrated by what they see as an industrial invasion of their territory, aboriginal people in northwestern Ontario are warning two forestry giants to stop logging the area or face an international protest.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4183