From news at resist.ca  Wed Jan  4 11:12:07 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 19:12:07 -0000
Subject: [news] Tahltan Elders Reject Nova Gold-Tahltan Participation
	Agreement and Protest Voting
Message-ID: <20060104191208.17894.qmail@resist.ca>

Dec 01, 2005

(Tahltan Territory) The Tahltan Elders of Telegraph Creek, Iskut and Dease Lake reject the proposed Participation Agreement between Nova Gold and Tahltan Central Council (TCC).

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3745


From news at resist.ca  Wed Jan  4 11:12:06 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 19:12:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Venezuela gives Exxon ultimatum
Message-ID: <20060104191207.17890.qmail@resist.ca>

Dec 20, 2005 | BBC News, Caracas | By Greg Morsbach

Venezuela has given the world's biggest oil company, ExxonMobil, until the end of this year to enter a joint venture with the state.

Failure to do so will almost certainly result in Exxon losing its oil field concessions in the country.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3746


From news at resist.ca  Wed Jan  4 11:12:07 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 19:12:07 -0000
Subject: [news] Innu fight for survival and Nitassinan
Message-ID: <20060104191207.17891.qmail@resist.ca>

December 30, 2005 | Valerie Taliman | Indian Country Today

GENEVA - What happens to Indian people when their colonizers take away everything they need to survive? They start killing themselves at a rate unsurpassed anywhere in the world.

That's part of the Innu people's tragic struggle to retain their land, resources and traditional lifeways, according to Armand MacKenzie, an Innu lawyer representing his people in a human rights conflict spanning two continents and nearly six decades.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3749


From news at resist.ca  Wed Jan  4 16:12:03 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 00:12:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Bolivia's Evo Morales: All Growl, No Claws?
Message-ID: <20060105001203.26848.qmail@resist.ca>

Once again in Bolivia we have a popular leader elected to power. Once again we have an army of uncritical left cheerleaders, ignorant of significant facts and policy changes over the last 5 years....the Left will continue to respond to symbols, mythical histories, political rhetoric and gestures and not to programmatic substance, historical experiences and concrete socio-economic policies.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3751


From news at resist.ca  Thu Jan  5 20:12:05 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 04:12:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Britain: Former Employee Says Asylum Seekers Given Visas in
	Exchange for Sex
Message-ID: <20060106041205.14734.qmail@resist.ca>

A former employee told the Sun that workers at the (Immigration) centre in Croydon, south London, used their influence to seduce pretty asylum seekers whereas "ugly" migrants would see their applications rejected...."Officers used to say about ugly girls: 'She's bloody disgusting - let's send her back anyway,'" he said.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3755


From news at resist.ca  Sat Jan  7 20:12:05 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 04:12:05 -0000
Subject: [news] You're Under Arrest.....No, You Are!
Message-ID: <20060108041205.479.qmail@resist.ca>

Two cops protecting a nuclear waste convoy ended up fighting and threatening each other with arrest at an anti-nuclear demo in Germany recently.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3759


From news at resist.ca  Sun Jan  8 18:12:03 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 02:12:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Name of Four-Year-Old Boy Shows Up on U.S. Government
	"No-Fly" List
Message-ID: <20060109021203.6534.qmail@resist.ca>

Edward Allen's reaction to being on the government's "no-fly" list should have been the tip-off that he is no terrorist..."I don't want to be on the list. I want to fly and see my grandma," the 4-year-old boy said, according to his mother. Sijollie Allen and her son had trouble boarding planes last month because someone with the same name as Edward is on a government terrorist watch list.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3761


From news at resist.ca  Mon Jan  9 10:12:29 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 18:12:29 -0000
Subject: [news] Thai Farmers Fear Free Trade Deal With US
Message-ID: <20060109181231.11812.qmail@resist.ca>

by Marwaan Macan-Markar

BANGKOK, Jan 6 (IPS) - When United States negotiators fly into Thailand to thrash out a bilateral free trade deal, next week, they will be greeted with jeers rather than this country's famed smile of welcome.

Activists opposed to the free trade agreement (FTA) view the sixth round of talks in the northern city of Chiang Mai from Jan. 9-13 as a defining moment, and in a bid to raise the ante will bring 10,000 people on to the streets to protest against the talks.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3762


From news at resist.ca  Mon Jan  9 11:12:06 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 19:12:06 -0000
Subject: [news] The man who bought off Washington
Message-ID: <20060109191207.24294.qmail@resist.ca>

The Independent - Jan 4, 2006 - By Rupert Cornwell in Washington

Jack Abramoff, the disgraced former Republican super-lobbyist, has agreed a deal with US government prosecutors, opening the way for what could be the biggest political influence peddling scandal in Washington for decades.

Under the plea bargain, Mr Abramoff is expected to tell all about his  
dealings with the congressmen, and the gifts lavished upon them to win their support. The favours include millions of dollars in campaign contributions, all-expenses-paid foreign trips, meals, luxury boxes at major sporting events, and generous funding of special interest groups linked to the lawmakers.

Also see [The $4bn industry that is America's guilty secret][1]

    [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/3767

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3768


From news at resist.ca  Tue Jan 10 05:12:04 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 13:12:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Statement from Kashechewan [new tragedy unfolds]
Message-ID: <20060110131205.23301.qmail@resist.ca>

Statement from the forgotten community of Kashechewan  
Jan 8, 2006

Two young men are burned to death and another policeman is severely burned.

Two men incarcerated in a combustible converted house police station died  
today. Policemen were severely burned trying to get them out.

Two young men died in a caged inferno, leaving their families devastated.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3772


From news at resist.ca  Tue Jan 10 13:12:04 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:12:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Communique: Command of the Dessalinien National Liberation
	Army
Message-ID: <20060110211205.11771.qmail@resist.ca>

From: Command of the Dessalinien National Liberation Army (ADLN)[Haiti]

For: MINUSTAH occupation forces, the de facto government, the press and the Haitian people

On October 24, 2004 at half past midnight, the ADLN?s Artibonite Front surrounded the Gros Morne police station and asked the policemen to surrender. We clearly told the policemen to come out with their hands up, without weapons, through the front door of the station. We told them that if they did that, nobody would get hurt.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3773


From news at resist.ca  Tue Jan 10 13:12:04 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:12:04 -0000
Subject: [news] We lost the war. Welcome to the world of tomorrow.
Message-ID: <20060110211205.11770.qmail@resist.ca>

Democracy is already over

By its very nature the western democracies have become a playground for lobbyists, industry interests and conspiracies that have absolutely no interest in real democracy. The "democracy show" must go on nonetheless. Conveniently, the show consumes the energy of those that might otherwise become dangerous to the status quo. The show provides the necessary excuse when things go wrong and keeps up the illusion of participation.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3770


From news at resist.ca  Tue Jan 10 13:12:04 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:12:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Energy plan unwisely centers on ANWR
Message-ID: <20060110211205.11775.qmail@resist.ca>

By CHARLES BARNWELL | January 7, 2006 // Anchorage Daily News

The current focus on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has unfortunately deflected attention from a more pressing need: formulating a new strategy to reduce our [United States] critical dependence on foreign energy resources.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3771


From news at resist.ca  Tue Jan 10 13:12:05 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:12:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Will federal parties secure Canada's energy future?
Message-ID: <20060110211205.11776.qmail@resist.ca>

January 6, 2006 | by Gordon Laxer

The spike in world oil prices after Hurricane Katrina highlighted the need to plan for coming oil and natural gas shortages. The Americans are discussing how to ensure security of supply. So are politicians in many countries.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3774


From news at resist.ca  Wed Jan 11 10:12:17 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 18:12:17 -0000
Subject: [news] IMF Occupies Iraq, Riots Follow
Message-ID: <20060111181220.27470.qmail@resist.ca>

In December, the International Monetary Fund, in exchange for giving a loan of $685 million to the Iraqi government, insisted that the Iraqis lift subsidies on the price of oil and open the economy to more private investment.

Not surprisingly, these enormous price hikes have led to riots around the country, with police firing on 3,000 protesters in Nassiryeh, according to an account on Daily Kos.

Iraq?s oil minister quit to protest the government?s capitulation to the IMF.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3776


From news at resist.ca  Wed Jan 11 11:12:04 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 19:12:04 -0000
Subject: [news] "Fair Trial" impossible in Khadr case
Message-ID: <20060111191204.7720.qmail@resist.ca>

By Kimball Cariou | People's Voice

A Toronto teenager will soon face trial on charges of murder, attempted murder, conspiracy, and aiding the enemy. The trial will take place in a foreign country, on the opposite side of the world from the scene of the alleged crimes, in a military base where he has endured terrible conditions for several years.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3777


From news at resist.ca  Wed Jan 11 12:12:12 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 20:12:12 -0000
Subject: [news] Minicams roll with bicycles, and probably undercovers
Message-ID: <20060111201212.24694.qmail@resist.ca>

[![Critical Mass Arrests][1]][2]

By Jefferson Siegel

On the lookout even more than usual for police infiltrators, hundreds of bicyclists gathered last Friday for the last Critical Mass ride of the year. Within minutes of the start of the ride, 12 riders were arrested just blocks from Union Square.

    [1]: http://mostlywater.org/sites/mostlywater.org/files/images/bikes.thumbnail.jpg
    [2]: http://mostlywater.org/node/3778

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3779


From news at resist.ca  Wed Jan 11 13:12:15 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 21:12:15 -0000
Subject: [news] UN commander dead in Haiti amid pressure from elite
Message-ID: <20060111211215.24904.qmail@resist.ca>

General Bacellar's death exposes contradictions of UN mission

SOA Grad and Former Pinochet Operative Leading Forces in Haiti

Bacellar's death comes on the heels of Boulos's announcement of a nationwide general strike on Monday aimed at forcing the UN mission to get tough with bandits in Cite Soleil. The term "Bandits" is often seen as a code word for Lavalas supporters, and Cite Soleil has served as a launching site for massive demonstrations demanding the return of ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3780


From news at resist.ca  Thu Jan 12 02:12:03 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 10:12:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Pacifying Iraq:  Insugrent Scenarios
Message-ID: <20060112101203.9176.qmail@resist.ca>

The notion that the American military occupation can silence the armed resistance...is arrogant folly. The claim that the Sunni minority is too small to defy the Shiite-Kurdish majority is the premise of the occupation. But surveys show that two-thirds of Iraqis favor a near-term US withdrawal. Many Shiites, like the rebellious followers of Muqtada al-Sadr, are Arab, not Persian, and favor a unified Iraq. In addition, the Sunni minority will be supplemented by Sunnis from neighboring countries if their existence is threatened.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3782


From news at resist.ca  Fri Jan 13 13:12:18 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 21:12:18 -0000
Subject: [news] Where freedom is another word for a whole lot left to lose:
	The last great commune's unhappy new year
Message-ID: <20060113211219.19062.qmail@resist.ca>

"The Clown Army has been on the march only since the summer of 2005, but already the state it protects is in imminent peril - Christiania, a 34-hectare, 35-year-old experiment in communal life, the self-governing freetown in the heart of Denmark's capital.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3784


From news at resist.ca  Fri Jan 13 15:12:10 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 23:12:10 -0000
Subject: [news] RCMP Policy - "Let's Beat on the Indians for Kicks on New
	Years"
Message-ID: <20060113231211.3584.qmail@resist.ca>

The police were embarrassed off the rez after they realized their unjust role in attempting to arrest and humiliate Tsimshian people in a Tsimshian hall after inflicting harm on two young Tsimshian women. One who suffered a fractured nose and bruises all over her head, and another who was pepper-sprayed in the eyes. The former is planning on pressing charges against one Constable Rusnak, badge #50685.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3785


From news at resist.ca  Fri Jan 13 17:12:18 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 01:12:18 -0000
Subject: [news] Vancouver Hockey Fans Should be Applauded for Booing U.S.
	Team
Message-ID: <20060114011218.3032.qmail@resist.ca>

Fans at World Junior Hockey championship games staged (in Vancouver) offered up hearty and pointed chants to representatives of the United States here to play under the American flag....We have humble hockey fans to thank for saying out loud what none of our political or business leaders have the courage or the will to even whisper. When fans stood to chant "USA sucks!" I was proud to be a Vancouverite and a Canadian....I hope the chant was loud enough to be heard in Europe, across Asia, all around Africa and South America, and in particular, in the Middle East.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3786


From news at resist.ca  Fri Jan 13 22:12:06 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 06:12:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Sex Workers' Manifesto
Message-ID: <20060114061206.10273.qmail@resist.ca>

[![Sex workers march][1]][2]  
"Within this document we explore the current inequalities and injustices within our lives and the sex industry; question their origin; confront and challenge them and put forward our vision of changes that are needed to create a more equitable society in which sex workers, their rights and labour are acknowledged and valued."

    [1]: http://mostlywater.org/sites/mostlywater.org/files/images/Red Umbrella March2.thumbnail.jpg
    [2]: http://mostlywater.org/node/3788

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3787


From news at resist.ca  Sat Jan 14 10:12:06 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 18:12:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Haiti's Deadly Class Divide: Haiti's Deadly Class Divide:
	Class war takes on a new meaning in Cite Soley
Message-ID: <20060114181206.13546.qmail@resist.ca>

by Leslie Bagg and Aaron Lakoff

Port-au-Prince, January 10/06 - Driving into Cite Soley on January 8th, the day Haitians were supposed to go to the polls in a presidential election, there is no mistaking the fact that we are entering an occupied zone. The streets are almost deserted, the atmosphere tense, and UN armored personnel carriers patrol the streets.

Cite Soley, one of Port-au-Prince's poorest neighborhoods, is home to around 500,000 people living in abject poverty. According to Jean-Joseph Joel, the Secretary General of the local branch of Fanmi Lavalas, the area's residents are virtual prisoners, and their movements restricted by armed police at checkpoints.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3790


From news at resist.ca  Sat Jan 14 10:12:06 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 18:12:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Toxic Warship in Epic Last Battle
Message-ID: <20060114181206.13544.qmail@resist.ca>

by Praful Bidwai, from IPS News

NEW DELHI, Jan 13 (IPS) - Environmentalists who oppose the dumping of toxic waste by the industrialised North upon underdeveloped Southern countries are locked in an epic battle over a discarded French aircraft- carrier, the 'Clemenceau', being tugged to India to be dismantled.

Interestingly, the battle is taking place on shifting waters between India and France. When the asbestos-laden Clemenceau approached the Suez Canal, on Thursday, Egyptian authorities challenged it. The next day, the ship changed course, raising suspicions.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3789


From rebel_jill98 at yahoo.co.jp  Sun Jan 15 23:22:11 2006
From: rebel_jill98 at yahoo.co.jp (=?ISO-2022-JP?B?cmViZWxfSklMTC8bJEJNcDpbRjs9IRsoQg==?=)
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 16:22:11 +0900
Subject: [news] [Fwd: OSAKA*Urgent appeal!! "BEAUTIFICATION" FOR THE WORLD
 ROSE CONVENTION 2006, NO THANX!*]
Message-ID: <43CB49A3.5030002@yahoo.co.jp>

-------- Original Message --------
ubject: OSAKA*Urgent appeal!!  "BEAUTIFICATION" FOR THE WORLD ROSE
CONVENTION 2006, NO THANX!*
X-Priority: 1 (Highest)
X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0

Comrades and affinities;

 saluton from osaka. by the way, this mail is really urgent appeal of
homeless liberation movement in osaka. you might not believe that there
are poor people... however, following msg is so important fact of
japnese islands. especially in osaka, biggest violence and harassments
to the homeless comrades are an official one. so, we have been engaged
in the class war against the city government/their subjects for at least
5 years. hospitality of osaka city? NO KIDDING! on the roadsides,
parks...etc, you can see, there is a lot of dirty violence of this city
by city authorities!! their politics for the poor are really violence to
the poor like a NAZIS/FASCISTs did!!! a few days later, "merciful"
oSSaKKKa city with over hundreds guards(or thousand guards and officers
with polizei pigs) will attack to the 30 homeless comrades. yes,
this is the hiden reality of their hospitality.
 anyway, if you will be able to do something, we strongly want you to do
the protest against the branches of osaka city as soon as you can. any
protests to the osaka city authorities and executional committee of
World rose convention are welcome by our comrades!(please BCC send your
protests to: nagaipark_tentvilla at yahoo.co.jp and kamapat at infoseek.jp )
thanx. in solidarity.

 "BEAUTIFICATION" FOR THE WORLD ROSE CONVENTION 2006, NO THANX!
 WE JUST HOPE THE LIVES WITHOUT VIOLENCE & POVERTY. NO NEED TO ANY
THORNY ROSES! ALSO NO NEED TO ANY HOBBIES BY MONARCHISTS OR NOBLE
PERSONS! THEY ARE ENEMIES OF ALL OF POOR PEOPLE'S LIVES!!

   FUCKIN' DULL OFFICERS, "SHAME" & "DIRTY" IS REALITIES OF YOUR DOING!!
WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND YOU TO APOLOGIZE TO ALL HOMELESS COMRADES NOW!
 ALSO WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND YOU TO REJECT YOUR EVIL MISSIONS RIGHT NOW!!
  ...OR YOU WILL BE A TERRIBLE "CRIMINAL OF CLASS WAR".
WE SHALL EXPOSE THE FAKED HOSPITALITY OF ALL BASTARDS OF THIS CITY!
 ...we are NOT DUST & DIRT. we SHALL NOT BE MOVED!!
  DIGNITY FOR THE POOR NOT FOXY FAKED HOSPITALITY!

   VI VENKOS! NI VENKOS!! NO PASARAN!!! (rebel_JILL/a working poor)

--------------------------------
To members of the media,

Please excuse the suddenness of this mail.
We are the the 'Unemployment and Homelessness action committee', working
with homeless movement groups and aid groups in Osaka prefecture.
At this time, at Utsubo Koen park and Osaka-jo Koen park in Osaka city,
forced eviction proceedings have been initiated against 30 homeless
people.  The speed of the proceedings has been exceptionally fast and it
appears that the evictions will take place sometime between January 20th
and 23rd.
We see this incident as an enormous human rights violation perpetrated
by the city, already a lawyer team and plaintiffs have been assembled
(with 17 homeless living in tents at the sites as plaintiffs) and
litigation has been launched on January 11th against the city for the
cessation of eviction proceedings; at the same time we have entered a
demand for a provisional halt to the evictions.   From this point on, we
intend to endeavor to the best of our powers to halt the expected
evictions.

Concerning this matter, we would like to bring these stories to the
attention of those interested, and so we have contacted you.
By all means we will happily accommodate any media interest in the
matters concerned.

Unemployment and Homelessness Action Committee (????????????
??)

(Kamagasaki Iryou Renraku Kaigi, Kamagasaki Takidashi no Kai, Kamagasaki
Patrol no Kai, Nagai Kouen Nakama no Kai, Koureisha Tokubetsu Shuurou
Kumiai Junbikai, Osaka-jo Kouen Yorozu Soudansho, Nishinari Kouen Yorozu
Soudansho)

Contact Information???????????????Mr. Kanatsu?
?????????????????Kamagasaki Iryou Renraku Kaigi?

?Below is a detailed account of the situation as well as a call for
assistance)

?We need everyone's help!?
All of the people living in tents at Utsubo Kouen Park (about 20) and
one part of Osaka-jo Kouen Park's tents (5) are being exposed to a
forced eviction crisis by Osaka city.   Made involuntarily homeless by
unemployment, these men have put up tents in parks and on street sides,
earning their livings working jobs such as can and magazine collection,
waste removal etc.; they have lived on their own strength with the help
of neighbors.

Instead of extending a helping hand to these people, under the name of
'illegal occupation', the city is taking away the very tents that allows
them to work out a lifestyle while attempting to kick the occupants out
into the cold weather and onto the roadsides.  In Osaka city, at least
200 homeless people die on roadsides annually.  These dead are victims
of homeless eviction policies, of murderous policy.  In order to put a
stop to Osaka city's unjust human rights violations we now need the
cooperation of a number of people.

?The story up until now?

Utsubo Kouen park, where some tens of homeless people live, has been
prepared by Osaka City over several years for the 'World Rose Convention
2006' (from May 11th-17th 2006).  Up until this point, the tent village
autonomous organization has held negotiations with the park's western
office and has cooperated in discussions for the transfer of the tents.
However, since last year Osaka city has changed its attitude, handing
out documents on October 4th stating "get out of the park by November
30th", refusing to dialogue with the autonomous organization and
beginning 'individual visits' to tents in order to prepare for eviction.
Protest marches have occurred a few times, demanding dialogue, but the
city's stance has not changed; finally the process of forced eviction
has been begun by the administration.

With regard to Osaka-jo Kouen Park, preparatory construction for this
year's 'National Capital Tree-Planting Fair in Osaka' (March 25th-May
28th 2006) has served as the reason for the eviction underway.  The
park's eastern office has denied the proposals for tent transfer and as
soon as it had stopped responding to dialogue, sealed the entrance
during visits, barring concerned individuals and supporters from
entering the office, even refusing to receive correspondence, continuing
a pattern of conduct that is unthinkable for public employees.

Amid the 'individual visitations' that prepare the way for eviction,
there was an incident where a homeless friend was approached on November
11th 2002 by personnel who took out a knife threatening him to 'leave
the park' (although the park office acknowledged the truth about this
incident, there was no action by the city and no apology by the
personnel involved), again on October 27th 2004 a wheelchair-bound
comrade trying to build a tent was surrounded by personnel and was
heaped with abuse, such as 'this one looks about dead!', provoking an
'assault incident' and the arrest and imprisonment of our homeless friend.
Since last year, patrols and 'persuasion' by park personnel has
intensified and harassment and interference like the nearly complete
enclosure of two tents by fencing have occurred.  Just like Utsubo Kouen
Park, by the end of November documents demanding departure were
distributed, bringing us to the present day.

?The Initiation of the Eviction Process?

In both parks, park personnel distributed an 'explanation meeting
notice' on January 5th to each tent.  After January 11th, the
'explanation' period expired and on the 13th, an 'exclusion directive'
was issued.  It is believed that at 1 o'clock on January 17th, the
'exclusion' period will expire, 'warnings' will be issued and after an
extremely short window, an 'administrative directive' will be issued and
forced evictions will commence.

Administrative proceedings against homeless have happened nationally
since last year, January 24th against the tents at Nagoya's Shirakawa
Kouen park (mobilizing more than 600 personnel and guardsmen).  In
Osaka, the removal of the 'Karaoke village' in December 2003 at Tennoji
and the forced eviction of many homeless tents and belongings in front
of Imamiya Junior High School in December 1998 are understood as the
first wave of state action to have occurred.
As soon as the paperwork was in motion, four people from Utsubo Kouen
park and two from Osaka-jo Kouen Park opened a lawsuit against Osaka
city for a halt to the administrative proceedings of the 11th.  At the
same time, an appeal has gone forward for a temporary restraining order.
 However, Osaka city has issued a letter of objection and on the 13th
rejected the application for restraining order.  Without a moment's
delay, the city issued an exclusion order that same day.
After the 14th, as more comrades added themselves to the plaintiff group
(9 from Utsubo Kouen park, with 2 planning to add themselves), they
issued a protest against the rejection of the restraining order and
planned to further demand the cancellation of the exclusion order
however there are fears that the city will not wait for the courts and
begin forced evictions.
Osaka City is moving with an unthinkable speed (according to one lawyer,
administrative action against regular citizens are often deferred
several months), and so we have very little time.

?Shelters are No Replacements for Tents?
Osaka City has proposed 'choices' such as the Osaka-jo Kouen park
shelter and the 'Independence Aid' center in exchange for homeless
comrades leaving their tents in both parks.
However, these are not choices.
Osaka-jo Kouen Shelter is an institution established three years ago.
Conceived as part of Osaka-jo Kouen's 'normalization' i.e. tent
eviction, it was only those pitching tents in the park who became
targets (for those homeless sleeping without tents, in a much harsher
situation, they are contradictorily refused entry to the shelter).
However, the living environment of the shelter is extremely rough,
individual space does not even fill two mats (2.5m by 2.5m), with thin
partitions, privacy is non-existent and the permitted amount of
belongings is limited to several pieces of cardboard.  Only a single
meal of white rice is provided as a guaranteed meal for the day.  In the
end, residents cannot eat without gathering aluminum cans and people's
living conditions decrease markedly compared to their lives while living
in tents.
Once admitted to the shelter, the tent which one had been living in is
torn down by the park administration and for those who inevitably feel
that 'this is awful', there are no tents and they are essentially kicked
to the roadside.  Despite the obstinate 'persuasions' of the park
personnel, the number of people entering the shelter is only a third of
those living in tents.  The number of those who can't stand these
'persuasions' and have had no choice but to surrender their own autonomy
and leave is unknown.
Now, the west park administration office is extending the term of the
Osaka-jo shelter, which was planned for closure at the end of last year,
and attempting to move our friends at Utsubo Kouen park inside (already
some comrades who could not avoid entering are inside).  However, the
shelter's essential problem is that this extension serves only for a few
months.  Because of this, there are no homeless comrades who wish to
enter it proactively (Osaka-jo Kouen Park is the same).

In the same way, the other 'choice' of the 'Independence Aid Center':
although one can get three meals a day, shared rooms mean no privacy and
there is a six-month limit for residency at the shelter.  If one cannot
find work on one's own, there is only a return to the streets.
These institutions are simply 'preparations for eviction'.  With no
prospects after entry and no guarantees after leaving, the shelter
serves as no replacement for the tents that our friends have pitched
with their own power (along with relationships of mutual aid).

?Work for the homeless!  Livelihood protection without prejudice!?

Unemployment is the largest cause of homelessness.  Amid ongoing
firings, restructuring and the expansion of irregular employment,
homeless who have lost their jobs and everything else will keep
increasing.  As long as the government does not take responsibility and
actuate radical shifts in unemployment policy, the homeless problem will
definitely not be going away.  With the progress of restructuring and
de-regulation, in the midst of a situation of 'recovery without
employment', forcing the unemployed to 'help themselves' will not solve
the problem.  For the unemployed who include homeless, the national and
regional governments must take responsibility and guarantee work.
Presently, as a fruit of the homeless and day-workers' struggle against
unemployment, a program called 'Work for Older Workers' has been opened
in Kamagasaki, and within the city, approximately 3,000 homeless are
registered (for those above 55, light work is provided in a rotating
system three times a month).  Disregarding the importance of this
program, the city has stricken funds from its 2005 budget and is on the
path to 'reduction and abolition' of these services.
We think the very opposite, and appeal for the expansion of this special
employment programs' scope.
The discriminatory application of 'Livelihood Protection' (Seikatsu
Hogo) is another cause of homelessness.  Even now when a homeless person
goes to the welfare office, they are turned away at the entrance because
they do not have an address.   Even disregarding the 'Livelihood
Protection' clause that 'takes as principle care for a residence', if
one applies for the program from a tent or living on the streets, they
are usually admitted to a hospital or other institution.  On one hand,
in hospitals and other institutions, huge expenses are racked up for
care and the pay structure funnels this money from the administration to
the administrative bodies behind hospitals and other institutions.
We are not institutionalists, we demand direct transfers from the tents
and roadsides into apartments under the application of 'Livelihood
Protection'.

?The Right of Residency is the Right to Live?
The problem of Utsubo Kouen Park and Osaka-jo Kouen Park is by no means
a problem only of the tens of people living there.  As long as the
direction of this country remains oriented towards the policy-based
abandonment of human beings, people will only lose their jobs and
continue to be expelled to the roadsides.  For these people, putting
their belongings on the road or in a park, pitching a tent etc.,
shouldn't these natural rights to live be recognized?  (Japanese parks
were originally after all, places of refuge)  If forced evictions occur,
and fences are built, 24-hour guardsman patrols begin, it will be
impossible for homeless to live in these parks (already the construction
of new tents is being obstinately obstructed).  This will rob not only
those comrades now living in the park of their right to live, but untold
numbers chased into homelessness in the future.

For us, the right of those who fall unavoidably into unemployment to
pitch tents and live on the roadsides is an existential right guaranteed
in the Constitution's 25th amendment, a right that must be upheld
according to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

?What is the point of this construction in the first place??

'We're doing construction here, so get out!'  is the unchanging attitude
of Osaka City but really, for what and for who is this construction done?
When viewing the figures, the 923 million yen budgeted for this year's
Osaka-jo Kouen Park 'Greening Fair', the 200 million yen management
expenses for the Osaka-jo Kouen shelter (mostly this is personnel and
building lease cost), the yearly budget for the 'Independence Aid
Center' of 1 billion yen (the majority of cost being personnel), and
comparing these to the figure of the homeless person gathering aluminum
cans, worth approximately one yen each, we cannot help but feel that
something is amiss.
On January 11th, the section chief of Osaka City's Yutori to Midori park
management and his attorney were arrested in connection with suspicion
of holding talks with landscaping companies.  While this corruption and
nepotism continues, wealthy Osaka City is attempting to evict our
homeless friends; again we appeal for your anger.
If they succeed in evicting these homeless comrades, the operation will
be judged by the Yutori to Midori Promotional office as a success, and
it seems that things will only escalate (actually, this seems already to
be confirmed).

We would like to again ask 'What is this construction for??
Absconding with the rights and means of our homeless comrades to live,
forcing deaths by the roadside?which is most important for Osaka City:
'success' or 'money'?  This we would also like to ask.
If the same thing happened to you yourself, and your family, how would
you feel?  This too we want to ask.

?Please help our comrades at Utsubo Kouen park and Osaka-jo Kouen park?

Regardless of these harsh conditions, the comrades of Utsubo and
Osaka-jo Kouen parks are not crushed, the reverse, they are
strengthening their organization.  With the opening of administrative
process on the 5th, organization within the park on the 7th followed by
an emergency meeting, and along with comrades from Umeda, Ogimachi,
Nagai and Nishinari Kouen parks and from Kamagasaki, we have led
successive protests to the west and eastern administrative office of the
park.  The team of lawyers is assisting strongly and from everywhere
there are many people already raising voices of protest against the city.
We will not allow this crisis to end as it wants to, instead this is a
good opportunity to strengthen the ties between us and open the future
together, to fight together until the end.

We appeal for your assistance!

?Concentrate your protests on Osaka City?
This is very simple and should not take much time.  Please send messages
like 'STOP FORCED EVICTIONS!' to:

mayor of osaka city: junichi seki
TEL: 06-6208-7231
FAX: 06-6202-6950
?530-8201 1-3-20, nakanoshima, kita-ward, osaka-city

your protest opinions to(jap words-they are racist!):
http://www.city.osaka.jp/shichoshitsu/iken/index.html
>
*Your protest opinion to(other language!):

*CHICAGO*
City of Osaka, Chicago Office

c/o JETRO Chicago
401 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 660
Chicago, Illinois
60611 USA
Tel: 1-(312)832-6002
Fax: 1-(312)832-6066
info at osakacity.org
http://www.osakacity.org/office/contactus.aspx

*DUSSELDORF*
City of Osaka, Dusseldorf Office

c/o JETRO Dusseldorf
Konigsallee 58
40212 Dusseldorf
Germany
Tel: 49-(211)1360241
Fax: 49-(211)326411

*SINGAPORE*
City of Osaka, Singapore Office

5 Shenton Way
#37-01 UIC Building
Singapore 068808
Republic of Singapore
Tel: (65)6220-8588
Fax: (65)6224-9980
webmaster at osakacity.com.sg

*PARIS*
Bureau de Representation
de la Ville d'Osaka a Paris

29, rue des Pyramides
75001 Paris
France
Tel: 33-(1)4015-9366
Fax: 33-(1)4015-9172
ocparis at netntt.fr

*SHANGHAI*
City of Osaka, Shanghai Office
Room 407, Shanghai International
Trade Center
2200 Yan An Road West
Shanghai, China
Tel: 86-(21)6275-1982
Fax: 86-(21)6275-1983
webmaster at osakacity-sh.com

*office of 23th Zenkoku-tochi-ryokuka osaka fest
TEL06-6920-5941 FAX 06-6920-5971

*office of executive committee of World rose convention 2006

http://www.worldrose-osaka2006.jp/jp/form/index.html

FAX????????+81-6-6631-8741
TEL?06-6631?8760


Seibu Houmen Kouen Jimusho (?????????)
TEL:06-6441-6748?FAX:06-6441-6797
?550-0004?Nishi-ku Utubo Honmachi 2-1-4 (????? 2-1-4)

Toubu Houmen Kouen Jimusho (?????????)
TEL:06-6941-1144?FAX:06-6943-6877
?540-0002?Chuu-ou-ku Osaka-jo 3-11 (?????? 3-11)

Yutori to Midori Shinkou Soumubu Kanrika (????????????????)
TEL?06-6615-0643?

Yutori to Midori promotion department's opinion form:
http://www.city.osaka.jp/yutoritomidori/request/index.html

Please copy any emailed messages to nagaipark_tentvilla at yahoo.co.jp /
kamapat at infoseek.jp or 06-6374-2233(FAX)

?Organize for January 17th Monitoring!?

At 1 o'clock on the 17th, there is a possibility that a 'warning paper'
will be issued.  In order to support our comrades at Utsubo and Osaka-jo
we're calling for organization at the parks.

?Gather at the parks for the days of administrative action!?

Sometime after the 20th through the 23rd (excepting Saturday), there are
fears that administrative action could take place.  In order to protect
the tents, we think we should do all we can.  We call for organization
on the parks on that day.

Unemployment and Homelessness action committee
06-6647-8278(TEL/FAX)
kamapat at infoseek.jp ?Kamagasaki Patrol no Kai?

Osaka-shi Nishi-ku Futago Taishi 2-1-2
Care of: Kamagasaki Iryou Renraku Kaigi

?End?



From news at resist.ca  Sat Jan 14 21:12:05 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 05:12:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Ukraine MPs vote to sack cabinet over 'traitorous' gas price
	deal with Russia
Message-ID: <20060115051205.3145.qmail@resist.ca>

The Independent - 11 January 2006  
By Andrew Osborn in Moscow 

Viktor Yushchenko, the hero of the orange revolution of 2004, questioned the parliament's right to dismiss his government and ministers spoke of a bizarre legal vacuum opening up.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3793


From news at resist.ca  Sun Jan 15 12:12:07 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 20:12:07 -0000
Subject: [news] Climate change drives widespread amphibian extinctions
Message-ID: <20060115201208.18156.qmail@resist.ca>

National Science Foundation | Jan 11, 2006

Results of a new study provide the first clear proof that global warming is causing outbreaks of an infectious disease that is wiping out entire frog populations and driving many species to extinction.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3795


From news at resist.ca  Sun Jan 15 17:12:32 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 01:12:32 -0000
Subject: [news] Right-Wing Radicals: Stephen Harper & the Conservative Party
Message-ID: <20060116011232.22005.qmail@resist.ca>

I am no fan of the Liberals, but the alternative scares the bejaysus out of me. "Conservatives" are expected to conserve things, but with their cynical manipulation of political language, Harper and his circle have no interest in quaint notions of a nation distinct from its southern neighbour. Whatever they call themselves, they are a party of radicals, who appear to be itching for an extreme makeover of the Canadian goose into the American eagle. If you still doubt it, there's Harper to tell you otherwise, when he described the Reform Party in 1997 "as very much the manifestation of the Republican movement in Western Canada."

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3797


From news at resist.ca  Sun Jan 15 16:12:22 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 00:12:22 -0000
Subject: [news] Ron Harris: The Embedded Journalist Who Got It Wrong
Message-ID: <20060116001224.26663.qmail@resist.ca>

Months ago, few Americans ever heard of (Ron Harris), the embedded reporter for the St. Louis Post Dispatch. It was not until he launched a smear campaign against Sergeant Jimmy Massey, a Marine who publicly confessed to killing innocent civilians on the road to Baghdad, that Harris made a name for himself in the mainstream media, including CNN. Harris attacked Massey for speaking out about the carnage in Iraq. He questioned Massey?s motives and the veracity of his story....When Harris made his accusations, however, he did not realize that Massey?s claims about civilian killings were already corroborated by three other Marines with whom he served. Their testimony is recorded on tape by Massey?s publisher and a Danish journalist.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3796


From news at resist.ca  Mon Jan 16 12:12:05 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 20:12:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Problem of Homelessness in Los Angeles and Its Environs
	Draws Renewed Calls for Attention
Message-ID: <20060116201205.11903.qmail@resist.ca>

By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD | NYTimes | Jan 15, 2006

Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa of Los Angeles stood before the news media this week and declared unequivocally, "This is the capital of homelessness in America."

The mayor was reacting to the bald truth of a report released Thursday, based on what officials called the most comprehensive census and survey of homelessness in Los Angeles County, that found 88,345 homeless people in the city and surrounding communities.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3800


From news at resist.ca  Mon Jan 16 12:12:05 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 20:12:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Pettigrew Pressing Charges Against Poster Pasters
Message-ID: <20060116201206.11904.qmail@resist.ca>

MONTREAL, Jan 15--Two members of Haiti Action Montreal were arrested yesterday after Liberal party officials alleged that posters featuring Pettigrew were "vandalism". Representatives of the Liberal party are pressing charges, alleging that the posters, which read "Pettigrew: wanted for crimes against humanity in Haiti" damaged their property.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3802


From news at resist.ca  Mon Jan 16 12:12:05 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 20:12:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Kahnawake: an election-free zone: Mohawks interested in the
	vote but consider it a foreign event
Message-ID: <20060116201206.11905.qmail@resist.ca>

JEFF HEINRICH | The Gazette | January 15, 2006

Welcome to Mohawk country, an election-free zone. Unlike most other Canadian native communities, the 9,300 Mohawks of Kahnawake, along with their 10,000 brethren of Akwesasne, which straddles the Canada- U.S. border near Cornwall, Ont., boycott federal and provincial elections.

Voting in "alien nation" elections "places us in submission to foreign governments and as a result alienates us from our own," according to the lead editorial this week in The Eastern Door, Kahnawake's community paper. "You can't stand with one foot in two canoes."

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3801


From news at resist.ca  Mon Jan 16 12:12:06 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 20:12:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Ex-Minister Chagnon rips 'illegal' Mohawk raid
Message-ID: <20060116201206.11908.qmail@resist.ca>

Jeff Heinrich / The Gazette | Friday, January 13, 2006

It's been two years since a botched police operation by 67 aboriginal police officers in Kanesatake left the grand chief's house in flames and his Mohawk community in tatters.

Now the man who was Quebec's public security minister at the time says the raid was illegal, Duplessis-like, mercenary and the fault of Ottawa, which paid for it.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3803


From news at resist.ca  Mon Jan 16 16:12:17 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:12:17 -0000
Subject: [news] Bachelet's Victory: Leftward Drift in Chile?
Message-ID: <20060117001219.13628.qmail@resist.ca>

The resounding victory of Michelle Bachelet as Chile's first woman president represents an important social advance in a country where women are often treated as second class citizens. But few observers see the Chilean elections as reflective of the leftward trend taking place in much of Latin America. Cristian Cottet, the editor and owner of a book publishing house that specializes in political titles, says: "Bachelet is nominally a Socialist, but it would have made little difference if her conservative opponent had triumphed. The truth is Chile's political class is beholden to business interests and the neo-liberal economic model imposed on the country by the former dictator, Augusto Pinochet."

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3805


From news at resist.ca  Mon Jan 16 19:12:04 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 03:12:04 -0000
Subject: [news] European Dockworkers Fight Privatization
Message-ID: <20060117031204.10916.qmail@resist.ca>

Police in Strasbourg have used tear gas and water cannon to disperse dock workers who marched to the European Parliament in a mass protest...Protesters threw firecrackers, stones and metal missiles, smashing windows and causing "considerable damage"...The dockers, from across the EU, had converged on Strasbourg to protest at controversial proposals to open up port services to greater competition.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3806


From news at resist.ca  Tue Jan 17 09:12:05 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:12:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Hong Kong Detainee Number SAF02518
Message-ID: <20060117171205.18939.qmail@resist.ca>

After these happenings, my sense of time was off. I thought that it must be around midnight, but it was only around 9pm. The police then began another round of chemical weapons (tear gas). Although we were somewhat far away from the hot zone, it was a nerve-racking scene. As soon as there were any indications, we would pick up our backpacks and use wet towels to cover our mouths and noses and fled to the rear.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3807


From news at resist.ca  Tue Jan 17 11:12:40 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:12:40 -0000
Subject: [news] Bush to criminalize protesters under Patriot Act as
	"disruptors"
Message-ID: <20060117191241.2678.qmail@resist.ca>

by Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse | Thu Jan 12

Bush wants to create the new criminal of "disruptor" who can be jailed for the crime of "disruptive behavior." A "little-noticed provision" in the latest version of the Patriot Act will empower Secret Service to charge protesters with a new crime of "disrupting major events including political conventions and the Olympics." Secret Service would also be empowered to charge persons with "breaching security" and to charge for "entering a restricted area" which is "where the President or other person protected by the Secret Service is or will be temporarily visiting."

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3809


From news at resist.ca  Tue Jan 17 11:12:40 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:12:40 -0000
Subject: [news] Leaked Memo: Corrupt DEA Agents in Colombia Help Narcos and
	Paramilitaries
Message-ID: <20060117191241.2677.qmail@resist.ca>

Narco News | By Bill Conroy

[Department of Justice attorney Thomas M.] Kent?s memorandum contains some of the most serious allegations ever raised against U.S. antinarcotics officers: that DEA agents on the front lines of the drug war in Colombia are on drug traffickers? payrolls, complicit in the murders of informants who knew too much, and, most startlingly, directly involved in helping Colombia?s infamous rightwing paramilitary death squads to launder drug money.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3808


From news at resist.ca  Tue Jan 17 12:12:06 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 20:12:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Hunger Crisis in Niger: Starvation by the Market
Message-ID: <20060117201206.21453.qmail@resist.ca>

By Raymond Lotta

I was reading the conservative financial journal The Economist. They were reporting on the acute and widespread hunger in Niger, and a phrase popped off the page: "the market respects demand, not need." What they were saying was that famine is stalking Niger not because there is too little food. No. The problem, and this was freely admitted in the article, is that the poor majority of people cannot afford to buy the grain they need. And that grain is available! In short, market forces are responsible for the critical levels of hunger now affecting 3.6 million people in Niger.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3811


From news at resist.ca  Tue Jan 17 12:12:06 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 20:12:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Jaggi Singh takes on Concordia's lawyers and wins
Message-ID: <20060117201206.21454.qmail@resist.ca>

January 10, 2006 | by Misha Warbanski | The Link

Singh acquitted but officially banned from Concordia after Netanyahu protest

An active member of the Concordia community through his involvement at QPIRG and groups like the International Solidarity Movement and No One Is Illegal, Jaggi Singh was originally charged in October 2002, over a month after the protest. The charges against him included conspiracy, obstruction, illegal assembly and assault.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3812


From news at resist.ca  Tue Jan 17 16:12:04 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 00:12:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Another Kick in the Liberal Groin: Indian Affairs
	"Mercenaries"
Message-ID: <20060118001204.28467.qmail@resist.ca>

It was a cold morning on January 12, 2004, when former Grand Chief James Gabriel got together with Wayne Easter, to play war games. Easter was working for the Solicitor General's Office at that time. They had maps on the wall, an arsenal of weapons and plenty of money, courtesy of the Canadian taxpayer. With a $900,000 Special Anti-Crime subsidy, they had no trouble rounding up 67 untrained mercenaries ready and willing to try out the latest military toys on the unarmed citizens of Kanehsatake.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3814


From news at resist.ca  Wed Jan 18 01:12:09 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:12:09 -0000
Subject: [news] BC Teacher's Union Sides with Injustice and Reaction
Message-ID: <20060118091209.12533.qmail@resist.ca>

We have become increasingly concerned by recent actions on the part of the (BC Teachers Federation) executive regarding the Palestinian/Israeli issue...If the BCTF Executive cannot determine their strategic allies in the local Jewish community, then your union and the whole trade union movement is in trouble...(W)e call upon the BCTF Executive to stand up for the genuine interests of your membership, not just minority lobbyists, and to uphold the progressive principles that your union and all Canadian unions should advance.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3816


From news at resist.ca  Wed Jan 18 11:12:06 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 19:12:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Winnipeg: International Call to Action
Message-ID: <20060118191207.12629.qmail@resist.ca>

The following is a call to join Winnipeg in opposing the occupation of our city by an imperialist army, the Canadian Armed Forces. At the bottom is an article from the Winnipeg Free Press with details of the planned urban-warfare exercises. Please circulate this to as many different people as possible, and make plans to be here in this crucial time.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3817


From news at resist.ca  Wed Jan 18 11:12:06 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 19:12:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Why U.S. should pay attention to Mexico's Zapatistas
Message-ID: <20060118191207.12632.qmail@resist.ca>

By ALEJANDRO REUSS | Houston Chronicle - Jan 14, 2006

[timely for Canadians too...]  
[A] Zapatista caravan intends to visit all 31 states of Mexico and the federal district on a six-month tour ending in Tijuana, 2,500 miles from Chiapas. The group calls the tour, which coincides with the country's national presidential campaign, the "other campaign."

The message of the Zapatistas is that there is more to politics than  
just electioneering, and that the people should not be satisfied with  
leaders who care about them only when they are looking for votes.  
People can take power and change the conditions of their own lives,  
collectively, the Zapatistas argue, without relying on politicians to do it for them.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3810


From news at resist.ca  Wed Jan 18 21:13:06 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 05:13:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Morgentaler Doesn't Trust Harper Pledge to Leave Abortion
	Issue Alone
Message-ID: <20060119051308.15990.qmail@resist.ca>

Dr. Henry Morgentaler is warning voters not to trust Stephen Harper when it comes to abortion rights. "I don't trust the Conservative party and I don't think women in Canada or people who love women in this country should trust the Conservative party as far as abortion rights are concerned," he said Monday..."There are many people in the higher echelons of the Conservative party who are terribly anti-choice..."

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3819


From news at resist.ca  Thu Jan 19 09:12:14 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 17:12:14 -0000
Subject: [news] Haiti is Canada's Iraq
Message-ID: <20060119171215.3369.qmail@resist.ca>

by Andrew MacLeod | January 15, 2006 | Monday Magazine

The election should include a close analysis of Canada's foreign policy, Anderson says, and yet, the closest we've come during this campaign is politicians talking about increasing the size of the armed forces. How, Anderson asks, can we talk about that without saying what we'd be increasing the forces for?

Asked what Canadians need to know about Haiti, Pina says, "That your government is investing millions of dollars in an unelected, undemocratic regime." Also, he says, on this one Canada is in "lock step" with the United States. And, oh yes, the decision to unseat Aristide, known as the Ottawa initiative, was made in Canada.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3820


From news at resist.ca  Thu Jan 19 11:12:41 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 19:12:41 -0000
Subject: [news] Hamas drops call for Israel's destruction
Message-ID: <20060119191242.20539.qmail@resist.ca>

The Irish Times - Jan 12, 2006 | by Chris McGreal in Jerusalem 

MIDDLE EAST: Hamas has dropped its call for the destruction of Israel from its manifesto for the Palestinian parliamentary election in a fortnight, a move that brings the group closer to the mainstream Palestinian position of building a state within the boundaries of the occupied territories.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3821


From news at resist.ca  Thu Jan 19 12:12:07 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 20:12:07 -0000
Subject: [news] California executes blind,
	deaf [76 year old] man in wheelchair
Message-ID: <20060119201207.6242.qmail@resist.ca>

AP | 17 January 2006

California executed its oldest condemned inmate early today for arranging a triple murder 25 years ago. [He had been on death row for 23 years].

Clarence Ray Allen was pronounced dead by lethal injection at 12.38am at San Quentin State Prison, less than an hour after his 76th birthday ended at midnight.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3822


From news at resist.ca  Thu Jan 19 12:12:07 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 20:12:07 -0000
Subject: [news] Three Years Too Many! Call for Local Actions Nationwide on
	the Third Anniversary of the Iraq War
Message-ID: <20060119201207.6243.qmail@resist.ca>

A Call for a Week of Local Action  
March 15-22, 2006

The Bush administration is on the run as the foolhardiness and arrogance of their "stay the course" policy has been exposed. Let us work together to make this the last anniversary of this war. Join the week of local action in March and help build the movement to end the war in Iraq and bring all our troops home now!

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3823


From news at resist.ca  Thu Jan 19 19:12:06 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 03:12:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Indigenous Nigerians get militant against Shell oil company
Message-ID: <20060120031207.22268.qmail@resist.ca>

Independent Online via Friends of Grassy Narrows | By Daniel Howden | 17 January 2006

The oil giant Royal Dutch Shell was considering pulling out of the volatile Niger Delta region yesterday after heavily armed militants stormed one of its facilities and killed at least 17 people.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3825


From news at resist.ca  Fri Jan 20 13:12:04 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 21:12:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Canada allegedly backed Bush on forced disappearances
Message-ID: <20060120211204.12474.qmail@resist.ca>

The Canadian Press | January 19, 2006

Ottawa -- A civil liberties group accuses Prime Minister Paul Martin of siding with the Bush administration to undermine a proposed United Nations treaty outlawing forced disappearances.

Human Rights Watch says in its annual report that Martin apparently decided to run interference for the U.S. as a way for Canada to mend strained relations.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3830


From news at resist.ca  Fri Jan 20 16:12:03 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 00:12:03 -0000
Subject: [news] Bechtel VS. Bolivia: The People Win!
Message-ID: <20060121001204.26870.qmail@resist.ca>

The Democracy Center On-Line - January 19, 2006

The Cochabamba water revolt ? which began exactly six years ago this month ? will end this morning when Bechtel, one of the world?s most powerful corporations, formally abandons its legal effort to take $50 million from the Bolivian people. Bechtel made that demand before a secretive trade court operated by the World Bank, the same institution that coerced Bolivia to privatize the water to begin with. Faced with protests, barrages of e-mails, visits to their homes, and years of damaging press, Bechtel executives finally decided to surrender, walking away with a token payment equal to thirty cents. That retreat sets a huge global precedent.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3832


From news at resist.ca  Fri Jan 20 19:12:42 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 03:12:42 -0000
Subject: [news] Read this Affadavit by the FBI on anarchists!
Message-ID: <20060121031245.18251.qmail@resist.ca>

Everyone especially anyone who is connected with the anarchist movement or who consider themself anarchists or who have friends who are anarchists should read the affidavit of the fbi agent who arrested these people in Sacramento recently.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3828


From news at resist.ca  Sat Jan 21 10:12:06 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 18:12:06 -0000
Subject: [news] Harper's Canada will be Just Like Howard's Australia
Message-ID: <20060121181206.29761.qmail@resist.ca>

Mr. Harper's party is employing the same campaign tactics that Mr. Howard first used in 1996 for his landslide win and that he has used to great effect in three successive elections...Mr. Howard's electoral success can be put down to his capacity to capture the support of working-class and lower-middle-class families who used to vote for (the Labour Party); he did this by lining their pockets with tax cuts and middle-class welfare payments, such as cash bonuses for new mothers. And he appealed to their moral conservatism and desire to slow down the pace of social change. In 1996, Mr. Howard's campaign slogan was "For all of us." Mr. Howard said the (Labour Party) was more interested in what he called "elite" issues such as aboriginal reconciliation, Australian republicanism and the arts.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3833


From news at resist.ca  Sat Jan 21 13:12:11 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 21:12:11 -0000
Subject: [news] 30 years later, Peltier still battles for justice
Message-ID: <20060121211211.5402.qmail@resist.ca>

John Gallagher | People's Weekly World Newspaper, 01/12/06

Leonard Peltier, the long-imprisoned American Indian Movement activist, sent out a recent message to supporters: ?We are all geared up to file more appeals on new information my legal team has found while reviewing withheld documents. I want you to know that we will continue to fight for my freedom.?

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3834


From news at resist.ca  Sat Jan 21 13:12:11 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 21:12:11 -0000
Subject: [news] Iraq war could cost US over $2 trillion,
	says Nobel prize-winning economist
Message-ID: <20060121211211.5403.qmail@resist.ca>

Jamie Wilson | January 7, 2006 | The Guardian

The real cost to the US of the Iraq war is likely to be between $1 trillion and $2 trillion (?1.1 trillion), up to 10 times more than previously thought, according to a report written by a Nobel prize-winning economist and a Harvard budget expert.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3835


From news at resist.ca  Sun Jan 22 16:12:07 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:12:07 -0000
Subject: [news] Spies Bragging About Their Infiltration
Message-ID: <20060123001207.26556.qmail@resist.ca>

In Jerry Rubin's classic book, "Do It!," published in 1970, Chapter 31 talks about a "bodyguard" for Rubin, whose name is Bob Pierson. This bodyguard turned out to be a state spy, and bragged about his infiltration later with exaggerated sensationalism in the press. Jerry Rubin was involved with the yippie side of the Chicago Democratic Convention protests of 1968, which is how Bob got assigned to Rubin. With the current unabashed return of Hoover-esque, unregulated, FBI spying activity on Americans, looking back 35 years to the Anti-Vietnam War Movement, shows us not much has changed.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3838


From news at resist.ca  Sun Jan 22 17:12:05 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 01:12:05 -0000
Subject: [news] Rightwing group offers students $100 to spy on professors
Message-ID: <20060123011205.23899.qmail@resist.ca>

Dan Glaister | January 19, 2006 | The Guardian

It is the sort of invitation any poverty-stricken student would find hard to resist. "Do you have a professor who just can't stop talking about President Bush, about the war in Iraq, about the Republican party, or any other ideological issue that has nothing to do with the class subject matter? If you help ... expose the professor, we'll pay you for your work."

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3841


From news at resist.ca  Sun Jan 22 17:12:04 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 01:12:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Mohawk Warriors Jailed for Defending Their Community
Message-ID: <20060123011205.23897.qmail@resist.ca>

The Mohawk political prisoners of Kanehsatake were sentenced on January 20th 2006 in St. Jerome Quebec. A stacked white jury had found them guilty of "rioting and confinement". They stood up to 67 paid mercenaries who invaded their community on January 12th 2004.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3839


From news at resist.ca  Sun Jan 22 17:12:04 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 01:12:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Is a Conservative Victory Inevitable ? (Understanding
	polling)
Message-ID: <20060123011205.23896.qmail@resist.ca>

Dennis Pilon | Canadian Dimension | Jan 17, 2006

The real reason that so much of the media coverage is focused on polling, and so many millions of dollars are spent on doing polling, is to assure media and corporate control of the political agenda. Constantly harping on the horse race, particularly between two largely indistinguishable parties, is a way of corralling voters into an American-style two party system and obscuring the issues that voters might want discussed. If individual voters can be convinced that everyone else (ie other voters) are moving in a particular direction (ie toward the Tories) then some will opt for the Liberals as a reaction, particularly soft New Democrats.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3840


From news at resist.ca  Mon Jan 23 15:12:19 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 23:12:19 -0000
Subject: [news] Soldiers Who Killed Che Honored by Outgoing Government
Message-ID: <20060123231220.14262.qmail@resist.ca>

Bolivian soldiers who captured and assassinated the Cuban-Argentinian guerrillero Ernesto Che Guevara in 1967 were declared Distinguished for Service to their Country and cannot be retired from the public offices they occupy, according to official sources in Bolivia.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3844


From news at resist.ca  Mon Jan 23 15:12:20 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 23:12:20 -0000
Subject: [news] U.S. Indicts 11 for Acts of Domestic Terrorism
Message-ID: <20060123231220.14263.qmail@resist.ca>

Eleven people have been indicted on [65] charges of carrying out a years-long spree of arson, bombings and other acts of domestic terrorism throughout five Western states, the Justice department said today.

Working on behalf of the Earth Liberation Front and the Animal Liberation Front, the defendants committed arson with improvised incendiary devices fashioned from milk jugs, petroleum products and homemade timers, causing damage in the millions of dollars, Justice Department officials said.

The Justice Department identified those indicted as Joseph Dibee, Chelsea Gerlach, Sarah Harvey, Daniel McGowan, Stanislas Meyerhoff, Josephine Overaker, Jonathan Paul, Rebecca Rubin, Suzanne Savoie, Darren Thurston and Kevin Tubbs.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3845


From news at resist.ca  Mon Jan 23 15:12:20 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 23:12:20 -0000
Subject: [news] Boycott "Gun" Video Game for Killing & Scalping Apaches
Message-ID: <20060123231221.14265.qmail@resist.ca>

A [video] game called "Gun" has been released by Activision...[T]he earliest task the game player must complete is to slaughter Apache Indians. Not only slaughter-- but also scalp Apaches with a "scalping knife" which can be purchased as part of the many weapons offered to the hero of the game, Colton White.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3847


From news at resist.ca  Mon Jan 23 16:12:11 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 00:12:11 -0000
Subject: [news] Israel, Hamas and the Palestinian Elections
Message-ID: <20060124001211.32064.qmail@resist.ca>

It was the biggest demonstration in (Bil'in, Occupied Palestine) for a long time. This week, the protest against the Fence was interwoven with Palestinian electioneering...I was happily marching along in the wintry sunshine, holding high the Gush Shalom emblem of the flags of Israel and Palestine side by side. We were approaching the line of armed soldiers that was waiting for us, when I suddenly realized that I was surrounded by the green flags of Hamas...Ordinary Israelis would have been flabbergasted. What, the murderous terrorists marching in line with Israeli peace activists? Israelis marching, talking and joking with the potential suicide bombers?...But it was quite natural. All the Palestinian parties took part in the demonstration, together with the Israeli and international activists. Together they ran away from the clouds of tear gas, broke together through the lines of soldiers, were beaten up together.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3848


From news at resist.ca  Tue Jan 24 10:12:08 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:12:08 -0000
Subject: [news] Rumsfeld: Venezuela "Overspending" [on military]
Message-ID: <20060124181209.32112.qmail@resist.ca>

By DAVE LINDORFF | January 21/22, 2006

What are you supposed to do when the world's most over-armed, belligerent and dangerous nation, which outspends all the rest of the world combined on arms, and which is the major arms supplier to the rest of the world, tells a little country like Venezuela that it is guilty of spending "too much" on its military?

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3850


From news at resist.ca  Tue Jan 24 11:12:19 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 19:12:19 -0000
Subject: [news] Kuwait oil reserves only half official estimate
Message-ID: <20060124191219.14213.qmail@resist.ca>

Reuters - Jan 20, 2006

LONDON, Jan 20 (Reuters) - OPEC producer Kuwait's oil reserves are only half those officially stated, according to internal Kuwaiti records seen by industry newsletter Petroleum Intelligence Weekly (PIW).

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3852


From news at resist.ca  Tue Jan 24 12:12:22 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 20:12:22 -0000
Subject: [news] Indonesia killed 180,000 East Timorese, says report
Message-ID: <20060124201223.1111.qmail@resist.ca>

The Irish Times - Jan 20, 2006

EAST TIMOR: Indonesia killed up to 180,000 East Timorese through massacres, torture and starvation during its 24-year occupation, a report to be handed to the United Nations has found, an Australian daily said yesterday.

Napalm and chemical weapons were used to poison food and water and some victims were burned or buried while still alive, and others sexually mutilated, the Australian newspaper quoted the report as saying.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3853


From news at resist.ca  Tue Jan 24 12:12:22 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 20:12:22 -0000
Subject: [news] US allows Cuba to play in Classic
Message-ID: <20060124201223.1108.qmail@resist.ca>

BBC - 20 January 2006

The US government has backed down on a decision to ban Cuba from playing in the inaugural World Baseball Classic.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3851


From news at resist.ca  Tue Jan 24 12:12:23 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 20:12:23 -0000
Subject: [news] Canada, the UN, and the Politics of Brutality
Message-ID: <20060124201224.1116.qmail@resist.ca>

[![cite_soleil_bullet_hole][1]][2]

by Aaron Lakoff | January 20, 2006,

In a shocking image that will never leave my mind, there was a large bullet hole in a glass window looking in on cribs in the children's ward. Eyewitnesses told us that at around 11pm the previous night, the hospital came under heavy fire, and the perpetrators were MINUSTAH (United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti) troops. Opening fire on a hospital is a serious war crime under the Geneva Convention, and here, in Cite Soleil, we were looking at the evidence of war crimes committed by the very body which is supposed to uphold international law.

    [1]: http://mostlywater.org/sites/mostlywater.org/files/images/cite_soleil_bullet_hole.thumbnail.jpg
    [2]: http://mostlywater.org/node/3855

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3854


From news at resist.ca  Tue Jan 24 16:12:11 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 00:12:11 -0000
Subject: [news] Impeachment hearings: The White House prepares for the worst
Message-ID: <20060125001212.31025.qmail@resist.ca>

January 23, 2006 | Insight on the News

"A coalition in Congress is being formed to support impeachment," an administration source said.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3857


From news at resist.ca  Wed Jan 25 10:12:13 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:12:13 -0000
Subject: [news] U.S. Spent $1.9 Million to Aid Fatah in Palestinian Elections
Message-ID: <20060125181213.15240.qmail@resist.ca>

By STEVEN ERLANGER | January 23, 2006 | NYTimes

JERUSALEM, Jan. 22 - The United States spent about $1.9 million of its yearly $400 million in aid to the Palestinians on dozens of quick projects before elections this week to bolster the governing Fatah faction's image with voters and strengthen its hand in competing with the militant faction Hamas, American and Palestinian officials said Sunday. 

"Working with democracies and democratic parties is normal for the U.S. government all around the world," Ms. Schweiter-Bluhm said. [Read: Meddling in the internal affairs of other countries to influence elections, bringing to power governments which will parrot American economic and military policy, is normal for the U.S. government all around the world]

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3862


From news at resist.ca  Wed Jan 25 12:12:45 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:12:45 -0000
Subject: [news] The Strike of the General Assembly: An Interview with
	Nicolas Phebus
Message-ID: <20060125201247.23847.qmail@resist.ca>

NEFAC | 01/25/2006

In this interview, Nicolas Phebus [NEFAC] reflects on the Qu?bec student movement and its most recent mobilization in the Spring of 2005 against cuts to education funding by the ruling Liberal Party under Jean Charest. The Liberals? attempt to convert more than 100 million dollars in grants and bursaries into loans, thereby effectively doubling the indebtedness of poorer students, was met by an unprecedented student mobilization. The mobilization evolved into a massive general strike: at its peak, more than 200,000 college and university students were out on strike.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3865


From news at resist.ca  Wed Jan 25 12:12:45 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:12:45 -0000
Subject: [news] Evo Morales' first day as president of Bolivia
Message-ID: <20060125201246.23845.qmail@resist.ca>

BY JACK CHANG | Knight Ridder News Service

LA PAZ, Bolivia - Newly inaugurated Bolivian President Evo Morales began his historic, five-year term Monday by meeting with leaders from Cuba and Venezuela, two of Latin America's harshest critics of U.S. policy, before swearing in a Cabinet largely made up of political radicals.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3864


From news at resist.ca  Wed Jan 25 17:12:07 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 01:12:07 -0000
Subject: [news] Conservatives Fulfill Promise to Arm Border Guards
Message-ID: <20060126011207.24097.qmail@resist.ca>

Conservative justice critic Vic Toews announced Wednesday that Canadian border guards will be armed as soon as possible..."It's simply a practical matter of how soon these officers can be trained and the firearms issued to them," Toews said.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3867


From news at resist.ca  Wed Jan 25 17:12:07 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 01:12:07 -0000
Subject: [news] Chile's New "Socialist" President: Washington's Best Ally?
Message-ID: <20060126011207.24098.qmail@resist.ca>

On January 14, 2006 Veronica Michelle Bachelet was elected President of Chile, by a margin of 54 per cent to 46 per cent with 40 per cent abstentions, mostly from young people under 30 years. Heading a coalition of two nominally "socialist" parties, the Christian Democrats and Radicals, her electoral victory was hailed by a vast political spectrum ranging from the Bush Administration to President Chavez, including all the big business media (Financial Times, Time Magazine, Wall Street Journal) and the major international financial institutions (World Bank, IMF)...As in their judgments of other recent elections, the progressives are wrong once again...To understand the meaning of Bachelet's election and why the Bush regime is ecstatic one must delve briefly into the background of the so-called "Left-center" regimes, which have governed Chile over the past 16 years.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3868


From news at resist.ca  Thu Jan 26 10:12:47 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:12:47 -0000
Subject: [news] Canadian Elections: Liberals Defeated, A Country Divided
Message-ID: <20060126181248.11320.qmail@resist.ca>

By Alex Grant  
Wednesday, 25 January 2006  
In Defence of Marxism

[So, it's hard to find good articles on the Canadian election. This is the best I've seen so far. It at least explains a bit of what happened in the lead up to the election and why we ended up with a {C/c}onservative government and how the NDP have failed to capture votes they probably should have had as the Liberals fell in a flurry of scandal. Enjoy!]

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3874


From news at resist.ca  Thu Jan 26 13:12:08 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 21:12:08 -0000
Subject: [news] No One Is Illegal! Mainland Chinese Fight for Family Reunion
	in Hong Kong
Message-ID: <20060126211208.11500.qmail@resist.ca>

by Amardeep Kaur Gill | 26th January, 2006

Hong Kong, 26 JAN ? About 200 gathered in Hong Kong today to continue its long held movement of reuniting Chinese families in Hong Kong. In January 29, 1999, the court of Final Appeal (the highest court in Hong Kong) ruled that mainland Chinese children of Hong Kong residents should be granted the right of abode and residency in Hong Kong to protect families under article 24 of the Basic Law. However, the National People's Congress in Beijing over-ruled the ruling of the Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong claiming children born in the Mainland may only get right of abode in Hong Kong if one of their parents already had permanent residency in Hong Kong at the time of the child's birth.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3871


From news at resist.ca  Thu Jan 26 13:12:08 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 21:12:08 -0000
Subject: [news] Pettigrew Defeat a Warning
Message-ID: <20060126211208.11499.qmail@resist.ca>

by Haiti Action   
January 25, 2006 

On Monday, Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Pettigrew was unseated by electors in the Montreal riding of Papineau. 

Pettigrew's defeat comes on the heels of a two-month campaign by Haiti Action Montreal and Le Comit? Ha?tien Pour Les ?lections F?d?rales 2006, urging Pettigrew's constituents to hold him accountable for Canada's role

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3894


From news at resist.ca  Thu Jan 26 13:12:08 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 21:12:08 -0000
Subject: [news] Mounties used excessive force: report
Message-ID: <20060126211208.11501.qmail@resist.ca>

Jan 26 2006  
CBC News

The Commission for Public Complaints against the RCMP has found that two Nunavut police officers used "intolerable force" when arresting a man in Pangnirtung three years ago, and is recommending disciplinary action against them.

The report also found that the officers acted improperly by removing Qaqasiq from his home in February 2003 without shoes, shirt or a jacket in -50 temperatures.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3877


From news at resist.ca  Thu Jan 26 13:12:08 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 21:12:08 -0000
Subject: [news] Hamas Claims Victory in Palestinian Elections
Message-ID: <20060126211209.11512.qmail@resist.ca>

Hamas Claims Victory in Palestinian Elections  
By Scott Wilson  
The Washington Post

Thursday 26 January 2006

Group says it has clear majority of seats; Prime Minister and Cabinet resign.

Ramallah, West Bank - The radical Islamic group Hamas claimed victory Thursday in voting for the first Palestinian parliament in a decade, saying it won a clear majority of seats and had the right to form the next government.

The claims, although unconfirmed officially, were followed by the resignation of Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia and the rest of his cabinet.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3895


From news at resist.ca  Fri Jan 27 16:12:09 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 00:12:09 -0000
Subject: [news] Experts Rebuild HIV Structure
Message-ID: <20060128001210.29063.qmail@resist.ca>

London, Jan 25 (Prensa Latina)

A group of researchers have for the first time succeeded in reconstructing the structure of the Human Immune Deficiency Virus (HIV), the causal agent of AIDS, a disease that affects more than 40 million people in the world.

According to a research published in Structure science magazine, hundreds of images of 70 individual viruses from different angles were necessary to achieve the new three-dimensional map revealing the pathogenic morphology.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3899


From news at resist.ca  Fri Jan 27 16:12:09 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 00:12:09 -0000
Subject: [news] World Record Temperatures in 2005
Message-ID: <20060128001210.29062.qmail@resist.ca>

Washington, Jan 25 (Prensa Latina) 

The year 2005 was the hottest ever recorded on earth, and the Artic zone was hotter than usual without the influence of an extraordinary climatic phenomenon.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3898


From news at resist.ca  Fri Jan 27 16:12:09 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 00:12:09 -0000
Subject: [news] National Aboriginal Achievement Awards hiding corporate
	crimes
Message-ID: <20060128001210.29066.qmail@resist.ca>

IIYC Press Release

On Friday, January 27th, the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation is hosting the National Aboriginal Achievement Awards at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver, on Coast Salish Territory. We fully support the acknowledgement of Aboriginal achievement. However, sponsorship of the National Aboriginal Achievement Awards by companies with track records of Human Rights? violations and environmental devastation against Indigenous people and their land should not award these companies any honors.

Sponsors of this event include Calgary-based Encana, Shell Canada, and Weyerhaueser; corporations who are continuing to take resources and profit off of Indigenous territories globally, and who have refused to acknowledge Aboriginal Title and Rights in Canada.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3900


From news at resist.ca  Fri Jan 27 19:12:07 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 03:12:07 -0000
Subject: [news] U.S. Orders Syria to Do the Impossible
Message-ID: <20060128031207.8586.qmail@resist.ca>

(John) Bolton is Bush's unconfirmed ambassador to the United Nations. Bolton, a neoconservative warmonger, has managed to get the UN Security Council on January 23 to instruct Syria to disband and disarm the Lebanese militias...How is Syria to meet this demand? Last year Syria complied with US demands to withdraw its troops from Lebanon. As Syria has no military presence in Lebanon, it could not disarm a local police force, much less the Shia militias that defeated the Israeli army and drove it out of Lebanon and that have representatives in the Lebanese parliament.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3901


From news at resist.ca  Fri Jan 27 20:12:07 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 04:12:07 -0000
Subject: [news] Iraqi Resistance Battles Both "the Occupation" and "the
	Terrorists"
Message-ID: <20060128041207.23448.qmail@resist.ca>

There are still more consequences to the wave of assassinations targeting Sunni political and religious figures participating in the political process, and the killing of 42 police recruits in Ramadi by extremist Islamist followers of Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of "al-Qaeda's Organization in the Land of the Two Rivers." A new escalation took the form of additional Arab Sunni tribal clans joining the campaign aimed at liquidating this organization...Six armed groups belonging to "the Iraqi resistance" recently declared war on Zarqawi's "terrorist" organization.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3902


From news at resist.ca  Sat Jan 28 10:12:04 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 18:12:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Anti Capitalist Strategy
Message-ID: <20060128181204.21678.qmail@resist.ca>

Opening Presentation by Michael Albert for A Debate on Anti Capitalist Strategy (with John Holloway)

by Michael Albert; January 26, 2006 

A viable and desirable strategy for transcending capitalism will certainly include leaving capitalism behind. Capitalism is despicable. 

It will also include, however, attaining something worthwhile in capitalism's place. What

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3904


From news at resist.ca  Sat Jan 28 10:12:04 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 18:12:04 -0000
Subject: [news] Doing Jack for Haiti
Message-ID: <20060128181205.21679.qmail@resist.ca>

by Derrick O'Keefe, Seven Oaks | Jan 25, 2006

What would have had to happen in Haiti over the course of the election campaign to have compelled NDP leader Jack Layton to bring up Canada?s shameful involvement in the plight of the western hemisphere?s poorest country?

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3908


From news at resist.ca  Sun Jan 29 10:12:14 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 18:12:14 -0000
Subject: [news] Criticism,
	calls for resolve as Canada relieves US in Afghanistan
Message-ID: <20060129181214.8885.qmail@resist.ca>

January 27, 2006 | by Dru Oja Jay | Dominion Paper

Canada's force in Afghanistan is set to expand to 2,200 troops from 650 in February. The incoming Canadians will replace outgoing US soldiers. Meanwhile, the Canadian occupation of Afghanistan is a subject of intense debate in Canada's media. While commentators in the Toronto Star and Globe and Mail call for Canada's military to stay the course, accounts that remain critical of Canada's occupying force are largely found outside of the major news outlets.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3914


From news at resist.ca  Sun Jan 29 11:12:20 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 19:12:20 -0000
Subject: [news] Marcos: Believing Politicians Can Change is a
	=?utf-8?b?4oCcTWlz?= =?utf-8?q?reading=E2=80=9D?=
	of the Sixth Declaration
Message-ID: <20060129191222.6803.qmail@resist.ca>

By Hermann Bellinghausen | La Jornada | January 27, 2006

Villahermosa, Tabasco, January 25: Subcomandante Marcos said tonight that it is a ?misreading? of the Sixth Declaration from the Lacandon Jungle to believe that the political class can change. It is necessary to put an end to capitalism, to ?join forces? to struggle against it. He added that the problem of social relations begins with economics, not politics, but that not understanding this is a trap into which the cynical and ?doubtful? Left often falls.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3915


From news at resist.ca  Tue Jan 31 14:12:07 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 22:12:07 -0000
Subject: [news] Stephen Harper: A Chilling Echo of Bush's Republicans
Message-ID: <20060131221207.3670.qmail@resist.ca>

The 2006 federal election has set the stage for a possible dismantling of Canada's distinctive social and economic fabric. The newly evolved Conservative Party, in many respects a chilling echo of the USA's Republican Party, is poised for a two-stage attack to reshape Canada in line with its Canadian version of America's neoconservative ideology...Having learned through previous election defeats that the bulk of Canada's people are philosophically opposed to the radical right-wing objectives of the "new" Conservatives, Stephen Harper cleverly and successfully concealed the party's true agenda throughout the election campaign. And now in his shaky minority position, Harper will continue with his innocent-looking choir-boy persona...(T)he Conservative Party's prime objective will be to survive a few months in a non-controversial manner so as to gain the respect and confidence of the public to give them a mandate for a majority in the next election. That will be Harper's fundamental agenda.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3921


From news at resist.ca  Tue Jan 31 17:12:04 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 01:12:04 -0000
Subject: [news] AIM activist on the Abramoff scandal
Message-ID: <20060201011204.18950.qmail@resist.ca>

...Abramoff isn?t in hot water for selling political influence. He got caught ripping off his clients--in particular, Native American tribes who run casino and gambling operations.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3922


From news at resist.ca  Tue Jan 31 18:12:11 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 02:12:11 -0000
Subject: [news] The Dilemma of Armed Struggle in the Global South
Message-ID: <20060201021211.3245.qmail@resist.ca>

>From the 1950s to the end of the 1980s, armed struggle in nations of the global South was widely accepted as a legitimate strategy for seeking political and social change. There was also a tolerance by many governments in the global North of their own citizens who organized in solidarity with armed liberation groups such as the Palestinian Liberation Army, Nicaragua?s Sandinistas and El Salvador?s Farabundo Mart? National Liberation Front (FMLN)...Acceptance of armed struggle as a legitimate strategy to achieve political and social change began to diminish with the demise of Soviet-style socialism and the end of the Cold War...The Bush administration?s new war on terror...ensured that armed struggle would not return as an internationally tolerated strategy by emphasizing that anti-capitalist groups such as the FARC (in Colombia) were on the U.S. terrorist list and, therefore, could not be considered legitimate political actors.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3924


From news at resist.ca  Tue Jan 31 18:12:11 2006
From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca)
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 02:12:11 -0000
Subject: [news] U.S. Provoking Civil War in Lebanon
Message-ID: <20060201021211.3243.qmail@resist.ca>

Since the Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon in March 2005, the U.S. Administration has played an increasingly imperious role in Lebanon, exacerbating divisions in an already fiercely sectarian country...Lebanon is now sharply polarized into two camps: one resolutely opposed to the growing American presence in their country; the other united through its opposition to Syria...One camp welcomes American and French meddling but considers relations with Syria and Iran a violation of sovereignty. The other sees the U.S. engagement in the context of a pro-Israeli onslaught against the Palestinian cause and its last remaining allies Syria and Iran.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3923