From news at resist.ca Sat Jul 1 01:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 08:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Liberalism's Long Goodbye Message-ID: <20060701081704.22722.qmail@resist.ca> Liberals have long since abandoned their supposed "core principle" of justice and equality as they continue to ignore rising economic injustice and inequality. Guided by what Wall Street wants, not the very real needs of a majority of working Americans, they are left to shill for the companies and the system that enriches them by appealing to workers to be "more realistic." URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/7670 From news at resist.ca Sat Jul 1 11:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 18:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Lagrange 5 Message-ID: <20060701181703.19552.qmail@resist.ca> Lagrange 5 is the point in space between the Earth and Moon that would allow a space station to exist forever without a deteroriating orbit. So why isn't being built there? Because capitalism can't stand anything that won't fail. Anarchist sci-fi author Mack Reynolds wrote a trilogy on L-5 that exposed the commonality of capitalist states both the American Monopoly Capitalist version and the Russian State Capitalist version. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/7514 From news at resist.ca Sat Jul 1 11:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 18:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Kenneth Patchen Message-ID: <20060701181703.19553.qmail@resist.ca> "Now is then?s only tomorrow." Kenneth Patchen was and is an underrated American poet, a surrealist, an anarchist, a founder of the Beat movement, a painter and illustrator. I came across his works when we ran Erewhon Books, the Anarchist Bookstore in Edmonton in the seventies and eighties. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/7515 From news at resist.ca Sat Jul 1 11:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 18:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Happy Canada Day/Jour Heureux du Canada Message-ID: <20060701181704.19554.qmail@resist.ca> Let us always remember that our current 'parliamentry democracy' was the result of the Great Rebellion of 1837. This rebellion was part of the mass movement of workers, mechanics, artisans and small farmers against the British Crown in the UK and in the colonies. The infamous Peterloo Massacre in Manchester led to the cry for freedom, and reform in England and in Canada. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/7685 From news at resist.ca Sat Jul 1 17:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 00:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Israeli Actions Strongly Condemned Worldwide Message-ID: <20060702001704.14724.qmail@resist.ca> LessWaiting.com News | July 1, 2006 Roundup of international criticism regarding Israel's bombing of Gaza, kidnapping of Palestinian officials, and violation of Syrian airspace. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/7671 From news at resist.ca Sat Jul 1 18:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 01:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Canadian Troops Knock Down Doors, Interrogate Civilians in Afghanistan Message-ID: <20060702011703.21952.qmail@resist.ca> French-language Montreal newspaper La Presse reported on June 22 that Canadian military forces in Afghanistan are ransacking villages, knocking down doors, and interrogating civilians in their search for Taliban militants. It is, wrote reporter Hugo de Grandpr?, the end of innocence for Canadian troops. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/7676 From news at resist.ca Sat Jul 1 18:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 01:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Palestinian Prime Minister Accuses Israel of Plot to Bring Down Hamas-Led Government Message-ID: <20060702011703.21953.qmail@resist.ca> "This total war is proof of a premeditated plan," said (Palestinian Prime Minister Haniyeh) Ismail, adding that Israel's detainment of eight Palestinian ministers and dozens of Hamas officials on Thursday is further evidence of his claim..."When they kidnapped the ministers they meant to hijack the government's position, but we say no positions will be hijacked, no governments will fall." URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/7687 From news at resist.ca Sat Jul 1 18:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 01:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Break the Siege on the Palestinian People! Message-ID: <20060702011704.21954.qmail@resist.ca> Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, condemns in the strongest possible terms the Israeli war crimes committed against the Palestinian people, including the comprehensive siege imposed on the West Bank and Gaza Strip. We call upon the international community to take up their responsibility in protecting the Palestinian people from this aggression, and terminating the continuing Israeli policy of collective punishment. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/7690 From news at resist.ca Sun Jul 2 12:40:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 19:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] The End of Cheap Oil: The Global Energy Crisis and Climate Change Message-ID: <20060702194009.28234.qmail@resist.ca> Increase in oil prices translates into higher prices of all commodities. As Hindustan Times reported oil price hike turns cereal killer (Hindustan Times, Wednesday, June 14, 2006, page 2 table). Yet the increase in oil prices in world markets is inevitable because the resource is dwindling and supplies have peaked, peak oil means the end of cheap oil, and an end to economies organized around the increasing availability of cheap oil. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/7706 From news at resist.ca Sun Jul 2 14:17:07 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 21:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] A Stand in the Forest: Deh Cho Resistance to the Mackenzie Pipeline Message-ID: <20060702211707.13610.qmail@resist.ca> "Recently, officials of Canada's newly elected Conservative government signaled their unwillingness to let the Dehcho stand in the way of the project, which proponents want to start building in 2008 and finish a few years later. Jim Prentice, minister of Indian affairs, declared that the pipeline, which still needs regulatory approval, would be built along the Mackenzie Valley with or without the tribe's blessing." [...] "Grand Chief Herb Norwegian said that if the government tried to expropriate Dehcho land for pipeline construction, the tribe would retaliate with litigation and possibly blockades." URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/7708 From news at resist.ca Mon Jul 3 09:40:25 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 16:40:25 -0000 Subject: [news] Canadian Immigration Deports Canadian-Born Child and Family on Canada Day Message-ID: <20060703164026.20094.qmail@resist.ca> Saturday, July 1, 2006 ? The federal Conservative immigration ministry will deport a 2 ? year-old Canadian-born child and her model immigrant family to Costa Rica on Canada Day. Joshlyn Lizano-Sossa will have no choice but to leave her country of birth due to the removal order placed on her parents and siblings. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/7694 From news at resist.ca Mon Jul 3 09:40:25 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 16:40:25 -0000 Subject: [news] USA: Minimum Wage Struggle: Average USA CEO Earns More than 800 Times as Much as Lowest-paid Workers Message-ID: <20060703164026.20089.qmail@resist.ca> The Observer US campaigners are battling to force Congress to vote for the first increase in the minimum wage for nine years, as new evidence reveals that the average CEO now earns more than 800 times as much as the lowest-paid workers. America's minimum wage has been stuck at $5.15 an hour since 1997, during a period when earnings at the top of the income scale have exploded. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/7715 From news at resist.ca Tue Jul 4 00:40:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 07:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Mexican Election Authorities With No Result to Declare Bring on a Crisis Message-ID: <20060704074010.10740.qmail@resist.ca> By Al Giordano, Narco News | Posted on Mon Jul 3rd, 2006 Mexico's Federal Elections Commission (IFE) chief Luis Carlos Ugalde went on all national TV channels at 11 p.m., the hour when he had said for weeks he would declare a definitive winner. As if passing through a customs checkpoint between the past and the future, he had nothing to declare. No winner in the Mexican presidential contest: not tonight, not on monday, nor on Tuesday. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/7721 From news at resist.ca Tue Jul 4 00:40:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 07:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Pepsi vs. Folk Message-ID: <20060704074010.10743.qmail@resist.ca> ![Blocked_Truck_fp.jpg][1]A St John's bottlers' strike has revived an age old debate: who benefits from new technology? **Jacob Fergus** investigates. [1]: http://dominionpaper.ca/img/environment/Blocked_Truck_fp.jpg URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/7711 From news at resist.ca Tue Jul 4 22:40:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 05:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Our Sacred History & white man lies Message-ID: <20060705054010.31566.qmail@resist.ca> Our Sacred History & white man lies is now online. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/7810 From news at resist.ca Tue Jul 4 23:17:05 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 06:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Israel Creates Humanitarian Crisis & Destroying the Gaza Strip Message-ID: <20060705061705.4468.qmail@resist.ca> Two articles from Counterpunch on Israel's latest attempt to ethnically-cleanse the Palestinian people from their homeland. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/7816 From news at resist.ca Wed Jul 5 14:40:29 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 21:40:29 -0000 Subject: [news] Second Sabotage in Two Weeks Targets Guelph Development; Terror Charges Suggested Message-ID: <20060705214030.23256.qmail@resist.ca> Guelph Mercury - July 5 With thousands of people having access to University of Guelph computers, campus officials say it's difficult to pinpoint who might be sending e-mails claiming responsibility for alleged acts of sabotage and arson. This week, the Guelph Mercury was sent a message from a group calling itself the Anarchist Fire Brigade. The sender claimed "unknown individuals" had sabotaged three pieces of machinery at the offices of a south-end housing developer more than a week ago by placing dirt in the fuel tanks. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/7825 From news at resist.ca Wed Jul 5 18:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 01:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] How Many More Must Die for Israel to Feel "Safe" Again? Message-ID: <20060706011704.19349.qmail@resist.ca> (For Israel) getting the world to punish an occupied nation while completely losing sight of (their) colonial expansion in the West Bank and East Jerusalem is the most fitting manifestation of the proverbial dream come true. Of course, Israel can never be content with such limited roles. It was time to turn up the heat one more notch; the sporadic violence was about to be upgraded to intense violence, reaching Palestinian civilians of all ages. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/7839 From news at resist.ca Thu Jul 6 09:40:13 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 16:40:13 -0000 Subject: [news] Pakistan: Legislative Trickery Wipes Away Trade Union Rights in Pakistan Message-ID: <20060706164013.22544.qmail@resist.ca> Source: IUF At a press conference held on the 27th of June at the Karachi Press Club, nine trade union organisations, including the IUF-affiliated Pakistan Hotel Workers Federation, denounced recent legal changes which strip workers in Pakistan of fundemental labour rights. Moreover, the changes are the result of a Finance Bill, which deprives Pakistan's Senate from any chance to scrutinise o URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/7814 From news at resist.ca Thu Jul 6 09:40:13 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 16:40:13 -0000 Subject: [news] In Mexico, 2.5 Million Missing Votes Reappear: =?utf-8?b?TMOzcGV6?= Obrador Reduces =?utf-8?b?Q2FsZGVyw7Nu4oCZcw==?= Official Margin to 0.6 percent Message-ID: <20060706164013.22545.qmail@resist.ca> IFE?s Claim that 98.5 Percent of Votes Had Been Counted Was False: Authorities Now Oppose Recount By Al Giordano | July 5, 2006 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/7840 From news at resist.ca Thu Jul 6 10:17:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 17:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Canadian Oil Co. Accused of Ethnic Cleansing in Sudan Message-ID: <20060706171711.29311.qmail@resist.ca> [A legal] suit names Talisman [Oil] and the Sudanese government as co-defendants, alleging they collaborated "in a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign against a civilian population" to enhance their "ability to explore and extract oil from areas of southern Sudan." It continues: "The armed campaign, which...has resulted in massive civilian displacement, the burning of villages, churches and crops, URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/7855 From news at resist.ca Thu Jul 6 20:40:23 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 03:40:23 -0000 Subject: [news] The Thought Masters of George W. Bush Message-ID: <20060707034023.18649.qmail@resist.ca> In the summer 2004 issue of Daedalus, constitutional law professor Sanford Levinson writes that Carl Schmitt, the leading Nazi German philosopher, is the real source of inspiration of the Bush regime. Prof. Alan Wolfe of Boston College described Schmitt as the intellectual guru of the Bush administration...Critics describe Schmitt's views as "consciously embracing evil." URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/7871 From news at resist.ca Thu Jul 6 21:17:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 04:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Time to End the "Last Taboo" & Hold Israel Accountable for it's Actions Message-ID: <20060707041709.24165.qmail@resist.ca> "The extermination of the Native Americans can be admitted, the morality of Hiroshima attacked, the national flag (of the US) publicly committed to flames. But the systematic continuity of Israel's 52-year oppression and maltreatment of the Palestinians is virtually unmentionable, a narrative that has no permission to appear." --Edward Said, Palestinian writer, scholar and activist URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/7872 From news at resist.ca Fri Jul 7 13:17:28 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 20:17:28 -0000 Subject: [news] Police Brutality in Sudbury: Call, Email, Fax!!! Message-ID: <20060707201729.7513.qmail@resist.ca> The Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty (S-CAP) is calling for everyone to contact the (Sudbury) Chief of Police, Ian Davidson, at 1-705-675-9171 ex. 2287 between TODAY July 7th until next Friday July 15th to express their rage at the routine police harassment and violence that oppressed people experience on a regular basis, to demand that the police put an end to their discriminatory campaigns against marginalized peoples. Leave a message and make it long. Call today and flood their office! URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/7884 From news at resist.ca Fri Jul 7 13:17:28 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 20:17:28 -0000 Subject: [news] Something Missing in Russian Social Democracy Message-ID: <20060707201729.7514.qmail@resist.ca> Social democracy is a political party of...class cooperation, but this cooperation may be possible only with both parties in agreement. Paradoxically, the collapse of Communism turned out to be the end of...social democracy as well. The ruling classes have lost their interest in compromising. And politicians, who acted as professional compromise managers, are in the wilderness. There was nothing left...of social democracy, but the name. The brand..... URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/7885 From news at resist.ca Sat Jul 8 10:40:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 17:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Australia: Construction Union Workers Face Jail for Refusing to Attend Secret Gvt Watchdog Interrogations Message-ID: <20060708174008.27082.qmail@resist.ca> The Australian As it was confirmed that Cowra workers could be legally sacked and re-employed on lower wages, the ACTU said workers on the Perth rail project, who face fines for a strike in February, could be jailed unless they attended secret hearings about the industrial action. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/7908 From news at resist.ca Sat Jul 8 10:40:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 17:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Sogi Singh Deported (action needed) Message-ID: <20060708174008.27086.qmail@resist.ca> Sogi Singh was taken from prison in Montreal by 9am this morning. We assume that he is in the process of being deported. However, we do not know where he is at the moment, nor where he is being sent in India. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/7875 From news at resist.ca Sat Jul 8 10:40:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 17:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] =?utf-8?q?Great-Grandmother=E2=80=99s?= Protests Pose a =?utf-8?b?4oCcRGFuZ2Vy?= to =?utf-8?b?U29jaWV0eeKAneKAkw==?= Judge Message-ID: <20060708174009.27088.qmail@resist.ca> Vancouver environmentalist Betty Krawczyk, 78, is back in jail pending trial for her protests at Eagleridge Bluffs in West Vancouver. On Friday, July 7, Justice Brown ordered Krawczyk to remain in custody at Surrey Pre-Trial Centre until her next hearing at BC Supreme Court on September 15. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/7912 From news at resist.ca Sat Jul 8 12:40:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 19:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] "All Foreigners Are Our Enemy": Afghanistan is No One's War Message-ID: <20060708194009.29852.qmail@resist.ca> There is no reason to feel hopeful or idealistic about anyone's role in Afghanistan. Afghanistan and Iraq are neither wars in the traditional sense nor humanitarian projects. They are foreign occupations of people who do not want to occupied. The idea that you can successfully occupy a hostile land into peace remains a delusion of consultants on big expense accounts in Washington. Just ask Israel nearly four decades after the Six Day War. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/7919 From news at resist.ca Sun Jul 9 16:17:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 23:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] A Full Recount Would Show that =?utf-8?b?TMOzcGV6?= Obrador Won =?utf-8?q?Mexico=E2=80=99s?= Presidency by More than One Million Votes Message-ID: <20060709231709.24329.qmail@resist.ca> The Tip of the Iceberg of the Crimes Committed by Mexican Electoral Authorities Is the Fraudulent Vote Count of 2006 By Al Giordano | July 8, 2006 Part II of a Special Series for The Narco News Bulletin URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/7926 From news at resist.ca Sun Jul 9 19:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 02:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Harper's Hidden Agenda Message-ID: <20060710021704.29030.qmail@resist.ca> (Stephen) Harper, the ideologue of today, would have been unthinkable as leader as recently as 1983, when Brian Mulroney won the Progressive Conservative leadership. Mulroney?s two most right-wing opponents, John Gamble and Peter Pocklington (a long-time Fraser Institute benefactor and trustee), espoused policies not very different than Harper?s. But together they received only a handful of delegate votes. In 1983, Harper wouldn?t have stood a chance. In 2003, he won handily. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/7946 From news at resist.ca Mon Jul 10 15:40:24 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:40:24 -0000 Subject: [news] Courting Doom Message-ID: <20060710224024.11056.qmail@resist.ca> (T)he US government in its hubris and delusion is going to continue starting wars and attacking other countries until a coalition of greater forces smashes us. Even among our European allies we are already perceived as the greatest threat to world peace and stability...The Bush regime thinks that it can have every country under its thumb. Neocons are fond of proclaiming that it is a unipolar world in which the US is supreme. This is a fantasy, and it is rapidly becoming a nightmare. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/7966 From news at resist.ca Mon Jul 10 15:40:24 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:40:24 -0000 Subject: [news] One-Sided War in Gaza Message-ID: <20060710224024.11055.qmail@resist.ca> The world cup is over and now the public can return to less important matters, such as the daily killing and destruction, the captured soldier, the launching of Qassam rockets and everything else connected with our invasion of Gaza..."War" is a defined situation regulated by international law. It takes place between enemies, who are obliged to observe basic rules...But the Israeli government asserts that it is facing not an enemy with rights, but "terrorists", "criminals" and "gangs". And those, of course, have no rights. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/7965 From news at resist.ca Tue Jul 11 09:40:07 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:40:07 -0000 Subject: [news] War Resister Killed In Afghanistan Message-ID: <20060711164008.24923.qmail@resist.ca> War Resister Killed In Afghanistan - Is what the headline should read. Instead of the apologistics of the Minister of Defense. This is Canada after-all and yes we can decide which missions we want to go on. Thank you very much. Especially when our troops were lied to. Those who signed up under the impression our National Policy was Peacekeeping, now are working under the Harpocrites private agenda of War Making. They were mislead. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/7992 From news at resist.ca Tue Jul 11 09:40:07 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:40:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Free Market Economics = Cooperatives Message-ID: <20060711164008.24922.qmail@resist.ca> Found this interesting article at GNN on the nature of the Free Market, one that exists without capitalism. Of course in order to have a free market it has to be cooperative. Something my pals in the Mutualist movement have been at pains to point out. Frances Moore Lappe finds a cooperative approach to living that actually enhances human dignity "A market economy and capitalism are synonymous?- or at least joined at the hip. That?s what most Americans grow up assuming. But it is not necessarily so. Capitalism?control by those supplying the capital in order to return wealth to shareholders?is only one way to drive a market. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/7991 From news at resist.ca Tue Jul 11 13:17:23 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 20:17:23 -0000 Subject: [news] The "Roadmap" To Palestinian Ghettos Message-ID: <20060711201724.2296.qmail@resist.ca> Plans to isolate the Palestinian population in ghettos have been under way since the establishment of Israel on Palestinian land in 1948. Since then, Israel and its Western allies have embarked on a policy separating the Palestinian people into designated ghettoes and subjected them to daily terror. The complete isolation of Gaza and the construction of the illegal Apartheid Wall in the West Bank and Jerusalem are the foundations of permanent Palestinian ghettos. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/7999 From news at resist.ca Tue Jul 11 16:17:16 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:17:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Killing Spotted Owls with Chainsaws: "Covert" Clearcuts Found Near Hope, BC Message-ID: <20060711231717.16993.qmail@resist.ca> Special to Mostly Water In the race against time to prevent the Canadian population of spotted owls from going extinct, biologist Andy Miller reports that this is one of the strangest things he's seen. "Why would a logging company purposefully fall trees in an area with a documented nest of one of Canada's most endangered species?" URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8000 From news at resist.ca Wed Jul 12 12:17:16 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:17:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Good Riddance Message-ID: <20060712191716.27085.qmail@resist.ca> Chechen behind Beslan massacre killed It is ironic that prior to the Beslan assault the U.S. intelligence community heard noise about a potential terrorist threat. Their interpretation of that 'noise' was that Al Qaeda was preparing to disrupt the Republican convention. Such navel gazing resulted in this horrific massacre of school children. The noise was real, it just had nothing to do with the US. And everything to do with the old USSR. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/7993 From news at resist.ca Wed Jul 12 12:17:16 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:17:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Kaptus Bridge Action (Ottawa) Message-ID: <20060712191716.27086.qmail@resist.ca> Steven Briault known to his street friends as Kaptus died violently on June 14, in the underpass at the corner of Colonel By and Rideau killed by a man who was not from the streets. After comments by city councilors and Rideau St. business representatives that they plan to shut down this under pass due to Kaptus' death these street youth decided to form a protest action, which began on July 1. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8001 From news at resist.ca Wed Jul 12 19:40:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 02:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists Being Recruited for U.S Army Message-ID: <20060713024009.986.qmail@resist.ca> "Light infantry is your branch of choice because the coming race war and the ethnic cleansing to follow will be very much an infantryman's war"..."It will be house-to-house, neighborhood-by-neighborhood until your town or city is cleared and the alien races are driven into the countryside where they can be hunted down and 'cleansed.'" URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8041 From news at resist.ca Wed Jul 12 21:17:05 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 04:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] The Top 10 Power Brokers of the Religious Right Message-ID: <20060713041706.31793.qmail@resist.ca> What follows is a list of the (United States') Top Ten Religious Right groups, as determined by publicly available financial data and political prominence. Additional information describes the organizations' leaders, funding and activities. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8042 From news at resist.ca Wed Jul 12 21:40:07 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 04:40:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Democracy, Mexican Style Message-ID: <20060713044008.3351.qmail@resist.ca> (I)n the end the people of Mexico will again be denied their democratic right to elect the president of their choice - just the way it now is in the US. So much for democracy. In Mexico it's democracy, Mexican style which is the same way it works for their dominant northern neighbor - none at all. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8043 From news at resist.ca Wed Jul 12 13:40:12 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 20:40:12 -0000 Subject: [news] Israel Attacks Lebanon; More Civilians Killed Message-ID: <20060712204013.25848.qmail@resist.ca> Israeli aircraft blew up roads, bridges and guerrilla posts in southern Lebanon Wednesday following the capture of two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah guerrillas...Two Lebanese civilians were killed in the Israeli air strikes on a bridge, Lebanese security officials were quoted as saying on Arab TV stations. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8027 From news at resist.ca Thu Jul 13 08:17:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Tampons Are Trash! Message-ID: <20060713151709.10245.qmail@resist.ca> If you are still using mainstream disposable menstrual pads or tampons, consider that the environmental impacts are similar to drinking out of non-biodegradable styrofoam cups! Tampons and disposable menstrual products are unnecessary *trash* and if you are eco-conscious, there are environmentally friendlier options that are worth investigating and trying. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8012 From news at resist.ca Thu Jul 13 09:40:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Earth First! Blockades Virginia Power Plant Message-ID: <20060713164010.8680.qmail@resist.ca> Early this morning (July 10), activists with Earth First! and Rising Tide North America set up a non-violent blockade of American Electric Power's (AEP) nearly 50 year old Clinch River coal fired electric facility. Emitting millions of pounds of pollutants yearly, the Clinch River coal plant threatens the health and lives of thousands of downwind residents and the surrounding environment. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8057 From news at resist.ca Thu Jul 13 09:40:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Ardoch Algonquin First Nation clear land for cultural centre Message-ID: <20060713164010.8691.qmail@resist.ca> Two men worked opposite one another, sweating profusely as their whining chainsaws felled one tree after another to clear land yesterday in woodland just south of the village of Ardoch. This is where members of the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation plan to build a controversial cultural centre and powwow ground. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8053 From news at resist.ca Thu Jul 13 09:40:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Prison Riots in Belgium Message-ID: <20060713164010.8677.qmail@resist.ca> On April 23, 2006, more than 45 detainees of the prison of Mons revolted. They occupied the courtyard and refused to return to their cells, and they fought against the attacks of the police... The press sighs and complains, the detainees have still not put forward demands or communicated their reasons for revolting. Nevertheless, we know that the prisoners always have, at every moment, at every second of their detention, reason to revolt. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8036 From news at resist.ca Thu Jul 13 14:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 21:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] "All Sell-Outs Get the Hell Out!": Natives Protest Assembly of First Nations Message-ID: <20060713211704.9978.qmail@resist.ca> On Tuesday July 11, 2006, the Indigenous Resistance Organizing Committee (IROC) held a rally to protest the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) 27th annual general assembly. Our goal was to denounce the AFN & Indian Act chiefs for their collaboration with government & corporations, and to commemorate the 16th anniversary of the Oka Crisis. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8070 From news at resist.ca Thu Jul 13 15:17:14 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:17:14 -0000 Subject: [news] Scenes from the Lebanese Front Message-ID: <20060713221714.3212.qmail@resist.ca> If there will be peace in our world, then we must all learn to live with one another. You can't do that by shelling beaches, kidnapping soldiers, invading other countries, occupying and oppressing other peoples, setting off car bombs, destroying public infrastructures, or sending out suicide bombers. You can't create community by massively bombing densely populated civilian centers whether they're in Gaza, Beirut, or Tel Aviv. The most common lesson of this war, as with all wars, is that so long as any of us feel unsafe, all of us will actually be unsafe. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8071 From news at resist.ca Thu Jul 13 20:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 03:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Grassy Narrows & Allies Blockade Trans Canada Highway Message-ID: <20060714031704.2961.qmail@resist.ca> About 80 protesters, upset about logging in the boreal forest near Grassy Narrows, blocked a stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway near Kenora, Ont., on Thursday. Ontario Provincial Police are at the blockade, but are not commenting on the situation. Drivers trying to cross east-west from Manitoba to Ontario are being rerouted by police through the city. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8073 From news at resist.ca Fri Jul 14 12:40:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 19:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Racism Plagues Western Media Coverage Message-ID: <20060714194010.12704.qmail@resist.ca> Only racism can completely remove from the current discourse the murder of dozens of Palestinian civilians at the hands of the Israeli Army (90 civilians in seven weeks) as the reason that led to the Palestinian raid on the Israeli Army post and the capture of (Corporal) Shalit, and instead depict the current escalation as if it was entirely the work of the Palestinians, with Israel's slate still clean. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8100 From news at resist.ca Fri Jul 14 13:40:15 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 20:40:15 -0000 Subject: [news] Israel's Army "Hungry for War" Message-ID: <20060714204016.24273.qmail@resist.ca> (T)he army was preparing for an attack months (before the capture of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit) and was constantly pushing for it, with the goal of destroying the Hamas infrastructure and its government...(Israeli) Governmental authorization for action on a larger scale was already given by 12 June, but it was postponed in the wake of the global reverberation caused by the killing of civilians in the air force bombing the next day. The abduction of the soldier released the safety-catch, and the operation began on 28 June with the destruction of infrastructure in Gaza and the mass detention of the Hamas leadership in the West Bank, which was also planned weeks in advance. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8104 From news at resist.ca Fri Jul 14 16:17:14 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 23:17:14 -0000 Subject: [news] Lebanon: What they want is the head of the resistance movement Message-ID: <20060714231715.19147.qmail@resist.ca> It's war again. As in the past, it's an Israeli war in terms of the men and materiel; a joint Israeli-American war in terms of its declared and implied political aims. We must prepare for a long, bitter, and costly confrontation because the first aim of the war is to change the rules of the game - radically - in Lebanon for starters, then in its neighbor Palestine, then in the "rogue state" Syria and "rebellious" Iran. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8109 From news at resist.ca Fri Jul 14 18:40:11 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 01:40:11 -0000 Subject: [news] From my home, I saw what the 'war on terror' meant Message-ID: <20060715014011.23914.qmail@resist.ca> They came first to the little village of Dweir near Nabatiya in southern Lebanon where an Israeli plane dropped a bomb on to the home of a Shia Muslim cleric. He was killed. So was his wife. So were eight of his children. One was decapitated. All they could find of a baby was its head and torso which a young villager brandished in fury in front of the cameras. Then the planes visited another home in Dweir and disposed of a family of seven. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8110 From news at resist.ca Sat Jul 15 12:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 19:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Ontario Provincial Police Preparing Raid on Grassy Narrows? Message-ID: <20060715191704.18758.qmail@resist.ca> The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are amassing in force this moment at Grassy Narrows, Ontario, likely in preparation to raid the three-year blockade against the clear-cut annotation of forests within Grassy Narrows First Nation territory. Access to the blockade is being blocked by police cars and many police vehicles and riot police are present. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8143 From news at resist.ca Sat Jul 15 13:40:15 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 20:40:15 -0000 Subject: [news] Israel's Strategy: Bombing and Denying Message-ID: <20060715204016.15056.qmail@resist.ca> In a colonial twist of logic, Israel accuses Palestinians of wanting to do to them the exact same things that Israel itself is routinely and systematically doing to the Palestinians: destroying their society, denying their national and democratic rights, and dehumanizing them...For Israel...to be Palestinian today is to be subhuman. Racism is...endemic to present Israeli politics and society. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8144 From news at resist.ca Sun Jul 16 12:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 19:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Ontario Police Raid Grassy Narrows Camp: 17 Arrests Reported Message-ID: <20060716191704.19588.qmail@resist.ca> Reports say more than fifty police officers have blocked access roads to and from the camp. Police set up a highway checkpoint Friday and began arresting native and non-native people involved in Thursday?s action. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8166 From news at resist.ca Sun Jul 16 18:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 01:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Press Release from Grassy Narrows (6 Nations warriors arrested at blackade) Message-ID: <20060717011705.10419.qmail@resist.ca> Grassy Narrows-OPP officers raided Grassy Narrows blockade site yesteday arresting *** Six Nations people who had come to participate in a gathering as guests of the Grassy Narrows community. 5 six nations people were detained, 4 were charged. The OPP are targeting 6 nations people and people of colour. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8252 From news at resist.ca Mon Jul 17 09:40:07 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:40:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Minimal Improvement Message-ID: <20060717164008.14099.qmail@resist.ca> ![coins_fp.jpg][1] **Chris Arsenault** interviews professor **Thom Workman** about the minimal minimum wage hike in New Brunswick and its impacts. [1]: http://dominionpaper.ca/img/environment/coins_fp.jpg URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8072 From news at resist.ca Mon Jul 17 09:40:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] The Roots of Rage Message-ID: <20060717164008.14119.qmail@resist.ca> ![security_fp.jpg][1] As the media circus around the alleged terrorism plot in Canada subsides, **Stefan Christoff** asks why critical questions are not being posed. [1]: http://dominionpaper.ca/img/environment/security_fp.jpg URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8253 From news at resist.ca Mon Jul 17 09:40:07 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:40:07 -0000 Subject: [news] The Recuperated Factory Movement Spreads to Eastern Europe Message-ID: <20060717164008.14097.qmail@resist.ca> Serbian pharmaceutical factory ?Jugoremedija?, from the town of Zrenjanin, was privatized in 2000, in such a way that 58% of the shares were given to the workers, and the state took 42%. In 2002, the state sold it?s shares to Jovica Stefanovic, an infamous local capitalist, who made his fortune smuggling cigarettes, and who was wanted by Interpol at the time he bought the shares of ?Jugoremedija?. As all the other buyers in Serbian privatization, Stefanovic was not even investigated in money laundering, because the Serbian Government?s position at that time was, and still is, that it?s better to have dirty money in privatization, than to let workers URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8262 From news at resist.ca Mon Jul 17 09:40:07 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:40:07 -0000 Subject: [news] A Wikipedia by and for Anarchists Message-ID: <20060717164008.14113.qmail@resist.ca> Infoshop.org is pleased to announce a series of new initiatives under the OpenWiki project. OpenWiki is an open and collaborative endeavor which works off of the principles of the free software movement and employs the participatory wiki software. We're very hopeful of the way that this project can help us document our resistance, network and inform ourselves in ways which were recently much more URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8261 From news at resist.ca Mon Jul 17 13:17:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Fleeing Lebanese Speak of Indiscriminate Bombing Message-ID: <20060717201711.24023.qmail@resist.ca> A 25-year-old construction worker named Hamed...said he saw warplanes bomb a hospital in Beirut..."I saw them bomb a hospital yesterday"..."I left just hours ago. They are bombing everything -- houses, casinos, fuel stations and so many bridges." URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8278 From news at resist.ca Mon Jul 17 13:17:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Ontario Provincial Police Use Excessive Force on Six Nations Woman Causing Miscarriage Message-ID: <20060717201711.24022.qmail@resist.ca> Fallout from the protest against Weyerhaueser logging at Grassy Narrows now includes the death of an unborn child at the hands of Ontario Provincial Police. Reports from the remote camp in Northern Ontario are sporadic, as there is no regular access to telephone and internet. Updates will be posted here as they become available. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8266 From news at resist.ca Tue Jul 18 15:40:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 22:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Winnipeg: IATSE Pickets Scabbing Firefighters Message-ID: <20060718224009.21780.qmail@resist.ca> On the day that Winnipeg's prodigal son, Neil Young, was to perform at the MTS Centre with Crosby, Stills, and Nash, International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) were protesting against scabbing firefighters at the MTS Centre in front of Winnipeg's Fire/Paramedic Station No.8, located at 640 Kimberley Avenue in East Kildonan. Barney Haines, spokesperson for IATSE said he takes issue with full-time Winnipeg firefighters being trained by the city of Winnipeg, then using their acquired skills for an anti union firm at the MTS Centre. Barney Haines said the firefighters union (United Fire Fighters of Winnipeg-UFFW) took a position in 2004 against its union members taking work at the MTS. He wants the Fire Fighters union (UFFW) to hold members to that stand. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8320 From news at resist.ca Tue Jul 18 22:17:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 05:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Lebanon: Another Day of Devestation and Destruction Message-ID: <20060719051710.18761.qmail@resist.ca> As I write this message, the southern suburbs of Beirut are still under attack with air raids from Israeli warplanes and villages in the south on the border are all under heavy artillery. Tens of buildings of eight and ten story height are all leveled to the floor. The aim is to empty the area of any inhabitants and supposedly be able to isolate the resistance fighters. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8322 From news at resist.ca Tue Jul 18 22:40:07 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 05:40:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada Complicit in Israeli Aggression & War Crimes Message-ID: <20060719054007.5691.qmail@resist.ca> The response of Canadian authorities (to Israeli aggression against Gaza and Lebanon) has been what has come to be expected from the Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper: tailing American imperialism; an ideological shift toward military aggressiveness and defence of Israel whatever actions it undertakes and no matter what the violation of international law, judicial rulings and public opinion; and administrative neglect and incompetence in meeting the needs of Canadian citizens, especially those who cannot claim European ancestry. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8323 From news at resist.ca Tue Jul 18 23:17:05 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 06:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] What Does Israel Want? Message-ID: <20060719061706.12177.qmail@resist.ca> Even the most partial reports in the Israeli press of what was proposed by the (Israeli Occupation) Army to Ehud Olmert?s government as possible operations in the coming days indicate clearly what enthuses the Israeli generals these days. Nothing less than a total destruction of Lebanon, Syria and Tehran. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8324 From news at resist.ca Wed Jul 19 09:40:12 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 16:40:12 -0000 Subject: [news] Province and City Backpedal on Olympic Housing Commitment Message-ID: <20060719164013.24894.qmail@resist.ca> July 18, 2006 Vancouver ? In a complete reversal on their Olympic commitment to protect rental-housing stock to ensure no residents are displaced, evicted, or made homeless as a result of the 2010 Games, the Province of British Columbia and the City of Vancouver are working together to close the 48-unit Lucky Lodge residential hotel at 134 Pender Street that currently houses more than 60 low-income Vancouver residents. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8346 From news at resist.ca Wed Jul 19 20:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 03:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Appeal from the Lebanese Left: Call for Action Against =?utf-8?q?Israel=E2=80=99s?= War on Palestine and Lebanon Message-ID: <20060720031704.26679.qmail@resist.ca> The issue for us is clear. It is the presence of a fascist and racist regime in Israel. US imperialism, its allies and military power in Israel, proves that the issue has nothing to do with democracy or freedom. Their democracy is nothing but murder, destruction of houses, bombardment of electrical and fuel installations, and the indiscriminate targeting of children. The Israeli regime has indicated that they will not stop. In these days, there is no space for compromise. It is either resistance or collaboration. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8366 From news at resist.ca Wed Jul 19 23:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 06:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Why Hezbollah is Winning Message-ID: <20060720061704.17855.qmail@resist.ca> The stakes in the Israel-Hezbollah-Hamas war are significantly higher than most observers understand. If Hezbollah and Hamas win?and winning just means surviving, given that Israel?s objective is to destroy both entities?a powerful state will have suffered a new kind of defeat...So far, Hezbollah is winning. As Arab states stood silent and helpless before Israel?s assault on Hamas, another non-state entity, Hezbollah, intervened to relieve the siege of Gaza by opening a second front URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8367 From news at resist.ca Wed Jul 19 23:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 06:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Will Americans Join Iraqis, Lebanese and Palestinians as Neocon Victims? Message-ID: <20060720061704.17856.qmail@resist.ca> If Israel grabs Palestinian or Lebanese land and murders civilians, that is ?self-defense,? but if someone responds to Israeli aggression with a rocket, that is ?Muslim terrorism?...The world is sick of this double-standard. Unfortunately, not enough Americans and Israelis are...Consequently, conflict will continue and escalate. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8368 From news at resist.ca Thu Jul 20 00:17:21 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 07:17:21 -0000 Subject: [news] Israelis Against the War Message-ID: <20060720071721.28252.qmail@resist.ca> Arab-Israelis, many of whom live in northern areas under threat from Hezbollah rocket attacks, are some of the strongest critics of Israeli airstrikes that have left at least 270 Lebanese dead..."We are very concerned about what is happening," said Hassan Jabareen of Adalah - a body that campaigns for the legal rights of Arab-Israelis..."I live in Haifa - but Haifa is a paradise compared to what is happening in Lebanon. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8370 From news at resist.ca Fri Jul 21 09:17:14 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:17:14 -0000 Subject: [news] Three Plead Guilty in Oregon to Ecoterrorism Spree Message-ID: <20060721161715.32324.qmail@resist.ca> GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) ? Three people pleaded guilty Thursday to charges they were part of an ecoterrorism cell calling itself "The Family" that firebombed a ranger station, lumber mills, wild horse corrals and two meat packing plants. A statement from Darren Thursten on the plea is attached. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8411 From news at resist.ca Fri Jul 21 09:17:14 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:17:14 -0000 Subject: [news] Arson Cited in $80,000 Blaze Message-ID: <20060721161715.32323.qmail@resist.ca> >From an ELF press release on the Guelph fire: The G8 agenda promotes petroleum-dependent "Energy Security" that pollutes our land and atmosphere, exploits communities everywhere, and scorches the Earth's climate. Their recipe for catastrophe must be met with our global resistance! On 18 July, 2006, 6 litres of gas were put to use. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8397 From news at resist.ca Fri Jul 21 12:40:14 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 19:40:14 -0000 Subject: [news] Hezbollah, Hamas and Israel: Everything You Need To Know Message-ID: <20060721194015.5131.qmail@resist.ca> So here we are, 24 years after Sharon did his best to destroy Lebanon in 1982, and his heirs are doing it all over again. Since they can?t endure the idea of any just settlement for Palestinians, it?s the only thing they know how to do. Call Lebanon a terror-haven and bomb it back to the stone age. Call Gaza a terror-haven and bomb its power plant, first stop on the journey back to the stone age. Bomb Damascus. Bomb Teheran. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8420 From news at resist.ca Fri Jul 21 13:40:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 20:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada's Racist Media Message-ID: <20060721204009.15636.qmail@resist.ca> Under the past two regimes (Martin?s Liberals and now Harper?s Conservatives), Canada has rapidly shed any pretense of having an independent foreign policy and has aligned itself completely with the United States, Israel?s chief financial backer and arms dealer. Where past Canadian regimes would have settled for silent complicity in war crimes, Harper actively cheers and participates in them...For Canadians to accept this, they will have to consume an equally drastic dose of racism, dehumanization, and distorted understanding...The Canadian media have taken up the task with gusto. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8421 From news at resist.ca Sat Jul 22 10:40:17 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 17:40:17 -0000 Subject: [news] Vandalism at Brantford Development Sites Continues Message-ID: <20060722174017.11733.qmail@resist.ca> A vandalism spree at construction sites in Brantford have police looking for suspects. Wednesday 3 work sites at Garden Avenue, Roy Boulevard and Colborne Street were hit with equipment getting their tires slashed and gas tanks filled with gravel and dirt. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8457 From news at resist.ca Sat Jul 22 14:40:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 21:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Conservative Government to Let Vancouver's Safe Injection Site Close Message-ID: <20060722214010.14332.qmail@resist.ca> Vancouver?s safe injection site will be forced to close its doors Sept. 12 before the Tories decide whether to restart the controversial program...Gillian Maxwell, a spokesperson for Insite For Community Safety, was shaken by (the announcement). ?If the doors close many people will die,? she said. ?It?s playing with people?s lives.? URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8458 From news at resist.ca Sun Jul 23 13:17:05 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 20:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] $2 Million ELF Action in Toronto - Ontario is Heating Up Message-ID: <20060723201705.21800.qmail@resist.ca> A dozen construction vehicles at the massive CityPlace condo development site at the foot of Spadina were sabotaged in the early morning hours last Friday (July 14) in what is being described as "an act of giving back to the planet" by an anonymous e-mailer claiming to be a member of the radical Earth Liberation Front (ELF). URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8470 From news at resist.ca Mon Jul 24 09:40:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 16:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Expropriate 1495 Queen St. W.! Message-ID: <20060724164009.7799.qmail@resist.ca> The property known as 1495 Queen St. West/194 Dowling Ave. was a notorious rooming house for many years. Then on September 16 1998 a fire broke out and two tenants perished immediately and another two tenants died subsequently due to complications from the fire. From September 1998 to now the building sat derelict and boarded up with no intervention by the landlord to reduce any further deterioration of the structure, improve the tragic memory of the fire or even keep it secure from vandals. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8463 From news at resist.ca Mon Jul 24 10:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Rural Migrant Worker Sets Himself on Fire in Tiananmen Square Message-ID: <20060724171705.15740.qmail@resist.ca> [A Chinese] news agency quoted police information as saying that Wang came from Yichang City in Hubei Province and had gone to Beijing to call on higher authorities for help in getting his unpaid wages. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8479 From news at resist.ca Mon Jul 24 10:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Paramilitary Attacks University of Oaxaca Message-ID: <20060724171705.15739.qmail@resist.ca> Radio Universidad de Oaxaca reports that a strongly armed paramilitary commando tonight tried to take radio facilities which covers the ongoing popular mobilizations in Oaxaca. The aggression was repelled and paramilitaries fled while shooting with intend to kill. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8474 From news at resist.ca Mon Jul 24 10:17:05 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Bush Rushes Bombs to Israel Message-ID: <20060724171705.15742.qmail@resist.ca> The Bush administration is rushing a delivery of precision-guided bombs to Israel, according to The New York Times...The munitions are part of a sales package approved last year, the officials said. But some military officers said the request for expedited delivery was unusual and indicated that Israel has many targets it plans to hit in Lebanon. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8490 From news at resist.ca Mon Jul 24 10:17:05 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Canadian Autoworker's Union Member Responds to CAW's "Soft" Support for Israel Message-ID: <20060724171705.15741.qmail@resist.ca> I never thought I would ever be so disappointed with the (Canadian Autoworker's Union). (Their) letter to (Prime Minister Stephen) Harper is terrible...Israel provoked this latest crisis. Hamas and Hizbullah are certainly not blameless, but Israel is the primary culprit. This conflict puts the world in danger. The CAW has failed to respond appropriately...Why did the CAW not acknowledge a Palestinian (and Lebanese) right to self defence? How many bombings and civilian casualties must they endure before the CAW would acknowledge their right to strike back at Israel's military? URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8489 From news at resist.ca Mon Jul 24 10:40:15 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:40:15 -0000 Subject: [news] Israelis Bomb Fleeing Villagers Message-ID: <20060724174016.2858.qmail@resist.ca> For the second time in eight days, the Israelis committed a war crime yesterday. They ordered the villagers of Taire, near the border, to leave their homes and then - as their convoy of cars and minibuses obediently trailed northwards - the Israeli air force fired a missile into the rear minibus, killing three refugees and seriously wounding 13 other civilians. The rocket that killed them is believed to have been a Hellfire missile made by Lockheed Martin in Florida. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8491 From news at resist.ca Tue Jul 25 13:17:06 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Ivy League'ers to the Front of the Line: "Class War" in Lebanon Message-ID: <20060725201706.10274.qmail@resist.ca> When fighting broke out in Lebanon, college students studying there for the summer anxiously awaited their turn to evacuate. As it turns out, if you were an Ivy League student in Beirut, your turn came first. Among those enrolled in the summer Arabic program at the American University of Beirut, students told ABC News, those from Harvard, Yale and Princeton were in the first group evacuated ? by high-end private security firms. Students from other American schools were left behind, waiting it out for days while the U.S. embassy formulated its plan. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8560 From news at resist.ca Wed Jul 26 01:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 08:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Judge Halts N'quatqua Logging Near Anderson Lake, BC Message-ID: <20060726081704.26427.qmail@resist.ca> Justice Pitfield on June 2 dismissed an application by Chief Harry O'Donaghey and Council for an injunction restraining the protest group in its anti-logging activities, saying nothing illegal had taken place. This month's court appearances were a chance for the dissidents to have their counterclm aiming to halt the logging to be heard. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8565 From news at resist.ca Wed Jul 26 01:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 08:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Grassy Narrows Blockaders 'Reclaim' Logging Road from Timber Companies Message-ID: <20060726081704.26428.qmail@resist.ca> The English River blockade is the second protest by the Grassy Narrows community in as many weeks and the latest development in a decade long campaign to end logging without the native community's consent. Supporters from Rainforest Action Network are challenging the "environmentally friendly" reputation of Timberstrand products manufactured at Weyerhaeuser's Kenora mill, most of which supply the booming US housing market. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8566 From news at resist.ca Wed Jul 26 01:40:06 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 08:40:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Israel Used Cluster Grenades on Civilians Message-ID: <20060726084007.29101.qmail@resist.ca> A US-based human rights group has accused Israel of using artillery-fired cluster grenades against a Lebanese village last week during its assault against Hezbollah...Human Rights Watch said on Monday that it had taken photos of cluster grenades stored by Israeli artillery teams on the Israel-Lebanon border...It also said that a cluster grenade attack on Wednesday killed one and wounded at least 12 civilians in the village of Blida. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8567 From news at resist.ca Wed Jul 26 01:40:06 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 08:40:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Targeting Civilians As Deliberate Strategy: =?utf-8?q?Israel?= =?utf-8?b?4oCZcw==?= Indiscriminate Onslaughts Message-ID: <20060726084007.29106.qmail@resist.ca> The true reasons for these deaths (caused by Israel) are concealed from credulous observers by Israel?s use of language. When it says it is destroying the ?infrastructure of terror?, Israel means it is crushing all Arab resistance to its territorial ambitions in the region. The ?infrastructure? includes most Arab men, women and children because they continue to support -- against Israel?s wishes -- their peoples? rights to self-determination without interference from the Israeli army. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8568 From news at resist.ca Wed Jul 26 11:40:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 18:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Five Myths that Help Israel's War Crimes Message-ID: <20060726184010.12528.qmail@resist.ca> One need only cast a quick eye over the casualty figures from this conflict to see that if Israel is targeting only Hizbullah fighters it has been making disastrous miscalculations. So far some 400 Lebanese civilians are reported dead...at least a third of them children. From the images coming out of Lebanon?s hospitals, many more children have survived but with terrible burns or disabling injuries. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8578 From news at resist.ca Thu Jul 27 10:17:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Grassy Narrows Blockaders and Supporters Arrested Last Night Message-ID: <20060727171709.21738.qmail@resist.ca> Separation Lake Bridge, Ontario - On Wednesday July 26th at approximately 9:30pm, nine people were arrested in a police raid of a logging road blockade. On Tuesday, July 25th, a blockade was started at the Separation Lake Bridge, the border of Grassy Narrows' traditional territory, at approximately 2:00pm. The blockade, led by Grassy Narrows community members Bonnie, Chrissy, and Adrienne Swain was peaceful, and was attended by around fifteen people, including four children. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8599 From news at resist.ca Fri Jul 28 00:40:06 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 07:40:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Bombs Over Beirut Message-ID: <20060728074007.3897.qmail@resist.ca> For the first week of the violence, I remained in Beirut as a witness to vast human suffering imposed on the nation. From the Hamra district in central Beirut, explosions could be heard throughout the night as the blaring sirens of ambulances racing through the city with the countless wounded in the Israeli missile strikes illustrated the realities of full-out war. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8626 From news at resist.ca Fri Jul 28 01:17:06 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Using Journalism as Activism Message-ID: <20060728081707.9448.qmail@resist.ca> Journalism (or writing, publishing, and syndicating articles) can be used as a very effective means of activism. There used to be an old saying about the guy who owned the press in town having all the power. It is true there is a ?power of the press,? so to speak. It takes time and energy, and mental concentration, or *work,* to write articles in a coherent fashion. But if you want to donate your time to a cause, organization, community, etc., offering articles is a way you can help on many levels. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8625 From news at resist.ca Fri Jul 28 17:17:20 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 00:17:20 -0000 Subject: [news] Working People Work Themselves to Death Message-ID: <20060729001721.962.qmail@resist.ca> Canada has a safety net for its workers, it's the healthcare system. So when you work yourself to near death, or you have an arm ripped off on the jobsite, there is a place that will fix you up. But with all the technology and gadgets and pills, the system still lacks a common sense approach to wellness. It's as though the technology advanced while the mentality behind the practice stayed in the 1950's. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8646 From news at resist.ca Fri Jul 28 23:40:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 06:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Labyrinths and Reflexology: Paths for Public Health Message-ID: <20060729064009.21515.qmail@resist.ca> There is a public, outside labyrinth near my home in Seattle. I began walking it, and it is really interesting. I found out there are labyrinths all over the world, inside and outside, made out of all kinds of materials. Labyrinths are made of snow, sand, chalk, fragrant flowers, woodchips, tiles, stones, some are mowed into fields, some are planted from seeds, some are painted on canvas...the variety seems endless. In the NW where I live, there are over a dozen outdoor and several indoor labyrinths in Seattle, and Portland, Oregon has many, as well. There are labyrinth societies all over the world. Another interesting public walking experience is the Reflexology Path. These paths, to be walked in socks or bare feet, are common in parks in many countries outside of the U.S. The Seattle area hosts one of the only Reflexology Paths in the U.S. due to our naturopathic college, and that has opened my eyes to ways you can fashion experiential landscaping in public places too. Labyrinths and Reflexology Paths are nice additions to any community, I would think. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8640 From news at resist.ca Sat Jul 29 00:17:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 07:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Questions & Answers on the Invasion of Lebanon Message-ID: <20060729071708.26297.qmail@resist.ca> Hizbullah was created by (Israel). When the Israeli army invaded Lebanon in 1982, the Shiites received the soldiers with rice and sweets. They hoped that (Israel) would evict the (Palestine Liberation Organization) forces, who were in control of the area. But when they realized that our army was there to stay, they started a guerilla war that lasted for 18 years. In this war, Hizbullah was born and grew, until it became the strongest organization in all Lebanon. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8663 From news at resist.ca Sat Jul 29 00:17:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 07:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Aid Corridors in Lebanon are "an Illusion" Message-ID: <20060729071708.26298.qmail@resist.ca> An international medical charity has said that Israel's promised humanitarian aid corridors in south Lebanon are an illusion and that rockets have landed close to its teams two days in a row..."It's a kind of humanitarian alibi because in effect there is no real humanitarian access in the south," said Christopher Stokes of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) or Doctors Without Borders. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8664 From news at resist.ca Mon Jul 31 10:17:16 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 17:17:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Murray Bookchin, Visionary Social Theorist, Dies At 85 Message-ID: <20060731171717.14182.qmail@resist.ca> Murray Bookchin, the visionary social theorist and activist, died during the early morning of Sunday, July 30th in his home in Burlington, Vermont. During a prolific career of writing, teaching and political activism that spanned half a century, Bookchin forged a new anti-authoritarian outlook rooted in ecology, dialectical philosophy and left libertarianism. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/8777