From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 1 11:41:00 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 19:41:00 -0000 Subject: [news] Accquitals for 12 people brutally arrested after occupying Immigration Minister's office Message-ID: <20060301194102.14183.qmail@resist.ca> OTTAWA, February 24, 2006 - Today, 12 protesters involved with the Action Committee of Non-Status Algerians were acquitted of mischief in relation to the occupation of the Immigration Minister's offices in downtown Ottawa on May 29, 2003, more than two-and-a-half years ago. [A]fter spending almost ten-hours in demanding a meeting with the Minister or a senior-level official, an Ottawa-police tactical squad invaded the office, and used tasers (electrical guns) to shock four protesters, while others were beaten with open fists. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4187 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 2 23:17:07 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 07:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Gay Pride March Banned in Moscow, Religious Groups Threaten Violence Message-ID: <20060303071707.5806.qmail@resist.ca> Moscow's authoritarian mayor, Yuri Lushkov -- declaring that homosexuality is "an unnatural act" -- has banned Moscow's first-ever Gay Pride March, and the gay festival and conference that was to coincide with it. Lushkov has said the Pride activities will be "severely repressed," while some religious leaders have called for the use of violence to prevent the march. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4204 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 3 11:40:51 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 19:40:51 -0000 Subject: [news] FBI Invades Puerto Rico Message-ID: <20060303194053.28099.qmail@resist.ca> In a move reminiscent of a U.S. Marine invasion of a foreign country, the FBI descended in droves on Puerto Rico on February 10. Without breathing a word of the invasion to either the colonial governor or the chief of police, heavily armed, militarized units of the FBI, including the Special Weapons and Tactics Unit from Miami, hit six different spots throughout the island. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4206 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 3 16:40:25 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 00:40:25 -0000 Subject: [news] Skypigs Assault & Abuse Blind Man Message-ID: <20060304004027.21558.qmail@resist.ca> A sightless advocate for the blind claims he was roughed up and verbally abused by two SkyTrain police officers..."I'd like them to be fired," said 54-year-old William Conway of Sechelt. "I'd like to see an assault charge. I don't think they have the right to do this. This should never happen to another blind person ever, ever again." URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4209 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 3 16:40:23 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 00:40:23 -0000 Subject: [news] Anarchist Orientalism and the Muslim Community in Britain Message-ID: <20060304004025.21530.qmail@resist.ca> I once came across a white anarchist who was extremely ignorant with regards to his perceptions of Muslims. What was disturbing was the fact that he was attacking not only Islam, with the primitive and simplistic knowledge he had of the religion, but also Muslims in general, namely their culture, way of life, beliefs and showed a complete conviction in the media and right wing stereotypes. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4205 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 3 21:17:23 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 05:17:23 -0000 Subject: [news] Animal Rights Activists Convicted in US Court Message-ID: <20060304051724.7946.qmail@resist.ca> A jury today returned guilty verdicts for six activists who have tirelessly campaigned against the cruelty at Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), a product-testing facility that kills 500 animals daily testing pesticides, household products, and pharmaceuticals. Five undercover investigations at the lab have documented such abuse by employees as punching four-month-old puppies in the face, simulating sex with animals, and dissecting a still-living non-human primate. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4210 From news at resist.ca Sat Mar 4 17:40:22 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 01:40:22 -0000 Subject: [news] Troops to Bush: Get Us Out of Here! Message-ID: <20060305014023.31350.qmail@resist.ca> By DAVE LINDORFF - CounterPunch - Mar 2, 2006 Zogby International, a leading polling organization, just did a major poll of 944 American soldiers and marines in Iraq and found that nearly three quarters of them thought the US should exit Iraq within a year. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4218 From news at resist.ca Sat Mar 4 18:17:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 02:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] 2005 International Women's Day Address to the European Parliament Message-ID: <20060305021709.18577.qmail@resist.ca> by Nurit Peled-Elhanan ...I am a victim of violence against women insofar as violence against children is actually violence against mothers. Palestinian, Iraqi, Afghan women are my sisters because we are all at the grip of the same unscrupulous criminals who call themselves leaders of the free enlightened world and in the name of this freedom and enlightenment rob us of our children. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4219 From news at resist.ca Sat Mar 4 18:40:17 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 02:40:17 -0000 Subject: [news] Corruption and neglect lead to township riots against ANC Message-ID: <20060305024018.31307.qmail@resist.ca> By David Blair in Khutsong | 02/03/2006 | Telegraph UK Local council offices have been looted and stripped bare, the public library gutted by fire. Police helicopters hover overhead and armoured cars patrol the streets, scenes reminiscent of the township revolt against the apartheid regime 20 years ago. Then repression from a white supremacist regime drove the ANC underground. In Khutsong today its councillors are again leading underground lives, having fled the fury of their constituents. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4220 From news at resist.ca Sat Mar 4 19:17:11 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 03:17:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Surrounded by 800 Heavily Armed Police Agents, San Blas Atempa, Oaxaca, Refuses to Surrender Message-ID: <20060305031711.21731.qmail@resist.ca> MARCH 2, 2006: The town of San Blas is under siege, surrounded by 800 state troopers and other heavily-armed police who invaded the Popular Autonomous City Hall here at three o?clock on Wednesday morning. [On] New Years Day in 2005 [...] the townspeople ? tired of the simulation of democracy imposed upon them by a local political boss that is backed by a repressive state government ? took the City Hall [...] URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4221 From news at resist.ca Sat Mar 4 19:17:11 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 03:17:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Cost of Afghan mission $2B and rising Message-ID: <20060305031712.21735.qmail@resist.ca> David Pugliese, The Ottawa Citizen | Friday, March 03, 2006 Canadian taxpayers have spent more than $2 billion on the country's ongoing military mission to Afghanistan, with the cost of the latest deployment to Kandahar largely still to come. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4222 From news at resist.ca Sat Mar 4 23:17:11 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 07:17:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada Almost Alone in Supporting Guantanamo Message-ID: <20060305071711.20282.qmail@resist.ca> PAUL KORING | From Saturday's Globe and Mail WASHINGTON ? As most major Western allies stridently demand the closing of the U.S. Caribbean gulag at Guantanamo Bay, Canada's conspicuous silence remains a rare exception. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4226 From news at resist.ca Sun Mar 5 09:40:14 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 17:40:14 -0000 Subject: [news] Shell told to pay Nigerians $1.5bn pollution damages Message-ID: <20060305174015.4377.qmail@resist.ca> Rory Carroll | February 25, 2006 | The Guardian A Nigerian court yesterday ordered Royal Dutch Shell to pay $1.5bn (?858m) in damages for polluting the Niger delta, a fresh blow to the company which was already reeling from a kidnap crisis and a wave of sabotage against its installations. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4224 From news at resist.ca Sun Mar 5 09:40:12 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 17:40:12 -0000 Subject: [news] Iraqis blame U.S. intervention for violence Message-ID: <20060305174014.4350.qmail@resist.ca> By John Catalinotto Published Mar 3, 2006 | Workers World As of Feb. 27, five days after the explosion, no organization or state had publicly accepted responsibility for the bombing [of the Imam Ali Al Hadi shrine in Samarra, Iraq]. This alone shows that whoever carried out the bombing intended to throw the blame for it on other forces. The bombing was certain to incite battles between the two major Arab communities in Iraq?Shiite and Sunni. If such warfare broke out on a large scale, it could lead to fragmenting Iraq into multiple mini-states more easily manipulated by imperialism. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4225 From news at resist.ca Sun Mar 5 09:40:13 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 17:40:13 -0000 Subject: [news] Bush in India: Just Not Welcome/Bush greeted by Osama banners on India tour Message-ID: <20060305174014.4351.qmail@resist.ca> Two articles: March 1, 2006 | The Nation Bush in India: Just Not Welcome: Arundhati Roy 04 March 2006 | The Independent UK Bush greeted by Osama banners on India tour: By Justin Huggler in Delhi Huggler: But even as he [Dubbya] spoke yesterday, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across India to protest against American foreign policy and growing ties between India and the US. At least two people were killed when protests in the northern city of Lucknow turned violent. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4223 From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 6 13:17:16 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 21:17:16 -0000 Subject: [news] "George Bush is the Law:" Torture as U.S. Policy Message-ID: <20060306211717.25532.qmail@resist.ca> Testimony from Afghan prisons and Guantanamo, the photos and video from Abu Ghraib, evidence of extraordinary renditions to the far corners of the planet -- all of this doesn't even encompass the full reach of Bush administration torture policies or the degree to which they have been set in motion at the highest levels of the American government. But what simply can't be clearer is this: horrific methods of torture have been used regularly against detainees in U.S. custody in countries around the globe, while an American President, Vice President and Secretary of Defense, among others, openly advocated policies that, until recently, would have been considered torture in any democratic country. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4234 From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 6 15:17:06 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 23:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] The Apartheid System of Migration in Canada Message-ID: <20060306231706.11222.qmail@resist.ca> Colonialism, Capitalism and the Making of the Apartheid System of Migration in Canada by Harsha Walia; March 04, 2006 - Znet Attention to national borders has figured prominently in the post-9-11 world and many have argued that 9/11 has created a new fortified world. The events of 9/11 certainly has reconfigured, but has not created, Canadian border policies, which has historically been distrustful of racialized migrants. A comprehensive history and analysis of Canadian immigration processes unearths how the quest for ?security?- of borders, of the nation, and of those deemed Canadian- has been a prominent feature of immigration enforcement for the past century. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4235 From news at resist.ca Tue Mar 7 09:17:49 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 17:17:49 -0000 Subject: [news] The Other Campaign calls for a national movement to free prisoners of conscience Message-ID: <20060307171750.4007.qmail@resist.ca> Global Exchange - Feb 28, 2006 | by John Gibler Human Rights Watch has found that over 40 percent of prisoners in Mexico have never been formally convicted of any crime. Provisions of Mexican law make it easy for prosecutors to detain suspects "preventively" and to present judges with confessions, most often blank pages signed under torture. Marcos proposed forming a statewide coalition in Oaxaca to ignite a national movement for the freedom of political prisoners. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4238 From news at resist.ca Tue Mar 7 09:17:49 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 17:17:49 -0000 Subject: [news] Writer Who Exposed Child Sex Ring Fears Worst Is Yet to Come Message-ID: <20060307171750.4008.qmail@resist.ca> InterPress Service - Feb 24, 2006 | By Diego Cevallos Some 17,000 minors in Mexico are victims of the sex trade, according to a study by researcher Elena Azaola, published in 2004. Azaola's research included visits to the establishments where these children and teenagers are forced to engage in prostitution and interviews with some of those who have managed to escape. "I hope that my case will represent a watershed," marking the end of government apathy in the face of child sexual exploitation and the beginning of decisive action against this crime, said Cacho. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4239 From news at resist.ca Tue Mar 7 16:41:16 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 00:41:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Open Letter from the Canada Palestine Association to the Assembly of First Nations Message-ID: <20060308004125.3391.qmail@resist.ca> We are saddened, hurt and shocked by the visit of a delegation of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) to Israel....The victims of genocide at the hands of European settler colonialism cannot and should not give cover for another form of settler colonialism that has committed and continues to commit wholesale ethnic cleansing and genocide against the Palestinian people and nation. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4242 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 8 09:18:11 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 17:18:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Rachel Corrie play banned in New York Message-ID: <20060308171812.25414.qmail@resist.ca> Katharine Viner | March 1, 2006 | The Guardian The decision by a New York theatre to cave in to pressure over our play shows how the scope for free debate has narrowed [...T]he director of the New York theatre told the New York Times yesterday that it wasn't the people who actually saw the play he was concerned about. "I don't think we were worried about the audience," he said. "I think we were more worried that those who had never encountered her writing, never encountered the piece, would be using this as an opportunity to position their arguments." Since when did theatre come to be about those who don't go to see it? If the play itself, as Mr Nicola clearly concedes, is not the problem, then isn't the answer to get people in to watch it, rather than exercising prior censorship? URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4246 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 8 09:18:11 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 17:18:11 -0000 Subject: [news] We're not loving it: McDonald's forced to close restaurants Message-ID: <20060308171813.25422.qmail@resist.ca> Independent - Mar 1, 2006 | By Martin Hickman Falling sales have forced McDonald's to close 25 restaurants, in a sign that the public may be losing its hunger for the company's colourful plastic interiors and fatty burgers. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4247 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 8 10:17:28 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 18:17:28 -0000 Subject: [news] Bush faces fire for deal with India on nuclear energy Message-ID: <20060308181729.3895.qmail@resist.ca> MALAN FREEMAN | Globe and Mail | 06-04-06 Bush's five-day Asian trip included stops in Afghanistan and Pakistan to back both nations' role in the fight against terrorism, but the highlight was the signing of an agreement with India aimed at lifting the 30-year-old U.S. restrictions on civilian nuclear technology co-operation with India. "With one simple move, the President has blown a hole in the nuclear rules that the entire world has been playing by," said Ed Markey, senior Democrat on the House of Representatives energy and commerce committee, "and broken his own word to assure that we will not ship nuclear technology to India without the proper safeguards." URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4245 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 8 16:40:23 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 00:40:23 -0000 Subject: [news] Bush's New Programs: Detention Centers & "Fifth Columnists" Message-ID: <20060309004025.10903.qmail@resist.ca> (R)ecent developments suggest that the Bush administration may already be contemplating what to do with Americans who are deemed insufficiently loyal or who disseminate information that may be considered helpful to the enemy...Top US officials have cited the need to challenge news that undercuts Bush's actions as a key front in defeating the terrorists, who are aided by "news informers" in the words of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4254 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 9 10:17:05 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 18:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Regarding Paul McCartney's misinformation on CNN: Inuit seek support Message-ID: <20060309181705.1690.qmail@resist.ca> INUIT ASK EUROPEANS TO SUPPORT ITS SEAL HUNT AND WAY OF LIFE Monday, March 6, 2006 Nuuk, Greenland - Inuit in Greenland are alarmed at reports in European capitals that some governments are contemplating legislation restricting sealskin imports. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4253 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 9 10:17:05 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 18:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Robert Fisk in Vancouver - The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East Message-ID: <20060309181706.1700.qmail@resist.ca> Start: 2006-04-01 19:00 Start: 2006-04-01 19:00 Description: ROBERT FISK ON The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East Date: Saturday April 1, 2006 Doors open at 7 pm Location: St. Andrew's-Wesley Church, 1022 Nelson Avenue (corner of Burrard) Suggested Donation: $5-20. All welcome. Robert Fisk, internationally recognized journalist for the Independent of London, speaks on his new book. Described by the New York Times as "probably the most famous foreign correspondent in Britain". Fisk has over thirty years of experience in international reporting, dating from 1970s Belfast and Portugal's 1974 Carnation Revolution, the 1975-1990 Lebanese Civil War, and encompassing the 1979 Iranian revolution, the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, 1991 Persian Gulf War, 2002 Invasion of Afghanistan and 2003 Invasion and subsequent Occupation of Iraq. Address: St. Andrew's-Wesley Church, 1022 Nelson Avenue URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4255 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 9 12:40:24 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 20:40:24 -0000 Subject: [news] Give Back the Special Diet!! (Sudbury) Message-ID: <20060309204025.24431.qmail@resist.ca> Start: 2006-03-22 12:00 Start: 2006-03-22 12:00 Description: Give Back the Special Diet!! (Sudbury) Rally: 12pm. March 22nd at the Provincial Building (corner of Larch and Paris). It's time to show the Liberal government of Ontario they cannot take food from poor families without facing consequences and popular unrest. Mobilize for a vibrant rally and come out and participate in a Women and Children lead march and protest! All people of Sudbury need to come together to end hunger and poverty ! The poor of Sudbury need your help to make the government know it cannot get away with starving the families and people on welfare or disability. Its time for action, its time to confront those who would harm our societies most vulnerable. Address: Provincial Building (corner of Larch and Paris). URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4262 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 9 12:40:24 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 20:40:24 -0000 Subject: [news] Deh Cho suing Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board Message-ID: <20060309204026.24464.qmail@resist.ca> Deh Cho First Nation files suit Last updated Mar 6 2006 11:03 AM MST CBC News The Deh Cho First Nation is taking the Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board to court over the proposed pipeline project. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4263 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 9 12:40:22 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 20:40:22 -0000 Subject: [news] South Korean Farmers Under Siege by Korean Troops! Message-ID: <20060309204025.24406.qmail@resist.ca> On March 6th, 2006, South Korean military riot police began an attack on the autonomous village of Daechuri. For over four years, Daechuri and the nearby community of Doduri have defiantly resisted the siezure of their homes and fields for the expansion of an United States Army base. Barracaded inside the elementary school, rice farmers, elderly residents, and peace activists are holding out against sporadic, sometimes intense attacks by Korea's elite military police force. International support is needed to pressure the Korean government to halt its brutal assault. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4256 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 9 12:40:26 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 20:40:26 -0000 Subject: [news] Put out more flags Message-ID: <20060309204028.24512.qmail@resist.ca> Put out more flags John Pilger The other day, one of my favourite cinemas closed down. The boards went up on the art-deco Valhalla in Sydney, one of the world?s best at putting out powerful, political documentaries. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4264 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 9 13:40:32 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 21:40:32 -0000 Subject: [news] Rule of law or 'rule of bomb'? Message-ID: <20060309214033.23030.qmail@resist.ca> Kamloops Daily News March 7, 2006 Our military role in Afghanistan legally indefensible, activist says By Mike Youds Kamloops Daily News Staff Reporter Kamloops, B.C. ? A Kamloops military veteran has submitted a detailed brief to Prime Minister Stephen Harper outlining Canadian violations of international law in Afghanistan. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4265 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 9 23:40:17 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 07:40:17 -0000 Subject: [news] Paid Trip to Israel has National Chief on the Defensive Message-ID: <20060310074018.17820.qmail@resist.ca> Mitzi Brown, a Labrador Inuit who is now a Toronto-based student and journalist, has seen first-hand the squalor of Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon..."The (Assembly of First Nations) may want to paint (their trip to Israel) as a cultural exchange, but it sends the message that they represent the views of indigenous people in Canada and that they side with Israel in this conflict"..."Fontaine does not speak for all aboriginal people and he should focus on problems at home..." URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4267 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 10 01:17:20 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:17:20 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada's Immigration Controls Border on Apartheid Message-ID: <20060310091723.3030.qmail@resist.ca> Abdelkader Belaouni has not left St. Gabriel?s Church in Montreal since he took sanctuary there on January 1st 2006, defying Immigration Canada's deportation order...The nights are the hardest. "I have a lot of nightmares." His voice is quiet. He explains that he can't sleep without medication; even with the medication he often wakes at 3 in the morning. "I think a lot... I think too much." URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4269 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 10 09:40:26 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 17:40:26 -0000 Subject: [news] A second BC Wal-Mart location goes union Message-ID: <20060310174027.7205.qmail@resist.ca> UFCW Canada | March 8, 2006 Another Canadian Wal-Mart location has been certified seven months after a majority of workers at a Wal-Mart Tire and Lube Express (TLE) shop in Surrey, British Columbia voted in favour of unionizing. The ballot box had been sealed pending hearings by the British Columbia Labour Relations Board (BCLRB). URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4270 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 10 01:17:20 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:17:20 -0000 Subject: [news] Neo-Cons Find Comfort in Iraq Civil War Message-ID: <20060310091723.3029.qmail@resist.ca> The fact is that the neocons who control U.S. strategy have no interest in preventing a civil war but only in inciting one. Sectarian tensions were virtually unknown in Iraq before the U.S. invasion. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4268 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 10 12:40:42 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 20:40:42 -0000 Subject: [news] Massive Public Sector Strike Over Job Security Looms Message-ID: <20060310204044.28835.qmail@resist.ca> Contracts expire March 31 for members of the BC Government and Service Employees Union (BCGEU), the Hospital Employees Union (HEU), the BC Nurses Union (BCNU), the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), the Health Sciences Association (HSA), and several smaller unions...Also expiring on March 31 is Finance Minister Carole Taylor?s offer of a share in $1 billion worth of signing bonuses for workers who settle contracts by that date. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4271 From news at resist.ca Sat Mar 11 15:17:06 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 23:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Why the U.S. Really Wants to Attack Iran Message-ID: <20060311231706.19221.qmail@resist.ca> "The real necessity we feel (for the U.S. to attack Iran)...is the need to compete with other imperialist countries for geopolitical position in this post-Cold War era, especially in this region overflowing with oil. Used to be that if we wanted to attack one of these countries we'd have to deal with the Soviet Union! But here nowadays we have this huge chunk of real estate stretching from Central Asia to the Mediterranean, this slough of nasty Muslim states that's up for grabs. If we control it, through puppet regimes, dot it with military bases, capitalize its development, control the flow of petroleum products from it---well, then, we'll be well-positioned to take on any emerging rivals..." URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4279 From news at resist.ca Sat Mar 11 15:40:16 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 23:40:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Inviting Anarchy Into My Home Message-ID: <20060311234018.11212.qmail@resist.ca> On Aug. 1, 2002, I left behind the comfortably roomy semicircle marked "married-couple household" on the Census Bureau pie chart and slipped into an inconspicuous wedge labeled "two or more people, nonfamily." Having separated from my husband of 28 years the day before, I opened our three-bedroom 1927 Colonial Revival house to a group of men and women less than half my age. Overnight, the home I had lived in for 12 years became a seven-person anarchist collective, run by consensus and fueled by punk music, curse-studded conversation and food scavenged from Dumpsters. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4280 From news at resist.ca Sun Mar 12 01:17:17 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 09:17:17 -0000 Subject: [news] Guelph Police Mark International Womens Day by Sexually Assaulting Anti-Poverty Protester Message-ID: <20060312091719.7332.qmail@resist.ca> On March 8, 2006, International Women?s Day, a Guelph cop, Officer B. Welsh (#107), assaulted a female protestor, Nicole Freeborn, before arresting her at a protest at the Ontario Rental Housing Tribunal (OHRT). Officer Welsh pinned Ms. Freeborn?s arms behind her back and then pushed his pelvis into her bottom, asking, ?so how do you like that?? URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4281 From news at resist.ca Sun Mar 12 01:17:17 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 09:17:17 -0000 Subject: [news] Iraq Puppet Government Executes 13 Insurgents Message-ID: <20060312091719.7333.qmail@resist.ca> The Iraqi authorities have hanged 13 people accused of taking part in the insurgency, the first execution of militants since the US-led invasion. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4286 From news at resist.ca Sun Mar 12 15:17:12 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 23:17:12 -0000 Subject: [news] Gitmo on the Mississippi: "Life Under the Klan Wasn't This Bad" Message-ID: <20060312231712.30118.qmail@resist.ca> Sometimes the injustices here in New Orleans leave me numb. But the continuing debacle of our criminal justice system inspires in me a sense of indignation I thought was lost to cynicism long ago. Ursula Price, a staff investigator for the indigent defense organization "A Fighting Chance", has met with several thousand hurricane survivors who were imprisoned at the time of the hurricane, and her stories chill me. "I grew up in small town Mississippi," she tells me. "We had the Klan marching down our main street. But still, I've never seen anything like this." URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4289 From news at resist.ca Sun Mar 12 19:40:38 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 03:40:38 -0000 Subject: [news] Mohawks Told to Brace for RCMP/Military Invasion in Spring Message-ID: <20060313034039.30922.qmail@resist.ca> Recently, Tyendinaga community members have been told on two separate occasions, by two different sources, that an invasion into the community, led by the RCMP and backed by the Canadian Military, is planned for Saturday April 1st, 2006. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4293 From news at resist.ca Sun Mar 12 20:17:07 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 04:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Rumsfeld Zeros In on the Internet Message-ID: <20060313041707.1551.qmail@resist.ca> The Pentagon is aiming for ?full spectrum dominance? of the Internet. Their objective is to manipulate public perceptions, quash competing points of view, and perpetuate a narrative of American generosity and good-will URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4294 From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 13 14:40:29 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 22:40:29 -0000 Subject: [news] Killing Off Milosevic Message-ID: <20060313224029.29135.qmail@resist.ca> (Slobodan) Milosevic was known to be seriously ill. The Russian government promised to return Milosevic to the Tribunal after treatment. The Tribunal refused. It is easy to conclude that the case against Milosevic had collapsed and that an embarrassed US government, NATO authorities, and Hague Tribunal decided to let him die in his cell rather than admit that his guilt could not be proven even after a trial lasting four years and one month. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4296 From news at resist.ca Tue Mar 14 14:40:39 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 22:40:39 -0000 Subject: [news] Climate change 'irreversible' Message-ID: <20060314224043.25833.qmail@resist.ca> Climate change 'irreversible' as Arctic sea ice fails to re-form By Steve Connor, Science Editor The Independent: 14 March 2006 Sea ice in the Arctic has failed to re-form for the second consecutive winter, raising fears that global warming may have tipped the polar regions in to irreversible climate change far sooner than predicted. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4300 From news at resist.ca Tue Mar 14 23:17:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 07:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Israel Raids Jail in Palestine, Captures PFLP Legislator Message-ID: <20060315071710.13350.qmail@resist.ca> Israeli forces say they have captured top Palestinian militant Ahmed Saadat after storming the jail where he was held in the West Bank town of Jericho...Saadat, of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and several of his colleagues initially refused to surrender, but finally succumbed to Israeli troops after dark. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4304 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 15 02:17:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Pages From the Liberals' War Message-ID: <20060315101710.12508.qmail@resist.ca> (A)s Milosevic and the onslaught on the former Yugoslavia return to the front pages among predictable obfuscation, we run some relevant extracts here from (the war against Yugoslavia). These days we have the Neo-Cons' war. Back then we had the Liberals' War. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4305 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 15 15:17:24 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:17:24 -0000 Subject: [news] The Crumbling Empire: Latin America and Asia are Breaking Free of Washington's Grip Message-ID: <20060315231725.32029.qmail@resist.ca> The Crumbling Empire Latin America and Asia are Breaking Free of Washington's Grip By NOAM CHOMSKY; March 15, 2006 - Counterpunch The prospect that Europe and Asia might move towards greater independence has troubled US planners since the second world war. The concerns have only risen as the "tripolar order"--Europe, North America and Asia--has continued to evolve. Every day Latin America, too, is becoming more independent. Now Asia and the Americas are strengthening their ties while the reigning superpower, the odd man out, consumes itself in misadventures in the Middle East. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4306 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 15 16:17:14 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 00:17:14 -0000 Subject: [news] Why Canada Should Get Out of Afghanistan (Two Articles) Message-ID: <20060316001714.30515.qmail@resist.ca> "Canada should pull its troops out of Afghanistan. The West's mission there is no less a 'march of folly,' to use historian Barbara Tuchman's phrase about the U.S. war in Vietnam, than was the Soviet attempt to impose a regime in Afghanistan with its invasion in 1979." [Second Article] "Since time immemorial, when great emperors went to war, they summoned contingents of their vassals and tributaries to their standards. So it was in Afghanistan, and then Iraq, when the U.S. decided to invade those nations and demand its allies join the so-called 'war on terrorism'...Under irresistible pressure from Washington to aid its highly unpopular military expeditions in either Iraq or Afghanistan, America's allies and NATO partners opted for the lesser evil, Afghanistan." URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4308 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 15 16:17:14 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 00:17:14 -0000 Subject: [news] Skytrain Police Pose Threat to Bus Riders Message-ID: <20060316001714.30517.qmail@resist.ca> In December 2005, the SkyTrain police were given the power to carry semi-automatic weapons, to arrest, and to issue $173 fines for ?fare evasion?. BRU organizer Yuly Chan notes, "TransLink has the inauspicious distinction of being the first transit authority in the history of Canada to carry handguns. These transit police are justified as protection for women transit users. But the real safety issues for women in transit are long waits at poorly lit bus stops, overcrowded buses, and the recent purchase of polluting, dirty diesel buses." URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4307 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 16 00:17:06 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 08:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Ex-Teacher Tells Court She was Tackled, Smashed in the Eye by TransLink Cops Message-ID: <20060316081706.22075.qmail@resist.ca> A tearful former ESL teacher testified yesterday that two TransLink cops tackled her and then smashed her in the eye with a flashlight after she confronted an ex-boyfriend who had stolen her wallet...Christy Logeman, 30, told a B.C. Supreme Court jury that the November 2002 assault occurred after she and a group of soon-to-be-laid-off fellow workers at the Pacific Language Institute in Vancouver had a few beers. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4310 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 16 01:40:19 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:40:19 -0000 Subject: [news] Indigenous in Ecuador Fight Free Trade Message-ID: <20060316094022.9740.qmail@resist.ca> The president of Ecuador says he will not yield to Indian protesters who are demanding that he ends free-trade talks with the United States...Alfredo Palacio also accused the thousands of protesters gathering in the cities of trying to topple his government...Police fired teargas to disperse the Indians who have blocked roads with burning tyres and rubble in eight central provinces since Monday. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4312 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 16 02:17:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Canadian Soldiers Fatally Shoot Afghani Taxi Driver Message-ID: <20060316101710.26101.qmail@resist.ca> "Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan fatally shot a taxi driver who came within less than a metre of their patrol, military officials said on Wednesday...The shooting happened late Tuesday local time, about four kilometres from the Canadian base in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar..." URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4313 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 16 23:17:13 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 07:17:13 -0000 Subject: [news] The Guerrilla Information Collective Message-ID: <20060317071714.2881.qmail@resist.ca> The Guerrilla is launching a new Nation Wide activist portal. Get action update alerts and news from all over the country..... URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4311 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 16 23:17:13 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 07:17:13 -0000 Subject: [news] Report from the Street Action Against the Cops in Vancouver Message-ID: <20060317071714.2882.qmail@resist.ca> Last night, on the International Day Against Police Brutality (March 15), about 50 people marched down Hastings Street from Victory Square to the cop shop on Main Street. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4318 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 16 23:17:14 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 07:17:14 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada's Military-Media Complex Message-ID: <20060317071715.2912.qmail@resist.ca> Canada's Military-Media Complex What?s the difference between government, defense contractors and media? by Anthony Fenton; March 09, 2006 - The Dominion The lines separating Canada?s government, military, media, and private defense contractors are, if not imaginary, then ill-defined. The case of the new Minister of Defense Gordon O?Connor is illustrative. A veteran of the Canadian Forces, he was a tank squadron commander and is now a retired Brigadier-General who spent eight years as a lobbyist for some of Canada?s largest military contractors. In his words, he was ?helping defense companies navigate complicated government procurement rules.? He ended his career as a lobbyist only to run for public office. He won a seat and became a Member of Parliament in June 2004. He then became the Conservative Party?s Critic for National Defense and was a member of the Standing Committee on National Defense and Veterans Affairs. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4324 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 16 23:17:14 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 07:17:14 -0000 Subject: [news] Toronto Cops Assault Muslim Taxi Driver Message-ID: <20060317071714.2898.qmail@resist.ca> A Toronto cabbie and a witness are alleging he was assaulted Sunday by two police officers after he was pulled over in the city?s downtown...?[One of the officers] asked me where I was from and I told them Pakistan,? Khan, 22, said of the incident. ?They said ?Are you Muslim?? and I said ?Yes, I am Muslim.?? URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4323 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 17 00:17:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] People in Glass Houses Shouldn't Throw Stones Message-ID: <20060317081709.18597.qmail@resist.ca> (The Kalahari) Bushmen with their unevolved stone-age sensibilities simply can?t understand why their land has to be transformed into a lunar hellhole so that Europeans can conduct their traditional mating ceremonies with ritual gift exchanges of shiny rocks. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4325 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 17 16:40:29 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 00:40:29 -0000 Subject: [news] Philippines: the Killing Fields of Asia Message-ID: <20060318004030.18168.qmail@resist.ca> US-Backed Repression Soars Under President Gloria Macapagal Philippines: the Killing Fields of Asia By JAMES PETRAS and ROBIN EASTMAN-ABAYA; March 17, 2006 - Counterpunch Since President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo joined the US global "War on Terrorism", the Philippines has become the site of an on-going undeclared war against peasant and union activists, progressive political dissidents and lawmakers, human rights lawyers and activists, women leaders and a wide range of print and broadcast journalists. Because of the links between the Army, the regime and the death squads, political assassinations take place in an atmosphere of absolute impunity. The vast majority of the attacks occur in the countryside and provincial towns. The reign of terror in the Philippines is of similar scope and depth as in Colombia. Unlike Colombia, the rampaging state terrorism has not drawn sufficient attention, let alone outcry, from international public opinion. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4326 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 17 17:17:41 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 01:17:41 -0000 Subject: [news] Iraq: Thousands Killed by Government Death Squads Message-ID: <20060318011744.8127.qmail@resist.ca> Iraq: Thousands Killed by Government Death Squads Doug Lorimer - Green Left Weekly, March 15, 2006 Faik Bakir, the director of the Baghdad morgue, has fled Iraq in fear of his life after reporting that more than 7000 people have been killed by Iraqi interior ministry death squads in recent months, John Pace, the outgoing head of the UN human rights office in Iraq, told the March 2 British Guardian. Pace said the Baghdad morgue has been receiving 700 or more bodies a month. The figures peaked at 1100 last July ? many showing signs of torture. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4327 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 17 18:17:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 02:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Statement on the Arrest of Its General Secretary Message-ID: <20060318021711.13197.qmail@resist.ca> The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine condemns all those who directly or indirectly caused the criminal arrest of its General Secretary, his comrades, Brother Fu'ad ash-Shawbaki, and numerous other militants of various patriotic and Islamic forces who were subject to arbitrary political imprisonment based on American-Zionist dictates. The PFLP declares that the invader forces committed the crime of that arrest, as well as the attack on the Jericho prison and the destruction of the Muqata'ah building inside, with the complicity of America and Britain, as the officials of the Palestine Authority -- their minds controlled by the fear of the Israeli response to anything that they might do -- trembled and wavered. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4329 From news at resist.ca Sun Mar 19 12:40:56 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 20:40:56 -0000 Subject: [news] Books on Sexuality Drew Most Complaints in U.S. Message-ID: <20060319204100.9443.qmail@resist.ca> The (American Library Association), a group representing U.S. librarians that upholds principles of intellectual freedom as part of its mandate, recorded 405 book challenges in 2005 in the United States. Most were formal written complaints to school libraries or public libraries...In Canada, the supporters of Freedom to Read week maintain a record of books that have been challenged. The list includes Agota Kristof's Le Grand Cahier, about two boys in a time of war, which drew a complaint about its graphic violence; and Elizabeth Laird's A Little Piece of Ground, which is about a Palestinian boy. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4340 From news at resist.ca Sun Mar 19 23:40:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 07:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] France Union Threatens General Strike Over "First Job" Law Message-ID: <20060320074010.18039.qmail@resist.ca> A powerful union leader in France has raised a new threat of a general strike to press the government to withdraw a jobs plan that sent at least a half-million people into the streets in weekend protests...Student and employee unions have given Dominique de Villepin, the prime minister, until Monday night to withdraw the measure, which is designed to increase hiring among the youth but seen by critics as an erosion of workers' rights that will not produce solid jobs. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4341 From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 20 12:41:20 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:41:20 -0000 Subject: [news] Bush Bids to Open ANWR to Drilling Despite Major Oil Spill Message-ID: <20060320204121.8366.qmail@resist.ca> President Bush has said that the oil and gas industry can open up ANWR without damaging the environment or displacing wildlife. But the native Gwich'in Nation, whose 7,000 members have lived in Alaska for more than 20,000 years, say President Bush is wrong..."Existing oil development has displaced caribou, polluted the air and water and created havoc with the traditional lifestyles of the people," said Jonathan Solomon, chairman of the Gwich'in Steering Committee, in a May 7, 2005 interview..."No one can tell us that opening the Arctic Refuge to development can be done in an environmentally sensitive way with a small footprint. It cannot be done." URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4343 From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 20 14:17:43 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 22:17:43 -0000 Subject: [news] Urgent Call to Action to Prevent Military & Police Incursion on Mohawk Territories Message-ID: <20060320221748.29720.qmail@resist.ca> The Coalition in Support of Indigenous Sovereignty ? Native Caucus is asking that you take some time to phone, email or fax the authorities below to register your objection to a potential incursion onto Mohawk Territories this spring and at any other time. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4342 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 22 15:40:19 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 23:40:19 -0000 Subject: [news] Death at the Hague Message-ID: <20060322234020.27464.qmail@resist.ca> Kafka could have written the book, Orwell the screen adaptation, such is the extraordinary, even absurdist, lengths to which Western propagandists have gone to invert the reality. But, in fact, the fanciful vilification of one man, Slobobdan Milosevic, the completely fabricated demonization of an entire nation, Serbia, and the impudent revisionist history concocted for an epoch defining conflict, Yugoslavia, was scripted by neither of these two masters of social and political satire. It was, instead, penned by an altogether more sinister hand - 'victor's justice'. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4345 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 22 15:40:19 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 23:40:19 -0000 Subject: [news] Ecuador Rages over FTA Message-ID: <20060322234020.27465.qmail@resist.ca> Ecuador Rages over FTA Quito, Mar 20 (Prensa Latina) Ecuador enters Monday another week of indigenous rallies against the likely signing of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the US, with nationwide marches and roadblocks. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4347 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 22 15:40:20 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 23:40:20 -0000 Subject: [news] Inuit See Signs In Arctic Thaw Message-ID: <20060322234022.27513.qmail@resist.ca> Inuit See Signs In Arctic Thaw String of Warm Winters Alarms 'Sentries for the Rest of the World' By Doug Struck PANGNIRTUNG, Canada -- Thirty miles from the Arctic Circle, hunter Noah Metuq feels the Arctic changing. Its frozen grip is loosening; the people and animals who depend on its icy reign are experiencing a historic reshaping of their world. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4355 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 22 16:40:34 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:40:34 -0000 Subject: [news] When Black Cops Go Bad: The Killing of Elio Carrion Message-ID: <20060323004036.13637.qmail@resist.ca> Criminal justice experts agree that no matter how much training officers get, how they react in a situation on the streets depends on their own apprehensions and prejudices and that police work tends to aggravate whatever prejudices they have. Many black officers have those same prejudices as whites. They do not live in or grow up in impoverished black (neighborhoods) and see them as hostile and alien places. Many of them are just as jittery as white cops at the prospect of an armed encounter with other blacks. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4357 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 22 23:17:07 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 07:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Update on Sexual Assault by Guelph Police - Guelph Union of Tenants and Supporters (GUTS) Message-ID: <20060323071707.12047.qmail@resist.ca> Guelph Union of Tenants and Supporters (GUTS) Update on Sexual Assault by Guelph Police Officer B. Welsh (Badge #107) 1) Updates from call-in campaign 2) Updates from meeting with police 3) Action Callout 1) We would like to greatly thank everyone for their concern and for contacting the Guelph police. Since so many of you have contacted us, GUTS is gonna try to send out general updates. Nicole's not able to write back to everyone anymore but she sends along a huge thank you. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4349 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 23 00:40:14 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 08:40:14 -0000 Subject: [news] BC Government Is Violating Canada Health Act: Mexican Migrant Farm Workers Denied Basic Medical Coverage Message-ID: <20060323084016.26522.qmail@resist.ca> (Vancouver)-Migrant farm worker advocates are accusing the BC Liberals of violating Canada's Health Care Act by denying migrant farm workers access to health care in BC. Justicia for Migrant Workers, an advocacy group fighting for the rights of migrant farm workers in BC, is demanding that migrant farm workers from Mexico be immediately included under the province?s MSP health insurance scheme, so that they can be given basic health coverage. Mexican workers have already started to come back to BC for the third year in a row, and up to a couple thousand workers are expected this year throughout BC. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4358 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 24 01:40:17 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 09:40:17 -0000 Subject: [news] Hamas to Shield Resistance Fighters Message-ID: <20060324094017.3984.qmail@resist.ca> The intended interior minister in Hamas's government has said he will not order the arrest of fighters carrying out attacks against Israel..."The day will never come when any Palestinian would be arrested because of his political affiliation or because of resisting the occupation..."But the right to defend our people and to confront the aggression is granted and is legitimate." URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4369 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 23 17:40:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 01:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Clan Mothers Lay It On The Line Message-ID: <20060324014010.25224.qmail@resist.ca> No showdown with police at native rally to stop builders By Paul Legall The Hamilton Spectator CALEDONIA (Mar 23, 2006) More than a hundred native women including powerful clan mothers locked arms in a human chain to block a police arresting party that never happened. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4365 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 23 22:40:17 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 06:40:17 -0000 Subject: [news] A Disgusting Exercise Message-ID: <20060324064018.10768.qmail@resist.ca> IT WAS abhorrent, first of all, because it was an election propaganda gimmick. For a politician to send the army in to collect votes is an abhorrent act. In this action (the Israeli Occupation Army's raid on the Palestinian Prison in Jericho), three people were killed. Many more lives, Palestinian and Israeli, were put at risk. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4368 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 24 14:17:11 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 22:17:11 -0000 Subject: [news] =?utf-8?q?Canada=E2=80=99s?= air force to establish first all pilotless formation Message-ID: <20060324221711.27341.qmail@resist.ca> Online News KANDAHAR: Canada?s air force will cross a technological threshold this month with the establishment in Afghanistan of its first organized flight of pilotless aircraft. An entire flight of Sperwer tactical uninhabited aerial vehicles will soon be fully operational for reconnaissance missions over the windswept desert and craggy mountains passes in the vicinity of Kandahar. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4371 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 24 15:17:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 23:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Pregnant Bellies Auctioned as Ad Space on eBay Message-ID: <20060324231711.29580.qmail@resist.ca> 03/19/06 | By Anju Mary Paul | WeNews A St. Louis baby's birth was just sponsored by a Web company that will place video clips of the delivery on its Web site. In other eBay transactions, women have accepted payment to let a casino tattoo its logo on their pregnant bellies. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4372 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 24 16:17:11 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 00:17:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Argentina Annuls Private Water Contract Message-ID: <20060325001712.21083.qmail@resist.ca> Buenos Aires, Mar 21 (Prensa Latina) The Argentine Nestor Kirchner administration rescinded the contract of Aguas Argentinas Tuesday, the multinational Swiss-controlled group that has controlled national water since the 90s. In announcing the resolution, Federal Planning Minister Julio de Vido emphasized to press the decision was made to defend the neediest sectors from abuses committed by the firm. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4376 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 24 18:17:06 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 02:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Tony Blair's Islamophobia Message-ID: <20060325021706.15955.qmail@resist.ca> (Tony) Blair's diatribe was the performance of a committed idealist, a demagogue mesmerized by his own ideology and not that of an intellectual, an academic, a mainstream politician or a statesman. Blair inhabits that shadowy region of Christianity that sees itself as totally separate and apart from the other faiths stemming from the house of Abraham: Judaism and Islam. In Blair's vision of Christianity, there are no Muslims who accept the messianic status of Jesus; no Christians who launch terrorist atrocities and no Jewish terrorists, either. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4377 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 24 22:17:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 06:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] "A Gaul to Arms": Resistance to Neo-Liberalism in France Message-ID: <20060325061708.4456.qmail@resist.ca> These protests against the CPE are just part of a broader movement against the US/UK-style liberalisation of the French economy, and follow other public rejections of these policies, including the referendum which gave a firm ?non? to the proposed European constitution and its raft of neo-liberalisations. Despite the mainstream media claiming that the French are being anything from anti-free enterprise to downright racist, a look at the real causes behind the revolt reveals the usual plan: corporate bosses are lining politicians? pockets for a mutually beneficial carve up of the economy, and the dumping of any regulations ? such as workers? rights - which stand in the way of the fat-cat feeding frenzy. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4380 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 24 22:40:31 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 06:40:31 -0000 Subject: [news] Reflections on International Women's Day 2006 Message-ID: <20060325064032.23985.qmail@resist.ca> Who does this fellow (Guelph cop who assaulted woman protestor) think he is? That when women start yelling sexual assault, he says "whatever." How about that for contempt. You are of no account, you are worthy of no respect. The women who witness this know that they could just as easily be next, that's why they try to shrug it off. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4381 From news at resist.ca Sat Mar 25 15:17:16 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 23:17:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Six Nations Blood Bath Averted Thanks to Popular Support Message-ID: <20060325231716.5793.qmail@resist.ca> Kahentinetha Horn ? MNN Mohawk Nation News The people weren?t frightened by Marshall?s attempt to bully us with his bogus order. We?ve seen it all before. Everyone rallied to support us. By 2:00 on Wednesday hundreds of people had converged at Douglas Estates. The Women locked arms together on the front line. It?s our duty under our constitution, the Kaianereh?ko:wa/Great Law, to protect the land for our future generations. We were going to do our best. We weren?t alone. All across Turtle Island from the Dene of the Northwest Territories, the Western chiefs of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, natives and non-natives alike bombarded everybody they could with the message: "Stop the OPP bloodbath". It did not happen because as 2:00 came and went people continued to arrive to stand with us. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4393 From news at resist.ca Sat Mar 25 22:40:14 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 06:40:14 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada's Largest Private Sector Union No Longer Supporting New Democrats Message-ID: <20060326064016.29819.qmail@resist.ca> What has changed is (the Canadian Autoworker's Union) faith in the reliability of professional politicians to stay true to (the progressive) cause. We've learned the hard way, time and time again, that we cannot blindly trust any party, no matter how progressive it says it is, to do the right thing. We've worked hard to elect (New Democratic Party) governments -- and then watched them turn their backs on the principles, and the people, that got them elected. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4394 From news at resist.ca Sun Mar 26 16:17:11 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 00:17:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Amnesty Cites Systemic Causes of Anti-Queer Policing Message-ID: <20060327001712.29483.qmail@resist.ca> In a new report on police treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, a leading international human rights group yesterday indicted the United States law-enforcement system for facilitating discrimination and abuse based on sexual orientation in American communities...The report noted that because of the powerful role of law enforcement in local communities, discrimination by police threatens the rights of LGBT people on two fronts: unresponsive police leave them more vulnerable to prejudicial crimes, and hostility from officers themselves condones and exacerbates abuse. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4398 From news at resist.ca Sun Mar 26 17:17:25 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 01:17:25 -0000 Subject: [news] Arrest Warrant for Nude Painting Message-ID: <20060327011725.6089.qmail@resist.ca> A court in India has issued an arrest warrant for painter M.F. Husain for allegedly offending Hindus with his nude painting Mother India, according to the Press Trust of India...The 90-year-old internationally acclaimed artist has been ordered to appear in court after a Hindu activist filed a petition arguing the painting hurt Hindus. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4399 From news at resist.ca Sun Mar 26 17:40:17 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 01:40:17 -0000 Subject: [news] Canadian Youth Alleges Torture at Guantanamo Bay Message-ID: <20060327014018.10961.qmail@resist.ca> An international human rights commission has ruled that the detention of a Canadian youth at the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba presents a "serious and urgent risk of irreparable harm" to the detainee. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) also expressed concerns that statements obtained from (Omar) Khadr through alleged torture and inhumane treatment could be used against him in a military tribunal. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4400 From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 27 00:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 08:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Statement by Mexican Unions with the Other Campaign & the EZLN Message-ID: <20060327081705.18468.qmail@resist.ca> We the undersigned, members of the Other Campaign that is being developed across the country, invite you to the First National Worker's Gathering, which will be held Saturday, April 29, in the offices of the National Union of Uniroyal Workers, located at 95 Lago Plava, Huichapan neighborhood, Mexico City, to meet with the following goals: 1. Prepare for our participation in the commemoration of International Worker's Day, May 1, across the country, in what we will call "The Other May 1."? URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4403 From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 27 17:40:19 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 01:40:19 -0000 Subject: [news] Arab Citizens of Israel: Separate and Unequal Message-ID: <20060328014019.10132.qmail@resist.ca> The principle of ethnic separation was always at the heart of the Jewish nation-building project. Hundreds of rural communities--including the kibbutz communes established after the state's birth in 1948--are strictly off-limits to the country's one million Arab citzens. Even in the the handful of "mixed" cities, Arabs inhabit their own isolated neighbourhoods...Divisions are also enforced in the education system, with separate Arab and Jewish schools; and the "Hebrew labour" philosophy inherited from Zionism's pioneers means that much of the workplace is segregated too. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4406 From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 27 20:17:15 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 04:17:15 -0000 Subject: [news] Top Ten Reasons Why Canada Needs a Debate About Afghanistan Message-ID: <20060328041717.11762.qmail@resist.ca> Prime Minister Harper dismisses the possibility of a Parliamentary debate over Afghanistan, and (like former US President Nixon) impugns the loyalty of critics. But as Plato said 2,500 years ago, only a tyrant refuses to debate the wisdom of a foreign war...Here are the top ten reasons (ignored by the mainstream media) why we do need a national debate, and soon. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4409 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 29 00:17:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 08:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Homeless Eviction in Vancouver Message-ID: <20060329081711.10542.qmail@resist.ca> A vacant east Vancouver property where homeless people had been living in metal shipping containers has been cleaned up. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4414 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 29 00:17:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 08:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Report Slams B.C. Welfare "Reforms" Message-ID: <20060329081711.10553.qmail@resist.ca> People now have to show they've looked for work for three weeks before they can even apply for welfare, and have to prove they've worked continuously for two years..."People seeking welfare are being dehumanized, demoralized and shamed at a time in their lives when they are most demoralized and needing help." URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4415 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 29 15:17:18 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 23:17:18 -0000 Subject: [news] Ontario Mohawks Facing Imminent Arrest Message-ID: <20060329231720.10736.qmail@resist.ca> Mohawk Native News. March 29, 2006. At noon, Wednesday, March 29th, four Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) cruisers were spotted at the nearby Unity Road School, three Jimmys, about 14 to 15 undercover cops, two cruisiers side by side above the site and on the other side at Canadian Tire; the cruisers face the site directly. A lot of media has suddenly converged. We are asking people to help by emailing the Attorney General of Canada and Ontario, the Prime Minister, the Governor General of Canada and worldwide. We welcome our brothers, sisters, friends and allies with open arms to stand in solidarity with us against this illegal invasion of Six Nations Land (Highway 6, Caledonia, Ontario). URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4418 From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 29 19:17:20 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 03:17:20 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada Suspends Funding to Palestinian Authority Message-ID: <20060330031721.12836.qmail@resist.ca> Canada became the first donor to suspend aid to the Palestinian Authority on Wednesday, saying the new Hamas-led government had failed to give assurances that it would recognize Israel's right to exist...Although the United States, the European Union and other donors say they are also concerned about the Hamas government, they have yet to cut assistance. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4419 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 31 00:40:30 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca) Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 08:40:30 -0000 Subject: [news] Tenant Action Group Facing Police Repression in Belleville Message-ID: <20060331084033.12519.qmail@resist.ca> Our message is loud and clear - if governments will not listen to the plight of the most vulnerable, then we as a people must rise up...but only after attempting to reason and talk...when reasoning and talk fails then we must stand together with dignity. URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4430