From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 1 10:40:25 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 18:40:25 -0000 Subject: [news] The Homeless Plan in Action - APC Squats Another Building Message-ID: <20061101184026.28176.qmail@resist.ca> On October 31st the Anti-Poverty Committee and supporters took an empty city-owned building near City Hall and stated that it will be turned into women's emergency housing. About 150 people gathered today on the lawns of City Hall, ready to occupy the city chambers and demand the city council buy a hotel and convert it to social housing, instead we took housing into our own hands and opened up a building set to be demolished by the city. APC was set to open the building as women's emergency sheltar. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_homeless_plan_in_action_apc_squats_another_building URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_homeless_plan_in_action_apc_squats_another_building From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 2 11:40:35 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 19:40:35 -0000 Subject: [news] Ontario: "ELF's are Mad" Message-ID: <20061102194036.25268.qmail@resist.ca> Two of the sheets had the initials ELF -- an apparent reference to the U.S.-based Earth Liberation Front -- painted at the bottom. The third contained a "build and burn" comment, along with "ELFs are mad," said Guelph Police Constable Andrew Goody. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/ontario_elfs_are_mad URL: http://mostlywater.org/ontario_elfs_are_mad From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 2 16:40:30 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 00:40:30 -0000 Subject: [news] Regulating Revolutions in Eastern Europe: The National Endowment for Democracy Message-ID: <20061103004031.20454.qmail@resist.ca> The US-based National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is the central coordinating organisation involved in the global ?promotion of democracy?...US ?democracy promoters? have recently been implicated in a series of ?revolutions? across Eastern Europe, which began in Serbia...and have spread like wildfire through Georgia (2003), the Ukraine (January 2005), and Kyrgyzstan (April 2005). [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/regulating_revolutions_in_eastern_europe_the_national_endowment_for_democracy URL: http://mostlywater.org/regulating_revolutions_in_eastern_europe_the_national_endowment_for_democracy From news at resist.ca Sat Nov 4 18:40:07 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 02:40:07 -0000 Subject: [news] The Day of the Dead in Oaxaca Message-ID: <20061105024007.15498.qmail@resist.ca> November 1 was the Day of the Dead. It's the day that Mexicans flock to the cemeteries to visit family members who have passed on...This year among the dead are 17 people killed in Oaxaca. They are dead because they dared to challenge a political and economic system that bound them to poverty and powerlessness. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_day_of_the_dead_in_oaxaca URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_day_of_the_dead_in_oaxaca From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 8 00:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 08:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] The Iraq Fantasy Message-ID: <20061108081703.5835.qmail@resist.ca> The failure of the US and Britain at every level in Iraq is obvious to all. But the White House and Downing Street have lived in a state of permanent denial...For the past three-and-a-half years in Iraq, one needed to close both eyes very hard or live in Baghdad's Green Zone not to see that the occupation was detested by most Iraqis. At places where US Humvees had been blown up or US soldiers killed or wounded there were usually Iraqis dancing for joy. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_iraq_fantasy URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_iraq_fantasy From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 8 00:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 08:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] No Pesticide Spraying on Saltspring Island Message-ID: <20061108081703.5834.qmail@resist.ca> There will be no overhead pesticide spraying on Salt Spring Island next year. The Gypsy Moth Committee, the intergovernmental body that decides what action to take vis a vis the gypsy moth, here and throughout B.C., met last week and decided against overhead pesticide spraying for Salt Spring next year. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/success_on_saltspring_island_british_columbia URL: http://mostlywater.org/success_on_saltspring_island_british_columbia From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 8 00:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 08:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] The Women of Beit Hanoun Message-ID: <20061108081704.5836.qmail@resist.ca> Before dawn on Friday morning the Al Quds Radio station in Beit Hanoun, Gaza, called on the women of the city to stage a protest outside the mosque inside which 40 of their resistance fighters were trapped...The women of Beit Hanoun acted in response to the radio call for help because...(t)heir men were under siege. Their brothers, husbands and sons were being killed and their mosque was being bulldozed to the ground. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_women_of_beit_hanoun URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_women_of_beit_hanoun From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 8 11:17:05 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Wobbly Barista Isis Saenz Fired by Starbucks For Union Activity Message-ID: <20061108191706.30609.qmail@resist.ca> ![][1]Sister Worker Isis Saenz was fired today by Starbucks for participating in a protest Thursday evening against the company's union-busting [[http://starbucksunion.org/node/1094][2]]. The company claims that Isis acted inappropriately towards Regional Director Jim McDermott at the protest. Isis's principled stand for the right to join a union free of coercion apparently didn't comport with Starbucks' "guiding principles" [read more][3] [1]: http://www.iww.org/graphics/IU660/sbux/Isis.jpg [2]: http://starbucksunion.org/node/1094 [3]: http://mostlywater.org/node/13134 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/13134 From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 8 11:17:06 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Chicago Anti-war Musician Burns Himself to Death Message-ID: <20061108191706.30610.qmail@resist.ca> ![Malachi Ritscher][1]**Malachi Ritscher**Chicago Indymedia has learned that last Friday local music and art afficianado and peace advocate Malachi Ritscher burned himself to death on the side of the Kennedy Expressway near downtown Chicago during the morning rush hour. [read more][2] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/system/files/images/malachi.thumbnail.jpg (Malachi Ritscher) [2]: http://mostlywater.org/node/13724 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/13724 From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 8 13:40:20 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 21:40:20 -0000 Subject: [news] Another Tragic Day in Palestine Message-ID: <20061108214020.9383.qmail@resist.ca> (T)he lesson Israel is imparting in Gaza is unequivocal: War crimes are fine, so long as you remember to say sorry afterwards. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/another_tragic_day_in_palestine URL: http://mostlywater.org/another_tragic_day_in_palestine From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 10 10:40:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 18:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Israel Arrests 4,000 in Siege on Gaza Town Message-ID: <20061110184009.7455.qmail@resist.ca> **Gaza town shocked and battered by Israeli raid** NIDAL AL-MUGHRABI Reuters, 4 November 2006 Beit Hanoun, Gaza -- Rasmiya Mahmoud has seen plenty of Israeli raids into the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun. But nothing like this. Dozens of Israeli tanks have encircled the town of 30,000 people since Wednesday. Heavily armed soldiers, trying to stop militant rocket fire at the nearby Jewish [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/13309 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/13309 From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 10 13:40:13 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 21:40:13 -0000 Subject: [news] Dene Tha' victory: Lawsuit stops MGP hearings through Federal Court Message-ID: <20061110214014.30441.qmail@resist.ca> [http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/stor...][1] CBC North // November 10 / 2006 The Federal Court of Canada has ordered the Joint Review Panel to stop its hearings into the multibillion-dollar Mackenzie Gas Project. The court ruled Friday the federal government failed to consult Alberta's Dene Tha' First Nation about the proposed project. [read more][2] [1]: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2006/11/10/denetha-ruling.html (http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2006/11/10/denetha-ruling.html) [2]: http://mostlywater.org/dene_tha_victory_lawsuit_stops_mgp_hearings_through_federal_court URL: http://mostlywater.org/dene_tha_victory_lawsuit_stops_mgp_hearings_through_federal_court From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 10 15:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 23:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] U.S. Liberals: "Useful Idiots" Message-ID: <20061110231704.1660.qmail@resist.ca> ...(A)n imperial and militarized state will use its military power relentlessly...But (U.S. liberals) can?t confront this deeper relationship and challenge militarism and the imperial state. They adapt to it, and in the process ?liberal principles? are compromised and thrust aside, and the liberals do in fact serve as the imperial state?s ?useful idiots.? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/u_s_liberals_useful_idiots URL: http://mostlywater.org/u_s_liberals_useful_idiots From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 10 16:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 00:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] The Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign Honors the Martyrs of Oaxaca Message-ID: <20061111001703.13603.qmail@resist.ca> In this dreadful Autumn of death and destruction, the Palestinian and Mexican people are united more than ever in a common history, mourning and struggle...We know that the Mexican Intifada continues and spreads to other states of the nation...(We) recognize our brothers in the Mexican indigenous communities who have resisted genocide for over 500 years. We salute the resistance of the people of Oaxaca against a corrupt puppet government and see in it a new point of reference for the struggle against imperialism. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_palestinian_anti_apartheid_wall_campaign_honors_the_martyrs_of_oaxaca URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_palestinian_anti_apartheid_wall_campaign_honors_the_martyrs_of_oaxaca From news at resist.ca Sat Nov 11 11:40:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 19:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada Kept List of Dissidents to Lock up in Time of Crisis Message-ID: <20061111194010.2812.qmail@resist.ca> Historian uncovers plan to detain as many as 2,500 in camps BY DAVID PUGLIESE OTTAWA CITIZEN, November 6, 2006 The federal government had detailed lists of political activists and subversives it planned to arrest in the aftermath of a nuclear war or other national emergency, keeping such plans on the books until at least the early 1980s, according to records obtained by an Ottawa historian. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/13763 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/13763 From news at resist.ca Sun Nov 12 18:17:25 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 02:17:25 -0000 Subject: [news] Marijuana: The Anti-Drug Message-ID: <20061113021725.20822.qmail@resist.ca> The extent to which medical cannabis users discontinue or reduce their use of pharmaceutical and over-the-counter drugs is a recurring theme in a recent survey of pro-cannabis (PC) California doctors...Medicating with cannabis enables people to lay off stimulants as well as sedatives...The political implications are equally obvious. Legalizing herbal cannabis would devastate the pharmaceutical manufacturers and allied corporations in the chemicals, oil, "food," and banking sectors. Put simply, the synthetic drug makers stand to lose half their sales if and when the American people get legal access to cannabis. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/marijuana_the_anti_drug URL: http://mostlywater.org/marijuana_the_anti_drug From news at resist.ca Sun Nov 12 21:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 05:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Now Let's Charge Saddam's Accomplices Message-ID: <20061113051704.18996.qmail@resist.ca> In a show trial whose theatrical climax was clearly timed to promote George W Bush in the American midterm elections, Saddam Hussein was convicted and sentenced to hang. Drivel about "end of an era" and "a new start for Iraq" was promoted by the usual false moral accountants, who uttered not a word about bringing the tyrant's accomplices to justice. Why are these accomplices not being charged with aiding and abetting crimes against humanity? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/now_lets_charge_saddams_accomplices URL: http://mostlywater.org/now_lets_charge_saddams_accomplices From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 13 12:17:02 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 20:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Here's the Plan... Message-ID: <20061113201703.4213.qmail@resist.ca> For fast and effective action on climate change It is a testament to the power of money that Nicholas Stern's report should have swung the argument for drastic action, even before anyone has finished reading it. He appears to have demonstrated what many of us suspected: that it would cost much less to prevent runaway climate change than to seek to live with it. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/heres_the_plan URL: http://mostlywater.org/heres_the_plan From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 13 14:17:59 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:17:59 -0000 Subject: [news] Call it What it is: A Massacre Message-ID: <20061113221802.15998.qmail@resist.ca> THE FIRST revolutionary act is to call things by their true names, Rosa Luxemburg said. So how to call what happened in Beit Hanoun?...It was indeed an accident, a tragedy, an event and an incident. But most of all it was a massacre. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/call_it_what_it_is_a_massacre URL: http://mostlywater.org/call_it_what_it_is_a_massacre From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 13 23:40:12 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:40:12 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada Criticized as "Fossil" at Climate Talks Message-ID: <20061114074012.10800.qmail@resist.ca> Canada has been handed the "fossil of the day" award at the UN climate talks, where Rona Ambrose is expected to defend Ottawa's position on the Kyoto Protocol..."Frankly, it's becoming embarrassing," Stephen Guilbault of Greenpeace told The Canadian Press. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/canada_criticized_as_fossil_at_climate_talks URL: http://mostlywater.org/canada_criticized_as_fossil_at_climate_talks From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 14 17:40:11 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 01:40:11 -0000 Subject: [news] A New Massacre in Chiapas Message-ID: <20061115014011.4872.qmail@resist.ca> (On) Monday, November 13, presumed paramilitaries committed a massacre in the Montes Azules jungle region of Chiapas, killing nine indigenous women and men and two children...Indigenous communities and Human Rights organizations warned State and Federal Governments of threats, but authorities failed to act. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/a_new_massacre_in_chiapas_narconews URL: http://mostlywater.org/a_new_massacre_in_chiapas_narconews From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 16 11:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 19:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Heated Confrontation with Mohawks at Development Message-ID: <20061116191703.24637.qmail@resist.ca> ![][1] _A First Nations protester screams at an army officer to get off Highway 2 in Deseronto claiming the highway is Mohawk land. At right is Mohawk spokesman Shawn Brant. The protesters, angry about a Kingston developer's plans for land they claim belongs to the Mohawk community, occupied the disputed land and then blocked five military trucks that appeared to be passing through the area. [read more][2] [1]: http://www.ocap.ca/files/tyendinagamilitary.jpg [2]: http://mostlywater.org/node/14126 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/14126 From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 17 12:17:13 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 20:17:13 -0000 Subject: [news] CUPE CEO's Just Like All Other Suits and Ties Message-ID: <20061117201713.27353.qmail@resist.ca> Many workers can not understand CUPE?s corporate rationale for its? demand for concessions from its most valued employees, the stead fast soldiers who unquestionably protect the palace from dissent and r-e-volution. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/cupe_ceos_just_like_all_other_suits_and_ties URL: http://mostlywater.org/cupe_ceos_just_like_all_other_suits_and_ties From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 17 13:40:12 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 21:40:12 -0000 Subject: [news] When Mass Murder Starts in Your Own Backyard: Wescam, L-3 Communications Canada, and The Blood on Canada's Corporate Doorstep Message-ID: <20061117214013.10746.qmail@resist.ca> When Mass Murder Starts in Your Own Backyard: Wescam, L-3 Communications Canada, and The Blood on Canada's Corporate Doorstep It appears that Canadian technology built in Burlington, Ontario, contributed to another cowardly act of mass murder from the skies last month. Some 80 Pakistani school kids, most under the age of 15, were murdered October 30... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/14067 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/14067 From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 17 13:40:12 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 21:40:12 -0000 Subject: [news] Guatemalan Genocide Survivors Clamor for =?utf-8?q?R=C3=ADosMontt?= =?utf-8?b?wrRz?= Capture Message-ID: <20061117214013.10741.qmail@resist.ca> OVER a thousand survivors of state-led genocide flooded the streets of Guatemala City Friday, converging on the Supreme Court building and covering it with graffiti and banners, to demand the capture of ex-dictator and current political heavyweight Efra?n Rios Montt upon receipt of a forthcoming arrest warrant. According to the warrant, which is expected to soon be transmitted from Spanish courts to Guatemala, R?os Montts reign (1982-1983) constituted ?69% of all executions, 41% of rapes and sexual assaults and 45% of all reported tortures? committed during the military?s so-called counterinsurgency campaign which officially concluded in 1996. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/13969 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/13969 From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 17 16:40:28 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 00:40:28 -0000 Subject: [news] Freedonia Accepting Applications for Funding Message-ID: <20061118004028.11579.qmail@resist.ca> When Gary Moffatt died a few years back, he set up a fund (Freedonia) to support anararchist and other radical organizations and individuals working to provide alternatives to the current economic paradigm. Freedonia has recently launched its website and is seeking applications. Their announcement follows. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/freedonia_accepting_applications_for_funding URL: http://mostlywater.org/freedonia_accepting_applications_for_funding From news at resist.ca Sat Nov 18 12:40:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 20:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Milton Friedman and the Economics of Empire Message-ID: <20061118204009.4360.qmail@resist.ca> Today, (former Chilean dictator Augusto) Pinochet is under house arrest for his brand of "shock therapy," and (Milton) Friedman is dead. But the world they helped usher in survives, in increasingly grotesque form. What was considered extreme in Chile in 1975 has now become the norm in the US today: a society where the market defines the totality of human fulfillment, and a government that tortures in the name of freedom. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/milton_friedman_and_the_economics_of_empire URL: http://mostlywater.org/milton_friedman_and_the_economics_of_empire From news at resist.ca Sat Nov 18 14:17:05 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 22:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Criminalizing Muslim Charity Compassion in the War on Terror Message-ID: <20061118221705.21793.qmail@resist.ca> The Bush administration kangaroo court conviction of Dr. Rafil Dhafir for his "crime of compassion." "Our crime is that we care about what happens to the children of Palestine. Who knows what price we will have to pay for our hot-breakfast program for hungry kids in Gaza, for our playground project in the West Bank, for our psychological trauma center in Hebron." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/criminalizing_compassion_in_the_war_on_terror URL: http://mostlywater.org/criminalizing_compassion_in_the_war_on_terror From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 20 10:17:16 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:17:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Don't Iraq Iran Message-ID: <20061120181716.18088.qmail@resist.ca> Despite and because of the current situation in Iraq, U.S. foreign policy is repeating itself in Iran. The Bush administration is isolating and antagonizing Iran instead of negotiating and seeking resolution. As with Iraq, it is lobbing the same threats of sanctions and regime change. The administration specifically refuses to take the "military option" off the table, despite frequent requests to do so from our European allies. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/dont_iraq_iran URL: http://mostlywater.org/dont_iraq_iran From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 20 10:17:16 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:17:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Oaxaca: Women, Political Parties, Barricades and Autonomy Message-ID: <20061120181716.18089.qmail@resist.ca> It is ultimately up to the people of Oaxaca to decide if they will replace one political party with another or if they will estrange themselves from all parties, to what extent they will be governed or how they will govern themselves, and what tactics they will take to counter the repression that continues to keep pace with the movement, as death seeks to outrun freedom. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/oaxaca_women_political_parties_barricades_and_autonomy URL: http://mostlywater.org/oaxaca_women_political_parties_barricades_and_autonomy From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 20 10:17:16 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:17:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Activists to Question NSA Surveillance Message-ID: <20061120181717.18092.qmail@resist.ca> BALTIMORE (AP) -- Thirteen anti-war activists cited in July for protesting outside the National Security Agency headquarters at Fort Meade plan to use their trial to question the agency's monitoring of nonviolent groups. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/14256 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/14256 From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 20 10:17:16 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:17:16 -0000 Subject: [news] The Price of Imperial Arrogance Message-ID: <20061120181717.18090.qmail@resist.ca> The cost at home and abroad of the crimes of the Bush administration. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_price_of_imperial_arrogance URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_price_of_imperial_arrogance From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 20 10:17:16 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:17:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Halliburton Wrecks Mexico Message-ID: <20061120181718.18095.qmail@resist.ca> ...Halliburton helped pay for a vicious TV spot campaign that featured libelous hit pieces tagging (PRD leader) Lopez Obrador as a danger to Mexico. Because only political parties can mount such campaigns, Halliburton's participation was patently illicit according to Mexico's highest electoral tribunal, the TRIFE. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/halliburton_wrecks_mexico URL: http://mostlywater.org/halliburton_wrecks_mexico From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 20 10:17:16 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:17:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Black Mesa Elders Take Direct Action Message-ID: <20061120181717.18091.qmail@resist.ca> Black Mesa Elder Rena Babbitt-Lane (approx. 80 yrs old) is in the hospital recovering from a minor heart attack and other injuries stemming from an incident of harassment from BIA Rangers earlier this week. In a visit at the hospital in Tuba City on Nov. 7, she was eager to tell her story to us and have us circulate it. This is what she said, according to my notes, memory, and understanding of the [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/14263 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/14263 From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 21 09:17:18 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:17:18 -0000 Subject: [news] Campus Cops Taser Student for Refusing to Show I.D. Message-ID: <20061121171719.21248.qmail@resist.ca> "The officers repeatedly order (Mostafa) Tabatabainejad to stand even as they administer further shocks...He can't stand and the cops know it, they just get off on the maniacal ego power trip of torture and this is why Tabatabainejad is hit again and again despite his screaming and the protests of the onlookers." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/campus_cops_taser_student_for_refusing_to_show_i_d URL: http://mostlywater.org/campus_cops_taser_student_for_refusing_to_show_i_d From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 21 09:17:18 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:17:18 -0000 Subject: [news] Vancouver City Budget Meeting Shut Down, 3 Arrested Message-ID: <20061121171719.21249.qmail@resist.ca> In the scuffle with police, several people had been badly (pepper) sprayed and needed medical attention and ambulances were called. While in the bathroom, trying to get pepper-spray off, (an) APC member...was arrested and taken out. Police assured everyone that paramedics were on their way. In fact, calls to 911 confirmed that paramedics had already arrived and were being stopped from entering the building by the police. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/vancouver_city_budget_meeting_shut_down_3_arrested URL: http://mostlywater.org/vancouver_city_budget_meeting_shut_down_3_arrested From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 21 09:17:18 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:17:18 -0000 Subject: [news] Palestinians Protect Resistance Fighter's Homes From Destruction Message-ID: <20061121171720.21250.qmail@resist.ca> In the first incident of its kind, hundreds of neighbours surrounded the home of (Palestinian resistance fighter) Mohammed Baroud and climbed on its roof after he received a call from the Israeli army informing him he had 30 minutes to vacate his home before it was destroyed by missiles. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/palestinians_protect_resistance_fighters_homes_from_destruction URL: http://mostlywater.org/palestinians_protect_resistance_fighters_homes_from_destruction From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 21 10:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Capital Exploits and Prerogatives: =?utf-8?b?V29tZW7igJlz?= Labour and Bodies in the World Tea Affair. Message-ID: <20061121181704.2240.qmail@resist.ca> Jark SS. Krysinski. Simon Fraser University. The controversy in this paper is that the number #1 consumed beverage in the world -- namely Tea -- is wrought with the most conflicting human rights issues. The central thesis in this paper implies that the power of cheap female labor (already classed, raced, gendered) serves as a differential equation for super-profit schemes, serving the major obsession of the Plantocracy of the tea estates around the world. This contrasts sharply from the elitist Western Tea shops charging 7$ for a pot of tea whilst the daily wage of a tea picker is merely a fraction of that! [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/capital_exploits_and_prerogatives_women_s_labour_and_bodies_in_the_world_tea_affair_0 URL: http://mostlywater.org/capital_exploits_and_prerogatives_women_s_labour_and_bodies_in_the_world_tea_affair_0 From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 21 10:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Sweatshop Secrets of Success Message-ID: <20061121181704.2241.qmail@resist.ca> You know its serious when its reported in Business Week. And while this is about American companies in China, lets not forget that we have our own sweatshop companies here in Canada investing in Nicaragua and Haiti. Like Gilden Active Wear. They too use third party codes of conduct. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/sweatshop_secrets_of_success URL: http://mostlywater.org/sweatshop_secrets_of_success From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 21 10:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] A U.S. Fortress Rises in Baghdad: Asian Workers Trafficked to Build World's Largest Embassy Message-ID: <20061121181705.2242.qmail@resist.ca> [![Trafficked to Hell, comic by Khalil Bandib][1]][2]** Trafficked to Hell, comic by Khalil Bandib** In this article, David Phinney writes how US fails to uphold human trafficking laws in relation to the American embassy under construction in Iraq. In a US$592 million Baghdad project for the construction of a US embassy, almost all US labour regulations are breached. Led by Kuwait-based construction company, migrant workers are imported from many Asian countries, including India, Pakistan, Philippines and other poorer Asian countries and living in absolutely harsh conditions [read more][3] [1]: http://www.mostlywater.org/system/files/images/Trafficked_to_hell.thumbnail.jpg (Trafficked to Hell, comic by Khalil Bandib) [2]: http://mostlywater.org/ [3]: http://mostlywater.org/a_u_s_fortress_rises_in_baghdad_asian_workers_trafficked_to_build_worlds_largest_embassy URL: http://mostlywater.org/a_u_s_fortress_rises_in_baghdad_asian_workers_trafficked_to_build_worlds_largest_embassy From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 21 11:17:06 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Temp Workers For Timmies Message-ID: <20061121191706.30558.qmail@resist.ca> Rules eased for hiring foreign workers "It doesn?t matter whether you?re in Camrose or Calgary, Edson or Edmonton, 'Help Wanted' signs are everywhere," Solberg said "And you know, when it starts to affect our ability to go to Tim Horton's and get a double-double, it ceases to be a laughing matter. It?s a serious issue." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/temp_workers_for_timmies URL: http://mostlywater.org/temp_workers_for_timmies From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 21 12:18:16 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 20:18:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Islamophobia, the Veil and the Dutch Message-ID: <20061121201817.10885.qmail@resist.ca> The Dutch have reached a new level of authoritarianism Across Europe, the campaign against the veil now has an established pattern; and it has nothing to do with integration [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/islamophobia_the_veil_and_the_dutch URL: http://mostlywater.org/islamophobia_the_veil_and_the_dutch From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 21 12:18:16 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 20:18:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Iran, Syria and Iraqi Puppets Holding Summit Message-ID: <20061121201817.10886.qmail@resist.ca> President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad has invited the leaders of Iraq and Syria to a summit in Tehran this weekend to discuss ways of ending the sectarian violence in Iraq, upstaging the US and underlining the growing influence of Iran. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/iran_syria_and_iraqi_puppets_holding_summit URL: http://mostlywater.org/iran_syria_and_iraqi_puppets_holding_summit From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 21 20:40:07 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 04:40:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Toews' Folly: Dangerous Tinkering with the Courts Message-ID: <20061122044008.8941.qmail@resist.ca> Last week, Statistics Canada released figures showing the country has more police officers than at any time in the past 12 years...(T)here are signals emanating from Ottawa that the Conservative government plans to vastly increase the powers of those bulked-up police forces. Justice Minister Vic Toews appears ready to extend police powers beyond anything ever seen in Canada. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/toews_folly_dangerous_tinkering_with_the_courts URL: http://mostlywater.org/toews_folly_dangerous_tinkering_with_the_courts From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 22 10:17:07 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 18:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Right Against Right Message-ID: <20061122181708.17816.qmail@resist.ca> The plan to create an integrated Free Trade Zone of North America is supported in Canada by the Right Wing, in particular members of the New Government of Canada and their allies in the Canadian CEO lobby under Thomas d'Aquino and by right wing provincial governments like Alberta. In the U.S. however it is the right wing that is opposed to deep integration between, Canada, Mexico and the United States. Ironic ain't it. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/right_against_right URL: http://mostlywater.org/right_against_right From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 22 10:17:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 18:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] 'Curbside Internet' for Homeless Message-ID: <20061122181708.17818.qmail@resist.ca> [![TheTyee.ca][1]][2] 'Homeless Nation' connects with people living on the edge HomelessNation.org is a non-profit, government-funded project to connect homeless and poor people to each other, and also to the rest of the world, by giving them control over their own media representation. The site provides e-mail, blogs, forums and hosting for YouTube-style streaming video and audio. While many homeless and poor people use free e-mail and blogging services, Homeless Nation is specifically intended to be a web service serving the needs of those people. [read more][3] [1]: http://thetyee.ca/images/tyee_icon.png [2]: http://thetyee.ca [3]: http://mostlywater.org/node/14435 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/14435 From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 22 10:40:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 18:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Guatemalans Clash with Canadian Mining Company Message-ID: <20061122184009.5740.qmail@resist.ca> Guatemalan Mayans occupying land owned by a Canadian mining company clashed with police and burned down a building owned by Sky Resources Inc. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/14352 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/14352 From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 22 16:40:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 00:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Criminal Charges Filed Against French Cities for Supporting Mumia Message-ID: <20061123004009.32314.qmail@resist.ca> Is it a crime to publicly honor black death-row prisoner and journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal?...Future Philadelphia mayoral candidate Peter J. Wirs thinks so. Acting as the Chairman of Philadelphia's 59th Republican Ward Executive Committee, Wirs has filed criminal charges against the French cities of Paris and St. Denis. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/criminal_charges_filed_against_french_cities_for_supporting_mumia URL: http://mostlywater.org/criminal_charges_filed_against_french_cities_for_supporting_mumia From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 22 21:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 05:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] 92-Year-Old Dies In Shootout With Police Message-ID: <20061123051704.12051.qmail@resist.ca> A 92-year-old woman was shot dead Tuesday night in Georgia, U.S., after she opened fire and wounded three police officers who entered her house in a search for drugs. The woman, Kathryn Johnston, was the only resident in the house at the time and had lived there for about 17 years, news reports quoted Assistant Police Chief Alan Dreher as saying Thursday. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/92_year_old_dies_in_shootout_with_police URL: http://mostlywater.org/92_year_old_dies_in_shootout_with_police From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 23 11:40:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 19:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Western Shoshone Lands, Where Gold is the Color of Genocide Message-ID: <20061123194009.3020.qmail@resist.ca> By Brenda Norrell UN Observer and International Report NEWE SOGOBIA, Western Shoshone Nation, Nevada ? On this sacred land of the Western Shoshone, there is no question now why the horses of Carrie and Mary Dann were brutally seized and the United States refuses to respond to a United Nations? ruling to ?cease and desist? from violating the rights of the Western Shoshone. Like monsters, the heavy machinery grinds down the dirt roads and the gold mining companies spread, like the yellow scarves that were once placed around the necks of Western Shoshone women, yellow scarves that carried small pox. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/western_shoshone_lands_where_gold_is_the_color_of_genocide URL: http://mostlywater.org/western_shoshone_lands_where_gold_is_the_color_of_genocide From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 23 12:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 20:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Look Out Below: Grassroots Political Action in Bolivia Message-ID: <20061123201704.11935.qmail@resist.ca> In today's Latin America not only do people talk about politics, they use terms such as globalization, neo-liberalism, capitalism, the IMF and US imperialism as part of daily vocabulary. In Bolivia, do not try to offer any solutions that involve privatization and IMF loans with hidden costs?the people will not stand for it. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/look_out_below_grassroots_political_action_in_bolivia URL: http://mostlywater.org/look_out_below_grassroots_political_action_in_bolivia From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 23 13:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 21:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] "Waste-Free Holidays": Give Experiences Not Stuff Message-ID: <20061123211703.6141.qmail@resist.ca> My home town of Seattle offers a website full of ideas for gift giving that highlight *experiences,* rather than *things* ([http://www.wastefreeholidays.com][1]). I think this is a very good step in the right direction. The program recommends giving gifts such as tickets, memberships, lessons, skill sharing, services you can provide, a bus pass, planting a live tree in their name...you can change people?s lives by what you expose them to through gift giving... [read more][2] [1]: http://www.wastefreeholidays.com (http://www.wastefreeholidays.com) [2]: http://mostlywater.org/waste_free_holidays_give_experiences_not_stuff URL: http://mostlywater.org/waste_free_holidays_give_experiences_not_stuff From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 23 15:40:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 23:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] The Story of Thanksgiving Message-ID: <20061123234011.15125.qmail@resist.ca> MaxSpeak Summary: the Puritan Christian fundamentalists, of whom the Pilgrims were a subgroup, were murderous, treacherous swine who made a treaty with the indigenous people around Plymouth until they had enough forces to wipe them out. This they later did with smallpox and guns, unless they were able to sell them into slavery, all of course for the greater glory of Jesus Christ. Wait a minute. That wasn't quite right. Let's try it again. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_story_of_thanksgiving URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_story_of_thanksgiving From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 24 01:17:05 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Britain Attacks People With Disabilities Message-ID: <20061124091706.26962.qmail@resist.ca> ...These reforms are the most significant in sixty years, in many ways redefining the relationship of the state to Disabled People claiming benefits. If passed the bill will bring in a form of US-style workfare. It will see Disabled People threatened with the loss of benefits if they are deemed not co-operating with advisors 'personal action plans' and forced into unsuitable work or medical treatments. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/britain_attacks_people_with_disabilities URL: http://mostlywater.org/britain_attacks_people_with_disabilities From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 24 09:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 17:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] The Industrial Workers Of The World: Its First One Hundred Years 1905-2005 - Now Available! Message-ID: <20061124171704.11737.qmail@resist.ca> ![][1]_The IWW: Its First 100 Years_ is the most comprehensive history of the union ever published. Written by Fred Thompson and Jon Bekken, two Wobblies who lived through many of the struggles they chronicle, it documents the famous struggles such as the Lawrence and Paterson strikes, the fight for decent conditions in the Pacific Northwest timber fields, the IWW's pioneering organizing among harvest hands in the 1910s and 1920s, and the wartime repression that sent thousands of IWW members to jail. [read more][2] [1]: http://www.iww.org/graphics/books/4308_bookpage.jpg [2]: http://mostlywater.org/node/14533 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/14533 From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 24 09:40:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 17:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] An Inconvenient Truth Message-ID: <20061124174010.16250.qmail@resist.ca> [![Slashdot: Politics][1]][2] The scariest horror film of 2006 was a documentary. "An Inconvenient Truth" [...] starts with a man who, after talking with scientists and senators, can't get anyone to listen to what he thinks is the most important thing in the world. It comes out on DVD today. [read more][3] [1]: http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicslashdot.gif [2]: http://politics.slashdot.org/ [3]: http://mostlywater.org/node/14391 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/14391 From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 24 10:17:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 18:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Why I'm Shopping on Buy Nothing Day Message-ID: <20061124181711.24093.qmail@resist.ca> [![TheTyee.ca][1]][2] This kind of activism is the problem, not the solution. Buy Nothing Day's biggest proponents must be the well educated and well fed, who can certainly afford to take a day off from their conspicuous consumption. While it's laudable to want to do something about the problem, I question the potential influence of a bunch of people standing in front of a suburban Wal-Mart and harassing some mother [read more][3] [1]: http://thetyee.ca/images/tyee_icon.png [2]: http://thetyee.ca [3]: http://mostlywater.org/node/14536 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/14536 From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 24 10:17:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 18:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] The Great Firewall of Canada Message-ID: <20061124181711.24094.qmail@resist.ca> [![Slashdot: Politics][1]][2] engtech writes "Canadian carriers Bell Aliant, Bell Canada, MTS Allstream, Rogers, SaskTel, Shaw, TELUS, and Videotron have all opted in to a blacklist, dubbed Project Cleanfeed Canada, provided by Cybertip.ca, the Canadian tip-line against child exploitation. The idea of having a national blacklist sends shivers down my spine. [read more][3] [1]: http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicslashdot.gif [2]: http://politics.slashdot.org/ [3]: http://mostlywater.org/node/14527 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/14527 From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 24 10:40:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 18:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Inuit, Dene grapple with renewed uranium interest Message-ID: <20061124184009.10736.qmail@resist.ca> Inuit in Nunavut say they are ready to give uranium mining another chance, but the Dene of the Northwest Territories remain leery of the radioactive substance. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/inuit_dene_grapple_with_renewed_uranium_interest URL: http://mostlywater.org/inuit_dene_grapple_with_renewed_uranium_interest From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 24 13:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 21:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Eva Golinger's New Book - Bush vs. Chavez Message-ID: <20061124211703.24884.qmail@resist.ca> How the Bush administration is trying to subvert the government of Venezuela and overthrow and assassinate Hugo Chavez. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/eva_golingers_new_book_bush_vs_chavez URL: http://mostlywater.org/eva_golingers_new_book_bush_vs_chavez From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 24 16:40:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 00:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Stephen Harper Speech Disrupted in Montreal Message-ID: <20061125004009.31882.qmail@resist.ca> Block the Empire Montreal | November 24th 2006 MONTREAL, NOV 24 2006. -- Over twenty people held a demonstration this morning to disrupt a press conference given by Stephen Harper at the Montreal General Hospital, in front of a hand-picked audience of young Conservatives from McGill University. Despite heavy RCMP and Montreal police presence, demonstrators we able to let themselves in to the room where Stephen Harper was speaking, before being kicked out by security. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/stephen_harper_speech_disrupted_in_montreal URL: http://mostlywater.org/stephen_harper_speech_disrupted_in_montreal From news at resist.ca Sat Nov 25 18:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 02:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] U.S. Exports Union Busting Message-ID: <20061126021703.10833.qmail@resist.ca> China, that bastion of cheap labor, announced last week that it will soon pass laws to empower real unions...But American corporations are not cheering China's move. In fact, they are vehemently opposing it. They are even threatening to build fewer factories in China if the idea goes forward...We should not be surprised. American corporations take the very same position (in the U.S.) every day. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/u_s_exports_union_busting URL: http://mostlywater.org/u_s_exports_union_busting From news at resist.ca Sat Nov 25 19:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 03:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] China's Trickle Down Economy Message-ID: <20061126031704.3597.qmail@resist.ca> A critique of capitalism [and how it has failed the poor] in Chinaa [and the US] from the voice of Capitalism; The Wall Street Journal. The irony being is that they denounce their favorite argument for unbridled capitalism, the trickle down theory of economics. Their argument could equally apply to America. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/chinas_trickle_down_economy URL: http://mostlywater.org/chinas_trickle_down_economy From news at resist.ca Sat Nov 25 19:40:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 03:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Aboriginal Children Face Terrible Poverty in Canada: Report Message-ID: <20061126034008.7136.qmail@resist.ca> [http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006...][1] Friday, November 24, 2006 | 7:31 AM ET CBC News A national network of advocacy groups released a report on Friday that paints a bleak picture of poverty facing First Nations children in Canada. In its report called Oh Canada! Too Many Children in Poverty for Too Long, advocacy group Campaign 200 [read more][2] [1]: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/11/24/child-poverty.html (http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/11/24/child-poverty.html) [2]: http://mostlywater.org/node/14540 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/14540 From news at resist.ca Sat Nov 25 19:40:07 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 03:40:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Six Nations Needs Your Support This Winter Message-ID: <20061126034008.7130.qmail@resist.ca> [![][1]][2] _Coalition in Support of Indigenous Sovereignty Fundraiser_ **November 10, 2006 ** Dear Friend(s): As you know, the members of the Six Nations of the Grand River community have been engaged in a land reclamation near Caledonia, Ontario since February 28, 2006. This historic action impacts all First Nations on Turtle Island (North America) and beyond; it has advanced indigenous struggles to a level not seen since the start of colonization. [read more][3] [1]: http://www.ocap.ca/files/fundraisebanner.jpg [2]: http://www.killingtrain.com/archives/csis.htm [3]: http://mostlywater.org/node/14569 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/14569 From news at resist.ca Sun Nov 26 17:40:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 01:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Swedish Human Rights Worker Viciously Attacked in Palestine Message-ID: <20061127014008.14767.qmail@resist.ca> A 19-year old Swedish human rights worker had her cheekbone broken by a Jewish extremist in Hebron today. Earlier the same day at least five Palestinians, including a 3-year-old child, were injured by the settler-supporting extremists, who rampaged through Tel Rumeida hurling stones and bottles at local residents...The Israeli army...did not intervene to stop the attacks. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/swedish_human_rights_worker_viciously_attacked_in_palestine URL: http://mostlywater.org/swedish_human_rights_worker_viciously_attacked_in_palestine From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 27 00:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Iraq: U.S. Troops Kill Four on Minibus Message-ID: <20061127081704.2777.qmail@resist.ca> US troops have killed four passengers on a minibus in Baghdad's Sadr City district, say security sources in Iraq. The troops opened fire during a raid in the impoverished suburb of the capital, which is dominated by a militia loyal to a radical anti-US Shia cleric. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/iraq_u_s_troops_kill_four_on_minibus URL: http://mostlywater.org/iraq_u_s_troops_kill_four_on_minibus From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 27 00:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Hamas Leader Warns of New Intifada Message-ID: <20061127081704.2778.qmail@resist.ca> The exiled political leader of...Hamas has warned of another uprising (intifada) by Palestinians...Khaled Meshaal said it would happen unless there was international agreement on a Palestinian state within six months. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/hamas_leader_warns_of_new_intifada URL: http://mostlywater.org/hamas_leader_warns_of_new_intifada From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 27 00:40:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] New York Cops Kill Man on Wedding Day Message-ID: <20061127084008.21486.qmail@resist.ca> An unarmed man has been shot dead by police in New York City hours before he was to have been married, prompting fury over the officers' actions...Two of the man's friends were hurt in the shooting...Police fired 50 bullets at a car carrying the men after it reportedly struck an unmarked police vehicle. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/new_york_cops_kill_man_on_wedding_day URL: http://mostlywater.org/new_york_cops_kill_man_on_wedding_day From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 27 11:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] =?utf-8?q?Oaxaca=E2=80=99s?= Popular Movement Suffers Yet Another Brutal Day Message-ID: <20061127191704.31829.qmail@resist.ca> [![Oaxaca Demo][1]][2]**Oaxaca Demo** **Oaxaca?s Popular Movement Suffers Yet Another Brutal Day** by Radio Zapote > **November 25th, 2006** - A peaceful protest in Oaxaca was repressed by the federal police stationed in the center of the city. By nightfall, a few people were reported killed, hundreds arrested and hurt and many disappeared. Today, after the seventh megamarch in Oaxaca, members of the APPO attempted to form a human fence around the federal preventative police (PFP), but were attacked with gas. This unleashed a series of clashes with violence again igniting in the city. Many have been arrested and there are reports of many wounded, some by gunfire. It is confirmed that three people were killed. Also see : [Declaration from APPO on Saturday's violence][3] [read more][4] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/system/files/images/oaxaca+demo.thumbnail.jpg (Oaxaca Demo) [2]: http://mostlywater.org/ [3]: http://mostlywater.org/node/14644 [4]: http://mostlywater.org/node/14645 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/14645 From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 28 09:40:29 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:40:29 -0000 Subject: [news] Deforming the Ontario Human Rights Code Message-ID: <20061128174031.30998.qmail@resist.ca> "Bill 107 to amend the Ontario Human Rights Code is another moment in neoliberalism brought to you by the McGuinty Liberals," argues Sheila Wilmot. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/14661 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/14661 From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 28 14:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] The War on Rebel Journalists Message-ID: <20061128221704.28285.qmail@resist.ca> The pogram against independent journalists...continues full throttle. The murder of Indymedia correspondent Brad Will this past October 27th on the barricades in Oaxaca...segues into the denial of the courts to release 23 year-old Josh Wolf from prison during the life of the present grand jury. Wolf is charged with refusing to turn over video clips of an anarchist anti-capitalist march...during which San Francisco's Finest beat the living shit out of protestors... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_war_on_rebel_journalists URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_war_on_rebel_journalists From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 28 20:40:11 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 04:40:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Inaction on Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Inexcusable Message-ID: <20061129044012.11501.qmail@resist.ca> Grand Chief Ed John, First Nations Summit Executive member, who is in New York on behalf of the Assembly of First Nations and working with the Indigenous Peoples? Caucus, stated "Today is a very sad day for the United Nations and a very serious setback for the integrity of the newly formed Human Rights Council who urged the General Assembly to formally adopt this historic document. It now appears that the most likely outcome will be that the United Nations never formally adopts the Declaration. This is a remarkable and bizarre development." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/inaction_on_declaration_on_the_rights_of_indigenous_peoples_inexcusable URL: http://mostlywater.org/inaction_on_declaration_on_the_rights_of_indigenous_peoples_inexcusable From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 28 22:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 06:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Trends in Palestinian Land Transfer Message-ID: <20061129061704.29091.qmail@resist.ca> [![Trends in Palestinian Land Transfer][1]][2] And this only goes to 1980. Things haven't gotten any better since then. [read more][2] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/system/files/images/lost+land.thumbnail.jpeg (Trends in Palestinian Land Transfer) [2]: http://mostlywater.org/trends_in_palestinian_land_transfer URL: http://mostlywater.org/trends_in_palestinian_land_transfer From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 29 00:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 08:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Non-Violent Indigenous Warrior Appearing in Colonial Court Message-ID: <20061129081704.32037.qmail@resist.ca> On November 29th, at 9 am, Trevor Miller will appear in the Cayuga Court for a pre-trial hearing after being captured on August 8th, and held hostage for more than four months in Barton Street jail. Trevor Miller is Canada's latest indigenous political prisoner, on trial for having non-violently defended his land at...the Six Nations Land Reclamation... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/non_violent_indigenous_warrior_appearing_in_colonial_court URL: http://mostlywater.org/non_violent_indigenous_warrior_appearing_in_colonial_court From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 29 23:40:14 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 07:40:14 -0000 Subject: [news] Facility 139: Israel's "Guantanamo" Message-ID: <20061130074015.16359.qmail@resist.ca> It has been removed from maps and airbrushed from aerial photographs. But Facility 1391 certainly exists - you just have to ask the Palestinians and Lebanese who have been imprisoned and tortured there. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/facility_139_israels_guantanamo URL: http://mostlywater.org/facility_139_israels_guantanamo From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 30 08:17:05 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Timmies Takes Bite Out of Taxpayers Message-ID: <20061130161706.23002.qmail@resist.ca> Sure it was first reported that you and me, the Canadian taxpayer were in hock to Timmies for a cool $4 million for setting up their franchise in Kandahar for our troops. Now the good news. We are only paying $1.4 million for this P3. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/timmies_takes_bite_out_of_taxpayers URL: http://mostlywater.org/timmies_takes_bite_out_of_taxpayers From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 30 08:40:12 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:40:12 -0000 Subject: [news] Noam Chomsky and Gilbert Achcar's New Book - Perilous Power Message-ID: <20061130164013.10740.qmail@resist.ca> An extended account of the Bush administration's disastrous foreign policy in the Middle East. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/noam_chomsky_and_gilbert_achcars_new_book_perilous_power URL: http://mostlywater.org/noam_chomsky_and_gilbert_achcars_new_book_perilous_power From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 30 08:40:13 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:40:13 -0000 Subject: [news] (OCAP) Special Diet Clinics Resume Message-ID: <20061130164014.10746.qmail@resist.ca> ![OCAP logo][1]**OCAP logo** A little over a year ago the McGuinty Government cut the Special Diet Policy under which huge numbers were obtaining relief from poverty and hunger. The Liberals introduced a new policy, determined to shut down the OCAP initiated community clinics where thousands of poor people were obtaining the $250 a month the policy entitled them to. Last year alone $40 million extra was paid out through the special diet to people on welfare and disability. Several months after the cut, the Liberal government raised over all assistance rates by 2%. This is 38% short of what it would take for rates to be brought up to what they were before the Harris Government cuts. [read more][2] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/system/files/images/ocap.gif (OCAP logo) [2]: http://mostlywater.org/ocap_special_diet_clinics_resume URL: http://mostlywater.org/ocap_special_diet_clinics_resume From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 30 14:40:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 22:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Oaxaca Diary- Wednesday Morning Message-ID: <20061130224011.3084.qmail@resist.ca> "What has happened in the past few days is that Oaxaca has slipped from being a city in a state of siege, to a police state." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/oaxaca_diary_wednesday_morning URL: http://mostlywater.org/oaxaca_diary_wednesday_morning From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 30 17:40:38 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 01:40:38 -0000 Subject: [news] Human Rights Watch Denies Palestinians the Right of Non-Violent Resistance Message-ID: <20061201014038.23999.qmail@resist.ca> In its press release "Civilians Must Not Be Used to Shield Homes Against Military Attacks"...(Human Rights Watch) lambasts armed Palestinian groups for calling on civilians to surround homes that have been targeted for air strikes by the Israeli military...Noting almost as an afterthought that more than 1,500 Palestinians have been made homeless from house demolitions in the past few months...the press release denounces Palestinian attempts at non-violent and collective action to halt the Israel(i) attacks. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/human_rights_watch_denies_palestinians_the_right_of_non_violent_resistance URL: http://mostlywater.org/human_rights_watch_denies_palestinians_the_right_of_non_violent_resistance