From news at resist.ca Sun Oct 1 01:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 08:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Chavez's Embrace of Iran Leader Insults Women Message-ID: <20061001081703.7225.qmail@resist.ca> Hugo Chavez...has publicly lauded and embraced Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...Moments like this show just how little women's lives matter in the world of nationalist politics...(O)ne expects Chavez to condemn all U.S. military threats against Iran...But there is no excuse for declaring solidarity with a theocratic regime that treats women like sub-humans. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11320 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11320 From news at resist.ca Sun Oct 1 09:17:07 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 16:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Sixth Anniversary of al-Aqsa Mosque Intifada Passes Still Unresolved Message-ID: <20061001161707.7053.qmail@resist.ca> The toll from the ongoing and unresolved Israeli-Palestinian conflict on sixth anniversary of the al-Aqsa Mosque Intifada [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11322 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11322 From news at resist.ca Sun Oct 1 15:40:11 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 22:40:11 -0000 Subject: [news] In Case I Disappear Message-ID: <20061001224012.13220.qmail@resist.ca> By writing this essay, I could be deemed an "enemy combatant." It's that simple, and very soon, it will be the law. I always laughed when people told me to be careful. I'm not laughing anymore. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11343 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11343 From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 2 11:17:05 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 18:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Preparations for War in Oaxaca Message-ID: <20061002181705.1404.qmail@resist.ca> Military Aircraft Doing Reconnaissance Flights Over Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) Encampments By Diego Enrique Osorno and ?scar Rodr?guez | Milenio | October 1, 2006 [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11346 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11346 From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 2 17:17:06 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 00:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] The U.S. and Israel: Axis of Aggression, Torture, Death & Devastation Message-ID: <20061003001706.20403.qmail@resist.ca> (T)he central global problem of organized violence and lawlessness in the early 21st century lies in the aims, collaboration, and power of the U.S. - Israeli axis. These partners in aggression and state terrorism reinforce one another?s projections of power-the out of control superpower protecting its regional client?s ethnic cleansing, while the Israeli lobby within the United States supports the violent projection of power by the United States, which provides further cover for Israel?s escalating regional violence. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11382 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11382 From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 2 17:40:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 00:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] U.S. Boots Step on a Caribbean Flea Message-ID: <20061003004009.24518.qmail@resist.ca> In March 1979, socialist leader Maurice Bishop took over Grenada in a bloodless coup...The U.S. worked to destabilize the Bishop regime but, in early October 1983, he was ultimately deposed and later murdered by a group even more to the "Left" than he. That's when America decided to risk awakening this sleeping Caribbean flea by launching a preemptive military strike. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11383 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11383 From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 3 10:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 17:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Erosion of Democracy and Freedom in America Message-ID: <20061003171704.29519.qmail@resist.ca> The new US torture authorization bill makes everyone an enemy combatant including US citizens meaning habeas is effectively dead. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11406 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11406 From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 3 10:40:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 17:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Hundreds of Riot Police Lay Siege to Union HQ Message-ID: <20061003174010.16344.qmail@resist.ca> [![LabourStart][1]][2] KGEU On September 29, 8 hours of the defense was successfully ended with riot police pulling back and agreeing to a meeting on October 2 between the governor and the union. But at dawn on October 2, the day when the meeting was supposed to be held, more than 350 riot police were deployed and swept into the union office. [read more][3] [1]: http://www.labourstart.org/images/logo-rss.gif [2]: http://www.labourstart.org/ [3]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11402 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11402 From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 3 11:40:22 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 18:40:22 -0000 Subject: [news] DTES Hotel Illegally Boarded Up, Tenants Given 24-hours Notice Message-ID: <20061003184022.28445.qmail@resist.ca> October 2, 2006 | Pivot Newswire [![American Hotel in Vancouver][1]][2]**American Hotel in Vancouver**Vancouver - Tenants at the Old American Hotel, located at 928 Main Street in Vancouver, were given notice today that they are expected to vacate the lodging house tomorrow. The management of the American began boarding up the building?s windows this afternoon. The Old American Hotel provides housing to people who can?t afford to live anywhere else," said David Eby, lawyer for Pivot Legal Society. "There were almost 30 tenants in the building, but now there are fewer than ten. The people who haven?t left yet are the most desperate, those that can?t find anywhere else to live." [read more][3] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/system/files/images/american+hotel+in+vancouver.thumbnail.jpg (American Hotel in Vancouver) [2]: http://mostlywater.org/ [3]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11407 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11407 From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 3 11:40:22 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 18:40:22 -0000 Subject: [news] Canadian Mining Project in Ecuador Tainted by Human Rights Abuses Message-ID: <20061003184022.28446.qmail@resist.ca> (W)elcome to Intag, Ecuador, home to Ascendant (Copper's) Junin Project...The company is awaiting confirmation from the Ecuadorian government to begin the exploration phase for a potential open-pit copper mine in these areas...According to human rights organizations and lawyers representing many residents of the region, the company's activities in the area are anything but socially responsible and even amount to complicity in human rights abuses with the Ecuadorian government. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11409 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11409 From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 3 11:40:22 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 18:40:22 -0000 Subject: [news] The Children Killed in a War the World Doesn't Want to Know About Message-ID: <20061003184023.28447.qmail@resist.ca> Nayef Abu Snaima says his 14-year-old cousin Jihad had been sitting on the edge of an olive grove talking animatedly to him about what he would do when he grew up when he was killed instantly by an Israeli shell...Jihad Abu Snaima was just the most recent of more than 37 children and teenagers under 18 killed...in the operations mounted by the Israeli military in Gaza since 25 June, according to figures from the Palestinian Centre of Human Rights (PCHR). [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11412 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11412 From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 4 10:17:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 17:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] 32 Missing, 3 Dead after Oil Raid Message-ID: <20061004171708.8962.qmail@resist.ca> At least three soldiers protecting the convoy were killed when about 70 gunmen in speed boats attacked the barges carrying fuel and other supplies to Shell facilities in the remote Cawthorne Channel in Rivers state in the Niger Delta. Monday's attack ended a period of relative quiet in the Niger Delta, which accounts for all oil output from the world's eighth-biggest exporter. A sixth of Nigeria's production capacity has been shut down since February following a wave of militant attacks on oil facilities that month. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11460 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11460 From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 4 10:17:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 17:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Snitches and Martyrs (A boardgame for the left) Message-ID: <20061004171708.8963.qmail@resist.ca> By: Red-Cedar | October 4, 2006 **Game Premise:** You and the rest of your cell (3-18 players) have been scooped up by the FBI in a series of cross-country raids targeting the latest guerilla-hipster movement. Once inside the legal system, each of you individually will take turns and be given different opportunities by investigators and prosecutors. Of course, you all start out as martyrs, but any one of many events or decisions could turn you into a snitch. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11461 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11461 From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 4 14:40:16 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 21:40:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Ted Morton Goes Federal Message-ID: <20061004214016.17213.qmail@resist.ca> Another made in Alberta policy,is now being promoted by the New Government in Ottawa. In this case a bill originally put to the Alberta Legislature by our very own ex-pat American Republican Ted Morton who is running for Ralphs job. Now his homophobic legislation has become policy for the Harpocrites....."Tories plan to protect same-sex opponents" Gobe and Mail [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11462 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11462 From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 4 23:17:06 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 06:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Man Questioned and Misses Flight for Speaking Tamil Message-ID: <20061005061706.10228.qmail@resist.ca> A 32-year-old man speaking Tamil and some English about a sporting rivalry was questioned at Sea-Tac Airport and missed his flight Saturday because at least one person thought he was suspicious...The Port of Seattle dispatched its police officers to investigate the case, which occurred Saturday around noon... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11487 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11487 From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 4 23:40:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 06:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] URGENT ACTION: The People of Oaxaca Need Our Support Message-ID: <20061005064009.13550.qmail@resist.ca> Since September 30th the federal government of Mexico has been openly amassing troops in the state of Oaxaca in Southern Mexico...Military jets and surveillance aircraft have been flying overhead to collect intelligence on the positions of protest encampments and barricades being run by striking teachers and thousands of other residents of the state. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11488 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11488 From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 5 10:17:07 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 17:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Underground? You could be on National TV! Message-ID: <20061005171707.6727.qmail@resist.ca> Attention secret eco-warriors: the CBC wants to interview you for a program on the Earth Liberation Front. Reporters Tim Sawa and Theresa Burke of the fifth estate are keen to talk to a real, live ELF saboteur, and they?re prepared to go to great lengths to protect the identity of anyone willing to go on camera. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11507 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11507 From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 5 10:17:07 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 17:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Alvaro Vargas Llosa Sends Hugo Chavez to Dante's Inferno Message-ID: <20061005171707.6726.qmail@resist.ca> Conservative think tank writer attacks Hugo Chavez and this writer responds. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11498 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11498 From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 5 13:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 20:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Scouring Scum and Tar from the Bottom of the Pit Message-ID: <20061005201704.12466.qmail@resist.ca> Scouring Scum and Tar from the Bottom of the Pit Petr Cizek // Canadian Dimension, July/August 2006 Faced with the undeniable reality of "Hubbard's Peak" in global conventional oil supplies, the world's largest multinational energy corporations are now hell-bent on squeezing oil out of tar in northern Alberta, like junkies desperately conniving for one last giant fix in a futile attempt to quench America's insatiable "addiction to oil" (described so eloquently by President George Bush II). Along the Athabasca River near Fort McMurray, a sub-arctic town almost 1,000 kilometres north of the U.S. border, tar literally seeps out of the riverbanks where Aboriginal peoples once used it to patch their birch-bark canoes. But most of the tar sands lie hidden below northern Alberta's boreal forest, in an area larger than the state of Florida. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11510 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11510 From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 6 01:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 08:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Columbia Students Force Minutemen Off Stage Message-ID: <20061006081704.7753.qmail@resist.ca> As a large, vocal protest raged outside Roone Arledge Auditorium at Columbia University, Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist was heckled and confronted onstage by students, prompting a fistfight between students and the Minutemen. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11545 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11545 From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 6 08:17:05 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 15:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] US Passes Bill Removing Rights of Prisoners and Immigrants Message-ID: <20061006151705.24982.qmail@resist.ca> "If you're an alien, even if you're in the United States legally -- a legal alien may have been here ten years, fifteen years, twenty years legally -- if a determination is made by anybody in the executive that you may be a threat, they can hold you indefinitely, they could put you in Guantanamo, not bring any charges, not allow you to have a lawyer, not allow you to ever question what they've don [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11463 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11463 From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 6 12:40:12 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 19:40:12 -0000 Subject: [news] Mexico Police 'Hushed up Rapes' Message-ID: <20061006194013.25205.qmail@resist.ca> Mexico's police covered up the rape and abuse of demonstrators at a land rights protest in May, Amnesty International has said...A local human rights group recorded 23 complaints of sexual abuse after the protests in San Salvador Atenco. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11565 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11565 From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 6 15:40:12 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 22:40:12 -0000 Subject: [news] New York: Adults on Welfare With H.I.V. or AIDS Hit With Rent Increase Message-ID: <20061006224013.7655.qmail@resist.ca> In a move that has alarmed local officials and advocates for people with AIDS, the state ordered New York City?s welfare agency to sharply increase the rent contribution it requires from about 2,200 poor adults who live in government-subsidized buildings and have H.I.V. or AIDS...The change...means that most of the people in the program will be paying more than half their income...toward rent. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11576 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11576 From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 7 14:17:29 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2006 21:17:29 -0000 Subject: [news] Why We Confronted the Minutemen at Columbia Message-ID: <20061007211730.32600.qmail@resist.ca> As Chicanos and Latinos, alongside African Americans and progressive people of other nationalities, we took it as our responsibility to give voice to the undocumented immigrant families who live in fear at terrorist vigilante groups like the Minutemen...Fascist scapegoating is not up for academic discussion. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11611 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11611 From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 7 14:17:30 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2006 21:17:30 -0000 Subject: [news] Will Stephen Harper Back a U.S. Strike on Iran? Message-ID: <20061007211730.32603.qmail@resist.ca> Would Stephen Harper blindly support George Bush (in attacking Iran)? The prime minister?s approach to foreign policy is dangerously shallow...Harper?s eagerness to please Bush was revealed in his answer to a reporter?s question about Iran after Harper?s recent speech to the UN General Assembly: ?[Iran] is the biggest single threat the planet faces?...This leaves little doubt where the prime minister stands. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11614 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11614 From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 7 14:17:29 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2006 21:17:29 -0000 Subject: [news] Police Spying in Philadelphia Message-ID: <20061007211730.32601.qmail@resist.ca> Apparently the Philadelphia Police Department and most of the local media think that it's appropriate for police to film people who are exercising their Constitutional rights, and that this is what we do in "21st Century America." To me, though, this seems more like 1930s Germany, or 21st-Century China. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11613 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11613 From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 7 21:40:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 04:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Post-Colonial? Message-ID: <20061008044011.14249.qmail@resist.ca> ![mailbox2_fp.jpg][1]**Michael Skinner** discovers that the impact of privatization in Guatemala has Canada Post's stamp of approval. [read more][2] [1]: http://dominionpaper.ca/img/environment/mailbox2_fp.jpg [2]: http://mostlywater.org/post_colonial URL: http://mostlywater.org/post_colonial From news at resist.ca Sun Oct 8 09:40:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 16:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Christian Right Leader Becomes Advisor to Canada on Environment Message-ID: <20061008164008.18039.qmail@resist.ca> Darrel Reid of Focus On The Family sets up shop on Parliament Hill Harper Watch | By Gareth Kirkby, Xtra! | OTTAWA The former head of an ideologically anti-gay, anti-feminist, anti-abortion group with connections to the leaders of the US Christian right is the new chief advisor to Canada's environment minister. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/christian_right_leader_gets_federal_post URL: http://mostlywater.org/christian_right_leader_gets_federal_post From news at resist.ca Sun Oct 8 10:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 17:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Women's Organization for Political Prisoners (WOFPP) Update Message-ID: <20061008171703.24184.qmail@resist.ca> Women's Organization for Political Prisoners There are, at present, about 115 women political prisoners in the Israeli jails. In Hasharon Prison (Tel Mond) about 90, the rest in Neve Tirza Prison (Ramle), in Ayalon Prison (Ramle), in Hakishon Detention Center (Jalame), and several more in other detention centers. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/women_s_organization_for_political_prisoners_wofpp_update URL: http://mostlywater.org/women_s_organization_for_political_prisoners_wofpp_update From news at resist.ca Sun Oct 8 12:17:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 19:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] When Is a Terrorist "Mastermind" Not a Terrorist? Message-ID: <20061008191708.10739.qmail@resist.ca> [Introduction by Ron] It was recently the 30 year anniversary of the downing of a Cuban airliner which killed all 73 people on board. In that time, the U.S. has failed to classify former CIA operative Luis Posada Carriles a terrorist, despite recently declassified U.S. documents that indicate he is connected to the bomb that caused that plan to go down along with many other acts of terrorism. You'd think it would be easy considering how freely they throw that term around ([Guantanamo][1]), but here's the catch-22: Trying him as a terrorist might expose their role in aiding several terrorist plots. This would make them a terrorist state. Instead, they continue to keep Posada locked up illegally on immigration charges. According to G. W. Bush, harbouring a terroirst also makes them a terrorist state. Jim Lobe's article, reprinted here from IPS News, is a fascinating look at the Posada case, taking us right up to developments in the last few days. [read more][2] [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detainment_camp [2]: http://mostlywater.org/when_is_a_terrorist_mastermind_not_a_terrorist URL: http://mostlywater.org/when_is_a_terrorist_mastermind_not_a_terrorist From news at resist.ca Sun Oct 8 14:17:06 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 21:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] The Language of Fascism Message-ID: <20061008211706.15978.qmail@resist.ca> Just in time for the November elections, the White House is again trying to make the case that...(their) enemies are fascists bent on world domination...(W)hat Bush and company have not done is make a substantive case that there are ideological links between terrorism by Islamic fundamentalists and 1930?s fascism...Since Bush and Rumsfeld have opened up the issue, it?s fair to assess whether the administration itself has ideological links with fascism...(I)n terms of language, the administration?s link to the Nazis deserves serious scrutiny. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_language_of_fascism URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_language_of_fascism From news at resist.ca Sun Oct 8 14:40:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 21:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada, the United States and Afghanistan Message-ID: <20061008214008.17670.qmail@resist.ca> The Afghan war...demonstrates that the present role of NATO is to support the general policy goals of the US government...The U.S. government has another objective being played out in Afghanistan. The Bush Administration is setting a precedent where it can use NATO to support its ?war on terrorism? and bypass the UN Security Council. Our Canadian Liberal and Conservative governments have agreed with this basic political strategy. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/canada_the_united_states_and_afghanistan URL: http://mostlywater.org/canada_the_united_states_and_afghanistan From news at resist.ca Sun Oct 8 15:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 22:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Welfare Payments in B.C. "Not Enough" to Buy Healthy Food Message-ID: <20061008221704.24396.qmail@resist.ca> People on welfare in B.C. have a ?daunting task? putting healthy food on the table and as a result face a greater risk of chronic heart disease, diabetes, and high blood pressure, the provincial health officer said in a report released today. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/welfare_payments_in_b_c_not_enough_to_buy_healthy_food URL: http://mostlywater.org/welfare_payments_in_b_c_not_enough_to_buy_healthy_food From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 9 01:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 08:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Canadian Capital in Asia Message-ID: <20061009081703.14946.qmail@resist.ca> ...South Asia is a major hub of global economic interests with a massive concentration of Canadian finance capital, foreign aid, and development agencies...In the face of persistent political, economic, and so-called humanitarian interventions in the region, South Asian communities are raising their voices...Let us strengthen our end of this resistance by demanding an end to Canadian and other Western countries projects for the corporatization, militarization, and NGOization of the people of South Asia. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/canadian_capital_in_asia URL: http://mostlywater.org/canadian_capital_in_asia From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 9 16:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 23:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] 'Perfect Storm' Forecasted on Poverty Front Message-ID: <20061009231704.25016.qmail@resist.ca> Greater Victoria is in danger of being swept into a perfect storm of increasing poverty, homelessness and community dislocation, Mabel Jean Rawlins-Brannan, Victoria Community Council executive director, warned yesterday...The mix of ever-increasing house prices, falling vacancy rates and low-paid jobs needs action, she said... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/perfect_storm_forecasted_on_poverty_front URL: http://mostlywater.org/perfect_storm_forecasted_on_poverty_front From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 10 10:17:11 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:17:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Overshoot Day October 9, Season of Eco-deficit starts Message-ID: <20061010171711.333.qmail@resist.ca> Beginning on October 9th and continuing through the end of the year, the world will be living beyond its ecological means. Ecological Footprint accounting shows that, as of October 9th, humanity has already consumed the total amount of new resources nature will produce this year. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/overshoot_day_october_9_season_of_eco_deficit_starts URL: http://mostlywater.org/overshoot_day_october_9_season_of_eco_deficit_starts From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 10 23:40:07 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 06:40:07 -0000 Subject: [news] The Age of Terror: A Landmark Report Message-ID: <20061011064008.28499.qmail@resist.ca> (W)e Westerners are now spreading ourselves across the entire Muslim world..."we" - "us", the West - are now in Khazakstan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Egypt, Algeria, Yemen, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Oman and Lebanon. We are now trapped across this vast area of suffering, fiercely angry people...our massive forces fighting armies of Islamists, suicide bombers, warlords, drug barons, and militias. And losing. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_age_of_terror_a_landmark_report URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_age_of_terror_a_landmark_report From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 11 09:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] The Communist Manifesto as a Cartoon Collage Message-ID: <20061011161704.23000.qmail@resist.ca> The Communist Manifesto as a cartoon collage... "Manifestoon" by Jesse Drew. A animated look at Marxian socialism, the goals of those with Marxist ideas, what is wrong with current society. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11812 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11812 From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 11 09:40:12 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:40:12 -0000 Subject: [news] Imagine =?utf-8?b?VGhlcmXigJlz?= No Leaders Message-ID: <20061011164013.29832.qmail@resist.ca> ZNet | Vision & Strategy by Hilary Wainwright and Steve Platt; Red Pepper; October 09, 2006 We are a contrary, and often paradoxical, bunch on the left. On the one hand, most of us began our involvement in politics as rebels against authority. We often find it difficult to accept discipline ? even self-discipline. Look at the left?s tendency to split and divide. On the other hand, the left also has a propensity to look to strong leaders. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11796 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11796 From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 11 10:17:15 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:17:15 -0000 Subject: [news] Hunger Strike on Texas Death Row, Statement from an Anarchist Involved Message-ID: <20061011171717.7630.qmail@resist.ca> ![Steve Woods on Death Row][1]**Steve Woods on Death Row**Revolutionary greetings and respects! My name is Steven Woods, and I?m currently an inmate on death row in Texas. I am writing you to ask for your help. I am with you that the death penalty needs to be abolished, and am doing my part to see it happen. With God?s grace, we will succeed. However, I am writing now, for help on spreading the word on an activity, which is about to transpire (or already happening if you?re reading this after Oct 8th, 2006) here on death row. A few of my comrades and I are fed up with the deplorable conditions we?re housed in, and we have decided we will no longer eat. We are going to hunger strike until TDCJ moves us to more humane living conditions. We are determined and either conditions will improve or we will starve to death. [read more][2] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/system/files/images/SteveWoods.thumbnail.jpg (Steve Woods on Death Row) [2]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11824 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11824 From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 11 10:17:14 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:17:14 -0000 Subject: [news] Worldwide Protests Against Migration Controls Message-ID: <20061011171716.7628.qmail@resist.ca> [ ![from Benin][1]][2] from Benin ### Background The [call][3] for the Transnational Day of Action was made by a broad network of migration-related initiatives during the [European Social Forum][4] in Athens earlier this year, following an initial call at the [World Social Forum][5] in Bamako, Mali, in January 2006. Over 250 groups from 23 countries [signed][6] the call. [read more][7] [1]: http://www.indymedia.org/or/main-features-content.rss/icon/2006/10/848064.jpg [2]: http://www.indymedia.org/or/main-features-content.rss/images/2006/10/848064.jpg [3]: http://october7.org.uk/athens.html [4]: http://www.fse-esf.org/ [5]: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/actions/2006/wsf/ [6]: http://pajol.eu.org/article969.html [7]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11714 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11714 From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 11 10:17:14 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:17:14 -0000 Subject: [news] Study: 655,000 Iraqis Died Due to War Message-ID: <20061011171716.7629.qmail@resist.ca> A controversial new study contends nearly 655,000 Iraqis have died because of the war, suggesting a far higher death toll than other estimates. The timing of the survey's release, just a few weeks before the U.S. congressional elections, led one expert to call it "politics." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11823 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11823 From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 11 10:17:16 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:17:16 -0000 Subject: [news] North Korea: The Boom Heard around the World? Message-ID: <20061011171718.7631.qmail@resist.ca> Ron Jacobs writes, ?One can be certain that there are those in Washington?s circles of power that welcome Pyongyang?s test. In their minds. the very fact of its occurrence means that they no longer have to pretend that there is a diplomatic route to resolving the Korean situation.? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11783 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11783 From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 11 10:17:16 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:17:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Thom Hartmann's New Book - Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class Message-ID: <20061011171719.7634.qmail@resist.ca> Review of Thom Hartmann's new book on the destruction of democracy and the middle class in the US [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/thom_hartmanns_new_book_screwed_the_undeclared_war_against_the_middle_class URL: http://mostlywater.org/thom_hartmanns_new_book_screwed_the_undeclared_war_against_the_middle_class From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 11 20:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 03:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Tories change [Mackenzie/Deh Cho] pipeline assessment report Message-ID: <20061012031704.28224.qmail@resist.ca> The federal government has watered down an environmental assessment of a major natural gas pipeline project in northern Canada by erasing references to pollution reduction targets and the Kyoto protocol [....][![No, really... what it says: No, really...!][1]][2]**No, really... what it says: **No, really...! [read more][3] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/system/files/images/IMG_03591.thumbnail.JPG (No, really... what it says: No, really...!) [2]: http://mostlywater.org/ [3]: http://mostlywater.org/tories_change_mackenzie_deh_cho_pipeline_assessment_report URL: http://mostlywater.org/tories_change_mackenzie_deh_cho_pipeline_assessment_report From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 12 11:17:06 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Bolivia: Coca Growers Killed in Action Approved by Evo Morales Message-ID: <20061012181707.32305.qmail@resist.ca> Conflict between Bolivian military and coca growers led to the death of 2 coca growers on the morning of Friday, September 29. The confrontation marks an unanticipated turn of events under the Morales administration. Morales is a long time leader of a coca grower union in the Chapare region and enemy of violent eradication of the crop. Morales campaigned on negotiated eradication and legalization of coca, as opposed to the practices of the U.S. military in Bolivia as a part of the War on Drugs. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11862 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11862 From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 12 11:17:07 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Water for Millions at Risk as Glaciers Melt Away Message-ID: <20061012181707.32306.qmail@resist.ca> The world's glaciers and ice caps are now in terminal decline because of global warming, scientists have discovered. A survey has revealed that the rate of melting across the world has sharply accelerated in recent years, placing even previously stable glaciers in jeopardy. The loss of glaciers in South America and Asia will threaten the water supplies of millions of people within a few decades, the experts warn. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11850 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11850 From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 12 11:17:07 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] New Brunswick's New Business Message-ID: <20061012181707.32307.qmail@resist.ca> ![NBWeapons_fp.jpg][1]**Chris Arsenault** spends an afternoon at an arms convention with some nice folks. [read more][2] [1]: http://dominionpaper.ca/img/environment/NBWeapons_fp.jpg [2]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11853 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11853 From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 12 17:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 00:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Israel's Plan for a Military Strike on Iran Message-ID: <20061013001703.26288.qmail@resist.ca> The Middle East, and possibly the world, stands on the brink of a terrible conflagration as Israel and the United States prepare to deal with Iran's alleged ambition to acquire nuclear weapons. Israel, it becomes clearer by the day, wants to use its air force to deliver a knock-out blow against Tehran. It is not known whether it will use conventional weapons or a nuclear warhead in such a strike. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/israels_plan_for_a_military_strike_on_iran URL: http://mostlywater.org/israels_plan_for_a_military_strike_on_iran From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 13 00:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 07:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Big Ben Pig Pen Message-ID: <20061013071704.14346.qmail@resist.ca> In Parliament Square itself, hundreds of police lined the entrances to parliament and dozens more formed a kettle around the hundred or so peaceful demonstrators who waved banners and chanted slogans at parliament. The irony of such a uniformed army outside the centre of ?our democracy? was surely lost only on the police and politicians inside. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/big_ben_pig_pen URL: http://mostlywater.org/big_ben_pig_pen From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 13 10:17:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Investigation: Israel Testing New Weapon on Gaza Message-ID: <20061013171712.12171.qmail@resist.ca> MERON RAPOPORT _Ha'aretz_, 11 October 2006 An investigative report to be aired on Italian television Wednesday raises the possibility that Israel has used an experimental weapon in the Gaza Strip in recent months, causing especially serious physical injuries, such as amputated limbs and severe burns. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11872 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11872 From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 13 15:17:36 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 22:17:36 -0000 Subject: [news] Imitating Others As Control: Is Drag Sexist/Racist? Message-ID: <20061013221737.28298.qmail@resist.ca> By Kirsten Anderberg Next time you see someone performing either gender or race drag, consider the possible message being sent. More often than not, I have felt a political motivation beneath imitation as entertainment. Encourage others to engage in understanding the racist or sexist implications of stereotyping via imitation (or gender/race drag), as entertainment. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/imitating_others_as_control_is_drag_sexist_racist URL: http://mostlywater.org/imitating_others_as_control_is_drag_sexist_racist From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 13 15:52:22 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 22:52:22 -0000 Subject: [news] Afghanistan: Where the Rhetoric Doesn't Match the Reality Message-ID: <20061013225224.30409.qmail@resist.ca> When Afghans ask me, "is this what the US means by peace, liberation and freedom?" all I can say is I certainly hope not. But this is sadly just one case of many where we must ask, "is this what has become of 'American values'?" Everything is different and nothing has changed and in Afghanistan, the rhetoric can't hide the reality and the juxtaposition of the two makes the horror and the hubris crystal clear. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/afghanistan_where_the_rhetoric_doesnt_match_the_reality URL: http://mostlywater.org/afghanistan_where_the_rhetoric_doesnt_match_the_reality From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 13 15:52:23 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 22:52:23 -0000 Subject: [news] Like Weeds in a Garden: Genocide, International Law & Canada's "Indian Problem" Message-ID: <20061013225225.30410.qmail@resist.ca> Why did the Canadian government omitt over half of the Genocide Convention before making it law? Are they trying to cover-up their crimes against Aboriginal people? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/like_weeds_in_a_garden URL: http://mostlywater.org/like_weeds_in_a_garden From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 14 01:17:07 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 08:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Will There be a Coup in Palestine? Message-ID: <20061014081707.23337.qmail@resist.ca> There are ominous signs that the long-contemplated plan to overthrow the democratically-elected Hamas-led Palestinian Authority cabinet is about to enter its most dangerous phase: a political coup, supported by local militias, with foreign and regional backing. This could ignite serious intra-Palestinian violence. With Iraq providing a dreadful warning of how foreign occupation can foster civil bloodshed, everything must be done to expose and thwart this dangerous conspiracy. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/will_there_be_a_coup_in_palestine URL: http://mostlywater.org/will_there_be_a_coup_in_palestine From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 14 12:40:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 19:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Police and Government Thugs Open Fire on APPO Members Message-ID: <20061014194011.16139.qmail@resist.ca> Four Wounded Outside the Department of Citizen Protection in Oaxaca City By Enrique Mendez and Octavio Velez | La Jornada | October 13, 2006 The social and political crisis in Oaxaca was renewed just at the moment that a solution was being sought. Late in the afternoon, police and hired civilian thugs (?porros?) fired on Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) members and university students; the result was four injured, two of them in the leg, and others grazed on the forehead and back. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11972 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11972 From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 14 13:17:14 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:17:14 -0000 Subject: [news] Documents Reveal Scope of U.S. Database on Antiwar Protests Message-ID: <20061014201715.23107.qmail@resist.ca> Internal military documents released Thursday provided new details about the Defense Department?s collection of information on demonstrations nationwide last year by students, Quakers and others opposed to the Iraq war. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/11962 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/11962 From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 14 16:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 23:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Denigrating Women for Profit Message-ID: <20061014231705.7265.qmail@resist.ca> It has become normal to consider normal women ugly. We abide by the denigration of women's bodies because it is very, very profitable. The result for millions of women is not only damaged self-esteem and unrealistic expectations, but damaged health and bodies as well. And that is a very, very high price to pay. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/denigrating_women_for_profit URL: http://mostlywater.org/denigrating_women_for_profit From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 14 18:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 01:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] How Bush's Belligerence Prompted North Korea to Pursue Nuclear Weapons Message-ID: <20061015011704.12450.qmail@resist.ca> The US repeatedly says that "all options are on the table" referring to its right to arrange regime change in other nations, its right to bomb other nations, to blockade them, to invade them, and to use nuclear weapons if (it) wants to. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/how_bushs_belligerence_prompted_north_korea_to_pursue_nuclear_weapons URL: http://mostlywater.org/how_bushs_belligerence_prompted_north_korea_to_pursue_nuclear_weapons From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 14 18:40:06 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 01:40:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada/NATO in Afghanistan: Sowing Destruction and Misery Message-ID: <20061015014006.30832.qmail@resist.ca> Occupation forces have brought widespread death, misery and destruction to (Afghanistan)...The Canadian government and its NATO allies have accomplished nothing for Afghans. They are propping up a reactionary and illegitimate government that has little popular support, have killed thousands of Afghans, and have destroyed crucial infrastructure and food production. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/canada_nato_in_afghanistan_sowing_destruction_and_misery URL: http://mostlywater.org/canada_nato_in_afghanistan_sowing_destruction_and_misery From news at resist.ca Sun Oct 15 14:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 21:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Why Bush Will Nuke Iran Message-ID: <20061015211703.1001.qmail@resist.ca> Neocons believe that a nuclear attack on Iran would have intimidating force throughout the Middle East and beyond. Iran would not dare retaliate, neocons believe, against US ships, US troops in Iraq, or use their missiles against oil facilities in the Middle East...Neocons have also concluded that a US nuclear strike on Iran would show the entire Muslim world that it is useless to resist America's will. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/why_bush_will_nuke_iran URL: http://mostlywater.org/why_bush_will_nuke_iran From news at resist.ca Sun Oct 15 15:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 22:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] RAWA: Five Years Later, Afghanistan is Still in Flames Message-ID: <20061015221703.26351.qmail@resist.ca> Transcript of a speech by Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) member Zoya at a benefit for RAWA, called ?Breaking the Propaganda of Silence,? organized by the Afghan Women?s Mission on October 7, 2006. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/rawa_five_years_later_afghanistan_is_still_in_flames URL: http://mostlywater.org/rawa_five_years_later_afghanistan_is_still_in_flames From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 16 08:40:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 15:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] The Mettle of a UN Secretary-General Message-ID: <20061016154011.29035.qmail@resist.ca> The tainted legacy of Kofi Annan as a changing of the guard at the UN approaches [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_mettle_of_a_un_secretary_general URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_mettle_of_a_un_secretary_general From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 16 18:17:06 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] How Hezbollah Defeated Israel (Part One: Winning the Intelligence War) Message-ID: <20061017011707.7380.qmail@resist.ca> >From the onset of the conflict to its last operations, Hezbollah commanders successfully penetrated Israel's strategic and tactical decision-making cycle across a spectrum of intelligence, military and political operations, with the result that Hezbollah scored a decisive and complete victory in its war with Israel. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/how_hezbollah_defeated_israel_part_one_winning_the_intelligence_war URL: http://mostlywater.org/how_hezbollah_defeated_israel_part_one_winning_the_intelligence_war From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 17 09:40:11 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:40:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Corporations Working Hard to Keep Chinese Slave Labor Message-ID: <20061017164012.6836.qmail@resist.ca> [![LabourStart][1]][2] Huffington Post Many of the largest corporations--many of whom contribute significant amounts of money to the Republican and Democratic parties and their candidates--are doing everything possible to keep their slave wage heaven in China. Check it out: this is one of the most important economic issues facing our country. [read more][3] [1]: http://www.labourstart.org/images/logo-rss.gif [2]: http://www.labourstart.org/ [3]: http://mostlywater.org/node/12021 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/12021 From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 17 10:17:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] The Politics of Listening, Asking Questions, and of Opening Cracks in the Fabric of Capitalism Message-ID: <20061017171709.15247.qmail@resist.ca> Preliminary Reflections on the Zapatista "Other Campaign" By Gary Kinsman The 1994 Zapatista revolt in Chiapas, Mexico against the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and neo-liberalism inspired and helped circulate a wave of anti-capitalist global justice activism in the south and in the north. The Zapatistas put forward a refreshing perspective for radical social transformation based on a big No! to neo-liberalism and capitalism and many yeses recognizing the diversity of oppressions and struggles people are engaged in. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/12019 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/12019 From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 17 10:17:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] US Funding Hamas Opponents Message-ID: <20061017171709.15246.qmail@resist.ca> ADAM ENTOUS, 13 October 2006 Jerusalem -- The United States has quietly started a campaign projected to cost up to $42 million to bolster Hamas's political opponents ahead of possible early Palestinian elections, say officials linked to the programme. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/12008 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/12008 From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 17 13:17:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] North Korea as a Religious State Message-ID: <20061017201710.21237.qmail@resist.ca> (North Korea) might not be all distress and oppression. But neither is it a socialist society in any sense Marx or Lenin would have recognized, to say nothing of a classless, communist society. It is among other things a religious society in a world where nations led by religious nuts are facing off, some seemingly hell-bent on producing a prophesized apocalypse. I find no cause for either comfort or particular alarm in the Dear Leader's October 9 nuclear blast; if it deters a U.S. attack it's achieved its purpose... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/north_korea_as_a_religious_state URL: http://mostlywater.org/north_korea_as_a_religious_state From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 18 10:40:22 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:40:22 -0000 Subject: [news] Lynne Stewart's Crime of Courage, Honor and Resisting Tyranny Message-ID: <20061018174024.1843.qmail@resist.ca> The glorious vindication of Lynne Stewart and strong rebuke of Bush Justice Department On October 17, Lynne Stewart faced the possibility of 30 years in prison because of a modern-day state-sponsored campaign of intimidation using her trial to set a precedent allowing the government the right to deny those it accuses of "terrorism" their right of due process represented by competent counsel. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/lynne_stewarts_crime_of_courage_honor_and_resisting_tyranny URL: http://mostlywater.org/lynne_stewarts_crime_of_courage_honor_and_resisting_tyranny From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 18 13:40:41 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 20:40:41 -0000 Subject: [news] American Methods: Torture and the Logic of Domination - An Interview With Kristian Williams Message-ID: <20061018204049.26772.qmail@resist.ca> (Kristian Williams has) written two books about state violence. The first, Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America came out in 2004, and the second edition is coming out next year. (His) second book, American Methods: Torture and the Logic of Domination came out this past spring. American Methods deals with the US government's use of torture, starting with an analysis of the Abu Ghraib scandal. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/american_methods_torture_and_the_logic_of_domination_an_interview_with_kristian_williams URL: http://mostlywater.org/american_methods_torture_and_the_logic_of_domination_an_interview_with_kristian_williams From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 18 14:17:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 21:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Globalization, Terror & Virtual Colonialism Message-ID: <20061018211709.2937.qmail@resist.ca> The obvious underlying logic...of the "war on terror"...is to justify injustice. This is apparent whether one is dealing with repressive domestic anti-civil rights and anti-immigrant legislation or with a rationale for the corporate virtual colonialism marketed by its promoters as "globalization"...It represents a deliberate negation of the achievements of the anti-colonialist movements of the last century and of the UN Charter and Universal Declaration of Human Rights. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/globalization_terror_virtual_colonialism URL: http://mostlywater.org/globalization_terror_virtual_colonialism From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 18 15:17:05 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] The Boom Heard Around the World? Message-ID: <20061018221705.15818.qmail@resist.ca> August 29, 1949, Soviet Union. October 16, 1964, Peoples Republic of China. October 7, 2006, Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea. Three dates. Three first time nuclear tests by three enemies (at their respective times) of Washington. All three tests were preceded by threats from that same Washington that warned of dire consequences for the governments that dare to ignore those threats. In their wake, the tests were condemned by Washington and whoever its allies at the time might have been. Then, the world continued on. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_boom_heard_around_the_world URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_boom_heard_around_the_world From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 18 20:17:07 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 03:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Starbucks Wobs Get City Support Message-ID: <20061019031707.27997.qmail@resist.ca> October 17, 2006 | By VIRGINIA A. FISHER and NICHOLAS K. TABOR | Harvard Crimson ![][1]You may soon be able to get a shot of "anarcho-syndicalism" with your mocha Frappuccino, if the Cambridge City Council has its way. In its meeting last night, the council passed a [resolution][2] supporting the right of Starbucks employees to organize under the aegis of the Industrial Workers of the World [...] [read more][3] [1]: http://www.iww.org/graphics/IU660/sbux/SB2.jpg [2]: http://www.cambridgema.gov/cityClerk/PolicyOrder.cfm?item_id=15845 [3]: http://mostlywater.org/node/12187 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/12187 From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 18 20:17:07 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 03:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Counter-Recruiters Target Would-Be Military Recruits in Peterborough, Ontario Message-ID: <20061019031707.27996.qmail@resist.ca> Anti-war activists came to the Trent University Career Fair today, October 18th, to recruit students to get on the free bus organized to go from Peterborough to the ?Canada Out of Afghanistan? rally and march taking place October 28th in Toronto. The dozen self-styled ?counter-recruiters? chose to collect names and distribute information for the anti-war movement at the Canadian Armed Forc [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/12181 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/12181 From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 18 20:17:07 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 03:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Jail Conditions for Canadian Aboriginals a 'Disgrace': Ombudsman Message-ID: <20061019031708.27999.qmail@resist.ca> Aboriginal offenders are routinely discriminated against by the corrections system and are far less likely to get parole or be rehabilitated by their experiences in jail, the ombudsman for federal prisons says. Releasing his annual report into conditions in federal prisons, correctional investigator Howard Sapers said the challenges faced by aboriginal people in Canadian jails amounts to "a nat [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/12160 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/12160 From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 18 20:17:07 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 03:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] The Liberatory Family Message-ID: <20061019031707.27998.qmail@resist.ca> [...T]he liberatory family is the struggle of the oppressed to maintain close social relations and have those relations recognized. The family cannot and should not be defined by the state. The struggle to define oneself and one?s relation to others against the pressures of capitalism is the struggle for the liberatory family. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/12200 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/12200 From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 19 09:17:11 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:17:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Another DTES SRO to Evict Residents Message-ID: <20061019161712.31995.qmail@resist.ca> October 18, 2006 Employees of the Empress Hotel, a landmark low-income rental building in the DTES, are reporting that the new owner of the hotel has told them they are fired, and that he intends to evict all of the tenants within three months. The Empress Hotel has 74 rooms available to Vancouver?s poorest residents. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/another_dtes_sro_to_evict_residents URL: http://mostlywater.org/another_dtes_sro_to_evict_residents From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 19 16:17:08 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Mackenzie Gas Project pipeline expected to double N.W.T. emissions Message-ID: <20061019231709.6071.qmail@resist.ca> Mackenzie pipeline expected to double N.W.T. emissions When it comes to greenhouse gas emissions, the proposed Mackenzie Valley gas pipeline would be like adding 400,000 more cars to the roads of the Northwest Territories, Ecology North spokesman Doug Ritchie says. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/mackenzie_gas_project_pipeline_expected_to_double_n_w_t_emissions URL: http://mostlywater.org/mackenzie_gas_project_pipeline_expected_to_double_n_w_t_emissions From news at resist.ca Sun Oct 22 23:40:14 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 06:40:14 -0000 Subject: [news] North Star Hotel Squatted by the Anti-Poverty Committee Message-ID: <20061023064015.14512.qmail@resist.ca> The empty building formally known as the North Star Hotel is currently being occupied by a handful of people. A demonstration organised by the Anti-Poverty Committee marched to the building with 200-250 protesters. Occupiers inside hung banners out the top story windows as the march rallied in front of the building. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/north_star_hotel_squatted_by_the_anti_poverty_committee URL: http://mostlywater.org/north_star_hotel_squatted_by_the_anti_poverty_committee From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 24 10:17:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 17:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Recognition and Little Else Message-ID: <20061024171710.5985.qmail@resist.ca> ![Hugo_fp.jpg][1]Critics say Canada has tacitly or openly supported the US campaign to replace the government of Venezuela. **Yves Engler** asks why. [read more][2] [1]: http://dominionpaper.ca/img/environment/Hugo_fp.jpg [2]: http://mostlywater.org/node/12270 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/12270 From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 21 11:40:17 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 18:40:17 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada's Quiet Free Trade Agreement Message-ID: <20061021184018.4932.qmail@resist.ca> One of the (Free Trade) Agreements the Canadian government is trying to finalize is the Central America Four Free Trade Agreement (CA4TA) with Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua...Although the economic impacts of the deal may not be profound, there are concerns about sovereignty, human rights and democracy based on experiences from past deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/canadas_quiet_free_trade_agreement URL: http://mostlywater.org/canadas_quiet_free_trade_agreement From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 24 10:40:29 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 17:40:29 -0000 Subject: [news] The Atenco, Oaxaca and Zapatista Rebels Unite in Public for the First Time Message-ID: <20061024174030.25568.qmail@resist.ca> At the Scene of the Atenco Massacre of May 3?4, the Mexican Left Shows its Willingness to Forge Alliances and Defy the State By Greg Berger | The Other Journalism with the Other Campaign in the State of Mexico | October 22, 2006 With less than a month and a half to go before the controversial inauguration of rightwing President-Elect Felipe Calder?n, today?s encounter in Texcoco undersc [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/12321 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/12321 From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 24 11:17:25 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 18:17:25 -0000 Subject: [news] Oakland Aims to be Oil Independent by 2020 Message-ID: <20061024181726.1450.qmail@resist.ca> by Nancy Nadel (Energy Bulletin) On Tuesday, October 17, 2006, the Oakland City Council unanimously passed legislation, sponsored by Councilmember Nancy Nadel, making Oakland the first city in the U.S. to aim for oil independence by 2020. Inspired by Sweden, which earlier this year released a landmark national action plan that articulates programs and policy measures that are expected to reduce oil consumption in Sweden by as much as 40-50% by 2020, the City of Oakland hopes to provide a similar model for cities in the U.S. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/12466 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/12466 From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 24 11:17:25 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 18:17:25 -0000 Subject: [news] Biofuels - the Answer to the Wrong Question Message-ID: <20061024181726.1451.qmail@resist.ca> [![Green Left][1]][2] Biofuels such as ethanol have been presented by alternative energy entrepreneurs and many environmentalists as a ?clean, green? alternative to fossil fuels. But recently a growing chorus of scientists have warned of the dangers of biofuels. [read more][3] [1]: http://www.greenleft.org.au/glwrss.png [2]: http://www.greenleft.org.au/ [3]: http://mostlywater.org/biofuels_the_answer_to_the_wrong_question URL: http://mostlywater.org/biofuels_the_answer_to_the_wrong_question From marktrevis at gmail.com Tue Oct 24 19:01:50 2006 From: marktrevis at gmail.com (Mark Trevis) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:01:50 -0700 Subject: [news] Biofuels - the Answer to the Wrong Question In-Reply-To: <20061024181726.1451.qmail@resist.ca> References: <20061024181726.1451.qmail@resist.ca> Message-ID: you have the wrong link.. it is http://www.greenleft.org.au/2006/688/35717 On 10/24/06, Mostly Water - Canadian and International alternative news feed< news at resist.ca> wrote: > > [![Green Left][1]][2] > > Biofuels such as ethanol have been presented by alternative energy > entrepreneurs and many environmentalists as a "clean, green" alternative to > fossil fuels. But recently a growing chorus of scientists have warned of the > dangers of biofuels. > > > > > [read more][3] > > [1]: http://www.greenleft.org.au/glwrss.png > [2]: http://www.greenleft.org.au/ > [3]: http://mostlywater.org/biofuels_the_answer_to_the_wrong_question > > URL: http://mostlywater.org/biofuels_the_answer_to_the_wrong_question > _______________________________________________ > news at lists.resist.ca > https://lists.resist.ca/mailman/listinfo/news > A selection of stories from http://mostlywater.org. Do not send mail > directly to this list. Instead, post your story at > http://mostlywater.org/node/add/news > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 24 13:17:07 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 20:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Hunting Gays in Iraq Message-ID: <20061024201707.15404.qmail@resist.ca> Life for gay and lesbian citizens in war-torn Iraq has become grave and is getting worse every day. While President Bush hails a new, "democratic" society, thousands of civilians are dying in a low-level civil war -- and gays are being targeted just for being gay. The Badr Corps...has launched a campaign of "sexual cleansing," marshaling death squads to exterminate homosexuality. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/hunting_gays_in_iraq URL: http://mostlywater.org/hunting_gays_in_iraq From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 24 13:17:07 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 20:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Not All Terrorists are Muslim Message-ID: <20061024201708.15405.qmail@resist.ca> Terrorism has long been the chief demonizing marker that Israel and the United States have used in their wars against Islamic states and peoples who have stood in the path of their imperial ambitions...In no Western country did this propaganda encounter greater success...than in the United States. Most liberal Americans--and a few leftists--argued that Palestinian terrorists threatened Israel's existence. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/not_all_terrorists_are_muslim URL: http://mostlywater.org/not_all_terrorists_are_muslim From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 24 13:40:10 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 20:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Victoria Cops Break Up Squat With Riot Squad & Tear Gas Message-ID: <20061024204011.20605.qmail@resist.ca> Victoria police officers, clad in protective gear, used tear gas to subdue a homelessness activist yesterday after he barricaded himself in a second-storey room in the long-abandoned Janion Building. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/victoria_cops_break_up_squat_with_riot_squad_tear_gas URL: http://mostlywater.org/victoria_cops_break_up_squat_with_riot_squad_tear_gas From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 25 16:40:14 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:40:14 -0000 Subject: [news] List of Major Israeli Ceasefire Violations Message-ID: <20061025234014.24293.qmail@resist.ca> Despite the very minimal demands laid upon Israel under UN resolution 1701, Israel has been constantly violating the terms of the ceasefire agreement. Some of the more important violations: Friday August 18: Mock air raids on western mountain chain around 9 pm. Saturday August 19: Israel pounds power station. Israeli helicopters backed by fighter [...] [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/list_of_major_israeli_ceasefire_violations URL: http://mostlywater.org/list_of_major_israeli_ceasefire_violations From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 25 17:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 00:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Nigerians storm oil platforms Message-ID: <20061026001704.31455.qmail@resist.ca> Villagers in Nigeria have stormed and seized three Shell oil platforms in the Niger Delta. A spokesman for Royal Dutch Shell PLC said the seizures have forced oil production to be shut down at the platforms. Officials, however, declined to say how much oil had been cut off after the platforms were attacked. Shell said in statement that members of the Kula community living near Shell's Ekulama 1, E [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/12554 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/12554 From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 25 17:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 00:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Al Hayat Interview with Mish'al on Hamas's Position Message-ID: <20061026001704.31457.qmail@resist.ca> Leader Mish'al explains Hamas's 'selective' approach to Quartet conditions BBC _Worldwide Monitoring_, 13 October 2006 Head of Hamas's Political Bureau Khalid Mish'al has explained the movement's refusal to recognize Israel by saying that, if it were to recognize "the Zionist entity", Hamas would be recognizing "the legitimacy of the occupation". However, he pointed out that Israel "exi [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/12552 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/12552 From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 25 17:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 00:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Israel Admits Using Phosphorus Bombs (Napalm) During War in Lebanon Message-ID: <20061026001704.31456.qmail@resist.ca> Haaretz By Meron Rappaport Israel has acknowledged for the first time that it attacked Hezbollah targets during the second Lebanon war with phosphorus shells. White phosphorus causes very painful and often lethal chemical burns to those hit by it, and until recently Israel maintained that it only uses such bombs to mark targets or territory.The announcement that [...] [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/israel_admits_using_phosphorus_bombs_during_war_in_lebanon URL: http://mostlywater.org/israel_admits_using_phosphorus_bombs_during_war_in_lebanon From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 25 17:17:04 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 00:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Quebec Bans Electronic Voting Message-ID: <20061026001704.31458.qmail@resist.ca> [![Slashdot: Politics][1]][2] gfilion writes "The Chief Electoral Officer of Qu?bec tabled an evaluation report that makes a troubling diagnosis of the problems that occurred during the municipal elections of November 6, 2005, in some of the 162 Qu?bec municipalities that used electronic voting. He says: "Not only did the systems fail, but the corrective measure proposed were insufficient, poorly adapted and often came too late." There was a moratorium on electronic voting prior to the November 6 election, it will be extented for future elections." [![][3]][4] [read more][5] [1]: http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicslashdot.gif [2]: http://politics.slashdot.org/ [3]: http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics?i=VhtUK5 [4]: http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics?a=VhtUK5 [5]: http://mostlywater.org/node/12550 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/12550 From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 26 09:17:05 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Court in Zimbabwe Rules Police, Army Lied over Strike Killings Message-ID: <20061026161706.8052.qmail@resist.ca> [![LabourStart][1]][2] Source: AP Zimbabwean labor leaders, some still cast in bandages from alleged police and army assaults last month, accused the government Wednesday of systematic violence and intimidation against labor organizations. [read more][3] [1]: http://www.labourstart.org/images/logo-rss.gif [2]: http://www.labourstart.org/ [3]: http://mostlywater.org/node/12578 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/12578 From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 26 09:17:05 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Minerals, Gas and Spin-offs Message-ID: <20061026161706.8057.qmail@resist.ca> ![Bolivia_fp.jpg][1]**Dawn Paley** investigates how CIDA's 'development work' is influencing resource extraction in Bolivia. [read more][2] [1]: http://dominionpaper.ca/img/environment/Bolivia_fp.jpg [2]: http://mostlywater.org/node/12516 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/12516 From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 26 09:17:05 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Extend terror laws: MPs Message-ID: <20061026161706.8058.qmail@resist.ca> OTTAWA?The lifespan of the most controversial anti-terrorism powers granted to police after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks should be extended to 2011 to safeguard national security, a parliamentary committee recommends. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/extend_terror_laws_mps URL: http://mostlywater.org/extend_terror_laws_mps From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 26 20:17:05 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 03:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] 90 Civilians Perish in NATO Air Strike Message-ID: <20061027031706.14831.qmail@resist.ca> About 90 civilians were killed in (a) NATO air strike in Panjwaye district of the southern Kandahar province, residents said on Wednesday...Residents of Panjwaye also said civilians had suffered great casualties in Tuesday('s) clash and bombardment. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/90_civilians_perish_in_nato_air_strike URL: http://mostlywater.org/90_civilians_perish_in_nato_air_strike From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 27 14:17:05 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 21:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Sex Traffickers Target Women in Iraq Message-ID: <20061027211705.21228.qmail@resist.ca> Thousands of Iraqi women are being taken advantage of by unscrupulous sex worker traffickers seeking to exploit young girls' desperate socio-economic situation for profit, United Nations agencies have reported. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/sex_traffickers_target_women_in_iraq URL: http://mostlywater.org/sex_traffickers_target_women_in_iraq From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 27 15:40:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 22:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Maher Arar: The Horrors of Extraordinary Rendition - A Personal Account Message-ID: <20061027224010.3039.qmail@resist.ca> Since my release I have been suffering from anxiety, constant fear, and depression. My life will never be the same again. But I promised myself one thing, that I will continue my quest for justice as long as I have a breath. What keeps me going is my faith...and the hope that one day our planet Earth will be free of tyranny, torture and injustice. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/maher_arar_the_horrors_of_extraordinary_rendition_a_personal_account URL: http://mostlywater.org/maher_arar_the_horrors_of_extraordinary_rendition_a_personal_account From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 27 16:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 23:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Vancouver Postal Workers Walk Out, Upset with Homophobic Mailout Message-ID: <20061027231703.9500.qmail@resist.ca> Canadian Press | October 26, 2006 VANCOUVER - Vancouver postal workers have walked off the job to protest an anti-gay pamphlet they're being asked to deliver to hundreds of homes. They say the brochure distributed by a religious group amounts to hate mail -- but they face disciplinary action if they refuse to handle it. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/12618 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/12618 From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 27 16:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 23:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] World Silent as Fascists Join Israel Government Message-ID: <20061027231704.9501.qmail@resist.ca> In a frightening but long expected move, Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert has brought the Yisrael Beitenu party into his coalition government...Yisrael Beitenu is a dangerous extremist party with fascist tendencies that has openly advocated the "transfer" of Palestinians, including the transfer of Arab towns within Israel to a Bantustan-like future Palestinian entity. It has made clear that a Jewish supremacist state is more important than a democratic one. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/world_silent_as_fascists_join_israel_government URL: http://mostlywater.org/world_silent_as_fascists_join_israel_government From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 27 21:40:22 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 04:40:22 -0000 Subject: [news] Indymedia Volunteer & Three Others Killed by Paramilitaries in Oaxaca Message-ID: <20061028044023.8398.qmail@resist.ca> Indymedia New York's reporter, BRAD WILL, was shot in the chest and (died) before (getting to) the hospital, while Oswaldo Ram?rez, photographer for Milenio Diario, has also been shot and is injured in the foot. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/indymedia_volunteer_killed_by_paramilitaries_in_oaxaca URL: http://mostlywater.org/indymedia_volunteer_killed_by_paramilitaries_in_oaxaca From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 28 15:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 22:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Christian Zionism: A Threat to Middle East Understanding Message-ID: <20061028221704.30910.qmail@resist.ca> Christian Zionism...has a fundamental lack of earthly concerns, is divorced from reality, and undermines the work of politics. Its practical impact is the killing of people in the Holy Land. The recent statement by the Christian religious leaders of Jerusalem that warned against Christian Zionism's policies of racist intolerance and perpetual war was much needed, but it should have come from America's religious leaders. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/christian_zionism_a_threat_to_middle_east_understanding URL: http://mostlywater.org/christian_zionism_a_threat_to_middle_east_understanding From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 28 19:17:02 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 02:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Immigrant Groups Fear Dual-Citizenship Review Message-ID: <20061029021703.18573.qmail@resist.ca> A number of Canadian immigrant groups say fear is building in their communities over whether a federal review of dual citizenship will lead to people having to choose which passport to keep...They say Canadians with dual citizenship will face excruciating personal decisions if the government revokes the practice. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/immigrant_groups_fear_dual_citizenship_review URL: http://mostlywater.org/immigrant_groups_fear_dual_citizenship_review From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 30 00:17:03 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Oaxaca Attacked by Mexico Riot Cops Message-ID: <20061030081704.16002.qmail@resist.ca> Federal police backed by armored vehicles and water cannons tore down barricades and stormed embattled Oaxaca on Sunday, seizing control of the city center from protesters who had held it for five months. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/oaxaca_attacked_by_mexico_riot_cops URL: http://mostlywater.org/oaxaca_attacked_by_mexico_riot_cops From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 30 17:40:09 2006 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 01:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] =?utf-8?q?Canada=E2=80=99s?= Contribution to "Democracy Promotion" Message-ID: <20061031014010.23255.qmail@resist.ca> Since it signed NAFTA (1994) and joined the Organization of American States, the Canadian government has aligned its foreign policy with that of the United States more closely than at any point in recent history. At the same time, the Canadian government has taken an increasing interest in the affairs of Latin America and the Caribbean...(B)ut a newer area of Canada?s foreign-policy posture warrants scrutiny: Canada?s deepening involvement in the controversial field of international ?democracy promotion? activities. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/canada_s_contribution_to_democracy_promotion URL: http://mostlywater.org/canada_s_contribution_to_democracy_promotion