From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 1 10:17:06 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 18:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Jean-Pierre Kingsley to IFES Message-ID: <20070201181706.27941.qmail@resist.ca> The Globe [notes in passing][1] that Jean-Pierre Kingsley, Canada's old Chief Electoral Officer, is off to join the International Federation for Electoral Systems (IFES). Dominion contributor Anthony Fenton has done a fair bit of work exposing IFES and its role in the overthrow of Haitian democracy. A little [background][2]: > IFES successfully co-opted human rights groups, lawyers, and journalists, and "set the groundwork" for the creation of the Group of 184 business-led political opposition to Aristide. > > > > [read more][3] [1]: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070131.wkingsley31/BNStory/National/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20070131.wkingsley31 [2]: http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=8277 [3]: http://mostlywater.org/node/17091 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/17091 From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 1 10:40:16 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 18:40:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Twelve Wounded In Attack on APPO Supporters Message-ID: <20070201184018.10594.qmail@resist.ca> 12 persons severely wounded and some 30 with minor wounds after attack by members of the PRI- party in San Antonino Castillo Velasco, Oaxaca on APPO-sympathizers. Yesterday, the popular authority, Juan Valentin Aguilar, informed that around 11 pm, the mayor arrived followed by some 100 sympathizers armed with sticks, stones, bottles and pistols in order to violently interrupt the meeting, which [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/16955 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/16955 From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 1 10:40:16 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 18:40:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Congress Hears From Muzzled Scientists Message-ID: <20070201184017.10584.qmail@resist.ca> [![Slashdot: Politics][1]][2] BendingSpoons writes "More than 120 scientists across seven federal agencies have been pressured to remove the phrases 'global warming' and 'climate change' from various documents. The documents include press releases and, more importantly, communications with Congress. Evidence of this sort of political interference has been largely anecdotal to date, but is now detailed in a new report by the Union of Concerned Scientists. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held hearings on this issue Tuesday; [read more][3] [1]: http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicslashdot.gif [2]: http://politics.slashdot.org/ [3]: http://mostlywater.org/node/17096 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/17096 From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 1 17:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 01:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] The Right to Choose Your Gender and Free Sex Change Surgery in Cuba Message-ID: <20070202011703.29716.qmail@resist.ca> According to the latest edition of the newsletter Diversidad (Diversity), the National Assembly of Popular Power (parliament) will discuss the issue of free sex change surgery, meaning that the health care public system will treat all persons who apply. The measure would complement the present Identity Law that already acknowledges the right of citizens to change name and sexual identity. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_right_to_choose_your_gender_and_free_sex_change_surgery_in_cuba URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_right_to_choose_your_gender_and_free_sex_change_surgery_in_cuba From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 1 17:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 01:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Venezuela: National Assembly Passes "Enabling Law" for 18 months Message-ID: <20070202014009.1679.qmail@resist.ca> (venezuelanalysis.com)? Venezuela?s National Assembly passed a so-called ?enabling law? today, which will allow President Chavez to pass laws by decree in eleven different areas for a period of 18 months. Chavez had asked for the enabling law earlier this month, saying it is needed to accelerate the process of transforming Venezuela?s state and economy into ?21st century socialism.? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/venezuela_national_assembly_passes_enabling_law_for_18_months URL: http://mostlywater.org/venezuela_national_assembly_passes_enabling_law_for_18_months From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 1 17:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 01:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] A Genre in the Service of Empire: An Iranian Feminist Critique Message-ID: <20070202014009.1680.qmail@resist.ca> In a time of pending war against Iran...a particularly lucrative industry of Iranian and Muslim women's memoirs has mushroomed in the aftermath of the 9/11 atrocities. These women's memoirs have assumed center-stage in appropriating the legitimate cause of women's rights and placing it squarely in the service of Empire building projects, disguised under the rhetoric of the "war on terror." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/a_genre_in_the_service_of_empire_an_iranian_feminist_critique URL: http://mostlywater.org/a_genre_in_the_service_of_empire_an_iranian_feminist_critique From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 1 23:17:06 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 07:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Israel's Kafkaesque "Matrix of Control" Message-ID: <20070202071707.22163.qmail@resist.ca> An account of repressive Israeli actions against the defenseless Palestinian people. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/israels_kafkaesque_matrix_of_control URL: http://mostlywater.org/israels_kafkaesque_matrix_of_control From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 1 23:17:06 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 07:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] "We are Slowly Dying in Here..." Message-ID: <20070202071707.22164.qmail@resist.ca> "We are slowly dying in here," Mohammad Mahjoub says over the phone on day 67 of his hunger strike, day 56 for Mahmoud Jaballah and Hassan Almrei. "Our situation is very bad." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/we_are_slowly_dying_in_here URL: http://mostlywater.org/we_are_slowly_dying_in_here From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 2 16:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 00:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Vancouver Park's Commissioner Says "Let Them Eat McDonald's" Message-ID: <20070203001704.23920.qmail@resist.ca> "...[W]e?re not in the business of providing cheap food,?...?There?s a difference. Good food costs money. Cheap food doesn?t cost money. If you want a decent meal, there?s a price associated with a decent meal..." --Non-Partisan Association [NPA] Park's Board Commissioner Marty Zlotnik on why Vancouver's poor are not entitled to eat "a decent meal" in Vancouver's public parks [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/vancouver_parks_commissioner_says_let_them_eat_mcdonalds URL: http://mostlywater.org/vancouver_parks_commissioner_says_let_them_eat_mcdonalds From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 2 23:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 07:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] U.S. President Plans Massive War Expenditure Message-ID: <20070203074010.28036.qmail@resist.ca> President Bush has requested over $200 billion in additional funding for the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, in addition to the already-immense U.S. military budget. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/u_s_president_plans_massive_war_expenditure URL: http://mostlywater.org/u_s_president_plans_massive_war_expenditure From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 3 00:17:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 08:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Globalization and Terror Message-ID: <20070203081707.1169.qmail@resist.ca> ...[The] report on official British collusion with Loyalist terrorist paramilitaries [in Northern Ireland] is a useful reminder that the US government's European allies are fully prepared to countenance terror and abuse of legal norms against legitimate opposition in their own countries. It might easily be read as a simile of sinister European government collusion with the failed state terror regime of George Bush. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/globalization_and_terror URL: http://mostlywater.org/globalization_and_terror From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 3 10:40:31 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 18:40:31 -0000 Subject: [news] Guaranteed Income Message-ID: <20070203184032.1215.qmail@resist.ca> _Tim Rourke sent along these thoughts on guaranteed income:_ -- There is a world wide movement for a citizen?s income; 'an unconditional, non-withdrawable income payable to each individual as a right of citizenship'. Many countries are moving toward implementation. Yet most Canadians have never heard of it. It is time the movement to separate income and survival from employment took hold in Canada. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/17202 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/17202 From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 3 11:17:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 19:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Capitalism Creates Global Warming Message-ID: <20070203191709.12364.qmail@resist.ca> The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), report issued today in Paris is a prime example of deliberate obfustication of the real source of global warming. "Most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic (human) greenhouse gas concentrations," it says. It is not people,"humanity", to blame for this, it is not a "man made" crisis , as if we as a society had consciously created this problem, it is the political economy of capitalism that has produced the climactic, environmental and ecological crisis we now face. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/capitalism_creates_global_warming URL: http://mostlywater.org/capitalism_creates_global_warming From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 3 15:40:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 23:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] "These Drugs are Poison to Some People" Message-ID: <20070203234011.26035.qmail@resist.ca> Zyprexa is...[used] to treat adults with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder only. But doctors are prescribing the drug for conditions, treatment durations, and patient populations for which it was never intended and worst of all it is being widely prescribed for children...Harvard trained psychiatrist, Dr Stefan Kruszewski, reports that Zyprexa increases the risk of obesity, diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular complications, heart attacks and stroke. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/these_drugs_are_poison_to_some_people URL: http://mostlywater.org/these_drugs_are_poison_to_some_people From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 3 16:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 00:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Support the Troops or Support the War? Message-ID: <20070204001703.314.qmail@resist.ca> Forcing [military] staffers to attend an event, which clearly confuses support for the troops with support for the war, is crucial for the home-front public relations offensive military officials are waging against an increasingly skeptical population. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/support_the_troops_or_support_the_war URL: http://mostlywater.org/support_the_troops_or_support_the_war From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 3 17:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 01:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Queers and Immigration: A Vision Statement Message-ID: <20070204014009.29182.qmail@resist.ca> We, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and gender-nonconforming people and allies, stand in solidarity with the immigrant rights movement...We call for an end to the stigmatization of queer individuals, the recognition of our varied, unique, and flexible kinship networks, the end of the restrictive and dangerous criminalization of migrant and queer communities, and an immigration reform package that puts progressive labor reforms into practice. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/queers_and_immigration_a_vision_statement URL: http://mostlywater.org/queers_and_immigration_a_vision_statement From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 5 00:17:25 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 08:17:25 -0000 Subject: [news] Surge In Iraq Message-ID: <20070205081726.10758.qmail@resist.ca> The real surge in Iraq is not Bush's, it is the in the civil war being conducted by the Iraqi Government and its allies, the Shia establishment, against fellow Shia and the Sunnis in their battle to take control of Baghdad. It is ethnic cleansing of areas where both Shia and Sunni's have lived together for years. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/surge_in_iraq URL: http://mostlywater.org/surge_in_iraq From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 5 00:17:25 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 08:17:25 -0000 Subject: [news] Iran Arrests Women Bloggers Message-ID: <20070205081726.10757.qmail@resist.ca> Three women's rights activists and journalists were arrested at Tehran's Imam Khomeini Airport en route to a journalism workshop in India and now face prosecution. Two of the three, Talat Taghinia and Mansoureh Shojai write for online journal Zanestan (which translates to "City of Women"), an Iranian web-based journal that advocates for women's rights. The third woman, Farnaz Seify, runs a popular feminist blog, farnaaz.com. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/iran_arrests_women_bloggers URL: http://mostlywater.org/iran_arrests_women_bloggers From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 5 10:17:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] The =?utf-8?b?4oCYVG95c+KAmQ==?= That Kill in Lebanon Message-ID: <20070205181707.10642.qmail@resist.ca> Time Magazine: Written by By Nicholas Blanford/Marakeh.Lebanon. Friday, Feb. 2nd, 2007To 17-year-old Rasha Zayoun, the small metal canister with a ribbon attached to the top looked like a toy. Her father, Mohammed, had found it while harvesting wild thyme in a field near her house in the southern Lebanese village of Marakeh, and had taken [...] [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/17247 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/17247 From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 5 10:17:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] The Privilege of Privacy and Homelessness Message-ID: <20070205181708.10644.qmail@resist.ca> I believe the thing homeless people often crave, miss, and desire most, is PRIVACY. Often privacy is the most necessary missing element for the recovery of a homeless person?s hope and faith, and a return of their dignity. The privacy becomes a *symbol of safety*, even. We come to know we are safe, *because* we have a home's privacy to rest and regroup... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_privilege_of_privacy_and_homelessness URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_privilege_of_privacy_and_homelessness From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 5 10:17:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Anarchism In Action Message-ID: <20070205181708.10643.qmail@resist.ca> Many folks have seen Avi Lewis and Naomi Kleins NFB film The Take, here is a report on the mass self-valorization movement in Argentina and the people who took direct action and direct control of their lives and communities after the collapse of the IMF regime in their country. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/anarchism_in_action URL: http://mostlywater.org/anarchism_in_action From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 5 10:17:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Special Diet Allowance Faces New Danger Message-ID: <20070205181708.10645.qmail@resist.ca> It's been quite a while since the issue of poverty got so much public attention. The Toronto Star has a ['War on Poverty'][1] campaign underway. Private members' bills at Queen's Park and in Ottawa are pressing for a [$10 an hour minimum wage][2]. Now, the City of Toronto's Medical Officer of Health is publicly calling for the McGuinty Government to provide the 750,000 people in Ontario who live on welfare and disability with a ['nutritional allowance'][3] to close the gap between their sub poverty income and that which it would take to enable them to eat properly. [read more][4] [1]: http://www.thestar.com/poverty [2]: http://torontosun.com/News/Canada/2007/02/03/3514993-sun.html [3]: http://wx.toronto.ca/inter/it/newsrel.nsf/9a3dd5e2596d27af85256de400452b9b/61d17e75e915885185257272005d0bdf?OpenDocument [4]: http://mostlywater.org/node/17245 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/17245 From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 5 17:17:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 01:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Afghan Peace in Tatters as Taliban Seize District Message-ID: <20070206011707.14648.qmail@resist.ca> Taliban fighters smashed government buildings, frightened away villagers and declared a new round of hostilities with foreign troops yesterday as the only peace deal in southern Afghanistan cumbled...The insurgent[s]...blamed the breakdown of the deal on [NATO's] bombing of a mosque in Musa Qala district on Jan. 25... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/afghan_peace_in_tatters_as_taliban_seize_district URL: http://mostlywater.org/afghan_peace_in_tatters_as_taliban_seize_district From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 5 17:17:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 01:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Looming War on Iran Not About Democracy Message-ID: <20070206011707.14649.qmail@resist.ca> According to the [Iranian] revolution's first president Bani Sadr and the US Ambassador William Sullivan, the [clerical] dictatorship was, at the very least, encouraged by the US Embassy in Iran, who preferred a military/clerical junta to a left-leaning democratic state. The army's unpopularity made its participation impossible, so the clerics replaced it with the Revolutionary Guard. That dictatorship exists today, albeit in a different form, with the primary difference being that laws are passed by representatives but are subject to the review of the clerics. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/looming_war_on_iran_not_about_democracy URL: http://mostlywater.org/looming_war_on_iran_not_about_democracy From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 5 23:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 07:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Are the US & Israel Failed States? Message-ID: <20070206071706.25796.qmail@resist.ca> Growing references by the US and Israel to the Muslim Middle East as a collection of **failed states** are part of the propaganda campaign to strip legitimacy from Muslim states and set them up for attack...But do the US and Israel fit the profile of successful states, or are they failed states themselves?...A compelling case can be made that the US and Israel **are** failed states. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/are_the_us_israel_failed_states URL: http://mostlywater.org/are_the_us_israel_failed_states From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 5 23:40:11 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 07:40:11 -0000 Subject: [news] UK Parliamentary Committee Calls for Sanctions Against Israel Message-ID: <20070206074012.30337.qmail@resist.ca> You know that things are serious when a parliamentary select committee puts out a call for sanctions against another sovereign state. Doubly so when that state is supposed to be one of Britain's key allies in the Middle East. Yet today the House of Commons international development committee is calling on the Labour government to press for sanctions against Israel over its treatment of the Palestinian people. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/uk_parliamentary_committee_calls_for_sanctions_against_israel URL: http://mostlywater.org/uk_parliamentary_committee_calls_for_sanctions_against_israel From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 6 00:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 08:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] They Take the Early Train Message-ID: <20070206081704.3668.qmail@resist.ca> It's 6 a.m. when we accompany the women from their homes to the railway station. Most have been up two hours already. "I've finished the cooking, washing, sweeping and cleaning," says Buribai cheerfully. "So now we can talk." No other member of her household is awake when we arrive. "Poor things," she says, "they're tired out." Isn't Buribai tired out, too? "Yes, but what to do? We have no options." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/they_take_the_early_train URL: http://mostlywater.org/they_take_the_early_train From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 6 10:17:06 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Cable Cutters Message-ID: <20070206181707.24490.qmail@resist.ca> What the cable companies don?t want you to know about radical television in Canada There?s a big little story in Canada about radical possibilities for television that cable companies don?t want you to know. It?s a story worth close to a billion dollars -- money that should have been spent on creating community access television in every neighbourhood where cable companies sell cable. A few communities have claimed some of their share, but in most of Canada, the money goes into the pockets of the cable companies. What would happen if more communities demanded the community access funding that is their right under federal regulations? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/17274 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/17274 From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 6 10:17:06 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Direct Action in Israel Message-ID: <20070206181707.24488.qmail@resist.ca> "Anarchists block Tel Aviv street" Protesting against the separation fence, "Anarchists Against the Wall" activists blocked the entrance to one of Tel Aviv's main streets, Rothschild Boulevard, with barbwire and a sign saying "restricted military zone" on Saturday. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/direct_action_in_israel URL: http://mostlywater.org/direct_action_in_israel From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 6 10:17:06 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Students Spill Coca-Cola's Profits Message-ID: <20070206181707.24493.qmail@resist.ca> [![TheTyee.ca][1]][2] When governments cut postsecondary funding in previous decades, cash-strapped universities quickly learned that exclusivity contracts with beverage companies could be a lucrative way to stay out of the red. But over the past half decade, a pattern has been emerging at postsecondary schools across North America. Student societies, upset about Coke's alleged human rights and environmental abuses in developing countries, have started taking matters into their own hands to cripple the deals. [read more][3] [1]: http://thetyee.ca/images/tyee_icon.png [2]: http://thetyee.ca [3]: http://mostlywater.org/node/17321 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/17321 From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 6 10:17:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] QUEBEC: The Racist Debate About Reasonable Accommodation Message-ID: <20070206181708.24496.qmail@resist.ca> Members of No One Is Illegal-Montreal respond to the xenophobic ?debate? in Quebec about ?reasonable accomodation? with the following statement. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/17330 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/17330 From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 6 10:40:14 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:40:14 -0000 Subject: [news] A Positive Agenda For Media Reform Message-ID: <20070206184015.7158.qmail@resist.ca> The perfect media reform storm is now upon us and it was evident with the explosive atmosphere of the 2007 National Conference for Media Reform that took place in Memphis Tennessee January 12-14. Media activists, educators, journalists, policymakers and concerned citizens from many countries, and nearly every state in the U.S. attended the National Conference for Media Reform, an event that aimed to move media issues to the forefront of public discourse in the United States. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/a_positive_agenda_for_media_reform URL: http://mostlywater.org/a_positive_agenda_for_media_reform From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 6 14:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 22:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Water Rights for Sale in Alberta Message-ID: <20070206221704.11042.qmail@resist.ca> Perhaps more than anywhere else in Alberta, farmers here know what it means to live with a limited supply of water. Their harsh experiences with the land drew them to the province's fledgling water market -- the first of its kind in Canada. The market to buy and sell licences to access water has changed their lives, 65-year-old Halvorson says. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/water_rights_for_sale_in_alberta URL: http://mostlywater.org/water_rights_for_sale_in_alberta From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 6 20:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 04:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Band Council RejectsTransfer of Kwakiutl Lands Message-ID: <20070207041704.24596.qmail@resist.ca> The BC government has approved a private land transfer without proper consultation as required by law. The Kwakiutl Band Council, based in Port Hardy, BC, is firing back to defend indigenous title and and rights. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/band_council_rejectstransfer_of_kwakiutl_lands URL: http://mostlywater.org/band_council_rejectstransfer_of_kwakiutl_lands From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 6 21:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] A Time to Speak Out Message-ID: <20070207051705.18086.qmail@resist.ca> We are a group of Jews in Britain from diverse backgrounds, occupations and affiliations who have in common a strong commitment to social justice and universal human rights...We have therefore resolved to promote the expression of alternative Jewish voices, particularly in respect of the grave situation in the Middle East... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/a_time_to_speak_out URL: http://mostlywater.org/a_time_to_speak_out From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 7 12:40:30 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 20:40:30 -0000 Subject: [news] Venezuelan Contras Message-ID: <20070207204031.31633.qmail@resist.ca> Venezuelan Contras now in Florida are teaming up with their reactionary brethren in the Cuban Contra community in developing propaganda radio broadcasts to Venezuela. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/venezuelan_contras URL: http://mostlywater.org/venezuelan_contras From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 7 15:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 23:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Iran: The War Begins Message-ID: <20070207231704.15403.qmail@resist.ca> As opposition grows in America to the failed Iraq adventure, the Bush administration is preparing public opinion for an attack on Iran, its latest target...As the American disaster in Iraq deepens and domestic and foreign opposition grows, "neo-con" fanatics such as Vice-President Dick Cheney believe their opportunity to control Iran's oil will pass unless they act no later than the spring. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/iran_the_war_begins URL: http://mostlywater.org/iran_the_war_begins From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 7 21:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 05:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] RCMPig Charged with "Torture" in Assault on Aborignal Man Message-ID: <20070208051704.30225.qmail@resist.ca> A Merritt RCMP constable has been charged with torturing a man who was beaten and left on the outskirts of town...Glen Shuter, a 25-year-old member of the Lower Nicola Indian band...described how he was taken 10 kilometres from town on Aug. 19, beaten and left...Shuter still bore physical signs of a beating a week after the alleged incident, having suffered blows to his head, face and stomach, the investigating officer noted. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/rcmpig_charged_with_torture_in_assault_on_aborignal_man URL: http://mostlywater.org/rcmpig_charged_with_torture_in_assault_on_aborignal_man From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 7 21:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 05:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Cop Charged with "Assault" for Allegedly Kicking Suspect in the Head Message-ID: <20070208051704.30226.qmail@resist.ca> A [New Westminister] police officer who remains under investigation for fatally shooting a 16-year-old in August 2005 has been charged with assault after allegedly kicking a handcuffed prisoner just weeks before the shooting...Const. Todd Sweet was charged Tuesday with assault causing bodily harm and suspended from the New Westminster force with pay... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/cop_charged_with_assault_for_allegedly_kicking_suspect_in_the_head URL: http://mostlywater.org/cop_charged_with_assault_for_allegedly_kicking_suspect_in_the_head From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 8 01:40:17 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 09:40:17 -0000 Subject: [news] Bush's Canadian 'Clone' in Jeopardy Message-ID: <20070208094018.8145.qmail@resist.ca> The latest opinion surveys look grim for [Stephen] Harper...Canada's rejection of Harper, known as "un clone de Bush"...would be a blow to the already battered psyche of [US] Republicans because Harper copied many of their strategies, even consulting with the architects of what was supposed to be a permanent Republican majority in the United States. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/bushs_canadian_clone_in_jeopardy URL: http://mostlywater.org/bushs_canadian_clone_in_jeopardy From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 8 09:17:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Toxic Tipping Point Message-ID: <20070208171707.2660.qmail@resist.ca> Are the CDC, the FDA, and other health agencies covering up evidence that a mercury preservative in children's vaccines caused a rise in autism? Did the use of a mercury preservative in vaccines directly contribute to the autism epidemic plaguing the country? And did federal health officials?fearful of liability facing their agencies and vaccine manufacturers, and loss of compliance with the federal vaccine program?put such concerns above the health of millions of infants? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/17449 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/17449 From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 8 09:17:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Taharar!: Another Liberating Techie Project Message-ID: <20070208171707.2661.qmail@resist.ca> Taharar! [liberate yourself! in Arabic] is an autonomous project that aims to empower individuals, collectives, and groups working on issues of social justice in West Asia and North Africa by providing them with alternative communication and technical services, information, resources, and support. Taharar!'s vision is to combat the digital censorship prevalent in West Asia and North Africa by providing an accessible pool of resources in local languages (including Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew, Kurdish, etc.) that people to create democratic alternatives by controlling their own secure means of communications through the use and proliferation of free, open source software and technologies. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/taharar_another_liberating_techie_project URL: http://mostlywater.org/taharar_another_liberating_techie_project From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 8 09:17:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] BC's Mexican Tomatoes Message-ID: <20070208171708.2662.qmail@resist.ca> [![TheTyee.ca][1]][2] [...W]hen was the last time you purchased a BC Hot House tomato? Yesterday? A week ago? Did you feel as pleased as I have that your diet -- in January -- can not only include the "love apple," but one that was grown right here in B.C., under glass, in modern, sanitary, pesticide-free, hydroponic conditions? If it sounds too good to be true, that's because it is. "BC Hot House" is simply a brand. [read more][3] [1]: http://thetyee.ca/images/tyee_icon.png [2]: http://thetyee.ca [3]: http://mostlywater.org/node/17446 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/17446 From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 8 09:17:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] A Review of the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe Message-ID: <20070208171708.2663.qmail@resist.ca> A review of Ilan Pappe's powerful new book on the ethnic cleansing of Palestine based on uncovered Israeli official documents and other key sources. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/a_review_of_the_ethnic_cleansing_of_palestine_by_ilan_pappe URL: http://mostlywater.org/a_review_of_the_ethnic_cleansing_of_palestine_by_ilan_pappe From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 8 15:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 23:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Conservative Supporters (and Cops) Favour "Law & Order" Approach to Drug Addiction Message-ID: <20070208231704.5423.qmail@resist.ca> Two-thirds of Canadians believe the federal government...should treat drug abuse as a medical problem requiring more prevention and treatment programs, according to a new national poll...But a clear majority of the remaining one-third of Canadians who favour a police crackdown on drug abuse are Conservative supporters...[As well], the Canadian Police Association, representing rank-and-file police officers across Canada, and the RCMP have both criticized harm reduction policies. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/drug_abuse_a_medical_issue_poll_shows URL: http://mostlywater.org/drug_abuse_a_medical_issue_poll_shows From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 9 01:17:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 09:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Poverty: "The Dirty Secret Nobody Talks About" Message-ID: <20070209091709.25948.qmail@resist.ca> "...Canadian society is more unequal today than at any time since the end of the Second World War, the era when ?modern? Canada was created by...nation-building projects of universal pensions, unemployment insurance, hospital insurance, medicare, housing and federal support for post-secondary education. Canadians wanted a strong central government to guarantee they were available everywhere...Differences between people and provinces are now more important than what brings them together. And the differences are accelerated by the transformation of the tax system from seeking fairness to rewarding initiative." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_dirty_secret_nobody_talks_about URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_dirty_secret_nobody_talks_about From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 9 08:40:12 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:40:12 -0000 Subject: [news] BC Legislator: Nice Gig! Message-ID: <20070209164013.10015.qmail@resist.ca> [![TheTyee.ca][1]][2] ![][3] MLAs got full-time pay for nine week session. Gordon Campbell is arranging a raise. [read more][4] [1]: http://thetyee.ca/images/tyee_icon.png [2]: http://thetyee.ca [3]: http://thetyee.ca/Views/2007/02/09/thumb-Chart-02.png [4]: http://mostlywater.org/node/17503 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/17503 From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 9 08:40:11 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:40:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Olympia: Pressure Mounts Against Tent City Message-ID: <20070209164012.10012.qmail@resist.ca> City Manager Steve Hall said Monday that he's forming a plan to address the tent city for the homeless forming in a vacant downtown lot, but he didn't give details or a timetable. "It's clear that it's in violation of city ordinance, and the group needs to leave," he said. "We are not negotiating anything with the folks. They just need to go." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/17488 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/17488 From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 9 09:17:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Do Not Feed the Homeless: Orlando, Florida, Goes to Extreme Lengths to Get Transients Out of Town Message-ID: <20070209171708.18981.qmail@resist.ca> ORLANDO, Fla. ? At Lake Eola park, there is much beauty to behold: robust palms, beds of cheery begonias, a cascading lake fountain, clusters of friendly egrets and swans, an amphitheater named in honour of Walt Disney. Then there are the signs. DO NOT LIE OR OTHERWISE BE IN A HORIZONTAL POSITION ON A PARK BENCH ... DO NOT SLEEP OR REMAIN IN ANY BUSHES, SHRUBS OR FOLIAGE ... per city code sec. 18A.09 (a) and (o). "It?s now illegal to feed the homeless in Orlando, Florida," Jay Leno, host of NBC?s ?Tonight Show,? told a studio audience last summer in Burbank, Calif., during his opening monologue. "Have you seen the fat people walking around Disney World? We should make it illegal to feed THEM." But when the Orlando Sentinel posted Leno?s wisecrack on its Web site, local bloggers weren?t laughing. "Feeding the homeless only encourages more homelessness," one resident, with the moniker "Justin Credible," wrote. He then summed up his argument in an equation. "Less Homeless Less Problems Better Place to Live." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/17467 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/17467 From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 9 19:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 03:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] The Obscenity of Vancouver's Olympic Games: Here Comes Frankenstein Message-ID: <20070210034009.31379.qmail@resist.ca> Since the Olympics were awarded to Vancouver in 2003, over 800 units of low-income housing have been lost from the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood due to conversions...Global capital meets local greed. Real estate and tourism interests trump the needs of the long term low-income community which has called this neighbourhood home for decades. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_obscenity_of_vancouvers_olympic_games_here_comes_frankenstein URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_obscenity_of_vancouvers_olympic_games_here_comes_frankenstein From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 9 20:17:21 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 04:17:21 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada's Shameful Silence on Guantanamo Message-ID: <20070210041722.6178.qmail@resist.ca> Canadian citizen Omar Khadr...[faces] terrorist charges at the U.S. military's internationally condemned "Gitmo" prison camp...Khadr was 15 at the time [he was captured by the US in Afghanistan] and has spent more than four years at Gitmo, most of that time without being charged, frequently in isolation, treated shabbily, and denied access to his Canadian lawyers. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/canadas_shameful_silence_on_guantanamo URL: http://mostlywater.org/canadas_shameful_silence_on_guantanamo From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 10 04:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 12:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] The Genocide Option in Iraq Message-ID: <20070210121704.28607.qmail@resist.ca> The genocide option threatens Iraq, where the United States is engaged in direct military action against another virtually defenceless population...If U.S. casualties can be reduced by more intensive firepower, at the expense of greater Iraqi civilian casualties, that has been and will continue to be the route taken. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_genocide_option_in_iraq URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_genocide_option_in_iraq From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 10 10:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 18:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Union Drive USA Message-ID: <20070210181703.9756.qmail@resist.ca> This law will be the New Deal of the 21st century if it is passed. Employee Free Choice Act Hearings Begin in Congress But the right wing is mobilizing to oppose it. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/union_drive_usa URL: http://mostlywater.org/union_drive_usa From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 10 10:40:12 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 18:40:12 -0000 Subject: [news] Drug Addicts Used in Police Training Message-ID: <20070210184013.29412.qmail@resist.ca> A training program in which officers observe volunteers who may be high on drugs, and is used in 30 U.S. states, has the Edmonton Police Service and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in a public relations nightmare. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/17566 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/17566 From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 10 11:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Drugmakers Hurry Sales, Delay Safety Studies Message-ID: <20070210191703.4652.qmail@resist.ca> The [US] federal government has admitted that pharmaceutical companies it is supposed to regulate have not yet made good on hundreds of promises to test the safety of drugs already approved for the market. According to a notice published Friday by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), from October 2005 through September 2006, companies had yet to initiate 71 percent of outstanding "post-ma [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/17564 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/17564 From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 10 11:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Canadians Accused of Afghan Abuse Message-ID: <20070210191703.4653.qmail@resist.ca> Toronto Star: Bruce Campion-Smith, February 6th OTTAWA?Two separate probes are underway into a complaint that up to three prisoners suffered injuries while in the custody of Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan, the Toronto Star has learned. The allegation, if substantiated, could rock military morale and further undermine public support in [...] [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/17529 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/17529 From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 10 15:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Big Enviro Groups 'Holding Back' Anti-Global Warming Movement Message-ID: <20070210231704.2988.qmail@resist.ca> "None of [the solutions presented by mainstream groups] address the power structures,"..."None of them address corporations. None of them address a lack of democracy?. The environmental groups are not questioning this larger mentality that's killing the planet." --Radical Environmentalist Derrick Jensen [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/big_enviro_groups_holding_back_anti_global_warming_movement URL: http://mostlywater.org/big_enviro_groups_holding_back_anti_global_warming_movement From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 10 15:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] War on the Shia in Iraq Message-ID: <20070210234009.7131.qmail@resist.ca> The United States is stepping up the war in Iraq. For almost four years, it has been fighting the Iraqi Sunni community. Now it has started to confront the followers of Muqtada al-Sadr, the nationalist Shia cleric who leads the powerful Mehdi Army militia...It is a very dangerous strategy for the US. It risks alienating the Shia without gaining the support of the Sunni. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/war_on_the_shia_in_iraq URL: http://mostlywater.org/war_on_the_shia_in_iraq From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 10 17:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] EZLN Communique, February, 6 Message-ID: <20070211011703.7322.qmail@resist.ca> Communiqu? from the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee ? General Command of the Zapatista Army for National Liberation First ? As has been denounced by the Autonomous Municipalities and the Good Government Councils, the supposed campaigns against narcotrafficking carried out by the government are a farce. Just like that which took Mr. Calder?n Hinojosa to power. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/ezln_communique_february_6 URL: http://mostlywater.org/ezln_communique_february_6 From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 10 18:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 02:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] An Appeal to People Outside the United States to Break US Imperial Power Message-ID: <20070211021703.18120.qmail@resist.ca> The United States now exists as a parasite upon the rest of the world. In this system, this political entity called the United States of America is not only a parasite, but a parasite that is destroying its own host. There is only one outcome in the end for such a relationship; we will all perish together. With the help of the people of the world...we can all escape this fate. Each of us ? with the destruction of US imperial power ? will be in a better position to work for a sustainable and indpendent future for ourselves, our children, and our grandchildren. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/an_appeal_to_people_outside_the_united_states_to_break_us_imperial_power URL: http://mostlywater.org/an_appeal_to_people_outside_the_united_states_to_break_us_imperial_power From news at resist.ca Sun Feb 11 18:17:19 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 02:17:19 -0000 Subject: [news] Iraqi Insurgents Offer Peace in Return for US Concessions Message-ID: <20070212021720.28648.qmail@resist.ca> For the first time, one of Iraq's principal insurgent groups has set out the terms of a ceasefire that would allow American and British forces to leave the country they invaded almost four years ago. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/iraqi_insurgents_offer_peace_in_return_for_us_concessions URL: http://mostlywater.org/iraqi_insurgents_offer_peace_in_return_for_us_concessions From news at resist.ca Sun Feb 11 22:40:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 06:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Thelma and Louise Imperialism: Over the Cliff with George and Dick? Message-ID: <20070212064012.22455.qmail@resist.ca> ...(T)o anyone not delusional...a massive air assault on Iran...would seem to be an act of madness. It would be immensely destructive to Iran...bloody in its repercussions for the U.S....imperiling to U.S. allies in the region; and, for the global economy, a potential energy catastrophe. A series of explosive events...could unravel the oil heartlands of the planet, making the administration's last several years in Iraq little more than an hors d'oeuvre before a banquet of catastrophe. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/thelma_and_louise_imperialism_over_the_cliff_with_george_and_dick URL: http://mostlywater.org/thelma_and_louise_imperialism_over_the_cliff_with_george_and_dick From news at resist.ca Sun Feb 11 23:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Bombing Venezuela's Indians: "If We Have to Die For Our Lands, We Will Die" Message-ID: <20070212071704.28829.qmail@resist.ca> If Chavez does not attend to rising calls for greater environmental controls, he will lose support amongst one of his most loyal constituencies, the indigenous population. Already, industrial mega projects have led to angry protest and undermined public confidence in the regime. For Chavez, it is surely one of the thorniest problems that his government must confront. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/if_we_have_to_die_for_our_lands_we_will_die_bombing_venezuelas_indians URL: http://mostlywater.org/if_we_have_to_die_for_our_lands_we_will_die_bombing_venezuelas_indians From news at resist.ca Sun Feb 11 23:40:11 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:40:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Market Forces: The Explosion of Corporate Mercenaries Message-ID: <20070212074012.32564.qmail@resist.ca> Who?s fielding the second biggest occupying force in Iraq, after the US?...It?s corporations! A recent report estimated that up to 50,000 private military and ?security? mercenaries are operating in Iraq, representing over 180 profit hungry corporations ? the true ?coalition of the willing?. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/market_forces URL: http://mostlywater.org/market_forces From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 12 10:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] George Bush's $592 million Palace in Iraq Message-ID: <20070212181704.2682.qmail@resist.ca> THE question puzzles and enrages a city: how is it that the Americans cannot keep the electricity running in Baghdad for more than a couple of hours a day, yet still manage to build themselves the biggest embassy on Earth? In the pavement caf?s, people moan that the structure is bigger than anything Saddam Hussein built. They are not impressed by the architects? claims that the diplomatic outpost will be visible from space and cover an area that is larger than the Vatican city and big enough to accommodate four Millennium Domes. They are more interested in knowing whether the US State Department paid for the prime real estate or simply took it. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/17626 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/17626 From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 13 09:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Greek Police Detain 60 Anarchists After Bank Arson Message-ID: <20070213171705.13407.qmail@resist.ca> Greek police detained some 60 people in Athens after suspected anarchists burnt a bank ATM late Monday, authorities said. Nobody was injured in the petrol bomb attack in central Athens, which caused minor damage. Police responded by raiding cafeterias frequented by suspected anarchists in the city center, detaining around 60 people. Nobody was arrested or formally accused of involvement in the fir [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/17663 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/17663 From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 14 00:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Militant Protest Greets Unveiling of Vancouver 'Olympic Clock' Message-ID: <20070214081704.7221.qmail@resist.ca> "Whether it's homelessness, further cuts to social program(s) because they need money for stupid bullshit events like this, or encroaching even more indigenous territory, these are the real effects of the Olympics." --Jill Chettiar, Anti-Poverty Committee [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/militant_protest_greets_unveiling_of_vancouver_olympic_clock URL: http://mostlywater.org/militant_protest_greets_unveiling_of_vancouver_olympic_clock From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 14 00:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Native Youth Movement Warriors Targeted & Arrested at Anti-Olympic Protest Message-ID: <20070214081704.7222.qmail@resist.ca> Three Native Warriors were targeted and arrested yesterday during a protest against the 2010 Winter Olympic Games planned to take place in Vancouver/Whistler, KKKanada...Native People from across BC participated in this rally along with non-natives...A total of seven protesters were arrested during this Anti-Olympic protest. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/native_youth_movement_warriors_targeted_arrested_at_anti_olympic_protest URL: http://mostlywater.org/native_youth_movement_warriors_targeted_arrested_at_anti_olympic_protest From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 14 09:17:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Innocent Aboriginal Man Seeking Judicial Review for Racist Wrongful Conviction Message-ID: <20070214171710.22207.qmail@resist.ca> John Moore, an Ojibway man from Serpent River First Nation, spent 10 years (from 1978 to 1988) in Millhaven, for a murder he did not commit. John Moore is asking the Justice Department to review his unconstitutional 2nd degree murder conviction. After being sentence in 1978, the law under which he was tried was repealed in 1987. "If he were to go to trial today on exactly the same facts and evidence, the murder charge would never get past the stage of a preliminary inquiry. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/17722 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/17722 From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 14 09:17:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Haiti Aux Haitiens Message-ID: <20070214171710.22206.qmail@resist.ca> Montreal Mobilizes in Solidarity with Haiti Over 100 demonstrators took to the streets in Montreal on Saturday, February 3, as part of the International Day in Solidarity with the People of Haiti. Their demands were clear: the end of MINUSTAH crimes and the departure of UN forces from Haiti; the liberation of political prisoners; the return of Jean-Bertrand Aristide to Haiti; and the repatriation of the multi-billion dollar debt paid to the French Government as price for Haitian independence. The protest came on the heels of the recent December 22 massacre in Cit? Soleil, which left over a dozen dead and many more wounded. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/17747 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/17747 From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 14 09:17:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] "The Virgin Earth Challenge" -- Yeesh! Message-ID: <20070214171711.22210.qmail@resist.ca> The owner of Virgin Airlines and [Virgin Galactic][1] (a space tourism project) is going to save the planet from climate change with the [Virgin Earth Challenge][2]. Branson's offering a $25 million prize to the person who can come up with a "commercially viable design which results in the removal of anthropogenic, atmospheric greenhouse gases so as to contribute materially to the stability of Earth?s climate." [read more][3] [1]: http://www.virgingalactic.com/ [2]: http://www.virginearth.com/ [3]: http://mostlywater.org/node/17720 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/17720 From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 14 18:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 02:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Kwakiutl: "We are Going to Start Fighting" Message-ID: <20070215021706.5582.qmail@resist.ca> "Our world is falling apart," Basil Ambers, a hereditary chief of the Kwakiutl First Nation...(said), "Everything we hold dear is gradually eroding away,"..."We are putting you on notice that we are going to start fighting for those things." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/kwakiutl_we_are_going_to_start_fighting URL: http://mostlywater.org/kwakiutl_we_are_going_to_start_fighting From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 14 19:17:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] United States of Aggression Message-ID: <20070215031710.380.qmail@resist.ca> Just in case anyone needs reminding that "USA" has always stood for "United States of Aggression," here are a forgotten few from February's Files: [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/united_states_of_aggression URL: http://mostlywater.org/united_states_of_aggression From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 14 20:40:14 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 04:40:14 -0000 Subject: [news] US Military To "Jack Bauer": Cut Out the Torture Scenes...or Else! Message-ID: <20070215044015.29336.qmail@resist.ca> In the hugely popular television series **24**, federal agent Jack Bauer always gets his man, even if he has to play a little rough. Suffocating, electrocuting or drugging a suspect are all in a day's work...The **US military** has appealed to the producers of 24 to tone down the torture scenes because of the impact they are having both on troops in the field and America's reputation abroad...(F)orget that the White House has authorised interrogation techniques that some classify as torture, that damned Jack Bauer is giving us a bad name. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/us_military_to_jack_bauer_cut_out_the_torture_scenes_or_else URL: http://mostlywater.org/us_military_to_jack_bauer_cut_out_the_torture_scenes_or_else From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 15 20:17:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 04:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Police Seek Clues in Patrol Van Bombing Message-ID: <20070216041711.23728.qmail@resist.ca> Sherbrooke police are turning to the public for help in their investigation after a cruiser van was bombed Wednesday, injuring an officer in the downtown Eastern Townships city. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/police_seek_clues_in_patrol_van_bombing URL: http://mostlywater.org/police_seek_clues_in_patrol_van_bombing From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 15 20:17:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 04:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] UN Peacekeeping Paramilitarism Message-ID: <20070216041711.23727.qmail@resist.ca> [T]he UN is hamstrung by a serious obstacle. Its dominant member is the US that undermines the world body's authority and effectiveness for its own imperial interests. It does it through its Security Council veto power, by withholding dues, disengaging from UN activities or just muscling or bribing member states to get its way. It gets away with it by being the world's leading economic, political and military superpower beholden to no interests but its own. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/un_peacekeeping_paramilitarism URL: http://mostlywater.org/un_peacekeeping_paramilitarism From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 15 22:40:15 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 06:40:15 -0000 Subject: [news] Palestinian Call to a Comprehensive Boycott of Israeli Products Message-ID: <20070216064016.9740.qmail@resist.ca> The labor movement and the Stop the Wall Campaign issued an appeal on Sunday to international and Arab trade unions to boycott Israeli goods until the ongoing assaults on the Palestinian people come to an end...?We must...put it into the public consciousness that we do not consume Israeli made anything.? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/palestinian_call_to_a_comprehensive_boycott_of_israeli_products URL: http://mostlywater.org/palestinian_call_to_a_comprehensive_boycott_of_israeli_products From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 15 23:17:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 07:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Homophobia in the NBA Message-ID: <20070216071707.15400.qmail@resist.ca> The NBA (National Basketball Association) banished Tim Hardaway from the all-star weekend in Las Vegas because of his anti-gay remarks..."We removed [Hardaway] from representing [the NBA] because we didn't think his comments were consistent with having anything to do with us," [NBA Commissioner David] Stern [said]...Hardaway['s]...comments...came a week after John Amaechi became the first former NBA player to say he was gay. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/homophobia_in_the_nba URL: http://mostlywater.org/homophobia_in_the_nba From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 16 00:17:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Who is Muqtada al-Sadr? Message-ID: <20070216081708.24112.qmail@resist.ca> Muqtada [al-Sadr] represent[s] those who hated Saddam, and were grateful that he was deposed, but did not want to replace him with a foreign occupation...President Bush shows no sign of learning from his failures in Iraq since 2003. For almost four years he has been fighting the Sunni community. Now, by confronting Muqtada, he is moving towards armed conflict with the Shia as well. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/who_is_muqtada_al_sadr URL: http://mostlywater.org/who_is_muqtada_al_sadr From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 16 02:40:18 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:40:18 -0000 Subject: [news] On Truly Disgusting Racism Message-ID: <20070216104020.9324.qmail@resist.ca> I cannot...apologize for what I called you, ?a truly disgusting racist?. In fact, going over your work over the past six months, I have to add that you are lazy, a liar, and a clich?-ridden writer...We know that a person who was fair would not sit long as Middle East Bureau Chief for the Toronto Star, but would face pressure for being...?overempathetic to the plight of Palestinians.? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/on_truly_disgusting_racism URL: http://mostlywater.org/on_truly_disgusting_racism From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 17 02:40:24 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 10:40:24 -0000 Subject: [news] Putting Black Faces on Imperial Aggression Message-ID: <20070217104025.6706.qmail@resist.ca> African Americans will pay a special, historical price if a corporate-molded Black politician becomes the titular leader of an unreconstructed U.S. imperial state - and, make no mistake about it, (Democratic Senator & Presidential hopeful) Barack Obama is an imperialist. No one but a deep-fried imperialist could describe U.S. behavior in Iraq as "coddling" the Iraqis, as Obama said to an establishment foreign policy gathering in Chicago... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/putting_black_faces_on_imperial_aggression URL: http://mostlywater.org/putting_black_faces_on_imperial_aggression From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 17 03:17:12 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 11:17:12 -0000 Subject: [news] Principles of Revolutionary Unionism Message-ID: <20070217111713.13564.qmail@resist.ca> Revolutionary unionism, basing itself on the class struggle, aims to unite all workers in combative economic organizations, that fight to free themselves from the double yoke of capital and the State. Its goal is the reorganization of social life on the basis of **Libertarian Communism** via the revolutionary action of the working class. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/principles_of_revolutionary_unionism URL: http://mostlywater.org/principles_of_revolutionary_unionism From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 17 14:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 22:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Danger At Work Message-ID: <20070217221703.23895.qmail@resist.ca> Not hundreds, not thousands but; Hundreds of thousands of Canadians assaulted at work Work not only kills it injures. And not a word about this crime wave in the workplace from the Law & Order government in Ottawa. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/danger_at_work URL: http://mostlywater.org/danger_at_work From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 17 15:40:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 23:40:07 -0000 Subject: [news] World Social Forum: 'NGO Trade Fair' or Left Wing Politics? Message-ID: <20070217234008.20521.qmail@resist.ca> A mixed message - combining celebration and autocritique - is in order, in the wake of the Nairobi World Social Forum. From January 20-25, the 60,000 registered participants heard triumphalist radical rhetoric and yet, too, witnessed persistent defeats for social justice causes - especially within the WSF's own processes. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/world_social_forum_ngo_trade_fair_or_left_wing_politics URL: http://mostlywater.org/world_social_forum_ngo_trade_fair_or_left_wing_politics From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 17 15:40:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 23:40:07 -0000 Subject: [news] The Criminalization of the Six Nations Land Reclamation: News, Updates, and Call Out for Support and Solidarity Message-ID: <20070217234008.20526.qmail@resist.ca> 1) Update and Report on the Release of Trevor Miller - Report by Sarita Ahooja - Hamilton Spectator: Tears, Applause as Activist Freed 2) The case of Jeff "Hawk" - Turtle Island News: Jeff "Hawk" facing Canadian Courts - Interview with Jeff Hawk by CKUT Radio in Montreal 3) Free Chris Hill! [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/17867 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/17867 From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 17 16:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 00:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] 26 Americans, Mostly CIA Agents, Charged for Kidnapping in Italy Message-ID: <20070218001704.27094.qmail@resist.ca> On Friday an Italian judge ordered 26 Americans, a CIA-led team, to stand trial for kidnapping of Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr in 2003. He was brought to Egypt where he says he was tortured as a subject to CIA "rendition". He was later released. Also on trial is Nicolo Pollari, Italy's former spy chief, and members of the SISMI military intelligence agency. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/17882 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/17882 From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 17 19:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 03:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] The Withering of the American Environmental Movement Message-ID: <20070218031703.24627.qmail@resist.ca> Something happened. Somewhere along the line, the environmental movement disconnected with the people, rejected its political roots, pulled the plug on its vibrant and militant tradition. It packed its bags, starched its shirts and jetted to [Washington, DC], where it became what it once despised: a risk-aversive, depersonalized, hyper-analytical, humorless, access-driven, intolerant, centralized, technocratic, dealmaking, passionless, direct-mailing, lawyer-laden monolith to mediocrity. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_withering_of_the_american_environmental_movement URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_withering_of_the_american_environmental_movement From news at resist.ca Sun Feb 18 11:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Suppressed Report Shows Cancer Link to GM Potatoes Message-ID: <20070218191704.12283.qmail@resist.ca> [![Slashdot: Politics][1]][2] Doc Ruby writes "After an 8-year-long court battle, Welsh activists have finally been allowed to released a Russian study showing an increased cancer risk linked to eating genetically modified potatoes. While the victory of the Welsh Greenpeace members in the courtroom would seem to vindicate the work of the Russian scientists that did the original research, there are still serious questions to be answered. [read more][3] [1]: http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicslashdot.gif [2]: http://politics.slashdot.org/ [3]: http://mostlywater.org/node/17939 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/17939 From news at resist.ca Sun Feb 18 11:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Scapegoating Muslims in Britain Message-ID: <20070218191704.12284.qmail@resist.ca> ...[T]he price for these constant security operations is paid...by our Muslim communities. Every such operation tars them with the brush of terrorism, an intimation to [the] rest of society that extremism lurks within their ranks...Imagine what it feels like to be a Muslim, stalked by a constant sense of distrust and suspicion? As a society we may condemn racism, but when it comes to Muslims, it seems to be somehow acceptable... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/scapegoating_muslims_in_britain URL: http://mostlywater.org/scapegoating_muslims_in_britain From news at resist.ca Sun Feb 18 12:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 20:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] The Rules of Imperial Management Message-ID: <20070218204008.11198.qmail@resist.ca> The world community calls them "Blue Helmets" or "peacekeepers," and the UN defines their mission as "a way to help countries torn by conflict create conditions for sustainable peace" by implementing and monitoring post-conflict peace processes former combatants have agreed to under provisions of the UN Charter. The Charter empowers the Security Council to take collective action to maintain international peace and security that includes authorizing peacekeeping operations provided a host country agrees to have them under Rules of Engagement developed and approved by all parties. At that point, the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations enlists member nations to provide force contingents to be deployed once the Security Council gives final approval. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_rules_of_imperial_management URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_rules_of_imperial_management From news at resist.ca Sun Feb 18 18:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 02:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Cop Watch LA: In Defense of Our Immigrant Communities Message-ID: <20070219021705.17643.qmail@resist.ca> As Cop Watch LA, it is our mission to defend our communities against systematic state repression against people of color. Due to the recent and historical terror campaigns conducted by the federal and local governments on our immigrant communities...Cop Watch LA stands in solidarity with and in defense of, our communities of color and immigrant families. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/cop_watch_la_in_defense_of_our_immigrant_communities URL: http://mostlywater.org/cop_watch_la_in_defense_of_our_immigrant_communities From news at resist.ca Sun Feb 18 18:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 02:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] "No Iraqis in Our Backyards!": Keeping Ohio Refugee Free Message-ID: <20070219021705.17644.qmail@resist.ca> ...(O)n top of the million or so Iraqis we've killed, and the four million we've maimed, we've also created millions of refugees...And the governor of Ohio wants to be first in line to say, "Keep your tired and maimed. Don't burden us"...What world is this? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/no_iraqis_in_our_backyards_keeping_ohio_refugee_free URL: http://mostlywater.org/no_iraqis_in_our_backyards_keeping_ohio_refugee_free From seinforma at resist.ca Sun Feb 18 19:02:12 2007 From: seinforma at resist.ca (seinforma at resist.ca) Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:02:12 -0800 (PST) Subject: [news] Colombian president's threat/A Pan-Canadian Day of action Message-ID: <3415.24.57.91.109.1171854132.squirrel@mail.resist.ca> COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT'S GENERAL THREAT Who is the civilian terrorist? ?lvaro Uribe V?lez made insubstatiated claims against social, political and human rights organizations. He called them ?civilian terrorists?. Terrorism of State. www.seinforma.ca/english.html ---------------------------------------------- 4TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE INVASION OF IRAQ A Pan-Canadian Day of Action Against the War Simultaneous protests will be carried out on March 17 in Edmonton, Alberta; Mississauga, Ontario; Montreal, Quebec; Ottawa, Ontario; Regina, Saskatchewan; Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; Toronto, Ontario; Windsor, Ontario; and Vancouver and Victoria in British Columbia. See all events city by city. www.seinforma.ca/events.html From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 19 08:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Bi-Partisan Empire-Building: Liberals & War Message-ID: <20070219164009.24495.qmail@resist.ca> Illegal and immoral U.S. aggression is...a bipartisan affair. Democrats and liberals are responsible for their share of the death, destruction, and misery caused by U.S. empire-building along with Republicans and conservatives...(E)ven politicians with...progressive politics can be twisted by the pathology of power and privilege. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/bi_partisan_empire_building_liberals_war URL: http://mostlywater.org/bi_partisan_empire_building_liberals_war From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 19 11:40:14 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:40:14 -0000 Subject: [news] BC Health Spending Exploding? Don't Believe It Message-ID: <20070219194015.17647.qmail@resist.ca> [![TheTyee.ca][1]][2] The real story is a provincial budget skewed by deep cuts to welfare, local government and transportation. ![Show me the money][3]**Show me the money** [read more][4] [1]: http://thetyee.ca/images/tyee_icon.png [2]: http://thetyee.ca [3]: http://mostlywater.org/system/files/images/health_chart.png (Show me the money) [4]: http://mostlywater.org/node/17996 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/17996 From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 19 23:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] How Wealth Creates Poverty in the World Message-ID: <20070220074009.3179.qmail@resist.ca> There is a ?mystery? we must explain: How is it that as corporate investments and foreign aid and international loans to poor countries have increased dramatically throughout the world over the last half century, so has poverty? The number of people living in poverty is growing at a faster rate than the world?s population. What do we make of this? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/how_wealth_creates_poverty_in_the_world URL: http://mostlywater.org/how_wealth_creates_poverty_in_the_world From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 20 00:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] More Useful Idiots: How "Liberal" Pundits Peddle Propaganda Message-ID: <20070220081705.9501.qmail@resist.ca> ...[W]e shouldn't deceive ourselves when we talk of these useful idiots by pointing exclusively to reactionary right-wing pundits. Increasingly, those who identify themselves within the "respectable," "fair-minded" and political "middle" use similar types of distortions, with minimal public accountability. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/more_useful_idiots_how_liberal_pundits_peddle_propaganda URL: http://mostlywater.org/more_useful_idiots_how_liberal_pundits_peddle_propaganda From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 20 13:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Freedom Fight: Anarchy in the Balkans Message-ID: <20070220214010.6410.qmail@resist.ca> FreedomFight is an anarchist, alter-globalist movement created in Serbia in 2003. Beside work on [an] alternative web-based media project...Freedom Fight movement promotes [the] necessity of opposing neo-liberal ideology. But that?s not all, we are not just [a] reaction to the unjust system, we also try to seek for proper alternatives for the life after capitalism. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/freedom_fight_anarchy_in_the_balkans URL: http://mostlywater.org/freedom_fight_anarchy_in_the_balkans From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 20 15:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 23:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Ecuador's President Embraces Bolivarianism Message-ID: <20070220231706.9726.qmail@resist.ca> Venezuelan Bolivarianism has a new home of Ecuador. Hugo Chavez Frias gained an Ecuadoran ally last November when voters rejected Washington's choice and the country's richest man and elected Raphael Correa its President by an impressive margin. Correa is a populist economist and self-styled "humanist, leftist Christian" promising big changes for another Latin American country long ruled by and for the elite and against the interests of ordinary people Ecuador abounds in whose voices finally spoke and prevailed. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/ecuadors_president_embraces_bolivarianism URL: http://mostlywater.org/ecuadors_president_embraces_bolivarianism From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 20 20:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 04:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] US Preparations for Invading Iran are Complete Message-ID: <20070221041704.28434.qmail@resist.ca> American military operations for a major conventional war with Iran could be implemented any day. They extend far beyond targeting suspect WMD facilities and will enable President Bush to destroy Iran's military, political and economic infrastructure overnight using conventional weapons. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/us_preparations_for_invading_iran_are_complete URL: http://mostlywater.org/us_preparations_for_invading_iran_are_complete From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 21 00:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Structured Cruelty: Learning to be a Lean, Mean Killing Machine Message-ID: <20070221081703.754.qmail@resist.ca> The war crimes committed by U.S. troops in Iraq...are, in fact, part and parcel of all imperialist wars. The [Marine Corp's] claim that recruits learn "to live as upstanding moral beings with real purpose" is a sickening ploy aimed to disguise its true objectives. Given the fact that Marines are molded to kill the enemy "other"...(training day) combined with the bestial nature of colonial war, it should come as no surprise that rather than turning "degenerates" into paragons of virtue, the Corps is more likely capable of transforming men into monsters. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/structured_cruelty_learning_to_be_a_lean_mean_killing_machine URL: http://mostlywater.org/structured_cruelty_learning_to_be_a_lean_mean_killing_machine From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 21 00:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Guardian Angels Threaten Anti-Poverty Committee Message-ID: <20070221081704.756.qmail@resist.ca> The Vancouver Guardian Angels yesterday issued a warning to the renegade Anti-Poverty Committee..."If they hold violent attacks on something like the Olympics then we will stand with the police to help protect people," said Dennis Watson of the Angels...Watson said Angels from around the world will be invited to Vancouver to "protect innocent people, rich or poor, from senseless acts of violence." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/guardian_angels_threaten_anti_poverty_committee URL: http://mostlywater.org/guardian_angels_threaten_anti_poverty_committee From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 21 00:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Five Arrested as Anti-Poverty Committee Women Occupy Finance Minister's Office Message-ID: <20070221081703.755.qmail@resist.ca> The women of the Anti-Poverty Committee (APC) successfully occupied the office of Finance Minister Carole Taylor on Monday. At 10:00am five women locked down inside the office, with the support of 20 other APC members...It took the [Vancouver police] three hours to remove the...women from the office and arrest them. All five are being charged with mischief. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/five_arrested_as_anti_poverty_committee_women_occupy_finance_ministers_office URL: http://mostlywater.org/five_arrested_as_anti_poverty_committee_women_occupy_finance_ministers_office From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 21 09:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Prisons Offer Free Transfers to Lock-down Paradises Out of State Message-ID: <20070221174009.28982.qmail@resist.ca> [R]ather than do something concrete about the racist and classist mass incarceration of a large chunk of the population, California has produced a video to be shown to inmates, enticing them with promises of better treatment if they will agree to transfer to prisons outside the state. [contains some interesting numbers on the current and predicted states of the American prison sytem] [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/18068 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/18068 From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 21 09:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Hoping Against Hope? Message-ID: <20070221174009.28989.qmail@resist.ca> A review of a new audio documentary about the struggle against colonialism In Canada A recently released audio documentary finds that in today?s Canada, Indigenous communities are ?beset with record levels of suicide, high infant mortality rates, rampant sexual exploitation, epidemic levels of gas-sniffing, and alcohol, drug and solvent abuse. Furthermore there is an over-representation of Indigenous people in the prison system and chronic levels of desperate poverty.? These findings aren?t much different from what?s occasionally found in media headlines, but the root causes the documentary points to and the solutions it proposes are radically different from anything found in mainstream discourse. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/18050 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/18050 From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 21 16:17:38 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:17:38 -0000 Subject: [news] BC Liberals Feature Tax Cuts as Major Component of "Housing Plan" Message-ID: <20070222001739.28655.qmail@resist.ca> [Housing Advocates]...fumed that the 10 per cent personal income tax cut was billed as a main component of the B.C. [Liberals] housing strategy. They found meagre the promise of a mere 250 new social housing units built in B.C. over the next two years...They wondered how, for people living on social assistance, a $50 boost in shelter allowance was supposed to change their living circumstances in any serious way. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/bc_liberals_feature_tax_cuts_as_major_component_of_housing_plan URL: http://mostlywater.org/bc_liberals_feature_tax_cuts_as_major_component_of_housing_plan From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 21 16:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Vegan Foods That =?utf-8?b?RG9u4oCZdA==?= Suck Message-ID: <20070222004010.15548.qmail@resist.ca> We have all eaten horrific vegan food. It is inevitable. But over time, I have collected truly delicious vegan recipes and thought I would share a few with you in this article. Vegan food does not have to suck! (Vegan foods, for those of you who are not sure what I am talking about, are foods with no dairy, eggs, or meat products in them)...(V)egan foods are a good antidote to the fat-laden (North) American diet that is so conveniently at our fingertips nowadays. The following recipes are easy to make, kids love them, they are healthy foods, and they actually taste great! [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/vegan_foods_that_don_t_suck URL: http://mostlywater.org/vegan_foods_that_don_t_suck From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 21 20:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Court Overturns Jeff Luers' Sentence Message-ID: <20070222041705.4886.qmail@resist.ca> The Oregon Court of Appeals on Wednesday overturned the 22-year sentence given to environmental activist Jeffrey Michael Luers for burning three SUVs at the former Romania truck lot and for trying to set fire to the Tyree Oil Co. in Eugene. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/court_overturns_jeff_luers_sentence URL: http://mostlywater.org/court_overturns_jeff_luers_sentence From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 22 10:17:28 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:17:28 -0000 Subject: [news] Urgent: Solidarity with Six Nations Message-ID: <20070222181730.15839.qmail@resist.ca> One year ago, a group of people from Six Nations took back a piece of their land that was under construction by an American developer and demanded an end to the destruction of their land and to the settler encroachment on their territory. The people of Kanohnstaton, formerly ?Douglas Creek Estates? have asked for and encouraged solidarity actions and a pressure campaign in support of the reclamation. The Six Nations Land Reclamation needs your support and solidarity to make the Canadian government understand that Six Nations are not alone. We must speak out against the injustices of colonial land theft and genocide and take a stand for dignity, indigenous land rights, justice and autonomy. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/urgent_solidarity_with_six_nations URL: http://mostlywater.org/urgent_solidarity_with_six_nations From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 22 10:17:26 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:17:26 -0000 Subject: [news] Cover Up: It's Easy to be Innocent When You Control the Evidence Message-ID: <20070222181730.15835.qmail@resist.ca> The ex Supreme Court Justice John Major's appointed by Harper to conduct a public hearing into the Air India F.U. has discovered that like the Arar Inquiry the State has marshelled all their forces in a united front called National Security. The RCMP, CSIS, Foreign Affairs, the whole crew of bunglers has blacked out what could be incriminating evidence, refusing the Justice to even preview it in private. And what could their reason be? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/cover_up URL: http://mostlywater.org/cover_up From news at resist.ca Thu Feb 22 10:17:26 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:17:26 -0000 Subject: [news] Herbs for Vulvas! Message-ID: <20070222181728.15832.qmail@resist.ca> Vaginas and vulvas have their own moods and styles, but certain things irritate most vulvas and certain things don?t. I am not making any medicinal claims about the recipes that follow, I just know what has worked for me. My own intuition tells me it is safer and healthier for me to use comfrey-infused olive oil on my vulva, than to use some chemical concoction made in a factory. Some of the things you can make for your vulva include special herbal baths, special vulva oil, and natural yeast infection remedies. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/herbs_for_vulvas URL: http://mostlywater.org/herbs_for_vulvas From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 23 00:40:12 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:40:12 -0000 Subject: [news] Unmasking Vancouver's Olympic Legacy: Poverty Cleansing in the Downtown Eastside Message-ID: <20070223084013.21880.qmail@resist.ca> The deafening silence in [Vancouver] from the academic community, labour unions, elected leaders, the Board of Trade and even most non-profit societies is not only pathetic, but an unfortunate characteristic of this passive, intellectually dead city that lacks compassion. This is a city where people talk about progressive politics and social change, but don't really do anything about it. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/unmasking_vancouvers_olympic_legacy_poverty_cleansing_in_the_downtown_eastside URL: http://mostlywater.org/unmasking_vancouvers_olympic_legacy_poverty_cleansing_in_the_downtown_eastside From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 23 09:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Corruption Taints Health Care, Costs Lives Message-ID: <20070223174010.3102.qmail@resist.ca> Corruption in the health sector deprives those most in need of essential medical care and helps spawn drug-resistant strains of deadly diseases, says Transparency International's Global Corruption Report 2006. Transparency International is the global civil society organisation leading the fight against corruption. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/corruption_taints_health_care_costs_lives URL: http://mostlywater.org/corruption_taints_health_care_costs_lives From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 23 10:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] International Invitation to Peace Encampments on Zapatista and =?utf-8?q?Cucap=C3=A1?= Territory Message-ID: <20070223181703.11229.qmail@resist.ca> To Be Installed February 26 in El Mayor, Baja California; March 13 in Huitepec, Near San Crist?bal de Las Casas, Chiapas By Subcomandante Marcos, EZLN Translated by Narco News February 22, 2007 [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/international_invitation_to_peace_encampments_on_zapatista_and_cucapa_territory URL: http://mostlywater.org/international_invitation_to_peace_encampments_on_zapatista_and_cucapa_territory From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 23 15:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 23:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Islamophobia Allows Civil-Rights Abuses Message-ID: <20070223231706.28232.qmail@resist.ca> ?Islamophobia is the way in which the Muslim community is constructed as an enemy, a civilizational other,?...?As a whole, Muslims occupy the opposite of everything that is good in the West?...?It creates an idea where everything in the West is completely egalitarian, completely democratic; everything is completely perfect, and on the other side, everything is completely barbaric, completely oppressive.? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/islamophobia_allows_civil_rights_abuses URL: http://mostlywater.org/islamophobia_allows_civil_rights_abuses From news at resist.ca Fri Feb 23 22:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 06:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] If Bush is a War Criminal, Then What About the Troops? Message-ID: <20070224061705.17091.qmail@resist.ca> Reasonable people contemplating service in the U.S. military should know that people throughout the world regard participation in the occupation as tantamount to aiding and abetting in mass murder, fraud, human rights violations, and international war crimes. By now, all of the troops should recognize this, and ignorance is no excuse. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/if_bush_is_a_war_criminal_then_what_about_the_troops URL: http://mostlywater.org/if_bush_is_a_war_criminal_then_what_about_the_troops From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 24 08:40:15 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 16:40:15 -0000 Subject: [news] Iraqi Police Commit Rapes Message-ID: <20070224164015.26182.qmail@resist.ca> At least nine Iraqi organizations...as well as Amnesty International...have documented the sexualized torture of Iraqi women while in police custody...[S]exual violence is woven into the fabric of the civil war now raging across Iraq. According to Iraqi human rights advocate and writer Haifa Zangana, the first question asked of female detainees in Iraq is, "Are you Sunni or Shia?" The second is, "Are you a virgin?" [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/iraqi_police_commit_rapes URL: http://mostlywater.org/iraqi_police_commit_rapes From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 24 10:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 18:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] What is a Popular Assembly? =?utf-8?b?wr9RdWU=?= es una asamblea popular? Message-ID: <20070224181704.14279.qmail@resist.ca> While the primary demand of the APPO has been the removal of the governor of Oaxaca , they have also called for broader economic, social and political transformations, as well as changes in the state's political constitution. This goal was furthered through the formation of the State Council of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (CEAPPO) during the APPO's November Constitutional Congress. The State Council is an effort to create an organization that will outlive the current mobilization and extend beyond the capital city throughout the state. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/18238 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/18238 From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 24 10:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 18:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Sudbury: Crown Drops Charges Against Social Activists in Police Brutality Case Message-ID: <20070224181704.14282.qmail@resist.ca> BY KEITH LACEY, Northern Life Criminal charges against two university students, who claim Greater Sudbury Police officers roughed them up without cause, have been dropped. Charges of mischief, trespassing, resisting arrest and assaulting a police officer were laid against Ander Reszczynski and Shawn Pelletier following an incident at Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto off Van Horne St. last summer. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/18259 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/18259 From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 24 14:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 22:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Criticizing Israel is Not an Act of Bigotry Message-ID: <20070224221704.24572.qmail@resist.ca> In a world where uncritical support for Israel is becoming less and less tenable due to the expanding human rights disaster in the West Bank and Gaza, leaders of Jewish communities outside Israel have circled their wagons, heightened their pro-Israel rhetoric, and demonized Israel's critics. These leaders imply that increased concerns about Israel do not result from that state's actions, but from an increase in anti-Semitism. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/criticizing_israel_is_not_an_act_of_bigotry URL: http://mostlywater.org/criticizing_israel_is_not_an_act_of_bigotry From news at resist.ca Sat Feb 24 14:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 22:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] None of These Will Prevent the U.S. from Bombing Iran Message-ID: <20070224221704.24573.qmail@resist.ca> Mickey Z. lists the actions which **won't stop** a U.S. attack against Iran. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/none_of_these_will_prevent_the_u_s_from_bombing_iran URL: http://mostlywater.org/none_of_these_will_prevent_the_u_s_from_bombing_iran From news at resist.ca Sun Feb 25 00:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 08:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Children Should Not Settle Custody Disputes Message-ID: <20070225081703.4619.qmail@resist.ca> I was very disturbed by a news story I saw recently about a girl named ?Anna Mae.? ABC News summarized the story as an adoption case gone awry. A child with Chinese parents is at the center of an adoption custody lawsuit. When I saw the home videos that the adoptive parents, the Bakers, used on TV to try to win people over to their side, I was appalled. They asked 8 year old Anna if she wanted to go to China, and she said something like ?No, I *never* want to go there.? And in another clip, they show her in a big sombrero and the Bakers said she ?rejects her Chinese heritage and tells people she is Mexican.? The Bakers came off looking like horribly shallow racists, to be honest. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/children_should_not_settle_custody_disputes URL: http://mostlywater.org/children_should_not_settle_custody_disputes From news at resist.ca Sun Feb 25 00:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 08:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] CUPE's Paul Moist Prepares to Contract Out Unionized Work Message-ID: <20070225081703.4618.qmail@resist.ca> CUPE's President Paul Moist and Vice President of the out of touch Canadian Labour Congress, not only insulted the whole labour movement and every dues paying member by insisting on concessions from its workers, but now Paul Moist, CUPE's top CEO is willing to commit the ultimate sin and introduce scabs to do the work of unionized workers. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/cupes_paul_moist_prepares_to_contract_out_unionized_work URL: http://mostlywater.org/cupes_paul_moist_prepares_to_contract_out_unionized_work From news at resist.ca Sun Feb 25 23:40:12 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 07:40:12 -0000 Subject: [news] First Nations Activist Dies After Release from Jail Message-ID: <20070226074012.14401.qmail@resist.ca> A community is in mourning following news of the death of a great-grandmother who fought to defend aboriginal rights and the environment. Activist **Harriet Nahanee** died at St. Paul?s Hospital in Vancouver on Saturday, February 24, one month after she was sentenced to fourteen days in jail for protesting the destruction of a wetlands for a highway bypass. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/first_nations_activist_dies_after_release_from_jail URL: http://mostlywater.org/first_nations_activist_dies_after_release_from_jail From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 26 00:17:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] U.S. Economy Leaving Record Numbers in Severe Poverty Message-ID: <20070226081708.24263.qmail@resist.ca> The percentage of poor Americans who are living in severe poverty has reached a 32-year high, millions of working Americans are falling closer to the poverty line and the gulf between the nation's "haves" and "have-nots" continues to widen. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/u_s_economy_leaving_record_numbers_in_severe_poverty URL: http://mostlywater.org/u_s_economy_leaving_record_numbers_in_severe_poverty From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 26 03:40:16 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:40:16 -0000 Subject: [news] 9/11 Conspiracy Theories: A Coward's Cult Message-ID: <20070226114017.30257.qmail@resist.ca> Why do I bother with these morons? Because they are destroying the movements which some of us have spent a long time trying to build. Those of us who believe that the crucial global issues - climate change, the Iraq war, nuclear proliferation, inequality - are insufficiently debated...(T)hat corporate power stands too heavily on democracy...The obvious corollorary to the belief that the Bush administration is all-powerful is that the rest of us are completely powerless...The omnipotence of the Bush regime is the coward's fantasy, an excuse for inaction used by those who don't have the stomach to engage in real political fights. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/9_11_conspiracy_theories_a_cowards_cult URL: http://mostlywater.org/9_11_conspiracy_theories_a_cowards_cult From news at resist.ca Mon Feb 26 15:17:34 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 23:17:34 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada vs. Nunavut for Oil & Gas in the Eastern Arctic? Message-ID: <20070226231734.20261.qmail@resist.ca> Prentice said last week in an interview broadcast on CPAC, the Canadian parliamentary channel, that his recently-appointed devolution negotiator, Paul Mayer, is not mandated to talk about resources within the ?offshore seabed.? Okalik, on the other hand, says legal and historical precedents demand that Nunavut get jurisdiction over its internal waters and that Ottawa?s current position amounts to Nunavut being ?treated like an offshore colony rather than an equal member of Confederation.? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/canada_vs_nunavut_for_oil_gas_in_the_eastern_arctic URL: http://mostlywater.org/canada_vs_nunavut_for_oil_gas_in_the_eastern_arctic From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 27 00:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] "Hands Off the Capos, Bust the Users:" Calderon's War on Drugs Message-ID: <20070227084010.24367.qmail@resist.ca> In lieu of the "pez gordos" (big fish) and their loads, [Mexican President Felipe] Calderon's drug warriors are going after the minnows or what is called here, the "narco-minudeo" or...street dealers...Calderon's War on drugs is in fact aimed at them. While the drug barons hole up in front of plasma screens in the sanctuary of their heavily guarded ranchos and haciendas, the jails are crowded with the young and the poor, more often than not the color of the earth. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/hands_off_the_capos_bust_the_users_calderons_war_on_drugs URL: http://mostlywater.org/hands_off_the_capos_bust_the_users_calderons_war_on_drugs From news at resist.ca Tue Feb 27 23:40:16 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 07:40:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Islamophobia & the Campaign Against Keffiyehs Message-ID: <20070228074017.2135.qmail@resist.ca> On January 20th, at Guilford College...3 Palestinian students were called "sand niggers" and "terrorists" while being beaten...and kicked...by more than a dozen members of the school's football team. Now I can't say whether the Guilford College football team took their inspiration...directly from the anti-keffiyeh campaign, but this shows that mainstream media, politicians, and corporate executives' equation of all things Arab with terrorism has horrific consequences for Arabs. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/islamophobia_the_campaign_against_keffiyehs URL: http://mostlywater.org/islamophobia_the_campaign_against_keffiyehs From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 28 00:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Apartheid Looks Like This Message-ID: <20070228081704.9780.qmail@resist.ca> ...(M)oving goods and people from one place to the next in the West Bank has become a nightmare of logistics and costly delays. At the checkpoints, food spoils, patients die, and children are prevented from reaching their schools. The World Bank blames the checkpoints and roadblocks for strangling the Palestinian economy. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/apartheid_looks_like_this URL: http://mostlywater.org/apartheid_looks_like_this From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 28 13:40:29 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:40:29 -0000 Subject: [news] Afghanistan: The Case for Withdrawal Message-ID: <20070228214031.31743.qmail@resist.ca> What was initially viewed by some locals as a necessary police action against al-Qaeda following the 9/11 attacks is now perceived by a growing majority in the entire region as a fully-fledged imperial occupation. The Taliban is growing and creating new alliances not because its sectarian religious practices have become popular, but because it is the only available umbrella for national liberation. As the British and Russians discovered to their cost in the preceding two centuries, Afghans never liked being occupied. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/afghanistan_the_case_for_withdrawal URL: http://mostlywater.org/afghanistan_the_case_for_withdrawal From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 28 14:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Warfighters, Not Missionaries: The Origins of the Three-Block War Message-ID: <20070228224010.26786.qmail@resist.ca> The posture of the establishment's policymakers and planners betrays an aggressive, military-borne doctrine rooted in advancing Canadian "interests" on a global scale. The implementation of the "three-block war" doctrine is an illustrative example of Canada's intentions. Simply put, the three-block war is an urban warfare doctrine that identifies three separate but often simultaneous spheres of enforcing military control in a city?warfighting, policing and facilitating aid. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/warfighters_not_missionaries_the_origins_of_the_three_block_war URL: http://mostlywater.org/warfighters_not_missionaries_the_origins_of_the_three_block_war From news at resist.ca Wed Feb 28 23:17:06 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 07:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Washington Post Calls for the Execution of All Anarchists. . . Message-ID: <20070301071707.23137.qmail@resist.ca> "Since an avowal of anarchy has been found to be equivalent to an intention to commit murder, needing only opportunity to ripen in into action, an anarchist is, in fact, a murderer, even before he has done the deed, and he should be executed accordingly." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/washington_post_calls_for_the_execution_of_all_anarchists URL: http://mostlywater.org/washington_post_calls_for_the_execution_of_all_anarchists