From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 2 00:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 08:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] A Look Back and Ahead in an Age of Neocon Rule Message-ID: <20070102084009.12318.qmail@resist.ca> A look back at the year and an ominous look ahead to the new one. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/a_look_back_and_ahead_in_an_age_of_neocon_rule URL: http://mostlywater.org/a_look_back_and_ahead_in_an_age_of_neocon_rule From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 2 00:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 08:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Is Unwanted French Kissing Sexual Assault? Message-ID: <20070102084009.12323.qmail@resist.ca> I was discomforted when I recently heard Fantasia saying that Jamie Foxx french kissed her out of nowhere, on stage, after one of her performances...It is a shame that women who are new to the music industry have to physically fend off older male musicians. It is honestly a sign of disrespect, Jamie would never shove his tongue unexpectedly down Aretha?s mouth! All of my memories of tongues from men and me, without my prior permission, are bad memories of assault. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/is_unwanted_french_kissing_sexual_assault URL: http://mostlywater.org/is_unwanted_french_kissing_sexual_assault From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 2 00:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 08:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Former Longtime Confidant Accuses Ariel Sharon of Assassinating Yasser Arafat Message-ID: <20070102084010.12329.qmail@resist.ca> Ariel Sharon's involvement in the death of Yasser Arafat. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/former_longtime_confidant_accuses_ariel_sharon_of_assassinating_yasser_arafat URL: http://mostlywater.org/former_longtime_confidant_accuses_ariel_sharon_of_assassinating_yasser_arafat From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 2 00:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 08:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Radical Elder: Anarchist John Zerzan Message-ID: <20070102084010.12335.qmail@resist.ca> An article about and conversation with anarchist theorist and author John Zerzan. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/radical_elder_anarchist_john_zerzan URL: http://mostlywater.org/radical_elder_anarchist_john_zerzan From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 2 01:17:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 09:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Canadian Media Blind to Afghan Civilian Deaths Message-ID: <20070102091708.19641.qmail@resist.ca> This article examines several recent instances of NATO forces killing Afghan civilians - all of which occurred well after the close of Operation Medusa - and the coverage which those events were given by our country's agenda-setting English newspapers: the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/canadian_media_blind_to_afghan_civilian_deaths URL: http://mostlywater.org/canadian_media_blind_to_afghan_civilian_deaths From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 2 17:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 01:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Activist Clarity Via Law School Applications Message-ID: <20070103011703.30280.qmail@resist.ca> Applying to law school is not for the weak of heart...I find myself laboring through the applications' hard questions. These are big "life" questions, and trying to answer them, really does take one on a sort of inner spiritual journey. At this point, I would even recommend just trying to complete a law school application, for your own spiritual clarity, if you are an activist! To get more clarity and direction, a Raja Yoga, of sorts. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/activist_clarity_via_law_school_applications URL: http://mostlywater.org/activist_clarity_via_law_school_applications From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 2 20:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 04:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Hang the Bushes in that Iraqi Jail! Message-ID: <20070103041703.14536.qmail@resist.ca> Seeing another dead Iraqi...did not convince me that Iraq was now a democracy...I figured I may have had more satisfaction watching the video if I could believe that all presidential war criminals would get the same treatment. I'd love to see both Bushes, Clinton, Ashcroft, Powell, Cheney and Condi dangling at the end of a rope for the horrors they have inflicted on the Iraqi people. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/hang_the_bushes_in_that_iraqi_jail URL: http://mostlywater.org/hang_the_bushes_in_that_iraqi_jail From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 2 20:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 04:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] The 2006 You Didn't Hear About Message-ID: <20070103041703.14535.qmail@resist.ca> The big news is usually the bad news, and this year the biggest stories weren't even news -- climate change and the war in Iraq were trouble that had begun well before 2006. But dozens of small stories set another tone...Activists won dozens of small and not-so-small victories for human rights and the environment in 2006. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_2006_you_didnt_hear_about URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_2006_you_didnt_hear_about From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 2 20:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 04:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] The Soviet Union, R.I.P.? Message-ID: <20070103044008.1107.qmail@resist.ca> ...(W)hy did so many American commentators, from politicians and journalists to scholars, hail the breakup of the Soviet Union as a "breakthrough" to democracy and free-market capitalism? Where Russia was concerned, their reaction was, as usual, based mainly on anti-Communist ideology and hopeful myths, not historical or contemporary realities. Alluding to that myopia on the part of people who had sought the destruction of the Soviet state, a Moscow philosopher later remarked bitterly, "They were aiming at Communism but hitting Russia." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_soviet_union_r_i_p URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_soviet_union_r_i_p From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 2 22:17:06 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 06:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Few Iraqis Getting U.S. Sanctuary Message-ID: <20070103061706.16942.qmail@resist.ca> With thousands of Iraqis desperately fleeing this country every day, advocates for refugees, and even some American officials, say there is an urgent need to allow more Iraqi refugees into the United States...?We?re not even meeting our basic obligation to the Iraqis who?ve been imperiled because they worked for the U.S. government,? said Kirk W. Johnson, who worked for the United States Agency for International Development in Falluja in 2005. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/few_iraqis_getting_u_s_sanctuary URL: http://mostlywater.org/few_iraqis_getting_u_s_sanctuary From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 2 23:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 07:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] "Low-Intensity Democracy": The Case of Serbia Message-ID: <20070103071705.10744.qmail@resist.ca> For the most part scholars and activists alike have tended to uncritically accept overt foreign interventions that profess to be promoting democracy at face value: as noble and humanitarian activities. However, contrary to this rosy view of the promotion of democracy, numerous authors have argued that what is really being promoted is ?procedural? or ?low-intensity democracy?... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/low_intensity_democracy_the_case_of_serbia URL: http://mostlywater.org/low_intensity_democracy_the_case_of_serbia From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 3 03:40:12 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 11:40:12 -0000 Subject: [news] Blasts Rock Brazil Police Complex Message-ID: <20070103114013.25383.qmail@resist.ca> Three blasts have torn through a police warehouse used to store weapons in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo, killing one officer and hurting three others. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/blasts_rock_brazil_police_complex URL: http://mostlywater.org/blasts_rock_brazil_police_complex From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 3 19:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 03:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] CIA Funded & Trained Serbian "Student" Group, OTPOR Message-ID: <20070104031705.21455.qmail@resist.ca> This article is meant as a further read for "Low-Intensity Democracy: The Case of Serbia". It discusses the CIA's role in funding the alleged student group, OTPOR. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/bulgarian_paper_says_cia_is_tutoring_serbian_group_otpor URL: http://mostlywater.org/bulgarian_paper_says_cia_is_tutoring_serbian_group_otpor From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 3 19:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 03:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Ghosts of Christmas Past: The Christmas Bombing of Vietnam Message-ID: <20070104034010.25712.qmail@resist.ca> >From Dec. 18 until Dec. 30 in 1972, the United States conducted a campaign of intensive aerial bombing...over North Vietnam. In the approximately 4,000 sorties flown...American pilots concentrated on the major cities of Hanoi and Haiphong. The missions executed so-called area bombing, never precise or pinpoint. Their goal: To kill as many civilians as possible. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/ghosts_of_christmas_past_the_christmas_bombing_of_vietnam URL: http://mostlywater.org/ghosts_of_christmas_past_the_christmas_bombing_of_vietnam From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 3 22:40:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 06:40:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Rachel Corrie Story Banned in Canada Message-ID: <20070104064007.20261.qmail@resist.ca> The play about Rachel Corrie has been banned in Canada. Corrie was the American activist who was killed by an Israeli Defense Force Bulldozer. Compare and contrast these stories. The Canadian Israel Lobby again engages in censorship through the back door, as in the theatre's backers backed out. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/rachel_corrie_story_banned_in_canda URL: http://mostlywater.org/rachel_corrie_story_banned_in_canda From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 4 00:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 08:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Universities Keeping Out the Poor Message-ID: <20070104081703.2981.qmail@resist.ca> ...(F)or all the pious attacks on injustice that emanate from universities, the class gap is growing from the United States to Britain, parts of Continental Europe and Asia. The reasons are myriad: state-controlled systems that artificially limit the number of university places, admissions procedures that favor the privately educated, falling financial aid and failing public secondary schools. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/universities_keeping_out_the_poor URL: http://mostlywater.org/universities_keeping_out_the_poor From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 4 00:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 08:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] America's Complicity in Saddam's Crimes Message-ID: <20070104084010.21316.qmail@resist.ca> ...Saturday's execution of Saddam Hussein seems less an act of justice for his victims and more an effort to cover up US complicity in his regime. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/americas_complicity_in_saddams_crimes URL: http://mostlywater.org/americas_complicity_in_saddams_crimes From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 5 02:17:06 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] The Spirit of Tom Paine Message-ID: <20070105101707.2737.qmail@resist.ca> The corrupted corporate-controlled media defiles the spirit of Tom Paine. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_spirit_of_tom_paine URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_spirit_of_tom_paine From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 5 16:40:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 00:40:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Afghan Women Suffer Daily Violence Message-ID: <20070106004007.3498.qmail@resist.ca> Five years ago, after the fall of the Taleban, Afghanistan's new government pledged swift action to improve the lives of women...But a recent report by the international women's organisation Womankind Worldwide said millions of Afghan women and girls continue to face discrimination and violence in their day-to-day lives. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/afghan_women_suffer_daily_violence URL: http://mostlywater.org/afghan_women_suffer_daily_violence From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 5 21:40:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 05:40:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Roots of Conflict in Sri Lanka Message-ID: <20070106054008.20745.qmail@resist.ca> Jonathan Spencer is Professor of the Anthropology of South Asia at the University of Edinburgh. He has written "A Sinhala Village in a Time of Trouble: Politics and Change in Rural Sri Lanka" and "Sri Lanka: History and the Roots of Conflict". (Montreal's CKUT community radio) spoke with him in September of 2006 about the roots of the conflict in Sri Lanka. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/roots_of_conflict_in_sri_lanka URL: http://mostlywater.org/roots_of_conflict_in_sri_lanka From news at resist.ca Sat Jan 6 20:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 04:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Femperialism No More: Why This Muslim Woman has Liberated Herself from Feminism Message-ID: <20070107041704.9709.qmail@resist.ca> Women of color have been offering...criticism of mainstream feminism for over thirty years...(A)s the Internet expands our ability to hear the voices of people excluded from Western media outlets, women of color across the globe have joined the chorus...From mainstream message boards to Ms. Magazine the reality of white American feminists using feminism to maintain their position as imperial mistresses at the expense of women of color stands clear. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/femperialism_no_more_why_this_muslim_woman_has_liberated_herself_from_feminism URL: http://mostlywater.org/femperialism_no_more_why_this_muslim_woman_has_liberated_herself_from_feminism From news at resist.ca Sun Jan 7 15:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 23:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Oaxaca Update: January 6th, 2007 Message-ID: <20070107231704.20543.qmail@resist.ca> International pressure is extremely important for the human rights of the Oaxacan people right now...I am writing this email at midnight, 20 minutes ago news was posted that tonight another social activist has been arrested in this city. While the big media is reporting the government's good movements towards reconciliation, the police continue to arrest, the disappeared remain missing, the dead are with us. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/oaxaca_update_january_6th_2006_0 URL: http://mostlywater.org/oaxaca_update_january_6th_2006_0 From news at resist.ca Sun Jan 7 23:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 07:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Ukrainitzki Rizdvo Message-ID: <20070108071704.926.qmail@resist.ca> Merry Ukrainian Christmas. Z Rizdvom Khrystovym! Well at least here in Western Canada, (there's) the largest North American Diaspora of Ukrainians, who kept and grew their identity while in exile. In the rest of the world it is Epiphany and the Orthodox Christmas. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/ukrainitzki_rizdvo URL: http://mostlywater.org/ukrainitzki_rizdvo From news at resist.ca Sun Jan 7 23:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 07:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Harper's Most Dangerous Cabinet Minister Message-ID: <20070108071704.927.qmail@resist.ca> The most important change in the Harper Cabinet shuffle, which was overlooked by the MSM, is the decision to put Monte Solberg in charge of (Human Resources & Human Development). This is a logical step and a dangerous one for workers and the trade union movement in Canada. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/harpers_most_dangerous_cabinet_minister URL: http://mostlywater.org/harpers_most_dangerous_cabinet_minister From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 8 03:40:12 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 11:40:12 -0000 Subject: [news] Contortions of the Pro-War Left Message-ID: <20070108114012.11655.qmail@resist.ca> Are we not supposed to notice that when...Saddam Hussein was raping, killing, imprisoning and torturing Iraqis, resistance was deemed entirely legitimate, and yet when the present dictators of Iraq do the same, resistance is derided by the pro-war left? Is it supposed to escape our attention that the pro-war left in fact favour pacifism for the weak and militarism for the strong? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/contortions_of_the_pro_war_left URL: http://mostlywater.org/contortions_of_the_pro_war_left From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 8 17:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 01:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] =?utf-8?b?TmVwYWzigJlz?= Gays Hit by Maoist Clean Up Drive Message-ID: <20070109011703.8734.qmail@resist.ca> After being persecuted by King Gyanendra?s regime and the new multi-party government, Nepal?s homosexual community is now at the receiving end of a society clean up drive launched by Maoist guerrillas. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/nepal_s_gays_hit_by_maoist_clean_up_drive URL: http://mostlywater.org/nepal_s_gays_hit_by_maoist_clean_up_drive From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 8 20:40:11 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 04:40:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Toxic School Buses: Stop Your Idling! Message-ID: <20070109044012.10850.qmail@resist.ca> Children riding on school buses are exposed to high levels of cancer-causing pollutants, due to the old diesel buses. Many scientific organizations, activists, etc., in the U.S. and Canada, have joined the push to clean up school buses...The first steps in this cleaner school bus awareness campaign are: 1) Replacement of the oldest fleet buses, 2) Retrofitting of the older models, and 3) Anti-idling policies. These 3 steps can help reduce pollution *while* improving kids' health... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/toxic_school_buses_stop_your_idling URL: http://mostlywater.org/toxic_school_buses_stop_your_idling From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 8 21:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 05:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Racist Soup for the Homeless Message-ID: <20070109051704.17067.qmail@resist.ca> France's highest administrative court has confirmed a police decision banning an organisation with far-right links from offering pork soup to the homeless...Police had banned the soup kitchen last month, arguing that the handouts discriminated against Jews and Muslims who do not eat pork on religious grounds. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/racist_soup_for_the_homeless URL: http://mostlywater.org/racist_soup_for_the_homeless From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 8 21:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 05:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] France to Make Housing a Legal Right Message-ID: <20070109051704.17068.qmail@resist.ca> The French government has announced plans to create a "legal right" to housing in response to a snowballing campaign that has seen a tent city for the homeless spring up in the heart of Paris...(T)he French president, used his New Year's address to promise swift government action on a "right to housing" - a key demand of protesters who have mounted a headline-grabbing campaign in support of France's estimated 100,000 homeless. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/france_to_make_housing_a_legal_right URL: http://mostlywater.org/france_to_make_housing_a_legal_right From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 9 09:40:13 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 17:40:13 -0000 Subject: [news] The Quiet get Loud about Direct Funding Message-ID: <20070109174014.24905.qmail@resist.ca> **NEW OCAP GROUP FIGHTS FOR THE RIGHTS OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES** A new group named Independence Unlimited: Quiet Riot has joined forces with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty. Formed by Anne Abbott and Aaron Shelbourne, Independence Unlimited's mission is to improve the quality of life for people with disabilities. Both Anne and Aaron have Cerebral Palsy and are non-speaking. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/16198 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/16198 From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 9 09:40:13 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 17:40:13 -0000 Subject: [news] Why Left Electoralism Isn't Enough Message-ID: <20070109174014.24910.qmail@resist.ca> David Mandel writes, "all the left parties that have formed governments over the past twenty years have ended up by bowing to neo-liberal orthodoxy, even while trying, usually without much success, to give it a 'social' hue." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/16177 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/16177 From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 9 20:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 04:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Officer Not Guilty of Assault in Taser Wake-Up Message-ID: <20070110041706.19850.qmail@resist.ca> An Edmonton police officer was found not guilty of assault on Monday for using a Taser to wake two sleeping men during a robbery investigation. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/officer_not_guilty_of_assault_in_taser_wake_up URL: http://mostlywater.org/officer_not_guilty_of_assault_in_taser_wake_up From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 10 00:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 08:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Israel's Purging of Palestinian Christians Message-ID: <20070110084008.13715.qmail@resist.ca> ...T)he minority of Christian Palestinians...have happily lived under Muslim rule in the Holy Land for centuries...(T)hese Christians (continue)...to take a leading role in defining Palestinian nationalism and resistance to Israel's occupation...The presence of Palestinian Christians reminds us that the supposed "clash of civilisations" in the Holy Land is not really a war of religions but a clash of nationalisms, between the natives and European colonial settlers. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/israels_purging_of_palestinian_christians URL: http://mostlywater.org/israels_purging_of_palestinian_christians From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 10 13:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 21:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Deseronto Quarry Blocked by Mohawk Protest Message-ID: <20070110211704.27100.qmail@resist.ca> Aboriginal protesters blocked access to a quarry in Deseronto, Ont., on Wednesday and handed out pamphlets to passing motorists during a peaceful protest over disputed land. Shawn Brant, a spokesman for the approximately 20 Mohawk protesters, said the group erected the barricades after hearing a Kingston, Ont., developer would begin construction of a house on land claimed by the Mohawks of the nearby Tyendinaga Territory on Wednesday. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/deseronto_quarry_blocked_by_mohawk_protest URL: http://mostlywater.org/deseronto_quarry_blocked_by_mohawk_protest From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 10 13:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 21:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Rachel Corrie Story Banned In Canda Message-ID: <20070110211704.27099.qmail@resist.ca> The play about Rachel Corrie has been banned in Canada. Corrie was the American activist who was killed by an Israeli Defense Force Bulldozer. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/rachel_corrie_story_banned_in_canda_0 URL: http://mostlywater.org/rachel_corrie_story_banned_in_canda_0 From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 10 17:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 01:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Why a Troop Escalation Won't Bring Peace to Iraq Message-ID: <20070111011703.6200.qmail@resist.ca> It is doubtful if the US can make a dent in the ever-growing strength of the Sunni guerrillas. But the extra troops might be used for an ever more dangerous purpose. They could be used to take on the Mehdi Army, the followers of the nationalist Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whom the US currently believes to be the source of so many of its woes...(T)he result would likely be an intra-Shia civil war in addition to Sunni-Shia war and the Sunni-US war [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/why_a_troop_escalation_wont_bring_peace_to_iraq URL: http://mostlywater.org/why_a_troop_escalation_wont_bring_peace_to_iraq From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 10 19:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 03:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Americans Overwhelmingly Concerned About Growing Income Gap Message-ID: <20070111034009.23194.qmail@resist.ca> Americans overwhelmingly say the growing gap between rich and poor has become a serious national concern...Almost three-quarters of Americans believe inequality is a major issue, versus 24 percent who don't think so, according to a new Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times poll. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/americans_overwhelmingly_concerned_about_growing_income_gap URL: http://mostlywater.org/americans_overwhelmingly_concerned_about_growing_income_gap From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 10 20:40:13 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 04:40:13 -0000 Subject: [news] Abandoning Hypocrisy: Canada's Foreign Policy and Afghanistan Message-ID: <20070111044014.726.qmail@resist.ca> The abandonment of hypocrisy led Canada directly into this counterinsurgency war in Afghanistan. The escalation of the war in recent months is probably because the many promises made of development and peace in Afghanistan were demonstrated to be lies. Having demonstrated that its interest in Afghanistan is "to be able to kill people," Canada ought to have been able to anticipate the consequences. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/abandoning_hypocrisy_canadas_foreign_policy_and_afghanistan URL: http://mostlywater.org/abandoning_hypocrisy_canadas_foreign_policy_and_afghanistan From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 11 23:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 07:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Civilians Killed in U.S. Raids on Somalia Message-ID: <20070112071705.11104.qmail@resist.ca> Clan elders and residents of southern Somalia have said that about 100 civilians were killed in US and Ethiopian air attacks this week...Sheikh Abdullahi Ali Malabon, an elder in the Afmadow area, one of several hit during air attacks this week, said 100 bodies had been counted. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/civilians_killed_in_u_s_raids_on_somalia URL: http://mostlywater.org/civilians_killed_in_u_s_raids_on_somalia From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 11 23:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 07:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Revolution Against Oil and Government in Nigeria Message-ID: <20070112074009.14842.qmail@resist.ca> Despite frequent international news headlines throughout 2006, very few people in North America have taken notice of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), despite being, arguably, the most active revolutionary organization in the world. While there are many groups in Nigeria agitating against the government and the oil companies, the most feared and effective of all these groups is MEND. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/revolution_against_oil_and_government_in_nigeria URL: http://mostlywater.org/revolution_against_oil_and_government_in_nigeria From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 11 23:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 07:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] U.S. Raids Iranian Consulate in Iraq Message-ID: <20070112074010.14845.qmail@resist.ca> US forces have stormed a building in the northern Iraqi town of Irbil and seized six people said to be Iranians, prompting a diplomatic incident...Iranian and Iraqi officials said the building was an Iranian consulate and the detainees its employees. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/u_s_raids_iranian_consulate_in_iraq URL: http://mostlywater.org/u_s_raids_iranian_consulate_in_iraq From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 12 10:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Holiday Hypocrisy Message-ID: <20070112181705.28531.qmail@resist.ca> Borrowing the line from Gilbert & Sullivan's HMS Pinafore: "Things are seldom as they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream." It's as true here in the US today as it was in 19th century England, and its message explains how to understand and view our affairs of state and why the title of this essay was chosen - to reflect on our national federal holidays that, in fact, represent something much different than the stated reasons we commemorate them for. Eleven such holidays are reviewed below moving chronologically through the year post-New Year's Day discussed briefly at the end because it's part of the Christmas holiday season celebration. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/holiday_hypocrisy URL: http://mostlywater.org/holiday_hypocrisy From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 12 10:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Fuelling a Food Crisis: The Impact of Peak Oil on Food Security Message-ID: <20070112181705.28532.qmail@resist.ca> By Caroline Lucas, Andy Jones and Colin Hines DWINDLING oil stocks and EU trade and energy policies threaten food price hikes ? and could cause the UK to be vulnerable to food shortages for the first time since the Second World War, according to a new report by Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/16141 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/16141 From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 12 10:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Open Letter to the People of Canada from the Detainees at Canada's Guantanamo Bay North. Message-ID: <20070112181706.28533.qmail@resist.ca> Monday, January 8, 2007 We are writing to you because the government of Canada will not speak with us. We are three Muslim men who have been detained under a security certificate, without charge or bail, for between 5 and 6 and a half years. We are not allowed to know the evidence against us. Many groups such as Amnesty International have called security certificates fundamentally flawed and unfair. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/16331 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/16331 From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 15 03:40:17 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:40:17 -0000 Subject: [news] Greece: Anarchists Take Over the Polytechnic University in Solidarity with May 6 Prisoners Message-ID: <20070115114018.4423.qmail@resist.ca> Greece: Anarchists take over the Polytechnic University of Athens in solidarity (with) the May 6 prisoners - 2 of them are on hunger strike for 46 and 28 days respectively. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/greece_anarchists_take_over_the_polytechnic_university_in_solidarity_to_the_may_6_prisoners URL: http://mostlywater.org/greece_anarchists_take_over_the_polytechnic_university_in_solidarity_to_the_may_6_prisoners From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 15 04:17:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada, the Soviet Union & Afghanistan Message-ID: <20070115121710.10525.qmail@resist.ca> I was born in Russia, drafted into the Soviet army at the age of eighteen and sent to Afghanistan in (the) 1980s...I identified with the Canadian soldiers at the funeral mourning the loss of their friend. Like them, I went to Afghanistan believing in ?fighting terrorism? and ?liberating Afghans?...My combat unit participated in ?humanitarian aid?: accompanying doctors and delivering food, fuel, clothing, school and other supplies to Afghan villages...It was only later that I began to wonder: did that aid justify our aggression? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/canada_the_soviet_union_afghanistan URL: http://mostlywater.org/canada_the_soviet_union_afghanistan From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 15 19:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 03:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] The Iraq War and America's Economic Imperialism Message-ID: <20070116031705.15380.qmail@resist.ca> ...(T)he current Iraq War is not essentially a military blunder caused by a search for "weapons of mass destruction," but an imperialist effort to secure control of the world's second largest proven oil reserves; Bush also invaded Iraq because it was the first military step of the Bush administration's neoconservatives...to "remake the Middle East" by destroying the governments of Iraq, Iran, and Syria. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_iraq_war_and_americas_economic_imperialism URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_iraq_war_and_americas_economic_imperialism From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 15 19:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 03:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] The U.S. Proxy War in Africa Message-ID: <20070116034009.19333.qmail@resist.ca> ...(T)he Ethiopian army is likely to leave (Somalia) within weeks--in order to avoid the humiliating fate the warlords dealt to U.S. forces in 1993...But Ethiopia?s dictator Meles Zenawi has already achieved his real objectives, anyway--not to install a viable government, but to prevent Somalia?s Islamists from trying to form one; and to win the favor of the U.S. for loyal service in the ?war on terror.? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_u_s_proxy_war_in_africa URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_u_s_proxy_war_in_africa From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 16 00:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Pieces Being Put in Place for U.S. Attack on Iran Message-ID: <20070116084009.19155.qmail@resist.ca> The pieces are moving. They?ll be in place by the end of February. The United States will be able to escalate military operations against Iran...Maybe there are no plans to take Iran to the next level. The fuel for a fire is in place, however. All we need is a spark. The danger is that we have created conditions that could lead to a Greater Middle East War. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/pieces_being_put_in_place_for_u_s_attack_on_iran URL: http://mostlywater.org/pieces_being_put_in_place_for_u_s_attack_on_iran From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 16 08:17:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Unemployment Breeds Terrorism Message-ID: <20070116161709.17015.qmail@resist.ca> The reason for the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and its allies across the Middle East, including those with divergent ideologies such as Hamas, Hizbollah, Al Quadia, the insurrgents in Iraq, etc. is simple and as obvious as the nose on your face; it has to do with unemployment and underemployment. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/unemployment_breeds_terrorism URL: http://mostlywater.org/unemployment_breeds_terrorism From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 16 08:17:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Feminizing the Proletariat Message-ID: <20070116161709.17014.qmail@resist.ca> Here is an excellent post on why women are the proletariat, not a special interest group, nor a minority . Nor is womens work in the social factory valued anymore than it is in the home. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/feminizing_the_proletariat URL: http://mostlywater.org/feminizing_the_proletariat From seinforma at resist.ca Tue Jan 16 19:09:43 2007 From: seinforma at resist.ca (seinforma at resist.ca) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:09:43 -0800 (PST) Subject: [news] Who squeezes the working class? Message-ID: <1683.24.57.91.109.1169003383.squirrel@mail.resist.ca> MAQUILAS AND NEOSLAVERY: Who squeezes the working class? It seems that the capital has won in the class struggle. The transnationalization of companies, flexibility of labour policies and union persecution conspire to fracture the working class. Exploitation without borders. By: Johanna Manrique/Seinforma Economics Editor see the complete article here: english: www.seinforma.ca/worldcanada.html spanish: www.seinforma.ca/maquilas.html >From Specialized Journalist Services, Seinforma SJS, the Latin American Web Site of Human Rights and Freedom of Expression. From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 17 00:17:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Great Bear Rainforest: The Clearcut Truth Message-ID: <20070117081708.12649.qmail@resist.ca> Groups say Big Greens brokered a bad deal, and now ramped-up logging is devouring coastal old-growth...In February 2006, Greenpeace, Sierra Club and other groups celebrated a historic agreement with government and industry to bring an end to the ?war in the woods? in the Great Bear Rainforest area of coastal British Columbia. Less than a year later, observers say the agreement may be unraveling. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/great_bear_rainforest_the_clearcut_truth URL: http://mostlywater.org/great_bear_rainforest_the_clearcut_truth From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 18 02:17:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Palestine 2007: Genocide in Gaza, Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank Message-ID: <20070118101708.10952.qmail@resist.ca> On this stage, not so long ago, I claimed that Israel is conducting genocidal policies in the Gaza Strip. I hesitated a lot before using this very charged term and yet decided to adopt it...I was inclined to rethink the term for a while, but came back to employing it today with even stronger conviction: it is the only appropriate way to describe what the Israeli army is doing in the Gaza Strip. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/palestine_2007_genocide_in_gaza_ethnic_cleansing_in_the_west_bank URL: http://mostlywater.org/palestine_2007_genocide_in_gaza_ethnic_cleansing_in_the_west_bank From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 18 10:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Microcredit and Women's Poverty Message-ID: <20070118181704.6713.qmail@resist.ca> **Granting this year's Nobel Peace Prize to microcredit guru Muhammad Yunus affirms neoliberalism.** by Susan FeinerDrucilla Barker A celebration of microcredit in Vanuatu. Feiner and Barker argue that microcredit helps individual women, but does little to alleviate poverty. DOLLARS & SENSE--The key to understanding why Grameen Bank founder and CEO Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize lies in the current fascination with individualistic myths of wealth and poverty. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/16566 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/16566 From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 18 10:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] =?utf-8?q?Ch=C3=A1vez?= Calls for United Socialist Party of Venezuela: Message-ID: <20070118181705.6714.qmail@resist.ca> Rank-and-file Committees to Be Building Blocks for New Organization by John Riddell When supporters of Venezuelan president Hugo Ch?vez rallied in the Teresa Carrena theatre in Caracas to celebrate their presidential election victory on December 15, 2006, "there were cheers in the back half of the theatre," writes Michael Lebowitz, "but few in the high-priced seats." ** [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/16508 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/16508 From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 18 16:40:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:40:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Democrat Agenda Omissions Message-ID: <20070119004007.22734.qmail@resist.ca> How Democrats again betrayed the public trust. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/democrat_agenda_omissions URL: http://mostlywater.org/democrat_agenda_omissions From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 18 17:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 01:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Is Bush's New Iran Policy a War Plan or Propaganda? Message-ID: <20070119014008.2897.qmail@resist.ca> ...(T)he net effect of the new tough line toward Iran may actually have been to force the (Bush) administration to admit, if only tacitly, that it is not free under present circumstances even to threaten to go to war against Iran. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/is_bushs_new_iran_policy_a_war_plan_or_propaganda URL: http://mostlywater.org/is_bushs_new_iran_policy_a_war_plan_or_propaganda From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 18 20:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 04:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] A State of Constant Dread Message-ID: <20070119041704.31250.qmail@resist.ca> ...(T)he one in six Canadians trapped in poverty are hidden in plain sight. They return from their minimum-wage work to a cot in a flophouse. They continue to live with an abusive spouse for lack of an alternative to the streets...They live with fellow new Canadians, three or four to a room, in houses that should be condemned. They live in cramped quarters with parents or grown children. Some reside in cars or cube vans. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/a_state_of_constant_dread URL: http://mostlywater.org/a_state_of_constant_dread From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 19 10:40:16 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:40:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Guinea: Security Forces Fire Live Rounds at Protesters Message-ID: <20070119184018.8028.qmail@resist.ca> [![LabourStart][1]][2] BBC Youths destroyed cars and blocked streets using burning tyres and debris, after public rallies were banned. Unions called the strike over the high cost of living and to protest after President Lansana Conte allegedly freed two prominent corruption suspects. [read more][3] [1]: http://www.labourstart.org/images/logo-rss.gif [2]: http://www.labourstart.org/ [3]: http://mostlywater.org/node/16512 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/16512 From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 19 10:40:17 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:40:17 -0000 Subject: [news] Clashes in the Streets of Cochabamba Leave 2 Dead while Mayor Abandons City Message-ID: <20070119184018.8042.qmail@resist.ca> The streets of Cochabamba were once again the scene of clashes between social movements which include the Civic Committee and Youths for Democracy, against supporters of the mayor. Peasants, natives, _cocaleros_ (coca leaf growers) and independent groups have been protesting since the beginning of the week demanding the renunciation of mayor Manfred Reyes Vila. After violent repression during a march on Monday, the movements remained in the central square ("September 14") for a vigil. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/16385 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/16385 From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 19 12:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Nazanin Fateh Update Message-ID: <20070119204009.21426.qmail@resist.ca> As reported here earlier last year the fate of Nazanin Fateh, who was to be hung in Iran for defending herself from rape, became a one woman cause for Canada's Miss World, who also shared Nazanin's first name. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/nazanin_fateh_update URL: http://mostlywater.org/nazanin_fateh_update From news at resist.ca Sat Jan 20 00:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 08:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Is Globalization on its Way Out? Message-ID: <20070120084009.23521.qmail@resist.ca> In the early 1990s, when the present era of globalization began, it was asserted that its course was irreversible. The New Economy...was immune to business cycles. There was no challenge to capitalism because the Soviet Union had collapsed and China had begun adapting itself to the new era..."(B)ut domestic factors still largely determine...(the) dynamics (of national economies). Globalization, in fact, has reached its high-water mark and is receding." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/is_globalization_on_its_way_out URL: http://mostlywater.org/is_globalization_on_its_way_out From news at resist.ca Sat Jan 20 18:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 02:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] "Weight Loss" Industries Increasing Women's Poor Body Image Message-ID: <20070121021703.13839.qmail@resist.ca> ...(W)e need to remember certain industries have a vested interest in increasing women?s anxiety about their bodies and aggravating their low self-esteem. The list is long - the beauty industry, the diet industry, cosmetic surgeons, the fashion industry, advertising and women?s magazines. This is not some kind of grand conspiracy against women, simply an attempt to maximise profits. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/weight_loss_industries_increasing_womens_poor_body_image URL: http://mostlywater.org/weight_loss_industries_increasing_womens_poor_body_image From news at resist.ca Sat Jan 20 21:17:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 05:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] How Israel Enforces "Demographic Separation" Message-ID: <20070121051707.9323.qmail@resist.ca> ...Israel?s greatest fear (is) ruling over a majority of Palestinians and being compared to apartheid South Africa...To avoid such a comparison...Israel (is) creating a ?Jewish fortress?, separating -- at least demographically -- from Palestinians in the occupied territories by sealing off Gaza through a disengagement of its settler population and by building a 750km wall to annex large areas of the West Bank. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/how_israel_enforces_demographic_separation URL: http://mostlywater.org/how_israel_enforces_demographic_separation From news at resist.ca Sun Jan 21 01:17:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 09:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] National Endowment for Death Squads? The AFL-CIO and the NED Message-ID: <20070121091707.10568.qmail@resist.ca> ...(D)isturbing...is the role that leaders of the U.S. labor federation, the AFL-CIO, play in carrying out the (National Endownment for Democracy's) dirty work. The AFL-CIO's Solidarity Center is at work in twenty-eight countries, discouraging radical organizing among workers and promoting privatization by assisting unions and labor groups that support private enterprise. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/national_endowment_for_death_squads_the_afl_cio_and_the_ned URL: http://mostlywater.org/national_endowment_for_death_squads_the_afl_cio_and_the_ned From news at resist.ca Sun Jan 21 09:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 17:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Tenant Action Group (Belleville) Update Message-ID: <20070121171704.23093.qmail@resist.ca> **One Jailed...four free! Raise The Rates!** Today (Jan 19/06) marks the end of strict non-association charges against various TAG members. Last March a whole bunch of TAGers physically attacked our local MPP's office in broad daylight in retaliation to cuts to the special diet benefit. These monies brought desperately needed relief to over 920 individuals on Ontario Works and Ontario Disability suffering in silence in our community. Not only was $2.7 million dollars brought directly into poor people's pockets, but recipients taught each other community organizing skills and participated in militant actions directly impacting on their community. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/16686 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/16686 From aratoronto at gmail.com Sun Jan 21 11:55:47 2007 From: aratoronto at gmail.com (ARA Toronto) Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 14:55:47 -0500 Subject: [news] Paul Fromm's fascist meeting shut down... twice! Message-ID: <64bbe2d20701211155w61d67eb2v331f0f37303b38a6@mail.gmail.com> *Paul Fromm's "Alternative Forum" Meeting Shut Down...Twice!* *Fromm flees Tim Horton's coffee shop, leaving supporters confused and angry.* January 18th, 2007 Tonight over a dozen anti-fascist youth from various locations in southern Ontario joined together after receiving a last minute notice about a far-right meeting happening in Toronto. The purpose was to expose and shut down the gathering of Paul Fromm's inappropriately named neo-nazi group, CAFE (Canadian Association for Free Expression). Anti-Racist Action (ARA) Toronto had obtained information on short notice about the planned coming together of elderly German, eastern European and other fascists and fascist sympathizers, to listen to the ramblings of neo-nazi leader Paul Fromm. The theme of the night's meeting was supposed to be "Richard Warman Exposed", featuring a talk by none other than longtime white supremacist webmaster, Marc Lemire. Warman is a prominent Ottawa-based human rights lawyer, who is famous for his human rights complaints against individuals and groups in the far-right. Upon receipt of the information about the meeting, which was initially set to take place at the Quality Hotel and Suites (located at 2180 Islington Ave North), a phone campaign was initiated to persuade management to cancel the event. The entire hotel was also flyered, to ensure that all guests were well aware of the event (many of whom placed complaints with the front desk). After receiving a high volume of phone calls, management decided to cancel the meeting out of concerns for the safety of their guests given the fact that white supremacists were planning to congregate on their premises. At this stage, the location was monitored in order to ensure that the meeting was actually cancelled. Reports had it that about 15 elderly bigots showed up, only to have hotel staff inform them of the meeting's cancellation. Arguments began between the bigots and management. No one could manage to get Fromm on the phone to figure out what was going on, so the white power wankers ambled aimlessly around the hotel lobby disturbing the paying clientele while muttering about "the Jews" and awaiting instructions from their absent fuhrer on where to go next. Shortly after 8pm, the hotel's manager, saying they had a respectable family establishment, vowed never to allow Fromm and his crowd access to the hotel again and ordered the assembled rabble of fascists to leave the premises immediately. When their caravan began to leave, we followed closely behind, expecting to arrive at another hotel conference room or other fairly formal establishment. But alas, we arrived at a Tim Horton's coffee shop, which was heavily populated with Fromm fans. We exited our vehicles and brought more literature into the Timmy's. We informed staff of who the fascists were, and they were thankful for the information and said we could do as we liked to make it uncomfortable for the racist scumbags. Shortly after we arrived, Marc Lemire instructed a man of about 80-years-old to begin filming us. An irate Tim Horton's manager marched over to the Fromm supporter and demanded he immediately stop filming while on the premises. The elderly fascist protested that he was filming people who he believed were communists, but the manager would hear none of it. Turning the camera off, the old man sulked and went outside where he paced and sought comfort from his friends. Paul Fromm anxiously looked over his shoulder to see a long line of anti-fascists streaming into the coffee shop. Marc Lemire isolated himself by the washroom, strategically shielding himself behind two senior citizens. Fromm did the same, and huddled himself within a group of elderly women. Before getting up, and heading straight to the arms of Lemire. They spoke for a few moments, and as they noticed anti-fascists heading towards them, they bolted for their cars. In brave Nordic fashion, and reminiscent of Nazi leaders at the end of World War II, they abandoned all their supporters without notice and fled in terror of the anti-racists who were doing nothing more menacing than sipping coffee. What courage! What leadership qualities! How like Jack Astor's when Fromm ran from ARA at a breakneck speed to a hiding place in the pantry. After 10 minutes had gone by with still no word from their fearless leader, Fromm's supporters were visibly worried and upset, repeatedly asked "Where did Paul go?" and "Why did he leave us here with them?" They also asked one another why he didn't say anything before leaving, and why he hadn't called them since. One woman with an eastern Europe accent was heard to remark "This is ridiculous! Why are we here?" The supporters were getting antsy and some swore at us and expressed their seething anger at having their meeting cancelled. However, several laughed when we phoned Fromm and asked him to return rather than act like a coward. >From that point on the fascists sat with perplexed scowls, while we mingled with them and plunked ourselves down to have some interesting conversations about Hitler's early career as an artist of pornographic postcards, and about the best recipes we got from synagogues for potato latkes. This created an atmosphere rife with frustration and stammering, as the Hitler fans got up, wandered around, and eventually went out to their cars to leave. While their followers sat around complaining and in dismay that they were left behind "at the mercy of the Jews", Fromm and Lemire were nowhere to be seen. As the last frustrated fascist left, members of the general public at Tim's burst into applause as did the staff who offered the anti-fascists free coffee for "cleaning" the coffee shop of the racist filth. Tonight's successful opposition to Fromm's meeting was yet another step forward for anti-fascists in southern Ontario, and once (actually, twice in one night) again a humiliating defeat for Paul Fromm and his neo-nazi front group. Previously, Fromm had lost his "right" to hold meetings at the Hungarian House after an anti-fascist protest outside one of his events. Now, he's lost the Quality Inn. No matter where Fromm and his freakish followers set up shop next, anti-fascists will be there to expose him and send him packing. The protracted campaign to expose, oppose, and confront Fromm and his fellow fascists continues unabated. He, and his efforts to organize white supremacist activities will, be shut down every time he crawls out from beneath his rock. ?Antifascismo para siempre! __._ __,_._,___ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From news at resist.ca Sun Jan 21 14:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 22:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] ARA Shuts Down White Supremacist Paul Fromm's "Alternative Forum" ...Twice! Message-ID: <20070121221704.16991.qmail@resist.ca> On the night of Thursday Jan, 18th, the well known white-supremacist Paul Fromm was planning on hosting an "alternative forum" to "expose" human rights lawyer Richard Warman. Thanks to the efforts of Anti-Racist Activists from across Ontario, the meeting was shut down, forced to move to a new location, and then shut down again! [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/report_back_ara_shuts_down_white_supremacist_paul_fromms_alternative_forum_meeting_twice URL: http://mostlywater.org/report_back_ara_shuts_down_white_supremacist_paul_fromms_alternative_forum_meeting_twice From news at resist.ca Sun Jan 21 21:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 05:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Israel Lobby Opposes Free Speech Message-ID: <20070122051703.4947.qmail@resist.ca> Union motion to debate Israel brings 'hate into the classroom': B'nai Brith head. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/israel_lobby_opposes_free_speech URL: http://mostlywater.org/israel_lobby_opposes_free_speech From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 22 10:17:32 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:17:32 -0000 Subject: [news] 2 Anarchists on Hunger Strike, for Being Detained awaiting trial Message-ID: <20070122181733.16153.qmail@resist.ca> Since the first day of hunger strike there have been dozens of solidarity actions by anarchist comrades all over Greece. From demos and taking over radio stations, to attacks on police stations, bank explosions, even a huge banner demanding their release was attached to helium balloons that were set off in the air amongst hundreds of unsuspecting cops during the new year's eve Athens city center celebration to the embarrassment of gathered politicians and TV crews that were broadcasting the event live. Also, in Salonica, baby Jesus was stolen from the city's christmas crib. In its place, a CD was left with propaganda material demanding the release of the prisoners. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/16689 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/16689 From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 22 10:17:33 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:17:33 -0000 Subject: [news] Unsafe or Uncomfortable? Message-ID: <20070122181734.16154.qmail@resist.ca> In a reflection on conflict, disagreement and oppression on the Left, Sheila Wilmot writes that "people in what are understood to be socially progressive environments often say they feel unsafe when what they actually feel is uncomfortable." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/16699 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/16699 From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 22 10:40:14 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:40:14 -0000 Subject: [news] Why BC's Fish Farms Threaten Patagonia's Penguins Message-ID: <20070122184014.3886.qmail@resist.ca> [![TheTyee.ca][1]][2] We're stealing their food. [...W]hen you eat that farmed salmon remember that you're munching on [5 kg of] anchovies [for every 1 kg of salmon] that should be in the beaks of those Magellanic penguins. [read more][3] [1]: http://thetyee.ca/images/tyee_icon.png [2]: http://thetyee.ca [3]: http://mostlywater.org/node/16705 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/16705 From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 22 17:17:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Jewish Like Me Message-ID: <20070123011708.6851.qmail@resist.ca> Like most kids growing up Jewish, I loved Israel. I identified with the country and saw my Jewish identity expressed in it...As I explored this more, I began to realize that Zionism was synonymous with a violent colonization and occupation of another people. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/jewish_like_me URL: http://mostlywater.org/jewish_like_me From news at resist.ca Mon Jan 22 21:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 05:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] NOII Report on January 12th Vancouver Action in Solidarity with the Security Certificate Detainees Message-ID: <20070123051703.15551.qmail@resist.ca> On January 12th, about 30 people...gathered to join the national days of action...demanding an end to Security Certificates in solidarity with the Security Certificate detainees, their families and supporters across the country. The other demands of the action were an immediate closure of the Kingston Immigration Holding Centre (KIHC)...(and) an immediate release of Canada?s secret trial ?Security Certificate? detainees...an end to all deportation proceedings...an end to deportation to torture and an immediate condemnation of the illegal prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/noii_report_on_january_12th_vancouver_action_in_solidarity_with_the_security_certificate_detainees URL: http://mostlywater.org/noii_report_on_january_12th_vancouver_action_in_solidarity_with_the_security_certificate_detainees From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 23 02:17:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Fanzine "La Otra Voz" (The Other Voice) Message-ID: <20070123101710.11020.qmail@resist.ca> >From La Otra Campa?a Vancouver, a new fanzine "La Otra Voz" (The Other Voice). [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/fanzine_la_otra_voz_the_other_voice URL: http://mostlywater.org/fanzine_la_otra_voz_the_other_voice From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 23 17:17:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Miami: A Refuge for Terrorists Message-ID: <20070124011707.4194.qmail@resist.ca> The absolute impunity with which the anti-Cuba Miami terrorists operate, and the complicity of the U.S. government in protecting them, demands an outside independent investigation. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/miami_a_refuge_for_terrorists URL: http://mostlywater.org/miami_a_refuge_for_terrorists From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 24 01:17:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Guelph: GUTS Defendants Heckle Justice of the Peace Message-ID: <20070124091709.20147.qmail@resist.ca> A justice of the peace was heckled so badly yesterday he ended up walking out of the courtroom. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/guelph_guts_defendants_heckle_justice_of_the_peace URL: http://mostlywater.org/guelph_guts_defendants_heckle_justice_of_the_peace From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 24 01:17:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Paul Moist et al Bad Omen for All Workers Message-ID: <20070124091709.20148.qmail@resist.ca> Today, as sadly happens with union leaders who lose their way, Paul Moist and others like him have become not only the real enemy of workers, but a more dishonorable silent enemy not only for unionized workers, but for all workers. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/paul_moist_et_al_bad_omen_for_all_workers URL: http://mostlywater.org/paul_moist_et_al_bad_omen_for_all_workers From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 24 01:17:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Israel and Apartheid Message-ID: <20070124091709.20149.qmail@resist.ca> It is easy to detect a similarity between the planned enclaves (in Occupied Palestine) and the "Bantustans" that were set up by the White regime in South Africa--the so-called "homelands" where the Blacks were supposed to enjoy "self-rule" but which really amounted to racist concentration camps...Because of this, we are right when we use the term "apartheid" in our daily struggle against the occupation. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/israel_and_apartheid URL: http://mostlywater.org/israel_and_apartheid From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 24 01:40:13 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:40:13 -0000 Subject: [news] Teachers in Oaxaca Face Repression and Violence Message-ID: <20070124094014.24141.qmail@resist.ca> This spring, poverty and migration provided the economic and social roots for an uprising that began with Oaxaca's teachers and mushroomed into a virtual insurrection demanding the resignation of the state's governor..."Some-thing had to give. It sometimes seems like Oaxaca and southern Mexico aren't even part of Mexico, the way we're ignored by the federal government until a crisis erupts." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/teachers_in_oaxaca_face_repression_and_violence URL: http://mostlywater.org/teachers_in_oaxaca_face_repression_and_violence From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 24 15:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Canadian Ambassador to Haiti Appeals to UN for More Killer Operations Message-ID: <20070124231705.8370.qmail@resist.ca> In an incredible display of contempt for Haitian suffering, Canada's ambassador to Haiti, Claude Boucher, gave an interview...on January 15 in which he offers praise for [UN] occupation forces and urges them to "increase their operations as they did last December", when...at least 12 innocent civilians were killed and over 30 other innocents left wounded. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/canadian_ambassador_to_haiti_appeals_to_un_for_more_killer_operations URL: http://mostlywater.org/canadian_ambassador_to_haiti_appeals_to_un_for_more_killer_operations From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 24 17:17:31 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 01:17:31 -0000 Subject: [news] Skypigs Getting Tasers Message-ID: <20070125011732.15119.qmail@resist.ca> TransLink will be arming about 20 Vancouver-area transit police with Tasers as soon as April...The close-range, electrically charged weapons will be put in the hands of the officers who patrol SkyTrain stations, adding to an arsenal that already includes handguns. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/skypigs_getting_tasers URL: http://mostlywater.org/skypigs_getting_tasers From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 24 22:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] NBC: Saudis Waging Oil War on Iran? Message-ID: <20070125061703.31674.qmail@resist.ca> Falling fuel costs probably not a coincidence, oil traders say By Robert Windrem | Jan 23, 2007 Oil traders and others believe that the Saudi decision to let the price of oil tumble has more to do with Iran than economics. Their belief has been reinforced in recent days as the Saudi oil minister has steadfastly refused calls for a special meeting of OPEC and announced that the nation is going to increase its production, which will send the price down even farther. Saudi Oil Minister Ibrahim al-Naimi even said during a recent trip to India that oil prices are headed in the "right direction." Not for the Iranians. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/16780 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/16780 From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 24 22:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Senate Panel Votes 12-9 Against Troop Increase in Iraq Message-ID: <20070125061704.31675.qmail@resist.ca> On Wednesday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 12-9 against President Bush's plan to send 21,500 additional US troops to Iraq. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is made up of 11 Democrats and 10 Republicans. The main statement in their resolution says, "[I]t is not in the national interest of the United States to deepen its military involvement in Iraq, particularly by increasing the United States military force presence in Iraq." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/senate_panel_votes_12_9_against_troop_increase_in_iraq URL: http://mostlywater.org/senate_panel_votes_12_9_against_troop_increase_in_iraq From news at resist.ca Thu Jan 25 09:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Venezuela's RCTV Acts of Sedition Message-ID: <20070125174009.16556.qmail@resist.ca> by Stephen Lendman On December 28, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias delivered his annual "greeting speech" to the National Armed Forces (FAN) and announced the operating license of TV station Radio Caracas Television (known as RCTV) broadcasting on VHF Channel 2 won't be renewed when it expires on May 27, 2007. The station played a leading role, along with the other four major commercial private television channels in the country controlling 90% of the TV market, in instigating and supporting the 2002 aborted two-day coup against President Chavez. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/venezuelas_rctv_acts_of_sedition URL: http://mostlywater.org/venezuelas_rctv_acts_of_sedition From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 26 10:40:19 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:40:19 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada's Music Lobby Buys Government Access Message-ID: <20070126184021.16087.qmail@resist.ca> [![Slashdot: Politics][1]][2] An anonymous reader writes "Copyfighting law professor Michael Geist, who previously uncovered financial links between recording industry lobbyists and Canada's Minister of Canadian Heritage Bev Oda (who is responsible for copyright policy), has now identified what big cash donations will get you. He reports that Oda met with the President of the Canadian Recording Industry Association on a monthly basis last year just as the government was preparing copyright reform legislation and Canadian artists were calling for an end to P2P lawsuits. Is it any wonder that Canadians seem likely to lose their fair use rights?" [![][3]][4] [read more][5] [1]: http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicslashdot.gif [2]: http://politics.slashdot.org/ [3]: http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics?i=t6vEjB [4]: http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics?a=t6vEjB [5]: http://mostlywater.org/node/16853 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/16853 From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 26 15:40:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 23:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Political Observations on Sectarianism in Iraq Message-ID: <20070126234011.18321.qmail@resist.ca> It is in the interest of the US/UK occupation to sustain the sectarian division in order to keep the enemy (the Iraqi people) divided. The formation of the US/UK-led "death squads" and over 30,000 foreign mercenaries...are the main tool used to ensure that they have a hand in directing such divisions in accordance with their interests. The objective is to keep some type of future military presence in the country, to ensure that they can reach their main goal in the occupation of Iraq -- the control of Iraqi oil production. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/political_observations_on_sectarianism_in_iraq URL: http://mostlywater.org/political_observations_on_sectarianism_in_iraq From news at resist.ca Fri Jan 26 16:40:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] From Belsen to Gaza: Looking from the Side Message-ID: <20070127004011.12433.qmail@resist.ca> "Looking from the side" is what those of us do who are cowed into silence by the threat of being called anti-Semitic. Looking from the side is what too many western Jews do, while those Jews who honour the humane traditions of Judaism and say, "Not in our name!" are abused as "self-despising". Looking from the side is what almost the entire US Congress does, in thrall to or intimidated by a vicious Zionist "lobby". [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/from_belsen_to_gaza_looking_from_the_side URL: http://mostlywater.org/from_belsen_to_gaza_looking_from_the_side From news at resist.ca Sat Jan 27 00:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 08:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Amnesty International's Track Record in Haiti since 2004 Message-ID: <20070127081704.30842.qmail@resist.ca> The coup that ousted Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide on February 29, 2004 led very predictably to the worst human rights disaster in the Western Hemisphere over the following two years. It is worth reviewing how...Amnesty International, responded:..."Amnesty has been outperformed in Haiti by investigators with far fewer resources and much less stature." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/amnesty_internationals_track_record_in_haiti_since_2004 URL: http://mostlywater.org/amnesty_internationals_track_record_in_haiti_since_2004 From news at resist.ca Sat Jan 27 13:40:14 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 21:40:14 -0000 Subject: [news] Martial Law Lifted in 41 Provinces of Thailand Message-ID: <20070127214015.17511.qmail@resist.ca> A royal decree published in Thailand's Royal Gazette has endorsed the lifting of martial law in 41 of the country's provinces. Martial law has been in place in the country since a coup on September 19 that ousted populist Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/16923 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/16923 From news at resist.ca Sat Jan 27 13:40:14 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 21:40:14 -0000 Subject: [news] Colombia's Ecopetrol Gets Yet Another Corporate Welfare Check From U.S. Government Message-ID: <20070127214016.17519.qmail@resist.ca> **?...The Fleecing of U.S. Taxpayers: Colombian Oil Pipeline Security?** By Stephen Peacock For the second time this month, the U.S. Trade & Development Agency (USTDA) has figured out a way to siphon money from the U.S. Treasury and transfer it to Ecopetrol of Colombia. Whereas the previous handout (see Narcosphere Jan. 3) was geared toward the modernization of the thriving company's Barrancabermeja refinery complex, the most recently discovered scheme provides yet another smokescreen for the fleecing of U.S. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/16913 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/16913 From news at resist.ca Sat Jan 27 13:40:14 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 21:40:14 -0000 Subject: [news] Canadian Government Apologizes to Deportation Victim Arar Message-ID: <20070127214016.17526.qmail@resist.ca> Friday Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on behalf of the government apologized to deportation victim Maher Arar. In 2002, Syrian-born and Canadian software engineer Maher Arar was arrested by U.S. officials and deported to Syria after the U.S. suspected that he was a terrorist. Arar was held in a Syrian prison where he was regularly tortured for a year. He came back to Canada in October 2003. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/canadian_government_apologizes_to_deportation_victim_arar URL: http://mostlywater.org/canadian_government_apologizes_to_deportation_victim_arar From news at resist.ca Sat Jan 27 16:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 00:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] The Thread That Mends Message-ID: <20070128004009.14675.qmail@resist.ca> -by Scott J Graham There seems now, to be an air of revolution about us, as if the fog were about to lift above the masses, all mired down in the mud of their amusements, never able to see clearly through the windows: that other world that exists outside of the Colloseum. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_thread_that_mends URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_thread_that_mends From news at resist.ca Sat Jan 27 20:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 04:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] The Hauntings of Colonialism Message-ID: <20070128041705.30638.qmail@resist.ca> Can Canada and British Columbia point the way to new paradigms of relations with Indigenous peoples? Can Crown officials avoid old patterns of genocide in the manipulation of law and lawlessness in the conquests of Anglo-America? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_hauntings_of_colonialism URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_hauntings_of_colonialism From news at resist.ca Sun Jan 28 20:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 04:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Report Confirms Killings of Gays in Iraq Message-ID: <20070129044008.32067.qmail@resist.ca> "(T)he new Iraq is denying the right of every homosexual human being to exist and suppressing them ever since the invasion, and it gets worse every day"...In the past...the Iraqi LGBT group have reported that when gays went to U.S. occupying authorities in Baghdad's Green Zone requesting protection, they were treated with contempt and derision. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/report_confirms_killings_of_gays_in_iraq URL: http://mostlywater.org/report_confirms_killings_of_gays_in_iraq From news at resist.ca Sun Jan 28 23:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 07:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Agents of Influence Message-ID: <20070129074008.12307.qmail@resist.ca> Did Ariel Sharon, the Prime Minister of Israel, run a covert program with operatives in high-level US government positions to influence the Bush Administration's decision to go to war in Iraq?...That's the story behind the latest Washington spy scandal, involving Israel, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and a mid-level civilian Pentagon employee allegedly caught red-handed trying to deliver US secrets to the Israelis. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/agents_of_influence URL: http://mostlywater.org/agents_of_influence From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 30 08:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] All's Quiet on the Tar Sand Front... Message-ID: <20070130164009.10435.qmail@resist.ca> Peter Cizek explains why: [Scouring Scum and Tar from the Bottom of the Pit][1]. An indepth look at the "gigaprojects" rocking the North, and the web of NGOs tied up in corporate/ money who thus far have largely failed to respond to what Cizek calls an "environmental holocaust." [read more][2] [1]: http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2006/07/07/557/ [2]: http://mostlywater.org/node/16976 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/16976 From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 30 09:17:17 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:17:17 -0000 Subject: [news] Can You Afford Your Charter Rights? Message-ID: <20070130171718.19583.qmail@resist.ca> [![TheTyee.ca][1]][2] Perhaps only a small minority of Canadians care about whether the gay and lesbian community in Vancouver has access to erotic fiction or comics in a timely manner. Whatever your taste in books, the Supreme Court of Canada's recent decision to deny funding to Little Sister's Book and Art Emporium in its charter fight with Canada Customs should be mandatory reading. The majority found that because the dispute was limited to only four books, it was not "exceptional" and did not "transcend the litigants' individual interests." Debatable, perhaps, but the fuss over the facts of this particular case obscures a larger issue: if charter rights are practically unenforceable against the government they were designed to protect us from, do they exist at all? [read more][3] [1]: http://thetyee.ca/images/tyee_icon.png [2]: http://thetyee.ca [3]: http://mostlywater.org/node/17005 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/17005 From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 30 09:17:16 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:17:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Philippine Commission Tags Military in Slays Message-ID: <20070130171717.19581.qmail@resist.ca> The head of the Melo Commission announced they had recommended that retired Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan Jr. and other commanders be "held responsible for the extrajudicial killings in their respective areas during their tours of duty". Melo commission, formed in August 2006 by the president to look into the spate of politically related killings after local and international clamor, submitted the 89-page report of the commission to the president last week but the findings have not yet been made public. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/17003 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/17003 From news at resist.ca Tue Jan 30 09:17:16 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:17:16 -0000 Subject: [news] =?utf-8?b?TllD4oCZcw==?= Immigrant Food Warehouse Workers Unionize with IWW - Not Without a Fight Message-ID: <20070130171718.19582.qmail@resist.ca> ![][1]**By Diane Krauthamer** The last year, however, has witnessed something of a social miracle. Immigrant workers in five different warehouses, long bypassed by mainstream organizing drives, began organizing themselves under the banner of the IWW--the famous Industrial Workers of the World, or Wobblies--and achieving immediate and dramatic improvements in shop-floor conditions. Within the last few months, bosses have begun a major counteroffensive, breaking contracts and engaging in illegal mass firings of anyone engaged in union activities. Mexican and Chinese immigrant workers are standing their ground and with the support of the rest of the New York IWW, battling back in the name of solidarity and dignity of labor. [read more][2] [1]: http://www.iww.org/graphics/IU460/NYCmisc/82011.jpg [2]: http://mostlywater.org/node/16961 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/16961 From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 31 11:17:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Mackenzie Valley more valuable if left undeveloped: CBI study Message-ID: <20070131191708.24964.qmail@resist.ca> The Mackenzie River region in the Northwest Territories is worth 10 times more in its natural state than the value industrial development would bring, says a Canadian Boreal Initiative study released in Ottawa on Wednesday. Entitled The Real Wealth of the Mackenzie Region, the study calculated the region's ecological goods and services to be worth $448 billion if left undisturbed. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/mackenzie_valley_more_valuable_if_left_undeveloped_cbi_study URL: http://mostlywater.org/mackenzie_valley_more_valuable_if_left_undeveloped_cbi_study From news at resist.ca Wed Jan 31 11:17:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Dehcho, Chipewyan nations call for oilsands moratorium Message-ID: <20070131191709.24966.qmail@resist.ca> Dehcho, Chipewyan nations call for oilsands moratorium Last Updated: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 | 12:38 PM CT CBC News North Northern First Nations are calling for a halt to further development in Alberta's oilsands, saying the massive industrial growth is hurting their land, their water and their people. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/dehcho_chipewyan_nations_call_for_oilsands_moratorium URL: http://mostlywater.org/dehcho_chipewyan_nations_call_for_oilsands_moratorium