From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 1 01:17:06 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 09:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] 737 U.S. Military Bases = Global Empire Message-ID: <20070301091706.23962.qmail@resist.ca> Once upon a time, you could trace the spread of imperialism by counting up colonies. America's version of the colony is the military base; and by following the changing politics of global basing, one can learn much about our ever more all-encompassing imperial "footprint" and the militarism that grows with it. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/737_u_s_military_bases_global_empire URL: http://mostlywater.org/737_u_s_military_bases_global_empire From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 1 09:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 17:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Military to Conduct Massive Training Excercise in Downtown Winnipeg (Organizing Update) Message-ID: <20070301171703.15702.qmail@resist.ca> >From April 30th to May 6th, 2006, more than 500 Canadian troops, backed by helicopters, armoured vehicles, and artillery, intend to transform downtown Winnipeg, Canada into an urban-warfare training playground in the largest training excercise of its kind ever held in Canada. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/military_to_conduct_massive_training_excercise_in_downtown_winnipeg URL: http://mostlywater.org/military_to_conduct_massive_training_excercise_in_downtown_winnipeg From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 1 19:40:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 03:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada Must be Held Accountable for Haiti Coup Message-ID: <20070302034012.12898.qmail@resist.ca> Three years after Canada helped lead a coup d'?tat against the democratically elected government of Haiti, almost no one in Ottawa has been held accountable for this crime against the sovereignty of the hemisphere?s poorest nation. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/canada_must_be_held_accountable_for_haiti_coup URL: http://mostlywater.org/canada_must_be_held_accountable_for_haiti_coup From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 1 20:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 04:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] "The First Nazi City in America" Message-ID: <20070302041704.20053.qmail@resist.ca> Before it passed, Anna Arias spoke at the Hazelton, [Pennysylvania] council meeting against the ordinance, warning that its approval would make Hazleton "the first Nazi city in the country." When she asked the crowd if they would deport the children of undocumented workers ? utterly ?legal? US citizens - the crowd shouted ?Yes!?... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_first_nazi_city_in_america_0 URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_first_nazi_city_in_america_0 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 2 00:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Ungdomshuset Youth Center Evicted Message-ID: <20070302081704.26930.qmail@resist.ca> After a long political and legal battle the basis-democratic, alternative political and cultural centre 'Ungdomshuset' was forcefully evicted by riot police and airborne anti-terror squads this morning. Ensuing demonstrations have seen large-scale confrontations between protestors and heavy-handed police, here is the full story from Copenhagen. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/ungdomshuset_youth_center_evicted URL: http://mostlywater.org/ungdomshuset_youth_center_evicted From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 2 10:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Protesters Haunt SRO Auction Message-ID: <20070302181705.27933.qmail@resist.ca> [![TheTyee.ca][1]][2] ![][3] Advocates worried as Hastings hotel sold to North Van developer. [![][4]][5] [ [read more][6] [1]: http://thetyee.ca/images/tyee_icon.png [2]: http://thetyee.ca [3]: http://thetyee.ca/News/2007/03/02/thumb-pastedGraphic.png [4]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thetyee?i=IpaXkGcu [5]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thetyee?a=IpaXkGcu [6]: http://mostlywater.org/node/18586 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/18586 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 2 11:40:14 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:40:14 -0000 Subject: [news] Prisoners of Ideology Message-ID: <20070302194015.29625.qmail@resist.ca> Conservative politicians first began making crime a major political issue as part of a strategy to roll back the reforms won by social activists in the 1960s. The civil rights movement made it no longer respectable to make openly racist arguments, so political figures declared a war on crime to send a coded racial message to the voters...At a time when social spending was being slashed and inequality and poverty were increasing, conservatives blamed bad individuals rather than underlying social conditions for crime. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/prisoners_of_ideology URL: http://mostlywater.org/prisoners_of_ideology From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 2 22:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 06:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Secret Australia Message-ID: <20070303064009.7207.qmail@resist.ca> **Palm Island** is one of the most beautiful on the Great Barrier Reef...Established in 1918 as a detention camp for **Aboriginal men, women and children** convicted of the crimes of homelessness, rebelliousness and drunkenness, it has changed mostly on the surface. When I first went there in 1980, an epidemic of gastroenteritis was deemed life-threatening. Two years later...Aboriginal deaths from common, infectious diseases were up to 300 times higher than the white average, and the highest in the world. In the cemetery, overlooking waves breaking gently on the coral reef, many of the headstones bear the names of children. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/secret_australia URL: http://mostlywater.org/secret_australia From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 2 22:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 06:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] CUPE Bargaining News Message-ID: <20070303064008.7192.qmail@resist.ca> Bargaining News from CUPE (Canadian Union of Public Employees) Staff Unions - union members working for unions: [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/cupe URL: http://mostlywater.org/cupe From news at resist.ca Sun Mar 4 21:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 05:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] The Quiet Americans Message-ID: <20070305054009.8223.qmail@resist.ca> The United States consulate [in Vancouver] occupies three-and-half floors of a West Pender highrise. More than 60 employees work out of the downtown Vancouver office. They include 12 agents from various branches of U.S. law enforcement such as Homeland Security, the FBI, Secret Service, [Drug Enforcement Administration] and [Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms]. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_quiet_americans URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_quiet_americans From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 5 00:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Zionist "Human Rights" Group Supports Security Certificates Message-ID: <20070305081704.15719.qmail@resist.ca> In yet another stunning betrayal of its supposed mandate to protect human rights, **B?Nai Brith** issued a press release last Friday supporting "security certificates as a valuable tool in the fight against terrorism"..."These days, B?nai Brith seizes every opportunity to come down firmly in opposition to fundamental human rights principles," declared ACJC Ottawa delegate Diana Ralph. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/zionist_human_rights_group_supports_security_certificates URL: http://mostlywater.org/zionist_human_rights_group_supports_security_certificates From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 5 02:17:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] NYM Calls for Boycott and Cancellation of 2010 Winter Olympic Games Message-ID: <20070305101711.17614.qmail@resist.ca> The **Native Youth Movement** is calling for a Boycott and Cancellation of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. The Games are scheduled to take place on **un-surrendered Native Land** from February 12-27, 2010. The Olympic Games represent a continued history of **colonization** and **Genocide**. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/nym_calls_for_boycott_and_cancellation_of_2010_winter_olympic_games URL: http://mostlywater.org/nym_calls_for_boycott_and_cancellation_of_2010_winter_olympic_games From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 5 03:17:34 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 11:17:34 -0000 Subject: [news] Solidarity Forever? Message-ID: <20070305111736.10920.qmail@resist.ca> A Winnipeg employer tried to impose a two-tiered wage system on its unionized office staff last month and backed off only after employees agreed to a four-year wage freeze, following a bitter, five-week strike...The president [of this employer] is Robert Ziegler and he runs one of the largest and most influential unions in Manitoba -- United Food and Commercial Workers Local 832. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/solidarity_forever URL: http://mostlywater.org/solidarity_forever From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 5 09:17:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Detained Students in El Salvador Released Message-ID: <20070305171707.32511.qmail@resist.ca> The 27 students being detained in San Salvador (including a Toronto activist) were released Thursday night and all charges against them have been dropped. The students were protesting the 1 year anniversary of the CAFTA free trade agreement when they were arrested early Wednesday morning in San Salvador. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/18694 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/18694 From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 5 09:17:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Inmates Will Replace Wary Migrants in Colorado Fields Message-ID: <20070305171707.32512.qmail@resist.ca> NY Times, March 4, 2007 | By DAN FROSCH | DENVER As migrant laborers flee Colorado because of tough new immigration restrictions, worried farmers are looking to prisoners to fill their places in the fields. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/18695 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/18695 From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 5 09:17:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Brutalized and Abandoned: Residents of =?utf-8?b?Q2l0w6k=?= Soleil Speak Out Message-ID: <20070305171707.32510.qmail@resist.ca> The two part photo essay about recent arrests and spin by MINUSTAH is now online at Haitianalysis.com As the title of this blog entry suggests, the title of the photo essay is "Brutalized and Abandoned." The photo essay addresses mass arrests, lies about social services in Cit? Soleil and the demands of the victims of MINUSTAH. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/18705 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/18705 From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 5 15:40:17 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:40:17 -0000 Subject: [news] Learning to Love Israel Message-ID: <20070305234017.8305.qmail@resist.ca> [Barack Obama] impressed me as progressive, intelligent and charismatic. I distinctly remember thinking 'if only a man of this calibre could become president one day'...On Friday Obama gave a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)...Reviewing the speech, Ha'aretz Washington correspondent Shmuel Rosner concluded that Obama..."passed any test anyone might have wanted him to pass. So, he is pro-Israel." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/learning_to_love_israel URL: http://mostlywater.org/learning_to_love_israel From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 5 16:17:06 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 00:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] "These Cultures will Become Extinct": The Exodus of Iraq's Ancient Minorities Message-ID: <20070306001707.16062.qmail@resist.ca> Iraq's minorities, some of the oldest communities in the world, are being driven from the country by a wave of violence against them because they are identified with the occupation and easy targets for kidnappers and death squads. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/these_cultures_will_become_extinct_the_exodus_of_iraqs_ancient_minorities URL: http://mostlywater.org/these_cultures_will_become_extinct_the_exodus_of_iraqs_ancient_minorities From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 5 17:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 01:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Great-Grandmother Gets Ten Months for Protest Message-ID: <20070306014009.14211.qmail@resist.ca> A BC Supreme Court justice today sentenced Betty Krawczyk, age 78, to ten months in jail for protesting the destruction of a wetlands last year. News outlets report that a dozen of Betty?s supporters have taken over the lobby of the Supreme Court building in downtown Vancouver at this hour, chanting ?Shame, shame? and beating drums. Sheriffs are standing by and more arrests may be imminent. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/great_grandmother_gets_ten_months_for_protest URL: http://mostlywater.org/great_grandmother_gets_ten_months_for_protest From news at resist.ca Tue Mar 6 19:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 03:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] It's Official: Cannabis Can Reduce Pain Message-ID: <20070307034009.22934.qmail@resist.ca> "Patient A. has found the modest use of inhaled cannabis to be very effective for pain control and much preferred to previously prescribed medications, particularly opiates. Patient A. reports that 14 grams per week [meets] his need and denied any adverse effects. He does not use tobacco, alcohol, or any illicit drugs. This history is very consistent with that obtained from many patients in our practice with neuropathic pain syndromes..." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/its_official_cannabis_can_reduce_pain URL: http://mostlywater.org/its_official_cannabis_can_reduce_pain From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 7 00:40:18 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:40:18 -0000 Subject: [news] Solidarity Values: Do They Have Any Real Meaning? Message-ID: <20070307084018.24661.qmail@resist.ca> Union solidarity values and principles: do they have any genuine meaning among union leaders any longer? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/solidarity_values_do_they_have_any_real_meaning URL: http://mostlywater.org/solidarity_values_do_they_have_any_real_meaning From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 7 01:40:14 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:40:14 -0000 Subject: [news] Vancouver Olympic Flag Destroyed Message-ID: <20070307094015.3314.qmail@resist.ca> At some point in the last 24 hours the Olympic flag that once flew over city hall was destroyed. The **Anti-Poverty Committee** takes great inspiration in this act and applauds those involved in knocking the games down a peg..."People are angry and they are gonna get a lot more so. There are only so many homeless people you can walk over before you say enough is enough". [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/vancouver_olympic_flag_destroyed URL: http://mostlywater.org/vancouver_olympic_flag_destroyed From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 7 02:40:13 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:40:13 -0000 Subject: [news] The Top 10 Corporate Moments in Rock Message-ID: <20070307104014.28475.qmail@resist.ca> The evolution of the "music business" has oftentimes seen the focus placed more on business than music. Basic corporate concepts such as skillful marketing plans, profit maximization and good old Gordon Gekko greed, once inimical to the artistry of the music profession, are now commonplace...What follows are the ten most severe instances of the artistic vision coming under attack by the corporate mindset. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_top_10_corporate_moments_in_rock URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_top_10_corporate_moments_in_rock From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 7 15:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Iraq: Violence Against Women on the Rise Message-ID: <20070307231704.18706.qmail@resist.ca> Sexual assault and other forms of violence against women, topics surrounded by cultural silence, are on the rise in Iraq, according to a report released today by Madre, an international women's human rights organization in New York...And the United States, according to the report, bears much of the blame. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/iraq_violence_against_women_on_the_rise URL: http://mostlywater.org/iraq_violence_against_women_on_the_rise From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 7 17:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 01:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] International Women's Day: Yes to Life, No to Death Message-ID: <20070308011705.25102.qmail@resist.ca> The 8th of March comes this year upon **Palestinian women** as they face very difficult and harsh circumstances. On the one hand, Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continue to perpetrate human rights violations and war crimes, including killing and destruction of property, that have a direct impact on Palestinian women. On the other hand, the suffering of these women is worsened by the continued deterioration of the human rights situation under the Palestinian National Authority (PNA). [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/international_womens_day_yes_to_life_no_to_death URL: http://mostlywater.org/international_womens_day_yes_to_life_no_to_death From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 8 00:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 08:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Britain: Cop Assaults Young Woman of Colour During Arrest (Includes Video) Message-ID: <20070308084010.32706.qmail@resist.ca> Police are facing calls for an independent inquiry after CCTV footage showed a police officer repeatedly punching a woman during an arrest...The footage shows Ms Comer...writhing around on the ground, which she says was due to an epileptic fit. Police say she was trying to resist arrest...She is later dragged to a police van with her trousers round her knees. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/britain_cop_assaults_young_woman_of_colour_during_arrest_includes_video URL: http://mostlywater.org/britain_cop_assaults_young_woman_of_colour_during_arrest_includes_video From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 8 12:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 20:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] International Women's Day 2007: We Stand with the Women of the World Message-ID: <20070308201703.12655.qmail@resist.ca> ...International Women's Day (IWD), which is observed on March 8 is a time not only to celebrate women's lives and achievements, but also a chance to join hands in solidarity with women around the globe and to focus much needed attention on the many problems women face today...[O]n March 8th, we once again affirm the human rights of women throughout the world as well as celebrate their lives and accomplishments. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/international_womens_day_2007_we_stand_with_the_women_of_the_world URL: http://mostlywater.org/international_womens_day_2007_we_stand_with_the_women_of_the_world From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 8 12:40:26 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 20:40:26 -0000 Subject: [news] Vicente Fox Not Welcome in Vancouver: Rally at 2 PM at GM Place on IWD Message-ID: <20070308204027.26658.qmail@resist.ca> Vicente Fox Not Welcome in Vancouver: Vancouver-Based Human Rights Organizations Denounce and Oppose former Mexican President?s presence and talk on leadership at Power Within event Rally at 2:00 PM; Thursday, March 8th, 2007; GM Place, Vancouver March 7, 2007 (Vancouver) ? Major international and Mexican human rights organizations, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, have documented an extensive list of human rights abuses committed under the presidency of Vicente Fox. These include organized rape and sexual assault campaigns by state forces against the women of San Salvador Atenco and Oaxaca, and systemic negligence, corruption and torture in dealing with a situation in which more than 400 women and girls have been brutally murdered in the cities of Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/vicente_fox_not_welcome_in_vancouver_rally_at_2_pm_at_gm_place_on_iwd URL: http://mostlywater.org/vicente_fox_not_welcome_in_vancouver_rally_at_2_pm_at_gm_place_on_iwd From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 8 15:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 23:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] The Art of Complicity Message-ID: <20070308234009.21605.qmail@resist.ca> Artists who unquestioningly use police booking photographs (mugshots) of Vancouver's missing and slain women as an iconographic source for their art risk victimising those women further. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_art_of_complicity URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_art_of_complicity From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 8 15:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 23:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] George Bush's Samson Option Message-ID: <20070308234009.21603.qmail@resist.ca> Regular contributor **Stephen Lendman** discusses George Bush's reckless road to **total war in the Middle East** and the impending attack on Iran. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/george_bushs_samson_option URL: http://mostlywater.org/george_bushs_samson_option From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 8 23:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 07:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Bush Bashed in Brazil Message-ID: <20070309071703.9535.qmail@resist.ca> In Sao Paulo, some 10,000 people spilled out along one of the city's broadest avenues...banging drums, waving red flags and carrying banners reading "Bush Go Home"...Demonstrators threw rocks, fireworks and homemade "potato bombs" - made from gunpowder wrapped in foil - at some of the 4,000 police patrolling the streets during Mr Bush's visit. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/bush_bashed_in_brazil URL: http://mostlywater.org/bush_bashed_in_brazil From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 9 10:17:06 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 18:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Native Warriors Claim Responsibility for taking Olympic Flag Message-ID: <20070309181706.13147.qmail@resist.ca> [![Warriors Take Flag][1]][2]**Warriors Take Flag** In the early morning hours of Tuesday, March 6th, 2007, we removed the Olympic Flag from its flag-pole at Vancouver City Hall. We pried open the access panel on the pole with a crowbar, using a bolt-cutter, cut the metal cable/halyard inside, cause the flag to fall to the ground. [read more][3] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/system/files/images/Warriors+Take+Flag.thumbnail.jpg (Warriors Take Flag) [2]: http://mostlywater.org/ [3]: http://mostlywater.org/native_warriors_claim_responsibility_for_taking_olympic_flag URL: http://mostlywater.org/native_warriors_claim_responsibility_for_taking_olympic_flag From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 9 14:17:02 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 22:17:02 -0000 Subject: [news] Police Brutality Mars International Women's Day Celebration in Montreal Message-ID: <20070309221703.4454.qmail@resist.ca> "Police began hitting and pushing people indiscriminately. Several people were knocked to the ground with batons and night sticks...[A] 17 year old marcher was hit in the chest with the end of a night stick and thrown to the ground...Her ribs were bruised, she was winded, trembling from shock and her knee was cut open enough that the blood seeped through her jeans. Two other women were also injured..." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/police_brutality_mars_international_womens_day_celebration_in_montreal URL: http://mostlywater.org/police_brutality_mars_international_womens_day_celebration_in_montreal From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 9 14:40:24 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 22:40:24 -0000 Subject: [news] Bono's Bullshit Message-ID: <20070309224025.24812.qmail@resist.ca> How long before people will call a con a con? How many more people have to die in Africa before we acknowledge that this process is a fraud and a failure and that the evidentiary trail is not short but quite long (it's been 22 years since LiveAid)? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/bonos_bullshit URL: http://mostlywater.org/bonos_bullshit From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 9 21:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 05:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Action against homophobic eviction of Ungdomshuset Message-ID: <20070310051705.17008.qmail@resist.ca> With the eviction of Ungdomshuset the authorities in Copenhagen make way for homophobic crusade. The city council of Copenhagen has, supported by the Danish state, paved the road for the right-wing Christian fundamentalist church, Faderhuset, to take over and demolish the cultural and political centre Ungdomshuset in N?rrebro, Copenhagen. As lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgender people on N?rrebro we are now worried and angry about the promotion of a right-wing, traditionalist cultural politics in the City of Copenhagen ? and in Denmark as a whole in these years. Ungdomshuset was a place that attempted to function on non-commercial, anti-racist, anti-sexist, and anti-heterosexist premises for many years. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/action_against_homophobic_eviction_of_ungdomshuset URL: http://mostlywater.org/action_against_homophobic_eviction_of_ungdomshuset From news at resist.ca Sat Mar 10 00:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 08:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Miami Journalist Beat Up, Handcuffed, Arrested by Cops After Taking Their Photographs Message-ID: <20070310084008.16976.qmail@resist.ca> Carlos Miller, a freelance journalist...was doing a story about Miami?s rapid gentrification. He happened upon several Miami police officers interrogating a man and began taking photos. Police ordered him to stop and to cross the street. He identified himself as a journalist and refused, saying the street was public. Police then threw him to the ground, threatened to taser him and arrested him. He spent the night in jail. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/miami_journalist_beat_up_handcuffed_arrested_by_cops_after_taking_their_photographs URL: http://mostlywater.org/miami_journalist_beat_up_handcuffed_arrested_by_cops_after_taking_their_photographs From news at resist.ca Sat Mar 10 18:40:28 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 02:40:28 -0000 Subject: [news] Judi Bari, Ten Years Gone: Her Work and Warnings Prove True Message-ID: <20070311024029.30430.qmail@resist.ca> This week marks the **10th anniversary** of the day **Judi Bari** died on March 2nd in 1997 from cancer. On May 24, 1990, Judi was severely injured by a motion-triggered pipe bomb which exploded on the floor directly under the driver's seat of her car as she and fellow Earth Firster **Darryl Cherney** traveled through Oakland, California, on an organizing tour for **Redwood Summer**, a campaign of nonviolent protests focused on saving old growth redwood forests in northern California...[Judi] was a dedicated lefty labor activist...[y]et she worked tirelessly until her death on behalf of both the workers and the forest. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/judi_bari_ten_years_gone_her_work_and_warnings_prove_true URL: http://mostlywater.org/judi_bari_ten_years_gone_her_work_and_warnings_prove_true From news at resist.ca Sun Mar 11 17:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] South Carolina May Cut Jail Time for Organ Donors Message-ID: <20070312004008.15149.qmail@resist.ca> Inmates in South Carolina could soon find that a kidney is worth 180 days. Lawmakers are considering legislation that would let prisoners donate organs or bone marrow in exchange for time off their sentences. By Seanna Adcox, AP [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/19056 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/19056 From news at resist.ca Sun Mar 11 17:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Attacks on Zapatista Supporters and the 10th APPO Megamarch on International Women's Day Message-ID: <20070312004009.15151.qmail@resist.ca> Chiapas march turns ugly Two journalists were assaulted at an anti-EZLN demonstration El Universal, Viernes 09 de marzo de 2007 SAN CRISTO'BAL DE LAS CASAS, Chis. - Members of an indigenous group opposed to the long-quiescent Zapatista rebels beat two reporters from alternative media outlets as they were covering a rally in Chiapas. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/19050 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/19050 From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 12 02:40:11 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:40:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Riot Cops Attack Anti-War Protestors in Tacoma Message-ID: <20070312094012.3959.qmail@resist.ca> A protest organized by the Olympia/Tacoma Port Militarization Resistance and the Tacoma [Students for a Democratic Society] ended in violence...(when about 250 riot police)...responded by firing into the group with pepper spray pellets, bean bags and rubber bullets followed by CS (tear) gas and pepper spray dispersal gas. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/riot_cops_attack_anti_war_protestors_in_tacoma URL: http://mostlywater.org/riot_cops_attack_anti_war_protestors_in_tacoma From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 12 15:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Official Statement of Friends of Kevin! Message-ID: <20070312221704.21310.qmail@resist.ca> In July 2005, 12-year-old Joseph "Bam Bam" Long collapsed on the floor of his house in Kirkwood (St. Louis County). Police, slow to respond to his family's 911 calls, finally arrived, and then, neglecting to even check his pulse, simply stood around waiting for an ambulance while Bam Bam lay face down. Upon arrival, paramedics pronounced him dead. Hours later, one of those cops, Sgt. William McEntee, lay dead in a pool of his own blood several blocks from Bam Bam's house. Authorities swarmed the Meacham Park neighborhood kicking in doors and terrorizing residents. Days later, desperate to blame someone, police arrested Bam Bam's older brother, Kevin Johnson. In the lead up to Kevin's March 26th (2007) trial, the state has been going to great lengths to portray Kevin as a monster- accusing him, his family, and his friends of interfering with witnesses. The state and its courts have made their intentions clear: they plan to execute Kevin. What should be abundantly clear by now, though, is it's not Kevin who's the monster. The state is the real monster. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/official_statement_of_friends_of_kevin URL: http://mostlywater.org/official_statement_of_friends_of_kevin From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 12 20:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 03:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Revolutionary Anarchy Message-ID: <20070313031704.30754.qmail@resist.ca> We're in an awful state...I'm not talking about just where I live--I'm talking about all across the country...We survived for 50,000 years under a chief who looked after all his people, or her people, depending on where you lived. Everything was considered: environment, the people, everything. They had a beautiful system and it was a good life until Europeans came. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/revolutionary_anarchy URL: http://mostlywater.org/revolutionary_anarchy From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 12 23:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 06:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Surge and Destroy Message-ID: <20070313061703.15030.qmail@resist.ca> In his speech, Bush promised three prongs to his new strategy: (1) attacking and neutralizing Moqtada al-Sadr's **Mahdi Army** militia; (2) confronting **Iran**; and (3) a new offensive against the **Sunni insurgents**. Insurgency and resistance specialist **Michael Schwartz** analyses all three elements of Bush's **surge**, as well as it's effects on the Iraqi people. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/surge_and_destroy URL: http://mostlywater.org/surge_and_destroy From news at resist.ca Tue Mar 13 08:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 15:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] SF Peaks Saved! U.S. Federal Court Blocks Artificial Snowmaking on Navajo Nation Sacred Mountain Message-ID: <20070313154010.27858.qmail@resist.ca> 2007-03-12 | Sierra Club, Tribes Declare Justice Served with Groundbreaking Decision that Protects Peaks and People Today, the San Francisco 9th Circuit Court of Appeals delivered justice to the sacred San Francisco Peaks and the Southwest tribes that consider it sacred by stopping the development of the Arizona Snowbowl Resort and Coconino National Forest Service's proposed artificial snowmaking plan. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/sf_peaks_saved_u_s_federal_court_blocks_artificial_snowmaking_on_navajo_nation_sacred_mountain URL: http://mostlywater.org/sf_peaks_saved_u_s_federal_court_blocks_artificial_snowmaking_on_navajo_nation_sacred_mountain From news at resist.ca Tue Mar 13 12:40:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:40:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Armed Natives Set Up Quebec Roadblock Message-ID: <20070313194008.13070.qmail@resist.ca> A group of armed aboriginals blockaded a Quebec highway Monday, stopping traffic to protest forest management by the province. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/armed_natives_set_up_quebec_roadblock URL: http://mostlywater.org/armed_natives_set_up_quebec_roadblock From news at resist.ca Tue Mar 13 13:17:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Scenes from a Cop Riot Message-ID: <20070313201707.21797.qmail@resist.ca> ...[I]f you want to take a stand against another US/Israeli war crime, don't come to **Ann Arbor**. Not unless you're prepared for the worst. Unless you're prepared to be brutalized by the cops, thrown in jail, and subjected to improper and punitive medical treatment, you'd better keep your mouth shut. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/scenes_from_a_cop_riot URL: http://mostlywater.org/scenes_from_a_cop_riot From news at resist.ca Tue Mar 13 16:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 23:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] The North American Union ID: The Database Message-ID: <20070313234008.1167.qmail@resist.ca> The new ID cards come with a gigantic database that keeps track of all your personal information and biometric data. How secure are these databases? Lets first look at how well the government currently protects your data. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_north_american_union_id_the_database URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_north_american_union_id_the_database From news at resist.ca Tue Mar 13 22:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 05:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] SHAC Campaign in Vancouver, B.C. Message-ID: <20070314051704.16091.qmail@resist.ca> **SHAC** stands for **Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty**. The loosely-organized group was set up in 1999 with the sole aim of closing down Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS). Located in the UK and USA, HLS is the second largest contract testing lab in the world. HLS are infamous for torturing and killing 500 animals a day in tests for products such as weedkiller, food colourings and drugs. They have been exposed 6 times for disgusting animal cruelty and rule-breaking. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/shac_campaign_in_vancouver_b_c URL: http://mostlywater.org/shac_campaign_in_vancouver_b_c From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 14 00:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Palestine: Open Letter to the People of Six Nations Message-ID: <20070314071704.1677.qmail@resist.ca> ...Canada shows certain coherence in its politics...It criminalizes those on whose land it has constructed its wealth for defending the little that is left to them. At the same time it ensures that this logic is enforced globally...(I)t was the first state to impose the siege on the Palestinian people for democratically electing their leadership; and it continues to toe the US and Israeli line of aggression against the people of the Arab World. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/palestine_open_letter_to_the_people_of_six_nations URL: http://mostlywater.org/palestine_open_letter_to_the_people_of_six_nations From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 14 00:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Trials of Guantanamo Suspects Begin Without a Lawyer or Reporter in Sight Message-ID: <20070314074009.5023.qmail@resist.ca> Campaigners have condemned the Bush administration's plan to proceed with secret proceedings against 14 "high-value" terrorism suspects currently being held at Guantanamo Bay...The military tribunals...will take place behind closed doors and away from the scrutiny of the media. Hundreds of previous hearings held to determine the formal status of the prisoners have been open to reporters. None of the suspects will be able to have a lawyer present. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/trials_of_guantanamo_suspects_begin_without_a_lawyer_or_reporter_in_sight URL: http://mostlywater.org/trials_of_guantanamo_suspects_begin_without_a_lawyer_or_reporter_in_sight From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 14 10:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Public Health Agency Linked to Chemical Industry Message-ID: <20070314171705.25922.qmail@resist.ca> Marla Cone | LA Times | March 4, 2007 For nearly a decade, a federal agency has been responsible for assessing the dangers that chemicals pose to reproductive health. But much of the agency's work has been conducted by a private consulting company that has close ties to the chemical industry, including manufacturers of a compound in plastics that has been linked to reproductive damage. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/public_health_agency_linked_to_chemical_industry URL: http://mostlywater.org/public_health_agency_linked_to_chemical_industry From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 14 15:40:18 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 22:40:18 -0000 Subject: [news] Judges Exercise Muscles as Warmup for Olympics - Betty Gets 10 Months Message-ID: <20070314224018.15927.qmail@resist.ca> Judges have a little-known anti-democratic power that makes them political untouchables and allows them to turn civil disobedience into a criminal act, punishable by long prison terms. Find out why, if you're protesting broken Olympics promises, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the so-called right to a fair trial might do you no good... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/judges_exercise_muscles_as_warmup_for_olympics URL: http://mostlywater.org/judges_exercise_muscles_as_warmup_for_olympics From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 14 17:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Montreal Judicial System Unsuccessfully Intimidating Jaggi Singh Message-ID: <20070315001705.2832.qmail@resist.ca> Over the last ten years **[Jaggi] Singh** has been exceptionally targeted among social activists in Canada and repeatedly arrested at public events in a relentless cycle of judicial persecution. He is repeatedly charged with violating previous bail conditions against attending protests, and then later beating the original charges. Despite efforts to punish Singh, the State has never introduced evidence proving he has participated in or even advocated any violent activity. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/montreal_judicial_system_unsuccessfully_intimidating_jaggi_singh URL: http://mostlywater.org/montreal_judicial_system_unsuccessfully_intimidating_jaggi_singh From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 14 23:40:11 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 06:40:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Ex-CIA Officer: Progressive Change Sweeps Latin America while U.S. Descends into Fascism Message-ID: <20070315064012.31206.qmail@resist.ca> While Latin America is fast moving in progressive directions...in contrast the United States, at least since the Reagan era, has been moving step by step toward a Fascism for the 21st Century. And the pace has quickened in the last six years of Republican government under George W. Bush... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/ex_cia_officer_progressive_change_sweeps_latin_america_while_u_s_descends_into_fascism URL: http://mostlywater.org/ex_cia_officer_progressive_change_sweeps_latin_america_while_u_s_descends_into_fascism From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 15 00:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 07:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Women in Iran: Repression and Resistance Message-ID: <20070315074009.7809.qmail@resist.ca> "Today Iranian women [?] have imposed themselves on a male-dominated society which still believes women should stay at home. Perhaps nobody sees us, but we exist and we make our mark on the world around us. I assure you that if you look around carefully, everywhere you will see our footsteps." --**Shadi Sadr**, publisher, lawyer, journalist and one of **33 women** imprisoned by the Iranian state on March 4 for protesting discriminatory laws against women [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/women_in_iran_repression_and_resistance URL: http://mostlywater.org/women_in_iran_repression_and_resistance From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 15 00:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 07:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] ENOUGH!! A Woman's Place is NOT at Home! A Call To Action!! Message-ID: <20070315074010.7810.qmail@resist.ca> **Montreal Call to Action: International Day Against Police Brutality, March 15** As women we are very familiar with being blamed for our own victimization -- the woman who was raped "asked for it", what was she doing out there anyway? Why was she dressed like that? Milia Abrar, who was murdered in Montreal in 1998, had challenged traditions: she asked for it. The missing women, mostly Indigenous sisters, along the 'Highway of Tears' asked for it. The women at ?cole Polytechnique asked for it. The woman whose partner killed her asked for it. The women who were brutalized by the police on 8th March asked for it! [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/enough_a_womans_place_is_not_at_home_a_call_to_action URL: http://mostlywater.org/enough_a_womans_place_is_not_at_home_a_call_to_action From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 15 01:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Australia: Activists Arrested by Anti-Terror Squad Message-ID: <20070315081704.14012.qmail@resist.ca> Five people were arrested today by New South Wales, Victorian and Federal Police in relation to last year's G20 protests. Their houses were raided at 6am this morning...The raids were co-ordinated by the Victorian Terrorist Investigation Squad. The pigs ransacked the activists houses looking for evidence. The activists face charges of riot, affray and unlawful assembly [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/australia_activists_arrested_by_anti_terror_squad URL: http://mostlywater.org/australia_activists_arrested_by_anti_terror_squad From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 15 01:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] "Bush you are Not Welcome in Mexico. Go to Hell" Message-ID: <20070315081704.14013.qmail@resist.ca> Hundreds of demonstrators marched to the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City on Tuesday, attacking riot police with concrete blocks, metal bars and firecrackers and tearing down barricades to protest the visit of President Bush...Mexican police responded by unleashing tear gas and pepper spray, throwing rocks and clubbing demonstrators with batons. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/bush_you_are_not_welcome_in_mexico_go_to_hell URL: http://mostlywater.org/bush_you_are_not_welcome_in_mexico_go_to_hell From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 15 11:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Fake Congressional Opposition to War Message-ID: <20070315181704.9796.qmail@resist.ca> Democrats in Congress again selling out the electorate by refusing to end the war in Iraq. The US electorate sent a clear, unequivocal message in the November mid-term elections. End the Iraq war and bring home the troops. Many supporting war in the 109th Congress lost out to more moderate voices taking over their seats because voters want change and expect new faces to deliver starting with the top issue on voters' minds in recent polls - Iraq. A majority of the public demands it, protests and heated rhetoric continue building over it, and the Congress is about to disappoint again proving getting into war is easy but even an act of Congress can't get us out because doing nothing is less risky than taking a stand against the prevailing view in Washington. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/fake_congressional_opposition_to_war URL: http://mostlywater.org/fake_congressional_opposition_to_war From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 15 11:40:39 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:40:39 -0000 Subject: [news] Monsanto Lies About Toxic GM Maize - Greenpeace Message-ID: <20070315184044.27571.qmail@resist.ca> gandracu writes "It appears that a variety of genetically modified maize produced by Monsanto is toxic for the liver and kidneys. What's worse, Monsanto knew about it and tried to conceal the facts in its own publications. Greenpeace fought in court to obtain the data and had it analyzed by a team of experts. MON863, the variety of GM maze in question, has been authorized for markets in the US, EU, Australia, Canada, China, Japan, Mexico, and the Philippines. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/19376 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/19376 From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 15 15:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Mackenzie gas project to cost $16.2B: Imperial Oil Message-ID: <20070315221705.2067.qmail@resist.ca> Mackenzie gas project to cost $16.2B: Imperial Oil Last Updated: Monday, March 12, 2007 | 11:39 AM CT The cost of the proposed Mackenzie natural gas project in the Northwest Territories is now pegged at $16.2 billion, Imperial Oil said Monday. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/mackenzie_gas_project_to_cost_16_2b_imperial_oil URL: http://mostlywater.org/mackenzie_gas_project_to_cost_16_2b_imperial_oil From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 15 22:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 05:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] G8 '07: Move Fast, Strike Harder... Message-ID: <20070316054009.19259.qmail@resist.ca> The **G8** circus is coming to **Heiligendamm, (Germany)**. As recent summits have moved to more remote areas, we have felt our strength decline, mainly because they increasingly control the playground and everything around it. In **Seattle, Prague** and **Genoa** our strengths were in being inventive and surprising the police. This allowed us the freedom to stage effective direct actions and disrupt the summits. The time has come to seize back the initiative. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/g8_07_move_fast_strike_harder URL: http://mostlywater.org/g8_07_move_fast_strike_harder From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 16 00:40:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 07:40:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Inuit Accuse US of Destroying Their Way of Life with Global Warming Message-ID: <20070316074008.22021.qmail@resist.ca> "Because Inuit culture is inseparable from the condition of their physical surroundings, the widespread environmental upheaval resulting from climate change violates the Inuit's right to practice and enjoy the benefits of their culture." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/inuit_accuse_us_of_destroying_their_way_of_life_with_global_warming_0 URL: http://mostlywater.org/inuit_accuse_us_of_destroying_their_way_of_life_with_global_warming_0 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 16 01:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Arrested for Cross-Dressing Message-ID: <20070316081703.28263.qmail@resist.ca> >From the pages of **SchNEWS**, this latest **Crap Arrest of the Week** has Australian cops arresting cross-dressing women at an anti-Cheney action for doing a parody of the cops. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/arrested_for_cross_dressing URL: http://mostlywater.org/arrested_for_cross_dressing From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 16 02:40:16 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:40:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Political Prisoners in Mexico Message-ID: <20070316094017.23521.qmail@resist.ca> The criminalization of social protest is filling [Mexico's] jails and prisons with political prisoners. 214 protestors were arrested in the crackdown at Atenco last May 3rd and 4th...Another 140 citizens were beaten, gassed, and arrested in Oaxaca on November 25th by the Federal Preventative Police to break up the seven month-long occupation of the city's old colonial center by the Oaxaca Popular Peoples' Assembly (APPO) and striking teachers... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/political_prisoners_in_mexico URL: http://mostlywater.org/political_prisoners_in_mexico From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 16 08:40:16 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:40:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Talk Over the Counter-Surveillance Message-ID: <20070316154017.3989.qmail@resist.ca> Is anyone else feeling like they are poisoned? Ever since I was in the Native Youth Movement in Vancouver (1997) my health mysteriously gets weird during and after major actions and protests. Can we get some counter-surveillance happening, because my friends and are surveilled for thinking smart stuff and doing good things? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/talk_over_the_counter_surveillance URL: http://mostlywater.org/talk_over_the_counter_surveillance From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 16 14:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 21:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Anti-police rallies turn ugly in Montreal, Vancouver Message-ID: <20070316214009.2350.qmail@resist.ca> Anti-police rallies in Montreal and Vancouver turned violent Thursday as demonstrators clashed with police, leading to several arrests. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/anti_police_rallies_turn_ugly_in_montreal_vancouver URL: http://mostlywater.org/anti_police_rallies_turn_ugly_in_montreal_vancouver From news at resist.ca Sat Mar 17 17:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 00:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Iran: Up to 1, 000 Teachers Arrested in Brutal Crackdown on Pay Revolt Message-ID: <20070318001703.14597.qmail@resist.ca> Robert Tait in Tehran Saturday March 17, 2007 The Guardian The authorities in Iran have arrested up to 1,000 teachers in a brutal crackdown that signals their determination to break a pay revolt. Riot police beat demonstrators with batons as they tried to gather outside Iran's parliament and education ministry and herded them into police vans and buses before transporting them to detention centres across Tehran. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/19461 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/19461 From news at resist.ca Sat Mar 17 17:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 00:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Warmest Global Winter on Record According to NOAA Message-ID: <20070318001703.14598.qmail@resist.ca> Although the United States experienced average temperatures for the December, 2006 to February, 2007 period, overall world temperatures were the warmest on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). In a March 15, 2007 report, the NOAA indicated that a record warm January helped push the combined global land and ocean surface temperature for the past winter to its highest value since records began in 1880. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/19439 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/19439 From news at resist.ca Sat Mar 17 23:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 06:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] RAWA Statement on IWD: Women's Rights is Human Rights Message-ID: <20070318061704.13936.qmail@resist.ca> The world came into motion in the name of "liberating Afghan woman" and our country was invaded, but the sorrows and deprivations of Afghan women has not just failed to reduce, but actually increased the level of oppression and brutality day by day on this most ruined population of our society...The corrupt and mafia government of [Hamid] Karzai and its international guardians, are playing shamelessly with the intolerable suffering of Afghan women and misuse it as their propaganda tool for deceiving the people of the world. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/rawa_statement_on_iwd_womens_rights_is_human_rights URL: http://mostlywater.org/rawa_statement_on_iwd_womens_rights_is_human_rights From news at resist.ca Sun Mar 18 00:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 07:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Rachel Corrie and Palestine Message-ID: <20070318071704.4286.qmail@resist.ca> You will be remembered forever, Rachel and we hope that out of your tragic death will come a better understanding of the inhumanity gripping our world and what we have to do to bring compassion and justice back into our consciousness. Palestine has waited a long time and Palestine deserves some human kindness in its 40th year of occupation...[W]e feel [Rachel's] spirit with us as the struggle goes on. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/rachel_corrie_and_palestine URL: http://mostlywater.org/rachel_corrie_and_palestine From news at resist.ca Sun Mar 18 23:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 06:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Five Rings to Rile Them All Message-ID: <20070319061705.31476.qmail@resist.ca> Stirred by posters depicting the [Olympic Rings] as motivating the actions of police and big business, about 50 protesters swarmed police officers, smashed newspaper boxes and set fires with accelerants on the streets of Vancouver. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/five_rings_to_rile_them_all URL: http://mostlywater.org/five_rings_to_rile_them_all From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 19 19:17:17 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 02:17:17 -0000 Subject: [news] In Memory of Tanya Reinhart Message-ID: <20070320021719.31862.qmail@resist.ca> "**Tanya [Reinhart]** was a brilliant and creative scientist...She was [also] one of the most courageous and honorable defenders of human rights whom I have ever been privileged to meet. As all honest people should, she focused her attention and energy on the actions of her own state and society, for which she shared responsibility including the responsibility, which she never shirked, to expose crimes of state and to defend the victims of repression, violence, and conquest...She will be remembered not only as a resolute and honorable defender of the rights of **Palestinians**, but also as one of those who have struggled to defend the moral integrity of her own **Israeli** society, and its hope for decent survival." --**Noam Chomsky** [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/in_memory_of_tanya_reinhart URL: http://mostlywater.org/in_memory_of_tanya_reinhart From news at resist.ca Tue Mar 20 00:17:21 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 07:17:21 -0000 Subject: [news] History Reconsidered: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Message-ID: <20070320071721.5888.qmail@resist.ca> Professor **Ilan Pappe** is an Israeli historian and senior lecturer of Political Science at Haifa University. He is the author of numerous books, including... **The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine**, published in 2006. On March 8, he spoke at a small colloquium in Tokyo organized by the NIHU Program Islamic Area Studies, University of Tokyo Unit, on the path of personal experiences that brought him to write his new book. [Transcript Included] [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/history_reconsidered_the_ethnic_cleansing_of_palestine URL: http://mostlywater.org/history_reconsidered_the_ethnic_cleansing_of_palestine From news at resist.ca Tue Mar 20 10:17:47 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:17:47 -0000 Subject: [news] Hot Trends in Protest Technology Message-ID: <20070320171751.17888.qmail@resist.ca> By PATRICK YOUNG Take large PVC pipe (1) and fix steel bolt (2) through center. Cover with chicken wire (3), slather with tar (4) and swirl with duct tape (5). Why? To gum up saws of police. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/19570 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/19570 From news at resist.ca Tue Mar 20 10:40:41 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:40:41 -0000 Subject: [news] [Video] Dr. Dahlia Wasfi Speaks at Iraq Forum Message-ID: <20070320174045.23526.qmail@resist.ca> [![][1]][2]YouTube video on Dr. Dahlia Wasfi talking about her family's experience in Iraq. [read more][2] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/system/files/images/dahlia+wasfi+on+iraq.jpg () [2]: http://mostlywater.org/video_dr_dahlia_wasfi_speaks_at_iraq_forum URL: http://mostlywater.org/video_dr_dahlia_wasfi_speaks_at_iraq_forum From news at resist.ca Tue Mar 20 11:41:38 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:41:38 -0000 Subject: [news] Olympic Evictions Declared Illegal Message-ID: <20070320184144.11774.qmail@resist.ca> Vancouver ? Pivot Legal Society and a coalition of advocacy groups won two low-income housing eviction- and rent-increase cases for residents of one of the Downtown Eastside?s low-income hotels today. Two residents of the Golden Crown Hotel received notice today from the Residential Tenancy Branch that their illegal eviction notices and rent increases linked to the Olympics were set aside. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/olympic_evictions_declared_illegal URL: http://mostlywater.org/olympic_evictions_declared_illegal From news at resist.ca Tue Mar 20 13:40:48 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:40:48 -0000 Subject: [news] Hating the Rich Message-ID: <20070320204051.23024.qmail@resist.ca> I have a suggestion for clarifying our consciousness: learn to hate the rich...I don't mean shame the rich in order to get money out of their guilt, as has been a long practice on the left and among non-profits. I mean NOT taking money from the rich, isolate the rich, make them build tall walls around their estates and corporate headquarters as the people force the rich to do in Latin America. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/hating_the_rich URL: http://mostlywater.org/hating_the_rich From news at resist.ca Tue Mar 20 19:40:15 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 02:40:15 -0000 Subject: [news] Iraqi Women Four Years After Invasion Message-ID: <20070321024016.31492.qmail@resist.ca> ...[A]s long as the U.S. and British occupation lasts, there will be Islamist forces that, in the name of fighting the occupation, will severely restrict women's participation in public life. Although I am under no illusion that the violence will subside or that women will be better off immediately after troop withdrawal, it will have to be a necessary step on the way to create a sovereign state in which women's rights can be discussed without creating a bigger backlash for women inside Iraq. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/iraqi_women_four_years_after_invasion URL: http://mostlywater.org/iraqi_women_four_years_after_invasion From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 21 09:17:30 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:17:30 -0000 Subject: [news] Mohawk Community Demands Return of Stolen Culbertson Tract Message-ID: <20070321161732.30670.qmail@resist.ca> The Culbertson is a tract of land, 923 acres in size that runs along the eastern boundary of Tyendinaga. It was stolen by the Feds in 1837. Tyendinaga's Chiefs immediately registered their people's dissent but no formal legal process existed to pursue its return. After the Government finally got around to creating such a process in 1991, Tyendinaga filed a formal land claim. In November 2003, the Feds acknowledged that the Culbertson Tract was never surrendered and is Mohawk Land. They then tried for several years to get Tyendinaga to take a buy-out for the land. The people of Tyendinaga repeatedly refused. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/mohawk_community_demands_return_of_stolen_culbertson_tract URL: http://mostlywater.org/mohawk_community_demands_return_of_stolen_culbertson_tract From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 21 15:17:15 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 22:17:15 -0000 Subject: [news] Is Venezula Heading for Social Democracy? Message-ID: <20070321221717.31060.qmail@resist.ca> Ron Collins | March 21, 2007 After reading Stephen Lendman's article, "Hugo Chavez's Social Democratic Agenda", I'm left wondering where Chavez is going with this? Is the endpoint of Chavez's "social revolution" simply a "more fair" form of capitalism? Or is he really determined to bring in some true form of socialism? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/is_venezula_heading_for_social_democracy URL: http://mostlywater.org/is_venezula_heading_for_social_democracy From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 21 17:40:24 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:40:24 -0000 Subject: [news] Meet the Global Ruling Class: The Billionaires and How They Made It Message-ID: <20070322004025.24113.qmail@resist.ca> What is repeatedly demonstrated...is that the key factor leading to the quantum leap in wealth from millionaires to billionaires was the vast privatization and subsequent de-nationalization of lucrative public enterprises...Countries of 'surging billionaires' produce burgeoning poverty, submerging living standards. The making of billionaires means the unmaking of civil society, the weakening of social solidarity, protective social legislation, pensions, vacations, public health programs and education. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/meet_the_global_ruling_class_the_billionaires_and_how_they_made_it URL: http://mostlywater.org/meet_the_global_ruling_class_the_billionaires_and_how_they_made_it From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 21 22:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 05:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] "Passenger Protect": Canada's No Fly List Message-ID: <20070322051705.8689.qmail@resist.ca> The **no-fly** list threatens liberty, equality and mobility rights guaranteed in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Moreover, it leaves little practical recourse to get off the list...The system envisaged by **Passenger Protect** is wholly inadequate, as it will be over inclusive, with high likelihood of false positives, pose a serious potential for racial profiling, and completely lack any meaningful redress mechanism or process. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/passenger_protect_canadas_no_fly_list URL: http://mostlywater.org/passenger_protect_canadas_no_fly_list From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 22 13:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] A Review of John Ross' Zapatistas Message-ID: <20070322201705.12566.qmail@resist.ca> Extended review of John Ross' new book **Zapatistas**. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/a_review_of_john_ross_zapatistas URL: http://mostlywater.org/a_review_of_john_ross_zapatistas From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 22 13:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Downtown Business Security Man Calls for Sanctions Against Protesters Message-ID: <20070322201706.12567.qmail@resist.ca> The courts need to crack down on protesters before the anti-Olympic movement spirals out of control, says [**Dave Jones**], a former Vancouver police officer. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/downtown_business_security_man_calls_for_sanctions_against_protesters URL: http://mostlywater.org/downtown_business_security_man_calls_for_sanctions_against_protesters From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 22 13:40:24 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:40:24 -0000 Subject: [news] Poland's Sweeping New Anti-Gay Education Bill Message-ID: <20070322204026.1121.qmail@resist.ca> More evidence of the growing climate of official homophobia in Poland came last week when the right-wing government...announced it was planning to pass a sweeping bill that, under the guise of interdicting "the promotion of homosexuality," would ban discussion of, or teaching about, homosexuality in the schools. The move came just [as] it was announced that [Polish] President Kaczynski would deliver the opening address at a World Congress of Families organized this coming May in Poland by gay-hating U.S. Christian right groups. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/polands_sweeping_new_anti_gay_education_bill URL: http://mostlywater.org/polands_sweeping_new_anti_gay_education_bill From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 22 15:40:13 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 22:40:13 -0000 Subject: [news] Counterinsurgency Manual Shows Canadian Military's New Face Message-ID: <20070322224014.11434.qmail@resist.ca> ...Canada's Department of National Defence is preparing a comprehensive counter-insurgency field manual for its soldiers and officers...A 250-page publication, the field manual outlines the principles and practices of fighting the kind of insurgencies that have come to define warfare for the Western powers in the 21st century, in places like **Chechnya**, **Afghanistan** and **Iraq**. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/counterinsurgency_manual_shows_canadian_militarys_new_face URL: http://mostlywater.org/counterinsurgency_manual_shows_canadian_militarys_new_face From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 23 01:17:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] International Statement from Secwepemc Native Youth Movement Message-ID: <20070323081708.13676.qmail@resist.ca> ...**Secwepemc** People will continue to Fight against the illegal development on Un-Surrendered/Un-Ceded Secwepemc Territory. **Sun Peaks** is presently in the midst of a 294 million dollar destruction (expansion) & is planning new paved highways to go through our hunting grounds, and continue the Genocide of Native Lands & Way of Life...**Skwelkwek?welt** is our home, it is home to all the animals and plants that we depend on as a Nation of distinct Peoples. This is our Survival. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/international_statement_from_secwepemc_native_youth_movement URL: http://mostlywater.org/international_statement_from_secwepemc_native_youth_movement From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 23 01:40:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Support Six Nations Political Prisoner Chris Hill Message-ID: <20070323084011.32201.qmail@resist.ca> Since the Haudonausaunee of Six Nations reclaimed Douglas Creek Estates, some 30 indigenous people have been charged by the settler-colony of Canada in relation to the Reclamation. **Chris Hill** is one of the latest to be charged...Since January 3rd, he has been sitting in Barton Street Jail in Hamilton, Ontario where he is locked up for 18 hours a day. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/support_six_nations_political_prisoner_chris_hill URL: http://mostlywater.org/support_six_nations_political_prisoner_chris_hill From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 23 11:40:21 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:40:21 -0000 Subject: [news] OCAP: Family of Six Without Beds and Other Vital Household Items Message-ID: <20070323184022.1873.qmail@resist.ca> Khalton Mohammed is a mother of five children who are forced to live on sub poverty welfare payments. They lack many basic household items, including beds and bedding. Provincial regulations permit the City to give Community Start Up payments in such situations but Toronto has decided to only refer people to corporate charity and not give any assistance with beds. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/ocap_family_of_six_without_beds_and_other_vital_household_items URL: http://mostlywater.org/ocap_family_of_six_without_beds_and_other_vital_household_items From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 23 17:40:16 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:40:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Jocks 4 Justice Speak Out for Gary Tyler Message-ID: <20070324004017.24560.qmail@resist.ca> The history of the American legal system is scarred with instances of injustice...Add to this list the case of **Gary Tyler**, convicted of murder at the age of 16...[A]t the time of his 1975 conviction, he was the nation's youngest death-row inmate. The spotlight dimmed when his sentence was commuted to life without the possibility of parole in 1977...Tyler, now 48, is living out his days in Louisiana's notorious Angola prison. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/jocks_4_justice_speak_out_for_gary_tyler URL: http://mostlywater.org/jocks_4_justice_speak_out_for_gary_tyler From news at resist.ca Sat Mar 24 04:17:11 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 11:17:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Is the U.S. Heading Towards Fascism? Message-ID: <20070324111711.14801.qmail@resist.ca> In 2003, **Laurence W. Britt** wrote a seminal article comparing fascist regimes, such as Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy, to life under Bush...This **three-part series** recaps Bush's record in 2006 under the framework of Britt's **"fourteen common threads"** of fascism and makes predictions for 2007. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/is_the_u_s_heading_towards_fascism URL: http://mostlywater.org/is_the_u_s_heading_towards_fascism From news at resist.ca Sat Mar 24 15:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 22:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Class War in =?utf-8?q?Conrad=E2=80=99s?= Court Message-ID: <20070324221705.22123.qmail@resist.ca> The **[Conrad] Black** trial is an odd beast: A Canadian who gave up his citizenship to be a British Lord is on trial in the United States for allegedly pocketing tens of millions that belonged to the shareholders of Chicago-based Hollinger International...[B]ut most Americans have no idea who Black is...It makes sense that Lord Black is a nobody in Chicago. Black never needed to bother with politics in the United States?as far as he was concerned, the country was close to perfect. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/class_war_in_conrad_s_court URL: http://mostlywater.org/class_war_in_conrad_s_court From news at resist.ca Sat Mar 24 15:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 22:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Return of the Black Bloc Message-ID: <20070324221705.22124.qmail@resist.ca> The most important thing was not that we broke through police lines, smashed the windows of a Fox 'News' van and a recruitment center, or left graffiti on the steps of the Capitol building. The most important thing was that we ran free, and got away with it. We succeeded in leaving messages where they are hardest to wash away, in the memories of everyone involved. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/return_of_the_black_bloc URL: http://mostlywater.org/return_of_the_black_bloc From news at resist.ca Sun Mar 25 11:17:20 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 18:17:20 -0000 Subject: [news] =?utf-8?q?Washington=E2=80=99s?= Covert War Inside Iran Message-ID: <20070325181721.11301.qmail@resist.ca> Much attention has been given to the Bush Administration?s preparations for possible war against Iran as well as its drive to impose sanctions. Meanwhile, a less noticed policy has been unfolding, one that may in time prove to have grave consequences for the region. There is a covert war underway in Iran, still in its infancy, but with disturbing signs of impending escalation. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/washington_s_covert_war_inside_iran URL: http://mostlywater.org/washington_s_covert_war_inside_iran From news at resist.ca Sun Mar 25 11:17:20 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 18:17:20 -0000 Subject: [news] Workers in Toledo Know How to Deal With Scabs Message-ID: <20070325181721.11303.qmail@resist.ca> A car owned by a "replacement worker" at The Blade was set on fire and the word "scab" was spray-painted in black on each side of the vehicle and its hood...Peter Thayer, 33, of Oregon was leaving work at...about 10:30 p.m. Sunday when he found his Chrysler 300M burning in the parking lot. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/workers_in_toledo_know_how_to_deal_with_scabs URL: http://mostlywater.org/workers_in_toledo_know_how_to_deal_with_scabs From news at resist.ca Sun Mar 25 11:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 18:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] The Makings of the American Gulag Message-ID: <20070325184009.30288.qmail@resist.ca> **Two articles**, from **Socialist Worker** and **Counterpunch** respectively, discuss the **class** and **race** based nature of the US "justice" (sic) system. They also give a glimpse of the type of policies favored by the right wing government of Canadian Prime Minister **Stephen Harper**, which has made no secret of it's preference for a US-style "war on crime"; despite the collosal damage such failed social policies have had south of the border, they nonetheless find much favour among Canada's neo-conservatives. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_makings_of_the_american_gulag URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_makings_of_the_american_gulag From news at resist.ca Sun Mar 25 13:17:06 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 20:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Development Aid as Counterinsurgency Tool Message-ID: <20070325201706.17250.qmail@resist.ca> [**Part two** of two.] Increasingly, development aid is being used as a key weapon to advance the military's counter-insurgency campaigns...As the head of the army, Lt. Gen. Andrew Leslie, recently [said]...the Canadian Forces work "hand in glove with the folks from the Canadian International Development Agency [as well as] reinforce the diplomatic activities and efforts of Foreign Affairs." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/development_aid_as_counterinsurgency_tool URL: http://mostlywater.org/development_aid_as_counterinsurgency_tool From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 26 01:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Former Black Panther Denied Entry to Canada Message-ID: <20070326081703.30897.qmail@resist.ca> OTTAWA -- The Canadian government is refusing **Bobby Seale** entry to Canada and denying students an opportunity to hear a legendary civil rights activist, according to a University of Ottawa group that invited the former Black Panther Party chairman to speak at an event this weekend. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/former_black_panther_denied_entry_to_canada URL: http://mostlywater.org/former_black_panther_denied_entry_to_canada From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 26 02:17:12 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:17:12 -0000 Subject: [news] Deh Cho, wary of tar sands, demand action Message-ID: <20070326091713.23070.qmail@resist.ca> Destruction of the Mackenzie River watershed, hundreds of dead adults and sick babies in the Deh Cho First Nation. That?s the scenario a Northwest Territories chief is predicting if oilsands development is not slowed. Grand Chief Herb Norwegian wants immediate action from the Alberta and N.W.T. governments to protect the quality and quantity of water that flows downstream from the oilsands. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/deh_cho_wary_of_tar_sands_demand_action URL: http://mostlywater.org/deh_cho_wary_of_tar_sands_demand_action From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 26 02:17:13 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:17:13 -0000 Subject: [news] What's Really Going On in Zimbabwe Message-ID: <20070326091713.23071.qmail@resist.ca> [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/whats_really_going_on_in_zimbabwe URL: http://mostlywater.org/whats_really_going_on_in_zimbabwe From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 26 02:40:17 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:40:17 -0000 Subject: [news] Will an American Surge Win the War for Oil? Message-ID: <20070326094018.27540.qmail@resist.ca> [...] ?We have to stay the course,? while mumbling about finding alternatives that will help the economy wean off dependence on this oil-producing region. The noises being made by politicians on the matter is simply reflective of the over-all population who say time and again, when asked, that reversing the dangerous course we are on is their top priority. So the neoconservatives in power have, after their secret plans were leaked, begun to escalate operations in a massive ?Surge!? Of course, the surge I am talking about is the five fold surge that is being called for in tarsand petroleum production[...] [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/will_an_american_surge_win_the_war_for_oil URL: http://mostlywater.org/will_an_american_surge_win_the_war_for_oil From news at resist.ca Mon Mar 26 03:17:38 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:17:38 -0000 Subject: [news] The Violence of the Letter: Land Claims and Continuing Colonial Conquest in Canada Message-ID: <20070326101739.1553.qmail@resist.ca> The Violence of the Letter: Land Claims and Continuing Colonial Conquest in Canada The recent struggle over lands in southern Ontario near Caledonia points to the continuing problem with land-claims policy in Canada. This sentence could be used to begin an article every few years, only the place names change: the recent struggle at Grassy Narrows, the recent struggle at Stoney Point, the recent struggle at Oka. While there is a sense in which the current land-claims policy goes back to the beginnings of colonialism in Canada, the recent permutations are worth attention. Any understanding of contemporary conflicts needs to be informed by a strong and detailed sense of what has happened historically, as well as what is happening today. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_violence_of_the_letter_land_claims_and_continuing_colonial_conquest_in_canada URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_violence_of_the_letter_land_claims_and_continuing_colonial_conquest_in_canada From news at resist.ca Tue Mar 27 02:17:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Los Angeles: Vicious War on the Homeless Message-ID: <20070327091708.31214.qmail@resist.ca> Widespread homelessness in the world's richest country is a shameful indictment of a system that places profit before human need. That Los Angeles' best response to its homeless crisis is to criminalize, intimidate and incarcerate its most vulnerable shows why we need to organize and fight for a world with different priorities. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/los_angeles_vicious_war_on_the_homeless URL: http://mostlywater.org/los_angeles_vicious_war_on_the_homeless From news at resist.ca Tue Mar 27 11:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Old Idea; New Sales Pitch - The North American Union ID Message-ID: <20070327181705.14894.qmail@resist.ca> Way back in the pre-bin Laden days of 1998, Ontario wanted to ?[replace drivers licenses and health cards with a single computerized smart card, capable of storing vast amounts of information about an individual][1]? complete with fingerprints, patient's treatment history, doctor's phone number, other health data, driving record and a ?computer chip?. Even before this, Alberta and BC had rejected similar plans. [read more][2] [1]: http://www.knowledgedrivenrevolution.com/Articles/200703/20070315_ONT_Smart_Card_ID_1998.htm [2]: http://mostlywater.org/old_idea_new_sales_pitch_the_north_american_union_id URL: http://mostlywater.org/old_idea_new_sales_pitch_the_north_american_union_id From news at resist.ca Tue Mar 27 16:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Telling the Truth about Tar Sands Cancer Rates? Get Ready to Defend your Job... Message-ID: <20070327231704.6347.qmail@resist.ca> The Alberta Medical Association has passed a unanimous motion supporting a doctor at the centre of an environmental controversy in northern Alberta. In February, Health Canada officials filed a complaint against Dr. John O'Connor, who raised concerns about high rates of cancers and other illnesses in a community downstream from Alberta's oilsands developments. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/telling_the_truth_about_tar_sands_cancer_rates_get_ready_to_defend_your_job URL: http://mostlywater.org/telling_the_truth_about_tar_sands_cancer_rates_get_ready_to_defend_your_job From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 28 10:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Is George Bush Insane? A Psychiatrist's Perspective Message-ID: <20070328171703.9468.qmail@resist.ca> by Paul L. Minot, MD Bush's irrational consideration of a "surge" in the wake of the ISG report--which apparently defies all credible counsel--has begun to generate speculation regarding his sanity. References to Bush's "delusions" have appeared in the MSM (notable on "Scarborough Country") and through out the blogosphere. As a psychiatrist, I understandably get concerned when I see clinical terminology bandied about in political discourse, and thought it might be of interest to share my own perspective on this question. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/an_analysis_of_our_friend_in_d_c URL: http://mostlywater.org/an_analysis_of_our_friend_in_d_c From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 28 13:40:11 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:40:11 -0000 Subject: [news] New Zealand: Images And Reality Message-ID: <20070328204012.18358.qmail@resist.ca> **New Zealand** prides itself on human rights, social compassion and political ?neutrality?. Moreover, New Zealanders pride themselves on being ?peace loving? people. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. These images are a distortion of reality. New Zealand is a fully-fledged member of America?s war on Muslims. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/new_zealand_images_and_reality URL: http://mostlywater.org/new_zealand_images_and_reality From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 28 14:17:18 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 21:17:18 -0000 Subject: [news] Open Letter to the Anti-War Movement Message-ID: <20070328211718.26747.qmail@resist.ca> The defeat of the United States and the occupation should be a lesson; that never again [will] a military force [try] to subjugate the people of another country...To succeed in stopping this insanity, the anti-war movement must revise all its terminology and refuse the terms dictated by the occupation...We must refuse the word ?insurgency? and substitute it for what exists in reality: legitimate and legal resistance against vicious foreign occupation. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/open_letter_to_the_anti_war_movement URL: http://mostlywater.org/open_letter_to_the_anti_war_movement From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 28 17:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Tar Sands to need 20 Candu nuclear plants in northern Alberta Message-ID: <20070329001704.14679.qmail@resist.ca> Don't let their fluffy title get one hung up. Here's the great news from within this article: "It [panel] concluded that almost 20 nuclear reactors would be needed just to meet the production growth planned to 2015." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/tar_sands_to_need_20_candu_nuclear_plants_in_northern_alberta URL: http://mostlywater.org/tar_sands_to_need_20_candu_nuclear_plants_in_northern_alberta From news at resist.ca Wed Mar 28 23:40:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 06:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Closing the Gap Between Torturer & Victim Message-ID: <20070329064010.12338.qmail@resist.ca> In Andrew Cockburn's new book, **Rumsfeld**, the gap between rampant power and its faraway victims is closed. Donald Rumsfeld, US secretary of defence until last year and a designer of the Iraq bloodbath, is revealed as personally directing from his office in the Pentagon the torture of fellow human beings... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/closing_the_gap_between_torturer_victim URL: http://mostlywater.org/closing_the_gap_between_torturer_victim From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 29 00:17:14 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:17:14 -0000 Subject: [news] Is the U.S. Heading Towards Fascism? - Part Two Message-ID: <20070329071714.19704.qmail@resist.ca> [**Part two** of three.] **Part I** of this article series...looked at Bush's 2006 record under the framework of **Laurence Britt's 14 points of fascism**. We continue here with points 9-12. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/is_the_u_s_heading_towards_fascism_part_two URL: http://mostlywater.org/is_the_u_s_heading_towards_fascism_part_two From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 29 11:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] The Racist War On Immigrants Message-ID: <20070329181705.23571.qmail@resist.ca> The Bush administration and congressional joint war on immigrants. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_racist_war_on_immigrants URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_racist_war_on_immigrants From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 29 13:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Iraqi Cops Go on a Rampage Message-ID: <20070329201703.32538.qmail@resist.ca> Shia police rampaged through a Sunni district in the north-western city of Tal Afar killing at least 33 people in the streets and in their homes in revenge for devastating car bombs in a nearby Shia neighborhood earlier in the day. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/iraqi_cops_go_on_a_rampage URL: http://mostlywater.org/iraqi_cops_go_on_a_rampage From news at resist.ca Thu Mar 29 13:40:12 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:40:12 -0000 Subject: [news] 50 Per Cent of Israeli Jews Support State-Backed Arab Emigration Message-ID: <20070329204013.19895.qmail@resist.ca> A Poll sponsored by the **Center for the Campaign Against Racism** found that half the Jewish population of Israel believe the state should encourage Arab emigration...According to the data, some 50 percent of the participants said they become fearful when they hear the Arabic language spoken around them. 43 percent said they feel uncomfortable, and 30 percent feel hatred. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/50_per_cent_of_israeli_jews_support_state_backed_arab_emigration URL: http://mostlywater.org/50_per_cent_of_israeli_jews_support_state_backed_arab_emigration From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 30 10:17:15 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:17:15 -0000 Subject: [news] Supermodels 1, Ulises Ruiz 0: Miss Universe Cancels Oaxaca Events of 2007 Pageant Message-ID: <20070330171717.3252.qmail@resist.ca> The international models movement Supermodels for Oaxaca (APMO, in Spanish) claims its first victory today, with the cancellation by the Miss Universe pageant of its scheduled competition in the Mexican state of Oaxaca that had been announced for May. The true credit for this victory goes to the heroic peoples of Oaxaca and their Popular Assembly (known as APPO, in its Spanish initials), which has continued to demand the removal of the fraudulent and illegitimate dictatorship of governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/20102 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/20102 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 30 10:17:15 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:17:15 -0000 Subject: [news] =?iso-8859-1?q?Introduction_to_Anarchism_and_Resistance_i?= =?iso-8859-1?q?n_Bogot=C3=A1=2C_Columbia?= Message-ID: <20070330171716.3251.qmail@resist.ca> Thanks to the internet, many [...] have seen photos of clashes like [those on March 11 when George Bush visited Colombia], but few understand the context in which they take place. We paid a visit to Bogot? recently to get more background on the political and social climate there and the role of anarchists within it. With the helpful guidance of our Colombian friends and the understanding that we can only offer limited insight into the complexities of their situation, we?d like to share some of what we learned. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/20092 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/20092 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 30 10:17:16 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:17:16 -0000 Subject: [news] (en) Canada, Photo-report and flyer: March 17, 2007 Anti-imperialist contingent (Montreal) Message-ID: <20070330171717.3253.qmail@resist.ca> This past Saturday, March 17, 2007, Block the Empire-Montreal (BLEM), a direct-action anti-war collective, facilitated an anti-imperialist contingent as part of local anti-war demonstrations on the 4th anniversary of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq. A PHOTO-REPORT and AUDIO excerpts from the anti-imperialist contingent are available below. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/20107 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/20107 From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 30 10:17:16 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:17:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Reading Harry Potter in =?utf-8?q?Guant=C3=A1namo?= Message-ID: <20070330171717.3255.qmail@resist.ca> The prisoners at Guant?namo Bay?or Azkaban, as one of my clients, a Harry Potter fan, calls it?have had no access to a hearing in a court of law. Instead, Guant?namo?s inmates are subjected to two kangaroo procedures: Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRTs) and Administrative Review Boards (ARBs). [One prisoner] sees parallels between George W. Bush and J.K. Rowling?s arch-villain, Voldemort. Guant?namo is the real-world equivalent of Azkaban, the cheerless prison guarded by the soulless ?tormentors.? It seems almost natural that fact and fantasy collide in Guant?namo, the prison camp dreamed up by the Bush administration lawyers. Checks and balances, constitutional protections and longstanding legal traditions all dissolve before their fanciful "unitary executive theory." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/reading_harry_potter_in_guantanamo URL: http://mostlywater.org/reading_harry_potter_in_guantanamo From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 30 14:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Mistrial in Olympia 15 Case Message-ID: <20070330211704.20614.qmail@resist.ca> The trial of 15 defendants, arrested at The Port of Olympia, [Washington], during eleven days of protest in May of 2006 ended in mistrial on Thursday March 29th, 2007. The group, formerly known as the "Olympia 22", was arrested on misdemeanor charges of criminal trespass. Allegedly the defendants' crossed onto Port property while peacefully demonstrating against the use of the Port of Olympia for military shipments. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/mistrial_in_olympia_15_case URL: http://mostlywater.org/mistrial_in_olympia_15_case From news at resist.ca Fri Mar 30 15:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada's Military Plots "War Crimes" against Indigenous People Message-ID: <20070330221703.1334.qmail@resist.ca> It looks like the psychotics from the U.S. have hijacked Canadian policy taking Canada back to medieval blood lust. A 250-page field manual on counterinsurgency is being put out by Canada's Department of National Defense [DND] for its soldiers and officers. **Jon Elmer** of Global Research wrote on March 25, 2007, about these new methods of fighting insurgents like the ?Taliban?, the ?Chechnyans? and the **?Mohawk Warrior Society?**. Wait a minute, that?s us! [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/canadas_military_plots_war_crimes_against_indigenous_people URL: http://mostlywater.org/canadas_military_plots_war_crimes_against_indigenous_people From news at resist.ca Sat Mar 31 09:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] APC and DERA Office Raided by Police Message-ID: <20070331161704.6302.qmail@resist.ca> Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:38:31 -0800 (PST) The police raided the former office of the Anti-Poverty Committee Thursday night, under the pretext of looking for the Olympic flag that was stolen by the Native Warrior Society nearly a month ago. The office, located in a DERA building, has not been used by the APC for more than a year. The police arrived at 11:15pm with a search warrant, and left empty-handed about an hour later. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/apc_and_dera_office_raided_by_police URL: http://mostlywater.org/apc_and_dera_office_raided_by_police From news at resist.ca Sat Mar 31 10:40:12 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 17:40:12 -0000 Subject: [news] Secwepemc Defenders Win Right to Appeal Conviction for 2001 Blockade Message-ID: <20070331174013.4231.qmail@resist.ca> Darah Hansen | Vancouver Sun | March 31, 2007 Kamloops | A mother and daughter, members of the Secwepemc First Nation in B.C.'s southern Interior, have won the right to appeal their 2002 convictions for taking part in a roadblock on the Sun Peaks Road near Kamloops one year earlier. Browne said the ruling appears to be part of a trend by the courts recognizing aboriginal perspective in law -- "that when first nations people stand on a road or protest mining or development, that they may have some legal basis to do so." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/secwepemc_defenders_win_right_to_appeal_conviction_for_2001_blockade URL: http://mostlywater.org/secwepemc_defenders_win_right_to_appeal_conviction_for_2001_blockade From news at resist.ca Sat Mar 31 11:40:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 18:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Sacco and Vanzetti Revisited Message-ID: <20070331184010.31669.qmail@resist.ca> The execution of the Italian immigrants and revolutionaries **Nicola Sacco** and **Bartolomeo Vanzetti** took place 80 years ago in August...Sacco and Vanzetti were born and raised in remote towns in Italy. They met when they emigrated to the United States in 1908...This was a time of political persecution against both immigrants and radicals. Immigrants worked the worst and most dangerous jobs, in conditions of stifling oppression and inequality. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/sacco_and_vanzetti_revisited URL: http://mostlywater.org/sacco_and_vanzetti_revisited From news at resist.ca Sat Mar 31 12:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 19:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Self Destruction (Try this at Home) Message-ID: <20070331191704.6698.qmail@resist.ca> In Febuary of 2001, in a performance/installation entitled Breakdown, British artist Michael Landy systematicaly destroyed all his possessions leaving nothing but memories. Part critique of consumerisn, part personal iconoclasm, this work still resonates as a powerful response to the relentless commodification of our lives and stands as a challenge to us all. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/self_destruction_try_this_at_home URL: http://mostlywater.org/self_destruction_try_this_at_home From news at resist.ca Sat Mar 31 12:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 19:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Philippines: Death Squad Democracy Message-ID: <20070331191704.6699.qmail@resist.ca> The [Philipines] government under ?President? **Gloria Macapagal Arroyo**...has gone to great lengths to physically annihilate political opponents and social movement leaders who are increasingly seen as the genuine representatives of the great majority of the Filipinos. Except for the unconditional support of the Bush White House, her regime faces increasing international ostracism and isolation. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/philippines_death_squad_democracy URL: http://mostlywater.org/philippines_death_squad_democracy From news at resist.ca Sat Mar 31 16:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 23:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Israel's Right to Be Racist Message-ID: <20070331231703.13266.qmail@resist.ca> ...[P]rominent Zionist leaders since the inception of colonial Zionism have desired to establish peace with the Palestinians and other Arabs...The only thing Israel has asked for...is that **all recognise its right to be a racist state** that discriminates by law against Palestinians and other Arabs and grants differential legal rights and privileges to its own Jewish citizens and to all other Jews anywhere. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/israels_right_to_be_racist URL: http://mostlywater.org/israels_right_to_be_racist From news at resist.ca Sat Mar 31 16:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 23:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Criminalizing Solidarity: Sami al-Arian and the War of Terror Message-ID: <20070331231703.13265.qmail@resist.ca> Dr. Sami Al-Arian, Palestinian political prisoner, is held in a prison hospital after a debilitating 60-day hunger strike seeking to draw the attention of the nation and the world to the injustice visited upon him, jailed for his commitment to justice and dignity for his homeland. This is not a scene from an Israeli jail, however, but from a U.S. prison in North Carolina. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/criminalizing_solidarity_sami_al_arian_and_the_war_of_terror URL: http://mostlywater.org/criminalizing_solidarity_sami_al_arian_and_the_war_of_terror From news at resist.ca Sat Mar 31 16:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 23:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] National Post: MGP Defeated, Alaskan Over-the-Top Pipeline an "optimistic scenario". Message-ID: <20070331231703.13267.qmail@resist.ca> "It would be one of the first energy megaproject in Canada to fold at such an advanced stage due to cost increases, aboriginal sabotage and federal red tape. Optimists believe it's been Exxon Mobil's aim all along to build an over-the-top link from Alaska's natural-gas fields in Prudhoe Bay to the Mackenzie pipeline, rather than build two gas pipelines from the Arctic. The Alaska plan remains mired in even more uncertainty than its Canadian counterpart. Alaska legislation now forbids an over-the-top pipeline." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/national_post_mgp_defeated_alaskan_over_the_top_pipeline_an_optimistic_scenario URL: http://mostlywater.org/national_post_mgp_defeated_alaskan_over_the_top_pipeline_an_optimistic_scenario