From news at resist.ca Tue May 1 01:17:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 08:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] San Antonio: Student Protestors Shout Down Minutemen Speech Message-ID: <20070501081709.22287.qmail@resist.ca> A speech turned violent on the campus of the University of Texas at San Antonio after a Minuteman representative was interrupted by student protestors. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/san_antonio_student_protestors_shout_down_minutemen_speech URL: http://mostlywater.org/san_antonio_student_protestors_shout_down_minutemen_speech From news at resist.ca Tue May 1 14:17:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 21:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Los Angeles Port Truckers Mobilizing for May Day Shutdown Message-ID: <20070501211709.14483.qmail@resist.ca> The old trade union bureaucracy is fast becoming insignificant in the new labor movement. Power is coming and being exercised from below, where workers are relying on self-learning and direct action beyond the limits imposed by "their" unions. The word is out in these loose-knit collectives and the greater troquero population in the harbor that "el movimiento" is back... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/los_angeles_port_truckers_mobilizing_for_may_day_shutdown URL: http://mostlywater.org/los_angeles_port_truckers_mobilizing_for_may_day_shutdown From news at resist.ca Tue May 1 23:40:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 06:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Britain Denies Gay Iranian's Asylum Request Message-ID: <20070502064011.419.qmail@resist.ca> A 35-year-old gay Iranian is on a hunger strike in a U.K. jail to protest a deportation order that will send him back to Iran. Saeed Faraji was arrested by British immigration police on April 20...The Home Office refused his asylum request on the grounds that he could not prove that homosexuals are subjected to "torture, inhumane or degrading treatment" in Iran. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/britain_denies_gay_iranians_asylum_request URL: http://mostlywater.org/britain_denies_gay_iranians_asylum_request From news at resist.ca Wed May 2 11:17:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 18:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] The U.S. War on Democracy: Interview with John Pilger Message-ID: <20070502181711.21863.qmail@resist.ca> **John Pilger** is an award-winning journalist, author and documentary filmmaker...He is an impassioned critic of foreign military and economic adventures by Western governments..."It is too easy," [he] says, "for Western journalists to see humanity in terms of its usefulness to 'our' interests and to follow government agendas that ordain good and bad tyrants, worthy and unworthy victims and present 'our' policies as always benign when the opposite is usually true." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_u_s_war_on_democracy_interview_with_john_pilger URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_u_s_war_on_democracy_interview_with_john_pilger From news at resist.ca Wed May 2 12:17:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 19:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] "Worthy and Unworthy Victims" Message-ID: <20070502191708.1998.qmail@resist.ca> Bush administration police state actions against targeted victims. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/worthy_and_unworthy_victims URL: http://mostlywater.org/worthy_and_unworthy_victims From news at resist.ca Wed May 2 16:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 23:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Anti-Capitalism in Five Minutes Message-ID: <20070502231706.16790.qmail@resist.ca> ...[W]e can't help thinking -- is this really the "end of history," in the sense that big thinkers have used that phrase to signal the final victory of global capitalism? If this is the end of history in that sense...can the actual end of the planet [be] far behind?...Capitalism is...(1) **inhuman**, (2) **anti-democratic**, and (3)**unsustainable**...[W]e [either] change or we die -- spiritually, politically, literally. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/anti_capitalism_in_five_minutes URL: http://mostlywater.org/anti_capitalism_in_five_minutes From news at resist.ca Wed May 2 23:40:14 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 06:40:14 -0000 Subject: [news] How "Law and Order" Covers for Bigotry in the Immigration Debate Message-ID: <20070503064015.26939.qmail@resist.ca> Central to the debate on immigration has been the appeal to law and order. But behind all the propaganda about respect for the law the core of the anti-immigration movement is about bigotry. Not surprisingly, the laws they appeal to are...unjust and barbaric...[J]ust as with the the bigots of the past who disguised their hatred with the rhetoric of "law and order" when the law was apartheid in South Africa or "black codes" in the American South, the core of the anti-immigration movement today is about hate. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/how_law_and_order_covers_for_bigotry_in_the_immigration_debate URL: http://mostlywater.org/how_law_and_order_covers_for_bigotry_in_the_immigration_debate From news at resist.ca Thu May 3 00:17:06 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 07:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] =?utf-8?q?Communiqu=C3=A9?= from the EZLN [Zapatistas] - April 30th, 2007 Message-ID: <20070503071707.852.qmail@resist.ca> To the People of Mexico: To the People of the World: To the Other Campaign: The EZLN makes the following public denouncement: [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/communique_from_the_ezln_april_30th_2007 URL: http://mostlywater.org/communique_from_the_ezln_april_30th_2007 From news at resist.ca Thu May 3 08:17:36 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 15:17:36 -0000 Subject: [news] Ontario Provincial Police Set Sights on Mohawk Spokesman Message-ID: <20070503151738.23324.qmail@resist.ca> Tyendinaga Mohawk **Shawn Brant** is set to appear in a Napanee Bail Court on Thursday, May 3rd at 2:00 PM on charges stemming from the closure of the CN Main Line 2 weeks ago. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/ontario_provincial_police_set_sights_on_mohawk_spokesman URL: http://mostlywater.org/ontario_provincial_police_set_sights_on_mohawk_spokesman From news at resist.ca Thu May 3 08:17:35 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 15:17:35 -0000 Subject: [news] First of May 2007: For Freedom and Equality: Direct Action and Solidarity! Message-ID: <20070503151737.23323.qmail@resist.ca> These are the days when we celebrate the great victory of Chicago workers of 1886, and commemorate our five anarchist worker comrades who paid with their lives our right to an eight-hour workday. But in these days, in May 2007, we must also notice how this hard won right, as well as many other rights, is slipping away further and further, as the capitalist machinery is now trying to ?liberate? itself from obligations that we imposed on it through our struggles and direct action. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/first_of_may_2007_for_freedom_and_equality_direct_action_and_solidarity URL: http://mostlywater.org/first_of_may_2007_for_freedom_and_equality_direct_action_and_solidarity From news at resist.ca Thu May 3 12:17:19 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 19:17:19 -0000 Subject: [news] Troublesome Reports from Nepal: Maoist Homophobia? Message-ID: <20070503191720.6709.qmail@resist.ca> Some who have supported the CPN(M) are expressing grave concern that the party is abandoning its commitment to socialist revolution by its deal with the seven mainstream parties and its abandonment of the People's War. The Nepali Maoists deny that that's the case, and I'd just as soon withhold judgment on that issue. But if the sentiments of Comrades Gurung and Biswokarma are at all representative of party sentiment, and if measures against gays are part of the party's agenda, the outlook for a new revolutionary model in Nepal is looking worrisome. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/troublesome_reports_from_nepal_maoist_homophobia URL: http://mostlywater.org/troublesome_reports_from_nepal_maoist_homophobia From news at resist.ca Thu May 3 13:17:16 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 20:17:16 -0000 Subject: [news] How Palestine Became Israel's Land Message-ID: <20070503201717.1834.qmail@resist.ca> ...**Palestinian rights** are enshrined in the universally accepted principle that land belongs to its indigenous inhabitants. Thus, the modern day struggle for this land by European Jewish immigrants who have no connection with Palestine other than through their religion is a **colonial enterprise** that seeks sovereignty for an "external Jewish population" to the exclusion of the indigenous Palestinians who, regardless of faith...have lived together for centuries. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/how_palestine_became_israels_land URL: http://mostlywater.org/how_palestine_became_israels_land From seinforma at resist.ca Thu May 3 21:21:27 2007 From: seinforma at resist.ca (seinforma at resist.ca) Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 21:21:27 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [news] Seinforma headlines Message-ID: <3001.24.57.91.109.1178252487.squirrel@mail.resist.ca> Seinforma headlines this week: LAUNCHING ON MAY 7TH - TORONTO Light...Camera....Action: Live The REAL News www.seinforma.ca/worldcanada.html Spanish: www.seinforma.ca/medios.html ^^^^^^^^^^^ SATURDAY, MAY 5 & SUNDAY, MAY 27 May Days of Action for Status for All in Canada and the US www.seinforma.ca/events.html ^^^^^^^^^ The World's first all-glass undersea restaurant opens in a coral reserve www.seinforma.ca/environment.html Spanish: www.seinforma.ca/ecologia.html From news at resist.ca Thu May 3 21:40:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 04:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] The Christian Right's Global Agenda Message-ID: <20070504044010.25172.qmail@resist.ca> Under Bush, religious fundamentalists have been appointed to represent the US at international health and human rights conferences. They have allied with the Vatican...Iran, and others seeking to unravel and reshape the UN agenda...[T]he unparalleled global economic, political, and military might of the United States has enabled Christian fundamentalists to push through international public health and human rights policies...[T]hey have succeeded in denying the morning-after pill to rape survivors in Kosovo and barred access to condoms and sexual education in AIDS-ravaged Africa. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_christian_rights_global_agenda URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_christian_rights_global_agenda From news at resist.ca Fri May 4 10:17:11 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 17:17:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Peaceful Protest at Blackwater // Traditional St'at'imc Territory Message-ID: <20070504171712.18554.qmail@resist.ca> The people of N'Quatqua, D'Arcy, Devine, and Blackwater reject the province of BC's decision to log a bio-diverse forest in Blackwater, north of Pemberton. Stretching from 1 km to 10 km on Blackwater Creek, the road leads to Birkenhead Provincial Park. Following a Community Forum earlier last month, N'Quatqua held a Sacred Fire Earth Day weekend joined by supporters from near and far. Following a ceremonial prayer by a N'Quatqua Elder, a large group toured and surveyed the sold cut block in Blackwater, sharing strong concerns about wildlife and other issues in this multi-used forest, a habitat for grizzlies and especially Spotted Owls endangered with only 16 remaining in Canada. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/peaceful_protest_at_blackwater_traditional_statimc_territory URL: http://mostlywater.org/peaceful_protest_at_blackwater_traditional_statimc_territory From news at resist.ca Fri May 4 10:17:11 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 17:17:11 -0000 Subject: [news] More than a mine, a metaphor Message-ID: <20070504171712.18556.qmail@resist.ca> Sitting beside the campfire at the occupied quarry a few days ago, Mr. Brant told me that since he was a kid, people in his community have been telling him to keep quiet. "It used to be, 'Shawn, shut up, don't say those things about the government, they'll cut off our funding.' Now it's 'Shawn, shut up, they'll walk away from the negotiating table.' " The reason Mr. Brant isn't willing to let the negotiations take their course is that these talks are designed to take decades. And as the time passes, the land disappears. Forests are clear-cut, mountains are carved up, suburbs creep outward. Ineffective negotiations do not hold the line on an already unacceptable status quo - they contribute to the losing of very real ground. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/more_than_a_mine_a_metaphor URL: http://mostlywater.org/more_than_a_mine_a_metaphor From news at resist.ca Fri May 4 11:17:15 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 18:17:15 -0000 Subject: [news] 240 rubber bullets fired on protesting immigrants Message-ID: <20070504181716.13241.qmail@resist.ca> LOS ANGELES, May 3.?The 240 rubber bullets fired by Los Angeles Police officers into a demonstration demanding immigration reform on May Day is evidence of the violent tendency of the repressive forces in that city. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/240_rubber_bullets_fired_on_protesting_immigrants URL: http://mostlywater.org/240_rubber_bullets_fired_on_protesting_immigrants From news at resist.ca Fri May 4 19:17:16 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 02:17:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Anarchist Radio Show Seeking Participants Message-ID: <20070505021717.9374.qmail@resist.ca> A **call-out** to anarchists interested in sharing our living history, ideas, debates and vision via a new program to educate and build understanding of the diverse voices and tendencies within anarchist struggles globally. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/anarchist_radio_show_seeking_participants URL: http://mostlywater.org/anarchist_radio_show_seeking_participants From news at resist.ca Fri May 4 19:17:17 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 02:17:17 -0000 Subject: [news] Wall Street Journal Claims Chavez Oil Policy "Aims to Weaken U.S." Message-ID: <20070505021717.9375.qmail@resist.ca> The Wall Street Journal and the rest of U.S. corporate media are again attacking Hugo Chavez for his socially democratic policies. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/wall_street_journal_claims_chavez_oil_policy_aims_to_weaken_us URL: http://mostlywater.org/wall_street_journal_claims_chavez_oil_policy_aims_to_weaken_us From news at resist.ca Sat May 5 09:40:15 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 16:40:15 -0000 Subject: [news] Newspaper: GUTS tries to storm police ball (w/ PICS) Message-ID: <20070505164015.22973.qmail@resist.ca> While the celebrations were underway inside the Guelph Place banquet hall on Michener Road, about a dozen officers kept protesters at bay outside. The tense event lasted about two hours. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/newspaper_guts_tries_to_storm_police_ball_w_pics URL: http://mostlywater.org/newspaper_guts_tries_to_storm_police_ball_w_pics From news at resist.ca Sun May 6 06:17:06 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 13:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Ode to My Armpit Hair Message-ID: <20070506131706.28375.qmail@resist.ca> I've never owned a disposable razor I haven't shaved since '78 Prepubescent armpits are not natural on grown women I see shaved armpits as body hate. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/ode_to_my_armpit_hair URL: http://mostlywater.org/ode_to_my_armpit_hair From news at resist.ca Sun May 6 06:17:06 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 13:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] The Needs of Nepal Overshadowed by the UN's Guise for Peace and Security Message-ID: <20070506131706.28376.qmail@resist.ca> The world hasn?t been paying attention to Nepal lately. Why would they? As the plan of action seems to go for the Goliath International Institution, the UN comfortably settled into the poor South Asian country last year ready to play its usual role of peace broker, supplier and judge and the global gaze moved on to newer, more exciting stories. The few stories that we can read are often published from New Delhi, and follow the UN line. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_needs_of_nepal_overshadowed_by_the_un_s_guise_for_peace_and_security URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_needs_of_nepal_overshadowed_by_the_un_s_guise_for_peace_and_security From news at resist.ca Sun May 6 06:40:14 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 13:40:14 -0000 Subject: [news] Pet Food Scandal...Not Just Dogs and Cats Now Message-ID: <20070506134014.14463.qmail@resist.ca> Associated Press...gained information at the end of April that "salvaged" pet foods had been fed to pigs...Both the Washington Post and CNN have reported that melamine laced pet foods have also been fed to over 2.5 million chickens. Government officials have...played this down. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/pet_food_scandal_not_just_dogs_and_cats_now URL: http://mostlywater.org/pet_food_scandal_not_just_dogs_and_cats_now From news at resist.ca Sun May 6 11:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 18:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] O'odham protest military home invasions Message-ID: <20070506181705.30590.qmail@resist.ca> GU-VO DISTRICT, Tohono O'odham Nation, Ariz. - As the National Guard sets up observation posts on Tohono O'odham tribal land on the border, O'odham say homes are being invaded by U.S. Border Patrol agents and their peace of life has been destroyed. ''There is an invasion of our communities. You would not think this is America: it is a whole different world,'' said Ofelia Rivas, founder of the O'odham Voice against the Wall, an O'odham human rights advocacy organization. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/oodham_protest_military_home_invasions URL: http://mostlywater.org/oodham_protest_military_home_invasions From news at resist.ca Sun May 6 19:40:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 02:40:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Government Pursues 'Terrorism' Sentencing for Environmentalists Message-ID: <20070507024008.15184.qmail@resist.ca> EUGENE, Ore. - A sentencing memorandum filed Friday by federal prosecutors says that arson and sabotage by 10 radical environmentalists convicted of setting fires across five Western states amounted to terrorism. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/government_pursues_terrorism_sentencing_for_environmentalists URL: http://mostlywater.org/government_pursues_terrorism_sentencing_for_environmentalists From news at resist.ca Sun May 6 19:40:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 02:40:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Boris Yeltsin: Sinister Clown Message-ID: <20070507024008.15188.qmail@resist.ca> It seems perverse for the man who ordered military action against his nation?s parliament to be hailed as the father of Russian democracy, but in some eyes [Boris] Yeltsin could do no serious wrong: he may have been a bit of a monster, but he was a monster who devoured communism and usually obeyed the west. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/boris_yeltsin_sinister_clown URL: http://mostlywater.org/boris_yeltsin_sinister_clown From news at resist.ca Sun May 6 20:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 03:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Appeal for Oaxaca, Mexico Message-ID: <20070507031703.21588.qmail@resist.ca> This is an **appeal** for the residents of **Oaxaca, Mexico**. Information on how to make a donation is available at the end of the article. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/appeal_for_oaxaca_mexico URL: http://mostlywater.org/appeal_for_oaxaca_mexico From news at resist.ca Sun May 6 20:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 03:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Police Cars Vandalized (Again!) in Guelph, Ontario Message-ID: <20070507031704.21589.qmail@resist.ca> There was another attack (following the April 10th attack) done against the police cars parked in the parking lot of the downtown police station in Guelph, Ontario. [On] the night after the annual Police Ball was confronted by local activists, paint bombs were thrown at 8-10 police cars. The communique was left in the windshield of one police car. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/guelph_ontario_canada_police_cars_vandalized_again URL: http://mostlywater.org/guelph_ontario_canada_police_cars_vandalized_again From news at resist.ca Mon May 7 04:17:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 11:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] 'American Neo-Con' Elected in France Message-ID: <20070507111708.32435.qmail@resist.ca> There is a feeling in Paris tonight that France...has turned "a new page of our history"..."In the republic that I want to serve,"..."there cannot be rights without obligations. All must have their opportunity, but they must earn it by work, by personal commitment, by belief"...What is clear is that [Mr. Sarkozy] - known for his tough stance on crime and illegal immigration - is a deeply divisive figure for the French. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/american_neo_con_elected_in_france URL: http://mostlywater.org/american_neo_con_elected_in_france From news at resist.ca Mon May 7 15:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 22:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Why Should Employers Have a Role in Deciding Whether Workers Have Unions? Message-ID: <20070507221705.30757.qmail@resist.ca> Employers have...gone all out to undermine the intent of [U.S. labour law] and destroy the ability of workers to join or form unions. Employers bring in high-priced consultants to help them develop forms of intimidation to scare workers away from voting in favor of a union. Employers threaten to close their facilities. They also discipline, up to and including the firing of worker activists. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/why_should_employers_have_a_role_in_deciding_whether_workers_have_unions URL: http://mostlywater.org/why_should_employers_have_a_role_in_deciding_whether_workers_have_unions From news at resist.ca Mon May 7 16:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 23:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Check Your Rights at the Border Message-ID: <20070507231704.10448.qmail@resist.ca> Since 1994, the U.S. enforcement strategy has been two-pronged: **criminalize the immigrants** and **militarize the borders**. The U.S. has choked off traditional urban crossing points by building double and triple walls, increased the number of agents, and introduced military technology and personnel into routine activities. This policy has made the journey more dangerous by pushing crossing points into remote, hazardous regions in desert and mountainous terrain, or into the equally dangerous underworld of human smuggling?through ports of entry as container cargo. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/check_your_rights_at_the_border URL: http://mostlywater.org/check_your_rights_at_the_border From seinforma at resist.ca Mon May 7 21:23:42 2007 From: seinforma at resist.ca (seinforma at resist.ca) Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 21:23:42 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [news] Major International Media&Propaganda Conference Message-ID: <1882.24.57.91.109.1178598222.squirrel@mail.resist.ca> CHOMSKY & HERMAN IN WINDSOR (MAY 15-17) Major International Media & Propaganda Conference More than 80 experts will meet to analyze the Propaganda Model. Chomsky will be talking about the use of the media and the force. A book inspired by this summit will be published in Spring 2008. Registrations available. www.seinforma.ca/chomskywindsoreng.html Spanish: www.seinforma.ca/chomskywindsorspanish.html To stop receiving Seinforma headlines please reply this email with the legend ?unsubscribe? in the subject. We respect your right to privacy. From news at resist.ca Tue May 8 09:17:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 16:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Imperialist Whining Message-ID: <20070508161710.1508.qmail@resist.ca> Two kinds of imperial whining have come to pervade foreign policy discussion. One relates to Bush's overextending the military so they cannot deploy to other places desperately needing their lethal capacity. Others fixate on "American credibility". If we withdraw, an October 22 2006 Washington Post editorial declared, we forego our "moral obligation". After all the US military and Iraqi sacrifices, the US must not allow a collapse, which would occur "without the prop of 140,000 [now 170,000] US troops". [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/imperialist_whining URL: http://mostlywater.org/imperialist_whining From news at resist.ca Tue May 8 15:17:23 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 22:17:23 -0000 Subject: [news] The Unexplored Geothermal Silence: Neither Nukes nor Gas? Message-ID: <20070508221725.28165.qmail@resist.ca> The point of this article is, unfortunately, to give advice to major corporations who are decimating nature at a nearly unparalleled rate a way to do so less horridly (like a smart bomb, the terminology is far more distracting than illuminating). Nonetheless, the developers who look at the single largest industrial project in history are salivating at ways to expand it into their own realm. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/22160 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/22160 From news at resist.ca Tue May 8 15:17:23 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 22:17:23 -0000 Subject: [news] MEND: If You Can't Beat [The pipelines] Blow 'em Up Message-ID: <20070508221728.28168.qmail@resist.ca> The main militant group in restive southern Nigeria said Tuesday it had bombed three major oil pipelines, disrupting production in two oil fields. Meanwhile, private security contractors said eight Filipino and three South Korean workers kidnapped by gunmen in the region last week have been released. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta said in a message from an e-mail address frequently used by the group that it had attacked three major pipelines in Bayelsa state. The company that operates the pipelines confirmed the attack. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/mend_if_you_cant_beat_the_pipelines_blow_em_up URL: http://mostlywater.org/mend_if_you_cant_beat_the_pipelines_blow_em_up From news at resist.ca Wed May 9 01:17:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 08:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] U.S. Troops in Iraq 'Condone Torture' Message-ID: <20070509081710.19371.qmail@resist.ca> A US survey of battlefield ethics among troops in Iraq has found widespread tolerance for torture in certain circumstances and problems with morale...The Pentagon survey found that less than half the troops in Iraq thought Iraqi civilians should be treated with dignity and respect. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/u_s_troops_in_iraq_condone_torture URL: http://mostlywater.org/u_s_troops_in_iraq_condone_torture From news at resist.ca Wed May 9 01:40:14 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 08:40:14 -0000 Subject: [news] Painted Protest: Seven Police Cruisers Splattered with Paint after Demonstration Message-ID: <20070509084015.23325.qmail@resist.ca> Seven cruisers parked at Guelph Police headquarters were splattered with orange, red and yellow paint balls late Friday. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/newspaper_painted_protest_seven_police_cruisers_splattered_with_paint_after_demonstration URL: http://mostlywater.org/newspaper_painted_protest_seven_police_cruisers_splattered_with_paint_after_demonstration From news at resist.ca Wed May 9 03:40:16 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 10:40:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Brazil's Homeless and Landless Unite Message-ID: <20070509104017.25414.qmail@resist.ca> Brazil's landless and homeless movements have been on the march in April, bringing renewed attention to their demands in a month of protests...In the countryside, protest action is led by the controversial and better known organisation of landless workers, MST, or Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/brazils_homeless_and_landless_unite URL: http://mostlywater.org/brazils_homeless_and_landless_unite From news at resist.ca Wed May 9 04:17:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 11:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Civilian Deaths 'Deeply Shame' U.S. Message-ID: <20070509111711.31423.qmail@resist.ca> An American commander in Afghanistan has said that he is "deeply ashamed" by the killings of 19 Afghan civilians by US Marines in early March. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/civilian_deaths_deeply_shame_u_s URL: http://mostlywater.org/civilian_deaths_deeply_shame_u_s From news at resist.ca Thu May 10 04:17:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 11:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] RFID Chips in Your Money: You =?utf-8?b?V2VyZW7igJl0?= Supposed to Know Message-ID: <20070510111710.26905.qmail@resist.ca> It is amazing sometimes to watch how stories that should never have been reported get quickly denied and then absurd excuses used as a cover. A perfect example is the Canadian spy coin capper. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/rfid_chips_in_your_money_you_weren_t_supposed_to_know URL: http://mostlywater.org/rfid_chips_in_your_money_you_weren_t_supposed_to_know From news at resist.ca Thu May 10 04:17:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 11:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] On Internalized Oppression Message-ID: <20070510111711.26906.qmail@resist.ca> Oppression is real and the oppressed do not cause or deserve it. I am in no way denying the very real forces of poverty, racism, sexism, etc. Those things exist and they beat one down, for sure. I, personally, cannot stop poverty, racism, sexism, etc. (although I can maintain a stable front against those forces), but I *can* control my *reactions* to those forces wearing on me. People can hate me, but I will not allow them to make me hate *myself* and that is a profound statement. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/on_internalized_oppression URL: http://mostlywater.org/on_internalized_oppression From news at resist.ca Thu May 10 04:17:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 11:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] The War On Free Expression Message-ID: <20070510111711.26907.qmail@resist.ca> The battle to save our right to speak freely and openly. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_war_on_free_expression URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_war_on_free_expression From news at resist.ca Thu May 10 09:17:14 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 16:17:14 -0000 Subject: [news] Right Way Ahead for France Message-ID: <20070510161715.32307.qmail@resist.ca> THE French electorate this week forwent an opportunity to pick a woman as the head of the state for the first time, opting instead, by a small but decisive margin, for a sharp turn to the right. It?s a decision quite a few of those who voted for Nicolas Sarkozy on Sunday may come to regret before long. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/right_way_ahead_for_france URL: http://mostlywater.org/right_way_ahead_for_france From news at resist.ca Fri May 11 09:40:21 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 16:40:21 -0000 Subject: [news] Ottawa's Anarchist Bookshop a Spot for 'Fringe' Thinkers to Gather Message-ID: <20070511164022.782.qmail@resist.ca> Ottawa Citizen The new Ottawa bookstore opened this week to "provide access to alternative media and resources." The opening of the bookstore and community space, at Bank and Cooper streets, was set to mark international May Day, an occasion long celebrated by anarchist and socialist movements. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/21954 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/21954 From news at resist.ca Fri May 11 17:40:11 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 00:40:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Time for a Protest? Presidents of U.S. & Mexico to Attend Ottawa Summit Message-ID: <20070512004012.26932.qmail@resist.ca> U.S. President George W. Bush hopes to debunk a few negative misconceptions about post-9/11 North America when he arrives in Canada for a two-day summit this August. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/time_for_a_protest_presidents_of_u_s_mexico_to_attend_ottawa_summit URL: http://mostlywater.org/time_for_a_protest_presidents_of_u_s_mexico_to_attend_ottawa_summit From news at resist.ca Fri May 11 17:40:11 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 00:40:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Anarchists Paint-Bomb Canadian Forces Armory in Guelph, Ontario Message-ID: <20070512004013.26936.qmail@resist.ca> On the night of May 10th, the Canadian Forces Armory in Guelph, Ontario, was paint bombed by anarchists. Canada has been at war with people who live outside the free trade market economy for many years now, be it Indigenous cultures, autonomous peoples, or average people who get in the way of routine military business operations. The Canadian State has benefited from the plunder of lands, devastation of cultures and slaughter of lives in the protection of their economic and political interests. The military slaughter and occupation of Haiti and Afghanistan is no different than anything else this state has ever known. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/anarchists_paint_bomb_canadian_forces_armory_in_guelph_ontario URL: http://mostlywater.org/anarchists_paint_bomb_canadian_forces_armory_in_guelph_ontario From news at resist.ca Fri May 11 17:40:11 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 00:40:11 -0000 Subject: [news] [Video] Grandview-Woodlands Anti-Gateway Forum Message-ID: <20070512004012.26931.qmail@resist.ca> Online video link to the Grandview-Woodlands anti-Gateway forum held at the Wise Hall two weeks ago. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/grandview_woodlands_anti_gateway_forum_video_resource URL: http://mostlywater.org/grandview_woodlands_anti_gateway_forum_video_resource From news at resist.ca Fri May 11 17:40:12 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 00:40:12 -0000 Subject: [news] U.S. Politicians Step Up War Propaganda Message-ID: <20070512004013.26938.qmail@resist.ca> Analysis of moves by U.S. congressmen, presidential candidates, and media to promote a new war against Iran. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/analysis_u_s_politicians_step_up_war_propaganda URL: http://mostlywater.org/analysis_u_s_politicians_step_up_war_propaganda From news at resist.ca Sun May 13 15:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 22:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Ottawa War Recruiting Centre Vandalized Message-ID: <20070513221704.442.qmail@resist.ca> Communique #1 (The National Capital Crimes Commission) Daily the papers are filled with the sorry tale of our murderous occupation of Afghanistan. The torture of prisoners. The destruction of homes. The killing of civilians. On the evening of May 9th, 2007, we made our politics plain on the windows of the military recruiting office on Laurier Avenue in downtown Ottawa. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/22346 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/22346 From news at resist.ca Sun May 13 15:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 22:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Tyendinaga and The Struggle for the Land Message-ID: <20070513221704.443.qmail@resist.ca> Ontario Coalition Against Poverty More than forty days after the Mohawks of Tyendinaga reclaimed a portion of the Culbertson Tract, the community continues to hold strong and the Ontario government continues its refusal to revoke the license legitimizing the quarry operation located on the land. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/22334 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/22334 From news at resist.ca Sun May 13 15:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 22:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] The Anti-War Origins of Mother's Day Message-ID: <20070513221704.444.qmail@resist.ca> The "Mother's Day Proclamation" by Julia Ward Howe was one of the early calls to celebrate Mother's Day in the United States. Written in 1870, Howe's Mother's Day Proclamation was a pacifist reaction to the carnage of the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/22366 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/22366 From news at resist.ca Sun May 13 18:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 01:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Post-Electoral Unrest in France Message-ID: <20070514014008.28309.qmail@resist.ca> Since may 6, we know the face of our new enemy. He is not unknown to us, we ?practiced? him as a minister the last five years. The policy he will implement will be in all aspects a program of social regression, of freedom restriction and brutality of the state apparatus against the population. Despite those who tied their hands in the ?call to vote?, we reject the legitimacy of this power and are calling [for] resistance." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/post_electoral_unrest_in_france_news_and_views URL: http://mostlywater.org/post_electoral_unrest_in_france_news_and_views From news at resist.ca Sun May 13 22:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 05:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Germanic Panic Message-ID: <20070514051703.11314.qmail@resist.ca> Despite the chosen G8 venue being in the sleepy Baltic Sea resort of Heiligendamm in the far north-east of the country (already surrounded with a shiny new $17m fence), last week saw many hundreds of cops involved in around forty raids right across Germany, with convergence and social centres, squats and anti-G8 group offices all targeted...In the capital, Berlin, at least eight properties were attacked, including a bookshop, flats, two offices, the kanalb radio and media group and the servers of [an] autonomous tech collective... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/germanic_panic URL: http://mostlywater.org/germanic_panic From news at resist.ca Sun May 13 22:40:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 05:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] France Riots Over Election of 'Sarkozy the American' Message-ID: <20070514054010.29537.qmail@resist.ca> France celebrated the victory of its new right wing president Nicholas Sarkozy with 2 days of solid rioting that left several hundred cars burned, 600 arrested and 30 police injured. Sarkozy...inflamed an already tense situation in France?s ghettos during the last...round of rioting by saying that he would clean the ?scum? from the suburbs. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/france_riots_over_election_of_sarkozy_the_american URL: http://mostlywater.org/france_riots_over_election_of_sarkozy_the_american From news at resist.ca Mon May 14 07:40:15 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 14:40:15 -0000 Subject: [news] =?utf-8?b?4oCcTWV4aWNv?= will Turn Into a Pressure Cooker. And... it will =?utf-8?q?Explode=E2=80=9D?= Message-ID: <20070514144016.5902.qmail@resist.ca> **An Interview with Zapatista Subcomandante Marcos** By Jo Tuckman The Guardian of London May?13,?2007 In a rare interview, Zapatista rebel chief Marcos warns US efforts to secure its southern border are pushing his poor compatriots over the edge [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/22386 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/22386 From news at resist.ca Mon May 14 08:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 15:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] David Rovics: A Pivotal Moment In The Green Scare Message-ID: <20070514151706.12678.qmail@resist.ca> By David Rovics Bill Rodgers died in a jail cell in Flagstaff, Arizona, fist raised above him, plastic bag over his head, of an apparent suicide, on the 2005 winter solstice. Two weeks before in Prescott, Bill?s baby, the Catalyst Infoshop had been raided by fifteen federal officers and he was taken away. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/22378 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/22378 From news at resist.ca Mon May 14 15:17:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 22:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Canadians Lining Up to Join Spy Agency Message-ID: <20070514221707.6071.qmail@resist.ca> Maybe it was the shock of 9/11. Maybe it is the reality of Canadians dying in the "war on terror" or charges against so-called "home-grown" terrorists...Or maybe it's stronger recruiting efforts by the **Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS)**, including outreach in ethnic communities...Whatever the motivation, more and more Canadians are lining up to become spies, the agency says. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/canadians_lining_up_to_join_spy_agency URL: http://mostlywater.org/canadians_lining_up_to_join_spy_agency From news at resist.ca Tue May 15 07:40:12 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 14:40:12 -0000 Subject: [news] Cutting Out Collage: CARFAC and the License to Do Business Message-ID: <20070515144013.17182.qmail@resist.ca> Jonathan Culp/Fuse Magazine/May 14, 2007 With the issue of intellectual property rights flaring up around the globe, Canada's arts community faces its own wrinkle, as their 'representatives' in CARFAC join forces with industry groups to demand stronger copyright protection and prosecution. Meanwhile a coalition called Appropriation Art is left to articulate how these proposed changes would devastate collage art practitioners, among others. Filmmaker Jonathan Culp, a part time collage artist himself, breaks things down. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/cutting_out_collage_carfac_and_the_license_to_do_business URL: http://mostlywater.org/cutting_out_collage_carfac_and_the_license_to_do_business From news at resist.ca Tue May 15 07:40:12 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 14:40:12 -0000 Subject: [news] Vancouver City Council Takes on Labeling of Genetically Modified Foods Message-ID: <20070515144013.17175.qmail@resist.ca> At this moment, up to 70% of all processed foods in Canada contain genetically modified ingredients, and this number is rising annually. These numbers have fueled a growing public concern both nationally and abroad. As a result, 35 countries - containing over half the worlds population - already have laws requiring labeling. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/vancouver_city_council_takes_on_labeling_of_genetically_modified_foods URL: http://mostlywater.org/vancouver_city_council_takes_on_labeling_of_genetically_modified_foods From news at resist.ca Tue May 15 09:17:17 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 16:17:17 -0000 Subject: [news] MNN on John Graham Message-ID: <20070515161718.19573.qmail@resist.ca> MNN. May 12, 2007. John Graham, an Indigenous man from the Northwest Territories in Canada, is being accused by the U.S. authorities of participating in the murder of Indigenous woman, Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash, another "Canadian". This happened more than 30 years ago. Both were members of the American Indian Movement [AIM]. Since when did the U.S. ever go after someone for killing an Indian? What's behind it? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/mnn_on_john_graham URL: http://mostlywater.org/mnn_on_john_graham From news at resist.ca Tue May 15 12:40:27 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 19:40:27 -0000 Subject: [news] Rudolph Giuliani: The Mussolini of Manhattan Message-ID: <20070515194029.28435.qmail@resist.ca> [Rudolph] Giuliani is credited with an urban renewal in [New York City] that cut crime rates and revived the economy and tourism. While he did create a Disneyland version of NYC, complete with a redeveloped Times Square and booming Wall Street, the reality of what happened to working-class and poor New Yorkers during his time in office is a much darker story. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/rudolph_giuliani_the_mussolini_of_manhattan URL: http://mostlywater.org/rudolph_giuliani_the_mussolini_of_manhattan From news at resist.ca Wed May 16 11:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 18:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] [VIDEO] Ontario: When Justice Fails, Stop the Rails Message-ID: <20070516184010.17899.qmail@resist.ca> [NOTE: We at Mostly Water could never endorse such actions as mentioned in this article. We repost it only to inform our readers of what others are doing to resist the injustices of the Canadian government.] There are more than 800 native land claims pending in Canada. The time it will take to resolve these is expected to be more than 200 years. Creating the political will for just and timely resolution will take your help. Real solidarity means shouldering some of the burden of struggle. At a time when money is more powerful than justice, governments need financial (dis)incentives to live up to their own laws. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/22377 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/22377 From news at resist.ca Wed May 16 11:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 18:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] The Way of the =?utf-8?b?4oCcRXZpbEVtcGlyZeKAnQ==?= Message-ID: <20070516184011.17903.qmail@resist.ca> by George Aleman III | Dissident Voice A Legitimate Crisis of Legitimacy It was recently reported that the United States is ?trying a radical new strategy? in Baghdad: the building of a wall to keep rival sects apart.1. This is hardly a radical, even new, strategy. In 1961, the Soviet Union constructed a wall not only to choke the flow of millions fleeing from East Germany, but also to keep two rival philosophies apart. One of the chief goals of the Berlin Wall was to quell the outflow of East German workers. In short, this writer maintains that the Soviet Union was having a crisis of legitimacy due to its failure to bring about its promise of a better life for those under its control. To subdue its declining image, it resorted to building this grotesque structure. It was a vile and arrogant attempt to divide a historic society. The forces of history would prove to work against this action, among others, as a divided Germany became the focal point of legitimacy for the Soviet Union on the world stage. The building of the Berlin Wall displayed the Soviet Union?s inability to enforce its system and control foreign populations. The building of the Baghdad Wall shows America?s inability to do the same. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/22331 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/22331 From news at resist.ca Wed May 16 12:17:15 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 19:17:15 -0000 Subject: [news] Review of End Times Message-ID: <20070516191716.28823.qmail@resist.ca> by Stephen Lendman The pathetic state of the corrupted corporate print media. A Review of Alexander Cockburn's and Jeffrey St. Clair's End Times. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/review_of_end_times URL: http://mostlywater.org/review_of_end_times From news at resist.ca Wed May 16 12:17:15 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 19:17:15 -0000 Subject: [news] Poor People As Economic Place Holders Message-ID: <20070516191716.28822.qmail@resist.ca> By Kirsten Anderberg | May 16, 2007 It *seems* like middle class people panic when I threaten to leave poverty, and I seriously think they fear if I am no longer that poor person being exploited, that *someone* has to take my place, and middle class people fear if poor people no longer do the shit work for low pay, that *they* might be forced to do low status low income service industry labor instead! I am dead serious when I say I feel a middle class *angst* when I announce I am not tolerating poverty in my life anymore. They react as if I am tossing a hot potato at them, and they don?t want to get stuck with that hot potato of poverty. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/poor_people_as_economic_place_holders URL: http://mostlywater.org/poor_people_as_economic_place_holders From news at resist.ca Wed May 16 12:40:19 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 19:40:19 -0000 Subject: [news] Preacher of Hate: 'Farewell, Falwell...' Message-ID: <20070516194019.16066.qmail@resist.ca> Let's remember who the Fundamentalist, Christian, Televangelical, Moral Majority rockstar **Jerry Falwell** really was over the past several decades by examining some of his own thoughts and words. May we learn to transcend such divisive, disdainful discourse. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/preacher_of_hate_farewell_falwell URL: http://mostlywater.org/preacher_of_hate_farewell_falwell From news at resist.ca Wed May 16 13:40:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 20:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Liberal Academics Supporting Torture: What's the Matter with Harvard? Message-ID: <20070516204011.28412.qmail@resist.ca> "And in the general hardening of outlook that set in . . . practices which had been long abandoned - imprisonment without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions . . . and the deportation of whole populations - not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves _enlightened_ and _progressive_." --**George Orwell; Nineteen Eighty-Four** [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/liberal_academics_supporting_torture_whats_the_matter_with_harvard URL: http://mostlywater.org/liberal_academics_supporting_torture_whats_the_matter_with_harvard From news at resist.ca Thu May 17 10:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 17:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] "The Big Strike" of 1934 Message-ID: <20070517171705.9970.qmail@resist.ca> It's the **73rd anniversary** of what's known in labor lore as **"The Big Strike"** -- a remarkable event that brought open warfare to San Francisco's waterfront, led to one of the very few general strikes in U.S. history and played a key role in spreading unionization nationwide...It began in May of the dark Depression year of **1934** when longshoremen finally rebelled against their wretched working conditions in **San Francisco**, then one of the world's busiest ports, and in the West Coast's other port cities. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_big_strike_of_1934 URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_big_strike_of_1934 From news at resist.ca Thu May 17 10:40:15 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 17:40:15 -0000 Subject: [news] Delivering 'Framed' John Graham Message-ID: <20070517174016.29927.qmail@resist.ca> "Do I support Bob [Robideau] in his efforts to get John [Graham] railroaded into prison? Hell No! . . . if the truth be known he did not even know her. . . . You will notice Bob does not go and make these statements on Pine Ridge or anywhere in Indian Country. He would get his ass beat down bad! A dry snitch* is just as bad as a snitch! And that is what he is doing, dry snitching, saying shit he has no proof of." --**Leonard Peltier** in correspondence with University of British Columbia Professor Dr. Jennifer Wade, April 18, 2007 *In prison jargon, a _'dry snitch'_ refers to someone who is misguided, has been duped, or is serving the government's prosecutorial interests out of ignorance. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/delivering_framed_john_graham URL: http://mostlywater.org/delivering_framed_john_graham From news at resist.ca Thu May 17 11:17:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 18:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] No One is Illegal - Montreal: Nicolas Sarkozy's Offices 'Re-Decorated' Message-ID: <20070517181709.4830.qmail@resist.ca> According to mainstream media reports, this past Monday night (April 30, 2007), unknown individuals...re-decorated the exterior of French right-wing Presidential candidate **Nicolas Sarkozy's** offices in the upscale _Outremont_ neighborhood of Montreal...[T]he three unknown individuals left spray-painted graffiti and posters denouncing Sarkozy as a fascist and demagogue. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/no_one_is_illegal_montreal_nicolas_sarkozys_offices_re_decorated URL: http://mostlywater.org/no_one_is_illegal_montreal_nicolas_sarkozys_offices_re_decorated From news at resist.ca Thu May 17 12:17:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 19:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada to Launch 'No-Fly' List in June Message-ID: <20070517191708.19157.qmail@resist.ca> A Canadian **'no-fly' list** of people to be barred from boarding domestic and international airline flights is set to take effect June 18...The no-fly list will be drawn up by Transport Canada, with input from the [Royal Canadian Mounted Police] and the [Canadian Security Intelligence Service]. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/canada_to_launch_no_fly_list_in_june URL: http://mostlywater.org/canada_to_launch_no_fly_list_in_june From news at resist.ca Thu May 17 17:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 00:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] OST statement on Rally for Housing at Edmonton Legislature Message-ID: <20070518004010.30978.qmail@resist.ca> Today, May 17, 2007 there was an emergency rally held in Edmonton in support of those who are increasingly being blown away by Alberta?s ?boom?. As housing prices continue to skyrocket while available housing plummets, workers can no longer even find places to live right at the ?Ground Zero? of the operations of the Tar sands near Fort McMurray. Edmontonians have seen several rent increases in the same year, with no end in sight. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/ost_statement_on_rally_for_housing_at_edmonton_legislature URL: http://mostlywater.org/ost_statement_on_rally_for_housing_at_edmonton_legislature From news at resist.ca Thu May 17 18:17:06 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 01:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] OST statement on Rally for Housing at Edmonton Legislature Message-ID: <20070518011706.5346.qmail@resist.ca> Today, May 17, 2007 there was an emergency rally held in Edmonton in support of those who are increasingly being blown away by Alberta?s ?boom?. As housing prices continue to skyrocket while available housing plummets, workers can no longer even find places to live right at the ?Ground Zero? of the operations of the Tar sands near Fort McMurray. Edmontonians have seen several rent increases in the same year, with no end in sight. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/ost_statement_on_rally_for_housing_at_edmonton_legislature_0 URL: http://mostlywater.org/ost_statement_on_rally_for_housing_at_edmonton_legislature_0 From news at resist.ca Fri May 18 10:40:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 17:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Commuting Can be a Riot Message-ID: <20070518174011.26345.qmail@resist.ca> Fed up commuters reacted badly last Tuesday when one delay too many from Constitu?ion station in Buenos Aires to the city's poor southern suburbs was announced...[T]he enraged passengers rioted. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/commuting_can_be_a_riot URL: http://mostlywater.org/commuting_can_be_a_riot From news at resist.ca Fri May 18 10:40:11 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 17:40:11 -0000 Subject: [news] As Gaza Burns Message-ID: <20070518174012.26346.qmail@resist.ca> Things are tenuously calm at the moment with on-again-off-again gunfire, which is better than it was only a few hours ago. But things in Gaza have a way of changing very quickly-for better or for worse. Volatility is its defining characteristic. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/as_gaza_burns URL: http://mostlywater.org/as_gaza_burns From news at resist.ca Fri May 18 12:17:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 19:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Is the Impact of the Tarsands on Water Worse than on Climate Change? Message-ID: <20070518191707.14334.qmail@resist.ca> Choke point for oil sands may be water shortage MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT ENVIRONMENT REPORTER May 11, 2007 [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070511.TARSANDS11/TPS...][1] [read more][2] [1]: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070511.TARSANDS11/TPStory/National (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070511.TARSANDS11/TPStory/National) [2]: http://mostlywater.org/node/22573 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/22573 From news at resist.ca Fri May 18 15:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 22:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Psychotherapist Barred from U.S. for Admitting Thirty Year Old Drug Use Message-ID: <20070518221704.17174.qmail@resist.ca> Andrew Feldmar, a Vancouver psychotherapist, took his first hit of acid in 1967 at the age of 27...The 66-year-old is now barred from entering the U.S. after a border guard did a Web search last summer and read about Feldmar's experimental drug use from more than three decades ago...Feldmar, who has no criminal record, has not used illegal drugs _since 1974_. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/psychotherapist_barred_from_u_s_for_admitting_thirty_year_old_drug_use URL: http://mostlywater.org/psychotherapist_barred_from_u_s_for_admitting_thirty_year_old_drug_use From news at resist.ca Sat May 19 11:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 18:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Battle of the Beagles Message-ID: <20070519181705.17685.qmail@resist.ca> ...FBI Deputy Assistant Director John Lewis has identified the number one domestic terrorist threat to the U.S. and it?s not radical Muslims. Or right-wing paramilitary types. Or gun-toting pro-lifers...It?s animal rights and environmental activists who have **never** hurt or killed a single person in the U.S. in their 25-year history...What they have done is cause millions of dollars in damages and even more in lost profits to the logging, construction, SUV, pharmaceutical, and fur industries... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/battle_of_the_beagles URL: http://mostlywater.org/battle_of_the_beagles From news at resist.ca Sat May 19 11:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 18:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Women Raise Heat on Immigration Debate Message-ID: <20070519181705.17684.qmail@resist.ca> Immigrant women are caught in a double bind. Like other women, they often face inadequate wages, higher family caretaking demands, reproductive health care needs, domestic violence, sexual harassment and gender stereotyping...The gender issues...sit atop a mountain of universal concerns: labor protection, health care, anti-immigration sentiment, social service support, family separations, limited paths to legal status, dangerous border crossings, racial hatred and mass deportations. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/women_raise_heat_on_immigration_debate URL: http://mostlywater.org/women_raise_heat_on_immigration_debate From news at resist.ca Sat May 19 17:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 00:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] "Alberta Needs a Change, Not a Climate Change" Action Camp Message-ID: <20070520001705.30762.qmail@resist.ca> Start: 2007-06-03 10:00 End: 2007-06-08 17:00 Timezone: Canada/Mountain Start: 2007-06-03 10:00 End: 2007-06-08 17:00 Timezone: Canada/Mountain ### Body The purpose of the training is to increase the participants? skill level and knowledge in areas critical to successful public campaigning. Another big benefit of the camp is the opportunity to build networks of people in Alberta, Canada and the US opposing dirty energy schemes, protecting Alberta?s natural resources (Land, Air, and Water), fight for basic democratic principles in Alberta, and strengthening existing campaigns. * * * [Note: it says below applications must be returned by May 5 but we are just getting this notice now, so try contacting the organizers if you are still interested in attending] Alberta Needs a Change, Not a Climate Change? Action Camp from Sunday evening June 3rd? Friday June 8th. Below is a questionnaire that must be returned by May 5th 2007 if anyone has interest in coming to all or portions of the campaign training. The camp is free to those that contact me at [jmsroof at yahoo.com][1] and arrange to be attending the camp. The location is 1 hour southwest of Edmonton. The exact location will be provided one week before the training only to those that have confirmed attendance with me. Media will be present at select and limited times at this camp. We intend to get media attention on our issues in Alberta through this camp. Consider this camp part action! The basic camp schedule is: ~ Sunday June 3rd will be an arrival day and a welcoming to this camp. ~ Monday June 4th will largely deal with non-violence training. This will cover history, practical legal issues, and practical how-to skills in de-escalation and negotiation techniques. ~ Tuesday June 5th will cover Campaign Planning, Media 1 and Climbing 1 ~ Wednesday June 6th will cover Media 2, Climbing 2, Action/Event Scouting, making Slogans and Banners, and an evening presentation of creating messages in the media through pictures. ~ Thursday June 7th will cover Grassroots Organizing, Climbing 3, and Blockades. ~ Friday June 8th will be Campaign/Action Planning 2, Campaign/Action Role play, Community Dinner and Party. Please feel free to send this email to any and all interested parties and organizations. Also feel free to email or call me with any questions or clarifications. All the Best?????.JR Roof (Camp Coordinator) [jmsroof at yahoo.com][1] 406 721 5109 Please email me the below information by May 5th. Sooner is always better. 1. Full Name 2. Your full contact e-mail address, your friends if need be. 3. Why do you want to attend this camp, your interests? 4. Do you presently work for or volunteer with any ongoing public campaign or public advocacy organization in Alberta or elsewhere or have an interest in one? 5. What are your dietary needs? Vegan, Veggie, Omnivore???? (Some limitations) 6. Do you have any medical conditions we should be aware of? (IMPORTANT) We will have a medical staff and tent on site to attend your needs. Please give full details. 7. What sections of this camp are you most interested in for you? 8. What sections are not in the campaign training presently that you would find useful to be in the curriculum? 9. In case of an emergency. Who do we contact? Full details needed. 10. Other comments? Logistical Issues Transport: Attendees are expected to find their own transportation to the camp location. If you need assistance with some transport issues please get in touch with me as soon as possible. Directions will be provided. What to Bring/Gear List: Sleeping bag, pad, tent/fly, good boots/shoes/sandals, water bottle, Mug!, pocketknife warm clothes (long underwear, knit hat, gloves, socks, fleece, scarf), rain gear (top, bottom), summer clothes, bathing suit, towels, hand sanitizer, bug juice, flashlight/headlamp, sun glasses, suntan lotion, ball cap, note pad/book and pens, spare eyewear/contacts and solution, personal hygiene gear (tooth brush, paste, chap stick, soap, etc?.. spare female hygiene products), organizational contacts, music for the kitchen, creature comforts (chocolate, special teas, smokes for the whole week, candy? you get the picture) You will be camping in a very beautiful place along the mighty North Saskatchewan River. This camp is in a secluded farm area. The camp is going to be self contained through out the week and transportation in and out of the camp is limited. So we ask that you bring the gear above for you to be self contained and comfortable. You will be fed extremely well and camping in style for the week. Not only that, we are also there to have a great time. So please be prepared for you and the camp as a whole. Food donations are accepted. Your personal electronics such as; laptops, cell phones, I-pods, blackberries, etc., while at this camp will have their limitations. There will be a limit on their use since wireless and cell range is limited and our recharge capacity will be limited What not to Bring: NO ILLEGAL DRUGS! No Dogs!!!!! This is private farm land with horses and other animals??.. A Call to Action To Protect Alberta! Global Warming Action Camp June 3rd ? June 8th 2007 Alberta Needs Change, Not Climate Change Invest in Clean Energy NOW! Alberta faces historic and unprecedented destruction from corporate fossil fuel exploitation of the province to feed America?s insatiable energy appetite. A group of experienced and committed organizers are planning a campaign and actions training to support ongoing campaigns against the destruction of Alberta by the fossil fuel industry, reverse global warming and call for new directions toward renewable energy and energy efficiency. This training intends to support existing campaigns that are opposed to: ~ The large scale destruction from mining oil sands and coal ~ Building more coal fired power plants, gas wells, and coal bed methane ~ Export schemes of Alberta?s resources to feed USA markets ~ The Fossil Fuel industries undue influence on Public Energy Policy ~ Climate Change and Global Warming! This training also intends to support campaigns that are for: ~ Protecting Alberta?s Land, Air and Water Resource ~ Protecting Human and Quality of Life in Alberta ~ Protecting Alberta?s Wildlife and Wilderness ~ Promoting Economic Growth and Stability by Building a Renewable and Energy Efficient Economy ~ Reversing Global Warming! The fossil fuel industry is a serious threat to Alberta?s human health, water resources, indigenous rights, boreal forest, wildlife and fisheries, and will leave a toxic legacy for generations to come in Alberta, and impacts from global warming for the world! Five day Actions Training - Beginning Sunday June 3rd with 8pm welcome, and ending with Friday evening June 8th 2007. Sessions will include, non violence training, media and communications skills, legal/regulatory strategies, direct action skills, campaign strategies and tactics, grass roots organizing, planning and logistics. Generations of organizers will be attending this camp and sharing campaign/action experiences, victories, stories and share our collective visions for an energy future we can live with! Where will camp be? Edmonton, Alberta Area The camp will be an outdoor camping setting on secluded acres located on a ridge along the beautiful and mighty North Saskatchewan River. The training will be free of charge to those attending. Camp will also provide a field kitchen & staff who have extensive experience with keeping campers on needed diet and well nourished to meet full days of work at the training. Organizers/Trainers of Camp ~ Mike Roselle (founder of Earth First!, Rainforest Action Network, and The Ruckus Society) ~ JR Roof (co-founder The Ruckus Society and former Director of Greenpeace International Ships and Direct Action Division) ~ Ingrid Gordon (Lead climb Trainer, Founder and Director of Gear For Good, Member of Greenpeace USA Direct Action Team 1988- 2004) ~ Dr. Jim Butler (University of Alberta) History and Context of Non-violent Movements ~ Celia Alario - Seasoned media trainer. Seattle WTO in 1999 ~ Llyod Greenspoon ? Environmental lawyer and activist ### City 1 hour southwest of Edmonton ### Address Provided after registration ### URL ### Email jmsroof at yahoo.com ### Phone 406 721 5109 ### Cost [1]: mailto:jmsroof at yahoo.com URL: http://mostlywater.org/alberta_needs_a_change_not_a_climate_change_action_camp From news at resist.ca Sat May 19 18:40:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 01:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] The School Bus Chronicles #1: School Bus Tires Can Kill You Message-ID: <20070520014010.28802.qmail@resist.ca> I learned this terribly important lesson in a very gruesome way and once I learned it, I spread the word fast and wide to every school bus owner I knew, as a man nearly died just adding air to my bus tire. NONE of the bus owners I knew had any idea we were driving on ?widow maker? tires that you MAY NOT inflate like a normal tire. These bus tires have ?split rims.? And when you put air into them, the rims can split, exploding, killing people, thus the name ?widow makers.? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_school_bus_chronicles_1_school_bus_tires_can_kill_you URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_school_bus_chronicles_1_school_bus_tires_can_kill_you From news at resist.ca Sat May 19 23:40:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 06:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] SPP "Could Dwarf NAFTA" Message-ID: <20070520064011.7833.qmail@resist.ca> The SPP, let us not over-state things, is designed to allow the fastest use of tarsands oil while moving goods and other trasport items, including 'temporary workers' across borders that are no longer free for travel minus a passport. One giant set of rules built up to achieve the maximum flow of goods, in particular energy, while restricting the same among people. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/22672 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/22672 From news at resist.ca Sun May 20 09:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 16:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Anti-Poverty Committee Organizer Arrested for 'Uttering Threats' Message-ID: <20070520161704.10894.qmail@resist.ca> Friends of anti-poverty activist **David Cunningham** said he was arrested yesterday afternoon after arranging to meet a man who claimed to be a journalist for a Vancouver newspaper...Vancouver police...confirmed that Cunningham was arrested at about 3:45 p.m....and faces charges related to uttering threats. ________________________ "We don't have money to lobby. Our power is through disruption and I think we've proven pretty clearly...that these tactics work...Our demonstrations have escalated. Everything has gone according to plan and the police...have been unsuccessful". --**Anti-Poverty Committee** Organizer David Cunningham [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/anti_poverty_committee_organizer_arrested_for_uttering_threats URL: http://mostlywater.org/anti_poverty_committee_organizer_arrested_for_uttering_threats From news at resist.ca Sun May 20 09:40:11 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 16:40:11 -0000 Subject: [news] The Murder of Fred Hampton Message-ID: <20070520164011.14522.qmail@resist.ca> ...[W]hat was different about the murder of charismatic Chicago [Black] Panther Chairman **Fred Hampton**, was the determined killing of an idea...Namely, to extinguish the call to the oppressed everywhere in the US - workingclass and people of color - to rise up not simply against injustice, but in positive struggle for revolution and socialism. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_murder_of_fred_hampton URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_murder_of_fred_hampton From news at resist.ca Sun May 20 10:40:36 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 17:40:36 -0000 Subject: [news] The School Bus Chronicles #2: Hippie Buses and Romani Vardos Message-ID: <20070520174038.8167.qmail@resist.ca> Rolling homes are a longstanding tradition in the hippie community, but long before hippies, were people who traveled in rolling homes that were beautiful. Referred to in the past as ?Gypsies,? I believe that many of these people, themselves, have asked to be called ?Romanies?...I have felt a comradery with people who live in _vardos_, such as the Romani wagon culture, as a hippie traveling with my baby in my school bus across America in my past. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_school_bus_chronicles_2_hippie_buses_and_romani_vardos URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_school_bus_chronicles_2_hippie_buses_and_romani_vardos From news at resist.ca Sun May 20 10:40:37 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 17:40:37 -0000 Subject: [news] Iraqi Women Under Pressure Message-ID: <20070520174038.8169.qmail@resist.ca> The lives of many Iraqi women have become appreciably harsher following international sanctions and the US-led invasion. Although pleased to see Saddam toppled, some look back on the prosperity and social liberation of the Ba?athist years with nostalgia. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/iraqi_women_under_pressure URL: http://mostlywater.org/iraqi_women_under_pressure From news at resist.ca Mon May 21 00:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 07:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Collateral Genocide Message-ID: <20070521071703.11060.qmail@resist.ca> Of course our government didn't intend to commit genocide, it just sort of happened. The Iraqis kept getting in the way while we were trying to complete the mission. Mistakes were made as we were building democracy, but surely no genocide was intended. After all, we are the international deciders of what is and what isn't genocide, and we know full well that intent is a requirement...It was only "collateral genocide" and lord knows we did our very best to avoid it. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/collateral_genocide URL: http://mostlywater.org/collateral_genocide From news at resist.ca Mon May 21 14:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 21:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Chile: Crisis in Neoliberal Paradise Message-ID: <20070521211704.5734.qmail@resist.ca> Santiago is mulling over a new and deep sense of disquiet. A new awareness of the problems of Chile is being expressed aloud in bus stops and in the metro, in working class neighbourhoods such as La Victoria, frontline of resistance against the dictatorship, in the corridors of public hospitals and at college gates, and to those responsible for the "model"...[that[ is sending clear signs of fatigue. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/chile_crisis_in_neoliberal_paradise URL: http://mostlywater.org/chile_crisis_in_neoliberal_paradise From news at resist.ca Mon May 21 14:40:11 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 21:40:11 -0000 Subject: [news] The Secret U.S. Plot to Kill Muqtada al-Sadr Message-ID: <20070521214012.25656.qmail@resist.ca> The US Army tried to kill or capture **Muqtada al-Sadr**, the widely revered Shia cleric, after luring him to peace negotiations at a house in the holy city of Najaf, which it then attacked, according to a senior Iraqi government official...The attempted assassination or abduction took place two-and-a-half years ago in _August 2004_ when Mr Sadr and his Mehdi Army militiamen were besieged by US Marines in Najaf... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_secret_u_s_plot_to_kill_muqtada_al_sadr URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_secret_u_s_plot_to_kill_muqtada_al_sadr From news at resist.ca Mon May 21 15:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 22:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Prison Society, Reformism and Insurrection Message-ID: <20070521224009.3921.qmail@resist.ca> When anarchists/anti-capitalists participate in social democratic activism for reform without retaining their revolutionary militancy, it dilutes our effectiveness, and our movements become penetrated with ineffective ideas and methods. It creates a theatre of easily policed charades on the street, and weakens our long-term goals of autonomy, free exchange and liberation...If we participate in trying to convince ourselves and an alienated public that anyone will make any difference to ecological collapse and social exploitation with any symbolic, representational appeal to power and finance, the more time we will have to wait before any real change happens. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/prison_society_reformism_and_insurrection URL: http://mostlywater.org/prison_society_reformism_and_insurrection From news at resist.ca Mon May 21 16:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 23:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Bush's Zombie Shuffles Off: "Why Bother with the Monkey when you Can Go Straight to the Organ Grinder?" Message-ID: <20070521231703.10321.qmail@resist.ca> A true creature of the Washington Consensus, [Tony] Blair was always loyal to the various occupants of the White House...He understood that privatisation/deregulation at home were part of the same mechanism as the wars abroad. If this judgement seems unduly harsh let me quote Sir Rodric Braithwaite, a former senior adviser to Blair:..._"Perhaps [Blair] comes from the Central Intelligence Agency's box of technical tricks, programmed to spout the language of the White House in an artificial English accent...Mr Blair's total identification with the White House has destroyed his influence in Washington, Europe and the Middle East itself: who bothers with the monkey if he can go straight to the organ-grinder?_..." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/bushs_zombie_shuffles_off_why_bother_with_the_monkey_when_you_can_go_straight_to_the_organ_grinder URL: http://mostlywater.org/bushs_zombie_shuffles_off_why_bother_with_the_monkey_when_you_can_go_straight_to_the_organ_grinder From news at resist.ca Tue May 22 00:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 07:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Direct Action: The Antidote to Despair Message-ID: <20070522071705.32144.qmail@resist.ca> When the situation requires blockades and tree sits, forest activists need to know which strategies work. That?s why training is so crucial...?Whatever the moral and ethical issues of direct action, there?s very important tactical issues. If people don?t know how to do this stuff, they come to confrontations unprepared. And if we?re not prepared, the police take us to jail.?[![Forest defense is fun][1]][2]**Forest defense is fun** [read more][3] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/system/files/images/tree_big.thumbnail.jpg (Forest defense is fun) [2]: http://mostlywater.org/ [3]: http://mostlywater.org/direct_action_the_antidote_to_despair URL: http://mostlywater.org/direct_action_the_antidote_to_despair From news at resist.ca Tue May 22 12:17:46 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 19:17:46 -0000 Subject: [news] Brazil's Indians Offended by Pope's Comments: When Does Genocide Purify? (Two Articles) Message-ID: <20070522191747.30063.qmail@resist.ca> Pope Benedict XVI's recent trip to Brazil seems to have done little to shore up the Catholic Church's declining power in its Latin American heartland. It went a long way, however, towards confirming Benedict's reputation as a reactionary bigot. ___________________________ ___________________________ Outraged Indian leaders in Brazil said on Monday they were offended by Pope Benedict's "arrogant and disrespectful" comments that the Roman Catholic Church had purified them and a revival of their religions would be a backward step. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/brazils_indians_offended_by_popes_comments_when_does_genocide_purify_two_articles URL: http://mostlywater.org/brazils_indians_offended_by_popes_comments_when_does_genocide_purify_two_articles From news at resist.ca Tue May 22 12:17:46 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 19:17:46 -0000 Subject: [news] Initial Report on John Graham's Extradition Appeal Message-ID: <20070522191749.30064.qmail@resist.ca> About 60 supporters of former American Indian Movement warrior, John Graham, showed up at Vancouver's Supreme Court on the morning of May 17, 2007, to oppose the US government?s attempt to extradite him on the charge of murdering fellow AIM member Anna Mae Pictou Aquash. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/initial_report_on_john_grahams_extradition_appeal_0 URL: http://mostlywater.org/initial_report_on_john_grahams_extradition_appeal_0 From news at resist.ca Tue May 22 17:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 00:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Conservative MP's Storm Out of Meeting on Sharing Energy with U.S. Message-ID: <20070523001704.6808.qmail@resist.ca> Amid heated charges of a coverup, Tory MPs on Thursday abruptly shut down parliamentary hearings on a controversial plan to further integrate Canada and the U.S....The firestorm erupted within minutes of testimony by University of Alberta professor Gordon Laxer that Canadians will be left "to freeze in the dark" if the government forges ahead with plans to integrate energy supplies across North America. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/conservative_mps_storm_out_of_meeting_on_sharing_energy_with_u_s URL: http://mostlywater.org/conservative_mps_storm_out_of_meeting_on_sharing_energy_with_u_s From news at resist.ca Tue May 22 17:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 00:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Why Canadians Side with Militant Indians Message-ID: <20070523001704.6809.qmail@resist.ca> Why are so many people, all over the country, apparently giving up on due process and the rule of law?...[W]hy are so many members of the settler society...adding their voices and bodies to this tide of militancy? A simple answer might be: The Canadian state is not itself following the rule of law, nor has it ever done so with regard to indigenous peoples. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/why_canadians_side_with_militant_indians URL: http://mostlywater.org/why_canadians_side_with_militant_indians From news at resist.ca Tue May 22 17:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 00:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Top 10 Reasons B.C. MLA's Deserve a 29 Per Cent Pay Raise Message-ID: <20070523004009.10944.qmail@resist.ca> Top 10 reasons B.C. MLA's deserve a 29 per cent pay raise and average of $800,000 in retroactive pension benefits. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/top_10_reason_mlas_deserve_a_29_pay_raise URL: http://mostlywater.org/top_10_reason_mlas_deserve_a_29_pay_raise From news at resist.ca Tue May 22 21:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 04:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada's Unexplained Military Presence in Afghanistan Message-ID: <20070523041704.15718.qmail@resist.ca> Since Ottawa sent military support to the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, Canadian public opinion has generally hovered in a state of confusion, with many people unsure of exactly why troops have been sent there in the first place. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/canadas_unexplained_military_presence_in_afghanistan URL: http://mostlywater.org/canadas_unexplained_military_presence_in_afghanistan From news at resist.ca Wed May 23 00:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 07:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] VANOC Board Memeber Ken Dobell 'Evicted' by Anti-Poverty Committee Message-ID: <20070523071704.28187.qmail@resist.ca> The Anti-Poverty Committee successfully launched its VANOC eviction campaign by evicting Ken Dobell from his office located at the World Trade and Convention Centre in the Office of the Premier. His belongings have been put into boxes and thrown into the hall. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/vanoc_board_memeber_ken_dobell_evicted_by_anti_poverty_committee URL: http://mostlywater.org/vanoc_board_memeber_ken_dobell_evicted_by_anti_poverty_committee From news at resist.ca Wed May 23 06:40:25 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 13:40:25 -0000 Subject: [news] Forty Years of Occupation Message-ID: <20070523134027.19749.qmail@resist.ca> An anniversary that will live in infamy. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/forty_years_of_occupation URL: http://mostlywater.org/forty_years_of_occupation From news at resist.ca Wed May 23 10:17:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 17:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] The U.S. Role in Colombia's Civil War Message-ID: <20070523171708.13205.qmail@resist.ca> Each year the US provides over a half billion dollars to the Colombian police and military, and trains thousands of Colombian soldiers. Colombia is the largest recipient of US aid outside the Middle East, Afghanistan and Iraq. The US has nurtured the war in Colombia over many years, for the specific purpose of controlling the resources and politics of this rich nation. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_u_s_role_in_colombias_civil_war URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_u_s_role_in_colombias_civil_war From news at resist.ca Wed May 23 10:17:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 17:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Deja Vu All Over Again: Afghanistan Starting to Look Like Vietnam Message-ID: <20070523171708.13206.qmail@resist.ca> Deja vu all over again? The longer the U.S. and NATO stay in Afghanistan, the more the place is looking like Vietnam [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/deja_vu_all_over_again_afghanistan_starting_to_look_like_vietnam URL: http://mostlywater.org/deja_vu_all_over_again_afghanistan_starting_to_look_like_vietnam From news at resist.ca Wed May 23 17:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 00:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Vancouver's Civil City Commissioner a 'Law & Order Guy' Message-ID: <20070524001704.30541.qmail@resist.ca> David Eby, a lawyer with the Pivot Legal Society, said he "just about fell out of bed" when he heard about **[Geoff] Plant's** appointment. "Plant has no experience with the Downtown Eastside and experience with homelessness except to cause it," he said, noting Plant was part of a government that for many years stopped building social housing and held welfare rates down by making it harder to receive. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/vancouvers_civil_city_commissioner_a_law_order_guy URL: http://mostlywater.org/vancouvers_civil_city_commissioner_a_law_order_guy From news at resist.ca Wed May 23 17:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 00:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Vancouver Cop Tasered Man 'in Order to Help Him' Message-ID: <20070524001704.30542.qmail@resist.ca> Police Tasered a Vancouver man twice before he died in a Granville Street hotel, jurors in the coroner's inquest into the death of **Robert Bagnell** heard yesterday...Vancouver Police Const. Don Chapman testified he found Bagnell naked, bleeding and likely high on cocaine in the fifth-floor bathroom of the Continental Hotel..."I intended to cause him pain in order to help him," he said. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/vancouver_cop_tasered_man_in_order_to_help_him URL: http://mostlywater.org/vancouver_cop_tasered_man_in_order_to_help_him From news at resist.ca Thu May 24 11:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 18:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] How Wealth Creates Poverty in the World Message-ID: <20070524181706.6864.qmail@resist.ca> There is a ?mystery? we must explain: How is it that as corporate investments and foreign aid and international loans to poor countries have increased dramatically throughout the world over the last half century, so has poverty? The number of people living in poverty is growing at a faster rate than the world?s population. What do we make of this? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/how_wealth_creates_poverty_in_the_world_0 URL: http://mostlywater.org/how_wealth_creates_poverty_in_the_world_0 From news at resist.ca Thu May 24 11:40:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 18:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Poverty, Homelessness, and Addiction in =?utf-8?q?Vancouver?= =?utf-8?b?4oCZcw==?= Downtown Eastside Message-ID: <20070524184010.11296.qmail@resist.ca> Vancouver?s Downtown Eastside is the real poor side of town and it has some major problems. There are about 3000 homeless on the eastside and some of them sleep outside. There are some that have a place to sleep inside, they call it a shelter. It is not their home but just a matt on the floor in a room with other people. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/poverty_homeless_and_addiction_vancouver_s_dtes URL: http://mostlywater.org/poverty_homeless_and_addiction_vancouver_s_dtes From news at resist.ca Thu May 24 12:17:14 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 19:17:14 -0000 Subject: [news] Who's Behind the Fighting in North Lebanon? Message-ID: <20070524191717.20779.qmail@resist.ca> After three days of shelling and more than 100 dead and with no electricity or water, Nahr el-Baled reeks of burned and rotting flesh, charred houses with smoldering contents, raw sewage and the acrid smell of exploded mortars and tank rounds. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/whos_behind_the_fighting_in_north_lebanon URL: http://mostlywater.org/whos_behind_the_fighting_in_north_lebanon From news at resist.ca Fri May 25 10:40:16 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 17:40:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Is Free Speech Really at Stake in Venezuela? Message-ID: <20070525174017.27263.qmail@resist.ca> Throughout [the] process of increasing voter and citizen participation and electoral democracy, the Venezuelan opposition and their allies in the U.S. press have told us that authoritarianism was just around the corner. They now say it has arrived. The immediate focus of their concern is [President Hugo Chavez's] decision not to renew the broadcast license of a major television network that is openly opposed to the Ch?vez government. Their free speech concerns have been echoed by Human Rights Watch, Reporters without Borders, and the Committee to Protect Journalists. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/is_free_speech_really_at_stake_in_venezuela URL: http://mostlywater.org/is_free_speech_really_at_stake_in_venezuela From news at resist.ca Fri May 25 11:17:26 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 18:17:26 -0000 Subject: [news] My Arrest in Spain: The Easy Road from Tourism to Terrorism Message-ID: <20070525181728.2938.qmail@resist.ca> ...[A]s much as the Barcelona police have a vendetta against squatters and anarchists, along with immigrants and anyone darker than them, this [latest] repression is not a grassroots initiative: it's an order from on high. "The Mediterranean triangle" [is] the term applied by the European Union to what it identifies as a top internal security threat-the **anarchist** movements in **Greece, Italy**, and **Spain**. These states have been directed to neutralize the threat, and it seems they will do whatever it takes. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/my_arrest_in_spain_the_easy_road_from_tourism_to_terrorism URL: http://mostlywater.org/my_arrest_in_spain_the_easy_road_from_tourism_to_terrorism From news at resist.ca Fri May 25 11:17:26 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 18:17:26 -0000 Subject: [news] The Commonplace Cowardice of Responsible Professors Message-ID: <20070525181727.2935.qmail@resist.ca> In the United States there are fewer and fewer spaces where truth-telling is possible...Universities, though dominated by corporate money and the corporate mentality, still provide one of the few remaining spaces for open and honest engagement. Protecting that space is important not only for those of us in the privileged position of faculty, but for the society more generally. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_commonplace_cowardice_of_responsible_professors URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_commonplace_cowardice_of_responsible_professors From news at resist.ca Sat May 26 11:40:12 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 18:40:12 -0000 Subject: [news] Afghan Woman M.P. Kicked Out of Parliament Message-ID: <20070526184013.9134.qmail@resist.ca> **Malalai Joya**, the most outspoken of the 68 women currently elected in Afghanistan, has been suspended from parliament. A relentless critic of the warlords and assorted war criminals in the [Hamid] Karzai government, legislators kicked her out after viewing a television interview in which she likened the parliament to a ?zoo?. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/afghan_woman_m_p_kicked_out_of_parliament URL: http://mostlywater.org/afghan_woman_m_p_kicked_out_of_parliament From news at resist.ca Sat May 26 11:40:13 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 18:40:13 -0000 Subject: [news] Anti-Immigrant in Black Face? Message-ID: <20070526184013.9135.qmail@resist.ca> The picture in the ad immediately caught my attention. The photo was of a very dignified older African American...Underneath his photo was a caption giving his name "T. Willard Fair" and the fact that he was the veteran of 40 years of struggle in the Civil Rights Movement...Beneath the caption was a statement declaring that the alleged threat to African Americans comes from documented and undocumented immigrants. He went on to suggest that any notion of legalizing undocumented workers was a slap in the face of African Americans. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/anti_immigrant_in_black_face URL: http://mostlywater.org/anti_immigrant_in_black_face From news at resist.ca Sat May 26 12:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 19:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Green Sabotage as 'Terrorism' Message-ID: <20070526191704.16483.qmail@resist.ca> [Judge Aiken's] lecturing "the community" on just what the power structure will "tolerate" is but one...of [her] prejudicial notions. The most important is her determination that ecosabotage constitutes "Terrorism." The determination allows for "upward enhancement" sentences to be handed down. While a simple arson with no personal injuries usually merits a median sentence of 43 months in Federal cases, the "terrorism" determination allows for "enhancement" additions of up to 20+ years! It also means harsher prison conditions for those sentenced. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/green_sabotage_as_terrorism URL: http://mostlywater.org/green_sabotage_as_terrorism From news at resist.ca Sat May 26 18:17:22 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 01:17:22 -0000 Subject: [news] Nobody Move, I'm a Journalist! Message-ID: <20070527011722.2445.qmail@resist.ca> The irony of the [Vancouver] chief of police condemning ?criminals? for impersonating flower peddlers while allowing his own officers to impersonate journalists removes any shred of credibility his argument may have had. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/nobody_move_im_a_journalist URL: http://mostlywater.org/nobody_move_im_a_journalist From news at resist.ca Sun May 27 03:40:15 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 10:40:15 -0000 Subject: [news] Darfur? Oh, That's Oil too. Message-ID: <20070527104016.5851.qmail@resist.ca> To paraphrase the famous quip during the 1992 US Presidential debates, when an unknown William Jefferson Clinton told then-President George Herbert Walker Bush, Its the economy, stupid, the present concern of the current Washington Administration over Darfur in southern Sudan is not, if we were to look closely, genuine concern over genocide against the peoples in that poorest of poor part of a forsaken section of Africa. No. Its the oil, stupid. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/darfur_oh_thats_oil_too URL: http://mostlywater.org/darfur_oh_thats_oil_too From news at resist.ca Sun May 27 03:40:15 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 10:40:15 -0000 Subject: [news] Exposing the Commonplace Cowardice of =?utf-8?b?4oCcUmVzcG9uc2li?= =?utf-8?b?bGXigJ0=?= Professors Message-ID: <20070527104016.5856.qmail@resist.ca> For two years I have served at the University of Texas at Austin on the faculty committee on ?academic freedom and responsibility,? a pairing of concepts that is common in higher education. While there is a fairly broad consensus on what ?freedom? means, competing conceptions of ?responsibility? lead to two very different ideas about the appropriate role for professors in public life. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/exposing_the_commonplace_cowardice_of_responsible_professors URL: http://mostlywater.org/exposing_the_commonplace_cowardice_of_responsible_professors From news at resist.ca Sun May 27 12:17:06 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 19:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada and the U.S. Empire Message-ID: <20070527191706.21475.qmail@resist.ca> This is a wonderfully refreshing examination of Canada?s role...as supporter of and participant in the American Empire. **Linda McQuaig** makes accurate assessments of Canada?s current role in partnership with the United States and the ongoing development of this role historically. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/canada_and_the_u_s_empire URL: http://mostlywater.org/canada_and_the_u_s_empire From news at resist.ca Sun May 27 22:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 05:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Menaced by the Minutemen Message-ID: <20070528051706.3281.qmail@resist.ca> A REPORTED member of the Herndon, Va., chapter of the anti-immigrant Minutemen, was arrested and charged with assault at the May 1 march for immigrant rights in Washington, D.C.--and was soon discovered to be armed to the teeth, with plans to possibly attack immigrants and activists that very day. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/menaced_by_the_minutemen URL: http://mostlywater.org/menaced_by_the_minutemen From news at resist.ca Sun May 27 22:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 05:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Greece: Anarchists March in Solidarity with Refugees and Immigrants Message-ID: <20070528051706.3280.qmail@resist.ca> On Saturday, May 19, 2007, an anarchist/anti-authoritarian street march in solidarity with refugees and immigrants took place in Patras, a port city in Greece. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/greece_anarchists_march_in_solidarity_with_refugees_and_immigrants URL: http://mostlywater.org/greece_anarchists_march_in_solidarity_with_refugees_and_immigrants From news at resist.ca Mon May 28 09:40:18 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 16:40:18 -0000 Subject: [news] Dr. Laura's Little Monster Message-ID: <20070528164019.16643.qmail@resist.ca> So the "kid" of "my kid's mom" appears to have grown up into a sociopath. Yes, Derek Schlessinger, beloved soldier-boy scion of talk radio's Queen of Moralizing Mean, has shown the world just what it means to be Dr. Laura's kid...It seems that 21-year-old Deryk, a United States Army special forces paratrooper [in]...Afghanistan, is following in his famous mom's footsteps by producing his own "show" that attempts to entertain by spewing hate, intolerance, sexism, sadism, virulent racism and casual brutality. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/dr_lauras_little_monster URL: http://mostlywater.org/dr_lauras_little_monster From news at resist.ca Mon May 28 10:17:14 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 17:17:14 -0000 Subject: [news] Moscow Cops & Fascists Attack Gay Pride Parade Message-ID: <20070528171715.24836.qmail@resist.ca> For the second year in a row, an attempt to hold a Gay Pride demonstration in Moscow despite a ban by the city's mayor -- who had called such demonstrations "satanic" -- was broken up today by police and special OMON riot militia. The gay contingent was violently attacked by anti-gay ultra-nationalists and fascists, who threw punches and bottles. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/moscow_cops_fascists_attack_gay_pride_parade URL: http://mostlywater.org/moscow_cops_fascists_attack_gay_pride_parade From news at resist.ca Mon May 28 10:40:18 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 17:40:18 -0000 Subject: [news] Sunni Resistance Receptive to Alliance with Sadr Message-ID: <20070528174020.12400.qmail@resist.ca> Nationalist Shiite cleric **Moqtada al-Sadr's** bid to unite Sunnis and Shiites on the basis of a common demand for withdrawal of U.S. occupation forces...seems likely to get a positive response from Sunni armed resistance...[T]alks between Sadr's representatives and Sunni leaders, including leaders of Sunni armed resistance factions, first began in April. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/sunni_resistance_receptive_to_alliance_with_sadr URL: http://mostlywater.org/sunni_resistance_receptive_to_alliance_with_sadr From news at resist.ca Mon May 28 11:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 18:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] The Thelon Wildlife Sanctuary Message-ID: <20070528181704.20734.qmail@resist.ca> What happened to the management plan? What are the changes that were made to the plan? Doesn't the public have a right to know? Why was the Thelon Sanctuary removed from the Federal of the official map of the NWT in the mid-1980's? Why has the International Biological Program (IBP) studies about the Thelon - the critical document which identifies the Thelon as a biological site of universal importance - just apparently 'vanished' from every bookshelf, library & archive across Canada? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_thelon_wildlife_sanctuary URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_thelon_wildlife_sanctuary From news at resist.ca Mon May 28 23:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 06:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Too Good to Be True-- the Pew and similar Foundations Message-ID: <20070529061705.25473.qmail@resist.ca> Too Good to Be True Certain organizations--Pew is one--are routinely treated as benign and neutral, beyond partisan politics. They're not. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/too_good_to_be_true_the_pew_and_similar_foundations URL: http://mostlywater.org/too_good_to_be_true_the_pew_and_similar_foundations From news at resist.ca Tue May 29 01:17:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 08:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Report from Germany on G8 Protests Message-ID: <20070529081709.26875.qmail@resist.ca> Today the EU/ASEM summit began. At the place I was staying at there was an anxious excitement present in everybody. We all made our way down to the meeting point near the St. Pauli subway station. After a few police instigated stalls we were on our way. I was with a few dozen familiar faces, all wearing black. Most of them had water proof jackets and pants for the water cannons. As we marched I looked forward and backward and saw that I was in the middle of a giant black bloc. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/report_from_germany_on_g8_protests URL: http://mostlywater.org/report_from_germany_on_g8_protests From news at resist.ca Tue May 29 18:40:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 01:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Leonard Peltier's Letter to Mumia Abu-Jamal Message-ID: <20070530014012.2110.qmail@resist.ca> I sadly write from my prison cell. I am sad that you remain unjustly _incarcerated on death row for 25 years_. I have read that the Court will be addressing further arguments on your case, and I pray that you will finally get the justice you deserve...I want to thank all of you who have dedicated your lives to our freedom. Stay strong and keep Mumia strong. We must not let anyone forget the great injustices that Mumia has suffered. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/leonard_peltiers_letter_to_mumia_abu_jamal URL: http://mostlywater.org/leonard_peltiers_letter_to_mumia_abu_jamal From news at resist.ca Wed May 30 08:17:20 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 15:17:20 -0000 Subject: [news] Indigenous =?utf-8?b?V29tZW7igJlz?= Pushback Message-ID: <20070530151722.9547.qmail@resist.ca> Indigenous activists are putting up a fight ? against violence. At the _UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues_, activists are focused on passing a declaration that recognizes the right of Indigenous Peoples to their lands, territories, and resources...Indigenous women, meanwhile, are organizing against gender-based violence. This violence has derived not just from gender discrimination and subordination but also from the violation of the collective rights of Indigenous communities. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/indigenous_women_s_pushback URL: http://mostlywater.org/indigenous_women_s_pushback From news at resist.ca Wed May 30 08:40:55 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 15:40:55 -0000 Subject: [news] Immigration Raid Leaves Sense of Dread in Hispanic Students Message-ID: <20070530154056.25430.qmail@resist.ca> ?All of us are scared?...?When you go to school, you don?t know if your parents will be there when you come home. I don?t feel safe anywhere ? walking to the school bus, walking outside the school building.? --**Andrea Gallegos**, High School Junior [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/immigration_raid_leaves_sense_of_dread_in_hispanic_students URL: http://mostlywater.org/immigration_raid_leaves_sense_of_dread_in_hispanic_students From news at resist.ca Wed May 30 10:18:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 17:18:04 -0000 Subject: [news] The Revolution Will Not be Funded Message-ID: <20070530171805.20708.qmail@resist.ca> More than once, companer at s from Latin America have asked me: Why are you getting a permit from the police to protest police brutality? Why are you being paid to do organizing? Why are people?s movements based in non-profit offices? Behind these kinds of questions are different assumptions about organizing that might challenge activists in the United States to think outside the non-profit system. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_revolution_will_not_be_funded URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_revolution_will_not_be_funded From news at resist.ca Wed May 30 10:41:00 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 17:41:00 -0000 Subject: [news] The Bush Doctrine: 'Democracy' in Iraq, Tyranny at Home Message-ID: <20070530174103.1153.qmail@resist.ca> What do people in other countries think when they hear Bush prattle on about "freedom and democracy" while he ignores opinion polls and election results and detains people without warrants, tortures them, and puts them before military tribunals in which they are denied even knowing the evidence against them?...If this is "freedom and democracy," what is tyranny? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_bush_doctrine_democracy_in_iraq_tyranny_at_home URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_bush_doctrine_democracy_in_iraq_tyranny_at_home From news at resist.ca Wed May 30 16:40:12 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 23:40:12 -0000 Subject: [news] Ward Churchill and the Respectable Left Message-ID: <20070530234013.6640.qmail@resist.ca> (reposted because Churchill is struggling for his academic life right now, as we speak... Macdonald) Macdonald Stainsby | Original to Resist.ca Yes, many of our best were able to look at the McCarthyizing of Sunera Thobani and see it for what it was. The womens studies professor from Canada who had the nerve to allow the phrase "[T]he path of U.S. foreign policy is soaked in blood!" to escape her lips without asking what John Ashcroft thought (before his fortunately early, unforeseen retirement) was defended by many of us. From across the settler state of Canada, and even well into the belly of the militaristic oil monster itself, the United States, people saw the hunting of Thobani for uttering such a benign and observable fact as a threat against their own right to utter benign and observable facts. People stood with her. She was invited to speak at conference after conference, given a prominent place in many antiwar demonstrations, and often seen as a heroine for her defiance of the gag on ideas--for indeed, it seemed she was, for the time being, just that. Yet, as I said, many of us still felt a solid need to take part in the tar-and-feathering of our more erstwhile colleagues. [...] [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/ward_churchill_and_the_respectable_left URL: http://mostlywater.org/ward_churchill_and_the_respectable_left From news at resist.ca Wed May 30 17:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 00:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] APC Protesters Should be Lauded for Their Self-Sacrifice Message-ID: <20070531001703.14073.qmail@resist.ca> When it comes to activism, the **[Anti-Poverty Committee]** certainly don't lack for advice from everyone from the editorial board of the _Globe and Mail_ to the second-placing 2005 mayoral candidate named [Jim] Green. Activism is fine, all the non-activists say, so long as it's confined to bake-sales and bottle drives...[But] what would the mayor and the premier and all the media commentators have them do?...The APC people don't have the wealth to buy up politicians through the party system and they don't have the experience and authority in the business world to arrange lunch with the ministers. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/apc_protesters_should_be_lauded_for_their_self_sacrifice URL: http://mostlywater.org/apc_protesters_should_be_lauded_for_their_self_sacrifice From news at resist.ca Thu May 31 10:40:35 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 17:40:35 -0000 Subject: [news] Terrorism Defined Message-ID: <20070531174036.25817.qmail@resist.ca> Terrorism defined by four noted experts. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/terrorism_defined URL: http://mostlywater.org/terrorism_defined From news at resist.ca Thu May 31 10:40:35 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 17:40:35 -0000 Subject: [news] Killing with Impunity: Iraq's Militias Under the U.S. 'Surge' Message-ID: <20070531174036.25821.qmail@resist.ca> It has always been absurd to speak of men "dressed in police uniforms travelling in police vehicles" as if they were gunmen in disguise. "Of course they have the uniforms and the vehicles, because they are _real_ policemen," said an Iraqi minister after a similar operation in which 150 people were abducted from the Ministry of Higher Education in the capital last year. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/killing_with_impunity_iraqs_militias_under_the_u_s_surge URL: http://mostlywater.org/killing_with_impunity_iraqs_militias_under_the_u_s_surge From news at resist.ca Thu May 31 11:17:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 18:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Venezuela, RCTV and Media Freedom: Just the Facts Please Message-ID: <20070531181708.7286.qmail@resist.ca> There are a number of ways to curtail press freedom. You can charge a journalist with murder and put him on death row-Mumia Abu-Jamal, for instance. You can grant special favors, privileges, and access to corporate media giants while raiding and shutting down low-power, independent radio stations, which the FCC does with some regularity. You could arrest independent journalists at anti-war demonstrations- again, a regular occurrence. For instance, I recall my friend and Indy journalist, Jeff Imig, who has been repeatedly threatened with arrest, while recording anti-war demonstrations in Tucson, Arizona, for violating the statute against filming federal buildings. Jeff finally got arrested-for jaywalking! Corporate press, on the other hand, seems to have free reign to jaywalk and film federal buildings at these same events-behavior I and countless others have witnessed! [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/venezuela_rctv_and_media_freedom_just_the_facts_please URL: http://mostlywater.org/venezuela_rctv_and_media_freedom_just_the_facts_please From news at resist.ca Thu May 31 11:17:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 18:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Cindy Sheehan's 'Resignation' Letter: 'It's Up to You Now' Message-ID: <20070531181708.7288.qmail@resist.ca> ...[W]hen I started to hold the Democratic Party to the same standards that I held the Republican Party, support for my cause started to erode and the "left" started labeling me with the same slurs that the right used...[I]f we don't find alternatives to this corrupt "two" party system our Representative Republic will die and be replaced with what we are rapidly descending into[:]...a fascist corporate wasteland...I will never give up trying to help people in the world who are harmed by the empire of the good old US of A, but I am finished working in, or outside of this system. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/cindy_sheehans_resignation_letter_its_up_to_you_now URL: http://mostlywater.org/cindy_sheehans_resignation_letter_its_up_to_you_now From news at resist.ca Thu May 31 14:40:15 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 21:40:15 -0000 Subject: [news] Confronting a Factory Farm Guide Launched Message-ID: <20070531214016.21538.qmail@resist.ca> Confronting a Factory Farm Guide Launched The _Beyond Factory Farming Coalition_ is pleased to announce that the **Citizens? Guide to Confronting a Factory Farm: A Handbook for Protecting Your Community** is now available online. The guide is a tool for grassroots community groups to use when organizing against the introduction of a factory farm into their community, or when an already existing factory farm is causing factory sized problems. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/confronting_a_factory_farm_guide_launched URL: http://mostlywater.org/confronting_a_factory_farm_guide_launched From news at resist.ca Thu May 31 15:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 22:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Vancouver: A Bad Time to be Poor Message-ID: <20070531221704.30833.qmail@resist.ca> [Cameron] Bishop said he'd been living on the streets since 1997 without any problems from the [Vancouver] police. But starting last summer...cops began making life more difficult for him. From his bag, he pulled out a handful of tickets citing him for city-bylaw violations like "loitering" and "solicitation"...[H]e believes that a "war" has been declared by the city against poor people like him. "Why can't they just leave us alone?" [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/vancouver_a_bad_time_to_be_poor URL: http://mostlywater.org/vancouver_a_bad_time_to_be_poor