From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 1 10:40:13 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:40:13 -0000 Subject: [news] Congressional Shame and Duplicity Message-ID: <20071101174014.14784.qmail@resist.ca> U.S. Congressional betrayal of the public trust. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/congressional_shame_and_duplicity URL: http://mostlywater.org/congressional_shame_and_duplicity From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 1 11:17:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] [Guelph] Tasers in Our Community? Featuring Amnesty International Message-ID: <20071101181709.21317.qmail@resist.ca> Amnesty International is coming to Guelph to speak about tasers and their report **Canada: Inappropriate and Excessive Use of Tasers**. Three people have been killed by police Tasers in the last few weeks in Canada, highlighting the urgency of this issue. There is currently a push in Ontario to have every officer armed with a Taser, rather than just tactical units & supervisors. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/tasers_in_our_community_featuring_amnesty_internationl_sat_nov_3_07_guelph_0 URL: http://mostlywater.org/tasers_in_our_community_featuring_amnesty_internationl_sat_nov_3_07_guelph_0 From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 1 14:17:51 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:17:51 -0000 Subject: [news] INAC =?utf-8?b?4oCcbm/igJ0=?= to UR-Energy uranium drilling in the Thelon (NWT) Message-ID: <20071101211752.29763.qmail@resist.ca> The beauty of the NWT?s Upper Thelon is safe...for now. Chuck Strahl, the minister of Indian and northern affairs Canada (INAC), formally accepted the Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board (Review Board) recommendation that exploration work proposed by UR-Energy be rejected without an environmental impact review. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/inac_no_to_ur_energy_uranium_drilling_in_the_thelon_nwt URL: http://mostlywater.org/inac_no_to_ur_energy_uranium_drilling_in_the_thelon_nwt From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 1 16:17:14 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 23:17:14 -0000 Subject: [news] Man Dies in Jail Cell After Being Arrested by Skypigs Message-ID: <20071101231714.29425.qmail@resist.ca> **Cecil Edward McKenna**, 50, died Sunday morning in the Surrey RCMP jail cells after being arrested around 7:15 p.m. Saturday at the Surrey Central SkyTrain station by the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority (BC Transit) Police Service. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/man_dies_in_jail_cell_after_being_arrested_by_skypigs URL: http://mostlywater.org/man_dies_in_jail_cell_after_being_arrested_by_skypigs From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 1 22:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 05:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Class, Race and the California Wildfires Message-ID: <20071102051703.24719.qmail@resist.ca> By Teresa Gutierrez | Oct 25, 2007 Westlake [an area in Los Angeles where many immigrants and Latin at s live] has the "highest urban fire incidence in the nation: one of its two fire stations was inundated by an incredible 20,000 emergency calls in 1993" [...On the other hand, wealthy Malibu homeowners benifit] from an extraordinary range of insurance, land use and disaster relief subsidies. [M]ost of the "119 fatalities from tenement fires in the Westlake and Downtown areas might have been prevented had slumlords been held to even minimal standards of building safety." [Followed by a second article **"Burn Baby Burn ? The California Celebrity Fires"** from Znet by Greg Palast] [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/class_race_and_the_california_wildfires URL: http://mostlywater.org/class_race_and_the_california_wildfires From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 2 13:40:13 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:40:13 -0000 Subject: [news] "Right Away They Tasered Him": Civil Liberties Group Calls for Banning of Tasers (Two Articles) Message-ID: <20071102204014.17012.qmail@resist.ca> Paul Pritchard...was on his way home to Victoria when he happened to witness an RCMP officer shoot **[Robert] Dziekanski** with a Taser gun at Vancouver International Airport on Oct. 13...Pritchard...said police appeared to have made the decision to Taser before they even got near the man to assess the situation...Although [Dziekanski] was clearly distressed and behaving strangely by picking up random items, "none of us felt threatened at any time. This was a man who was definitely confused. We weren't scared -- women were going right up to him" [said Pritchard]. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/right_away_they_tasered_him_civil_liberties_group_calls_for_banning_of_tasers_two_articles URL: http://mostlywater.org/right_away_they_tasered_him_civil_liberties_group_calls_for_banning_of_tasers_two_articles From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 2 21:17:06 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 04:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Removal, Round-up, and Detention of Protesters in Oaxaca Message-ID: <20071103041706.6344.qmail@resist.ca> **(sigue en espanhol)** November 2, 2007 One year from the attempt of the Federal Preventative Police (PFP) to bring down the barricades of 5 Se?ores and Soriana (in Oaxaca City ). Today, November 2, 2007, various people congregated at the crossing of 5 Se?ores in order to set up altars and tapetes for the Day of the Dead, to honour our more than 23 comrades assassinated by state and federal government during the Oaxacan movement. At 6:30 am approximately, the sand for the tapetes was being placed and part of the 5 Se?ores crossing was blocked. At this time, the state police was already surrounding the area with motorcycles. At approximately 7:30 am, various truckloads with state police aboard and bunker trucks full of state police arrived. All were armed and were pointing their weapons at the people that were at the crossing, they surrounded the place and started to follow whoever ran and started to detain people. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/removal_round_up_and_detention_of_protesters_in_oaxaca URL: http://mostlywater.org/removal_round_up_and_detention_of_protesters_in_oaxaca From news at resist.ca Sat Nov 3 11:17:11 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 18:17:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Sarkozy the Israeli Spy? Message-ID: <20071103181711.725.qmail@resist.ca> As if his marital challenges were not enough cause for concern, "Sarco the Sayan" has suddenly emerged as the most infamous accolade of French President Nicolas Sarkozy. The influential French daily Le Figaro last week revealed that the French leader once worked for -- and perhaps still does, it hinted -- Israeli intelligence as a sayan (Hebrew for helper), one of the thousands of Jewish citizens of countries other than Israel who cooperate with the katsas (Mossad case-officers). [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/sarkozy_the_israeli_spy URL: http://mostlywater.org/sarkozy_the_israeli_spy From news at resist.ca Sat Nov 3 14:17:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 21:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Exposing CIDA's support for Haiti's 2004 coup Message-ID: <20071103211708.11720.qmail@resist.ca> CIDA funded numerous groups in Haiti that aided and abetted the 2004 overthrow of that country's democratically-elected government and then backed the vicious, coup-installed dictatorship that reigned for the next two years. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/exposing_cidas_support_for_haitis_2004_coup URL: http://mostlywater.org/exposing_cidas_support_for_haitis_2004_coup From news at resist.ca Sun Nov 4 13:40:14 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 21:40:14 -0000 Subject: [news] Video Shows Buses Could Run Efficiently Across the Existing Port Mann Bridge Message-ID: <20071104214015.11105.qmail@resist.ca> Independent documentary filmaker Damien Gillis has launched a short video showing how rapid transit can be returned to the existing Port Mann corridor without twinning the bridge. Effectively, Kevin Falcon's plan to twin the Port Mann Bridge and widen Highway 1 is delaying restoration of transit service across the existing bridge. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/u_tube_video_shows_buses_could_run_efficiently_across_the_existing_port_mann_bridge URL: http://mostlywater.org/u_tube_video_shows_buses_could_run_efficiently_across_the_existing_port_mann_bridge From news at resist.ca Sun Nov 4 14:17:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 22:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Accused Fascist Thompson to Play Toronto Area Concert Message-ID: <20071104221709.16452.qmail@resist.ca> TORONTO - A Croatian rocker accused of glorifying nationalism and fascism has reportedly scheduled a secret show at a community centre west of Toronto. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/toronto_thompson_concert_location_oppose_fascism URL: http://mostlywater.org/toronto_thompson_concert_location_oppose_fascism From news at resist.ca Sun Nov 4 18:40:14 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 02:40:14 -0000 Subject: [news] "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week" a Resounding Failure Message-ID: <20071105024015.3012.qmail@resist.ca> By Caleb T. Maupin | Nov 2, 2007 | Workers World When the right wing announced it would attempt to hold an ?Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week? from Oct. 22 to 26 on college campuses throughout the United States, the left responded. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/islamo_fascism_awareness_week_a_resounding_failure URL: http://mostlywater.org/islamo_fascism_awareness_week_a_resounding_failure From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 5 03:40:18 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 11:40:18 -0000 Subject: [news] Dead Life: Life at the "Communication Management Unit" of Terre Haute Federal Prison Message-ID: <20071105114019.9433.qmail@resist.ca> As a Kurd born and raised in Iraq, I really understood what it was to be a second class citizen, and I knew what discrimination meant. All my life I was looking forward to the day when I could say: ?Here I am! I exist, I can speak, I can choose?...When my name was approved by the UN for residency in the US, I thought I was going to get my freedom back...But after we came I realized it would take time to learn the language and get a good job and become a citizen. Before any of that happened there was 9-11 which really changed things. There was discrimination, racism, and accusing the foreigner. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/dead_life_life_at_the_communication_management_unit_of_terre_haute_federal_prison URL: http://mostlywater.org/dead_life_life_at_the_communication_management_unit_of_terre_haute_federal_prison From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 5 09:40:14 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:40:14 -0000 Subject: [news] Toward a "Citizen's Revolution": President Correa's 21st-Century Socialism Message-ID: <20071105174015.17634.qmail@resist.ca> By Hernando Calvo Ospina | **Spanish Follows** On Sept. 30, elections were held in Ecuador to elect the people who will draft a new Constitution. The Alianza Pa?s organization, led by President Rafael Correa Delgado, won more than 70 percent of the votes; the runner-up received barely 7 percent. It was an overwhelming triumph, something never before seen in the history of Ecuador. With 80 of the 130 representatives, Alianza Pa?s will have an absolute majority in the Constituent Assembly. With that advantage, the chief of state will be able to "refound the republic" and initiate a model of development that will break away from neoliberalism. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/toward_a_citizens_revolution_president_correas_21st_century_socialism URL: http://mostlywater.org/toward_a_citizens_revolution_president_correas_21st_century_socialism From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 6 19:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Punishing Gaza Message-ID: <20071107034009.11187.qmail@resist.ca> Israel's continued oppression of the Palestinian people. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/punishing_gaza URL: http://mostlywater.org/punishing_gaza From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 6 19:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] We are ROAD Message-ID: <20071107034008.11180.qmail@resist.ca> This is the first formal introduction written by Ontario's ROAD Network. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/we_are_road URL: http://mostlywater.org/we_are_road From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 6 23:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 07:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] U.N. Observer Blames 'Misguided Policy' for Vancouver's Homeless Crisis Message-ID: <20071107074009.7578.qmail@resist.ca> "It's glaringly apparent in Vancouver that for quite some time... successive governments have failed to create the housing that is necessary. You have a legacy of misguided government policy that has led to this massive crisis in housing and homelessness...The decrepit nature of SROs, the conditions of the buildings that people are living in, very poor health...I was repeatedly struck by the contrast...[T]here has been so much investment. It is striking that a few blocks from million-dollar condominiums, that there is such immense poverty." --**Miloon Kothari**, UN Special Rapporteur for Housing [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/u_n_observer_blames_misguided_policy_for_vancouvers_homeless_crisis URL: http://mostlywater.org/u_n_observer_blames_misguided_policy_for_vancouvers_homeless_crisis From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 7 00:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Bush Declares War on "Bad" Kurds Message-ID: <20071107081704.12989.qmail@resist.ca> In a high-stakes gambit aimed at forestalling a Turkish invasion of northern Iraq, President George W. Bush yesterday called the **Kurdistan Workers Party** "an enemy" of the U.S. and promised to share intelligence on the rebel group. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/bush_declares_war_on_bad_kurds URL: http://mostlywater.org/bush_declares_war_on_bad_kurds From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 7 00:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Pull Out Troops, Afghan Politician Urges Message-ID: <20071107081705.12990.qmail@resist.ca> Canada must pull its troops out of Afghanistan and no longer support a government full of "warlords, drug lords and criminals" if it wants to aid in rebuilding the stricken nation and avoid another 9/11, says...Afghan politician **[Malalai Joya]**...Canadian soldiers fighting the Taliban are unwittingly promoting U.S. foreign policy, which is propping up a corrupt government, says Joya... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/pull_out_troops_afghan_politician_urges URL: http://mostlywater.org/pull_out_troops_afghan_politician_urges From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 8 12:17:43 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:17:43 -0000 Subject: [news] Our Man in Islamabad Message-ID: <20071108201745.10097.qmail@resist.ca> by Stephen Lendman Bush regime supports Musharraf's coup [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/our_man_in_islamabad URL: http://mostlywater.org/our_man_in_islamabad From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 8 22:17:06 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 06:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Broad Alliance of Organizations Oppose 'New' Security Certificate Legislation Message-ID: <20071109061706.11660.qmail@resist.ca> A broad alliance of human rights, civil society and community organizations are calling on Parliamentarians to reject the new legislation that re-instates the use of the security certificate and allows ?special advocates? to speak on behalf of the detainee...The emergence of these provisions ensure that law enforcement and security agencies will be given extraordinary powers to detain and question individual suspects accused of terror activities without due process...[T]he suspects have no means to defend themselves as they are forbidden to see the evidence, if any, against them, thereby further eroding the principles of the legal system. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/broad_alliance_of_organizations_oppose_039new039_security_certificate_legislation URL: http://mostlywater.org/broad_alliance_of_organizations_oppose_039new039_security_certificate_legislation From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 9 00:40:16 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:40:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Meeting the Other in Israel and Palestine Message-ID: <20071109084017.28964.qmail@resist.ca> True coexistence is different from simply getting along. Teaching children to get along, that their parents' enemies are human beings who should not be dehumanized or demonized, is nice, but it is woefully insufficient and indeed fatally complacency-inducing. Unless their parents themselves learn to coexist, and to coexist in total equality, justice, and mutual dignity -- unless their parents engage in a serious effort to alter the dismal reality on the ground of complete and perpetual Jewish domination over Palestinians -- a few childhood lessons in civility will be useless. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/meeting_the_other_in_israel_and_palestine URL: http://mostlywater.org/meeting_the_other_in_israel_and_palestine From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 9 17:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 01:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Study Proves It: Tar Sands Operations Poisoning Athabasca Basin, Fort Chipewyan Message-ID: <20071110011703.15211.qmail@resist.ca> High levels of cancer-causing toxins are being found in areas downstream of Fort McMurray's oilsands, says a study commissioned by residents of Alberta's oldest community. Waters in Fort Chipewyan contain high levels of arsenic, the fish are contaminated with high levels of mercury and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons - another pollutant - are higher than they should be, said Kevin Timoney. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/study_proves_it_tar_sands_operations_poisoning_athabasca_basin_fort_chipewyan URL: http://mostlywater.org/study_proves_it_tar_sands_operations_poisoning_athabasca_basin_fort_chipewyan From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 9 19:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 03:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] US Economic Collapse Progressing Nicely Message-ID: <20071110031703.14260.qmail@resist.ca> November 8, 2007 | By MIKE WHITNEY | Counter Punch America is finished, washed up, kaput. Foreign investors and central banks around the world have lost confidence in US markets and are headed for the exits. The dollar is sinking, the country is insolvent, and its leaders are barking mad. That's bad for business. Investors are voting with their feet. They've had enough. Capital is flowing to China and the Far East in a torrent. It's "sayonara" downtown Manhattan and"Hello" Tiananmen Square. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/us_economic_collapse_progressing_nicely URL: http://mostlywater.org/us_economic_collapse_progressing_nicely From news at resist.ca Sat Nov 10 00:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 08:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Hypocrites & Burma Message-ID: <20071110081704.19442.qmail@resist.ca> The news is no more from Burma. The young monks are quiet in their cells, or they are dead. But words have escaped: the defiant, beautiful poetry of Aung Than and Zeya Aung; and we know of the unbroken will of the journalist U Win Tin, who makes ink out of brick powder on the walls of his prison cell and writes with a pen made from a bamboo mat...These are the bravest of the brave. What honour they bring to humanity with their struggle; and what shame they bring to those whose hypocrisy and silence helps to feed the monster that rules Burma. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/hypocrites_amp_burma URL: http://mostlywater.org/hypocrites_amp_burma From news at resist.ca Sat Nov 10 00:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 08:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] In the Mountains with the PKK Message-ID: <20071110081704.19443.qmail@resist.ca> There are 100,000 Turkish troops just across the border preparing to launch an invasion of northern Iraq in order to eliminate the guerrillas of the **Kurdistan Workers' Party** (PKK). The US has labelled the PKK 'terrorists' and the Iraqi government--in spite of the arguments of its Kurdish members--has told the guerrillas to disarm or leave its territory. Iran has denounced the Iranian wing of the PKK as a pawn of Israel and the US, and intermittently shells its camps in the Kandil mountains. The PKK...is suddenly at the centre of a new crisis in Iraq that may culminate in a Turkish attack. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/in_the_mountains_with_the_pkk URL: http://mostlywater.org/in_the_mountains_with_the_pkk From news at resist.ca Sat Nov 10 09:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] The Manoomin Project: Michigan Teens Restore Wild Rice, Learn Native Americans Target of Racism Message-ID: <20071110171703.17512.qmail@resist.ca> ### ![][1] Native American guide Don Chosa points out wild rice beds to his son, one of six children whom will continue the family tradition of harvesting wild rice each September. --- [read more][2] [1]: http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee225/YOOPERNEWSMAN/WildRice-DayThree7-17-0655-1.jpg [2]: http://mostlywater.org/the_manoomin_project_michigan_teens_restore_wild_rice_learn_native_americans_target_of_racism URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_manoomin_project_michigan_teens_restore_wild_rice_learn_native_americans_target_of_racism From news at resist.ca Sat Nov 10 09:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Linamar =?utf-8?b?4oCT?= Nestle: Out of Guelph! Message-ID: <20071110171704.17513.qmail@resist.ca> In the early morning of November 8th, a group of anarchists went up the water tower closest to the downtown area in Guelph, Ontario. We proceeded to paint both sides of the tower in large legible letters: ?LINAMAR ? NESTLE GET OUT OF GUELPH,? using the letters spelling GUELPH already found on the sides of the water tower. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/linamar_%E2%80%93_nestle_out_of_guelph URL: http://mostlywater.org/linamar_%E2%80%93_nestle_out_of_guelph From news at resist.ca Sat Nov 10 11:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 19:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Brazil: Squatters Won't Go Away Message-ID: <20071110191705.20613.qmail@resist.ca> President Lula da Silva has promised billions of dollars to improve housing problems in Brazil's cities. Conditions for the poor are so grim that the **Homeless Workers' Movement** has mobilised thousands of families to occupy and improvise housing on waste sites, particularly those that are empty because of land speculation. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/brazil_squatters_won039t_go_away URL: http://mostlywater.org/brazil_squatters_won039t_go_away From news at resist.ca Sat Nov 10 11:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 19:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Dial GM for Murder Message-ID: <20071110191705.20614.qmail@resist.ca> DIAL GM FOR MURDER >From [SchNEWS 583][1], Britain's Direct Action Nesletter, Friday 9th November 2007 - Issue 610 [read more][2] [1]: http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news610.htm#3 [2]: http://mostlywater.org/dial_gm_for_murder URL: http://mostlywater.org/dial_gm_for_murder From news at resist.ca Sun Nov 11 12:40:11 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:40:11 -0000 Subject: [news] An open letter to the Richardson Foundation re: investment in the Alberta Tar Sands Message-ID: <20071111204011.20900.qmail@resist.ca> An open letter to James Richardson & Sons and the Richardson Foundation regarding investment in the Alberta Oil Sands and the damage being done to environment and health in the region and globally [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/an_open_letter_to_the_richardson_foundation_re_investment_in_the_alberta_tar_sands URL: http://mostlywater.org/an_open_letter_to_the_richardson_foundation_re_investment_in_the_alberta_tar_sands From news at resist.ca Sun Nov 11 14:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 22:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] News Feeds are Back Message-ID: <20071111224009.19947.qmail@resist.ca> Mostly Water is once again able to provide syndicated news feeds. We currently carry content from over 40 other web sites and are expanding as more sites start to offer syndicated feeds. You can either [check out the list of all the sites we syndicate][1] **OR** [go directly to the latest syndicated content][2] as it rolls in. [read more][3] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/news_feeds [2]: http://mostlywater.org/news_feed_items_all [3]: http://mostlywater.org/news_feeds_are_back URL: http://mostlywater.org/news_feeds_are_back From news at resist.ca Sun Nov 11 20:40:11 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 04:40:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Joya To The World Message-ID: <20071112044011.19270.qmail@resist.ca> Malalai Joya, women's rights activist and expelled Afghan parliamentarian spoke in Halifax, Nova Scotia on Thursday. She filled an auditorium and within it, many hearts who were moved by her passion. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/joya_to_the_world URL: http://mostlywater.org/joya_to_the_world From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 12 12:17:12 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:17:12 -0000 Subject: [news] The =?utf-8?b?4oCcUmVhc29uYWJsZUFjY29tbW9kYXRpb27igJ0=?= Commission and Debate: Statement by No One Is Illegal-Montreal Message-ID: <20071112201713.9144.qmail@resist.ca> [The No One Is Illegal-Montreal collective is publishing and distributing the following statement in opposition to the racist ?reasonable accommodation? debate in Quebec, and the related Bouchard-Taylor Commission. We encourage groups and individuals who agree with this statement to endorse it by contacting [noii-montreal at resist.ca][1]. [read more][2] [1]: mailto:noii-montreal at resist.ca [2]: http://mostlywater.org/the_%E2%80%9Creasonable_accommodation%E2%80%9D_commission_and_debate_statement_by_no_one_is_illegalmontreal URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_%E2%80%9Creasonable_accommodation%E2%80%9D_commission_and_debate_statement_by_no_one_is_illegalmontreal From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 12 12:17:12 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:17:12 -0000 Subject: [news] Mohawks, Border Delegation, Inflamed Over Arrest of Indigenous Peoples Message-ID: <20071112201713.9142.qmail@resist.ca> By Brenda Norrell, Posted on Fri Nov 9th, 2007, Narco News THE GATE, TOHONO O'ODHAM NATION (Arizona) --Indigenous delegates to the border on Tohono O'odham Nation land were outraged by the federal agents, hovering customs helicopter, profiteering contractors, federal spy tower, federal "cage" detention center and watching the arrest of a group of Indigenous Peoples, mostly women and children, by the US Border Patrol on an Indian Nation. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/mohawks_border_delegation_inflamed_over_arrest_of_indigenous_peoples_0 URL: http://mostlywater.org/mohawks_border_delegation_inflamed_over_arrest_of_indigenous_peoples_0 From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 12 12:17:13 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:17:13 -0000 Subject: [news] Prime Minister's Controversial Visit to Santiago: Time for Barrick Gold, But Not for Communities Message-ID: <20071112201713.9145.qmail@resist.ca> Prime Minister Stephen Harper is visiting Chile to mark the tenth anniversary of the Free Trade Agreement between the two nations. Representatives from Chilean civil society asked the Canadian embassy in Chile to facilitate a visit between the Prime Minister and communities affected by Canadian mining companies. Their request has been denied. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/prime_minister%C2%92s_controversial_visit_to_santiago_time_for_barrick_gold_but_not_for_communities URL: http://mostlywater.org/prime_minister%C2%92s_controversial_visit_to_santiago_time_for_barrick_gold_but_not_for_communities From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 13 01:17:16 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:17:16 -0000 Subject: [news] A View From the Pakistani Left Message-ID: <20071113091717.11680.qmail@resist.ca> One element of the secular opposition to Musharraf is the **Labour Party of Pakistan**, a democratic socialist organization launched in 1997 from various elements of the Pakistani Left. What follows is an exchange conducted over the past couple of days (November 9-10, 2007) between [Ron Jacobs] and **Farooq Tariq**, secretary general of the Party. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/a_view_from_the_pakistani_left URL: http://mostlywater.org/a_view_from_the_pakistani_left From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 13 19:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Chavez Blasts the Spanish King Message-ID: <20071114031704.25731.qmail@resist.ca> It's been almost two hundred years since Venezuela first declared its independence from Spain, but over the past few days Hugo Ch?vez stoked Venezuelan nationalism again by attacking King Juan Carlos of Spain. The spat, which could damage diplomatic relations between the two nations, began over the weekend during a hemispheric summit held in Santiago, Chile, during which Ch?vez called ex-Spanish Prime Minister Jos? Mar?a Aznar a "fascist." In one of his typical rhetorical flourishes, Ch?vez added, "fascists are not human. A snake is more human." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/chavez_blasts_the_spanish_king URL: http://mostlywater.org/chavez_blasts_the_spanish_king From seinforma at resist.ca Tue Nov 13 19:21:28 2007 From: seinforma at resist.ca (seinforma at resist.ca) Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:21:28 -0800 (PST) Subject: [news] Seinforma Canada headlines Message-ID: <3454.72.39.89.10.1195010488.squirrel@mail.resist.ca> Seinforma Canada headlines this week: MONTREAL MARCH AGAINST THE NEW SECURITY CERTIFICATE LEGISLATION Open trials for all non-citizens www.seinforma.ca/marchamontrealeng.html Spanish: www.seinforma.ca/marchamontrealesp.html ------- THE TRUTH ABOUT THE "ECONOMIC GROWTH" IN COLOMBIA More than half Colombian population live in poverty www.seinforma.ca/povertycolombiaeng.html Spanish:www.seinforma.ca/povertycolombiaesp.html ----------- GEORGE BUSH FATHER AND TORONTO-BASED BARRICK GOLD WANT TO MINE DOWN THERE Chile and Argentina approve destruction of three glaciers www.seinforma.ca/pascualamadeng.html Spanish: www.seinforma.ca/pascualamaesp.html --------------- Impunity reigns in Juarez www.seinforma.ca/juarezleadingeng.html Spanish: www.seinforma.ca/juarezleadingesp.html -------- Colombian reporters face one more enemy: poverty www.seinforma.ca/fecolpereng.html Spanish: www.seinforma.ca/fecolperesp.html ------- WHO WATCHES US IN THIS CONTROLLED REALITY? Our lives are a 24-7 reality show www.seinforma.ca/retinaseng.html Spanish: www.seinforma.ca/retinasesp.html -------------- The US ruling way: more money for weapons and less for health www.seinforma.ca/bushsubsidioeng.html Spanish: www.seinforma.ca/bushsubsidioesp.html To stop receiving Seinforma Canada headlines please reply this email with the legend ?unsubscribe? in the subject. We respect your right to privacy From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 15 08:17:14 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:17:14 -0000 Subject: [news] Torturing Palestinian Detainees Message-ID: <20071115161714.21702.qmail@resist.ca> Like the US, Israel uses torture as policy. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/torturing_palestinian_detainees URL: http://mostlywater.org/torturing_palestinian_detainees From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 15 11:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Low Income Energy Assistance with Heat for US Pac NW - Apply Now! Message-ID: <20071115194010.19952.qmail@resist.ca> Every year the US federal government hands out energy assistance to the poor, but you need to know all their tricks to actually get it. RIGHT NOW is the time to get LHEAP. The application period is usually from Nov until they run out of money. So, if you are low income, call your utility company TODAY and ask who you call for LHEAP assistance. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/low_income_energy_assistance_heat_us_pac_nw_apply_now URL: http://mostlywater.org/low_income_energy_assistance_heat_us_pac_nw_apply_now From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 15 23:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 07:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Taser Death in Vancouver: Authorities' Arrogance Led to Man's Unnecessary Demise Message-ID: <20071116071704.30432.qmail@resist.ca> Is it any wonder that police didn't show much restraint in using tasers against [Robert] Dziekanski, even though there had already been more than a dozen other deaths following taser attacks in Canada?...[W]hy should police show any restraint? They likely knew that there would be no consequences. There almost never are. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/taser_death_vancouver_authorities_arrogance_led_mans_unnecessary_demise URL: http://mostlywater.org/taser_death_vancouver_authorities_arrogance_led_mans_unnecessary_demise From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 16 09:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Thanksgiving Hypocrisy Message-ID: <20071116174009.11690.qmail@resist.ca> Exposing the Thanksgiving myth and denouncing its shame [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/thanksgiving_hypocrisy URL: http://mostlywater.org/thanksgiving_hypocrisy From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 16 11:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] US Radio Bombing of Cuba Found Illegal Message-ID: <20071116194011.16018.qmail@resist.ca> Geneva, Nov 14 (Prensa Latina) The World Radiocommunication Conference recognized Wednesday that US transmissions against Cuba are illegal, thus causing irritation among US representatives at the forum. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/us_radio_bombing_cuba_found_illegal URL: http://mostlywater.org/us_radio_bombing_cuba_found_illegal From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 16 11:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Bush Vetoes Major Domestic Spending Measure Message-ID: <20071116194010.16011.qmail@resist.ca> By BRIAN KNOWLTON and ROBERT PEAR | November 13, 2007 | New York Times WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 ? President Bush on Tuesday vetoed a major spending measure that would have funded education, health care and job training programs, saying it contained money for too many of the special projects known as earmarks. But he signed a $459 billion bill to increase the Pentagon?s nonwar funding. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/bush_vetoes_major_domestic_spending_measure URL: http://mostlywater.org/bush_vetoes_major_domestic_spending_measure From news at resist.ca Sat Nov 17 00:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 08:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] U.K. Pigs Taser Man in Diabetic Coma Message-ID: <20071117081703.21387.qmail@resist.ca> A man who had gone into a diabetic coma on a bus in Leeds, [England] was shot twice with a Taser gun by police who feared he may have been a security threat...Armed police were called to the bus depot in Headingley and when [the man] failed to respond to their challenges he was shot with the Taser...Mr Gaubert said he was told the police believed he looked "Egyptian". [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/uk_pigs_taser_man_diabetic_coma URL: http://mostlywater.org/uk_pigs_taser_man_diabetic_coma From news at resist.ca Sat Nov 17 19:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 03:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] =?utf-8?b?77u/VGhl?= End of the Baby Boomer Generation: an Open Letter to "Radical Activists." Message-ID: <20071118031704.30327.qmail@resist.ca> Nietzsche was right when he said that God is Dead - and that he was killed by the very people who worshiped him. ?Mankind? and his technological ?progress? has become the new God at who?s feet we are all to bow; but this ?progress? will be its own undoing because of the seeds of rebellion that it is sowing. The ?work ethic? that the baby boomer generation grew up with is being replaced by something greater and something far more beautiful: the desire to _live_ and the desire to _fight back!_ This is an historical fact that cannot be denied and cannot be stopped! [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/%EF%BB%BF_end_baby_boomer_generation_open_letter_radical_activists URL: http://mostlywater.org/%EF%BB%BF_end_baby_boomer_generation_open_letter_radical_activists From news at resist.ca Sat Nov 17 19:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 03:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Edmonton Anarchist Bookfair Growing Message-ID: <20071118031705.30328.qmail@resist.ca> ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR KEEPS ON GOING AND GROWING --- Sean Boomer sounds a bit like a proud father when he talks about how much the Edmonton Anarchist Bookfair has grown over the years. "It's actually becoming something that is more than just a small affair for local anarchists," he says... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/en_canada_alt_media_oon_edmonton_anarchist_bookfair_2007 URL: http://mostlywater.org/en_canada_alt_media_oon_edmonton_anarchist_bookfair_2007 From news at resist.ca Sun Nov 18 10:17:11 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 18:17:11 -0000 Subject: [news] "Intergalactic Internet" - a TERRIFYING article from cbc.ca! Message-ID: <20071118181712.30660.qmail@resist.ca> _One of the founding fathers of the internet is now working on bringing advanced communications to space exploration_ October 30, 2007 | By Peter Nowak, CBC News Vint Cerf is often referred to as the founding father of the internet, but the man himself is humble about his role in its development. His invention of the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) while working for the U.S. Department of Defence in the 1970s helped create the backbone of the internet, but Cerf generally likes to share the credit with the hundreds of other scientists and engineers who made it happen. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/intergalactic_internet_terrifying_article_cbcca URL: http://mostlywater.org/intergalactic_internet_terrifying_article_cbcca From news at resist.ca Sun Nov 18 20:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 04:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] [Video] Kill Bill 43 - Demo Wed Nov 21 4:30 Message-ID: <20071119041703.21155.qmail@resist.ca> KILL BILL 43! A gang of ruthless global corporate yakuza fronted by the evil Falcon are out to DESTROY DEMOCRACY! Can the Deadly Viper Highway Assassination Squad, in league with hundreds of thousands of angry citizens and one raging granny, save the day?! [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/kill_bill_43_video_demo_wed_nov_21_430 URL: http://mostlywater.org/kill_bill_43_video_demo_wed_nov_21_430 From dfahlman at telus.net Sun Nov 18 20:48:38 2007 From: dfahlman at telus.net (Richard H Fahlman) Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 20:48:38 -0800 Subject: [news] [Video] Kill Bill 43 - Demo Wed Nov 21 4:30 In-Reply-To: <20071119041703.21155.qmail@resist.ca> References: <20071119041703.21155.qmail@resist.ca> Message-ID: <94994633-E5B1-461E-A3EB-51925E6544A8@telus.net> Yeah! Many forwards. Dick. On 18-Nov-07, at 8:17 PM, Mostly Water - Canadian and International alternative news feed wrote: > KILL BILL 43! > > A gang of ruthless global corporate yakuza fronted by the evil > Falcon are out to DESTROY DEMOCRACY! Can the Deadly Viper Highway > Assassination Squad, in league with hundreds of thousands of angry > citizens and one raging granny, save the day?! > > > > > [read more][1] > > [1]: http://mostlywater.org/kill_bill_43_video_demo_wed_nov_21_430 > > URL: http://mostlywater.org/kill_bill_43_video_demo_wed_nov_21_430 > _______________________________________________ > news at lists.resist.ca > https://lists.resist.ca/mailman/listinfo/news > A selection of stories from http://mostlywater.org. Do not send > mail directly to this list. Instead, post your story at http:// > mostlywater.org/node/add/news From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 19 00:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Venezuela: Between Ballots and Bullets Message-ID: <20071119081704.15029.qmail@resist.ca> Venezuela?s democratically elected Present Chavez faces the most serious threat since the April 11, 2002 military coup...Violent street demonstrations by privileged middle and upper middle class university students have led to major street battles in and around the center of Caracas. More seriously, the former Minister of Defense, General Raul Isaias Baduel, who resigned in July, has made explicit calls for a military coup in a November 5th press conference which he convoked exclusively for the right and far-right mass media and political parties... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/venezuela_between_ballots_and_bullets URL: http://mostlywater.org/venezuela_between_ballots_and_bullets From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 19 10:40:25 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:40:25 -0000 Subject: [news] Coup D'Etat Rumblings in Venezuela Message-ID: <20071119184026.4164.qmail@resist.ca> by Stephen Lendman Through FOIA requests, lawyer, activist and author Eva Golinger uncovered top secret CIA documents of US involvement that included an intricate financing scheme involving the quasi-governmental agency, National Endowment of Democracy (NED), and US Agency for International Development (USAID). The documents also showed the White House, State Department and National Security Agency had full knowledge of the scheme, had to have approved it, and there's little doubt of CIA involvement as it's always part of this kind of dirty business. What's worrying now is what went on then may be happening again in what looks like a prelude to a fourth made-in-Washington attempt to oust the Venezuelan leader that must be monitored closely as events develop. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/coup_detat_rumblings_venezuela URL: http://mostlywater.org/coup_detat_rumblings_venezuela From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 19 10:40:25 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:40:25 -0000 Subject: [news] "We Must Fight the Net" Message-ID: <20071119184026.4157.qmail@resist.ca> Brent Jessop - Knowledge Driven Revolution.com - November 19, 2007 The Pentagon's Information Operations Roadmap is blunt about the fact that an internet, with the potential for free speech, is in direct opposition to their goals. The internet needs to be dealt with as if it were an enemy "weapons system". [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/we_must_fight_net URL: http://mostlywater.org/we_must_fight_net From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 20 10:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Grandmother Hunger Strikes to Stop Uranium Mine in Ontario Message-ID: <20071120181703.885.qmail@resist.ca> Moratorium on uranium exploration called for. Just over a month ago, a grandmother, Donna Dillman camped out at the protest site and started a hunger strike that will last until the moratorium is declared. The protest has been taken to Premier Dalton MacGuinty's constituency office in Ottawa to hand deliver a letter because he hadn't responded to many previous letters that Donna Dillman had sent. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/hunger_strike_continues URL: http://mostlywater.org/hunger_strike_continues From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 20 11:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] OPEC Wants to Dump US Dollar Message-ID: <20071120191703.31173.qmail@resist.ca> By SEBASTIAN ABBOT, AP Sun Nov 18, 2007 RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday that OPEC's members have expressed interest in converting their cash reserves into a currency other than the depreciating U.S. dollar, which he called a "worthless piece of paper." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/opec_wants_dump_us_dollar URL: http://mostlywater.org/opec_wants_dump_us_dollar From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 21 08:40:30 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:40:30 -0000 Subject: [news] Photo-Report: Signs of Migrant Resistance on the Streets of Montreal Message-ID: <20071121164031.15861.qmail@resist.ca> Grassroots organizations mobilize and raise awareness by various means. Street posters and spray painting are two such means that linger on the public sphere long after the event has taken place. This collection of photographs are an enduring testament to the grassroots struggles of migrants in this Montreal. [![Signs of Migrant Resistance on the Streets of Montreal][1]][2] [read more][3] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/system/files/images/DSC01196_1.preview.JPG [2]: http://mostlywater.org/ [3]: http://mostlywater.org/photoreport_signs_migrant_resistance_streets_montreal URL: http://mostlywater.org/photoreport_signs_migrant_resistance_streets_montreal From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 21 17:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 01:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] U.S. Prison System a "Costly Failure" Message-ID: <20071122011704.3627.qmail@resist.ca> The US prison population has risen eight-fold since 1970, with little impact on crime but at great cost to the taxpayer, researchers say...There are more than 1.5 million people in US state and federal jails, a report by a Washington-based criminal justice research group...says...[R]esearchers found that women represented the fastest-growing sector of the US prison population. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/us_prison_system_costly_failure URL: http://mostlywater.org/us_prison_system_costly_failure From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 21 17:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 01:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Six Months in Jail for One Pot Plant: Conservatives Unveil Mandatory Jail for Growing Marijuana Message-ID: <20071122011704.3628.qmail@resist.ca> The Conservative government unveiled legislation Tuesday to create the first mandatory prison terms in Canada for people convicted of trafficking illicit drugs, including those who grow marijuana for profit...The new bill proposes...[a] mandatory six-month sentence for growing as little as one marijuana plant for the purposes of trafficking, sure to be felt in B.C., where marijuana-growing operations are common and fines are the usual penalty. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/six_months_jail_one_pot_plant_conservatives_unveil_mandatory_jail_terms_growing_marijuana URL: http://mostlywater.org/six_months_jail_one_pot_plant_conservatives_unveil_mandatory_jail_terms_growing_marijuana From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 21 18:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] B.C. Police Use of Tasers up 57 Per Cent Message-ID: <20071122021703.11641.qmail@resist.ca> Municipal police forces in B.C.'s Lower Mainland have dramatically increased their use of the Taser over the past two years, deploying it 57 per cent more often in 2006 than in 2005...[Executive Director of _B.C. Civil Liberties Association_ Murray] Mollard said when police in B.C. first began using the device in 2000, they argued it would serve as an alternative to their firearm - stunning dangerous criminals who might otherwise be shot...Instead...police seem to often rely on the Taser to subdue non-dangerous suspects who could be dealt with in other ways - such as [Vancouver Airport Tasering victim] Robert Dziekanski. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/bc_police_use_tasers_57_cent URL: http://mostlywater.org/bc_police_use_tasers_57_cent From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 22 09:17:13 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:17:13 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada Accused of 'Subcontracting' Executions Message-ID: <20071122171713.3745.qmail@resist.ca> Canada deserves to be blasted by the top European human rights watchdog for washing its hands of Canadians facing the death penalty abroad, say opposition politicians. The opposition parties were responding to a media report Wednesday in which Terry Davies, secretary general of the Council of Europe, accused Canada of "subcontracting" the execution of Canadians such as Ronald Smith, a two-time murderer currently on death row in Montana. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/canada_accused_subcontracting_executions URL: http://mostlywater.org/canada_accused_subcontracting_executions From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 22 10:40:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 18:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Biofuels Could Kill More People Than the Iraq War Message-ID: <20071122184010.31657.qmail@resist.ca> By George Monbiot, Monbiot.com. Posted November 10, 2007. If the governments promoting biofuels do not reverse their policies, the humanitarian impact will be greater than that of the Iraq war. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/biofuels_could_kill_more_people_iraq_war URL: http://mostlywater.org/biofuels_could_kill_more_people_iraq_war From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 22 11:40:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] How the U.S. is Helping Push Pakistan to the Brink Message-ID: <20071122194012.8106.qmail@resist.ca> By Ivan Eland | Consortium News - Nov 17, 2007 Meddling in and occupation of Muslim lands by non-Muslims is what drives Islamists to violent acts?guerrilla warfare and terrorism. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/how_us_helping_push_pakistan_brink URL: http://mostlywater.org/how_us_helping_push_pakistan_brink From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 22 15:17:06 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] We've Broken Faith With the Poor Message-ID: <20071122231706.9945.qmail@resist.ca> Why is anyone impoverished in a country as rich as [Canada]? I suppose that's because we refuse to break the faith with an uncontrolled capitalism which promises and never delivers help to the poor...How can we tolerate the persistence of poverty in our society when sports figures make seven figure incomes and corporate chief executives make eight figures?...Is it so wrong to tax heavily those who make huge incomes? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/weve_broken_faith_poor URL: http://mostlywater.org/weve_broken_faith_poor From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 22 15:17:06 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] The Chorus of Slander on Palestine Message-ID: <20071122231706.9946.qmail@resist.ca> There is a mountain of literature and documentation regarding the basic history of the Palestine-Israel conflict, and where scholars may disagree one would need a magnifying glass to examine the dispute. However, the level of "controversy" surrounding the subject in the United States seems to remain steady, if not increase. What allows this, and therefore the conflict, to continue can be viewed as the function of three basic factors: lack of information (on the part of the population), silence (on the part of academics and the media), and intimidation (on the part of supporters of US-Israeli state power)...It must be emphasized that Palestine-Israel is not mystical, obscure, or even...entirely unique. Quite the contrary, it's a conflict that can be easily understood...and solved. So why all the contention when there's little to contest? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/chorus_slander_palestine URL: http://mostlywater.org/chorus_slander_palestine From news at resist.ca Sat Nov 24 18:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 02:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Billionaires Up, USA Down Message-ID: <20071125021704.14316.qmail@resist.ca> November 09, 2007 | By Holly Sklar The 25th anniversary of the Forbes 400 isn't party time for America. We have a record 482 billionaires -- and record foreclosures. We have a record 482 billionaires -- and a record 47 million people without any health insurance. Since 2000, we have added 184 billionaires -- and 5 million more people living below the poverty line. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/billionaires_usa_down URL: http://mostlywater.org/billionaires_usa_down From news at resist.ca Sun Nov 25 11:17:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] National Day of Mourning Statement from Leonard Peltier Message-ID: <20071125191708.26994.qmail@resist.ca> November 22, 2007 I am posting this because some of you may not have heard this important message from Leonard Peltier. Please forward the following message. This year's National Day of Mourning was dedicated to Leonard Peltier. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/unedited_message_jailed_american_indian_rights_activist_leonard_peltier URL: http://mostlywater.org/unedited_message_jailed_american_indian_rights_activist_leonard_peltier From news at resist.ca Sun Nov 25 17:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 01:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Third Canadian Taser Death this Month Message-ID: <20071126011703.25926.qmail@resist.ca> Yet another person has died at the hands of Canadian security forces after being tasered. The man was pepper sprayed, beaten with batons and tasered. He died 4 days later in hospital. But don't worry, the RCMP will investigate. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/canadian_man_dies_4_days_after_being_tasered URL: http://mostlywater.org/canadian_man_dies_4_days_after_being_tasered From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 26 09:40:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Tragedy and Travesty at Annapolis Message-ID: <20071126174010.8076.qmail@resist.ca> Hypocrisy will be matched by certain failure at Annapolis. by Stephen Lendman November 27 at Annapolis kicks off the latest Israeli-Palestinian Middle East peace process round that may be an historic first. It's the first time in memory the legitimate government of one side is excluded, and that alone dooms it. Like previous rounds, it's more pretense than peace, and as Jonathan Steele puts it in his November 16 Guardian column "The Palestinian path to peace does not go via Annapolis....so what do....Palestinians do next....In their decades-long bid for justice, they have tried everything" [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/tragedy_and_travesty_annapolis URL: http://mostlywater.org/tragedy_and_travesty_annapolis From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 26 11:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Information Warfare Using Aggressive Psychological Operations Message-ID: <20071126191704.7180.qmail@resist.ca> "SOCOM [Special Operations Command] should create a Joint PSYOP Support Element to coordinate Combatant Command programs and products with the Joint Staff and OSD [Office of the Secretary of Defense] to provide rapidly produced, commercial-quality PSYOP product prototypes consistent with overall U.S. Government themes and messages." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/information_warfare_using_aggressive_psychological_operations URL: http://mostlywater.org/information_warfare_using_aggressive_psychological_operations From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 26 11:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] France: Strikes End, but the Resistance Continues Message-ID: <20071126191704.7181.qmail@resist.ca> An overview of the situation in France after the end of the transport strikes. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/france_strikes_end_resistance_continues URL: http://mostlywater.org/france_strikes_end_resistance_continues From news at resist.ca Mon Nov 26 17:40:44 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 01:40:44 -0000 Subject: [news] "War of Position": Anti-capitalist Attrition as a Revolutionary Strategy for Non-revolutionary Times Message-ID: <20071127014045.10959.qmail@resist.ca> A strategy of the kind proposed here ? which is suitable for a period of protracted, asymmetric conflict against a powerful ruling class ? cannot overthrow capitalism. That requires a specific strategy for defeating the employer class and the capitalist state in a decisive struggle to resolve a profound social crisis in favour of the anti-capitalist Left. But the strategy of anti-capitalist attrition can serve as a long-range strategic orientation for radicals in the contemporary period: a framework for setting goals, choosing tactics, and assessing gains and losses. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/war_position_anticapitalist_attrition_revolutionary_strategy_nonrevolutionary_times URL: http://mostlywater.org/war_position_anticapitalist_attrition_revolutionary_strategy_nonrevolutionary_times From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 27 10:17:21 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:17:21 -0000 Subject: [news] Campaign to Stop Secret Trials in Canada Message-ID: <20071127181722.4032.qmail@resist.ca> ** Groups outraged at being shut out of public hearings on new security certificate legislation ** Conservatives accused of forcing Bill C-3 through Parliament despite broad public opposition [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/campaign_stop_secret_trials_canada URL: http://mostlywater.org/campaign_stop_secret_trials_canada From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 27 10:40:28 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:40:28 -0000 Subject: [news] December 8 is International Day of Climate Action Message-ID: <20071127184028.23866.qmail@resist.ca> On December the 8th, the International Day of Climate Action, join 18 communities (and counting!) across Canada and millions of people across the world as they mobilize to demand real action for the climate. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/december_8_international_day_climate_action URL: http://mostlywater.org/december_8_international_day_climate_action From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 27 11:17:13 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:17:13 -0000 Subject: [news] Linchpin.ca - the Common Cause Website is Online Message-ID: <20071127191713.28724.qmail@resist.ca> Linchpin.ca - the website of the new Ontario wide anarchist federation - Common Cause - is now online. Mostly Water carries their news feed [here][1]. [read more][2] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/news_feed_items_per_feed/33520 [2]: http://mostlywater.org/linchpinca_common_cause_website_online URL: http://mostlywater.org/linchpinca_common_cause_website_online From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 27 11:40:18 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:40:18 -0000 Subject: [news] Shocked in Death, Shocked in Life: More Than a Taser Story Message-ID: <20071127194018.557.qmail@resist.ca> The world saw a video last week of [RCMP] officers using a Taser against a Polish man in the Vancouver [airport]...It turns out that...[44]-year-old [**Robert Dziekanski**] didn't just die after being shocked -- his life was marked by shock as well...Dziekanski was a young adult in 1989, when Poland began a grand experiment called "shock therapy" for the nation. The promise was that if the communist country accepted a series of brutal economic measures, the reward would be a "normal European country" like France or Germany...But for young workers such as Dziekanski, "normal" never arrived. Today, roughly 40% of young Polish workers are unemployed. Dziekanski was among them. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/shocked_death_shocked_life_more_taser_story URL: http://mostlywater.org/shocked_death_shocked_life_more_taser_story From news at resist.ca Tue Nov 27 16:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] France: Cops Injured as Youths Blame Police for Deaths of Two Teenagers Message-ID: <20071128001703.5372.qmail@resist.ca> Nearly 80 French police officers have been injured, six seriously, during a second night of riots by youths in the suburbs of Paris...The youths said they were avenging the two teenagers killed when their motorcycle hit a police car on Sunday. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/france_cops_injured_youths_blame_police_deaths_two_teenagers URL: http://mostlywater.org/france_cops_injured_youths_blame_police_deaths_two_teenagers From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 28 08:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Nasrallah on Lebanon's Presidential Crisis. Message-ID: <20071128161704.17874.qmail@resist.ca> [![Photo: Hassan Nasrallah Graffiti, Lebanon.][1]][2]**Photo: **Hassan Nasrallah Graffiti, Lebanon.By Rym Ghazal. Daily Star. BEIRUT: Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah cast a broad net on Sunday, vowing that no one could disarm his Hizbullah resistance fighters, recommending early parliamentary elections as a remedy to the standoff over Lebanon?s presidency, and warning that recent Israeli military exercises were preparation for a new conflict. [read more][3] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/system/files/images/tadamonnasrallah.thumbnail.jpg (Photo: Hassan Nasrallah Graffiti, Lebanon.) [2]: http://mostlywater.org/ [3]: http://mostlywater.org/nasrallah_presidential_crisis URL: http://mostlywater.org/nasrallah_presidential_crisis From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 28 08:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Reviewing James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer's "Multinationals on Trial" Message-ID: <20071128161704.17875.qmail@resist.ca> by Stephen Lendman How corporate giants exploit developing nations through direct foreign investment. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/reviewing_james_petras_and_henry_veltmeyers_multinationals_trial URL: http://mostlywater.org/reviewing_james_petras_and_henry_veltmeyers_multinationals_trial From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 28 17:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] British Anarchist Passes On Message-ID: <20071129014010.14325.qmail@resist.ca> [Peter] Cadogan ... never became part of the PR-driven world of the slick modern pressure group. His life was a long quest for injustices to resist, and philosophical principles upon which to base his resistance. He agitated against nuclear weapons, the Biafran war and Stansted airport, moving from hardline communism to a peaceful utopianism based on the ideals of William Blake. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/british_anarchist_passes URL: http://mostlywater.org/british_anarchist_passes From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 28 20:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 04:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Riots in France Like "Urban Guerilla Warfare" Message-ID: <20071129041704.16273.qmail@resist.ca> Gangs of youths fought running battles with police Monday for a second consecutive night in a suburb north of Paris. It was an outburst many said was surprising in its intensity...Their faces hidden behind scarves and hoods, rioters used firearms and hurled Molotov cocktails, paving stones and firecrackers at cops...Cmdr. Mohamed Douhane of police union Synergie described the rioting...as "open rebellion," with youths operating like "urban guerrillas"... [Y]ouths built improvised barricades out of trash cans and rubble. Eyewitnesses described the rioters as organized and disciplined. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/riots_france_urban_guerilla_warfare URL: http://mostlywater.org/riots_france_urban_guerilla_warfare From news at resist.ca Wed Nov 28 21:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Police Attack Migrant Justice Protesters in Montreal Message-ID: <20071129051704.7585.qmail@resist.ca> ...**No One Is Illegal - Montreal** and allies began pickets and speak-outs [starting this week] against the Bouchard-Taylor Commission on ?reasonable accommodation?...After more than 90 minutes of protesting outside the hearing, at least 20 police officers entered to remove demonstrators...[A]fter an eviction order, protesters began to leave. Without provocation, police targeted individuals for arrest...[Cops] pushed and punched protesters, and used batons; several police had also drawn their **taser guns**. The protesters included small children, as well as elders... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/police_attack_migrant_justice_protesters_montreal URL: http://mostlywater.org/police_attack_migrant_justice_protesters_montreal From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 29 10:17:24 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:17:24 -0000 Subject: [news] China: The Peak Oil Crisis - Revolt of the Teapots Message-ID: <20071129181725.10785.qmail@resist.ca> Tom Whipple, Falls Church News-Press. Oil shortages in China may be only weeks or months away from becoming shortages in other places-- perhaps even at your favorite gas station. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/peak_oil_crisis_revolt_teapots URL: http://mostlywater.org/peak_oil_crisis_revolt_teapots From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 29 10:17:24 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:17:24 -0000 Subject: [news] U.S. Set to Deport Gay Iranian Message-ID: <20071129181725.10786.qmail@resist.ca> President George W. Bush and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may not agree on much, but tragically they may find common ground about the disposability of **Hassan Parhizkar's** life...Since [Nov. 7]...40-year-old gay Iranian businessman [Parhizkar] has been sitting in jail in the Frederick County, Maryland Detention Center...in the living hell of limbo between the freedom he has known since he came to the United States as a young man...and the certain persecution, imprisonment, or worse that will be his fate as a gay man if he is sent back to Iran. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/us_set_deport_gay_iranian URL: http://mostlywater.org/us_set_deport_gay_iranian From news at resist.ca Thu Nov 29 19:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 03:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Be It Resolved... Message-ID: <20071130031706.7113.qmail@resist.ca> 'Morality' does not exist. Discuss. : ) [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/be_it_resolved URL: http://mostlywater.org/be_it_resolved From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 30 00:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] The U.S. Aggression Process and Its Collaborators Message-ID: <20071130081704.13486.qmail@resist.ca> We are living in a very dangerous period in which a predatory superpower has embarked on a series of aggressive wars in rapid succession...Not only have these wars violated the UN Charter...not only has it gotten away with its wars, despite their increasingly destructive and murderous nature; but in waging them, the United States has been able to enlist leaders of the ?international community? and United Nations in support of its assaults on distant lands. As the world's preeminent multilateral organization, the central purpose of which was purportedly to save humankind from the scourge of war...we find the UN?s role here to be troubling indeed. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/us_aggression_process_and_its_collaborators URL: http://mostlywater.org/us_aggression_process_and_its_collaborators From news at resist.ca Fri Nov 30 11:17:41 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:17:41 -0000 Subject: [news] An Interview with Tariq Ali: Canada, Hizballah and Terrorism Message-ID: <20071130191743.8106.qmail@resist.ca> In an interview conducted in Montreal, novelist, historian and political campaigner **Tariq Ali** discusses the history of **Hizballah** as a political force in Lebanon and the Middle East, as well as Canada's designation of the movement as "terrorist" in the post-9/11 political environment. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/interview_tariq_ali_canada_hizballah_and_terrorism URL: http://mostlywater.org/interview_tariq_ali_canada_hizballah_and_terrorism