From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 1 08:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Greenspan's Dark Legacy Unmasked Message-ID: <20071001151703.20930.qmail@resist.ca> by Stephen Lendman Alan Greenspan's dark legacy refutes his historical revisionism. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/greenspans_dark_legacy_unmasked URL: http://mostlywater.org/greenspans_dark_legacy_unmasked From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 1 10:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] America's Role as the First, Only, and Last Truly Global Superpower Message-ID: <20071001171703.19190.qmail@resist.ca> Brent Jessop - Knowledge Driven Revolution - October 1, 2007 "In brief, for the United States, Eurasian geostrategy involves the purposeful management of geostrategically dynamic states and the careful handling of geopolitically catalytic states, in keeping with the twin interests of America in the short-term preservation of its unique global power and in the long-run transformation of it into increasingly institutionalized global cooperation. To put it in a terminology that hearkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together." - Zbigniew Brzezinski [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/americas_role_as_the_first_only_and_last_truly_global_superpower URL: http://mostlywater.org/americas_role_as_the_first_only_and_last_truly_global_superpower From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 1 11:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Afghans Block Highway Shouting 'Death to Canada' Message-ID: <20071001181703.8905.qmail@resist.ca> The death of two Afghan clerics in an overnight raid has ignited an unusual protest against foreign troops and sharply increased the volatility of a district that is critical to Canadian success in southern Afghanistan...Shouts of "Death to Canada!" were heard among the clamour yesterday on the main highway west of Kandahar city, as an estimated 300 to 400 protesters voiced their anger against the violent searches of local homes. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/afghans_block_highway_shouting_death_to_canada URL: http://mostlywater.org/afghans_block_highway_shouting_death_to_canada From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 1 21:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 04:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Safe Injection Site at Risk as Conservatives Ramp up War on Drugs Message-ID: <20071002041703.973.qmail@resist.ca> The 5,000 injection-drug addicts in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside will be exposed to greater death and disease if **Insite** is shut down in the federal government's latest initiative in its war on drugs, a Downtown Eastside advocate said yesterday...Health Minister Tony Clement is expected to announce a crackdown on illegal drugs this week. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/safe_injection_site_at_risk_as_conservatives_ramp_up_war_on_drugs URL: http://mostlywater.org/safe_injection_site_at_risk_as_conservatives_ramp_up_war_on_drugs From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 1 22:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 05:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] From Iraq to Burma, Hypocrisy Rules the West Message-ID: <20071002054010.26624.qmail@resist.ca> Bush and Brown are actually worse [than the Burmese military government]. They pretend to be democrats concerned with what people actually want. The Burmese government doesn't pretend to be anything but a military dictatorship. Moreover, the Burmese government is clean by comparison as it hasn't committed acts of naked aggression...by invading other countries and attempting to occupy them. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/from_iraq_to_burma_hypocrisy_rules_the_west URL: http://mostlywater.org/from_iraq_to_burma_hypocrisy_rules_the_west From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 1 23:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 06:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Zionism and its Discontents Message-ID: <20071002061703.31468.qmail@resist.ca> According to [American academic and activist Joel] Kovel, problems between Jews and the local inhabitants of the region of Palestine only arose once Jews decided to form a nation-state. For Kovel, statehood means the legitimization of violence in the hands of an organization. He claimed that this requirement was irreconcilable with the Jewish claim of moral superiority and universal justice. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/zionism_and_its_discontents URL: http://mostlywater.org/zionism_and_its_discontents From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 1 23:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 06:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Racism and War Message-ID: <20071002061704.31469.qmail@resist.ca> Racism is, among many things, convenient. It provides simplified, definite and ready-to-serve answers to complex and compounded questions. Racists, in turn, come from all walks of life; their motivation and the root causes behind their contemptible views of others may differ, but the outcome of these views is predictably the same - racial discrimination, social and political oppression, religious persecution and war. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/racism_and_war URL: http://mostlywater.org/racism_and_war From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 2 09:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Guelph: Anarchists Cast Bricks Instead of Ballots Message-ID: <20071002161704.4591.qmail@resist.ca> Early Monday morning on October 1, 2007 in Guelph Ontario both the political campaign offices of the liberal candidate Liz Sandals, and Conservative candidate Bob Senechal were vandalised and their windows smashed. Liz Sandals campaign office had the Statement ?YOUR NOT LISTENING?, while Bob Senechal's office had ?PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE FASCIST OUT OF GUELPH!? With a Large CIRCLE A on the edifice. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/guelph_anarchists_cast_bricks_instead_of_ballots URL: http://mostlywater.org/guelph_anarchists_cast_bricks_instead_of_ballots From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 2 10:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Cuban Doctors Restore Sight of Che's Killer Message-ID: <20071002171704.13512.qmail@resist.ca> Rory Carroll, Latin America correspondent Tuesday October 2, 2007 | The Guardian The Bolivian soldier who executed Che Guevara 40 years ago has had his sight restored by Cuban doctors, turning him into an unlikely advertisement for the revolutionary's ideals. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/cuban_doctors_restore_sight_of_ches_killer URL: http://mostlywater.org/cuban_doctors_restore_sight_of_ches_killer From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 2 10:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Cuban Doctors Restore the Sight of =?utf-8?b?Q2hl4oCZcw==?= Executioner Message-ID: <20071002174010.31741.qmail@resist.ca> **Mario Ter?n**, a retired former non-commissioned officer sadly famous for having executed the legendary guerrilla, **Ernesto Che Guevara**, on October 9, 1967, in the tiny school of La Higuera in Bolivia, lives in complete anonymity...Mired in poverty, he lives only on his miserable pension of a former soldier and had lost his sight, victim of a cataract that he could not treat lacking resources. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/cuban_doctors_restore_the_sight_of_che_s_executioner URL: http://mostlywater.org/cuban_doctors_restore_the_sight_of_che_s_executioner From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 2 17:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Indigenous Anarchism in Bolivia Message-ID: <20071003004010.5088.qmail@resist.ca> An Interview with Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui by Andalusia Knoll, Rustbelt Radio, Pittsburgh The South American nation of Bolivia has filled the headlines of the global press with its fight against water privatization, struggle for nationalization of gas, non-compliance with free trade policies, and the 2005 election of the continent?s first indigenous president, Evo Morales. These struggles are rooted in the long history of indigenous resistance to colonialism and imperialism in Bolivia. "What happened in Bolivia is that there have been two official histories: the official history written by the [Revolutionary] Nationalist Party?MNR?that basically denies all the agency of both workers and peasants and indigenous peoples; and the official history of the left that forgets about anything that was not Marxist, thus eclipsing or distorting the autonomous history of anarchist unions." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/indigenous_anarchism_in_bolivia URL: http://mostlywater.org/indigenous_anarchism_in_bolivia From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 3 12:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] "I Hate All Iranians" Message-ID: <20071003191705.5618.qmail@resist.ca> A Bush administration official...told a group of six members of the British Parliament, **"In any case, I hate all Iranians."**...Did she preface the remark with, "Just between us imperialists"? Did she expect that they'd just nod in sympathy and keep the matter to themselves?...[T]hey were in fact "taken aback," which of course speaks somewhat well for them. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/i_hate_all_iranians URL: http://mostlywater.org/i_hate_all_iranians From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 3 19:40:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 02:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] UN Declares International Day of Non-violence on Gandhi's Birthday Message-ID: <20071004024012.1982.qmail@resist.ca> By Pablo Ouziel | October 2, 2007 | Consortium News October 2nd marks the birth anniversary of human rights activist Mahatma Gandhi, and for the first time, the United Nations is officially proclaiming this day to be the International Day of Non-violence. I wonder what it means to have an International Non-violence Day. Does it mean that American soldiers, UN 'peacekeepers', NATO Forces, the Israeli military and Blackwater USA will put down their weapons for the day and reflect on the horrors that they are committing in the vague name of an international ?war on terror?? [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/un_declares_international_day_of_non_violence_on_gandhis_birthday URL: http://mostlywater.org/un_declares_international_day_of_non_violence_on_gandhis_birthday From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 3 20:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 03:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Bush Vetoes Child Health Plan Message-ID: <20071004031704.8254.qmail@resist.ca> By JENNIFER LOVEN | Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush, in a sharp confrontation with Congress, on Wednesday vetoed a bipartisan bill that would have dramatically expanded children's health insurance. "Never has it been clearer how detached President Bush is from the priorities of the American people," [D Sen] Reid said in a statement. "By vetoing a bipartisan bill to renew the successful Children's Health Insurance Program, President Bush is denying health care to millions of low-income kids in America." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/bush_vetoes_child_health_plan URL: http://mostlywater.org/bush_vetoes_child_health_plan From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 3 23:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 06:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Between Imperialism and Islamism Message-ID: <20071004061704.29981.qmail@resist.ca> Between the xenophobes of the West and the illogical fundamentalism in Muslim societies, the choices keep getting grimmer. A mutually beneficial disentanglement can only be provided by humane, reasoned and principled leftwing politics. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/between_imperialism_and_islamism URL: http://mostlywater.org/between_imperialism_and_islamism From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 3 23:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 06:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] An Anti-Imperialist Case Against a Nuclear Iran Message-ID: <20071004061704.29982.qmail@resist.ca> Refusing to do the hard work, some of us have consequently fallen back on 'my enemy's enemy is my friend...type of thinking; a mentality that, when adopted previously by western leftists, led to their defeat in one battlefield after another during the Cold War; failed to set a different tone for the direction of social change after the Cold War; and will be ineffective in producing any realistic alternatives for peace and justice during these hot war years. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/an_anti_imperialist_case_against_a_nuclear_iran URL: http://mostlywater.org/an_anti_imperialist_case_against_a_nuclear_iran From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 4 11:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] "Capitalism and Freedom" Unmasked Message-ID: <20071004184010.9880.qmail@resist.ca> Milton Friedman's dark legacy and the economic and military fallout from it. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/capitalism_and_freedom_unmasked URL: http://mostlywater.org/capitalism_and_freedom_unmasked From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 4 11:40:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Why Iranian Women Don't Need Rescuing by the U.S. Message-ID: <20071004184010.9882.qmail@resist.ca> ...[T]he ground work is being prepared for yet another rescue story similar to that used to justify the Afghan war. The rescue story has two components: a brutal or ?evil? dictator and an oppressed population. Not so coincidentally, two images of Iran have dominated the media landscape over the last few weeks. One is that of the ?new Hitler? Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who has been represented as personifying pure ?evil.? The other is of an emaciated Haleh Esfandiari, the Iranian American scholar, who was detained by the Iranian government and recently released. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/why_iranian_women_dont_need_rescuing_by_the_u_s URL: http://mostlywater.org/why_iranian_women_dont_need_rescuing_by_the_u_s From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 4 15:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 22:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Canadian Foreign Policy and Iran Message-ID: <20071004221703.12266.qmail@resist.ca> It appears that the US is planning an attack against Iran and [Canada] is pitching in to help...Canada has...worked to de-legitimate Iran at the UN, putting forward a resolution condemning Iran's human rights record...Canada has also been accused of spying for the US...[L]ast year, members of the Iranian parliament claimed the Canadian embassy in Tehran was a "den of spies." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/canadian_foreign_policy_and_iran URL: http://mostlywater.org/canadian_foreign_policy_and_iran From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 4 16:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 23:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Fort McMurray teens swapping sexual favours for shelter Message-ID: <20071004231705.20832.qmail@resist.ca> Fort McMurray teens swapping sexual favours for shelter: report 'Pace of life' in booming city contributing to problem, official says Last Updated: Thursday, September 27, 2007 | 8:19 PM NT CBC News A survey by a homelessness committee found some teenagers in the booming city of Fort McMurray are resorting to prostitution in exchange for a bed or couch for the night. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/30838 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/30838 From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 4 16:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 23:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] GUTS Condemns =?utf-8?q?Harper=E2=80=99s?= Anti-Drug Strategy as Inefficient Message-ID: <20071004234010.6684.qmail@resist.ca> GUTS is shocked and deeply saddened by the Federal Conservative government?s choice to leave harm reduction initiatives completely out of its new anti-drug strategy. GUTS strongly condemns the Harper administration?s attempt to use law enforcement as a means of dealing with addiction. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/guts_condemns_harper_s_anti_drug_strategy_as_inefficient URL: http://mostlywater.org/guts_condemns_harper_s_anti_drug_strategy_as_inefficient From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 4 18:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 01:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] A-Infos (Spanish) Message-ID: <20071005011703.19502.qmail@resist.ca> Una agencia de noticias multiling?e de, por y para anarquistas [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/a_infos_spanish URL: http://mostlywater.org/a_infos_spanish From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 4 18:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 01:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] US Politicians, Not Ahmadinejad ... Message-ID: <20071005014009.5750.qmail@resist.ca> Ernest Hemingway explained the problem many years ago. The first thing politicians do to hide their mismanagement, he said, is inflate the currency; the second thing they do is go to war. Our currency has been inflated and we are at war. The demonization of the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, which you saw take place in New York City and on American television, is just the first step in preparing the country for a third war. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/us_politicians_not_ahmadinejad URL: http://mostlywater.org/us_politicians_not_ahmadinejad From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 4 20:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 03:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Sex Toys and the Technology of Orgasm Message-ID: <20071005031703.18705.qmail@resist.ca> By Rachel Kramer Bussel, AlterNet | October 4, 2007 For those who don't think pussies and their playthings are political, the new documentary Passion and Power: The Technology of Orgasm (Wabi Sabi Productions) will set you straight. Co-produced and co-directed by Wendy Slick and Emiko Omori, the film offers up a disturbing history of the first vibrators as well as a glimpse into the real-life consequences of laws still on the books in four states that ban the sale of them. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/sex_toys_and_the_technology_of_orgasm URL: http://mostlywater.org/sex_toys_and_the_technology_of_orgasm From seinforma at resist.ca Thu Oct 4 21:02:15 2007 From: seinforma at resist.ca (seinforma at resist.ca) Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 21:02:15 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [news] (no subject) Message-ID: <1180.24.57.91.109.1191556935.squirrel@mail.resist.ca> Seinforma Canada headlines: ACCUSED OF CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY DURING THE LAST ARGENTINIAN DICTATORSHIP Argentinians demand Sentencing to priest Christian Federico Von Wernich is the first priest in Latin America who is judged on Human rights violation. The sentence will be pronounced in two weeks. He is accused of participating in seven homicides and 41 kidnapping and torture cases www.seinforma.ca/curagenocidaeng.html --- THE LETELIER & MOFFITT AWARD -OCTOBER 17, WASHINGTON, D.C. Human rights award to critic of Colombian paramilitary narcostate ?Gustavo Petro is at the forefront of challenging the paramilitary infiltration of Colombian society. He has focused his investigations on the influence of far-right narco-militaries and death squads on the justice system, Congress, the military, and the president's inner circle?, says The Institute for Policy Studies www.seinforma.ca/petroawardeng.html ---- LEADING ARTICLE The West Makes Fun of UN Indigenous Rights Resolution 370 million aborigines now count on their side with more legal instruments in the light of International Law, to claim respect of their Human Rights, their traditions and customs and their lands. But --- LET?S STOP THE FINNING! Human jaws on sharks! Shark?s fin soup has been the manna for oriental cuisine for about 2,000 years. But the predation to which this specie has been subjected for more than 20 years, has taken it to the edge of total extinction. www.seinforma.ca/sharkeng.html --- TRASH SORTING, A SUBSISTENCE ACTIVITY OF 100,000 ARGENTINIANS Cardboard dreams This job began to get noticed after the Argentinian economic crisis in the year 2001, when precariousness of work emerged in the shape of the cartoneros: men, women and children who have to survive on the garbage recycling. www.seinforma.ca/cartoneroseng.html ---- Slavery as lifestyle We build ourselves as victims of our society, due to the fact that it colonizes us with its arms, noises, systems of government, false ideas, double speeches, and economic systems that have tied people to its feet for centuries; because we are just slaves. www.seinforma.ca/esclavitudeng.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 seinforma at resist.ca Fri Oct 5 05:11:27 2007 From: seinforma at resist.ca (seinforma at resist.ca) Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 05:11:27 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [news] Seinforma Canada Headlines Message-ID: <1461.24.57.91.109.1191586287.squirrel@mail.resist.ca> Seinforma Canada headlines: ACCUSED OF CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY DURING THE LAST ARGENTINIAN DICTATORSHIP Argentinians demand Sentencing to priest Christian Federico Von Wernich is the first priest in Latin America who is judged on Human rights violation. The sentence will be pronounced in two weeks. He is accused of participating in seven homicides and 41 kidnapping and torture cases www.seinforma.ca/curagenocidaeng.html ---- THE LETELIER & MOFFITT AWARD -OCTOBER 17, WASHINGTON, D.C. Human rights award to critic of Colombian paramilitary narcostate ?Gustavo Petro is at the forefront of challenging the paramilitary infiltration of Colombian society. He has focused his investigations on the influence of far-right narco-militaries and death squads on the justice system, Congress, the military, and the president's inner circle?, says The Institute for Policy Studies www.seinforma.ca/petroawardeng.html ---- LEADING ARTICLE The West Makes Fun of UN Indigenous Rights Resolution 370 million aborigines now count on their side with more legal instruments in the light of International Law, to claim respect of their Human Rights, their traditions and customs and their lands. But --- LET?S STOP THE FINNING! Human jaws on sharks! Shark?s fin soup has been the manna for oriental cuisine for about 2,000 years. But the predation to which this specie has been subjected for more than 20 years, has taken it to the edge of total extinction. www.seinforma.ca/sharkeng.html --- TRASH SORTING, A SUBSISTENCE ACTIVITY OF 100,000 ARGENTINIANS Cardboard dreams This job began to get noticed after the Argentinian economic crisis in the year 2001, when precariousness of work emerged in the shape of the cartoneros: men, women and children who have to survive on the garbage recycling. www.seinforma.ca/cartoneroseng.html ---- Slavery as lifestyle We build ourselves as victims of our society, due to the fact that it colonizes us with its arms, noises, systems of government, false ideas, double speeches, and economic systems that have tied people to its feet for centuries; because we are just slaves. www.seinforma.ca/esclavitudeng.html --- OCTOBER 11-14 2007, MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA Latin America & Asia Pacific International Solidarity Forum More than 30 representatives from progressive organisations and campaigns in 22 countries will address the forum, included Canada. www.seinforma.ca/solidarityforumeng.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 Fri Oct 5 12:40:11 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:40:11 -0000 Subject: [news] War in the Name of Peace: Interview with Jean Bricmont, Author of "Humanitarian Imperialism" Message-ID: <20071005194011.998.qmail@resist.ca> In his new book _Humanitarian Imperialism_, the pacifist intellectual **Jean Bricmont** exposes how human rights have been used to justify military exploits that he regards as legally dubious and morally odious. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/war_in_the_name_of_peace_interview_with_jean_bricmont_author_of_humanitarian_imperialism URL: http://mostlywater.org/war_in_the_name_of_peace_interview_with_jean_bricmont_author_of_humanitarian_imperialism From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 5 13:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 20:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Dissenting at Your Own Risk Message-ID: <20071005201704.6542.qmail@resist.ca> Last year, I agreed to speak to a Jewish youth group about my organization, **Jewish Voice for Peace**, and our opposition to Israel's occupation. My talk was to follow one from a member of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which calls itself "America's pro-Israel Lobby"...A week before, a shaken program leader said the AIPAC staffer had threatened to get the entire youth program's funding canceled if I was allowed in the door. The threat worked and...they canceled the whole talk. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/dissenting_at_your_own_risk URL: http://mostlywater.org/dissenting_at_your_own_risk From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 5 14:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Israel's Toy Soldiers Message-ID: <20071005211704.16010.qmail@resist.ca> If you are a young Muslim American and head off to the Middle East for a spell in a fundamentalist ?madrassa,? or religious school, Homeland Security will probably greet you at the airport when you return. But if you are an American Jew and you join hundreds of teenagers from Europe and Mexico for an eight-week training course run by the Israel Defense Forces, you can post your picture wearing an Israeli army uniform and holding an automatic weapon on MySpace. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/israels_toy_soldiers URL: http://mostlywater.org/israels_toy_soldiers From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 5 14:40:12 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:40:12 -0000 Subject: [news] Hate Week Comes to Campus Message-ID: <20071005214013.1789.qmail@resist.ca> If you wanted to know what Sen. Joe McCarthy would sound like if he came back from the dead, read **David Horowitz's** explanation for **Islamofascism Awareness Week**, an event he is sponsoring on college campuses across the country from October 22-26...Though he sounds like an irrelevant crank, a look at Horowitz's track record shows no one should ignore his latest stunt. "Islamofascism Awareness Week" is one part of a broader attempt to stifle academic dissent. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/hate_week_comes_to_campus URL: http://mostlywater.org/hate_week_comes_to_campus From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 5 18:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 01:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Non-Violent U.S. Peace Activists Denied Entry to Canada Message-ID: <20071006014010.1620.qmail@resist.ca> Two high-profile American peace activists have accused the Canadian government of denying them entry into Canada because of past arrests in the U.S. for protesting the war in Iraq...Medea Benjamin, founder of the women's peace movement CodePink, and former U.S. diplomat Ann Wright were detained for several hours at the Niagara Falls border crossing and then turned back because their names appeared on an FBI database detailing their convictions. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/non_violent_u_s_peace_activists_denied_entry_to_canada URL: http://mostlywater.org/non_violent_u_s_peace_activists_denied_entry_to_canada From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 6 14:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 21:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] States or People? The Right to Exist Message-ID: <20071006211703.10220.qmail@resist.ca> For the outside world, Israel's demand for the "right to exist" seems a natural enough request and easy enough words to say. However, most people have no idea of the real import of those words for the Palestinians. For them to accept the "right to exist", effectively means that they accept their own dispossession...As long as the Palestinians exist, Israel will always see them as an obstacle to its ultimate quest for an exclusively "Jewish state" in a greater Israel. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/states_or_people_the_right_to_exist URL: http://mostlywater.org/states_or_people_the_right_to_exist From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 6 14:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 21:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Ethnic Cleansing in San Francisco Message-ID: <20071006214010.28440.qmail@resist.ca> ...[I]n 2007, ethnic cleansing of the Black population in the city "where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars" is more than halfway to completion. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/ethnic_cleansing_in_san_francisco URL: http://mostlywater.org/ethnic_cleansing_in_san_francisco From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 6 23:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 06:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] The Free Dumb Phone Message-ID: <20071007061703.27118.qmail@resist.ca> "A new media company has just launched an Internet-based phone service that promises free calls to users who sign up - the only catch is that in exchange, the company will monitor your conversations and send advertisements to your computer based on what you talk about." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_free_dumb_phone URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_free_dumb_phone From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 6 23:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 06:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] The Invasion of Afghanistan, Six Years Later Message-ID: <20071007064009.29584.qmail@resist.ca> In Afghanistan power had always been fragmented. But Afghanistan in 2001...[was] mired in poverty. One reason why...the Taliban...went down so quickly is that Afghans...hoped for a better life...They did not get it. Lack of jobs and services like electricity, clean water, hospitals and food continued or got worse. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_invasion_of_afghanistan_six_years_later URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_invasion_of_afghanistan_six_years_later From news at resist.ca Sun Oct 7 14:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 21:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Hezbollah Regains Strength in Lebanon Message-ID: <20071007214010.25869.qmail@resist.ca> ...[M]ore than a year later, Hezbollah appears to again be solidly entrenched across Lebanon's south ? looking, in fact, as if its fighters never really left but merely went underground...The Shiite militia's banners hang everywhere, boasting of the "divine victory" over Israel and thanking its chief sponsor, Shiite-majority Iran, for helping with post-war reconstruction. Villagers report the militia's recruitment of young men is booming and its popularity is firm. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/hezbollah_regains_strength_in_lebanon URL: http://mostlywater.org/hezbollah_regains_strength_in_lebanon From news at resist.ca Sun Oct 7 20:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 03:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Crawling on hands and knees Message-ID: <20071008034011.3840.qmail@resist.ca> Apart from reiterating the same old platitudes about US commitment to a Palestinian state living side by side with Israel, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice brought very little with her to the region during her latest visit this week. Speaking often as a distant third-party observer, rather than a thoroughly involved honest broker, Rice spoke in terms of what'should' and 'could' and 'would' be achieved at the regional-international peace conference slated to take place in Washington in November. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/crawling_on_hands_and_knees URL: http://mostlywater.org/crawling_on_hands_and_knees From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 9 00:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 07:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] American Police State: Homocide by Cops at the Phoenix Airport Message-ID: <20071009071704.20106.qmail@resist.ca> What we have here is a continuation of the abuse of power by police officers that has been the norm since day one in the Land of the Free. What's significantly new is that the abuse is no longer focused against racial and ethnic minorities, hippies, anarchists, communists and activists. Instead, in most of these cases, the victims were just white people with big mouths. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/american_police_state_homocide_by_cops_at_the_phoenix_airport URL: http://mostlywater.org/american_police_state_homocide_by_cops_at_the_phoenix_airport From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 9 11:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Commandante Ernesto "Che" Guevara (1928-1967) Message-ID: <20071009181703.9928.qmail@resist.ca> [![Ch? Guevara][1]][2]**Ch? Guevara**Remembering His Death, Celebrating His Life On October 9, 1967, 40 years ago today, Che Guevara was assassinated in Bolivia by his CIA-assisted and -directed captors. He told the frightened soldier who was sent to execute him in the small room where Che lay, seriously wounded: ?I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man." [read more][3] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/system/files/images/che-guevara-2.thumbnail.jpg (Ch? Guevara) [2]: http://mostlywater.org/ [3]: http://mostlywater.org/commandante_ernesto_che_guevara_1928_1967 URL: http://mostlywater.org/commandante_ernesto_che_guevara_1928_1967 From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 9 11:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] One Sided Class War Message-ID: <20071009181703.9929.qmail@resist.ca> In 1978, then **United Auto Worker** (UAW) President Douglas Fraser, frustrated with corporate America's new aggressiveness, accused U.S. business of waging a "one- sided class war against working people, the unemployed, the poor, the minorities, the very young and the very old, and even many in the middle class of our society." In response, he warned, "we in the UAW intend to reforge the links with those who believe in struggle: the kind of people who sat-down in the factories in the 1930s and who marched in Selma in the 1960s." The threat was...not serious and the promised identification with the movement gave way to a deeper identification with the companies. Auto workers, and American workers more generally, have been paying the price since. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/one_sided_class_war URL: http://mostlywater.org/one_sided_class_war From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 9 16:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 23:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Police Mass Murder of MOVE Listed by Guinness Record as "Mass Suicide" Message-ID: <20071009231703.21614.qmail@resist.ca> This is Ramona and there is an issue that MOVE needs your help in addressing. The 2008 Guinness Book of World Records lists MOVE under "Mass Suicides" based on the May 1985 bombing and MURDER of MOVE people. They also list us with "cults" - and list the source of this misinformation as "The Cult Information Centre." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/police_mass_murder_of_move_listed_by_guinness_record_as_suicide URL: http://mostlywater.org/police_mass_murder_of_move_listed_by_guinness_record_as_suicide From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 9 17:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Victoria: Shouting Erupts During Talk on Israel Message-ID: <20071010001704.12614.qmail@resist.ca> A talk by controversial professor **Joel Kovel** was disrupted by swearing and yelling by another professor...Kovel...compared Israel to South Africa during apartheid and argued that peace in the Middle East would only be achieved if a single secular state were established where Israel and Palestine currently are. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/victoria_shouting_erupts_during_talk_on_israel URL: http://mostlywater.org/victoria_shouting_erupts_during_talk_on_israel From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 9 17:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] =?utf-8?b?RWN1YWRvcuKAmXM=?= Popular Revolt: Forging a New Nation Message-ID: <20071010004010.15477.qmail@resist.ca> Amidst a circus of political manoeuvring, high-level officials breaking ranks, and surprise support from the strangest places, a movement to bring "21st century socialism" to Ecuador is taking shape. So far, Correa has managed to jump the hurdles as they have been thrown in his way, gathering support for his agenda to rewrite the constitution in a way that "runs deeper than a mere rejection of neoliberal economics". [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/ecuador_s_popular_revolt_forging_a_new_nation URL: http://mostlywater.org/ecuador_s_popular_revolt_forging_a_new_nation From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 9 20:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] NOII-Vancouver: Indigenous Peoples Gathering Solidarity Statement / Encuentro de Gentes Indigenas Declaracion de Solidaridad Message-ID: <20071010031703.19683.qmail@resist.ca> **No One Is Illegal - Vancouver** would like to extend our deep respect and humblest gratitude to the Commission of the Sixth Declaration of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) for their proposal to the Organizing Commission of the **Gathering of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas** to extend to our group an invitation to this historic gathering this October 2007 in Vicam, Sonora, M?xico. ---------------------- **No One Is Illegal - Vancouver** quiere extender nuestro profundo respeto y humilde gratitude a la Comision de la Sexta Declaracion del Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional (EZLN) por haber propuesto al Comite Organizador del Encuentro de Gentes Indigenas de las Americas que extiendan una invitacion hacia nuestro grupo para atender este encuentro historico en Octubre del 2007 en Vicam, Sonora, Mexico. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/noii_vancouver_indigenous_peoples_gathering_solidarity_statement_encuentro_de_gentes_indigenas_declaracion_de_solidaridad URL: http://mostlywater.org/noii_vancouver_indigenous_peoples_gathering_solidarity_statement_encuentro_de_gentes_indigenas_declaracion_de_solidaridad From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 10 13:17:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Yukon wants shorter waits to hire foreign workers Message-ID: <20071010201708.12592.qmail@resist.ca> Kenyon told CBC News that the Yukon should be included in the program ? already in place in Alberta and British Columbia ? that fast-tracks the government approval process for employers in 12 high-demand sectors to hire workers from outside the country. "The federal government now has said, 'OK, in certain classifications, we understand that there is a shortage ... all over Western Canada,' " Kenyon said last week. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/yukon_wants_shorter_waits_to_hire_foreign_workers URL: http://mostlywater.org/yukon_wants_shorter_waits_to_hire_foreign_workers From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 10 15:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Reviewing James Petras' "Rulers and Ruled in the U.S. Empire" Message-ID: <20071010221703.13218.qmail@resist.ca> A review of James Petras' important new book on US imperialism, war and peace and how it affects everyone. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/reviewing_james_petras_rulers_and_ruled_in_the_us_empire URL: http://mostlywater.org/reviewing_james_petras_rulers_and_ruled_in_the_us_empire From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 10 17:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Indigenous Peoples Day Message-ID: <20071011001704.13102.qmail@resist.ca> by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Every year as October 12 approaches, there is a certain sense of dread that can be felt in indigenous communities in the Americas. That it is a federal holiday in the United States [**Columbus Day**] is regarded as hideous, a celebration of genocide and colonization. However, beginning thirty years ago, indigenous peoples formed an international movement, demanding, for one thing, that October 12 be commemorated as an international day of mourning for the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/indigenous_peoples_day URL: http://mostlywater.org/indigenous_peoples_day From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 11 01:40:18 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:40:18 -0000 Subject: [news] Founding of Common Cause - Ontario Message-ID: <20071011084018.13862.qmail@resist.ca> Press release announcing the formation of **Common Cause**, an Ontario-wide Anarchist Communist organization; also presents the basic core policy and contact info. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/founding_of_common_cause_ontario URL: http://mostlywater.org/founding_of_common_cause_ontario From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 11 10:17:06 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] The CIA's Track Record of Law Violations, Kidnapping, Torture and Assassinations Message-ID: <20071011171707.24943.qmail@resist.ca> Dr. Nestor Garcia Iturbe details key activities of the CIA from its inception, through its organizing the replacement of governments around the globe with ones friendlier to the interests of the US, right up to 9/11 and the fallout. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_cias_track_record_of_law_violations_kidnapping_torture_and_assassinations URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_cias_track_record_of_law_violations_kidnapping_torture_and_assassinations From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 11 10:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Malcolm X Grassroots Movement on Jena 6 Message-ID: <20071011174009.11768.qmail@resist.ca> Written by Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele Tuesday, 09 October 2007 One of the main implications of the case of the Jena 6 is one that has sent countless activists to prison. The implication-if you dare to remove yourself from the role of a victim and attempt to assert justice yourself, you will pay a heavy price. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/malcolm_x_grassroots_movement_on_jena_6 URL: http://mostlywater.org/malcolm_x_grassroots_movement_on_jena_6 From mocharebyl at gmail.com Thu Oct 11 10:47:55 2007 From: mocharebyl at gmail.com (Terrie) Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:47:55 -0400 Subject: [news] Malcolm X Grassroots Movement on Jena 6 In-Reply-To: <20071011174009.11768.qmail@resist.ca> References: <20071011174009.11768.qmail@resist.ca> Message-ID: Just talked to dr bonnet she moved me to 11 am will need to get the special diet form form odsp before that On 11/10/2007, Mostly Water - Canadian and International alternative news feed wrote: > > Written by Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele > Tuesday, 09 October 2007 > > One of the main implications of the case of the Jena 6 is one that has > sent countless activists to prison. The implication-if you dare to remove > yourself from the role of a victim and attempt to assert justice yourself, > you will pay a heavy price. > > > > > [read more][1] > > [1]: http://mostlywater.org/malcolm_x_grassroots_movement_on_jena_6 > > URL: http://mostlywater.org/malcolm_x_grassroots_movement_on_jena_6 > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- Terrie ( mocharebyl at gmail.com ) "If you see an injustice being committed, you aren't an observer, you are a participant." June Callwood Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Martin Luther King, Jr. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 11 16:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Neo-Conservative 'Journalists' Trash Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine" Message-ID: <20071011234010.20616.qmail@resist.ca> With a few notable exceptions, Canadian media commentators and book reviewers trashed **Naomi Klein** and her new book, _The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism_...The...brotherhood that populates Canadian newsrooms was up in arms over Klein's treatment of their grand ayatollah, **Milton Friedman**. Klein claims?rightly?that Friedman is responsible for advising capitalists to profit from disasters and human misery. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/neo_conservative_journalists_trash_naomi_kleins_the_shock_doctrine URL: http://mostlywater.org/neo_conservative_journalists_trash_naomi_kleins_the_shock_doctrine From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 11 17:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Sex Workers Plan Brothel in 2010 Olympics City Message-ID: <20071012004009.28704.qmail@resist.ca> 10/11/07 | By Wency Leung | WeNews correspondent ... [Susan] Davis and other local sex workers have banded together to establish Canada's first cooperative brothel in an attempt to offer women a safe place to work...as officials polish the city's image for the 2010 Winter Olympics. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/sex_workers_plan_brothel_in_2010_olympics_city URL: http://mostlywater.org/sex_workers_plan_brothel_in_2010_olympics_city From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 11 23:40:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Six Questions for Greg Grandin on =?utf-8?b?Q2hl4oCZcw==?= Legacy Message-ID: <20071012064011.26318.qmail@resist.ca> Greg Grandin, a history professor at New York University, is the author of several books on American influence in Latin America, most recently last year?s Empire?s Workshop. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/six_questions_for_greg_grandin_on_che_s_legacy URL: http://mostlywater.org/six_questions_for_greg_grandin_on_che_s_legacy From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 11 23:40:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] The Fallout from an Attack on Iran Would be Devastating Message-ID: <20071012064010.26309.qmail@resist.ca> Just as in the runup to the invasion of Iraq, the Washington air is thick with unsubstantiated claims about weapons of mass destruction; demonisation of the country's president has reached bizarre proportions; intelligence leaks about links with al-Qaida and attacks on US and British targets are now routine; demands for war from the administration's neoconservative outriders are becoming increasingly strident; the pronouncements of George Bush and his vice-president, Dick Cheney, are turning ever more belligerent - and administration sources claim that the British government is privately ready to play ball. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_fallout_from_an_attack_on_iran_would_be_devastating URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_fallout_from_an_attack_on_iran_would_be_devastating From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 12 11:40:13 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:40:13 -0000 Subject: [news] Rebuking Obnoxious Views Message-ID: <20071012184013.1718.qmail@resist.ca> In an essay entitled _The Age of Horrorism_....the novelist **Martin Amis** advocated a deliberate programme of harassing the Muslim community in Britain. "The Muslim community," he wrote, "will have to suffer until it gets its house in order"...The idea was that by hounding and humiliating [Muslims] as a whole, they would return home and teach their children to be obedient to the White Man's law. There seems something mildly defective about this logic. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/rebuking_obnoxious_views URL: http://mostlywater.org/rebuking_obnoxious_views From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 12 22:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 05:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Venezuela May Lower Voting Age, Add Gay Rights in Constitution Message-ID: <20071013051703.6668.qmail@resist.ca> Oct. 11 (Bloomberg) -- A Venezuelan legislative committee voted to lower the voting age and protect gay rights in a expansion of President Hugo Chavez's plan to rewrite the country's constitution. Venezuelans would gain the right to vote at age 16 under the proposed changes, down from the current age of 18, and discrimination based on sexual orientation would be formally outlawed in the constitution, according to a statement on the National Assembly's Web site. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/venezuela_may_lower_voting_age_add_gay_rights_in_constitution URL: http://mostlywater.org/venezuela_may_lower_voting_age_add_gay_rights_in_constitution From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 13 11:40:11 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 18:40:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Los Angeles Police Takes Blame for Violent May Day Protest Message-ID: <20071013184012.7184.qmail@resist.ca> AFP | Tuesday October 9, 2007 The Los Angeles Police Department on Tuesday admitted it used excessive force to disperse a May Day demonstration for immigration reform that left dozens injured. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/los_angeles_police_takes_blame_for_violent_may_day_protest URL: http://mostlywater.org/los_angeles_police_takes_blame_for_violent_may_day_protest From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 13 12:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 19:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] [Video] Who Owns the Private Army Blackwater? Message-ID: <20071013191706.13702.qmail@resist.ca> Who owns the private army Blackwater? The answer is simple and chilling: Right wing "good Christian" nuts. They control a family fortune of over $1 billion US and Blackwater is just one of their projects. They believe they're doing the "Lord's work." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/who_owns_the_private_army_blackwater URL: http://mostlywater.org/who_owns_the_private_army_blackwater From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 13 12:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 19:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Hugo Chavez: Social Democrat or Revolutionary? Message-ID: <20071013191707.13706.qmail@resist.ca> Stuart Munckton | 5 October 2007 [Intro by NYTr] Interesting analysis of the Chavez strategy which Munckton calls genuinely revolutionary and that, he says, follows guidelines for a socialist "transitional program" laid down by Trotsky. Socialism, says Munckton, is not something that one leader, such as Chavez, can create, or present to, or impose on the people. It must be created and built by the people, and by expanding awareness and increasing the political participation by the majority of poor Venezuelans, Chavez is making this possible, whereas the wild revolutionary policies demanded by many armchair revolutionaries in the vanguard left might simply result in socialism's complete defeat. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/hugo_chavez_social_democrat_or_revolutionary URL: http://mostlywater.org/hugo_chavez_social_democrat_or_revolutionary From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 15 01:17:13 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:17:13 -0000 Subject: [news] Oil Versus Water Message-ID: <20071015081714.21317.qmail@resist.ca> Oil Versus Water Toxic water poses threat to Alberta's Indigenous communities by Kim Petersen The Dominion [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/31514 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/31514 From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 15 10:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Promised Social Change in Ecuador Message-ID: <20071015171704.30880.qmail@resist.ca> Signs of social change in Ecuador under a socially democratic president wanting an end to Washington's neoliberal agenda. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/promised_social_change_in_ecuador URL: http://mostlywater.org/promised_social_change_in_ecuador From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 15 10:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Call In: Money for Communities, Not Cops! Message-ID: <20071015171704.30881.qmail@resist.ca> Email, call, fax, write the Guelph Police Services Board on Oct. 15, 16, 17, & 18! The police want to increase their budget again, this time by by 4.8% or $1,100,000.00 to $28,000,000.00 for 2008. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/call_in_money_for_communities_not_cops URL: http://mostlywater.org/call_in_money_for_communities_not_cops From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 15 10:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Many Americans Don't Realize Iraq War Is Illegal Message-ID: <20071015171704.30882.qmail@resist.ca> by Sherwood Ross Mistakenly, many Americans still believe President Bush's war on Iraq is justified because Congress supported it and funds it. Yet, as international legal authority Francis Boyle of the University of Illinois points out, President Bush got congressional backing by lying that Hussein had W.M.D. and that Hussein was connected to 9/11. That's fraud, probably the bloodiest, costliest lie in White House history. [A concise article that clearly shows just how illegal this war is. -Ron] [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/many_americans_dont_realize_iraq_war_is_illegal URL: http://mostlywater.org/many_americans_dont_realize_iraq_war_is_illegal From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 15 10:40:12 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:40:12 -0000 Subject: [news] Jurors Never Saw Earliest Photos at Abu-Jamal's 1982 Trial Message-ID: <20071015174013.17547.qmail@resist.ca> RECENT DISCOVERY OF 26 PHOTOS OF OFFICER FAULKNER'S SCENE OF DEATH More Evidence that Mumia Abu-Jamal was Denied a Fair Trial by Mark Taylor for EMAJ German linguist, Michael Schiffmann (University of Heidelberg), has disclosed his discovery of 26 photographs, taken by press photographer Pedro Polakoff, which suggest more evidence that basic investigative protocol was violated by police from the earliest moments of the killing. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/jurors_never_saw_earliest_photos_at_abu_jamals_1982_trial URL: http://mostlywater.org/jurors_never_saw_earliest_photos_at_abu_jamals_1982_trial From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 15 13:17:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Tar Sands and Water: Fort MacKay and Fort Chipewyan (Video) Message-ID: <20071015201709.26640.qmail@resist.ca> Video footage shot by oilsandstruth.org with the Dominionpaper.ca & Msguided.org over the course of the summer, huddled together into amateur documentary form (click on the story to view all five parts): Part one: [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/node/31526 URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/31526 From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 15 15:40:11 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:40:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Ideology Trumps Science in the Harper Government's 'New' Drug Policy Message-ID: <20071015224012.32521.qmail@resist.ca> ...Stephen Harper's new conservative government has announced its "new" drug policy. It is a policy which is strongly indebted for its innovativeness to the failed American model, the "War on Drugs"...[Their] proposed prevention campaign targeted at youth and their parents is reminiscent of the US-style "Just Say No" campaign...that has not worked...The drug strategy put forward by Prime Minister Harper...provides no funding or support for harm reduction measures. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/ideology_trumps_science_in_the_harper_governments_new_drug_policy URL: http://mostlywater.org/ideology_trumps_science_in_the_harper_governments_new_drug_policy From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 15 16:40:23 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:40:23 -0000 Subject: [news] White Guys with Guns: Canada's Military in Afghanistan Message-ID: <20071015234024.24460.qmail@resist.ca> With a few exceptions, media coverage of the mission [in Afghanistan] has been generally sympathetic to the claims and actions of Canadian military officials. It is the purpose of this essay to shed light on the less-reported aspects of the mission, about which our military and government officials rarely speak. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/white_guys_with_guns_canadas_military_in_afghanistan URL: http://mostlywater.org/white_guys_with_guns_canadas_military_in_afghanistan From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 15 18:17:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] "As Ridiculous as if They'd Given Goebbels One": Al Gore's Peace Prize Message-ID: <20071016011707.7287.qmail@resist.ca> When [Al] Gore goes to get the [peace] prize he shares with the pr hucksters and falsifiers at the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, [he] should be forced to march through a gauntlet of widows and orphans, Serbs, Iraqis, Palestinians, Colombians, and other victims of the Clinton era. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/as_ridiculous_as_if_theyd_given_goebbels_one_al_gores_peace_prize URL: http://mostlywater.org/as_ridiculous_as_if_theyd_given_goebbels_one_al_gores_peace_prize From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 16 00:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] 'Enemy Combatant' or Enemy of the Government? Message-ID: <20071016071703.6005.qmail@resist.ca> For the executive power of the United States, the fight against terrorism is a war and not an ordinary police operation. Based on this interpretation, it has put in place a group of liberty-destroying measures ostensibly justified by the state of emergency. The suppression of habeas corpus for foreigners suspected of terrorism and the establishment of a continual surveillance of the whole population are thus made possible. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/enemy_combatant_or_enemy_of_the_government URL: http://mostlywater.org/enemy_combatant_or_enemy_of_the_government From seinforma at resist.ca Tue Oct 16 05:04:11 2007 From: seinforma at resist.ca (seinforma at resist.ca) Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 05:04:11 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [news] Opponent's little son castrated and killed in Colombia Message-ID: <1181.24.57.91.109.1192536251.squirrel@mail.resist.ca> WARNING: THIS PICTURE* IS NOT SUITABLE TO ALL EYES AND HEARTS This is the son of Julian Velez, a left wing leader in the region of Meta, Colombia, who was castrated and left to die by paramilitary forces that support the government of Alvaro Uribe Velez. Please forward this picture to all your friends, we need to show to the whole world what is really happening in Colombia on a daily basis. ADVERTENCIA: ESTA FOTOGRAFIA* NO ES APROPIADA PARA TODOS LOS OJOS NI CORAZONES. El hijo de Juli?n V?lez, un miembro de la Uni?n Patri?tica en el departamento del Meta, oriente de Colombia, fue castrado y dejado morir por paramilitares al servicio del gobierno colombiano, s?lo por ser el hijo de un dirigente de izquierda. Les pido el favor de difundir esta foto, para que el mundo se de cuenta de lo que sucede a diario en Colombia, en el marco de la guerra sucia. *Photo Voz/Seinforma Visit www.seinforma.ca PICTURE ATTACHED -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Ninio.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 26113 bytes Desc: not available URL: From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 16 11:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Indigenous Way of Life Vanishing into the Clear-Cut Message-ID: <20071016181706.6640.qmail@resist.ca> "We, the grassroots people of the Anishnabeg, have an obligation to protect the land and the culture and our way of life for the future of our children and grandchildren". --**Judy Da Silva** of the Grassy Narrows First Nations [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/indigenous_way_of_life_vanishing_into_the_clear_cut URL: http://mostlywater.org/indigenous_way_of_life_vanishing_into_the_clear_cut From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 16 12:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] The Iraqi Genocide Message-ID: <20071016191703.15795.qmail@resist.ca> As a result of Bush's invasion of Iraq, more than one million Iraqis have died, and several millions are displaced persons...It is true that most of the Iraqi deaths have resulted from Iraqis killing one another. But it was Bush's destruction of the secular Iraqi state that unleashed the sectarian strife...Moreover, American troops in Iraq have killed more civilians than insurgents...American bombs and missiles have blown up weddings, funerals, kids playing soccer, and people shopping in bazaars and sleeping in their homes. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_iraqi_genocide URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_iraqi_genocide From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 16 13:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] The 'Good Germans' Among Us Message-ID: <20071016201704.7575.qmail@resist.ca> By any legal standards except those rubber-stamped by [Attorney-General] Alberto Gonzales, we are practicing torture, and we have known we are doing so ever since photographic proof emerged from Abu Ghraib more than three years ago...Our humanity has been compromised by those who use Gestapo tactics in our war. The longer we stand idly by while they do so, the more we resemble those ?good Germans? who professed ignorance of their own Gestapo. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_good_germans_among_us URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_good_germans_among_us From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 17 01:40:16 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:40:16 -0000 Subject: [news] 89 Canadian Rebellions Message-ID: <20071017084018.2017.qmail@resist.ca> 89 little known Canadian rebellions from the pages of our history. Who says we're passive?! [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/89_canadian_rebellions URL: http://mostlywater.org/89_canadian_rebellions From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 17 11:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Diary of an Earthquake: 10/17/1989 Message-ID: <20071017181703.5227.qmail@resist.ca> "Now, in the aftermath, every noise or movement causes silence and immediate reaction..." - Kirsten Anderberg's Diary, dated October 19, 1989 At 5:04 pm, on October 17, 1989...I began to hear an odd noise. It sounded like a plane was going to crash into the building. Then I thought maybe it was a train heading for the building, but then realized there were no tracks going *into* the library building. Everyone around me appeared to stop moving, as they listened. Then I noticed little puffs of dust coming out from in between the bricks of the library walls. Then, it hit. The floor began to shift dramatically, and I assumed it was an earthquake, and ran for the door... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/diary_of_an_earthquake_10_17_1989 URL: http://mostlywater.org/diary_of_an_earthquake_10_17_1989 From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 17 12:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Prosecution Seeks Minimum 12 Years: Mohawk Shawn Brant Faces Serious Jail Time [DONATIONS URGENTLY NEEDED!] Message-ID: <20071017191704.15636.qmail@resist.ca> The...Crown [Government Prosecutor] has indicated that he intends to seek...a minimum sentence of **12 years** in a federal penitentiary...The severity of the prison time openly being sought by the Crown indicates the punishment the Canadian state is prepared to inflict on First Nations people who struggle for their land and their communities...[T]he gravity of this possible sentence is proof that **Shawn [Brant]** is being singled out, in an effort by the colonial authorities to crush First Nations' resistance. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/prosecution_seeks_minimum_12_years_mohawk_shawn_brant_faces_serious_jail_time_donations_urgently_needed URL: http://mostlywater.org/prosecution_seeks_minimum_12_years_mohawk_shawn_brant_faces_serious_jail_time_donations_urgently_needed From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 17 21:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 04:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] State Attacks Indigenous & Social Movements in New Zealand Message-ID: <20071018041703.26062.qmail@resist.ca> It is in great distress that I am urged to write this appeal and to inform our international community of the recent events that are happening within Aotearoa (New Zealand) social justice, environmental justice and indigenous movements...For the past 60 hours, Aotearoa activists have been subjected to home invasions, raids and interrogation under threats of terrorist activities against the state. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/state_attacks_indigenous_social_movements_in_new_zealand URL: http://mostlywater.org/state_attacks_indigenous_social_movements_in_new_zealand From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 17 23:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 06:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Israel's Rising Right Wing Message-ID: <20071018064009.30698.qmail@resist.ca> ...Arcadi Gaydamak, an enigmatic Russian-Israeli billionaire, has managed to become a widely influential figure in Israel...[H]e is now at the center of a right-wing political alliance...featuring Israeli ?ber-hawk Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu...that could dramatically influence the country's direction. If the rising alliance takes power in the next election, it could push Israel toward military confrontations with Iran, Syria or Hezbollah, while extinguishing any remaining flickers of hope in Israel's peace camp regarding the Palestinians. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/israels_rising_right_wing URL: http://mostlywater.org/israels_rising_right_wing From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 18 08:17:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Live Nude Animals: Derrick Jensen's Captive Audience Message-ID: <20071018151708.3694.qmail@resist.ca> [![Derrick Jensen][1]][2]**Derrick Jensen** In a world full of violence, brutality against animals is rarely acknowledged. Since shit flows downhill, and humans automatically out-rank monkeys, tigers, sharks, and house cats, we get away with murder. For example, Jensen notes that people kill thousands of sharks every year. But when a shark kills a person, a whole country goes into a frenzy. It?s exactly the same dynamic with BC?s bears, cougars, and wolves. Jensen reminds us we have wiped out 90 percent of the large fish in the oceans already, and great apes and great cats are likely to be extinct in a matter of years. ?We should consider that this culture destroys the wild everywhere faster than ever before,? Jensen writes. ?We should consider that this culture is killing the planet.? [read more][3] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/system/files/images/Derrick.thumbnail.jpg (Derrick Jensen) [2]: http://mostlywater.org/ [3]: http://mostlywater.org/live_nude_animals_derrick_jensens_captive_audience URL: http://mostlywater.org/live_nude_animals_derrick_jensens_captive_audience From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 18 08:17:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Supranational Unions As A Stepping Stone Message-ID: <20071018151707.3692.qmail@resist.ca> An important step in establishing a world government run by the United Nations is the development of smaller multinational trade and political unions. This step allows for a gradual weakening of nationalistic emotions in the respective countries as borders are slowly erased. It also develops a sense of normalcy with having multinational bureaucracies replacing the roles that national governments formerly played. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/supranational_unions_as_a_stepping_stone URL: http://mostlywater.org/supranational_unions_as_a_stepping_stone From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 18 11:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Nobel Hypocrisy Message-ID: <20071018181704.31024.qmail@resist.ca> Once again the Nobel Committee awards the Peace Prize to a war criminal. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/nobel_hypocrisy URL: http://mostlywater.org/nobel_hypocrisy From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 18 12:17:20 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:17:20 -0000 Subject: [news] Intercontinental Anti- 2010 Olympics Movement Launched In Mexico Message-ID: <20071018191722.11781.qmail@resist.ca> Indigenous representatives attending an intercontinental Indigenous gathering in Vicam , Sonora Mexico have called for a boycott of the 2010 Olympics Games. The meeting, which was attended by over 1500 delegates representing nations from the US, Canada, Mexico, Central America and South America, began on October 11thth and ended on October 14th. Indigenous people met to discuss 515 years of invasion and resistance to colonial occupation of Indigenous lands, with the Olympics a central theme. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/intercontinental_anti_2010_olympics_movement_launched_in_mexico URL: http://mostlywater.org/intercontinental_anti_2010_olympics_movement_launched_in_mexico From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 18 12:17:20 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:17:20 -0000 Subject: [news] Canadian Auto Workers Union Signs 'No-Strike' Agreement Message-ID: <20071018191723.11783.qmail@resist.ca> Employees at Magna International who vote to join the Canadian Auto Workers won't have the right to strike under a historic labour relations deal...In a dramatic change regarding fundamental labour rights, the CAW confirmed yesterday it has agreed to shelve the key strike provision in efforts to build a new management-union relationship at Magna, the country's biggest auto parts maker. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/canadian_auto_workers_union_signs_no_strike_agreement URL: http://mostlywater.org/canadian_auto_workers_union_signs_no_strike_agreement From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 18 12:40:43 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:40:43 -0000 Subject: [news] 'Poisoned by an Atmosphere of Surveillance and Harassment': Academic Freedom is at Risk in the U.S. Message-ID: <20071018194044.30723.qmail@resist.ca> Over the past few years, Israel's U.S. defenders have stepped up their campaign by establishing a network of institutions...dedicated to the task of monitoring our campuses and bringing pressure to bear on those critical of Israeli policies. By orchestrating letter-writing and petitioning campaigns, falsely raising fears of anti-Semitism, mobilizing often grossly distorted media coverage and recruiting local and national politicians to their cause, they have severely disrupted academic processes... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/poisoned_by_an_atmosphere_of_surveillance_and_harassment_academic_freedom_is_at_risk_in_the_u_s URL: http://mostlywater.org/poisoned_by_an_atmosphere_of_surveillance_and_harassment_academic_freedom_is_at_risk_in_the_u_s From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 18 19:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] White Guys with Guns: Canada's Military in Afghanistan (Pt. 2) Message-ID: <20071019021704.13258.qmail@resist.ca> [H]ow are [local people] regarded by the foreign forces? Well for starters they receive a close-up lesson in peace. "We've warned people they may see soldiers shooting in their villages. I tell them this is the price of peace and freedom," explained an American Lieutenant-Colonel...Afghan civilians themselves seem less than enthusiastic about the foreign forces. Local people often cannot (or don't care to) distinguish the forces of individual countries of the NATO operation, referring to them all as "white guys with guns"... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/white_guys_with_guns_canadas_military_in_afghanistan_pt_2 URL: http://mostlywater.org/white_guys_with_guns_canadas_military_in_afghanistan_pt_2 From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 19 13:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Six Anti-Poverty Committee Organizers Arrested in Coast Salish Territory [Includes Video] Message-ID: <20071019201704.26464.qmail@resist.ca> On Saturday, October 13th, the Anti-Poverty Committee launched it's most recent housing offensive by attempting to squat one of the countless abandoned buildings in the Downtown Eastside of Coast Salish Territory (Vancouver). [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/six_anti_poverty_committee_organizers_arrested_in_coast_salish_territory URL: http://mostlywater.org/six_anti_poverty_committee_organizers_arrested_in_coast_salish_territory From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 19 15:17:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Priests Jailed for Protesting Torture Message-ID: <20071019221708.30354.qmail@resist.ca> **Louis Vitale**, 75, a Franciscan priest, and **Steve Kelly**, 58, a Jesuit priest, were each sentenced to **five months** in federal prison for attempting to deliver a letter opposing the teaching of torture at Fort Huachuca in Arizona...Fort Huachuca is...the place where military and civilian interrogators are taught how to extract information from prisoners...The priests were arrested while kneeling in prayer halfway up the driveway to Fort Huachuca in November 2006. Both priests were charged with trespass on a military base and resisting orders of an officer to stop. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/priests_jailed_for_protesting_torture URL: http://mostlywater.org/priests_jailed_for_protesting_torture From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 19 15:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Rise of 'Neo-Marxism' Slammed by Vatican Message-ID: <20071019224010.1675.qmail@resist.ca> The Vatican has condemned what it called growing "neo-marxist" influence in Latin America which threatens the Roman Catholic Church...The Synod of Bishops for America said it was worried by the "development of an ideological tendency, often a neo-marxist inspiration," that was influencing Latin American countries' home and international relations. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/rise_of_neo_marxism_slammed_by_vatican URL: http://mostlywater.org/rise_of_neo_marxism_slammed_by_vatican From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 19 20:40:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:40:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Disorganizing the Working Class Message-ID: <20071020034010.24238.qmail@resist.ca> Through the 1980s and 1990s, as the attacks on past working class gains intensified, the **Canadian Auto Workers Union** (CAW) was widely recognized ? not just in North America but abroad ? as standing at the forefront of working class resistance. With the Magna-CAW Agreement signed on October 15, 2007, the CAW now seems at the forefront of working class desperation and defeat. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/disorganizing_the_working_class URL: http://mostlywater.org/disorganizing_the_working_class From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 20 11:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] A Highly Unsuitable Candidate: New Zealand Government Is Not Fit to Sit on UN Human Rights Council Message-ID: <20071020181704.26383.qmail@resist.ca> The New Zealand Government must be stopped. At home and abroad. On 14 September this year, the New Zealand government and three other governments (Canada, USA and Australia) shared the dubious distinction as the only states to vote against the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. On Friday, it announced its candidacy for the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council, for the period 2009-2012. The announcement came at the end of a shocking week where Maori sovereignty campaigners, environmentalists, and other activists had been arrested in a major series of Police raids throughout the country, under the post-9/11 Suppression of Terrorism Act, and where armed paramilitary police besieged and terrorized the Tuhoe Maori communities of Ruatoki and Taneatua, in the "Bay of Plenty" region in the east of the North Island. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/a_highly_unsuitable_candidate_new_zealand_government_is_not_fit_to_sit_on_un_human_rights_council URL: http://mostlywater.org/a_highly_unsuitable_candidate_new_zealand_government_is_not_fit_to_sit_on_un_human_rights_council From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 20 12:40:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 19:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Caspian States Adopt Declaration on Repelling Aggressors Message-ID: <20071020194011.21161.qmail@resist.ca> 16/ 10/ 2007 TEHRAN, October 16 (RIA Novosti) - The five Caspian Sea littoral states [Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkmenistan] adopted a declaration at their second summit on Tuesday in Tehran, pledging to deny access to third countries who intend to use force against any Caspian state. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/caspian_states_adopt_declaration_on_repelling_aggressors URL: http://mostlywater.org/caspian_states_adopt_declaration_on_repelling_aggressors From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 20 12:40:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 19:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Seduced, Imported, Sold...The $32 Billion Annual Trade in Humans Message-ID: <20071020194011.21171.qmail@resist.ca> Namita Kohli, Hindustan Times It?s a two-way street: of greed and need. When traffic flows, at the dead end are unsuspecting people, bartered every day in a consumerist society. As the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) identifies India as a top source, transit and destination country for human trafficking, the spotlight is, yet again, on the issue and its million victims. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/seduced_imported_sold_the_32_billion_annual_trade_in_humans URL: http://mostlywater.org/seduced_imported_sold_the_32_billion_annual_trade_in_humans From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 20 15:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] This Kiwi Has Had Enough... Message-ID: <20071020221704.26555.qmail@resist.ca> As an ordinary average Kiwi bloke watching the events of the past few days in Aotearoa [New Zealand] from Canada, I have felt both a sense of d?j? vu and strong parallels between the two places. My outrage at the actions of the New Zealand Police and their political masters, and the way in which media feeding-frenzies and sensationalism has ensured that the words "terror" and "Maori" get bandied hysterically throughout the country and the globe, is tempered with a sense of how pathetically predictable this operation has been. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/this_kiwi_has_had_enough URL: http://mostlywater.org/this_kiwi_has_had_enough From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 22 09:17:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Union Sellout at GM and Chrysler Message-ID: <20071022161708.15186.qmail@resist.ca> Corrupt UAW union leaders sell out their rank and file. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/union_sellout_at_gm_and_chrysler URL: http://mostlywater.org/union_sellout_at_gm_and_chrysler From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 22 09:17:07 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] In the Shadow of 911 - [video resorces] Message-ID: <20071022161708.15187.qmail@resist.ca> Sunera Thobani and Harsha Walia talk about the "War on Terror" and its impact at home and globally. These talks were video recorded at SFU Harbour Centre on Sept. 11, 2007. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/in_the_shadow_of_911_video_resorces URL: http://mostlywater.org/in_the_shadow_of_911_video_resorces From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 22 23:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Mostly Water Updates Message-ID: <20071023061703.16721.qmail@resist.ca> Due to a security hole in the software this site runs on, we have had to upgrade. Unfortunately, this didn't go as smooth as we would have liked so there may be a few glitches in the site while we work them out. Primarily, there will be no aggregated content on the site and you will not be able to add new events until these issues are resolved. Thanks for your patience while toil the wee hours to set things right. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/mostly_water_updates URL: http://mostlywater.org/mostly_water_updates From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 23 00:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 07:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Turks & Kurds Protest Impending Invasion by Turkey Message-ID: <20071023071704.24913.qmail@resist.ca> Protests erupted this past week in Turkey and Iraq over Turkey's decision to authorize an invasion of Iraq in order to fight Kurdish separatists...Massoud Barzani, the president of Iraqi Kurdistan, called for talks between Turkey and his government in order to resolve the conflict peacefully, but also promised to fight any aggression by Turkey... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/turks_kurds_protest_impending_invasion_by_turkey URL: http://mostlywater.org/turks_kurds_protest_impending_invasion_by_turkey From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 23 13:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Celebrating the Day of the Dead Message-ID: <20071023201705.18761.qmail@resist.ca> The Day of the Dead season (Oct. 31- Nov. 2) is dedicated to souls that have passed onto the "other side." The celebrations begin the last days of October, with ritual cleaning of gravesites and the building of altars to the Dead. The Day of the Dead has Mexican origins and families throughout Mexico gather, throwing parties with loud music and food, around relatives' and loved ones' graves, sometimes all night long, between Oct. 31 and Nov. 2. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/celebrating_the_day_of_the_dead URL: http://mostlywater.org/celebrating_the_day_of_the_dead From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 23 13:40:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Jewish Group Condemns Meeting by Extremist Jewish Defence League Message-ID: <20071023204010.22308.qmail@resist.ca> The Alliance of Concerned Jewish Canadians condemns a public meeting by the Jewish Defence League planned for tonight and calls on the Shaarei Tefillah Synagogue (3600 Bathurst Street) to cancel the event which features a speech by far-right Israeli politician Moshe Feiglin who has advocated the revocation of Israeli citizenship from non-Jews and the large scale deportation of Palestinians resident in Israel. Feiglin has been described as a ?Jewish fascist? by former Israeli cabinet minister Tommy Lapid. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/jewish_group_condemns_meeting_by_extremist_jewish_defence_league URL: http://mostlywater.org/jewish_group_condemns_meeting_by_extremist_jewish_defence_league From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 23 14:40:23 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:40:23 -0000 Subject: [news] Vancouver's Downtown Eastside Seeks Foreign Aid Message-ID: <20071023214026.15309.qmail@resist.ca> **The Carnegie Community Action Project** (CCAP) met with United Nations representative **Miloon Kothari** this week and appealed to the UN to intervene on behalf of homeless people in the Downtown Eastside. After detailing the failure of federal and provincial governments to provide social housing, CCAP organizer **Jean Swanson** asked the UN representative whether "there's another country that could donate housing" to Canada. Swanson's presentation also detailed how two of the richest jurisdictions in the world are violating the human rights of its poor and homeless residents. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/vancouvers_downtown_eastside_seeks_foreign_aid URL: http://mostlywater.org/vancouvers_downtown_eastside_seeks_foreign_aid From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 23 19:17:27 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:17:27 -0000 Subject: [news] When Words are Weapons (An Interview with Sherman Austin) Message-ID: <20071024021728.26818.qmail@resist.ca> **Sherman Austin** first gained national attention in 2002 when the FBI ransacked his home and eventually held him in 24 hour lockdown in connection with internet activity. After a maze of interrogations and court proceedings from LA to New York, Sherman served one year in Federal Detention, mostly in Arizona. He completed a three year probation this year, and recently released a new record titled _Silence is Defeat: The Album the FBI Doesn't Want You to Hear._ [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/when_words_are_weapons_an_interview_with_sherman_austin URL: http://mostlywater.org/when_words_are_weapons_an_interview_with_sherman_austin From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 23 20:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 03:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Support Efforts and Solidarity Against 'New Zealand' (Aotearoa) State Terrorism Message-ID: <20071024031703.1614.qmail@resist.ca> We still have many causes to be concerned at present. All but one of the current accused has been declined bail...This means there is a strong possibility that many of our young friends, freedom fighters and social and environmental justice change makers could face two years imprisonment without trial...We are dealing with families and communities without financial means...Below are details for ways of sending any support and websites for finding out further information. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/support_efforts_and_solidarity_against_new_zealand_aotearoa_state_terrorism URL: http://mostlywater.org/support_efforts_and_solidarity_against_new_zealand_aotearoa_state_terrorism From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 23 22:40:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Chomsky: Will the U.S. Response to =?utf-8?b?SXJhbuKAmXM=?= Supposed Threat Heat Up Cold War II? Message-ID: <20071024054010.17683.qmail@resist.ca> The rhetoric about Iran has escalated to the point where both political parties and practically the whole U.S. press accept it as legitimate and, in fact, honorable, that ?all options are on the table?...possibly even nuclear weapons. ?All options on the table? means that Washington threatens war. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/chomsky_will_the_u_s_response_to_iran_s_supposed_threat_heat_up_cold_war_ii URL: http://mostlywater.org/chomsky_will_the_u_s_response_to_iran_s_supposed_threat_heat_up_cold_war_ii From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 24 00:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 07:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Korean Metalworkers Union Embraces Migrants Message-ID: <20071024071703.30111.qmail@resist.ca> Having migrant workers be part of the union will not only lead to improvements in the poor working conditions they face, but will also play a big role in building up the union?s negotiating power. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/korean_metalworkers_union_embraces_migrants URL: http://mostlywater.org/korean_metalworkers_union_embraces_migrants From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 24 15:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] The Canadian Autoworkers Union: Then and Now Message-ID: <20071024221703.17813.qmail@resist.ca> The [Canadian Autoworkers Union] has created an anti worker monster and will surely defend it as a new industrial model, one which could eventually become the model for the Canadian auto industry. This means that internally, the powers that be will be looking for a base of support for this transformation amongst the most reactionary elements of the union, the least militant and the corporate sympathizers. This will certainly move the union to the right, turning it into a corporate fifth column in the labour movement. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_canadian_autoworkers_union_then_and_now URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_canadian_autoworkers_union_then_and_now From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 24 17:17:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Turkey Masses More Troops, Raids in Iraq Confirmed Message-ID: <20071025001710.18953.qmail@resist.ca> Turkish warplanes and troops attacked Kurdish rebels inside Iraq this week...but [Turkey] wants to hold back from any major incursion for now to give diplomacy a chance...Security sources...confirmed a series of sorties between Sunday and Tuesday evening in which Turkish warplanes flew 20 km into Iraq and some 300 ground troops advanced about 10 km. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/turkey_masses_more_troops_raids_in_iraq_confirmed URL: http://mostlywater.org/turkey_masses_more_troops_raids_in_iraq_confirmed From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 24 19:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Steep Decline in Oil Production Brings Risk of War and Unrest Message-ID: <20071025021705.17860.qmail@resist.ca> Ashley Seager | October 22, 2007 | The Guardian [![][1]][2] World oil production has already peaked and will fall by half as soon as 2030, according to a report which also warns that extreme shortages of fossil fuels will lead to wars and social breakdown. The German-based Energy Watch Group will release its study in London today saying that global oil production peaked in 2006 - much earlier than most experts had expected. The report, which predicts that production will now fall by 7% a year, comes after oil prices set new records almost every day last week, on Friday hitting more than $90 (?44) a barrel. [read more][3] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/system/files/images/oil+tanker.thumbnail.jpg () [2]: http://mostlywater.org/ [3]: http://mostlywater.org/steep_decline_in_oil_production_brings_risk_of_war_and_unrest URL: http://mostlywater.org/steep_decline_in_oil_production_brings_risk_of_war_and_unrest From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 24 21:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] U.S. Moves Closer to Air Strikes on PKK in Northern Iraq Message-ID: <20071025041704.18242.qmail@resist.ca> US officials have considered launching cruise missiles against PKK targets, but air strikes using manned aircraft was an easier option, an unnamed US official [said]..."In the past, there has been reluctance to engage in direct US military action against the PKK"..."But the red line was always: if the Turks were going to come over the border, it could be so destabilising that it might be less risky for us to do something ourselves." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/u_s_moves_closer_to_air_strikes_on_pkk_in_northern_iraq URL: http://mostlywater.org/u_s_moves_closer_to_air_strikes_on_pkk_in_northern_iraq From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 24 23:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Bush's Cuba Detour Message-ID: <20071025064009.21986.qmail@resist.ca> What has worried the Bush brothers and their clientele in Florida is the fact that Raul Castro has inaugurated a debate on the island encouraging an open debate on its future. This is not popular with apparatchiks, but is undoubtedly having an impact. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/bushs_cuba_detour URL: http://mostlywater.org/bushs_cuba_detour From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 25 10:40:16 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:40:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Torture, Paramilitarism, Occupation and Genocide Message-ID: <20071025174017.9389.qmail@resist.ca> The ugly face of US imperial war. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/torture_paramilitarism_occupation_and_genocide URL: http://mostlywater.org/torture_paramilitarism_occupation_and_genocide From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 25 11:17:05 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] The Fraudlent War on Terror Message-ID: <20071025181705.15519.qmail@resist.ca> The "war on terror" is fraudulent. The cruel war and the deceptive vocabulary that protects it are a cover for expanding US and Israeli hegemony in the MIddle East and for constructing a functioning police state at home. A country in which people cannot make airline reservations without the government's permission is not a free country. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_fraudlent_war_on_terror URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_fraudlent_war_on_terror From news at resist.ca Thu Oct 25 16:40:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:40:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Afghan Children in Greatest Peril Since 2002: UNICEF Message-ID: <20071025234010.5782.qmail@resist.ca> The danger posed to Afghan children by continued fighting is greater now than it's ever been since the war began in 2002, a UNICEF official said Thursday...[B]ombing campaigns by militants and aerial bombardments by NATO forces mean Afghan children "are probably more at risk now than they have been since 2002"... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/afghan_children_in_greatest_peril_since_2002_unicef URL: http://mostlywater.org/afghan_children_in_greatest_peril_since_2002_unicef From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 26 15:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Incarcerated Six Nations Man Threatened by Prison Guards Message-ID: <20071026221704.18076.qmail@resist.ca> **Skylar Williams**, a Mohawk Wolf from Six Nations has been held without bail at the Hamilton Barton St. Jail since the illegal arrests at Stirling Street September 19, 2007...We have reason to believe if Skylar is harmed in any way, we know he is the target of planned and deliberate threats and violence by jail institution staff members. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/incarcerated_six_nations_man_threatened_by_prison_guards URL: http://mostlywater.org/incarcerated_six_nations_man_threatened_by_prison_guards From news at resist.ca Fri Oct 26 15:40:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:40:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Stephen Harper 'Gets Tough' on Crime Message-ID: <20071026224009.20502.qmail@resist.ca> ...[T]here was a time when politicians considered it unseemly to grandstand on crime...[N]o responsible leader would whip up fear, or leap at tragedy, simply to score a few points in the polls...That understanding still holds in some European countries but in Canada it's gone and forgotten. Following the American lead...Canadian politicians gradually embraced the tactics of fear and loathing...Which brings us to the government's crime omnibus bill, the..._Tackling Violent Crime Act_. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/stephen_harper_gets_tough_on_crime URL: http://mostlywater.org/stephen_harper_gets_tough_on_crime From news at resist.ca Sat Oct 27 15:17:03 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 22:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Stephen Harper 'Gets Tough' on Crime Message-ID: <20071027221703.17599.qmail@resist.ca> ...[T]here was a time when politicians considered it unseemly to grandstand on crime...That understanding still holds in some European countries but in Canada it's gone and forgotten. Following the American lead...Canadian politicians gradually embraced the tactics of fear and loathing...Which brings us to the government's crime omnibus bill, the..._Tackling Violent Crime Act_. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/stephen_harper_gets_tough_on_crime URL: http://mostlywater.org/stephen_harper_gets_tough_on_crime From news at resist.ca Sun Oct 28 23:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 06:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Iraq Warns Turkey Over Incursion Message-ID: <20071029061704.30767.qmail@resist.ca> Iraq's foreign minister has warned of serious consequences if Turkey launches a ground assault against Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq...He said Turkey had shown no interest in Iraqi proposals to calm the situation...Turkey has 100,000 troops near the border and is threatening to attack the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Iraq. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/iraq_warns_turkey_over_incursion URL: http://mostlywater.org/iraq_warns_turkey_over_incursion From news at resist.ca Sun Oct 28 23:17:04 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 06:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Organizing for Migrant Justice and Self-Determination Message-ID: <20071029061704.30768.qmail@resist.ca> Over the past several years, groups and movements have coalesced around themes like ?No One is Illegal,? ?Solidarity Across Borders,? and ?Open the Borders.? In their day-to-day work of organizing with and for migrants, such groups are working against increasingly restrictive immigration policies, the heightened detention and deportation of migrants and the repressive national security apparatus that discriminates against racialized migrants...At the same time, such movements are deeply connected to global movements resisting further expansion of the capitalist system and wars and occupations...A conversation with [Migrant Justice Organizers] **Mostafah Henaway**, **Nandita Sharma**, **Jaggi Singh**, **Harsha Walia**, and **Rafeef Ziadah** [follows]. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/organizing_for_migrant_justice_and_self_determination URL: http://mostlywater.org/organizing_for_migrant_justice_and_self_determination From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 29 12:17:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] The Bank of the South: An Alternative to IMF and World Bank Dominance Message-ID: <20071029191709.986.qmail@resist.ca> Latin America's alternative to the IMF and World Bank. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_bank_of_the_south_an_alternative_to_imf_and_world_bank_dominance URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_bank_of_the_south_an_alternative_to_imf_and_world_bank_dominance From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 29 12:17:09 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Outsourcing Government Message-ID: <20071029191710.987.qmail@resist.ca> ...[Private] contractors treat the state as an ATM, withdrawing massive contracts to perform core functions like securing borders and interrogating prisoners, and making deposits in the form of campaign contributions. As President Bush's former budget director, Mitch Daniels, put it: "The general idea that the business of government is not to provide services but to make sure that they are provided seems self-evident to me." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/outsourcing_government URL: http://mostlywater.org/outsourcing_government From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 29 12:40:33 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:40:33 -0000 Subject: [news] "If They Invade There Will be War": Iraqi Kurdistan Leader Defies Turkish Invasion Plans Message-ID: <20071029194037.16957.qmail@resist.ca> Masoud Barzani, the leader of the Kurds of northern Iraq, expressed defiance yesterday in the face of a threatened invasion by 100,000 Turkish troops, and was scornful of Turkey's claim that it wants only to pursue Turkish-Kurd rebels..."We are not a threat to Turkey and I do not accept the language of threatening and blackmailing from the government of Turkey"..."If they invade there will be war." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/if_they_invade_there_will_be_war_iraqi_kurdistan_leader_defies_turkish_invasion_plans URL: http://mostlywater.org/if_they_invade_there_will_be_war_iraqi_kurdistan_leader_defies_turkish_invasion_plans From news at resist.ca Mon Oct 29 14:40:16 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:40:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Intellectual Terrorism Message-ID: <20071029214017.24382.qmail@resist.ca> Appeasing bullies like **[Alan] Dershowitz** will not stop them. It will rather encourage them to go further. The question is, do we in this country want a McCarthyite witch hunt? If not, then we must confront the bullies and expose them for the intellectual terrorists they are, bent on destroying the values of a free society. To do otherwise will invite the fate of all repressed people, cowed and intimidated, hating their tormentors, but too afraid to say so. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/intellectual_terrorism URL: http://mostlywater.org/intellectual_terrorism From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 30 10:17:10 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Mother Teresa - Faithless Fraud and Hypocrite Message-ID: <20071030171710.30486.qmail@resist.ca> Oct 27, 2007 | by Michael Parenti [...] Mother Teresa, the Roman Catholic nun of Albanian origin [...] had been wined and dined by the world's rich and famous while hailed as a champion of the poor. The darling of the corporate media and western officialdom, and an object of celebrity adoration, Teresa was for many years the most revered woman on earth, showered with kudos and awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work and spiritual inspiration. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/mother_teresa_faithless_fraud_and_hypocrite URL: http://mostlywater.org/mother_teresa_faithless_fraud_and_hypocrite From news at resist.ca Tue Oct 30 16:18:08 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:18:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Dr. Maryse Narcisse Kidnapped in Haiti Message-ID: <20071030231808.18050.qmail@resist.ca> We have just received the shocking news that Dr. Maryse Narcisse, member of the National Commission of the Fanmi Lavalas Party, has been kidnapped. Dr. Narcisse and her driver, Delano Morel, were abducted near her home in Port-au-Prince. Dr. Narcisse is a medical doctor and long-time advocate for democracy in Haiti. She has been in the forefront of efforts to provide community-based health care and education for all Haitians. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/dr_maryse_narcisse_kidnapped_in_haiti URL: http://mostlywater.org/dr_maryse_narcisse_kidnapped_in_haiti From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 31 01:17:17 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:17:17 -0000 Subject: [news] The American Police State Message-ID: <20071031081718.19224.qmail@resist.ca> Constitutional rights are minor inconveniences...flies to be batted away on the steady road to despotism. And no one, not the courts, not the press, not the gutless Democratic opposition, not a compliant and passive citizenry hypnotized by tawdry television spectacles and celebrity gossip, seems capable of stopping the process. Those in power know this. We, too, might as well know it. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_american_police_state URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_american_police_state From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 31 01:40:16 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:40:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Indian 'Slave' Children Found Making Low-Cost Clothes Destined for Gap Message-ID: <20071031084017.22229.qmail@resist.ca> Child workers, some as young as 10, have been found working in a textile factory in conditions close to slavery to produce clothes that appear destined for Gap Kids, one of the most successful arms of the high street giant. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/indian_slave_children_found_making_low_cost_clothes_destined_for_gap URL: http://mostlywater.org/indian_slave_children_found_making_low_cost_clothes_destined_for_gap From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 31 02:17:13 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:17:13 -0000 Subject: [news] Reorienting Anarchist Theory and Practice Message-ID: <20071031091713.27188.qmail@resist.ca> Three articles from _Willful Disobedience_, Insurrectionary Anarchist journal edited by Wolfi Landstreicher. I have selected these articles because we are living in a new age with new modes of domination. Classical leftist modes of Thought and Action are becoming increasingly irrelevant - and if individual anarchists do not radically reorient our analyses, we will continue to go nowhere. It is my hope that these articles and the discussions to follow will set the stage for this theoretical reorientation. Feedback welcomed! [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/reorienting_anarchist_theory_and_practise URL: http://mostlywater.org/reorienting_anarchist_theory_and_practise From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 31 16:17:15 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:17:15 -0000 Subject: [news] US Massively Defeted at UN on Cuba Resolution for 16th Straight Year Message-ID: <20071031231717.2535.qmail@resist.ca> UNITED NATIONS (AFP) ? The UN General Assembly on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly for the 16th year in a row to demand an end to the crippling US trade embargo against Cuba, despite Washington's pledge to keep it in place. By a vote of **184 in favor**, [and 4 against], it reiterated its "call upon all states to refrain from promulgating and applying laws and measures (such as those in the US embargo) in conformity with their obligations under the Charter of the United Nations and international law." [But hey, when has the US ever listened to international law?] [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/us_massively_defeted_at_un_on_cuba_resolution_for_16th_straight_year URL: http://mostlywater.org/us_massively_defeted_at_un_on_cuba_resolution_for_16th_straight_year From news at resist.ca Wed Oct 31 16:40:28 2007 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:40:28 -0000 Subject: [news] 11 Solutions to Halting the Environmental Crisis Message-ID: <20071031234030.20469.qmail@resist.ca> Many of these examples are small-scale and local. That's instructive because our best hope for sustainability -- in agriculture, industry, energy, community design, and government -- may lie in local, small-scale models like some of those presented here. It may seem as though large-scale problems require large-scale solutions. But most big institutions and processes are driven by the very people and ideas that have generated our global crisis. It's in the local and the small that the majority of people can exercise agency and decision-making power. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/11_solutions_to_halting_the_environmental_crisis URL: http://mostlywater.org/11_solutions_to_halting_the_environmental_crisis