From news at resist.ca Thu May 1 11:17:18 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 18:17:18 -0000 Subject: [news] Denying Palestinians Free Movement in the West Bank Message-ID: <20080501181718.23771.qmail@resist.ca> Continued and brutal Israeli repression against Palestinians. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/denying_palestinians_free_movement_west_bank URL: http://mostlywater.org/denying_palestinians_free_movement_west_bank From news at resist.ca Thu May 1 13:17:06 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 20:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Quebec City Plans to Limit Billboards Message-ID: <20080501201706.32178.qmail@resist.ca> CBC May join Vancouver in putting limits on billboard ads to restrict 'visual pollution' Historic Quebec City hopes to take down a modern roadside decoration ? the ubiquitous billboard. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/quebec_city_plans_limit_billboards URL: http://mostlywater.org/quebec_city_plans_limit_billboards From news at resist.ca Fri May 2 10:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 17:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] US Dockworkers' Union Holds Eight-hour Work Stoppage to Protest Iraq War Message-ID: <20080502171704.21556.qmail@resist.ca> [![Doc Workers' Strike][1]][2]**Doc Workers' Strike**By Fred Williams The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) carried out an eight-hour work stoppage at West Coast ports on May 1 to demand an end to the war in Iraq. [read more][3] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/system/files/images/dock-workers-strike.thumbnail.jpg (Doc Workers' Strike) [2]: http://mostlywater.org/ [3]: http://mostlywater.org/us_dockworkers_union_holds_eighthour_work_stoppage_protest_iraq_war URL: http://mostlywater.org/us_dockworkers_union_holds_eighthour_work_stoppage_protest_iraq_war From news at resist.ca Sun May 4 23:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 06:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Heartland: Part 2 Message-ID: <20080505061703.8552.qmail@resist.ca> Recently while traveling in Nebraska I stopped at the Shoemaker Truck Stop along I-80. It was a classic truck stop and it was obvious to see it?s been around for many moons. The trucker was still revered in this vintage haunt. The walls were covered with pictures depicting the golden age of trucking, farming, Ole Route 66, and other forgotten or ignored aspects of humble USA history. Curios of a wide variety filled the shelves, all depicting Americana from the early years to the present. From trucking to farming this place had history and memories for all to see. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/heartland_part_2 URL: http://mostlywater.org/heartland_part_2 From news at resist.ca Mon May 5 00:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 07:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Struggling for the Autonomy of =?utf-8?q?Venezuela=E2=80=99s?= Social Movements Message-ID: <20080505071705.19252.qmail@resist.ca> This editorial comes from Issue #53 (May-June 2008) of _El Libertario_, a Venezuelan anarchist voice of ideas and proposals for action. It confirms our commitment to autonomous social mobilization, which has already begun to express itself through concrete struggles from below, as in the recent steelworkers conflict. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/struggling_autonomy_venezuela%E2%80%99s_social_movements URL: http://mostlywater.org/struggling_autonomy_venezuela%E2%80%99s_social_movements From news at resist.ca Mon May 5 00:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 07:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] How Iraq Became a Prison for Women Message-ID: <20080505071705.19253.qmail@resist.ca> by Daphne Bramham - Vancouver Sun >From the 1960s through most of Saddam Hussein's regime, Iraqi women were among the most liberated and liberal of all Muslim women. Girls went to school, women worked, wore what they chose, drove cars, ran for office and spoke their minds...Yet far from restoring women's rights, on the Americans' watch, Iraq has become a prison for women. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/how_iraq_became_a_prison_women URL: http://mostlywater.org/how_iraq_became_a_prison_women From news at resist.ca Mon May 5 01:17:13 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 08:17:13 -0000 Subject: [news] Ecuador Purges Military, Moves to Expel American Base Message-ID: <20080505081713.14633.qmail@resist.ca> By SIMON ROMERO - April 21, 2008 Chafing at ties between American intelligence agencies and Ecuadorean military officials, President Rafael Correa is purging the armed forces of top commanders and pressing ahead with plans to cast out more than 100 members of the American military from an air base...in...[the] coastal city [of Manta]. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/ecuador_purges_military_moves_expel_american_base URL: http://mostlywater.org/ecuador_purges_military_moves_expel_american_base From news at resist.ca Mon May 5 02:17:10 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 09:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Corruption Eats Away at Afghan Government Message-ID: <20080505091710.26963.qmail@resist.ca> DOUG SAUNDERS - Globe & Mail Among the soldiers, diplomats and aid workers who live in Afghanistan, it is the problem that nobody dares mention...Among ordinary Afghans, it's a daily presence, the corruption that is rooted deeply in the Western-backed Afghan government and its appointed officials. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/corruption_eats_away_afghan_government URL: http://mostlywater.org/corruption_eats_away_afghan_government From news at resist.ca Mon May 5 12:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 19:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Sixty Years of Palestinian Displacement, Occupation and Suffering Message-ID: <20080505191705.3669.qmail@resist.ca> Palestinian suffering continues as Israel prepares to commemorate its 1948 crimes against humanity. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/sixty_years_palestinian_displacement_occupation_and_suffering URL: http://mostlywater.org/sixty_years_palestinian_displacement_occupation_and_suffering From news at resist.ca Mon May 5 20:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 03:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] "Despite Healthy Economic Times, Only the Rich are Gaining": Growth Doesn't Pay Off for Most Canadians Message-ID: <20080506031703.14841.qmail@resist.ca> by Norma Greenaway - The Ottawa Citizen Feel like you're just treading water economically? Well, join the club. Most working Canadians are in the same boat, according to the latest Statistics Canada analysis of the 2006 census...The agency reported yesterday that despite a stretch of healthy economic times, there has been almost no growth in the after-inflation earnings of Canadian workers over the last quarter century. It also said the gap between the rich and the poor widened dramatically during that period and that the gap was only partially offset by the tax system. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/despite_healthy_economic_times_only_rich_are_gaining_growth_doesnt_pay_off_most_canadians URL: http://mostlywater.org/despite_healthy_economic_times_only_rich_are_gaining_growth_doesnt_pay_off_most_canadians From news at resist.ca Mon May 5 21:17:07 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 04:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Conservatives Copying Failed U.S. Crime Laws Message-ID: <20080506041707.8659.qmail@resist.ca> by Don Butler - Monday, May 05, 2008 The [Stephen] Harper government is embracing tough-on-crime policies even as the United States backs away from similar approaches that have produced record levels of incarceration, huge costs and racialized prisons, says an American expert on sentencing policy...The Harper government pushed the bill through even though crime rates in Canada are falling and are now at their lowest level in 25 years. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/conservatives_copying_failed_us_crime_laws URL: http://mostlywater.org/conservatives_copying_failed_us_crime_laws From news at resist.ca Tue May 6 11:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 18:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada's Tibetans Message-ID: <20080506181704.23293.qmail@resist.ca> Martin Lukacs | Rabble In this small, impoverished northern village, people eke out a miserable existence. One of the world's most powerful countries occupies their land, plunders their resources, interferes with their governance and seems intent on assimilating them into wider society. With its Olympic Games at hand, the country would rather the international community dwell on its national achievements than cast scrutiny on these abuses. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/canadas_tibetans URL: http://mostlywater.org/canadas_tibetans From news at resist.ca Tue May 6 11:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 18:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Mordecai Briemberg: Standing up to the Corporate Media Bully Message-ID: <20080506181704.23294.qmail@resist.ca> by Alex Samur | Rabble Last year, peace activist Mordecai Briemberg was served with a lawsuit by CanWest. The charge? Producing a fake edition of CanWest's Vancouver Sun, and infringing upon the company's trademark related rights in the process. "It's a SLAPP [Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation] suit, an attempt to chill people, these kind of mechanisms that corporations use to silence criticism of the policies and practices that they engage in [are] very dangerous and increasingly used across the country and it's really necessary to fight against this in a public campaign..." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/mordecai_briemberg_standing_corporate_media_bully URL: http://mostlywater.org/mordecai_briemberg_standing_corporate_media_bully From news at resist.ca Tue May 6 11:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 18:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Greetings from Guantanamo Bay ... and the Sickest Souvenir Shop in the World Message-ID: <20080506181704.23295.qmail@resist.ca> Angela Levin | Daily Mail [![][1]][2] Welcome to "Taliban Towers" at Guantanamo Bay, the most ghoulishly distasteful tourist destination on the planet. [...] US authorities are promoting the world's most notorious prison camp as a cheap hideaway for American sunseekers [while just] yards from the shelves of specially branded mugs and cuddly toys, nearly 300 "enemy combatants" lie sweltering in a waking nightmare. [read more][3] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/system/files/images/GitmoGearPop.thumbnail.jpg () [2]: http://mostlywater.org/ [3]: http://mostlywater.org/greetings_guantanamo_bay_and_sickest_souvenir_shop_world URL: http://mostlywater.org/greetings_guantanamo_bay_and_sickest_souvenir_shop_world From news at resist.ca Tue May 6 16:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 23:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] We Cannot Celebrate Message-ID: <20080506231704.12912.qmail@resist.ca> Around the world, plans are being made to mount major celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel. But this year also marks 60 years since 750,000 Palestinians were brutally expelled from their homeland in what they refer to as the Nakba or ?catastrophe?. Given this history, and the deepening conflict in the region today, we believe there is no grounds for celebration. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/we_cannot_celebrate URL: http://mostlywater.org/we_cannot_celebrate From news at resist.ca Tue May 6 16:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 23:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Rich Wage Class War, Not StatsCan Message-ID: <20080506231704.12913.qmail@resist.ca> by Linda McQuaig - May 06, 2008 ...[D]uring [the 1950's, '60's, and '70's] the **share of income received by the richest 1 per cent actually declined**...The rich didn't like this, and have been waging a kind of class war ever since, convincing governments to impose "neo-conservative" policies like lower minimum wages, tighter monetary policy, less social insurance protection, open markets and shifting the tax burden from capital to labour...The results have been grim for many Canadians, but spectacular for the rich, particularly the very rich. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/rich_wage_class_war_not_statscan URL: http://mostlywater.org/rich_wage_class_war_not_statscan From news at resist.ca Tue May 6 19:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 02:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Campbell's Welfare Cuts End Up Costing Billions of Dollars Message-ID: <20080507021704.13329.qmail@resist.ca> By Monte Paulsen - May 1, 2008 Provincial spending on housing and health care has exploded during [British Columbia's] Premier Gordon Campbell's second term, and a pair of recent reports suggest that a large part of this ongoing spending may be a direct result of the BC Liberals' 2002 cuts to welfare spending..."We are paying more,"..."But we're paying in different ways. We're paying more through health care...[T]hrough the justice system. We're paying more through all the demands on community services." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/campbells_welfare_cuts_end_up_costing_billions_dollars URL: http://mostlywater.org/campbells_welfare_cuts_end_up_costing_billions_dollars From news at resist.ca Wed May 7 08:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 15:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Something Smells Different in Cuba Message-ID: <20080507151704.9833.qmail@resist.ca> ??? With respect to the situation in Cuba these past few weeks, the Cuban Libertarian Movement ? MLC (affinity group of Cuban anarchists in exile) speaks up to answer the unknowns and the challenges facing Cuban society. Ours is the voice of uncompromising commitment to freedom, equality and solidarity that has always been the sound of the Cuban anarchists. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/something_smells_different_cuba_1 URL: http://mostlywater.org/something_smells_different_cuba_1 From news at resist.ca Wed May 7 09:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 16:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Anti-Poverty Committee Responds to Anti-Olympic Activist Scare Message-ID: <20080507161705.5680.qmail@resist.ca> ...[T]he [Royal Canadian Mounted Police] has warned that...actions will increase in violence; of course it?s not violent when they taser someone to death. The APC scoffs at the allegations of violence and repeats, 'the disruption targeting the preparations for the Olympic Games will definitely intensify'. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/antipoverty_committee_responds_antiolympic_activist_scare URL: http://mostlywater.org/antipoverty_committee_responds_antiolympic_activist_scare From news at resist.ca Wed May 7 09:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 16:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Afghanistan's 'Drug War' Yields Wrong Kinds of Casualties Message-ID: <20080507161705.5681.qmail@resist.ca> by DOUG SAUNDERS - The Globe & Mail "Last week, I saw a man sitting next to his poppy crop and crying,"..."He told me that he'd been paid in advance for his poppy, and how can he possibly pay it back now that it's been eradicated? He told me, 'I have no choice, but I have a 14-year-old daughter who I have to give to a smuggler as payment' "...[K]illing a poor farmer's crop can have nasty consequences. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/afghanistans_drug_war_yields_wrong_kinds_casualties URL: http://mostlywater.org/afghanistans_drug_war_yields_wrong_kinds_casualties From news at resist.ca Wed May 7 10:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 17:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Teaching Imperialism 101: A Litany of Horrors Message-ID: <20080507171704.18450.qmail@resist.ca> by Chalmers Johnson - Tom Dispatch The RAND Corporation was the ur-think tank, the Cold War granddaddy of them all, and it's still with us. In the 1950s, nuclear war-gaming a conflagration...it took the U.S. military into virtuality and science fiction long before there was an Internet to play with...In the 1960s, it helped several administrations plan and fight the Vietnam War, making antiseptic theory into an all-too-grim reality. And that's just the beginning of the work RAND did on a range of hot-button imperial issues...For a brief period in the 1960s, **Chalmers Johnson** was a RAND consultant. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/teaching_imperialism_101_a_litany_horrors URL: http://mostlywater.org/teaching_imperialism_101_a_litany_horrors From news at resist.ca Wed May 7 12:17:15 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 19:17:15 -0000 Subject: [news] Tories Reduce Accountability by Killing Access to Information Message-ID: <20080507191716.24433.qmail@resist.ca> CBC News The federal Conservatives have quietly killed an access to information registry used by journalists, experts and the public that users say helped hold the government accountable. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/tories_reduce_accountability_killing_access_information URL: http://mostlywater.org/tories_reduce_accountability_killing_access_information From news at resist.ca Wed May 7 14:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 21:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Secret Bush "Finding" Widens War on Iran Message-ID: <20080507211704.32364.qmail@resist.ca> By ANDREW COCKBURN - May 2, 2008 Six weeks ago, President Bush signed a secret finding authorizing a covert offensive against the Iranian regime that...[is] "unprecedented in its scope."...Bush?s secret directive covers actions across a huge geographic area ? from Lebanon to Afghanistan ? but is also far more sweeping in the type of actions permitted under its guidelines ? up to and including the assassination of targeted officials. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/secret_bush_finding_widens_war_iran URL: http://mostlywater.org/secret_bush_finding_widens_war_iran From news at resist.ca Wed May 7 15:17:27 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 22:17:27 -0000 Subject: [news] Britain: New Labour is Dead Message-ID: <20080507221727.26059.qmail@resist.ca> By TARIQ ALI - Counterpunch Awestruck by Margaret Thatcher, [Tony] Blair and [Gordon] Brown aped her achievements within their own party, squeezing old social-democratic ideas out of themselves, drop by drop. They were all market fundamentalists now. Deregulation and privatisation became a mantra and over the last ten years the social divide in the country between rich and poor increased more than even under Thatcher. Redistribution of wealth was no longer on Labour?s agenda. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/britain_new_labour_dead URL: http://mostlywater.org/britain_new_labour_dead From news at resist.ca Wed May 7 15:17:27 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 22:17:27 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada & the Origins of the Israel-Palestine Conflict (Part 1 of 3) Message-ID: <20080507221727.26060.qmail@resist.ca> By Dan Freeman-Maloy - May, 06 2008 ...Canada is operating in particularly crude alignment with Israel against the Palestinians. Within the framework of the "war on terror," the Canadian government has criminalized nearly all major Palestinian political parties by designating them as "terrorist groups"...even as it cultivates ever more intimate trade, security and diplomatic relations with the Israeli state. On the United Nations Human Rights Council, Canada has emerged as the staunchest opponent of meaningful criticism of Israeli human rights violations and war crimes. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/canada_origins_israelpalestine_conflict_part_1_3 URL: http://mostlywater.org/canada_origins_israelpalestine_conflict_part_1_3 From news at resist.ca Thu May 8 11:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 18:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Ramzy Baroud's "The Second Palestinian Intifada" Message-ID: <20080508181703.5611.qmail@resist.ca> Palestinian resistance against Israeli repression. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/ramzy_barouds_the_second_palestinian_intifada URL: http://mostlywater.org/ramzy_barouds_the_second_palestinian_intifada From news at resist.ca Thu May 8 11:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 18:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Iran Rejects Nuclear Inspections Unless Israel Allows Them Message-ID: <20080508181704.5612.qmail@resist.ca> By ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS GENEVA (AP) ? An Iranian envoy said Monday his government will not submit to extensive nuclear inspections while Israel stays outside the global treaty to curb the spread of atomic weapons. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/iran_rejects_nuclear_inspections_unless_israel_allows_them URL: http://mostlywater.org/iran_rejects_nuclear_inspections_unless_israel_allows_them From news at resist.ca Thu May 8 11:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 18:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Thinking About Anarchism: Why Managers Mess Up Message-ID: <20080508181704.5613.qmail@resist.ca> by Kevin Doyle [...I]ncompetence alone cannot account for the sheer scale and seriousness of [mismanagement]. Rather, to fully understand why it happens, we have to look at how organisations are set up and run. This is where the anarchist analysis of hierarchy comes into its own. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/thinking_about_anarchism_why_managers_mess_up URL: http://mostlywater.org/thinking_about_anarchism_why_managers_mess_up From news at resist.ca Thu May 8 21:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 04:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] May 7 Coast Salish Territories (Vancouver): 'Peter Kiewitt & Sons' Truck Set on Fire Message-ID: <20080509041704.22673.qmail@resist.ca> On the night of May 7, 2008 we set fire to a Kiewitt & Sons work truck. _Peter Kiewitt & Sons_ is currently working on expanding the Sea to Sky highway between Vancouver and Whistler, the main artery for the Olympics, also paving the way for investment [in] land exploitation, tourism and development. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/may_7_coast_salish_territories_vancouver_truck_belonging_kiewitt_sons_lit_fire URL: http://mostlywater.org/may_7_coast_salish_territories_vancouver_truck_belonging_kiewitt_sons_lit_fire From news at resist.ca Thu May 8 23:17:07 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 06:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Israeli Ambassador to Canada Makes Racist Comment (Article & Press Release) Message-ID: <20080509061708.28278.qmail@resist.ca> Israel's ambassador says he is concerned that the growing number of Muslim Canadians might cause a shift in this country's Middle East policy...Alan Baker, Israel's ambassador in Ottawa, said Muslim communities have had an impact on the foreign policies of such countries as France, and he is concerned Canada might follow..."Do you expect...these greater numbers [of Arab immigrants]...will absorb themselves into Canadian society as Canadians or that they'll try to push Canadians to adopt their own values and principles? And this is the gist of the problem"... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/israeli_ambassador_canada_makes_racist_comment_article_press_release URL: http://mostlywater.org/israeli_ambassador_canada_makes_racist_comment_article_press_release From news at resist.ca Thu May 8 23:17:07 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 06:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Cops in America Can Kill Some People With Impunity Message-ID: <20080509061708.28279.qmail@resist.ca> By CYNTHIA McKINNEY - May 1, 2008 ...[T]he criminal justice system in [the United States] "always finds a rationale for letting off cops who kill black and brown people." Indeed, police officers seem to know that they can kill certain people with impunity...the prospects are that black and brown men and women will continue to be murdered by police officers who, fundamentally, seem scared of black people. That fear apparently extends to the larger community because juries construct ways to let murderous police officers escape just punishment. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/cops_america_can_kill_some_people_with_impunity URL: http://mostlywater.org/cops_america_can_kill_some_people_with_impunity From news at resist.ca Thu May 8 23:17:07 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 06:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] The Night Sean Bell's Killers Got Off Message-ID: <20080509061708.28280.qmail@resist.ca> By JoANN WYPIJEWSKI; April 28, 2008 Sean Bell was dead at 23, too bad. He and a friend had had heated words with another man outside Club Kalua, an exotic dance club, after his bachelor party there. Did anyone really say he had a gun or say he was going for a gun? The testimony was inconsistent, but the judge wasn't bothered by that inconsistency. Police "perceived" that Bell and his crew might have had a gun in their car, he stated. They no more had a gun than Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_night_sean_bells_killers_got_off URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_night_sean_bells_killers_got_off From news at resist.ca Fri May 9 12:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 19:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Globalized Hunger, Hunger Riots and Imperialist Order Problems Message-ID: <20080509191704.30708.qmail@resist.ca> [Translated from April 2, 2008 broadcast by Gegenstandpunkt Marburg] Hunger riots in Haiti, protests in Egypt, flour and bread rationing in Pakistan, a corn shortage making tortillas exorbitant in Mexico, rice shortages in Thailand and the USA, etc.... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/globalized_hunger_hunger_riots_and_imperialist_order_problems URL: http://mostlywater.org/globalized_hunger_hunger_riots_and_imperialist_order_problems From news at resist.ca Fri May 9 21:17:06 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 04:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada & the Origins of the Israel-Palestine Conflict (Part 2 of 3) Message-ID: <20080510041706.6649.qmail@resist.ca> By Dan Freeman-Maloy - May, 07 2008 When Ben Dunkelman...returned from the European battlefields of WWII...he had already been [asked]...to participate in the looming fight in Palestine. Soon, Dunkelman was juggling management responsibilities at Tip Top Tailors with his tasks as head of the Canadian branch of the _Hagana_. These included fundraising for weaponry, direct arms procurement, and recruitment for Hagana forces. By the summer of 1948, he was in command of a Brigade actively depopulating Palestinian villages by force - a unit so heavily comprised of recruits from Canada, the United States and South Africa that it came to be known as the "Anglo-Saxon Brigade." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/canada_origins_israelpalestine_conflict_part_2_3 URL: http://mostlywater.org/canada_origins_israelpalestine_conflict_part_2_3 From news at resist.ca Sat May 10 12:17:15 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 19:17:15 -0000 Subject: [news] Destroying The Best of Britain Message-ID: <20080510191715.10358.qmail@resist.ca> By John Pilger - May, 10 2008 When I first came to live in Britain, much of ordinary life was premised on a sense of community...A good place to look is a local post office...Some 2,500 post offices are expected to be shut in Britain by the end of 2009. This includes rural and remote areas, where the post office is quite literally the heart of a community...The whole wilful destruction is a new Labour classic and shows why, in a nutshell, even the ever faithful have turned on them. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/destroying_the_best_britain URL: http://mostlywater.org/destroying_the_best_britain From news at resist.ca Sat May 10 12:17:15 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 19:17:15 -0000 Subject: [news] Expert Testifies Cannabis Helps Slow Aging Message-ID: <20080510191715.10359.qmail@resist.ca> B.C. Provincial Court heard Thursday that cannabis is safer than aspirin and can restore the balance in people's bodies to help fight illness...That was the testimony of Dr. Robert Melamede, an associate professor at the University of Colorado, who was brought in by the defense team for the four men accused in the Holy Smoke Culture Shop drug trafficking case taking place in Nelson this week. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/expert_testifies_cannabis_helps_slow_aging URL: http://mostlywater.org/expert_testifies_cannabis_helps_slow_aging From news at resist.ca Sat May 10 15:17:09 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 22:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] Breaking the Silence: Israeli Soldiers Speak Message-ID: <20080510221709.15625.qmail@resist.ca> By Stephen Lendman - April, 26 2008 They're called _"Refuseniks"_ but not for refusing to serve. They've done it proudly and courageously...["]We [Israeli reserve officers & soldiers] shall not continue to fight beyond the 1967 borders to dominate, expel, starve and humiliate an entire people...We hereby declare that we shall continue serving the Israel Defense Forces in any mission that serves Israel's defense...The missions of occupation and oppression do not serve this purpose - and we shall take no part in them." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/breaking_silence_israeli_soldiers_speak URL: http://mostlywater.org/breaking_silence_israeli_soldiers_speak From news at resist.ca Mon May 12 12:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 19:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] [Video] Indigenous Warriors Block International Shipping in Solidarity with Tyendinaga Mohawks Message-ID: <20080512191705.28146.qmail@resist.ca> On Monday April 28th, 2008 Indigenous Warriors on Coast Salish Territory blocked a vital intersection used for commercial shipping to the United States. The action was done in solidarity with the Tyendinaga Mohawk community. Five Warriors from Tyendinaga had been arrested and attacked by the OPP days before. SWAT teams and paramilitary units were on Tyendinaga Territory surrounding dozens of other unarmed Warriors who were peacefully occupying a rock quarry claimed to be on their territory. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/video_indigenous_warriors_block_international_shipping_solidarity_with_tyendinaga_mohawks URL: http://mostlywater.org/video_indigenous_warriors_block_international_shipping_solidarity_with_tyendinaga_mohawks From news at resist.ca Mon May 12 13:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 20:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Burma and a Hill of Beans Message-ID: <20080512201704.25539.qmail@resist.ca> Gleefully Than Shwe counts the votes in his bogus Constitutional Referendum after taking full advantage of the enormous loss of life. Granted the dead would have voted against this fetid piece of paper anyway. But what ticks me off is the fact it took a cyclone to get the worlds attention in the first place. As usual it required dead bloating bodies in numbers hard to ignore before the main stream media addressed the brutality this military junta. Where is China and their wealth of resources in this time of crisis? Oh I guess they made nice by climbing a mountain to promote their Blood Olympics. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/burma_and_a_hill_of_beans URL: http://mostlywater.org/burma_and_a_hill_of_beans From news at resist.ca Mon May 12 13:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 20:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] University of Toronto Continues Crackdown on Student Rights Message-ID: <20080512201704.25540.qmail@resist.ca> University of Toronto Administration threatens Code of Student Conduct against student representatives speaking out against tuition fee increases [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/university_toronto_continues_crackdown_student_rights URL: http://mostlywater.org/university_toronto_continues_crackdown_student_rights From news at resist.ca Mon May 12 13:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 20:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Disturbing Stirrings - Ratcheting Up for War on Iran Message-ID: <20080512201704.25541.qmail@resist.ca> Led by Dick Cheney, Bush administration neocons want war on Iran. So does the Israeli Lobby, but it doesn't mean they'll get it. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/disturbing_stirrings_ratcheting_up_war_iran URL: http://mostlywater.org/disturbing_stirrings_ratcheting_up_war_iran From news at resist.ca Mon May 12 23:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 06:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] The Iraq War Morphs into the Iran War Message-ID: <20080513061704.3698.qmail@resist.ca> By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS - Counterpunch It is 1939 all over again. The world waits helplessly for the next act of naked aggression by rogue states. Only this time the rogue states are not the Third Reich and Fascist Italy. They are the United States and Israel...The targeted victims are not Poland and France, but Iran, Syria, the remains of the Palestinian West Bank and southern Lebanon...The neoconservatives are ecstatic. Hegemony uber alles is back on track. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_iraq_war_morphs_iran_war URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_iraq_war_morphs_iran_war From news at resist.ca Tue May 13 11:17:21 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 18:17:21 -0000 Subject: [news] Poverty Causes Disease =?utf-8?b?4oCT?= But Why? Message-ID: <20080513181721.30276.qmail@resist.ca> FROM: [www.ruthlesscriticism.com][1] [Translated from GegenStandpunkt 1-08] In the cold autumn of 2007, not only party congresses, statisticians and talk shows concern themselves with poverty, but also medical science in a ?joint publication show of strength by 234 international specialist journals? and the October 23, 2007 S?ddeutsche Zeitung devote themselves to this ?enduring scandal.? [read more][2] [1]: http://www.ruthlesscriticism.com (www.ruthlesscriticism.com) [2]: http://mostlywater.org/poverty_causes_disease_%E2%80%93_but_why URL: http://mostlywater.org/poverty_causes_disease_%E2%80%93_but_why From news at resist.ca Wed May 14 00:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 07:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Criminalizing Mohawks, Imprisoning Warriors: From Trevor Miller to Shawn Brant Message-ID: <20080514071704.26992.qmail@resist.ca> Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 Still tonight, **Shawn Brant** & 2 others sit in cells, stolen from their families, prisoners of an occupying force...In Buffalo, NY on Tuesday May 6th, **Trevor Miller** was released on a $10,000 ransom after AmeriKKKan pigs kidnapped him while he was trying to cross into the US. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/criminalizing_mohawks_imprisoning_warriors_from_trevor_miller_shawn_brant URL: http://mostlywater.org/criminalizing_mohawks_imprisoning_warriors_from_trevor_miller_shawn_brant From news at resist.ca Wed May 14 02:17:08 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 09:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Lebanon in Crisis: An Interview with Editor Samah Idriss Message-ID: <20080514091709.2507.qmail@resist.ca> by Stefan Christoff - 10 May 2008 Lebanon is currently facing a major political crisis, as armed battles have erupted in multiple districts of Beirut between pro-government and opposition forces led [by] the Lebanese resistance movement Hizballah. Hizballah-led opposition forces took control of West Beirut, and handed certain areas over to the Lebanese army as the political standoff in the country continues. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/lebanon_crisis_an_interview_with_editor_samah_idriss URL: http://mostlywater.org/lebanon_crisis_an_interview_with_editor_samah_idriss From news at resist.ca Wed May 14 10:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 17:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] The Ontario Liberals and 'Poverty Reduction' Message-ID: <20080514171703.6717.qmail@resist.ca> **Are they Trying or Lying? ** The McGuinty Liberals have jumped onto the very overcrowded bandwagon of ?Poverty Reduction?. They have set up a process of highly selective consultation to ?define the problem?. Then, they tell us, they will ?set targets? to reduce poverty and implement a package of reforms to that effect. Implied in all this is an expectation that we should accept it as a good faith initiative. In fact, we are expected to play along and wait patiently for the eventual benefits that will, supposedly, flow from it. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_ontario_liberals_and_poverty_reduction URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_ontario_liberals_and_poverty_reduction From news at resist.ca Wed May 14 10:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 17:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Elections Act Changes will Prevent Homeless from Voting Message-ID: <20080514171703.6718.qmail@resist.ca> Vancouver ? Pivot Legal Society, VANDU, the BC Civil Liberties Association and the Impact on Communities Coalition are calling into question the constitutionality of new amendments to the Elections Act which will place greater restrictions on the right of homeless and low-income people to vote. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/elections_act_changes_will_prevent_homeless_voting URL: http://mostlywater.org/elections_act_changes_will_prevent_homeless_voting From news at resist.ca Wed May 14 14:17:19 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 21:17:19 -0000 Subject: [news] Toronto: Volunteers locked out of CKLN "community" radio Message-ID: <20080514211719.18343.qmail@resist.ca> CKLN Management calls the Police on Progressive Programmers [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/toronto_volunteers_locked_out_ckln_community_radio URL: http://mostlywater.org/toronto_volunteers_locked_out_ckln_community_radio From news at resist.ca Wed May 14 15:17:10 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 22:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Update on the Struggle for the Culbertson Tract: Ontario Police Weaponry and Escalation Message-ID: <20080514221710.12848.qmail@resist.ca> **Tyendinaga Support Committee** Ontario has opted for the incarceration of First Nations people over the resolution of outstanding land issues as their status quo. As for the Ontario Provincial Police...[d]uring the road closures in Deseronto, an OPP officer on the scene audibly commented to her colleagues, "We should just shoot them (Mohawks) all"...[W]hile in custody at the Napanee OPP Detachment, several different officers repeatedly informed **Shawn Brant** that they were going to "slit his throat". [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/update_struggle_culbertson_tract_ontario_police_weaponry_and_escalation URL: http://mostlywater.org/update_struggle_culbertson_tract_ontario_police_weaponry_and_escalation From news at resist.ca Thu May 15 01:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 08:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Canada & the Origins of the Israel-Palestine Conflict (Part 3 of 3) Message-ID: <20080515081706.15260.qmail@resist.ca> By Dan Freeman-Maloy - May, 08 2008 The Canadian state - eager heir to the colonization of the Americas - remained firmly situated within a Western alliance that was reluctant...to see its hold on much of the world undercut by processes of genuine decolonization. Under these circumstances, the specific relationships between leading Western states, the Zionist movement and the question of Palestine were not entirely straightforward. But it is the context set by these relationships which shaped official Canadian interaction with the Israel-Palestine conflict. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/canada_origins_israelpalestine_conflict_part_3_3 URL: http://mostlywater.org/canada_origins_israelpalestine_conflict_part_3_3 From news at resist.ca Thu May 15 10:17:06 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 17:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Cuba Warns Canada: Follow U.S. at Own Peril Message-ID: <20080515171707.25584.qmail@resist.ca> By Lee Berthiaume Canada will be setting itself up for "failure" if its strategy for re-engaging Latin American and Caribbean nations takes a page from the United States and follows in the superpower's footsteps, Cuba's first deputy foreign minister warned last week. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/cuba_warns_canada_follow_us_own_peril URL: http://mostlywater.org/cuba_warns_canada_follow_us_own_peril From news at resist.ca Thu May 15 11:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 18:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Frances Fox Piven's "Challenging Authority" Message-ID: <20080515181705.20066.qmail@resist.ca> Piven's book is marvelous with a timely message...about how social movements can be pivotal forces for change because ordinary people in enough numbers have enormous political clout. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/frances_fox_pivens_challenging_authority URL: http://mostlywater.org/frances_fox_pivens_challenging_authority From news at resist.ca Thu May 15 22:17:07 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 05:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Jailed Algonquin Leader Begins Hunger Strike; Second Algonquin Chief Going to Jail Message-ID: <20080516051707.3820.qmail@resist.ca> Ardoch Algonquin First Nation - May 15, 2008 Bob Lovelace is now entering his fourth month in jail while the [Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug] Six are about to begin their third month of incarceration. They are prisoners of conscience, jailed by the government of Ontario to send a message that the interests of the mining industry will trump Aboriginal rights and the environment of Ontario. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/jailed_algonquin_leader_begins_hunger_strike_second_algonquin_chief_going_jail URL: http://mostlywater.org/jailed_algonquin_leader_begins_hunger_strike_second_algonquin_chief_going_jail From news at resist.ca Fri May 16 13:17:11 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 20:17:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Hamas Condemns the Holocaust Message-ID: <20080516201711.7819.qmail@resist.ca> by Bassem Naeem - The Guardian ...[A]t the same time as we unreservedly condemn the crimes perpetrated by the Nazis against the Jews of Europe, we categorically reject the exploitation of the Holocaust by the Zionists to justify their crimes and harness international acceptance of the campaign of ethnic cleansing and subjection they have been waging against us... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/hamas_condemns_holocaust_0 URL: http://mostlywater.org/hamas_condemns_holocaust_0 From news at resist.ca Fri May 16 13:17:11 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 20:17:11 -0000 Subject: [news] Grow Them Young, Pay Them Well - Anti-Chavistas, That Is Message-ID: <20080516201711.7820.qmail@resist.ca> Who said crime doesn't pay? Read on. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/grow_them_young_pay_them_well_antichavistas_that_is URL: http://mostlywater.org/grow_them_young_pay_them_well_antichavistas_that_is From news at resist.ca Fri May 16 19:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 02:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Study on Native Drug Users Brings Elder to Tears Message-ID: <20080517021704.20770.qmail@resist.ca> by MARK HUME - Globe and Mail A new public health study that looked at more than 500 young aboriginal drug users in two British Columbia cities produced such shocking data that people wept openly when it was first presented to a panel of elders...[T]he problem of sexual abuse in native communities has its roots in the **residential school system**, which created a generation of victims who in turn found victims of their own. She said it has created a cycle of abuse that is destroying young lives through violence, suicides and substance abuse. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/study_native_drug_users_brings_elder_tears URL: http://mostlywater.org/study_native_drug_users_brings_elder_tears From news at resist.ca Fri May 16 23:17:07 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 06:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Did Hezbollah Thwart a U.S./Israel Attack on Lebanon? Message-ID: <20080517061707.32023.qmail@resist.ca> By FRANKLIN LAMB - Counterpunch According to US Senate Intelligence Committee sources, the Bush administration initially green lighted the intended May 11 Israel 'demonstration of solidarity['] with the pro-Bush administration [Lebanese] militias, some with which Israel has maintained ties since the days of Bashir Gemayal and Ariel Sharon...The plan involved Israeli air strikes on South and West Beirut in support of forces it was assured would be able to surprise and resist Hezbollah and sustain a powerful offensive for 48 hours. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/did_hezbollah_thwart_a_usisrael_attack_lebanon URL: http://mostlywater.org/did_hezbollah_thwart_a_usisrael_attack_lebanon From news at resist.ca Sat May 17 15:17:06 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 22:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Lubicon Denied Standing at Pipeline Hearing Message-ID: <20080517221706.16251.qmail@resist.ca> The Alberta Utilities Commission (AUC) recently informed the Lubicon People that they will not be allowed to participate in the AUC's hearing on TransCanada's application to build a major gas pipeline? across unceded Lubicon land. To add insult to injury, the AUC says it's the Lubicon's own fault. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/lubicon_denied_standing_pipeline_hearing URL: http://mostlywater.org/lubicon_denied_standing_pipeline_hearing From news at resist.ca Sun May 18 15:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 22:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] [Video] Eugene Anarchists Mockingly Support Mayoral Candidate Message-ID: <20080518221703.14082.qmail@resist.ca> We, Anarchists residing in the Eugene/Springfield area are endorsing Jim Torrey for Mayor of Eugene in the 2008 election. We hold that a Torrey regime would be sufficiently brutal and unresponsive to drive hordes of otherwise apathetic citizens to our cause. To this end we have resurrected Eugene Anarchists for Torrey (EAT). [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/en_us_eugene_anarchists_mockingly_support_mayoral_candidate URL: http://mostlywater.org/en_us_eugene_anarchists_mockingly_support_mayoral_candidate From news at resist.ca Sun May 18 15:17:03 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 22:17:03 -0000 Subject: [news] Naomi Klein: Regime-Quakes in Burma and China Message-ID: <20080518221703.14083.qmail@resist.ca> The Nation: May, 17 2008 ...The cyclone, meanwhile, has presented them with one last, vast business opportunity: by blocking aid from reaching the highly fertile Irrawaddy delta, hundreds of thousands of mostly ethnic Karen rice farmers are being sentenced to death. According to Farmaner, "that land can be handed over to the generals' business cronies" (shades of the beachfront land grabs in Sri Lanka and Thailand after the Asian tsunami). This isn't incompetence, or even madness. It's laissez-faire ethnic cleansing. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/naomi_klein_regimequakes_burma_and_china URL: http://mostlywater.org/naomi_klein_regimequakes_burma_and_china From news at resist.ca Mon May 19 03:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 10:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Israeli Police Attack Al-Nakba March Message-ID: <20080519101704.19612.qmail@resist.ca> By JONATHAN COOK = May 16, 2008 ...Israel?s Palestinian minority staged...a procession of families, many of them refugees from the 1948 war, to one of more than 400 Palestinian villages erased by Israel...But in a sign of how far Israel still is from coming to terms with the circumstances of its birth, this year?s march was forcibly broken up by the Israeli police. They clubbed unarmed demonstrators with batons and fired tear gas and stun grenades into crowds of families that included young children. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/israeli_police_attack_alnakba_march URL: http://mostlywater.org/israeli_police_attack_alnakba_march From news at resist.ca Mon May 19 04:17:06 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 11:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Queer Teens Surveyed Feel Unsafe in School Message-ID: <20080519111706.785.qmail@resist.ca> St. Johns: Results just released from the first phase of Egale Canada?s National Survey on homophobia and transphobia in Canadian Schools reveal that over two-thirds of those students who identified as lesbian, gay, bi, trans and Two-Spirit, queer and questioning (LGBTQ) feel unsafe at school. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/queer_teens_surveyed_feel_unsafe_in_school URL: http://mostlywater.org/queer_teens_surveyed_feel_unsafe_in_school From news at resist.ca Mon May 19 11:17:07 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 18:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Progress today: Work Longer and Earn Less. Why Wage Sacrifices Lead to Ever More Wage Losses Message-ID: <20080519181707.2396.qmail@resist.ca> FROM: [www.ruthlesscriticism.com][1] [Translated from broadcast by Gegenstandpunkt Marburg 17 November 2004] It does not matter whether the companies are industry leaders with super-profits or if they juggle losses; it does not matter whether they want to sweep their competitors off the market with additional cost reductions or whether they try to save themselves from bankruptcy with cost reductions -- the diagnosis is always the same: The workers work too little and cost too much. [read more][2] [1]: http://www.ruthlesscriticism.com (www.ruthlesscriticism.com) [2]: http://mostlywater.org/progress_today_work_longer_and_earn_less_why_wage_sacrifices_lead_ever_more_wage_losses URL: http://mostlywater.org/progress_today_work_longer_and_earn_less_why_wage_sacrifices_lead_ever_more_wage_losses From news at resist.ca Mon May 19 12:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 19:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Spinning the News - The FARC-EP Files, Venezuela and Interpol Message-ID: <20080519191704.16109.qmail@resist.ca> Information from Colombian-seized FARC-EP files appears to be fake. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/spinning_news_the_farcep_files_venezuela_and_interpol URL: http://mostlywater.org/spinning_news_the_farcep_files_venezuela_and_interpol From news at resist.ca Mon May 19 17:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 00:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] [Vancouver] URGENT PROTEST TOMMOROW (Tuesday)! - All Out to Protest Immigration and Citizenship Minister Diane Finley! Message-ID: <20080520001704.6110.qmail@resist.ca> Start: 2008-05-20 09:15 End: 2008-05-20 11:30 Timezone: Canada/Pacific - please forward widely - URGENT PROTEST! All Out to Protest Immigration and Citizenship Minister Diane Finley! -------------------------------------------------- TUESDAY MAY 20 SURREY: 9:15 am @ Sheraton Guildford (15269 - 104 Avenue, Surrey) [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/vancouver_urgent_protest_all_out_protest_immigration_and_citizenship_minister_diane_finley URL: http://mostlywater.org/vancouver_urgent_protest_all_out_protest_immigration_and_citizenship_minister_diane_finley From news at resist.ca Tue May 20 13:17:06 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 20:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] US Wastes "27% of Food Available for Consumption" Message-ID: <20080520201706.28265.qmail@resist.ca> By ANDREW MARTIN | The World Grocery bills are rising through the roof. Food banks are running short of donations. And food shortages are causing sporadic riots in poor countries through the world. You?d never know it if you saw what was ending up in your landfill. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/us_wastes_27_food_available_consumption URL: http://mostlywater.org/us_wastes_27_food_available_consumption From news at resist.ca Tue May 20 14:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 21:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] What is Poverty? The Public and Scientific Treatment of the Subject of Poverty Message-ID: <20080520211704.7824.qmail@resist.ca> Adapted and translated from Gegenargumente Vienna 5 April 2005 "[K]nowledge of the existence of poverty is no explanation." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/what_poverty_the_public_and_scientific_treatment_subject_poverty URL: http://mostlywater.org/what_poverty_the_public_and_scientific_treatment_subject_poverty From news at resist.ca Tue May 20 23:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 06:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] We Fought Apartheid in South Africa; We See No Reason to Celebrate it in Israel Message-ID: <20080521061704.32283.qmail@resist.ca> 16 May 2008 - Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation (South Africa) We, South Africans who faced the might of unjust and brutal apartheid machinery in South Africa and fought against it with all our strength...refuse today to celebrate the existence of an Apartheid state in the Middle East. While Israel and its apologists around the world will...loudly proclaim the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the state of Israel...we who have lived with and struggled against oppression and colonialism will...remember 6 decades of catastrophe for the Palestinian people. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/we_fought_apartheid_south_africa_we_see_no_reason_celebrate_it_israel URL: http://mostlywater.org/we_fought_apartheid_south_africa_we_see_no_reason_celebrate_it_israel From news at resist.ca Wed May 21 10:17:11 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 17:17:11 -0000 Subject: [news] More Charges Laid; Clampdown Intensifies: Support Tyendinaga Mohawks! Message-ID: <20080521171711.25392.qmail@resist.ca> MAY 20, 2008 - Tyendinaga Support Committee In the wake of recent road closures, [Ontario Provincial Police] intimidation, and jailing of Mohawk community members, charges have now been laid by the OPP against at least 9 additional Tyendinaga Mohawks...According to the OPP, the investigations are ongoing and additional charges may be laid against other Mohawks. While none of the 9 people recently charged were forced to remain in police custody...all carry conditions of 'no protests' and 'not to be present at the quarry site'. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/more_charges_laid_clampdown_intensifies_support_tyendinaga_mohawks URL: http://mostlywater.org/more_charges_laid_clampdown_intensifies_support_tyendinaga_mohawks From news at resist.ca Wed May 21 13:17:06 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 20:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Fact Sheet on New Racist Canadian Immigration Policy, Bill C-50 Message-ID: <20080521201706.28838.qmail@resist.ca> No One Is Illegal has put together a fact sheet which briefly explains the racist changes the Canadian Conservative government planning to make to immigration policy. The changes are being brought in within a budget document in order to avoid parliamentary debate. Not that there would be real resistance. The PDF is available in several languages. Click "read more" for the English text and a link to all the PDF's. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/fact_sheet_new_racist_canadian_immigration_policy_bill_c50 URL: http://mostlywater.org/fact_sheet_new_racist_canadian_immigration_policy_bill_c50 From news at resist.ca Wed May 21 14:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 21:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] [Video] Cheat Neutral: Offset Your Inability to Remain Faithful Message-ID: <20080521211705.8756.qmail@resist.ca> Comparable to carbon offsetting (and making just as much sense), Cheat Neutral provides a framework for you to offset unavoidable cheating on your partner. "Cheatneutral offsets your cheating by funding someone else to be faithful and NOT cheat. This neutralises the pain and unhappy emotion [you cause] and leaves you with a clear conscience." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/video_cheat_neutral_offset_your_inability_remain_faithful URL: http://mostlywater.org/video_cheat_neutral_offset_your_inability_remain_faithful From news at resist.ca Thu May 22 12:17:10 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 19:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Farewell to the Independent Trucker Message-ID: <20080522191710.27870.qmail@resist.ca> 80% of all goods shipped via truck were delivered by independents. But this will soon come to an end as soaring fuel prices and the cost of operation, eliminates this industry. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/farewell_to_the_independent_trucker URL: http://mostlywater.org/farewell_to_the_independent_trucker From news at resist.ca Thu May 22 12:17:10 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 19:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] "Immoral Hazard" Message-ID: <20080522191710.27871.qmail@resist.ca> Economic troubles are broad and deep. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/immoral_hazard URL: http://mostlywater.org/immoral_hazard From news at resist.ca Thu May 22 12:17:10 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 19:17:10 -0000 Subject: [news] Iraq War Resister Faces Deportation from Canada to US Message-ID: <20080522191710.27873.qmail@resist.ca> "What I saw in Iraq convinced me that the war is illegal and immoral. I could not in good conscience continue to take part in it," said Glass. "Corey Glass would be the first Iraq War resister to be deported from Canada. He would face imprisonment and severe penalties in the US," said Lee Zaslofsky, coordinator of the War Resisters Support Campaign and a Vietnam War resister. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/s_iraq_war_resister_corey_glass_faces_deportation_back_bushleague_land URL: http://mostlywater.org/s_iraq_war_resister_corey_glass_faces_deportation_back_bushleague_land From news at resist.ca Thu May 22 13:17:18 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 20:17:18 -0000 Subject: [news] South African Apartheid Victims Suing 50 Corporations Message-ID: <20080522201718.24289.qmail@resist.ca> The US Supreme Court affirmed a ruling on Monday that three class action lawsuits filed on behalf of South African apartheid victims can be tried in the American legal system. Combined, the lawsuits are seeking more than $400 billion from nearly 50 multinational companies for 'allegedly' aiding and abetting the South African military and security forces. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/south_african_apartheid_victims_suing_50_corporations URL: http://mostlywater.org/south_african_apartheid_victims_suing_50_corporations From news at resist.ca Fri May 23 12:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 19:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] 13,000 Security Personnel in Vancouver for 2010 Olympics Message-ID: <20080523191704.24945.qmail@resist.ca> Nearly 13,000 RCMP, military and other security personnel are expected in Vancouver as part of the 2010 security effort. The RCMP is also planning to install hundreds of cameras throughout the Olympic venues each of which will use face-recognition technology to help officers keep tabs on the nearly half-a-million visitors expected in Vancouver for the Games. [NOTE: While this article is useful in that it discloses the agenda of the Canadian security forces for 2010, it fails to meet most standards of decent journalism. Predictably, it fails to seek any dissenting opinion regarding the serious long term ramifications of this Orwellian invasion. As well, it contributes to the general climate of fear that the Province and it's affiliates use to justify such extraordinary military expenditures by tossing out vague terrorist threats by unnamed organizations with unnamed goals. Read with your eyes wide open.] [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/13000_security_personnel_vancouver_2010_olympics URL: http://mostlywater.org/13000_security_personnel_vancouver_2010_olympics From news at resist.ca Fri May 23 13:17:07 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 20:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Ontario Town Declares War on Natives Message-ID: <20080523201707.20501.qmail@resist.ca> The mayor of Brantford Ontario Canada, Mike Handcock has requested military forces to silence impending Native protests. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/ontario_town_declares_war_on_natives URL: http://mostlywater.org/ontario_town_declares_war_on_natives From news at resist.ca Fri May 23 13:17:07 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 20:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Death in Prison, Canada Style Message-ID: <20080523201707.20502.qmail@resist.ca> A prisoner bled to death while guards did nothing. There was no first aid administered and prison officials failed to do a comprehensive investigation. Accuracy of the event was very sketchy at best. The prison was known for racism from both the staff and the prisoners. Official?s contend there was no cover up. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/death_in_prison_canada_style URL: http://mostlywater.org/death_in_prison_canada_style From news at resist.ca Sat May 24 10:17:06 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 17:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] =?utf-8?b?QnVybWHigJlz?= Shell Game Message-ID: <20080524171706.8735.qmail@resist.ca> With Than Shwe opening the doors to humanitarian aid. One has to wonder if this is just another ploy to gather more money and items to be sold on the black market. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/burma%E2%80%99s_shell_game URL: http://mostlywater.org/burma%E2%80%99s_shell_game From news at resist.ca Sun May 25 10:17:05 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 17:17:05 -0000 Subject: [news] Utah Phillips: Folksinger, Storyteller, Railroad Tramp Utah Phillips Dead at 73 Message-ID: <20080525171706.28275.qmail@resist.ca> Utah Phillips, a seminal figure in American folk music who performed extensively and tirelessly for audiences on two continents for 38 years, died Friday of congestive heart failure in Nevada City, California a small town in the Sierra Nevada mountains where he lived for the last 21 years with his wife, Joanna Robinson, a freelance editor. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/utah_phillips_folksinger_storyteller_railroad_tramp_utah_phillips_dead_73 URL: http://mostlywater.org/utah_phillips_folksinger_storyteller_railroad_tramp_utah_phillips_dead_73 From news at resist.ca Mon May 26 10:17:08 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 17:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Armaments and War are Necessary Expenses for a Class Society Message-ID: <20080526171708.30609.qmail@resist.ca> Ruthless Criticism [Chapter VI. of Karl Held and Theo Ebel, The Free World Wants War! (Resultate Verlag: Munich, 1986)] The governing organizers of Western readiness for war do not accept the objection that the costs of armament are too high. They are equally unimpressed when people cite the sacrifices which are called for as soon as the threat which peace policy constitutes is put into practice. Those in charge definitely did not allow their strategic calculation for the case of war to be questioned on the grounds that the preparation and implementation of a great war do not pay off: On the contrary, they insist that the free use of their violence is simply necessary for all the achievements of their ?economy"-- so that the question of costs is superfluous. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/armaments_and_war_are_necessary_expenses_a_class_society URL: http://mostlywater.org/armaments_and_war_are_necessary_expenses_a_class_society From news at resist.ca Mon May 26 10:17:08 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 17:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] The Task of Unifying the World Mind: UNESCO Its Purpose and Its Philosophy Part 2 Message-ID: <20080526171708.30610.qmail@resist.ca> As the first Director of UNESCO, Sir Julian Sorell Huxley wrote a paper entitled _UNESCO Its Purpose and Its Philosophy_ in which he outlined his vision for the newly created international organisation. According to Huxley, the guiding philosophy of UNESCO should be what he termed, World Evolutionary Humanism. The previous article in this series described this philosophy and its relation to eugenics. This article will outline the purpose of UNESCO, which is to mentally prepare the world for global political unification under a single world government. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_task_unifying_world_mind_unesco_its_purpose_and_its_philosophy_part_2 URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_task_unifying_world_mind_unesco_its_purpose_and_its_philosophy_part_2 From news at resist.ca Mon May 26 10:17:08 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 17:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] "Seven Sisters" have become "Five Little Brothers" Message-ID: <20080526171708.30611.qmail@resist.ca> Kjell Aleklett, Aleklett's Energy Mix. For many it comes as a shock that Big Oil has transformed into the "five little brothers". Today, the world's seven largest oil companies are completely outside the control of the U.S. Senate. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/seven_sisters_have_become_five_little_brothers URL: http://mostlywater.org/seven_sisters_have_become_five_little_brothers From news at resist.ca Tue May 27 11:17:15 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 18:17:15 -0000 Subject: [news] Plan Colombia Heads for Mexico Message-ID: <20080527181716.27170.qmail@resist.ca> Think North American Union and militarization and annexation of the continent. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/plan_colombia_heads_mexico URL: http://mostlywater.org/plan_colombia_heads_mexico From news at resist.ca Tue May 27 18:17:23 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 01:17:23 -0000 Subject: [news] Nearly 100 Soldiers & Police from Pinochet Dictatorship Arrested in Chile Message-ID: <20080528011724.22106.qmail@resist.ca> 100 From Pinochet Regime Ordered Held - Tuesday, May 27, 2008 Nearly 100 former soldiers and secret police members from Augusto Pinochet?s dictatorship were ordered detained Monday in the biggest mass arrest of suspects in abuses during the period...Investigating Judge Victor Montiglio ordered the detentions in an inquiry into the kidnapping and killing of 42 people during Operation Colombo early in the 1973-90 dictatorship, during which 119 Pinochet opponents died. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/nearly_100_soldiers_police_pinochet_dictatorship_arrested_chile URL: http://mostlywater.org/nearly_100_soldiers_police_pinochet_dictatorship_arrested_chile From news at resist.ca Tue May 27 19:17:08 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 02:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Bush 'Plans Iran Air Strike by August' Message-ID: <20080528021708.16157.qmail@resist.ca> By Muhammad Cohen - Asia Times Online The George W Bush administration plans to launch an air strike against Iran within the next two months, an informed source tells _Asia Times Online_, echoing other reports that have surfaced in the media in the United States recently...The source...said last week that that the US plans an air strike against the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/bush_plans_iran_air_strike_august URL: http://mostlywater.org/bush_plans_iran_air_strike_august From news at resist.ca Tue May 27 23:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 06:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] 10 Wars, 10 Media Lies Message-ID: <20080528061704.28450.qmail@resist.ca> MICHEL COLLON - May 16th, 2008 Every war is preceded by a big media lie. Today, Bush [threatens] Venezuela and Ecuador. Tomorrow, Iran? And after that, who's next?...Mainstream newspaper[s] reflect this propaganda campaign for the next Bush war. Let's recall how many times [the] USA and those same media have manipulated us. Every major war is 'justified' by what will appear as disinformation[.] [Here's a] short list: [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/10_wars_10_media_lies URL: http://mostlywater.org/10_wars_10_media_lies From news at resist.ca Wed May 28 04:17:08 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 11:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Jimmy Carter on Human Rights Crimes Against Palestinians Message-ID: <20080528111708.22844.qmail@resist.ca> India Times The world is witnessing a terrible human rights crime in Gaza, where a million and a half human beings are being imprisoned with almost no access to the outside world by sea, air or land. An entire population is being brutally punished. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/jimmy_carter_human_rights_crimes_against_palestinians URL: http://mostlywater.org/jimmy_carter_human_rights_crimes_against_palestinians From news at resist.ca Wed May 28 04:17:08 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 11:17:08 -0000 Subject: [news] Secret Capital: How Harper Controls the Spin Message-ID: <20080528111708.22845.qmail@resist.ca> Toronto Star Zeal to manage message sees journalists shunned, bureaucrats, cabinet ministers routinely muzzled Harper and his Conservatives came to power in February 2006 promising more transparency and accountability. But since then they've taken message control to new heights, observers say. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/secret_capital_how_harper_controls_spin URL: http://mostlywater.org/secret_capital_how_harper_controls_spin From news at resist.ca Wed May 28 12:17:07 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 19:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] US Academic Deported and Banned for Criticising Israel Message-ID: <20080528191707.24965.qmail@resist.ca> by Toni O'Loughlin - Monday, May 26 2008 **Norman Finkelstein**, the controversial Jewish American academic and fierce critic of Israel, has been deported from the country and banned from the Jewish state for 10 years...Finkelstein...was detained by the Israeli security service, Shin Bet, when he landed at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport on Friday. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/us_academic_deported_and_banned_criticising_israel URL: http://mostlywater.org/us_academic_deported_and_banned_criticising_israel From news at resist.ca Wed May 28 14:17:09 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 21:17:09 -0000 Subject: [news] B.C. Supreme Court Saves Safe Injection Site Message-ID: <20080528211709.4211.qmail@resist.ca> Vancouver safe injection site protected by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Vancouver, May 28, 2008 ? In a landmark ruling released yesterday, the B.C. Supreme Court ruled that InSite, North America?s first safe injection site, is protected by the Canadian Constitution. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/bc_supreme_court_saves_safe_injection_site URL: http://mostlywater.org/bc_supreme_court_saves_safe_injection_site From news at resist.ca Wed May 28 17:17:07 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 00:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Update from Quinte Regional Detention Centre Message-ID: <20080529001707.21908.qmail@resist.ca> Wednesday, May 28, 2008 Yesterday, **Shawn Brant** was put on 23 hour-a-day lock-down, for a 12-day period...This is punishment for what Detention Centre officials term "a misconduct"...[T]he misconduct consisted of Shawn burning sage in his cell...While regular Chapel services and bible study are available...Aboriginal inmates are all but denied access to their religious practice and medicine. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/update_quinte_regional_detention_centre URL: http://mostlywater.org/update_quinte_regional_detention_centre From news at resist.ca Thu May 29 03:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 10:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] The Future of Music and Video Sharing - Download Freely Now Message-ID: <20080529101704.29063.qmail@resist.ca> **Special to Mostly Water** As internet technologies have developed, corporations have moved towards putting more restrictions on what you can freely download. Partially in reaction, a whole new movement has been created to give people access to high quality video and music. Legally. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_future_music_and_video_sharing_download_freely_now URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_future_music_and_video_sharing_download_freely_now From news at resist.ca Thu May 29 11:17:14 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 18:17:14 -0000 Subject: [news] Disturbing 2008 Global Peace Index Report Message-ID: <20080529181714.10807.qmail@resist.ca> [The] Global Peace Index targets Venezuela and has [a] distinct Washington aroma in it. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/disturbing_2008_global_peace_index_report URL: http://mostlywater.org/disturbing_2008_global_peace_index_report From news at resist.ca Thu May 29 12:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 19:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] Jake Fire Would Have Joined the National Day of Action Message-ID: <20080529191704.24158.qmail@resist.ca> MNN Mohawk Nation News - May 29, 2008 On May 1, 1899, an Akwesasne Mohawk, Saiowisakeron, also known as ?Jake Fire?, faced the barrel of a gun in the hands of an RCMP officer. The RCMP had been sent to arrest the Akwesasne traditional chiefs..Standing up for what was right, an unarmed Jake Fire was shot and killed by the RCMP officer...[The] shooting and killing [of] Jake Fire is the kind of violence and aggression that the colonists use when dealing with Indigenous Peoples asserting our rights. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/jake_fire_would_have_joined_national_day_action URL: http://mostlywater.org/jake_fire_would_have_joined_national_day_action From news at resist.ca Thu May 29 15:17:06 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 22:17:06 -0000 Subject: [news] Stephen Harper and the Theo-Cons: The Rising Clout of =?utf-8?q?C?= =?utf-8?b?YW5hZGHigJlz?= Religious Right Message-ID: <20080529221706.26605.qmail@resist.ca> by Marci McDonald - May 29, 2008 ...[T]he religious right are equally convinced that [Canadian Prime Minister Stephen] Harper is one of their own...They see him as an image-savvy evangelical who has been careful to keep his signals to them under the media radar, but they have no doubt his convictions run deep?so deep that only after he wins a majority will he dare translate the true colours of his faith into policies that could remake the fabric of the nation. If they?re right, it remains unclear whether those convictions would turn government into a kinder, gentler guarantor of social justice for all or transform the country into a stern, narrow-minded theocracy. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/stephen_harper_and_theocons_the_rising_clout_canada%E2%80%99s_religious_right URL: http://mostlywater.org/stephen_harper_and_theocons_the_rising_clout_canada%E2%80%99s_religious_right From news at resist.ca Thu May 29 17:17:04 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 00:17:04 -0000 Subject: [news] The Transformation of a Labour Leader: From Buzz Hargrove to "Boss" Hargrove Message-ID: <20080530001704.1148.qmail@resist.ca> by Kevin Wilson - Toronto Now ...[W]ho [are you] hanging out with these days, Buzz?...[T]here are a few senators, privy councillors and other symbols of Upper Canadiana, both old money and nouveau gauche...If you look higher up on the list, though, it?s hard not to get the impression that sometime in the past few years **Buzz** Hargrove turned into **Boss** Hargrove...[W]e [shouldn't] pretend that Hargrove?s swank dinner with his newer, better friends is anything but what it is ? proof positive that a once-proud labour innovator who aspired to build connections with a broader social movement has now morphed into his opposite. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/the_transformation_a_labour_leader_from_buzz_hargrove_boss_hargrove URL: http://mostlywater.org/the_transformation_a_labour_leader_from_buzz_hargrove_boss_hargrove From news at resist.ca Fri May 30 10:17:07 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 17:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Updating Yassin Aref's Struggle for Justice Message-ID: <20080530171707.1772.qmail@resist.ca> Aref's struggle for justice continues following his Court of Appeals hearing. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/updating_yassin_arefs_struggle_justice URL: http://mostlywater.org/updating_yassin_arefs_struggle_justice From news at resist.ca Fri May 30 10:17:07 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 17:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] Musqueam Members Occupy Band Office Message-ID: <20080530171707.1775.qmail@resist.ca> May 29, 2008 VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA ? We the Members from the Musqueam Nation, hereby known as the ?Musqueam Membership Movement? are standing together today in unity in a peaceful occupation of the Musqueam Band Office in Vancouver, B.C. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/musqueam_members_occupy_band_office URL: http://mostlywater.org/musqueam_members_occupy_band_office From news at resist.ca Fri May 30 10:17:07 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 17:17:07 -0000 Subject: [news] KI Six Release but Vow to Protect Land Message-ID: <20080530171707.1776.qmail@resist.ca> Gagandeep Ghuman | The Star An Ontario Court of Appeal judge released native leader Bob Lovelace and six members of the Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) today. "If you don't have the right to say, 'No,' you have no right at all." [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/ki_six_release_vow_protect_land URL: http://mostlywater.org/ki_six_release_vow_protect_land From news at resist.ca Fri May 30 12:17:13 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 19:17:13 -0000 Subject: [news] [Surrey] Community Rally to Scrap Racist Bill C50 Message-ID: <20080530191713.11597.qmail@resist.ca> Start: 2008-06-01 14:00 End: 2008-06-01 15:30 Timezone: Canada/Pacific - please forward widely - * Part of NATIONAL WEEK of Action from March 31- June 7 in Toronto, Montreal and elsewhere* COMMUNITY RALLY TO SCRAP RACIST BILL C 50 ! Refuse to be invisible! Join the fight against racist immigration laws +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SUNDAY, JUNE 1 AT 2 PM RALLY AT SURREY IMMIGRATION OFFICES [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/surrey_community_rally_scrap_racist_bill_c50 URL: http://mostlywater.org/surrey_community_rally_scrap_racist_bill_c50 From news at resist.ca Fri May 30 20:17:14 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 03:17:14 -0000 Subject: [news] Britain: Graduate Student Researching al-Qaida Tactics Arrested & Held for Six Days Message-ID: <20080531031714.3974.qmail@resist.ca> Polly Curtis and Martin Hodgson - The Guardian A masters student researching terrorist tactics who was arrested and detained for six days after his university informed police about al-Qaida-related material he downloaded has spoken of the "psychological torture" he endured in custody...Despite his Nottingham University supervisors insisting the materials were directly relevant to his research, Rizwaan Sabir...was held for nearly a week under the **Terrorism Act**, accused of downloading the materials for illegal use. The student had obtained a copy of the al-Qaida training manual from a US government website... [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/britain_graduate_student_researching_alqaida_tactics_arrested_held_six_days URL: http://mostlywater.org/britain_graduate_student_researching_alqaida_tactics_arrested_held_six_days From news at resist.ca Sat May 31 12:17:16 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 19:17:16 -0000 Subject: [news] From Kennedy To Obama: Liberalism's Last Fling Message-ID: <20080531191717.19463.qmail@resist.ca> by John Pilger - June, 01 2008 What is [Barack] Obama's attraction to big business? Precisely the same as Robert Kennedy's. By offering a "new", young and apparently progressive face of the Democratic Party - with the bonus of being a member of the black elite - he can blunt and divert real opposition...An Obama victory will bring intense pressure on the US anti-war and social justice movements to accept a Democratic administration for all its faults. If that happens, domestic resistance to rapacious America will fall silent. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/from_kennedy_to_obama_liberalisms_last_fling URL: http://mostlywater.org/from_kennedy_to_obama_liberalisms_last_fling From news at resist.ca Sat May 31 12:17:16 2008 From: news at resist.ca (Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed) Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 19:17:16 -0000 Subject: [news] Britain's University and College Union Passes Resolution on Boycotting Israel (Article & UCU Statement) Message-ID: <20080531191717.19464.qmail@resist.ca> 30 May 2008---The **Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel** (PACBI) salutes the **British University and College Union** (UCU) for its principled support for the cause of justice and peace in Palestine and for adopting, at its annual congress on 28 May 2008, significant steps in the direction of applying effective pressure on Israel and holding it accountable for its colonial and apartheid policies which violate international law and fundamental human rights. [read more][1] [1]: http://mostlywater.org/britains_university_and_college_union_passes_resolution_boycotting_israel_article_ucu_statement URL: http://mostlywater.org/britains_university_and_college_union_passes_resolution_boycotting_israel_article_ucu_statement