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New Labour, New Zealand
(The article below, copied with permission, from Socialist Review in Britain, is relevant to what's happening in British Columbia both in the Labour movement, NDP and Government.)
Date of original article is May, 1997
Callout to support HEU workers - Demo info
On Monday May 3rd, 2004, hospital workers across BC were feeling frustration, disbelief and anger.
Overwhelmingly they rejected the "deal" that was made late Sunday night to end the HEU job action and the massive province wide strikes planned by
unions across BC.
Workers are now figuring out how to regroup and move forward. Further actions are planned including a picket at the BC Federation of Labour Offices Friday May 7th at 8:00am and a demonstration Saturday May 8th at 12:30 starting at the Art Gallery.
The leaflett and poster for Saturday's demo is available for download at http://resist.ca/~cshw. There will be co-ordinated leafletting and postering every evening this week.
The Pentagon as Global Slumlord
The battle of Fallujah, together with the conflicts unfolding in Shia cities and Baghdad slums, are high-stakes tests, not just of U.S. policy in Iraq, but of Washington's ability to dominate what Pentagon planners consider the "key battlespace of the future" -- the Third World city.
Sharon: Israel will expel tens of thousands of 'illegal' Palestinians
YellowTimes.org - April 10, 2004
Israel
will expel tens of thousands of Palestinians after it completes its
"security fence." Mr. Sharon said in the interview that "[Israel has] a
difficult problem with those who are illegally exercising [what they
perceive] as their right of return, by infiltrating into Arab cities and
villages within Israel."
20th of March 2004; Meat Out Day in Paris: a real slaughter!
In order to keep the public informed about the animal exploitation and its alternatives, the Antispeciesist Collective has organized a visual action in front of a butcher's shop and a fish shop. We held a workshop at the exit of the Commerce metro, playing a video & showing pictures of slaughterhouses, also giving flyers about veganism.
More resist.ca downtime
We were unable to finish the task that we started thursday night due to the fact that computers suck in general. So, we will be taking another shot at it Saturday (tomorrow) morning. The server will be down for at most 2 hours starting somewhere between 8 and 9:30 PST. Sorry for the inconvenince.
Antispeciesists stand in the "violence fair"
"Rearing, slavery; slaughterhouse, barbarism", "meat is murder", these are the slogans of some fifty vegan animal rights activists who stood in the Agriculture Fair on Saturday afternoon.
Yukon has failed my son, says desperate mom
WHITEHORSE - The mother of a 21-year old with a severe mental disability says she has no choice but to leave the territory to get her son the help he needs.
Janice Ward says the Yukon government has failed her son.
Medicina de la Calle,
Uno de los legados que dej
Green River Murder Plea Bargain Creates American Legal Crisis!
The death penalty is supposed to be for the worst of the worst. If Gary Ridgway, aka the Green River Murder, is spared the death penalty in plea bargains, that is raising the bar, considerably, as to what is the worst in America. Apparently, 48 serial murders is not the worst. And anyone under that high bar, deserves equal protection under the law, with Gary Ridgway...
Practicando la Protesta
El conocimiento es poder, en las protestas en las calles m