Federal Government Threatens Kanehsatake with "Assault"
As Kanehsatake readies itself once again, it asks that all those who have shown the community support and solidarity over the past weeks and months prepare themselves also, in the case of an attempted invasion. At this time people are being asked to make those arrangements that would allow for immediate response should it be deemed necessary.
Report from Wild in the Streets
On the last day, three people were arrested during an anarchist march against the recent police "crackdown" on Commercial Drive, the Community Policing Centre in Grandview Park, and the "Police State" in general.
Police cars torched in troubled Kanesatake
CBC ; 28 May 2004
KANESATAKE RESERVE, QUEBEC - The chief of the troubled Mohawk community of Kanesatake has postponed a meeting with his opponents, after four police cars were set on fire early Friday.
Toronto's mayor begins summer social cleansing
OCAP
On Thursday May 27th, people living under the Bathurst Street Bridge
watched their homes bulldozed and destroyed by a large crew of city
workers, flanked by police from numerous downtown police divisions. What
was once a small community is now surrounded by tall fencing.
Provincial Government Sues Homeless In B.C. Court of Appeal over $100
The Provincial government has appealed to B.C.'s highest court to avoid paying $100 each to a group of homeless people who showed up in court after the injunction at Woodwards.
Interfor vs. the Elaho Valley: 4 years later, the court case continues
Released on appeal in 2000, two forest defenders are again facing down the logging multinational at the BC Court of Appeals in Vancouver.
Did Reagan End the Cold War?
by William Blum; June 08, 2004
Ronald Reagan's biggest crimes were the bloody military actions to suppress social and political change in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Afghanistan, but I'd like to deal here with the media's gushing about Reagan's supposed role in ending the cold war. In actuality, he prolonged it.
Top Ten Reasons Not to Vote Conservative
Conservatives start from the view that services should be offered by corporations and believe that only when the private sector fails should government step in. The Conservatives would impose a law banning federal deficits, removing one of the key tools governments have to respond when markets fail or the economy slows down. In the past, Harper counseled a strategy of "calculated ambiguity" so that voters couldn't really tell what the Reform party stood for. Now, like then, the Reform/Conservatives are being cagey about their plans to slash public services and axe social spending.
Wanted: 100 000 signatures by June 21
Only the sheer force of numbers from concerned citizens will stop the British Columbia government from pushing through its anti-environmental and anti-democratic Working Forest Initiative. Our goal is to get 50 - 100 000 signatures on our petition by June 21, at which time we'll hand them into the government.
Working Forest Overview | Online Petition | Working Forest.Org
Gallery Shut Down by Violence and Threats
SAN FRANCISCO -- She got death threats after she displayed controversial paintings of US forces in Iraq at her San Francisco shop. Now, some believe, someone's anger over an artist's work has led to an attack on both a gallery owner and free speech.
Torture in a Florida Jail: "Whatever We Want to do With You"
by Mark Dow; Nth Position; June 03, 2004
The US immigration service (formerly the INS, or Immigration & Naturalization Service) holds some 23,000 people in custody. Many of these prisoners are contracted out to private prisons and local jails. At Florida's Jackson County Jail in 1998, INS inmates described the regular use of "shock shields" against INS and state prisoners.
Stan Hagen Chased out of DTES!
Wednesday, June 02, 2004
Stan Hagen, the BC Liberals' Minister of Human Resources, was chased out of the Downtown Eastside today by the APC Welcoming Committee, made up of residents and supporters.
June 12 International Day of Solidarity with Jeff 'Free' Luers
June marks the fourth year that our friend and comrade, Jeff "Free" Luers has been imprisoned and held captive by the state. Sentenced to 22 years and 8 months for burning three Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs) at Romania Chevrolet in Eugene, Jeff has continued to be active in prison and fight back with his words and inspiration. This June 12, we aim to strengthen his efforts by promoting a day of action and solidarity with Jeff throughout the world.
Mayor Bloomberg Endangers 100,000's of Protesters' Safety For A Lawn
By Kirsten Anderberg (www.kirstenanderberg.com)
To see a blueprint of what is going on in NYC right now, in preparation for the Republican National Convention (RNC) in 2004, you need look no further than Daniel Walker's official report to the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, released (impressively, as far as timeliness goes) in late November, 1968, after the August 1968 protests and police riots in Chicago.
On Jeff "Free" Luers: Firebombing vs. driving SUV's
By Kirsten Anderberg (www.kirstenanderberg.com)
I understand why people are driven to firebomb new SUV's on sales lots, I am not clear why people are driven to buy and drive them though. Jeff "Free" Luers was sentenced to an excessive 22 years in jail for firebombing 3 SUV's which means he is being sentenced for his political beliefs, not his actions, according to all case precedence...