***30 June Day of Action***

The libera-lis-ation of Iraq
... the day America turns over Iraq to America

==> ORGANIZE ACTIONS AGAINST THE OCCUPATION OF IRAQ

A call out from toronto activists and Block the Empire Montreal that has been circulating on the North American PGA (People's Global Action Network) list.

VICTORIA (from CBC) - Senior health authority executives have been given significant
raises over the past two years - while many of their unionized staff have
been forced to take pay cuts.

At the Fraser Health Authority, two Chief Operating Officers received
18-per-cent raises - from $160,000 to $190,000 a year.

Global warming is hitting the Arctic two to three times as fast as the rest of the globe, according to a dramatic Arctic Climate Impact Assessment study.

The warming trend is destabilizing buildings on permafrost, threatening an oil pipeline across Alaska, and could make Hudson Bay uninhabitable for polar bears within just 20 years, say published reports about the study.

It is now a phenomenon. CopWatch organizations are being set up all over America, by ordinary citizens, driven to police the police, in grassroots community efforts.

The Scotsman ; Thu 20 May 2004 ; intro: NY Transfer News Collective

In the face of their own hand-picked Iraqi officials saying the
US had slaughtered civilians, and AP Television News video showing
the bodies of women and children being buried, with their familiy
members weeping over them, the US military was still claiming 12
hours later that they had hit a safehouse full of foreign devils,
and not a village wedding party.

Bill Tieleman ; Georgia Straight ; May 20, 2004

An independent audit has shown that Doug Walls (related to Gordon Campbell by marriage), wasted more than a million dollars that should have gone to help people with disabilities.

Bill Tieleman ; Georgia Straight ; May 20, 2004

Lorne Mayencourt, B.C. Liberal MLA for Vancouver-Burrard, has declared personal bankruptcy TWICE. The same soul is pushing a private members bill to deal with panhandlers and squeegee kids by sending them to jail.

INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT ;
May 19, 2004



[Rafah, Gaza Strip] Israeli army helicopter gunships and tanks
opened fire on a nonviolent civilian demonstration in Rafah early
this afternoon. 13 Palestinian are repored killed, including 2
children, and 60 injured.

On May 20, 2004, people from all over the Ontario and Quebec will go to the Mohawk community of Kanehsatake to show their support for a peaceful resolution to a confrontation between heavily armed agents of the state and a community that rejects them.  The conflict has gone on for months, with a Grand Chief ousted by the community trying repeatedly to return to power, against community opposition, at the head of a group of heavily armed police.

Indymedia

Bennett Environmental, Inc. is proposing to import large quantities of toxic waste (100,000+ tons per year of contaminated soil), from polluted sites in the U.S. & Canada, then treating it in the Chaleur region of New Brunswick.

Michael J. Meade ; 365Gay.com Newscenter

Nearly a thousand
people crowded Boston's City Hall Plaza Monday to celebrate the start of gay
marriage in Massachusetts.

New York, NY- Starbucks workers here have organized a union with the
Industrial Workers of the World IU/660 and have submitted union cards today to the
NLRB for a certification election. The workers are poised to become the first
Starbucks Baristas union certified in the country.

By Warren Richey | Christian Science Monitor

By ruling in favor of a paraplegic who crawled up to a second-floor courtroom, justices signal possible shift away from states' rights.

Canadian Press
;
May 18, 2004

OTTAWA -- The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld
government-imposed limits on campaign spending by lobby groups during
federal elections.

James McCarten ;
Canadian Press
;
May 18, 2004

TORONTO -- Millions more Canadians will soon pay a ''premium''
for health care after Ontario followed the lead of Alberta and British
Columbia in compelling taxpayers to bear the increasing burden of
everything from heart surgeries and hip replacements to home care and
health centres.