Wilmington, Delaware, US: "The Coca-Cola company is misleading its
shareholders by not reporting serious liabilities the company has incurred
in India.

Coca-Cola is holding its Annual General Meeting in Wilmington on April 19,
2005, and over a hundred protesters will be speaking, both inside and
outside the meeting, to bring attention to Coca-Cola's shortcomings."

Statement from Canadian Environmental Leaders Regarding the Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA)

Toronto, Ontario - On March 24, an omnibus budget implementation bill was introduced by the government in the House of Commons. The bill includes amendments to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA). The government claims these amendments are necessary to allow for the regulation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from industrial sources ("Large Final Emitters") in order to meet Canada's Kyoto obligations.

To: Mr. John Efford, Minister of Natural Resources - Efford.J@parl.gc.ca

cc: seismic-sismique@dfo-mpo.gc.ca

RE: B.C.'s coast; Statement of Practice AND the harmful effects of seismic testing

I have just been informed that the Government of Canada and the province of British Columbia, Newfoundland, Labrador and Nova Scotia have just released a Statement of Practice on seismic Noise in the marine environment. It is clear that, this statement is the first in a series of steps being taken by industry and government to start "exploring" for oil off of Canada's west coast. The Statement of Practice on Seismic Noise flies in the face of a moratorium on oil and gas development (including exploration) while ignoring widespread public opposition. 75% of British Columbians surveyed during the public review process have already made clear Canada's West Coast should stay oil and gas free including from harmful impacts of seismic testing.

At the link below there is a video speech by Dr. David Suzuki.

Unfortunately, Dr. Suzuki didn't have the time to discuss the social/spiritual realities of humanity, BUT one knows from what was said the context of where he was going. Dr. Suzuki speaks in the common parlance of a traditionalist elder, that can be understood by anyone who is not learned in the sciences - about academic truths. He does this by supporting ancient truths with scientific knowledge. So he speaks to members of the dominant culture about the knowledge that they have temporarily forgotten out of disrespect for its seeming lack of scientific understanding, a result of reductionist theory and cultural false pride, and does so by putting the parts back into the whole.

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We ARE the Earth

Keynote: David Suzuki

Air, Water & Soil

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"Over the next 100 years or so as many as half of the Earth's
species, representing a quarter of the planet's genetic stock, will
either completely or functionally disappear. The land and the oceans
will continue to teem with life, but it will be a peculiarly
homogenized assemblage of organisms naturally and unnaturally
selected for their compatibility with one fundamental force: us.
Nothing--not national or international laws, global bioreserves,
local sustainability schemes, nor even 'wildlands' fantasies--can
change the current course. The path for biological evolution is now
set for the next million years. And in this sense "the extinction
crisis"--the race to save the composition, structure, and
organization of biodiversity as it exists today--is over, and we
have lost."

For the first time in years some of the province's natives are turning to confrontation, after coming up with little to show for their efforts in negotiations and at court.

Protests by native groups in recent days have stopped logging in the Queen Charlotte Islands and at Kingcome Inlet along the Central Coast and led to a moratorium on new mining projects near Telegraph Creek in northwestern B.C.

The company says it is taking a wait-and-see approach to roadblocks.

"About 50 Haida and non-native protesters have been operating two checkpoints on
roads that access the active logging area in the interior of Graham Island for the
past two weeks, barring access to loggers and Ministry of Forests employees.

Supported by the Council of the Haida Nation as well as several non-native community leaders, the protesters are calling for what they consider sustainable forestry in the islands."

"If the caribou are chased out of the birthing grounds, there won't be any caribou, there won't be any Gwich'in, and what's it all about?" said Phillipe Leblond, who took part in the noontime rally. "More oil for feeding the war machine?"

"If the caribou are chased out of the birthing grounds, there won't be any caribou, there won't be any Gwichin, and what's it all about?" said Phillipe Leblond, who took part in the noontime rally. "More oil for feeding the war machine?"

Hundreds of Yukoners angry about the United States' decision to allow drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge took their frustration to the steps of the territory's legislature Wednesday.

"If the caribou are chased out of the birthing grounds, there won't be any caribou, there won't be any Gwich'in, and what's it all about?" said Phillipe Leblond, who took part in the noontime rally. "More oil for feeding the war machine?"

"Haida Indians say they have seized a large quantity of cut timber from Weyerhaeuser for alleged breach of contract.

'We hope we can use this money to get hospitals here ... and all our schools are in debt because they've been funded like everywhere else in the province,' said Guujaaw, president of the Council of the Haida Nation."

The Abitibi-Consolidated owned Kenora Daily Miner and News published a story today entitled "Few objections so far to Kenora Forest harvest plan" which makes the bold and dubious claim that little opposition has surfaced to the 2006-2011 clear-cutting plan for the Kenora area which has been cooked up by government and industry officials.

Have they failed to notice the over two-year long ongoing logging blockade in Grassy Narrows in response to the plan's predecessor, Abitibi's "Whiskey Jack Forest management plan"? Did they miss that many First Nations have taken to boycotting "consultations" after decades of being ignored when they've come to raise their concerns?

No, the Kenora paper has noticed. Buried inside the article we find that all First Nations bodies have dropped out of the planning process, and that "there is also no First Nations representation on the local citizens committee." But the overall tone is one of relief; as long as natives aren't participating, industry can churn out PR assuring us that there was very little opposition to the plan, and that it was well received by the community.

It's time to join our voices with those of the Anishinabek to protect the land, and to give the state-corporate industrial machine a whole lot more to worry about.

"Blondin-Andrew used the example of Sachs Harbour, a tiny community on the western point of Banks Island. She described the hamlet as 'inconsequential' now, but 'totally critical' as an entry-way to the Northwest Passage that could eventually become a shipping route."

"A parliamentary committee is expected today to cite unauthorized native fishing and federal mismanagement as two key reasons for the disappearance of up to 1.6 million sockeye salmon from the Fraser River last year.

A draft copy of the House of Commons fisheries committee report, obtained Monday by The Vancouver Sun, rejects the original assertion of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) that unusually warm water temperatures on the Fraser were the likely cause of what the committee calls a 'major ecological disaster.'"

After years of trying, Senate Republicans on Wednesday
succeeded in easing the path to opening up the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling, a development that
promises to intensify a decades-old lobbying battle as
proponents of drilling move into the homestretch of their
effort.