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Date: September 6
Time: 11AM-7PM
Location: Camosun College (Lansdowne) By the Paul Bldg
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Inspired by the mobilizing on the West Coast, organizers across "Canada" have begun awareness-raising efforts. Building on the call from the West Coast for anti-capitalist and anti-colonial resistance to the Olympics, some organizers affiliated with the People's Global Action Bloc (PGA-Bloc) in Ontario and Quebec have begun mobilizing around "Resistance 2010", linking anti-Olympics efforts to organizing against the G8 and SPP, and the day-to-day systems and institutions of power and oppression they represent.

by Noel K. Gallagher | Portland Press Herald

PORTLAND, Maine - Oakhurst Dairy owner Stanley Bennett welcomed the news that Monsanto was divesting itself of its controversial dairy hormone business, after taking on the agribusiness giant in an expensive David-and-Goliath legal battle five years ago.

Asia Times | By Gustavo Capdevila

Conceived in the Qatari capital in November 2001 with the aim of sending a message of solidarity to a world shaken by the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, the Doha Round of talks is failing against a backdrop of threats of new crises involving food and oil prices and climate change.

NAIROBI - More than 14 million people in the east Africa region require urgent food aid due to drought and spiralling cereal and fuel prices, aid agencies say.

The food chain is under attack these days. Seems all the experts are clueless as to the reason. Maybe the answer is under their noses.

Canadian Dimension July/Aug In recent months major international banks, financial newspapers and mass media have been forced to recognize that there is a major food crisis and that hundreds of millions of people face hunger, malnutrition and outright starvation.

Burma, the survivors of cyclone Nargis have suffered greatly since General Than Shwe kept aid workers from reaching the vast majority of these people in the delta. How are they surviving? You would not believe it...

Inside USA travels to Haiti to look at how the stories of politics, rice and the US are deeply interwoven.

I've put together a list of articles related to G8 demonstrations currently happening in Japan. The list will be updated as new material becomes available.

Updated July 10
Includes:

• Indigenous Peoples' Declaration on G8 Summit
• G8 Accused of ‘Failing the World’ on Carbon Cuts

Crash Course: Preparing for Peak Oil
By Zachary Nowak

Reviewed by Frank Kaminski, Seattle Peak Oil Awareness (www.seattleoil.com)

We need to be prepared for the worst when it comes to peak oil, insists Zachary Nowak.

Adapted and translated from Gegenargumente Vienna 5 April 2005

"[K]nowledge of the existence of poverty is no explanation."

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.

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 world's attention in the first place. As usual it required dead bloating bodies in numbers hard to ignore before the mainstream media addressed the brutality [of] 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.

As the world finally rallies to the aid of millions stricken by the cyclone there is a hint of caution they must know. Sources within Burma have said Than Shwe has and will take all aid and resell them on the black market. The truly needy will not see any aid what so ever. It has been a common practice for this criminal government to take any aid meant for the needy and peddle it to the highest bidder.