Earlier this week, the pigs & the city of Guelph issued an ultimatum to us - leave your home or face a violent eviction. We have been living on abandoned prison land for the past year & when the pigs come to enforce the eviction Monday August 25th, we will all be left homeless & the connection with the land we have been building will be severed.

Nicole Visschedyk | Mercury Staff

City serves notice

Young people living off the grid instructed to move elsewhere.

By Barbara Ehrenreich - July, 31 2008

Suicide is becoming an increasingly popular response to debt...Death is an effective remedy for debt, along with anything else that may be bothering you...And try to think of it too from a lofty, corner-office, perspective: If you can't pay your debts or afford to play your role as a consumer, and if, in addition -- like an ever-rising number of Americans -- you're no longer needed at the workplace, then there's no further point to your existence...The alternative is to value yourself more than any amount of money and turn the guns...in the other direction. It wasn't God, or some abstract economic climate change, that caused the credit crisis. Actual humans...did that...

By JONATHAN COOK - July 26/27, 2008

It must be the smallest Israeli settlement in the occupied Palestinian territories: just half a house. But Palestinian officials and Israeli human rights groups are concerned that it represents the first stage of a plan to eradicate the historical neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem, cutting off one of the main routes by which Palestinians reach the Old City and its holy sites.

TREATIES, COLONIZATION & RESISTANCE:
July 14th, 2008, 7:30 pm
Open to the Public.

In 1858, the new colony's governor, Sir James Douglas, read the official proclamation that cemented the colony of 'BC'. In 1974 a provincial secretary for 'BC' stated:

"We feel that a holiday should be dedicated to the pioneers who built the colony of British Columbia..."

by Kelly Cryderman; Tuesday, July 01, 2008 - Calgary Herald

A provincial emergency fund designed to help renters in dire straits has ballooned to more than six times its original size -- going to $43.5 million from the $7 million announced by the Stelmach government.

This a critical moment and this action requires your support -

"A-wake": A Procession to STOP CONCORD PACIFIC'S "DISCOVERY" OF THE DTES

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Saturday July 5th
Meet at 2 pm
Pigeon Park (Hastings and Carrall)
EVERYONE WELCOME! COME OUT!
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TORONTO -- Canadian security officials kept a close watch on aboriginal rights protests across the country last summer, fearing violence and disruption, according to newly declassified government documents.

Intelligence reports obtained by National Post reveal for the first time how the Canadian government tracked "ongoing and planned protests" by First Nations and their supporters from British Columbia to the Maritimes.

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.

Today we went to City Hall to demand that Mayor David Miller immediately restore shelter beds in the downtown east side. We've lost over 350 shelter beds in the downtown core, and tens of thousands of meals over the past year, and the City has done nothing.

An essay on the May 2008 pogroms in South Africa

The state is, again, sending in bulldozers and men with guns to move the poor from central shack settlements to peripheral townships.

While the APC was creating havoc for the hotel security outside by chanting and handing out propaganda, one APC member...managed to sneak inside past the pigs, and pundits, the suits, and the security guards. [She] grabbed a pitcher of pop and walked...over to the Mayor. Raising her voice she declared, “Here’s to Civil City!” and promptly poured the pitcher over Sam Sullivan’s head...

ST. JOHNS, Quebec – More than 100 Innu families who are now occupying and using their aboriginal homeland in Newfoundland Labrador recently received eviction notices from the provincial government of Newfoundland Labrador. The Removal Notices direct Innu families to "remove all structures from Crown land and restore the site to its original conditions within 60 days of notice." Failure to do so will result in the Crown Lands Division demolishing their homes and charging the costs of demolition to the Innu families.

May 29, 2008

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA – We the Members from the Musqueam Nation, hereby known as the “Musqueam Membership Movement” are standing together today in unity in a peaceful occupation of the Musqueam Band Office in Vancouver, B.C.

The American Nightmare has no boundaries as it were. I had just recently moved to a new domicile and was talking with the telephone technician working on my phone line. We were talking shop and I happened to mention I was a journalist. I told him of my exploits interviewing everyday people around the country. Then I mentioned the sad tales of the “New Homeless” and how their high tech and engineering jobs were being sent to third world countries. I also mentioned the foreclosure fiasco and all the people living in RV’s or traveling to family members or friends to live out this non recession. Then he looked at me with the all too familiar look of loss I’ve seen over these last few months.