[URGENT] Quebec Cops Attack Peaceful Algonquin Blockade
...[D]ozens of riot cops over-ran the families who were peacefully demonstrating. Riot cops surrounded the area, and launched tear gas canisters, one of which hit a child in the chest. Nine people, including an elder, a pregnant woman, and two minors, were arrested. Eight demonstrators remained locked down to concrete-filled barrels, but police used "pain compliance"...to force them to let go, and be arrested...The blockade has been violently dismantled, but the need to apply pressure to the government has become more urgent. Please take a few minutes to show your support.
[Vancouver] Tools For Social Movements Workshop Series: Defending Yourself Against the Law
Part of the Tools For Social Movements Workshop Series..
PLEASE NOTE *** LOCATION CHANGE *** FOR THIS FIRST WORKSHOP
* Also Space might be limited since these are workshop format, so please register early (The Economics 101 Workshop is already FULL!) - see below for details.
MONDAY OCTOBER 13 FROM 6-9 PM.
LORE KRILL BUILDING (65 WEST CORDOVA) - not SFU Harbour Centre
[Montréal] Manif Contre la Brutalité Policière
Il y a deux mois, Fredy était assassiné de trois balles dans Montréal-Nord.
Il y a un an, Quilem était tué de six décharges de taser dans St-Michel.
PLUS JAMAIS!
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11 OCTOBRE 2008
GRANDE MANIFESTATION FAMILIALE
14h au parc Pilon (coin Henri-Bourassa et Pie-IX)
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Reports Link Hamid Karzai's Brother to Afghan Heroin Trade
By JAMES RISEN - New York Times
When Afghan security forces found an enormous cache of heroin hidden beneath concrete blocks in a tractor-trailer outside Kandahar in 2004, the local Afghan commander quickly impounded the truck and notified his boss...Before long, the commander...received a telephone call from Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of President Hamid Karzai, asking him to release the vehicle and the drugs...He said he complied after getting a phone call from an aide to President Karzai directing him to release the truck...[A]llegations that [Ahmed Wali Karzai] has benefited from narcotics trafficking have circulated widely in Afghanistan.
Torture in the 21st Century
By Deepak Tripathi - October 05, 2008
The 'war on terror' had left a long trail of human rights abuses and created deep divisions that cast a shadow on international relations, making the world more dangerous. In one of the strongest repudiations of the policies of Western governments, the Secretary-General of Amnesty [International], Irene Khan, said: "The politics of fear are fuelling a downward spiral of human rights abuses in which no right is sacrosanct and no person safe." She accused these governments of adopting policies which undermine the rule of law, feed racism and xenophobia, divide communities, intensify inequalities and sow the seeds for more violence and conflict.
Invasion of the Sea-Smurfs
By Amy Goodman - October 05, 2008
A little-noticed story surfaced a couple of weeks ago in the Army Times newspaper about the 3rd Infantry Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team. "Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months...the 1st BCT will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command, as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks...[T]hey may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control"...The force will be called the chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive Consequence Management Response Force. Its acronym, CCMRF, is pronounced "sea-smurf."
[Update] U.S. Prosecutors File New Charges Against John Graham
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — U.S. prosecutors filed a new complaint Friday against a Vancouver man less than two hours after a judge dismissed the indictment in the slaying of a Canadian Mi'kmaq woman 32 years ago.
[Note From MW: Our thoughts go out to John and his family at this time of initial relief followed by profound disappointment.]
Charges Against John Graham Dismissed
John Graham, a onetime member of the activist American Indian Movement group, was accused of killing fellow AIM member Annie Mae Pictou-Aquash of Pictou, N.S., at the Pine Ridge Indian reservation around Dec. 12, 1975. Her body was found the following February...Graham, a Southern Tsimshian, has pleaded not guilty to the first-degree murder of Aquash, a Mi'kmaq.
As Crime Increases in Kabul, So Does Nostalgia for the Taliban
By Pamela Constable - Washington Post Foreign Service
While Taliban insurgents stage increasing attacks in the Afghan countryside, equally fast-expanding violent crime -- kidnappings, carjackings, drug-related killings and highway robberies -- is plaguing the capital of 5 million and the vital truck and bus routes that connect the country's major cities. It is making some Afghans nostalgic for the low-crime days before 2001, when the Taliban sternly ruled most of the country.
Journalist Discloses "Shocking" Details of Israeli-PA Security Meeting
by Khaled Amayreh - September 24th, 2008
Nahom Barnea is a prominent Israeli journalist and regular columnist at the mass-circulation newspaper, Yediot Ahronot. On Friday, 19 September, he revealed shocking details of a recent “security coordination” meeting between Israeli and Palestinian [Administration] security commanders...The following is a verbatim translation of Barnea’s report as published in Yediot Ahronot:
Stopping the Solvents in Whitedog
In Wabseemoong First Nation (near Kenora), youth have established a road block to the community, searching vehicles for drugs. Leader Henry Fisher Jr. said Monday: "We want a change in our community, as we do not want to have any more youth harmed by these addictive substances".
Celebrating Police Brutality: Denver Cops Sell "Beat the Crowds" T-Shirts
By Ernest Luning - Colorado Independent
Protest groups are demanding Denver police halt the sale and discipline anyone responsible for the creation of a “commemorative” [Democratic National Convention] T-shirt distributed to officers featuring a baseball-bat wielding cop and the slogan “WE GET UP EARLY to BEAT the Crowds 2008 DNC”...The black T-shirt...has been available for sale since the week after the convention at the office of the Denver Police Protective Association, a union representing most of Denver’s 1,400 police officers...
Shame on Us: The U.S. War Against Unarmed Working Mothers
By Bill Quigley - Znet
What the hell is going on? How many working mothers and fathers and children must be sacrificed in this election year war?...Does the U.S. feel so vulnerable that we really need to declare war on unarmed working mothers and conduct paramilitary raids on bakeries, candle shops, and meatpacking plants in order to feel safe? Shame on us.
Burma’s Mixed Signal
Renowned journalist and founder of the National League for Democracy U Win Tin [was] released from infamous Insein Prison after 19 years of false imprisonment. Also included in this surprising act of humanity were NLA dignitaries Dau May Win Maung, Aung Soe Myint, U Aye Thin as well as 9,000 other prisoners. Obviously not included on this list was Aung San Suu Kyi.
[Vancouver] Benefit Show in Solidarity With John Graham
Please distribute far and wide.
Resistance on Trial: FREE John Graham.
A benefit show in solidarity.
Featuring:
JASON BURNSTICK
ECHOLALIA
ERICA MAH
and SPECIAL GUESTS!
Cafe deux Soleils (2096 Commercial Drive)
October 1st @ 8:30 pm
$5-15 sliding scale (all donations go directly to John's family for traveling to South Dakota for his trial.)