Police Brutality is Not a Game
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On July 31st 2009 Vancouver will be hosting the World Police and Fire Games. The games is an international sporting event where police officers, firefighters, customs and correction officers compete against each other in over 65 sporting events...The Anti-Poverty Committee is calling for a mobilization against police brutality both locally and internationally, and the violence that the state perpetrates around the world everyday through police and 'correctional' facilities.
California Homeless Hold Demonstration to Demand Accomodations
July 3, 2009
On July 2, 2009, hundreds of homeless Californians marched on the Sacramento Town Hall to demand "safe ground"...It has been about three months since city officials shut down a large "tent city" occupied by Sacramento's homeless people...Now, some of the tent city's residents say they feel like refugees, with no place to go.
Anti-US Protest Marks Start of U.S. Vice-President's Trip to Iraq
By Agence France Presse - Friday, July 3, 2009
A fiery protest marked the start on Friday of US Vice President Joe Biden's visit to Iraq, with supporters of the Shiite anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr burning the Stars and Stripes...Under the Status of Forces Agreement signed in November, US commanders must now seek Iraqi permission to conduct operations, but their troops retain a unilateral right to "legitimate self-defence.
"Cruel" Ottawa Blasted as Couples Forced Apart
By Lesley Ciarula Taylor - June 30, 2009
Almost half the husbands and wives in southern China and western Africa who want to join their spouses in Canada are refused, government documents show...That's in sharp contrast to other places, such as Taiwan, where just 3 per cent of spouses who apply to be reunited with their partners in Canada are rejected..."If you fall in love with someone in an African country, God help you."
I Will Celebrate “Canada Day” When the Natives Do
By Omar Shaban - Thursday, July 2, 2009
When Canada Day is celebrated for true freedom and not mourned by the indigenous population of Canada for its colonial and dark past, I will gladly show them my support. When the country I was born in, shames me with its colonial mindset, I refuse to celebrate it, and will not apologize for refusing to do so...I WILL celebrate Canada Day, only when it is accepted as legitimate by the indigenous people.
Reviewing Marjorie Cohn and Kathleen Gilberd's "Rules of Disengagement"
Right of GIs to refuse to participate in illegal wars.
Meet Senator Jim Demint: The Coup Apologist
By NIKOLAS KOZLOFF - July 3-5, 2009
...[O]ne prominent legislator on Capitol Hill has leapt to the defense of the new coup regime which took power in Honduras on Sunday. That politician is Republican South Carolina Senator Jim Demint...It’s hardly surprising that Demint would come out for the military takeover in Honduras given that he’s been a long time booster of Central American free trade.
Comparisons Between Venezuela & Honduras: Spinning the Honduran Coup
By NIKOLAS KOZLOFF - July 2, 2009
Read or listen to the mainstream media these days and you get the impression that Sunday’s coup in Honduras was all about a simple disagreement over the constitutionality of presidential term limits. But as the coup unfolds it’s becoming clear that the authorities want something more: the restoration of Honduras’s conservative political order and an end to President Manuel Zelaya’s independent foreign policy...[O]fficials have moved quickly to restrain the free flow of information, in particular by cracking down on progressive leaning media. Only TV stations sympathetic to the newly installed coup regime have been left alone while others have been shut down.
Psychology of the Private Individual Critique of Bourgeois Consciousness (Part III)
Part 3 of 13
Chapter 2: The idealism of self-control that pays off.
Israeli Gunboats Seize Ship Carrying Aid to Gaza
By Free Gaza Movement - July 02, 2009
Today Israeli Occupation Forces attacked and boarded the Free Gaza Movement boat, the Spirit of Humanity, abducting 21 human rights workers from 11 countries, including Noble laureate Mairead Maguire and former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney...The passengers and crew are being forcibly dragged toward Israel.
Cuban Ambassador Impolite to Putschists
"I don’t remember if the term was ever used by Cervantes, but there is no doubt that ambassador Juan Carlos Hernandez has enriched our language."
--Fidel Castro
Honduran Coup Turns Violent, Sanctions Imposed
By Laura Carlsen - Znet
Thousands of Hondurans are now in the streets to protest the coup d'etat in their country. They have been met with tear gas, anti-riot rubber bullets, tanks firing water mixed with chemicals, and clubs. Police have moved in to break down barricades and soldiers used violence to push back protesters at the presidential residence, leaving an unknown number wounded.
Israeli Going to Prison for Resisting Settler & Army Violence Against Palestinians
By Ezra Nawi - July 01, 2009
My name is Ezra Nawi. I am a Jewish citizen of Israel...I will be sentenced on the first of July after being found guilty of assaulting two police officers in 2007 while struggling against the demolition of a Palestinian house in Um El Hir, located in the southern part of the West Bank...Of course the policemen who accused me of assaulting them are lying. Indeed, lying has become common within the Israeli police force, military and among the Jewish settlers.
Michael Hudson's "Super Imperialism": The Economic Strategy of Imperial America
How imperial America rules.
Resistance, Journal of the Earth Liberation Movement, Has Returned
The question has now become not what we can do, but what we must do; not what we are comfortable with, but what we are fully capable of; not what is convenient, but what is completely necessary to stop the destruction of our home.