Sunday September 14 - Tour de Fun

Le samedi 16 août, un grand Reclaim the streets aura lieu à Anvers dans le cadre de la première édition du KlimaatAxieKamp (camp d'action pour le climat). Par cette action directe et ludique, nous voulons montrer notre mécontentement face aux choix obtus dans le dossier du Lange Wapper, un projet controversé qui prévoit la construction d'un viaduc au-dessus de la ville d'Anvers.

NEW YORK - A New York City police officer has been stripped of his badge and gun after a video posted on YouTube showed him body-checking a[n apparently random] bicyclist who was part of a Times Square demonstration.

By Peter Gelderloos - July 23, 2008

When the bus drivers of Barcelona took to the picket lines under the red and black flag, not seventy years ago but just these past months, it was an occasion for excitement and an opportunity to learn about the relevance of radical syndicalism in a post-industrial world. Catalunya has a culture and history that make it a likely spot for a major anarcho-syndicalist transportation strike, but on the other hand we should not romanticize it so much to imagine it as much different from the rest of the hyper-consumerist, alienated Global North.

By Jerry White

Barry Steinhardt, director of the ACLU’s Technology and Liberty Program, said, “America’s new million record watch list is a perfect symbol for what’s wrong with this administration’s approach to security: it’s unfair, out-of-control, a waste of resources, treats the rights of the innocent as an afterthought, and is a very real impediment in the lives of millions of travelers in this country. It must be fixed without delay.

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS; July 17, 2008 - Counterpunch

What the “watch list” or “no-fly list” is doing is training Americans to submit to warrantless searches, to abandon their constitutional rights, and to submit to humiliation by thugs and bullies. A Gestapo is being trained to have no qualms about searching and intimidating fellow citizens, using any excuse to delay or arrest them. Americans are being taught to use arbitrary power and to submit to arbitrary power.

- please forward widely. EMERGENCY ACTION -

CONFRONT THEIR ECONOMIC REGION:
Demonstration Opposing the Pacific NorthWest Economic Region (PNWER)

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Sunday July 20th 5:00 pm
Westin Bayshore Hotel
1601 Bayshore Drive, Vancouver
(two blocks east of Denman and one block north of West Georgia)
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By ROBERT WEISSMAN - June 24, 2008

Private and corporate jet sales are taking off, reflecting an increase in the extreme concentration of wealth in the United States and around the world...But where luxury items like a fancy bottle of wine...are simply a private extravagance, private jet use imposes real costs on everyone who isn't a high flyer -- and on the planet...If such heavy-polluting opulence is to be permitted at all, the super-rich should pay a stiff price for the privilege.

By STEVEN HIGGS - July 1, 2008

After 18 years of high crimes and misdemeanors being perpetrated upon Indiana citizens by politicians from both political parties, someone finally went to jail over the I-69 NAFTA Highway...The "criminals"...came to Southwest Indiana from across the country, signaling that the I-69 NAFTA Highway is a focal point for populist resistance against global corporations and their political enablers who will destroy anything, including citizen property and lives, in pursuit of wealth and power.

Despite a setback, the North American Union SuperCorridor remains viable.

Seattle's Wooden Boat Center offers an amazing wealth of skill sharing, story telling, and maritime history. The WBC offers not only "float in" movies, like drive ins movies with cars, but with boats, but they also offer a trade system where you can volunteer and trade those hours for free sailing lessons, free sailboat rentals, etc. The WBC also has wooden boat building classes and even has a family sailboat building class where families make their own boats...

The planned SkyTrain subway spur along Broadway and out to the University of British Columbia campus will cost taxpayers 15 times what it would take to build a tram line along the same route.

In fact, for the $2.8 billion cost of the single 12 kilometre SkyTrain tube from Commercial Drive to UBC, Vancouver could build 175 km of tram lines crisscrossing the city and beyond.

80% of all goods shipped via truck were delivered by independents. But this will soon come to an end as soaring fuel prices and the cost of operation, eliminates this industry.

Owning a car is not only bad for the environment, it's bad for your pocket book, but living without one is not always easy. For those who need more convenience and flexibility than walking, biking or public transit can provide, car sharing is a practical alternative.

Dock Workers' StrikeBy Fred Williams

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) carried out an eight-hour work stoppage at West Coast ports on May 1 to demand an end to the war in Iraq.