Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 11:07:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: andrew robinson <ldxar1-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: AUT: On the barricades: world news links, forthcoming events & fun stuff
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, AND MISCELLANEOUS
CRIMETHinc – essay on 911
When the terrorists killed people, the government used the crisis to kill a little bit of all of us, by making us feel insignificant.
http://www.crimethinc.com/911/
THE NECESSITY OF REFUSAL
Article on the Israeli refuseniks, the authoritarianism of contemporary societies and the importance of refusing to obey
http://www.yellowtimes.org/article.php?sid=2012
Chaos AD, Tanks on the streets,
Confronting police, Bleeding the plebs
REFUSE! RESIST!
(lyric from Sepultura, “Chaos AD”)
CAPITALISM NEEDS REACTIVE ETHICS TO OPERATE!
Research demonstrates that belief in Hell makes capitalist economies function better
http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=04/07/28/1626242
This proves that capitalism relies on slave morality and that it cannot handle active flows of desire!
ZAPATISTAS: “THE TONGUE IS NOT MADE OUT OF BONE”
Report on the autonomous areas by a Native American delegation
http://www.nativetimes.com/index.asp?action=displayarticle&article_id=4826
SWEATSHOPS:
World Bank projects in Bali defy ILO core standards according to an official report
http://www.thejakartapost.com/yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20040727.C01
Unionising workers in call centres in India
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040726/asp/frontpage/story_3543288.asp
Working for Nike sweatshops – a worker’s perspective
http://www.asianlabour.org/archives/002360.php#more
MORO ISLAMIC LIBERATION FRONT REJECTS “TERRORIST” SLANDER
The MILF is fighting for “self-determination” (national independence) for Mindanao
The US is after the group, and so is the Phillipines government
This article includes an interview with a MILF leader as well as background on the struggle in Mindanao
http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2004/591/591p20.htm
AUSSIE PM JOHN HOWARD’S INTERESTS IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Plus a history of colonialism in the South Pacific
http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20040730/weekend.htm
Howard’s family have a long history of running colonial plantations in PNG. This is the same Howard who is now sending Aussie police to PNG. Plantations are the main imperialist interest in the South Pacific region and the reason historically for a lot of the interference in the region by western powers.
ISRAELI RACISM
Two articles, one moderate, one more militant
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/456475.html
http://www.iraq-news-net.de/?/news/news/652/
US SOLDIERS TELL STORIES ABOUT IRAQ
“We shot men with their hands up, we shot women and children”
“Your [American] tax dollars have been pumped into a lot of civilians”
“Why are we securing oil wells? Are we the EPA now?”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6556.htm
Q: HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO BE A TERRORIST AND A PROTECTED PERSON AT THE SAME TIME?
A: Anything is possible in the “war on terror”
America has simultaneously declared the Iranian group Mujehideen e-Khalq a terrorist group and a protected group
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0729/p07s01-wome.html
HAITI AFTER THE PRESS HAVE LEFT
Thabo Mbeki (or rather, his speechwriter) on Haiti since the US invasion and the return of the Duvalier terror
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/072704L.shtml
PS yes I know, Thabo Mbeki is a wanker, but this article is mostly OK
INTERVIEW WITH IRANIAN WORKER ACTIVIST
Discusses the May Day protests in Iran this year and his subsequent arrest
http://www.riff-raff.se/english/worthreading/iran_interview.html
THE CORRUPTION OF SCIENCE
34% of authors of articles in science journals have corporate interests which compromise their findings
A recent inquiry found the Bush administration manipulating science to an unprecedented extent and distorting findings for political ends
And more… http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=57&ItemID=5934
Are OPM suing for peace?
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/08/02/1091432110189.html?oneclick=true
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/08/02/1091432117925.html?oneclick=true
This has been claimed before and has always turned out to be propaganda
The OPM is decentralised so what happens in one region may not reflect general trends; ceasefires and non-violent tactics are often combined with armed resistance in West Papua
PHILLIPINES FIRST NATIONS STRUGGLES (report from Solidarity South Pacific)
PROTESTS AGAINST CANADIAN MINING COMPANY VOICED AT UNITED NATIONS
27th July 2004
Philippine Indigenous Peoples Links
Timuay Noval Lambo and Onsino Mato, both leaders of their Subanon Indigenous communities in the southern part of the Zamboanga peninsula, travelled last week to Geneva, Switzerland, to raise complaints before the United Nations. They protested that a sacred mountain and watershed was in danger from a gold mining project of Canadian mining company TVI Pacific. Reportedly TVI have been granted a Philippine Government license (Mineral Production Sharing Agreement) to develop a mine on Mount Canatuan in Siocon Municipality, Zamboanga del Norte. The company’s plans are opposed by the Subanon peoples on the site - whose homes and farms will be destroyed - and also by the Municipal Mayor Cesar Soriano and authorities of Siocon and its mixed Subanon, Moro and Christian settler communities. They fear the impacts of mine discharge on their health, and livelihoods. Siocon is an area famous for its rice production and inshore fisheries. Feelings have been running high in the community. In
March 2004 company guards fired their guns and wounded four picketers who were trying to prevent the company’s heavy equipment moving onto the site. Speaking before the 22nd session of the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations on 22nd July, Timuay (chieftain) Lambo reported their concern that the community of Canatuan was divided and suffering harm as a result of conflict over the planned mine. TVI has been repeatedly identified as proceeding without local consent, perpetrating acts of violence, militarizing the area and maintaining armed checkpoints controlling access to Canatuan. Company employees, including local Subanon, have also been killed in two attacks on company vehicles believed carried out by rebel forces operating the area.
Timuay Lambo told of the efforts of traditional leaders to deal with the problem. Between 2nd and 6th February 2004 the Gokum, or traditional court of the Subanon, was called together in Siocon. Elders and leaders from different communities in the region met to consider testimony and determine the links to this ancestral land area of the different claimants to the leadership of the Canatuan Subanon. In his statement Timuay Lambo made clear to UN experts that in the view of the Gokum: “We ruled that many of those included in the so-called Council of Elders [the body imposed on the Subanon to attempt to bring together the opposing parties] are not of the clan and blood of our ancestor Manglang, and not even originating from the Canatuan area. And therefore had no claim to be representatives of the Canatuan people.” He further reported the decision that:- “any and all agreements entered into by the ”Council of Elders“ or some members of that Council were ruled null and void. We imposed
a fine of 1 bulos (equivalent of PHP1,000) on each of those involved in the creation of a false body and misrepresentation of local structures of leadership.”
According to TVI Pacific they secured the support of the people of Canatuan for their project in a meeting of a local Council of Elders that met in November 2002 in the Atelano Pension House in Zamboanga City. Some leaders of the community have persistently denied the legitimacy of this claim and denounced the Pension house meeting and its support for TVI as a trick. Prior to the 2002 Pension House meeting the mining plan had been consistently opposed by local Subanon since TVI first entered the area in 1994. However in November 2001 Subanon, many from outside the Canatuan area, and including some who have moved there to specifically work for TVI, were recognised by the company as the true representatives of the local Subanon.
This shift in recognition was initiated by Attorney Pablo Bernardo, himself a Subanon from another district. Bernardo is on record as claiming that as the ancestral land title issued by the Government, and covering 8,000 hectares in and around Canatuan, is given to ”the Subanon of Zamboanga del Norte” that the influx of Subanon from other districts is legitimate. This assertion is strongly opposed by the traditional elders who clarify that only those with a long association with that land should have ancestral rights to it. Attorney Bernardo supports the TVI mining plans which he points out have central government support. He too attended the meeting in Geneva. Attorney Bernardo did not speak in the UN meeting but did distribute a signed letter denouncing the other Subanon who spoke in opposition to the TVI project. The letter also strongly criticises the activities of the DCMI, a church based organisation established by the bishops and church leaders of the catholic dioceses of
Dipolog, Ipil, Ozamiz, Pagadian, Iligan and Marawi and headed by Bishop José Manguiran of Dipolog. DCMI was established to focus on mining issues and its impact on communities. Attorney Bernardo accuses the church organisation of “untrue and fabricated” reporting to “justify pouring in financial assistance mostly from foreign donors”.
Timuay Lambo submitted to the UN the findings and names of the Subanon elders who met as the Gokum.“ It is vital that those who claim to represent our peoples are validated and legitimate in the eyes of their co-tribes people and especially in the eyes of the elders who guard our traditions” he said.
TVI have reportedly started to strip the surface of Mount Canatuan and the opposition leaders were appealing for an early intervention to halt the project which they claim has failed to gain local acceptance. Canatuan is rich in gold, silver, copper and other minerals. It has already yielded returns for the company who over the last two years have processed the gold rich tailings of small-scale miners who occupied the site prior to the Canadians, and are also opposed to the entry of the company. Some small-scale miners have charged the company with theft of their tailings.
MAKE YOUR MIND UP MOQTADA!!!!
Sadr says women should stay in the home and be silent, but welcomes women into his Mehdi Army as fighters
http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/9255820.htm?1c
It seems that women’s desire to be part of the struggle is overcoming their exclusion. Some even dressed as men so as to get involved in the fighting.
This report is also reminiscent of the role of women in the Algerian war of independence – women often conceal and transport weapons.
Oh, that explains it… There’s oil under Darfur…
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=2307
Marxist analysis of the Haiti situation – critical of Aristide
http://www.3bh.org.uk/IV/Issues/2004/IV359/IV359%2008.htm
Bolivia (Marxist analysis) – crisis in MAS, gas referendum, coca growers mobilising again…
http://www.marxist.com/Latinam/bolivia_after_ref0704.html
Audio recording of US Pres candidate John Kerry admitting he committed war crimes
http://www.streamload.com/jmstein77/kerry2.mp3
Looks like RFIDs might be hackable!
http://news.com.com/RFID+tags+become+hacker+target/2100-1029_3-5287912.html?tag=nefd.top
“Modernisation” contributes to floods in Bangladesh
http://www.countercurrents.org/en-muhammad310704.htm
Groundwater extraction has contributed to flooding and waterlogging
Water projects are started but never finished, World Bank has no completion records
Bank can only suggest expensive projects which it can’t carry out
Making a country with abundant free-flowing water into one which is waterlogged
BANGLADESH: On the same subject, this appeal popped up on an email list
Dear Brothers & Sisters
Bangladesh is a very small country with only 57000 sqare miles area.
But it has a large population of 145000000. Now it still is a developing country. It has been independent from Pakistan in 1971. In our country, most of literate persons are very meritorious. Democracy is wel functioning here. But unfortunately every year our people fight with flood, cyclone etc. Every year India opens the sluice gates of Farakka barrage during Monsoon when Bangladesh goes under flood water. For this reason our sufferings goes beyond description. This year they also did the same. You might have known that two-third area of our tiny fatherland is under water for last two weeks. More than 300 people have already died. More than 40 million people have been displaced. All crops have been damaged. There is some help from N.G.Os&but they are not sufficient.. Our Prime Minister Begum Khalida Zia has called for help to global community. Under the circumstances, we draw your attention to this matter.
Sincerely Yours
Musaib Hasan (Rasal)
Member of
Yahoo Surf Browser Group
84/85(Basement) Emporium Shopping Complex
253/254, Elephant Road, Katabon, Dhaka-1205,
Bangladesh. Phone : 880-2-9666650
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CALLS FOR ACTION AND FORTHCOMING EVENTS
CALL FOR ACTION: Send protest letters and emails over Gildan cut-and-run
http://www.nosweat.org.uk/article.php?sid=1007&mode=thread&order=0
CALL FOR ACTION: ACLU “thank or spank” emails to congress about Patriot Act
https://ssl.capwiz.com/aclu/issues/alert/?alertid=6147016
FORTHCOMING EVENT
PILOT TV >> Call for Participation!
PLEASE FORWARD WILDLY
PILOT TV: EXPERIMENTAL MEDIA FOR FEMINIST TRESPASS !!
Join us in Chicago, October 8-11 2004
www.pilotchicago.org
Calling on trans-activists, border crossers, and
trespassers of all kinds!
PILOT TV is a hybrid activist convergence taking the
form of a do-it-yourself television studio. We invite
you to take part in 4 days and nights of
participatory, creative problem-solving to rethink how
we “stage” protest. Help us turn a three-story
Chicago building into a fully functioning hollywood
studio, replete with fantastical sets, collaborative
crews, and improvised madness.
From: e piper forman <conductionf-AT-yahoo.com>
FORTHCOMING EVENT
North American Anarchist Convergence, Ohio, August 13-15
http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/24440/index.php
FORTHCOMING EVENT: CANADA: Protest against statist and corporate land theft from First Nations
RESISTANCE WITHOUT RESERVATION !!!
CONVERGENCE AGAINST SUNPEAKS TO PROTECT UNCEDED TERRITORIES
* We are requesting that people please book tickets in advance so we can estimate the number of buses to organize, how much food is needed etc. Also, if you are planning on going up there on your own, please do let us know as well so the community knows how many people to expect and how much billeting/food/camp ground is necessary.
SUNDAY AUG 29, 2004
Buses leave Vancouver at Broadway/ Commerical Skytrain Station (Safeway parking lot) on Saturday Aug 28, 2004 -AT- 10:30 AM sharp. Will return by Sunday night.
Tickets for buses are 5-30$ (no one turned away) We encouarge organizations sending delegates to keep in mind that the actual cost per person is 45$ per person.
Tickets can be picked up at Co-op Bookstore at 1391 Commercial Drive, Phone: 604-253-6442. Speak with Ray (available Tuesday-Saturday) or you can call 778-552-2099 or email noii-van-AT-resist.ca to arrange other pick-up. Tickets will also be sold at Under the Volanco.
Organized by Land, Freedom Decolonization Coalition
in conjunction with NYM-Secwepemc Chapter and the
Skwek'wekwelt Protection Center.
For more information, contact noii-van-AT-resist.ca or
call 778-552-2099
Sun Peaks Resort and Delta Hotels are built on Secwepemc territories that have never been ceded or surrendered. Land and Water BC disregarded the Secwepemc, who said NO to expansion in stakeholder meetings, and in June 2001 obtained a court injunction to forcibly remove Secwepemc from their homelands. The Skwelkwek’welt Protection Center, at the Resort's entrance, claims Aboriginal Title & Rights. For this exercise of rights, 54 arrests with charges from criminal contempt and intimidation by blocking a road to resisting arrest have been made. In January 2003, a BC judge found four Elders not guilty for refusal to obey an injunction to tear down the Center, and as she left court, Elder Irene Billy stated: "I always knew we were right, this is our land, and Sun Peaks and the province cannot remove us from it."
With the 2010 Olympic bid, environmental destruction and expansion on unceded territories will beperpetuated yet further. In the spirit of solidarity movements that honour front-line struggles of communities, rather than organizing actions in the city, it is imperative to escalate the fight against state and corporate colonialism on the territories itself.
TAKE BACK THE LAND! CAMPAIGN AGAINST SUNPEAKS
ONGOING PICKET, CANADA (see above for story on Met Hotel)
Daily noon-hour pickets at the Metropolitan Hotel in support of Pedro
12 noon, everyday this week! (July 26th - 31st)
Metropolitan Hotel,
108 Chestnut Street, South Of Dundas, west Of Bay
PEDRO VENEGAS’S RETURN TO WORK – WE INSIST!
FORTHCOMING EVENT, UK
Organising the UK and US Labour Movements Against War and Occupation
Public Meeting with US Labor Against the War Co-Convenor Gene Bruskin
Welcomed by Greg Tucker, RMT, National Train Crew Secretary
Thursday 5th August, 7pm
Friends Meeting House
173 Euston Road, London NW1
(opposite Euston Station)
Entrance Free/Donation £2
All welcome
UK: Africa solidarity meeting
AFRICAN LIBERATION SUPPORT CAMPAIGN NETWORK
AFRICA'S FORGOTTEN WARS: CONGO, COTE D'IVOIRE, SUDAN AND WARS IN 19
OTHER COUNTRIES
STREET MEETING Saturday 7 August 2pm
With leaflets, megaphone and music
The Narrow Way, Mare Street, London E8, between Amhurst Road and
Dalston High Street
Hackney Central overground train station
Buses 48, 55, 106 253 etc
nkexplo-AT-yahoo.co.uk 020 8341 0312
UK:Anarchist Youth Network summer gathering 2004: Birmingham, August 20th-22nd
http://www.ainfos.ca/ainfos336/ainfos14242.html
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SILLY ARTICLES OF THE WEEK
“The Aladdin owner had the right to remove Linda Rondstatd from his property. Property rights precede the rights of free speech when it is on someone else's property. You or I may not like it, some of you may, but it is Bill Timmins right. You may write a letter to him showing support or not. You may support him with your business or not. All based upon his decision to remove Linda Rondstadt from his property. This is what America is SUPPOSED to be all about folks. This is the "real" America. Standing up for things, right or wrong. God bless America. Live FREE or Die!”
This is from the Stanley Scoop, a one-man libertarian roundup by Rick Stanley, “Constitutional Patriot” and soon-to-be political prisoner. There’s sometimes some good stuff in his bulletin… but also some crap, like this. So America is “supposed to be about” corporate dictatorship, is it? How is a defender of the Constitution to choose so arbitrarily among its rights, as to which are the most important? (Keep in mind that Stanley does NOT support a corporation which fired workers for having guns in their cars…). Is dictatorship by the boss class really “freedom”? If so, then the slogan should be “live free AND die”…
What is amazing here is the way the spirit of the idea of free speech is not allowed to extend beyond the letter of the constitution – so not only is there no right to free speech in corporate-controlled spaces, there is not even an assumption that the violation of free speech in such spaces is morally problematic!
“There are also a lot of casinos who's owners don't **** around. I am aware of the First Amendment and you have the right to talk about your hatred of America but once you are on my property and you are upsetting my guests, you will quickly learn about my rights.”
Bill Timmins President Aladdin Casino and Hotel Las Vegas, NV
The owner himself, showing how easy it is to turn liberalism into fascism once right and might are fused. He relies, not on his rights, but on his might – in this case, on physical violence and discursive repression. If free speech stops where capitalist control begins, then it does not exist except as useless alibi, as repressive tolerance.
One cannot speak of rights aside from power. A discourse of rights which simply affirms the dictatorship of the powerful is no more than an alibi for dictatorship. Rights are only of value if they can be claimed AGAINST the powerful and against the repressive territorialisation of space.
Live free or die – overthrow the tyrants such as this authoritarian boss!
SILLY ARTICLE NUMBER 2: India – This reactionary authoritarian scumbag wants to make the poor who fight back against poverty pay for damage incurred in uprisings, to instil “respect for public property”
http://us.rediff.com/news/2004/jul/29rajeev.htm
This proposal would effectively criminalise protest, and dangerously, there are already precedents in a case involving rightist parties (though any such move could not harm organisations which go underground, and its likely effect would be for more organisations to mobilise in secret).
Notice how this bastard doesn’t want anything done about the cause of the uprising – the fact that a student was driven to suicide by poverty. Instead he wants to steal more money from more students! This is the distorted idea of “proportion” which capitalist barbarism induces in all its supporters. Smashed car windscreens matter; dead poor people don’t.
This scumbag also wants spy cameras everywhere – paid for by the very same people whose money he’s so concerned to protect! What a twat.
SILLY ARTICLE NUMBER 3: Another idiotic article on animal rights – protest is wrong if it affects company profits, regardless of the rights and wrongs of the issue (actually the author can’t make his mind up whether he’s worried about the poor beleaguered [!] torturers or about how much “investment” Britain is “missing out” on)
http://www.sundayherald.com/43671
This bastard wants “inflammatory” material banned and also wants it to be illegal to economically damage a company! Yet he still poses as a “democrat” and someone who respects protesters’ rights (as long as protesters are ineffectual)!
PRESS HYSTERIA AGAINST GREEK ANARCHISTS
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/07/295309.html
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AND FINALLY…
Could this be the best “commentary” yet on Bush and Kerry?
http://www.jibjab.com/thisland.html
Emergency guidelines spoofed (the government wants this spoof suppressed)
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/backbench/story/0,14158,1272425,00.html
VEGAMP is a vegan music group who have released two CDs to date. Please support them in broadcasting the horrors animals suffer in today`s society via their music: http://www.surfingtheredwave.com
Vegamp`s work includes "Animal Auschwitz" and other powerful lyrics
which expose the horrors of factory farming and vivisection.
(thanks to Anthony Walker for this link)
NO GODS NO MASTERS
An exasperated mother, whose son was always getting into mischief,
Finally asked him "How do you expect to get into Heaven?"
The boy thought it over and said, "Well, I'll run in and out and in and out and keep slamming the door until St. Peter says, 'For Heaven's sake, Dylan, come in or stay out!'"
WRITERLY READING
A little boy was doing his math homework. He said to himself,
"Two plus five, that son of a bitch is seven.
Three plus six, that son of a bitch is nine...."
His mother heard what he was saying and gasped, "What are you doing?"
The little boy answered, "I'm doing my math homework, Mom."
"And this is how your teacher taught you to do it?" the mother asked.
“Yes," he answered.
Infuriated, the mother asked the teacher the next day, "What are you teaching my son in math?"
The teacher replied, "Right now, we are learning addition."
The mother asked, "And are you teaching them to say two plus two, that son of a bitch is four?"
After the teacher stopped laughing, she answered, "What I taught them was, two plus two, THE SUM OF WHICH, is four."
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