CHINA IS ABOUT TO FUCKING EXPLODE-20,000 RIOT IN ZSHUSHAN

A student was killed and at least 60 people were injured in central China when villagers armed with bricks and rocks clashed with baton-wielding police over rising bus fares.

read it: libcom news article

***there over 100,000 incidences of civil unrest such as this a year in China. I give it two, maybe three years, but shit there is going to blow up. And you can bet the bastards on top won't go easily. The question is this: Will the United States condemn one of its top trading partners when People's Republic soldiers start gunning down civilians? Call me cynical, but I bet not.***

There's a Voting Rights Forum this Thursday at 7:30, at Seattle First Baptist Church. The 'Democratic Process' as it is practiced in this country may be better regulated than Nigeria but the basic principles of discrimination are still alive and kicking...here's what the group that's putting on the forum have to say:

"Citizens in Washington D.C. do not have full voting rights. Thousands of persons convicted of felonies who are not incarcerated do not have the right to vote in Washington State. Other voting restrictions place a burden on voters at the polls, particularly low-income, immigrant and minority citizens.

Moderated by Dorry Elias-Garcia, speakers will discuss current restrictions on voting and share personal experiences. Special guests include Ellen Berg, Bill Crepeau, Nadine Shiroma and Nancy Talner.

Co-sponsored by the ACLU of Washington, the Minority Executive Directors Coalition (MEDC), Raising Our Asian Pacific American Representation (ROAR) and the Hate Free Zone."

Check out more info on the event: http://lwvsea.brinkster.net/forum2.asp?id=366

The U.S. military and intelligence agencies continue to believe that they're beyond the realm of human rights and the Geneva Convention. Hit up the link to read more about illegal extraordinary rendition of African 'terror suspects'.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032307O.shtml

Arctic in danger

The Arctic is the newest spot endangered by Global Warming.

"Pollution from industrialized countries is heating the Arctic atmosphere faster than any region on Earth, a new study warns.

European researchers writing in today's issue of the journal Science report that temperature spikes in the Arctic are mainly caused by "human-induced emissions of long-lived greenhouse gases."

Ship emissions, smoke from summer forest fires, and air pollutants such as aerosols and ozone coming from the lower latitudes are contributing to "significant warming trends," the report authors say."

Better start learning how to swim. Check out the original: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/03/070316-arctic-pollution.html

Anti-Starbucks

If you're ever in the UK make sure to check out this site first...called "the delocator" it attempts to match you up with non-corporate coffee stores in any post code in the country! A must for the consumate traveller!

http://www.delocator.org.uk/

Iraq War, Ya Know...

Though the Bush administration can’t figure out how to win in Iraq, it is scoring a big victory on the public relations battlefield with its favorite myth: If you cut funding for the war you are not “supporting our troops.” If you support the troops you have to keep on paying billions for a failed war.

To believe that one, you’ve got to believe several other myths.

Myth one: The Bush administration does support the troops. In fact, of course, they’ve shorted the troops on everything from body armor to medical care for four years now.

Myth two: The only way to support the troops is to put them at risk of death or grievous injury and leave them there, for no good reason. If that’s “support,” then I’m glad I’m not being supported.

Myth three: Either we keep war funding at its present astronomical level or we won’t be supporting the troops at all. In fact, there is plenty of room to find a middle ground, to cut the funding by some amount yet still give the troops what they need to stay safe.

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0315-22.htm

Global Warming Marches On...

The poor of other countries are now paying for the consumption of the West. In particular the subsistence and traditional farmers of low-lying coastal areas are suffering as their farmland is submerged; the islanders of India have been the latest to feel it.

Top climate experts on the UN panel predicted that temperatures would increase by between 1.8 and 4 Celsius (3.2 and 7.8 Fahrenheit), and sea levels would rise by between 7 and 23 inches to submerge islands in the 21st century.

The impact could be even greater if ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland thaw.

But in India they're already suffering...

Two nearby islands disappeared beneath the sea after residents were forced to leave, and the sea has swallowed about 100 sq. km of mangrove forest in three decades in the Sunderbans.

Now would be the time to notice!

Check out the original at http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031907P.shtml

Oppression in Chiapas

The poorest in Mexico's poorest state face yet more government sponsored oppression. The latest in a long line of sanctioned violence against the indigenous people of the Americas.

http://www.ainfos.ca:81/en/ainfos19215.html

Anarchist Bookfair

An anarchist bookfair, art exhibition, and film festival is being held in Manhattan on April 14th. Awesome!

http://www.ainfos.ca:81/en/ainfos19218.html

Hindus Defy Pollution to Bathe in Ganges Festival

**What does it say about our world and our culture that a sacred rite dating to over 2,000 years ago is threatened because we insist on constantly poisoning our earth? Well, that it's, um, FUCKED UP!**

ALLAHABAD, India -- Hindu holy men brandishing spears and tridents charged into the sacred Ganges on Monday, after threats to boycott the world's largest religious festival over pollution failed to dent devotees' fervour.

Industrial discharges, sewage, pesticides and the rotting remains of dead bodies have increased pollution levels in the Ganges over the years despite government promises to clean-up India's most sacred river.

more here: http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=12032

Christian Right- Stop Concern over Climate Change, Resume Gay-bashing

**Apparently the religious fascists on the right are wary of any diversion to their goals of seizing control over the bodies of women and queer folks. At the risk of sounding too militant or hateful, this is the enemy, kids.**

Leaders of several conservative Christian groups have sent a letter urging the National Association of Evangelicals to force its policy director in Washington to stop speaking out on global warming.

The conservative leaders say they are not convinced that global warming is human-induced or that human intervention can prevent it. And they accuse the director, the Rev. Richard Cizik, the association’s vice president for government affairs, of diverting the evangelical movement from what they deem more important issues, like abortion and homosexuality.

Read all about it: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0303-05.htm

Market collapses for patriotic merchandise

**Interesting story about a drop in demand for nationalistic slogans and memorabilia now that the war in Iraq has taken a turn for the worse.
Apparently people are only gung-ho for amerika when it's winning.**

For three years after the invasion of Iraq, it was difficult to drive more
than a few miles through middle America without seeing a car displaying a
magnetic yellow ribbon.

The magnets, bearing the slogan "Support Our Troops", became a symbol of
patriotism for millions of US motorists.

But as support for the war fades, demand for yellow ribbons has collapsed.

Magnet America, the largest manufacturer of the product, has seen sales fall
from a peak of 1.2m in August 2004 to about 4,000 a month and now has an
unsold stockpile of about 1m magnets.

read the full story at: http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20070302222500507