Compadres in Bellingham Throw Down

This Saturday, February 24th, over 100 people rallied in front of Bellingham, WA's Military Recruitment Center demanding an end to both the US occupation of Iraq and military recruitment in schools. The event, called in part by Northwest Students for a Democratic Society, was done in coordination with similar actions in both Tacoma and Olympia.

full article:
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20070225150214203

Word to B-ham.
Some cool stuff going on these days.

Constitutionary Politics

"...whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness."

"...when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government..."

Lines from the Constitution. Which governs you, for right or wrong. So why don't we listen to these lines quite as hard?

US blows infrastructure to shit!

Came across this while reading the anarchist blog tothebarricades. Kinda sad article. Note:

Millions of Iraqis lack potable water and live with bad sewage systems, which have increased the incidence of waterborne diseases such as diarrhoea.

"The water shortage is a real problem in some parts of Iraq as a large part of the country is desert. But the existing networks have also suffered from lack of maintenance or by being destroyed during the war," said Cedric Turlan, information officer for the NGOs Coordination Committee in Iraq (NCCI).

According to the Ministry of Water Resources, only 32 percent of the Iraqi population has access to clean drinking water, and only 19 percent has access to a good sewage system.


http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/47680f1705a41755f52cc54b99ad50ae.htm

Israel gets a CO

Israel has recognized a Conscientious Objector for the first time in its history. Those who refuse to join the IDF have been ostracized from Israeli society...read more! http://www.ainfos.ca:81/en/ainfos19125.html

The White House fucks over Guantanamo again!

Detainees at Guantanamo Bay were denied the right to protest their imprisonment on the basis that their right to Habeas Corpus had been revoked by the Military Commissions Act...which was passed by Congress and thus the law of the land. Hold up...does Congress really have the right to legislate the rights of the citizens of other countries, let alone ours? This story lays bare the limits of the Representative Democracy, the Bush administration's foreign policy, the influence of the military in Washington, blah blah blah...

Check out what Amnesty International has to say about it the recent Guantanamo issue.

http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.do?id=ENGAMR510302007

Israeli activist sentenced

In our 4th issue we brought you the story of activists in Israel who protested the construction of a separation fence. Read more about how an activist was convicted for his part in the protests. Note the Judge's words: "it saddens me that a mature and articulate individual has come to the conclusion that the only way he can express his opinions is through the violation of the law, even if the law does not seem appropriate."

That's what we're all about boys and girls...as Henry David Thoreau said: "Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/827284.html

Native Americans Still Victims

Ever since the BIA forced Native Americans to give up their children to white-run boarding schools designed to indoctrinate the youth, education has been the first line of the offensive against Native American culture and prosperity. As this article shows, that spirit is still alive and kicking in the Dakotas and the Midwest: http://www.progressive.org/mag_pember0207?page=0%2C0

We fight to save the wilderness

If we don't fight for the wild, our grandchildren will never know it.

Greenpeace

Greenpeace is keeping up it's usual barrage of symbolic protests to save the environment. Kimberly-Clark, the company that manufactures Kleenex, continues to turn ancient-growth forests into tissues. On February 12th it found itself a target ( http://kleercut.net/en/kc-lockdown ).

Who's reading your email?

Not content with tapping phones, the United States government has evidently decided to make sure no-one plans a revolution in cyberspace. Yet more civil liberties violated in the name of 'National Security', the buzzword that seems to waive everybody's rights these days. read more: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021507U.shtml

Is Iran Next?

Sure looks like the good ol' boys of the Pentagon and White House are gearing up for another good ol' war. Apparently one Mid-east disaster wasn't enough. Round up the cannon fodder. The chickenhawks are ready to go.

The link below is pretty interesting. It's kind of a U.S. government propaganda clearinghouse, with links to dozens of articles on attempted justification of an attack on Iran. Check it:

http://shiftshapers.gnn.tv/blogs/21670/Propaganda_Extravaganza_Redux_Target_Iran

Orlando Neo-Nazi rally organized by FBI informant

Fucked up.
But sadly, not entirely surprising.
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A paid FBI informant was the man behind a neo-Nazi march through the streets of Parramore that stirred up anxiety in Orlando's black community and fears of racial unrest that triggered a major police mobilization. That revelation came Wednesday in an unrelated federal court hearing and has prompted outrage from black leaders, some of whom demanded an investigation into whether the February 2006 march was, itself, an event staged by law-enforcement agencies.

Read the full story:
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20070215141516763

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