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It goes without saying that there's no smoking in class. But there is a good deal of sniffing of leaves, discussion of the finer points of inhaling and debate over which plant gives the biggest hit.
By Nancy Davies - November 21, 2009
Inhabitants of San José del Progreso...affiliated with the Assembly of People United for the Valley of Ocotlán in Defense of Nature and Popular Autonomy, and opposed to the operation of the Canadian owned mine “La Trinidad”, escalated their battle with the assistance of the Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca, the APPO. They occupied the town hall (Palacio Municipal) on the afternoon of November 18...They also demand cancellation of the mining operations because [the Municipal President] authorized the mine’s operations without consent [from] the town’s inhabitants.
These conditions are a flagrant violation of article 6 of the U.S. Constitution which affirms that treaty law (i.e. international law) is the “supreme law of the land.” Thus, article 10 (3) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights stipulates that “The penitentiary system shall comprise treatment of prisoners the essential aim of which shall be their reformation and social rehabilitation.”
In the week leading up to the Olympic Torch Relay kick-off in Victoria, numerous people, who oppose the Olympics, were harassed by RCMP officers of the Vancouver 2010 Joint Intelligence Group (JIG) – an arm of Olympic Security. This same group of RCMP is likely following the torch across the country. Resistance sympathizers in other locations may face similar police tactics.
By JONATHAN COOK - November 20-22, 2009
A plan by right-wing legislators in Israel to commemorate the anniversary this month of the death of Meir Kahane, whose banned anti-Arab movement is classified as a terrorist organization, risks further damaging the prospects for talks between Israel and the Palestinians...“What we have is in effect a terrorist cell in the parliament.”
Check out our new video interview with Robert King & Terry Kupers filmed in Oakland, CA in October 2009. This is just the first part, so please stay tuned for more, and if you can please help spread the word about our new video series which spotlights the issues central to the story of the Angola 3, like racism, repression, prisons, human rights, solitary confinement as torture, and more.
The quiet community of Hornby Island, B.C., has been rocked by the death of a popular young performer, whose body was found floating at a local marina on Wednesday morning...Friend Melisa Devost said Tempest Grace Gale was a musician, poet and stilt-walker, who would be remembered as a popular performer..."[S]he just was so captivating and so honest and true...probably the most genuine person I could think of."
November 21, 2009
The Olympic torch arrived in Halifax today and at least some of the city's residents did not give it a warm welcome..."Politicans appeal to our love of sport to promote the Olympics...But the Olympics are really about profit-making for corporate sponsors and big business."
By Noam Chomsky and Diane Krauthamer - November 20, 2009
"These people think, 'I've done everything right all my life, I'm a god-fearing Christian, I'm white, I'm male, I've worked hard...[a]nd I'm getting shafted.' And in fact they are getting shafted. For 30 years their wages have stagnated or declined, the social conditions have worsened...so somebody must be doing something to them, and they want to know who it is. Well Rush Limbaugh has answered - it's the rich liberals who own the banks and run the government, and [who] run the media, and they don't care about you—they just want to give everything away to illegal immigrants and gays and communists..."
By Monte Paulsen - 19 November 2009
If 150 people join the ranks of the homeless each month, that's 1,800 new homeless people a year -- just in Surrey. If that figure is even in the ballpark, then Surrey's homeless population has almost certainly surpassed Vancouver's.
