"Processed Meats Declared Too Dangerous For Human Consumption"

"The World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) has just completed a detailed review of more than 7,000 clinical studies covering links between diet and cancer. Its conclusion is rocking the health world with startling bluntness: Processed meats are too dangerous for human consumption. Consumers should stop buying and eating all processed meat products for the rest of their lives.

Processed meats include bacon, sausage, hot dogs, sandwich meat, packaged ham, pepperoni, salami and virtually all red meat used in frozen prepared meals. They are usually manufactured with a carcinogenic ingredient known as sodium nitrite. This is used as a color fixer by meat companies to turn packaged meats a bright red color so they look fresh. Unfortunately, sodium nitrite also results in the formation of cancer-causing nitrosamines in the human body. And this leads to a sharp increase in cancer risk for those who eat them.

A 2005 University of Hawaii study found that processed meats increase the risk of pancreatic cancer by 67 percent. Another study revealed that every 50 grams of processed meat consumed daily increases the risk of colorectal cancer by 50 percent. These are alarming numbers. Note that these cancer risks do not come from eating fresh, non-processed meats. They only appear in people who regularly consume processed meat products containing sodium nitrite.

Sodium nitrite appears predominantly in red meat products (you won't find it in chicken or fish products). Here's a short list of food items to check carefully for sodium nitrite and monosodium glutamate (MSG), another dangerous additive:

* Beef jerky
* Bacon
* Sausage
* Hot dogs
* Sandwich meat
* Frozen pizza with meat
* Canned soups with meat
* Frozen meals with meat
* Ravioli and meat pasta foods
* Kid's meals containing red meat
* Sandwich meat used at popular restaurants
* Nearly all red meats sold at public schools, restaurants, hospitals, hotels and theme parks

If sodium nitrite is so dangerous to humans, why do the FDA and USDA continue to allow this cancer-causing chemical to be used? The answer, of course, is that food industry interests now dominate the actions by U.S. government regulators. The USDA, for example, tried to ban sodium nitrite in the late 1970's but was overridden by the meat industry. It insisted the chemical was safe and accused the USDA of trying to "ban bacon." Today, the corporations that dominate American food and agricultural interests hold tremendous influence over the FDA and USDA. Consumers are offered no real protection from dangerous chemicals intentionally added to foods, medicines and personal care products.

You can protect yourself and your family from the dangers of processed meats by following a few simple rules:

1. Always read ingredient labels.
2. Don't buy anything made with sodium nitrite or monosodium glutamate.
3. Don't eat red meats served by restaurants, schools, hospitals, hotels or other institutions.

And finally, eat more fresh produce with every meal. There is evidence that natural vitamin C found in citrus fruits and exotic berries (like camu camu) helps prevent the formation of cancer-causing nitrosamines, protecting you from the devastating health effects of sodium nitrite in processed meats. The best defense, of course, is to avoid eating processed meats altogether."

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The World Cancer Research Fund website offers that "To reduce your cancer risk, eat no more than 500g (cooked weight) per week of red meats, like beef, pork and lamb, and avoid processed meats such as ham, bacon, salami, hot dogs and some sausages." Note: avoid means do not consume.

And here's another scientific study exploring the link between cancer and processed meats.

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ORIGINAL SOURCE: Total Health Breakthroughs

Urgent Support Needed [Forest Defense]

"Greetings from a camp of people defending one of southern Ontario’s last Old Growth forest parcels. This particular situation has many points of interest that converge to make it a very very important issue. This is bigger than this one particular construction contract, and it is bigger than all of us on the site right now. This is a principled stand on the side of the earth, on the side of life. We all need a healthy landbase to survive and this current occupation is for us all.

As you can see from the below post, the city wants people to leave the construction site so they can continue building infrastructure for a 675-acre industrial park. They are currently mowing some grass in a distant meadow to build us a ‘protest pen’. They haven’t told us anything about it, but in the paper they say we can set up a camp far from the construction site. What they don’t understand is that the purpose of our occupation is to protect this land from this construction/destruction.

The City of Guelph says we are ‘trespassing’. They forget, or don’t realize, that the founders of Guelph were trespassing when they cut down the forests, dammed the rivers, and built their churches, bars, mills, and homes. This has all gone on too long. We are the generation who needs to take a stand and protect this earth from those who would continue it’s destruction – and now under the guise of a business park ‘necessary for economic growth’.

Come out to the site. Give us a call on one of our phones (519-82... and 519-820-6239) and join us. The more of us there are, the safer we all are. We need the City to understand just how many people are standing together on this one. There are lots of amazing people, good food, water, and camaraderie. Note: we are technically trespassing under Canadian law, which warrants a small ticketable offence. It is not the same as a criminal offence. There will be adequate opportunity for anyone to be safe from arrest. We have a competent police liason and vast public support on our side.

Here is a link to a map. We are just on Downey Rd., just south of Teal: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=101874770457439416142.000465705f818967c7c60&ie=UTF8&ll=43.488124,-80.22459&spn=0.030887,0.070639&z=14.

With love,

the Land Defenders at the Hanlon Creek"

ORIGINAL SOURCE: Hanlon Creek Business Park Occupation News
Link: http://hcbpoccupation.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/urgent-support-needed/
MORE INFO: http://twitter.com/oldgrowthguelph

[Retired Indonesian Military General Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono] Implicated In Cover Up Of Ambush Murder Of U.S. Citizens

Eben Kirksey, Ph.D., University of California (Santa Cruz)

+1.831.429.8276 or +1.831.600.5937 (English or Bahasa Indonesia)

Paula Makabory, Institute of Papuan Advocacy and Human Rights (Melbourne)

+61.402.547.517 (English or Bahasa Indoneisa)

John M. Miller, East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (New York)

+1.718.596.7668 (English)

1 July, 2009 - Previously secret U.S. State Department documents implicate the President of Indonesia in a probable cover-up of an ambush in West Papua. The documents show Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who is running for reelection on July 8, maneuvering behind the scenes to manage the investigation into the August 2002 murder of three teachers—one Indonesian and two U.S. citizens.

Yudhoyono brought politics into a case that should have just been about forensic facts,” said Dr. Eben Kirksey, an anthropologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz and a regional specialist. “The documents reveal that Yudhoyono initially stalled attempts by the FBI to launch an independent investigation,” he continued. The U.S. Congress, outraged at these stalling tactics, blocked funds for Indonesian military training until there was cooperation with the FBI.

The documents released today add a new twist to a hotly contested Presidential race.

Yudhoyono is not the only controversial former soldier running in the presidential election,” said John M. Miller, National Coordinator of the East Timor and Indonesia Action Network. “Vice presidential candidates and former generals Wiranto and Prabowo Subianto were involved in well-documented human rights crimes in East Timor and throughout Indonesia.”

When a police investigation implicated Indonesian military shooters as the likely murderers of the schoolteachers, Yudhoyono became involved. Yudhoyono, a retired General and then the Coordinating Minister of Political and Security Affairs, wrote to the Charge D'Affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta that “I have dispatched a fact finding team led by one of my deputies to Timika and its surrounding (sic), to find additional information and other related facts especially on a broader political and security aspects of the incident.” Timika, the site of the attack, is in the remote province of Papua, where U.S. mining giant Freeport McMoRan (FCX) operates a concession.

Yudhoyono’s stalling tactics let the Indonesian military cover their tracks,” said Paula Makabory, a Papuan human rights activist who founded the Institute of Papuan Advocacy and Human Rights in Australia. “The ‘fact finders’ under his command systematically intimidated witnesses and tampered with material evidence,” Makabory continued.

Following high-level negotiations with Bush administration officials, who promised Indonesia millions in military aid, Yudhoyono allowed the FBI into his country. "By the time the FBI were granted access the trail was cold," said Makabory. “The FBI investigation proceeded within a narrow framework that fit the Bush administration agenda,” said Dr. Kirksey.

The Special Agents found a fall man, while tiptoeing around evidence connecting their man to the Indonesian military,” Kirksey added.

Antonius Wamang, an ethnic Papuan, was indicted by a U.S. grand jury for his role in the attack. He was apprehended in 2006 by the FBI and sentenced to life in Indonesian prison. Wamang had extensive ties to the Indonesian military, according to a peer-reviewed article, Criminal Collaborations,” co-authored by Dr. Kirksey and Andreas Harsono, an Indonesian investigative reporter (link below).

The declassified documents disclosed today were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act Request (FOIA) by Dr. Bradley Simpson of the National Security Archive. The State Department found 62 documents relevant to the Timika murders. They released only two of these documents in full and 20 others “with excisions.” The rest were withheld. The FBI did not release any documents, writing: “No records responsive to your FOIA request were located by a search of the automated indices.” The FBI is notorious for not complying with Freedom of Information Act requests.

The documents reveal evidence of a cover-up,” said Dr. Kirksey. “The fact that many relevant documents were not released is more evidence of the same”

Selections from these documents are published here in seven distinct sections [links to the PDFs of the documents can be found here: http://etan.org/news/2009/06Timika.htm

1) Response by the State Department and the FBI to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request

2) Initial Reports About Attackers; Yudhoyono Orders a Quick Response

The first State Department reports about the 2002 attack seriously entertained two theories: that the perpetrators were Papuan independence fighters (OPM guerillas) or rogue elements of the Indonesian military. The documents note that the assault took place on a foggy mountain road near a military checkpoint and an Army Strategic Reserve Forces post. Upon learning of the attack, Yudhoyono ordered a quick response to restore security and to investigate the attack.

The U.S. Embassy noted in a cable to Washington: ”Many Papuan groups are calling for an independent investigation led by the U.S. Calls for an independent probe are unrealistic, but we believe that Papua's Police Chief, who enjoys a good reputation with Papuan activists (and U.S.), can conduct a fair investigation.” The Police Chief’s investigation later indicated that the Indonesian military was involved. The FBI subsequently launched a separate probe.

3) Attack Victims Treated in Secrecy at Australian Hospital

The survivors of the assault were airlifted out of Indonesia to a hospital in Townsend, Australia. Here U.S. diplomats, the FBI,

Queensland Police, and the Australian Defense Force kept a tight lid on the situation—preventing the victims from speaking with the press and even from contacting family members for the first two days. See: Tom Hyland, “Lost in the Fog,” The Age, September 28, 2008. http://www.theage.com.au/world/lost-in-the-fog-20080927-4pb8.html?page=-1

4) Yudhoyono Assumes Coordinating Role in Investigation

Following police reports of Indonesian military involvement, these documents reveal that Yudhoyono began to play a more active role in managing and influencing the direction of the investigation. Yudhoyono met repeatedly with the FBI field investigators, as well as high-level U.S. diplomats, blocking their initial attempts to gain unmediated access to witnesses and material evidence. This file includes a letter from Yudhoyono to the Charge D'Affaires of the U.S. Embassy where he outlines a strategy for managing the broader political and security aspects of the incident.

5) Commander-In-Chief Concerned About Washington Post Interview

The Washington Post reported in 2002 that senior Indonesian military officers, including armed forces commander General Endriartono Sutarto, had discussed an unspecified operation against Freeport McMoRan before the ambush in Timika. General Sutarto vehemently denied that he or any other top military officers had discussed any operation targeting Freeport. He sued The Washington Post for US$1 billion and demanded an apology from the paper. Several months after this lawsuit was settled out of court, The Washington Post asked to interview Sutarto. This document contains notes from a meeting between the U.S. Ambassador and Commander-in-Chief Sutarto where this interview request was discussed: “Clearly concerned, General Sutarto asked why the Washington Post wanted to interview him, as well as TNI’s Strategic Intelligence Agency (BAIS) and the State Intelligence Agency (BIN) Chiefs regarding the Timika case.” See: Ellen Nakashima and Alan Sipress “Indonesia Military Allegedly Talked of Targeting Mine,” The Washington Post, November 3, 2002. http://etan.org/et2002c/november/01-09/03mine.htm

6) Most Important Issue in U.S.-Indonesia Bilateral Relationship

The U.S. Ambassador stressed in a June 2003 meeting with Yudhoyono that justice in the Timika killings was “the most important issue in the bilateral relationship.” During this period, FBI agents were given intermittent access to evidence. Yudhoyono continued to play an active role in coordinating the political aspects of the investigation. Taking an unusual personal interest for someone with a Ministerial level position, Yudhoyono repeatedly met with the FBI case agents the low-ranking U.S. investigators who were deployed to Timika for field investigations.

7) Attorney General Ashcroft Suppressed Evidence

On June 24, 2005, Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller announced that Antonius Wamang, an ethnic Papuan, was indicted by a Federal Grand Jury for the Timika murders. The indictment alleged that Wamang was a “terrorist” who sought independence from Indonesia. Following this announcement, three respected human rights groups and indigenous organizations charged that the U.S. Government suppressed evidence linking Wamang to the Indonesian military. A peer-reviewed article, titled “Criminal Collaborations: Antonius Wamang and the Indonesian Military in Timika,” details the nature of these links. The group called for Wamang to be given a fair trial in the U.S., rather than in notoriously corrupt Indonesian courts. See: Eben Kirksey and Andreas Harsono, “Criminal Collaborations,” South East Asia Research, vol 16, no 2. http://skyhighway.com/~ebenkirksey/writing/Kirksey-Harsono_Timika.pdf

John M. Miller
Internet: etan@igc.org

National Coordinator

East Timor & Indonesia Action Network

PO Box 21873, Brooklyn, NY 11202-1873 USA

Phone: (718)596-7668 Mobile: (917)690-4391

Skype: john.m.miller Web: http://www.etan.org

Twitter: http://twitter.com/etan009

Facebook: http://apps.facebook.com/causes/134122?recruiter_id=10193810

Send a blank e-mail message to info@etan.org to find out how to learn more about East Timor on the Internet

-- oooooooooooooooooooooo S. Eben Kirksey, Ph.D. NSF Post-Doctoral Fellow 2008-2010 Web: people.ucsc.edu/~skirksey/ Direct-line: +1.831.600.5937 Projects: http://www.skyhighway.com/~multispecies/

Matthew Jamieson

Institute for Papuan Advocacy & Human Rights

PO Box 1805, Byron Bay NSW 2481 Australia

matthew@hr.minihub.org

tel +61 (0) 418291998

ORIGINAL SOURCE: Received via e-mail 30 June 2009
link - http://etan.org/news/2009/06Timika.htm

AntiCiv.Net Collective Status Update

Due to member priorities and the severity of the modern global crisis, the AntiCiv.Net Collective is now down to one contributing member. This means that posts will likely be much less frequent. The library as of right now is axed, though all of the texts that were previously posted should be available here. (Thanks to the mysterious stranger who did that!)

I've altered the website layout some, the links sidebar especially; make sure to check all that out if you wish to endure more time on the shiny screen. "What are you being screened from? How much of your life comes at you through a screen, vicariously?" Since I'll be unable to post news items as frequently I've added the "News-Focused Links" section to try to compensate. Items submitted to me via e-mail should still be posted as soon as I can.

If you would like to contribute to or support this project in any way, please do so! Contact me at Tetralovesyou [at] gmail.com

Rewild & Resist
-AntiCiv.Net Collective

Orangutan Protection Group In Indonesia

"Despite worldwide attention and concern, prime orangutan habitat across Sumatra and Borneo continues to be destroyed by loggers and palm oil developers, resulting in the death of up to 3,000 orangutans per year (of a population less than 50,000).

Conservation groups like Borneo Orangutan Survival report rescuing record numbers of infant orangutans from oil palm plantations, which are now a far bigger source of orphaned orangutans than the illicit pet trade. The volume of orangutans entering care centers is such that these facilities are running out of room for rescued apes, with translocated individuals sometimes waiting several months until suitable forest is found for reintroduction. Even then they aren't safe; in recent months loggers have started clearing two important reintroduction sites (forests near Bukit Tigapuluh National Park in Sumatra and Mawas in Central Kalimantan). Meanwhile across half a dozen rehabilitation centers in Malaysia and Indonesia, more than 1,000 baby orangutans—their mothers killed by oil palm plantation workers or in the process of forest clearing—are being trained by humans for hopeful reintroduction into the wild, assuming secure habitat can be found.

Dismayed by the rising orangutan toll, a grassroots organization in Central Kalimantan is fighting back. Led by Hardi Baktiantoro, the Center for Orangutan Protection (COP) has mounted a guerrilla-style campaign against companies that are destroying orangutan habitat in Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of Borneo. The group rigorously investigates new clearing, documenting environmental transgressions through video, photography, and GPS. It then stages colorful demonstrations and issues media statements presenting evidence against plantation firms, government officials, and even NGOs. COP is also active in schools through its campus program which highlights threats to orangutans and tells students what they can do to help.

COP's activities have not been welcomed by the palm oil industry. Facing threats, Hardi has had to hide his family and the group's base of operations. The COP web site has been hacked and its communications tapped, while palm oil companies have offered Hardi tens of thousands of dollars in bribes in an effort to avoid COP's scrutiny. But Hardi is defiant.

"I don't care if [forest clearing] is legal or illegal. My opinion is that as long as long as orangutan habitat is being destroyed we have to stop it," he told mongabay.com during a meeting at a COP field site. "Anyone who destroys orangutan habitat and kills orangutans is my enemy.""

ORIGINAL SOURCE: mongabay.com

Underreported Struggles: May 2009

"In this Month’s Underreported Struggles: 7,000 delegates gather in Peru for the IV Continental Indigenous Summit of Abya Yala; Hundreds of Tibetan villagers face off against armed police ; dozens of indigenous communities in Ecuador struggling after February oil spill; San Carlos Apache speak out against Land Exchange and proposed Copper mine

May 30 - Continental Indigenous Summit focused on Unity - A Press Release from Tonatierra discussing the IV Continental Indigenous Summit of Abya Yala, which began three days ago in Puno, amidst the ongoing Mobilization of Indigenous Peoples of Peru.

May 28 - San Carlos Apache opposed to land exchange and proposed copper mine - Apache Statement of opposition to the Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and the proposed Resolution Copper mine at Chich’il Bildagoteel.

May 28 - The Sweet Pepper War - In Peru two villages lost land when a Norwegian-registered agricultural company Camposol started cultivating sweet peppers. Camposol is one of Peru’s largest agricultural companies, with plantations all over the Latin-American country.

May 28 - Letters Needed, Stop liquor license renewal near Bear Butte! - On June 2nd at 3:00 pm the Meade County Commissioners will be meeting regarding the issuance of new liquor licenses, renewals and transfers for Sturgis Rally Venues. Please send an opposition letter asking them to deny the new licenses, transfers and renewals for all venues surrounding Bear Butte.

May 25 - Adivasis fighting against Nuclear Terror in Jharkhand - Thousands of indigenous people from Talsa village in northern Jharkhand, India, must now face the prospect of displacement—in addition to lung cancer, skin diseases and physical deformities as a result of a nearby open cast uranium mine, which has operated for decades.

May 24 - Standoff at Tibet Gold Mine: Tibetan Buddhists regard it as a sacred site - Hundreds of villagers in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) of western China are facing off against armed security forces at the site of a planned gold mine on what the Tibetans consider a sacred mountain, witnesses say.

May 22 - Norway-based oil research in occupied Western Sahara - A French research fellow attached to the Norwegian Geological Survey (NGU) has been researching the geology of the occupied Western Sahara. The work is done in stark contrast to the Norwegian government’s own opinion that oil search in Western Sahara is “a particularly serious violation of fundamental ethical norms e.g. because it may strengthen Morocco’s sovereignty claims and thus contribute to undermining the UN peace process”.

May 22 - Indigenous Groups call for halt by foreign companies of land use without prior knowledge or consent - The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues continued its discussion of human rights today amid calls for Governments to strictly carry out their obligations under international human rights accords, notably in the Amazon where protests by native inhabitants recently erupted after moves to open the region to oil and mining by foreign companies without their consultation.

May 21 - Malaysian Govt. Denies Oil Palm development in Brazil following protest email campaign - In a positive yet puzzling development, a spokesperson for the Malaysian government‘s federal land agency (FELDA) now denies plan for Malaysian government controlled oil palm development in the heart of the Amazon ever existed.

May 20 - Government renews assault on the Kgeikani Kweni (Kalahari Bushmen) - Botswana’s government sent trucks full of police and wildlife scouts into the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) yesterday to confiscate goats from Bushmen who have returned to their ancestral homes.

May 18 - Villagers Fearful After Mine Water Discharged Into River - Water from a storage pond at Barrick Gold’s North Mara mine in Tanzania is seeping through containing walls, leading local villagers to fear their water sources are contaminated.

May 18 - THOUSANDS of Aborigines in Northern Territory homelands will be forced to move - Thousands of Aborigines living on their remote Northern Territory homelands will be forced to move to larger communities to receive key government services in a radical shake-up of indigenous policy. (counter argument)

May 18 - Dongria Kondh shocked over mine approval - The government of India has given the British mining company Vendata resources final approval for the controversial bauxite mine on the Niyamgiri Mountain of Orissa, India. The Dongria Kondh were shocked to learn this on Friday, after receiving a phone call from the UK charity group ActionAid. It was the first time they heard of the decision.

May 15 - Uyghur Women Block Land Grab in northwestern China - Women in China’s northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region have turned back officials trying to implement a forced farming program on their land. (update: standoff said to be “resolved”)

May 15 - The Bhopal of West Africa - The similarities between Trafigura and Union Carbide (Dow Chemical) in Bhopal, are too stark to ignore: Both incidents happened in the dead of night, both were connected to the oil and gas industry, and most tellingly, both companies proclaim their own brand of innocence: Union Carbide through selling its shares to absolve them of any responsibility; and Trafigura through utter denial.

May 14 - Saami sue the Swedish state on hunting and fishing rights - The National Swedish Saami Association is taking the Swedish government to court over hunting and fishing rights in the high mountains, which is traditional Saami land.

May 13 - Peru: Indigenous People declaring the real state of Emergency - “As far as needs and rights go, this is the real state of emergency in Peru right now. Indeed, the mobilization isn’t some ‘misinformed’ adventure as the government would have us believe. It is a struggle for life itself.” (contains an up-to-date list of news on the mobilization)

May 12 - Indian Activists Vow to Fight Northern Minn. Oil Pipeline - Some members of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe are working to prevent a planned oil pipeline from crossing their reservation in northern Minnesota. The pipeline would carry oil extracted from Canada’s oil sands, known widely as ‘the most destructive project on earth’.

May 11 - Systemic human rights violations along Burma gas pipeline - The “Kanbauk to Myaing Kalay” gas pipeline in southern Burma is a guideline for “systemic, shocking and ongoing” human rights violations, according a new report by the Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM).

May 9 - Indigenous People ignored one Month after oil spill in the Amazon - Ecuador’s second largest oil pipeline ruptured this past February, causing more than 14,000 gallons of crude oil to spill out onto the banks of the Santa Rosa river. The leak has been contained for a while now, and there are ongoing efforts to clean the oil. However, as many as 47 indigenous communities were effected by the spill, and their urgent pleas for assistance are being completely ignored.

May 8 - Violent eviction of Community blockade near Trinidad Mine - On the morning of May 6, 2009, a mass of federal and state police troopers brought a violent end to a community blockade near Canadian-owned Fortuna’s Trinidad Silver Mine in the municipality of San Jose Progreso, Oaxaca, Mexico.

May 5 - Farmers leaving Raposa-Serra do Sol peacefully - After years of conflict and tension, rice farmers are finally leaving the indigenous territory known as Raposa-Serra do Sol (the Land of the Fox and Mountain of the Sun) in northern Brazil.

May 5 - Malaysia: Sarawak government defeated in landmark native customary rights ruling - A Federal Court has upheld the concept of native customary rights (NCR) to land, ruling against the Sarawak state government.

May 3 - Villagers near Barrick Gold’s Porgera mine violently evicted by police - MORE than 300 houses belonging to local landowners near the Porgera gold mine in Enga Province, have been torched allegedly by policemen called out to restore law and order in the district. (related article)

May 1 - Government determined to exploit uncontacted Indians’ land - Peru’s government has shown its determination to permit work on uncontacted tribes’ land by passing a law declaring oil exploitation in northern Peru a ‘national necessity.’

Videos

Peru: Voicing the Concerns of the People - Over 10,000 people gathered on the streets of Lima, Peru last Wednesday, May 27, to support the ongoing Mobilization of Indigenous Peoples, which began exactly 52 days ago today. During the demonstration, an indigenous man took to the podium to voice the concerns of the People.

You Are on Indian Land - “You Are on Indian Land” was one of the first films in Canada to give voice to the concerns of Indigenous People. Produced in 1969, the film documents a protest led by Mohawks from the Haudenosaunee community of Akwesasne on December 20, 1968.

Cease! Fire! More Broken Promises, More Broken Lives - Cease! Fire! is a heart-wrenching and yet inspiring documentary film about the Indigenous Karen People of eastern Burma, and their continued struggle for peace and freedom on the land they know as “Kawthoolei,” which means, “the land of peace.”"

ORIGINAL SOURCE: Infoshop News

Statement From Philadelphia Anti-Racist Action: One Life Crew Show Canceled

"Philadelphia Anti-Racist Action (ARA) would like to officially confirm that the One Life Crew show scheduled for Saturday, June 6 at the First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia is now canceled. Due to concern for keeping the First Unitarian Church a safe space for all, dozens of people from across the country - including members of other Unitarian Universalist (UU) congregations and their ministers - contacted Rev. Nate Walker and the Board of Trustees of the Philadelphia church. In the end, the story was picked up by several media outlets and even more pressure was mounted against Reverend Walker's church for considering to allow this event to happen on their property.

On Saturday May 30th, members of Philadelphia Anti-Racist Action and One People's Project met with Reverend Walker, representatives of the church's Board of Trustees, congregation members and two representatives from the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations.

After introductions were made, all parties were given a chance to air their grievances face to face. There was an overall agreement that there had been a breakdown in communication between ARA and Reverend Walker, resulting in ARA's decision to issue a national statement asking those concerned to call both the local church and its' national leadership in Boston.

While Reverend Walker disagrees, ARA maintains that while One Life Crew, R5 Productions, Friends Stand United (FSU) and even Keith Carney - the local head of the neo-nazi group Keystone State Skinheads (KSS) - were all “invited to the table” to discuss this show, attempts were made to marginalize ARA as an “extremist” group. It was not until after ARA issued its call and the pressure mounted on the First Unitarian Church to cancel the show that we were also invited to dialogue with Reverend Nate. With Reverend Walker taking KSS and FSU at face value - going so far as to believe Keith Carney's story that he is not a neo-Nazi without any evidence supporting such an insane claim - ARA believed it was time to inform the larger UU community, and proceeded to contact other congregations and ministers across the country as well as national UU leadership.

We see nothing extreme about wanting a band with a history of lyrical and physical attacks on people of color and persons from the LGBTQ community shut down! We also see nothing wrong with informing the community at large - many of whom obviously shared our concerns - about this scheduled event. We say this because in all initial communication, Reverend Walker stated that while he could cancel the show, he had no intention of doing so. Instead he claimed that dialogue with One Life Crew - a group who chooses to engage in hate speech - was the correct tactic.

ARA respects the fact that different people and groups have different tactics. However, we will make no apologies for our tactics. Further, we believe that the fact that One Life Crew will not be playing in Philadelphia proves that our tactics do work and that our decision to take our case about One Life Crew outside the walls of the First Unitarian Church was a solid one. In fact, some of the church's own Board members and congregation members who were in attendance at Saturday's meeting agreed with us that the UU should never even have considered hosting this show, and thanked ARA for ultimately bringing it to their attention.

Reverend Walker and some congregation members have expressed concern that ARA had hurt the “good name” of the church . ARA reiterates its position that at no time was our goal to specifically harm the reputation of the church, but to bring immediate, direct attention to what we believe was not only a hesitancy to shut down the show, but an indication that the show would go on as planned to the detriment of what is supposed to be a safe space.

We express our desire to count both the Unitarian Church and Rev. Walker as our ally - not as our enemy. However, as we made clear to him at Saturday's meeting, we maintain that in this instance we believe his decisions were part of the problem. Philadelphia ARA will continue to organize around these important issues and hope to be able to work with the church's progressive community in the future. We also hope that Rev. Walker will continue to investigate the information we provided that not only do neo-nazis regularly attend shows at the church, but that they regularly engage in recruiting and violent acts. No matter how innocent R5 Productions and FSU try to make these white supremacists' continued attendance at shows, the fact remains that people have been violently attacked outside R5 shows on several occasions and we implore Rev. Nate to do something before this problem gets even worse.

In Struggle,
Philadelphia Anti-Racist Action
araphilly@gmail.com
215-543-3812"

ORIGINAL SOURCE: Infoshop News

Introducing The Anarchist Library

"We introduce, for your pleasure, The Anarchist Library, an archive of anarchist texts: books, essays, and articles. We hope that this archive grows from its initial selection of over 400 titles (books, essays, and articles) into a comprehensive textual library that spans the entirety of anarchist thought.

The Internet has allowed us an amazing opportunity to share anarchist texts widely. This has allowed more people than ever access to obscure anarchist literature and propaganda. The few existing anarchist archives have all been helpful and inspirational to this project, which arises due to the inactivity of the existing online anarchist archives, with little sign that anyone is specifically serving as a librarian (commonly lacking introduction, curation, updating, or all of the above). A library is either active or dying and with the internet popping with new anarchist texts every day, we believe it would be a shame to not attend to them.

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Besides providing you with a more inclusive and coherent forum to access existing anarchist texts, The Anarchist Library offers clean site design, active curation, and clean, typographically-accurate PDFs. We also intend to continue to support open formats and Free Software. We share code!

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ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Anarchist Library

FedEx Possibly Being Used To Deliver Subpoenas To Bash Back! Members

"Today, a Chicago collective known to BB! Memphis, were approached by a FedEx delivery man, asking to deliver a package to a “John (Nickname of a person known to BB! Memphis, Name Withheld)”. (A play on John Doe, perhaps?).

The sender was “Bash Back!, Inc.”, a fictitious entity from a downtown Memphis address unknown to any of us here at BB! Memphis.

The members of the Chicago-based collective, immediately told the FedEx delivery man that “Nobody by that name lives here.” After being turned away, the FedEx delivery man attempted question to another roommate, who’d just arrived home about the existence of a “John (Name Withheld)”.

We want to stress to all Bash Back!ers out there; DO NOT ACCEPT OR SIGN FOR PACKAGES SENT FROM PEOPLE YOU DO NOT KNOW.

Heads up, that FedEx has been used in the past, to deliver legal summons/subpoenas.

Stay safe & smash capitalism,
BB! Memphis"

ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bash Back! News

Colombian Trade Unions To Sue U.S. Multinational For Financing Paramilitaries

"Colombian trade unions announced they plan to sue U.S. multinational Drummond for paying protection money to paramilitary groups that murdered more than 220 people.

Tarsicio Mora, the president of CUT, Colombia’s largest trade union said that the lawsuit will be filed in the next few days.
"The lawsuit is written and we are deciding on which court to submit it to, in the U.S. or in Colombia, whichever provides the best guarantee of judicial impartiality," Mora said.

The alleged murders were committed in Colombia’s 'iron corridor' in the northern departments of Cesar and Magdalena. According to El Espectador the victims were trade unionists, members of social organizations and locals. The murders were allegedly committed by now demobilized paramilitary group the AUC.

According to the lawsuit, the paramilitaries were paid by Drummond to "spread fear in the areas where the company had interests".

Mora said that the lawsuit seeks compensation for the victims’ families.

The lawsuit is similar to the one filed against Dole Food Co., who allegedly made regular payments for at least a decade in the banana-growing region in the north of Colombia to paramilitary organization AUC."

ORIGINAL SOURCE: Colombia Reports

Water Wars In India's Madhya Pradesh

"Rainfall patterns altered by climate change and worsened by inequity in the water distribution system has led to a water crisis in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

Since 2008, the duration and frequency of rainfall in major parts of the state of Madhya Pradesh has been decreasing. Water levels in all major water bodies in have fallen to alarming levels. As a result, most parts of the state including the capital city of Bhopal is receiving almost half of the volume of water required to fulfill the population’s needs. The poor are the most impacted and drinking water is being supplied only about once every 4-5 days in the slums and other poorer localities

There is a simultaneous increase in the number of violent clashes and over 50 of them have been reported in capital city in the month of May. Media reports suggest that since January over 12 people have been killed and dozens other injured mostly fighting over a bucket of water. And such fights are becoming more frequent and of regular occurrence."

ORIGINAL SOURCE: EcoWorldly

Chilean Anarchist Dies In Action From Explosives

"Comrades,

We bear tragic news from here in Chile.

During the early morning of May 22, we lost our beloved comrade Mauricio Morales Duarte. According to the bourgeois press, Mauricio was transporting an explosive device in downtown Santiago. The device exploded unexpectedly, and our comrade died in combat.

Long live comrade Mauricio Morales! Mauricio joins the list of fallen combatants under the democratic regime in Chile. He was a dedicated and militant anarchist. We remember Mauricio as a youth combatant like so many before him.

Over the last three years, there have been countless non-lethal and low intensity attacks on capital across Chile. These attacks have often fallen near the anniversaries of various days of combat, and they have occurred without arrests.

Police are currently searching for a second person present at the scene of Mauricio's death. They are also raiding various anarchist squats across Santiago.

Please check: Hommodolars.org for more information in spanish."

ORIGINAL SOURCE: Infoshop News

Eco-Disasters In Peru: An Environmental Wake-Up Call?

"SANTIAGO, Chile -- Chilean scientists are investigating three mysterious ecological disasters that have caused the deaths of hundreds of penguins, millions of sardines and about 2,000 baby flamingos in the past few months.

The events started to unfold in March, when the remains of about 1,200 penguins were found on a remote beach in southern Chile. Then came the sardines -- tons of them -- dead and washed up on a nearby stretch of coastline. The stench forced nearby schools to close, and the army was called in to shovel piles of rotting fish off the sand.

Farther north, thousands of rare Andean flamingos abandoned their nests on a salt lake in the Atacama Desert. The eggs failed to hatch and, over a period of three months, all 2,000 chicks died. The extent of the damage was discovered in April, during an inspection.

No one knows for sure what caused these three apparently unrelated ecological tragedies, although there are many theories. Global warming has been blamed, as have overfishing, pollution and bacterial disease. In the north, ecologists have accused mining companies of fatally altering the flamingos' habitat by draining the area of subterranean water.

Whatever the explanations, the events have caused unease. A suspicion that mankind is to blame has created the feeling that maybe Chile should be doing more to protect its spectacularly rich wildlife."

ORIGINAL SOURCE: Miami Herald

Highbridge Capital Sells Their HLS Shares

"Tuesday, 19th May

Highbridge Capital sells most of their shares and will be disposing of the remainder soon.

Since our email alert on Friday 15th May and peaceful protests in New York over the weekend about a new second largest institutional shareholder - Highbridge Capital who owned 187,597 shares in LSR stock.

Highbridge Capital have been in contact with SHAC and have shown us their brokage account details to show that they have now sold over 90% of their shares in HLS (LSR) and are hoping to dispose of the remainder very soon. They presently hold 21,900 shares.

We would like to thank Highbridge Capital for taking this step and await confirmation of the sale of their remainding shares following assurances from Lisa Steele, Senior Vice President of Highbridge Capital.

We have stated that we will hold off on protests and further emails as Highbridge Capital have been open with their dialogue and genuine. So, unless there is a delay in the sale of their shares we ask for campaigners to concentrate on other larger shareholders and also support next week's Mad Science May - Week of Action: http://www.shac.net/action/demos/MadScience/index.html

Thanks to all campaigners that have protested, emailed and contacted companies over their investments.

This makes Vanguard Group, Brown Investment Advisory And Trust Co, State Street Corp and Numeric Investors as the top four shareholders.

Don't forget that HLS are £72 million in debt, their 1st quarter revenue for 2009 is down 24% from 2008
"revenue levels are down from last year and the outlook remains uncertain" - Brain Cass
Lets make sure it stays that way and smash HLS for good!

If you are not near a shareholder, there are plenty of other targets to pile on the pressure and demo to help close HLS!

Keep up the pressure, until all are free"

ORIGINAL SOURCE: Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty

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ORIGINAL SOURCE: Received Via Email

Barclays Sells Shares In HLS

"Another two HLS (LSR) shareholders have dumped HLS, Barclays Global Investors and Barclays Plc have both recently sold their shares. This makes Vanguard Group and new shareholder Highbridge Capital Management the top two shareholders. Barclays have seen sense and sold their shares after protests in London, Europe and across the US. Thanks to all campaigners that have protested, emailed and contacted these companies over their investments.

Barclays Global Investors sold their 398,187 shares and Barclays Plc sold 26,945. The amount of shares owned by institutional shareholders has dropped to 12% of LSR stock. With only 1,500,000 shares being traded.

HLS are £72 million in debt, their 1st quarter revenue for 2009 is down 24% from 2008
"revenue levels are down from last year and the outlook remains uncertain" - Brain Cass
Lets make sure it stays that way and smash HLS for good!

If you are not near a shareholder, there are plenty of other targets to pile on the pressure and demo to help close HLS!

Keep up the pressure, until all are free"

ORIGINAL SOURCE: Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty

Modesto Anarcho #11 Now Available

"Modesto Anarcho: The Valley's Insurrectionary Journal of Class Struggle, hits the streets with its 11th issue. This is the police and prison issue, which includes interviews, articles, and as always, action reports, repression news, and prisoner letters.

Download the latest Modesto Anarcho here at: http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2009/05/15/ma11.pdf. Feel free to print out the pdf, make copies, and give to friends, co-workers, fellow students, and cell mates. For more information on how to get bulk copies of this and other titles, write to us at: Modesto Anarcho, PO Box 3027, Modesto, CA 95353."

ORIGINAL SOURCE: Infoshop News

'Burning Bridges': New Anarchist Publication From Southern Ontario

"Check out "Burning Bridges", the new Southern Ontario Anarchist Publication!

People do snap

People reach a breaking point. A point where the misery day after day in this concrete jungle is no longer tolerated. People fnd ways to express their discontents with this life of drudgery and isolation. As anarchists, rebels against this system, constantly assessing and challenging the ways in which we revolt, we constantly ask the question how can people put up with this shit? What the FUCK will it take to reach that breaking point?

The thing is, so many people do reach a breaking point. The ways in which people express their misery is often what we can’t easily identify with. We have chosen to express our misery and isolation by rebelling against the system that reproduces it. We have made a choice to focus this expression onto those who uphold the social structure that has maintained this misery.

Everyone has ways that they respond to their misery. Some harm themselves, by committing suicide, taking drugs, etc. Some take out their anger and misery on those around them, they beat their children or emotionally torment their friends and lovers. Too often we experience, witness and hear of domestic and street level violence. So here we are in a world of miserable people. A hell-a lot of people have reached a breaking point. They can’t deal with this shit anymore.

What really excites us is when people express their dissatisfaction in ways that we can relate with- like returning blows to this repressive society. Whether it’s robbing a bank, sabotage in the workplace, the police chief fnding his personal car broken into and bullets strewn on his front lawn or stopping the development that is gentrifying your hood… It seems to us that attacking the systems of exploitation that are responsible for our misery and isolation, the systems that are responsible for the destruction of the land and the suppression of free living, is more efective and fun towards creating a world that we do want to live in.

Even when we respond to our misery, against our oppressors, these small acts of defance don’t seem to break the isolation inherent in this society. Te reality of prison for anybody who breaks normalcy and obedience exists to keep people in line and to remove from society “dangerous elements” which challenge its control. What if we were to come together to share ideas, build strategy and strike collectively in order to break this isolation and lay the grounds for ever expanding confict? From this point prison may seem less isolating and perhaps even destructable.

Tis is for all those who are submerged over their heads, unable to handle this shit anymore. Our desire to be freed from these chains brings us together. In times when we realize the possibilities of freedom and joy, however brief they may be, our heads can come above the water and gasp fulflling breaths of fresh air.

Tis publication can be more than just another magazine for consumption; those who read it can take something and apply it to their increasingly unruly lives. We wish to use this paper to spark some real discussions and navigate a direction and strategy in which to struggle. Tis publication is no replacement for face-to-face communication. We don’t want to challenge its importance, but provoke it.

Let’s sever ourselves from this dead society, burn our bridges to it and watch the pursuing police cruisers roll of the clif. It’s with this separation that we defne our enemies, to leave nothing but confict between us.

Contents: A broad critique of the medical industry
Tactics and Strategy
History and Analysis
Social fucking war!

Download the PDF here"

ORIGINAL SOURCE: Anarchist news dot org

Alliance Defense Fund Suing Bash Back!

"The work of devoted Bash Back!ers and allies determined that this morning’s hysteria is the result of the Alliance Defense Fund, a notorious anti-womyn, anti-queer, racist organization. The ADF decided to sue Bash Back!, Bash Back! Lansing and individuals because the authorities would not file a single criminal complaint regarding an action at the Mount Hope Church in Lansing last fall. But that’s not all! Those pesky evange-fascists are trying to identify and out up to 20 other people involved with Bash Back! in the hopes that criminal charges will be placed against them. Fourteen people and 1-20 Jesse “John” Does are named on the complaint.

You can find the ADF press release on their website.
*Warning this Site is an overt manifestion of THE Patriarchy. It may be offensive and enraging*
www.alliancedefensefund.org

Bash Back! and radical transfolk/queers cannot and will not be intimidated. Some of us face life and death on a daily basis. This lawsuit aint shit.

BB! News will be setting up an account to raise funds in the near future. Lets fill our pocket books and resist this suit.

Attached to this posting is a copy of the complaint so the entire world can see that it is riddled with inaccuracies and out-right lies.

Disclaimer: This Lawsuit is does NOT respect the chosen identities of the people named. Names, Gender pronouns, and identities were purposely disrespected by the complaint. Please keep this in mind when reading and discussing the lawsuit.

That’s Some Bull Shit!
Bash Back! News

Here is a copy of the complaint.
http://twincities.indymedia.org/files/MtHopeComplaint-red.pdf"

ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bash Back! News

New Documents In The AntiCiv.Net Library

Two new documents are now available for download in the AntiCiv.Net Library: the Brazilian revolutionary Carlos Marighella's Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla, and an anonymously-penned zine entitled Security And Counter-Surveillance. Both files are in PDF format.