Identifying Apartheid Canadian students respond to Israel's rights abuses http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/3232IAW organizers say it’s no surprise the movement started in Canada, pointing to Ottawa's blatant support for Israel's apartheid system. On January 12, 2009, at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Canada was the sole nation to vote against demanding “urgent international action” to halt Israel's “massive violations” of human rights in Gaza. A recent report by Ottawa's Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT) exposes Canadian complicity in equipping American warplanes and attack helicopters used by Israel.
Beyond its allegations of demonization and hatred, the Reut Institute document presented at the 10th Herzliya Conference also admits the growing success of the BDS movement. “Given Israel's dependence on vigorous trade, as well as scientific, academic, and technological engagement with other countries, this movement towards isolating the country may pose a strategic threat.”
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Seventh Generation Fund Video: Southwest Uranium Forum http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wdFEZUZdqE
This Seventh Generation Fund video production highlights some of the clips that will be in the upcoming 7th Southwest Uranium Summit Video.Native Americans speak out.
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Indigenous Fight Logging, Nuclear Industry, Colonization and Oppression http://intercontinentalcry.org/underreported-struggles-35-february-2010
In this month’s Underreported Struggles: Indigenous People in Ecuador Call for a “Permanent Mobilzation”; 5,000 Dongria Kondh protest against Vedanta Resources; Bangladesh army opens fire on Indigenous Jumma; Okanagan Band launches protective blockade against logging.
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US protects Bolivian terrorist http://www.greenleft.org.au/2010/828/42590
The US authorities continue to harbour Branko Marinkovic, a leader of the Bolivian right-wing opposition accused of financing a terrorist cell to assassinate Bolivian President Evo Morales.Evidence has now come to light that the CIA was receiving information from contacts close to the very same terrorist cell.On April 16, 2009, Bolivian police stormed one of the rooms in the Hotel Las Americas in Santa Cruz to break up a group of foreign and Bolivian mercenaries who were part of a plan to assassinate the Bolivian president and vice president.
Bolivian attorney Marcel Soza revealed on February 11 that evidence obtained from the hotel room showed that Hungarian ex-military intelligence officer Istvan Belovai not only provided reports to the terrorist cell, but also sent information directly to the CIA.Belovai’s reports were used by the anti-Morales group, the Supreme Council, which financed the paramilitary group’s activities. Marinkovic, a large landowner, was one of the leaders of the Supreme Council.
In 2008, Marinkovic was instrumental in the violent campaign waged by opposition forces in Bolivia’s east that aimed to overthrow Morales. He also heads up FULIDE, a fascist group whose members carry swastikas on their marches. Despite strong evidence that he personally funded the terrorist cell to the tune of US$200,000, he has been living freely in the US since July 2009. He joins the long list of terrorists involved in campaigns against the Cuban, Venezuelan and Bolivian governments that are being harboured by the US.
comment-us protects alot of terrorists and refuses to extradite tehse people to stand charges where they were guilty of crimes against humanity,state,and human rigths violations...see a few others...Mexican protesters demand United States extradite Posada Carriles http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P1-109465581.html Chavez also requested the extradition of former Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Perez http://www.nowpublic.com/world/chavez-demands-extradition-terrorist-united-states U.S. Protecting Venezuelan Fugitive Manuel Rosales http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/4995
Bolivia asks U.S. to extradite ex-president Sanchez de Lozada http://www.nowpublic.com/world/bolivia-asks-u-s-extradite-ex-president-sanchez-de-lozada Chávez reiterates to Obama extradition request for terrorist Posada Carriles http://embacu.cubaminrex.cu/Default.aspx?tabid=10973 BOLIVIA DEMANDS EX-PREFECT EXTRADITION FROM US http://world.brunei.fm/2010/01/03/bolivia-demands-ex-prefect-extradition-from-us
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Chavez: US to Torpedo Regional Unity http://www.insidecostarica.com/dailynews/2010/march/01/latam-10030103.htm
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called for regional unity to create a new organization in Latin America and the Caribbean, as agreed upon at the Rio Group Summit, in the light of the obstacles the United States will place. "We are aware that it will not be easy to move toward unity: the US record of ignominies in our lands makes us think so," the president said in his Sunday column "Las lineas de Chavez" (Chavez's Lines)."To unite to be freer, more independent and sovereign is something that, socially and politically, prevents the development of the gringo imperial and neocolonizing agenda," Chavez added.
In that regard, he urged to remember that the United States, along history, has succeeded in keeping the peoples of the region divided to rule.Chavez repeated his opinion that the Organization of American States (OAS) must disappear "sooner or later" because it has become the main instrument of domination.According to the Venezuelan president, the proposed organization, which will exclude the United States and Canada, will make the dreams of patriots like Jose Marti and Simon Bolivar come true, after a long period of fragmentation that paved the way for Washington's outrages.
Chavez warned that unity cannot be decreed, but it is built step by step. He added that after the Rio Group Summit, the imperative of unity is stronger. It has taken its own profile, with inexorable plural and collective will.Regarding the incident at the Summit with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, who attacked him verbally, Chavez pointed out that it showed Uribe's provocative intention to distort the objective of the meeting.However, he noted that the subordinate cannot be confused with the transcendental: the realization of unity by those of us who share historic and fraternal ties was the spirit of Cancun.
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Latin America faces 61% of ongoing mining cases at the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes http://justinvestment.org/2010/02/latin-america-faces-61-of-ongoing-mining-cases-at-the-international-center-for-settlement-of-investment-disputes/
There are currently 127 pending legal cases registered with the World Bank’s International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the most commonly used arbitration court. Latin American governments are the targets of 65 (more than half) of these cases.
Mining companies are targeting Latin American countries particularly heavily. Of 33 ICSID cases related to the extraction or distribution of oil, gold, natural gas or other extractive resources, 20 (61%) are against Latin American governments.
comment-the multinational,transnational mining corporations,are plundering pillaging then when social movements protest and voice opposition to the disastruous effects,these corporations use death squads paramilitaries even the host nations armies in some cases to kill,torture,displace,or make dissapear the indigenous communities, peasents,union leaders,activists,even journalists...if that fails they sue the governments(those who intervene against the extractive practices)in a move that could arbitrarily sink a developing nation into bankruptcy,all to escape the responsibility of its actions in order to ensure its maximum profits regardless of costs to enviroment or people affected negatively...
also see...Canada-Ecuador: When Stock Exchanges Fuel Human Rights Violations http://www.miningwatch.ca/en/canada-ecuador-when-stock-exchanges-fuel-human-rights-violations Latin America: Report Slams Canadian Mining Industry http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/1291/60/ Salvadoran Anti-Mining Activists Risk Their Lives https://nacla.org/node/6389 ANTI-MINING MOVEMENTS IN LATIN AMERICA: LOOKING FOR ANOTHER KIND OF DEVELOPMENT http://www.esee2009.si/papers/Urkidi%20-%20ANTI-MINING%20MOVEMENTS.pdf
EL SALVADOR: TWO MORE ANTI-MINING ACTIVISTS SLAIN http://www.thefreelibrary.com/EL+SALVADOR:+TWO+MORE+ANTI-MINING+ACTIVISTS+SLAIN.-a0217626795 Guatemalan Community Leaders ask Canadian Government to Investigate Human Rights Violations Allegedly Committed by Goldcorp Inc. at Marlin Mine http://www.miningwatch.ca/en/guatemalan-community-leaders-ask-canadian-government-investigate-human-rights-violations-allegedly-c Anti-mining activists killed http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=16557 The Canadian government, and its friends in the mining industry support the Military Coup in Honduras http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14369 Canadian Company Threatens El Salvador with Lawsuit Over Mining Project http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1/3674-canadian-mining-outfit-threatens-el-salvador-enviros.html
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Colombia finalizes FTA with EU http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/8469-colombia-finalizes-fta-with-eu.html
Colombia concluded negotiations with the European Union for a free trade agreement Monday, after nine rounds of negotiations.Luis Guillermo Plata, the minister of commerce, said that the negotiations established conditions for Colombia's coffee, banana and sugar exports, while the EU asked for greater liberalization of European dairy, alcohol and car products. Other Colombian products that may be favored under the agreement would include rum, palm oil and chocolate.
Peru was also involved in free trade negotiations, and could see the entry of 32,000 tons of sugar and 30,000 tons of rice into the European market thanks to the agreement.
comment-so much for human rights before business...also see...Profit before People and Human Rights. European Transnational Corporations in Latin America and Caribbean http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/globalization/business/docs/BiRegional.pdf Stop the EU-Colombia Free Trade Agreement http://www.justiceforcolombia.org/?link=3_0_3 Join us to stop the EU-Colombia Free Trade Agreement http://www.nus.org.uk/en/Campaigns/global-justice-/Join-us-to-stop-the-EU-Colombia-Free-Trade-Agreement/
Commission pushes ahead with EU-Colombia FTA despite major human rights violations http://www.solidar.org/Page_Generale.asp?DocID=13958&thebloc=21398 ( was delivered in front of an audience consisting of many Colombian trade unionists and indigenous people, who repeatedly called on the EU to stop the negotiations.) Trade unionists ask EU not to sign FTA with Colombia http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=16728 Stop the murder of trade unionists in Colombia - Stop the EU-Colombia Free Trade Agreement http://www.unitetheunion.com/campaigns/international_campaigns/stop_the_murder_of_trade_union.aspx
The ICEM fully supports the 'Justice for Colombia' campaign against the signing of an EU-Colombia free trade agreement (FTA http://www.icem.org/en/26-Latin-America-Caribbean/3545-ICEM-Backs-Trade-Union-Campaign-against-EU-Colombia-Free-Trade-Agreement
now on FTA with Peru...MUST READ-Andean Coordinator Of Indigenous Organizations Statement On European Union FTA With Colombia And Peru http://tiny.cc/H0p1M We also reject once again the hypocritical position of the EU, which speaks of "Partnership Agreement" and "democratic dialogue" and favors dialogue and agreements with the governments of Colombia and Peru, severely challenged by their systematic Policy violations of human rights against the collective rights of our peoples.
Stop the European Union's negotiation with Peru http://www.gloobal.net/iepala/gloobal/fichas/ficha.php?entidad=Textos&id=8952 STOP the Violence Against Peruvian Indigenous People STOP NOW THE FTAs http://www.tni.org/taxonomy/term/226/all Statement: Stop the Negotiations between the EU, Colombia and Peru http://www.foeeurope.org/trade/statements/2009/Pronunciamiento_UE-Peru-Colombia_sep09_en.pdf Social movements reject the Free Trade Agreement EU-Central America http://viacampesina.org/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=38&Itemid=61
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UN’s International Narcotics Control Board’s Annual Report Oversteps Mandate and Interferes with Countries’ Sovereignty http://www.tni.org/pressrelease/un’s-international-narcotics-control-board’s-annual-report-oversteps-mandate-and-interf
The UN’s International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) annual report released today pointedly criticizes Argentina, Brazil and Mexico for moving to decriminalize the possession of drugs for personal consumption, cautioning that such moves may “send the wrong message.” The INCB report expresses concern over “the growing movement to decriminalize the possession of controlled drugs” and calls for this movement to be “resolutely countered” by the governments of Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and the United States.
According to the Transnational Institute (TNI) and the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), the criticisms leveled today clearly overstep the INCB’s mandate and constitute unwarranted intrusions into these countries’ sovereign decision-making. TNI and WOLA are non-governmental organizations with expertise in both the UN drug control system and Latin American drug policy developments.
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Flashback-Defense.gov News Transcript: DoD News Briefing: Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen says military can cause earthquakes!http://www.defense.gov/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=674
This is straight from Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen Others are engaging even in an eco- type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves.
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