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Attack on Six Nations, Lebanon rebuilds, New Orleans waits, Chomsky & more
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| Lordpatch User Info... |  HERO’S WELCOME FOR CHAVEZ IN SYRIA by our Arab Affairs Correspondent- New Worker Lead & Editorial - 1/9/2006 ([email protected]) THE STREETS of Damascus were packed on Wednesday to give Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez a hero’s welcome on his arrival for top-level talks with the Syrian President Bashar al Assad. Huge crowds from all walks of life waved banners and flags of the two countries and portraits of the two leaders as the motorcade drove through the city to the hill-top People’s Palace for a 21-gun salute and the first round of talks with the Syrian leadership. The revolutionary Venezuelan leader is well known on the Arab street for his defiance of American imperialism and his support for the Palestinian Arabs and the heroic Lebanese resistance that defeated Israel in the border war last month. http://www.newworker.org/ 2 Labour Day Attack on Six Nations/Mohawk Communities Planned MNN. Aug. 23, 2006. Disturbing information has come to light. Canada, Ontario and the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are coordinating plans for a vigilante-type assault on at least three Indigenous communities, Six Nations, Tyendinaga and Akwesasne. Six Nations/Mohawk people are being targeted for speaking out against Canada’s theft of and encroachment on our land. The Ontario government and the cops are organizing the “brown shirts” (Heil Hitler!). A warning has gone out to Indigenous Warriors to be on the watch for this threatened attack on Labor Day, September 3rd. full article: http://vancouver.indymedia.org/?q=node/2375 http://www.newworker.org/ http://vancouver.indymedia.org/?q=node/2271 3 Chomsky: My Dinner with Hassan Open Source Radio http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/ros/open_source_060815.mp3 Just a short post until Chris can give it the full treatment. Last May Noam Chomsky, groundbreaking linguist and veteran lefty, had dinner with Hassan Nasrallah. That’s right, Hassan Nasrallah. Now, we know that Chomsky and Nasrallah are likely to set off some alarm bells, but regardless of how you feel about the two, wouldn’t you like to be a fly on the wall for that conversation? http://vancouver.indymedia.org/?q=node/2376 4 Black Workers League statement The one-year anniversary of Katrina A time of decision for African Americans and the poor! Published Aug 28, 2006 9:37 PM The Black Workers League is a political collective engaged in work in the trade union movement, Black political power movement, and other social justice movements in North Carolina, parts of the U.S. South and a few areas throughout the country. For more information, write to BWL, P.O. Box 934, Rocky Mount, NC 27802. This statement was written on Aug. 23. The one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina is a time of decision for African Americans and poor people in the Gulf Coast and throughout the U.S. as it is a moral and political statement about the meaning of so-called American “democracy.” The act of leaving hundreds of thousands of Black and poor people to die in the richest country in the world and the treatment of those who survived as criminals and refuse to be discarded as a burden on society, is a crime against humanity. full article: http://www.workers.org/2006/us/bwl-0907/ 5 Lebanon rebuilds, New Orleans waits By Joyce Chediac Published Aug 23, 2006 11:21 PM listen: http://www.workersdaily.org/podcast/audio/jc_082506.mp3 In the Middle East, after a month of Israeli bombing, the people of Lebanon are digging themselves out from the rubble and struggling to return to their homes. In the United States, a full year after Hurricane Katrina, the people of New Orleans are still fighting to do the same thing: return home. It might seem odd to compare the two. After all, Lebanon is recovering from war, and New Orleans from a natural disaster and broken levees. But this is only the superficial story. A look at the New Orleans relief effort and its aftermath shows that poor people’s right to return home has become just as much a battle there as it is in Lebanon. full article: http://www.workers.org/2006/world/two-crises-0831/ download mp3 http://www.workersdaily.org/podcast/audio/jc_082506.mp3 - Sun, 6 Aug 2006 8:29am Edited: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 7:52am | ||
| Lordpatch User Info... | see also: *Katrina In Retrospect* http://vancouver.indymedia.org/?q=node/2322 ...It's Israeli company that brags about having former members of the Shin Beit, the GSS, the Israeli Defense Forces. He has brought them in.... Some of them participated in the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, and these are guys now who are patrolling outside on St. Charles avenue in front of Audubon Place and will potentially come into conflict with residents of New Orleans. What on earth are Israeli paramilitaries doing on the streets of New Orleans?" -- Jeremy Scahill -- "The Militarization of New Orleans: Jeremy Scahill Reports from Louisiana" http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2005/09/43632.php or http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/16/1222257 and “We are trying to kill these black people,” because the media had drummed up the notion that these black people were anarchic and down here doing all devastating manner of things. So the reality is, is that the media, ironically enough, celebrating its own self, patting its own self on the back for being libratory, had reinforced some of the prevailing stereotypes about black people down there....Well, if you believe that, you believe the people in Katrina basically got what they deserve. Poor people who don't work hard, who don't get up every morning to do what they are supposed to do basically get what they deserve.... -- Michael Eric Dyson -- "Come Hell or High Water: Michael Eric Dyson on Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster" http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/49861.php http://vancouver.indymedia.org/?q=node/2372 - Thu, 31 Aug 2006 7:53am | ||
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