From olivetrii at gmail.com  Mon May  1 23:13:32 2006
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Date: Mon May  1 23:13:39 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] MAY 7 Petrocollapse Film Festival & Dialogue (special
	post-conference event)
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AFTER the May 6th DC "Petrocollapse: Culture Change and Sustainable
Post-Petroleum Living" Conference: www.petrocollapse.org

COME to a Special Petrocollapse Post-Conference Film Fest and Dialogue

SUNDAY, May 7th
at Brian McKenzie Infoshop / 1426 9th Street
(near Mt. Vernon Sq. Metro stop on Green/Yellow Lines)

FREE (donations requested for filmmakers)

<<<<<<<<<Screening TWO Important New Documentaries>>>>>>>>

3 pm: Nuestro Petroleo y Otros Cuentos (Our Oil and Other Tales)
5 pm: What A Way To Go: Life at the End of Empire, followed by
dialogue circle with filmmakers

** FILM DESCRIPTIONS **

Nuestro Petroleo y Otros Cuentos (Our Oil and Other Tales)
"From Lake Maracaibo to the Orinoco Delta, for the first time in
'revolutionary' Venezuela, a documentary delves deep into oil and coal,
examining sovereignty and self-determination through the life experiences of
communities, oil workers, and indigenous peoples." (83 minutes, Spanish
language, English subtitles)
3 pm, followed by discussion

What A Way To Go: Life at the End of Empire
http://www.whatawaytogomovie.com
"A compelling documentary that chronicles one man's awakening to the
environmental and resource crises of our times. How are humans doing in the
face of these challenges? Will we step into our power to create ways of
living on the planet that heal and sustain the ecosystems on which we all
depend? Or will denial and despair rob us of our chance to leave a habitable
planet to our grandchildren? The choice is ours." ... (30 minutes followed
by dialogue circle with filmmakers Sally and Tim) Featuring: Daniel Quinn,
Derrick Jensen, Jerry Mander, Chellis Glendinning, Richard Heinberg, Thomas
Berry, Richard Manning, William Catton, Ran Prieur.
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From: basav at igc.org (basav@igc.org)
Date: Tue May  2 05:08:42 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] Index-based weather insurance touted by World Bank
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All, 
This is truly scary - the "free market solution" to disaster recovery
assistance. Make those damned disaster victims pay for their own losses.
And make sure someone, somewhere is getting rich off of disasters. Not
surprisingly the World Bank/IFC has a hand in it.
-B

http://today.reuters.com/investing/FinanceArticle.aspx?type=bondsNews&storyI
D=uri:2006-04-27T174358Z_01_N27397216_RTRIDST_0_FINANCIAL-INSURANCE-WORLDBAN
K.XML&pageNumber=0&summit=

Index-based weather insurance touted by World Bank
Thu Apr 27, 2006 1:43 PM ET

By Gilbert Le Gras

WASHINGTON, April 27 (Reuters) - Insurance plans indexed
to the intensity of hurricanes, droughts and earthquakes
are coming of age for developing countries most prone to
such catastrophes, World Bank officials said this week.

Index-based insurance pays claims based on the intensity
of a catastrophe in a specific place over a specified
period of time. They are less expensive and pay out faster
than usual insurance because there is no need to estimate
losses.

Insured countries would pay a premium based on exposure to
recurring catastrophes. Measures of rainfall, for example,
would determine payout in drought-prone areas such the
Horn of Africa. Hurricane categories or earthquake
magnitudes would determine payouts in other regions.

"This is a new market," Hector Ibarra of the World Bank's
Commodity Risk Management Group said in an interview a
week after a bank report urged more disaster-prevention
measures.

"We're beginning to see member-country interest. We've had
a scale-up in demand," Ibarra added.

The World Bank's private sector arm, the International
Finance Corp., is currently working on setting up a
specialist reinsurance company with the private sector.

Countries in Central America, sub-Saharan Africa, South
Asia to Eastern Europe are eager to sign on, he said.

The World Bank's independent evaluation group last week
urged the bank to make disaster prevention an integral
part of its lending to catastrophe-prone regions. The bank
lends about $20 billion a year, 15 percent largely for
disaster recovery.

Weather-indexed insurance is expected to cut disaster
recovery costs for governments and the World Bank.

Hurricane Ivan, the strongest of the 2004 Atlantic season,
reaching category 5 intensity, contributed to the drive
for such insurance. More than a dozen Caribbean countries
-- members of the Caribbean Community and Common Market --
asked the World Bank to draft a plan to mitigate losses
from future storms.

Officials at the Washington-based bank reckon a Caribbean
catastrophe pool, which bunches together the region's
countries for economies of scale as well as insurance
payouts, could prove a model for small states in the
Pacific and Indian oceans.

"There's a certain amount of demand out there but demand
will also have to be created," said Richard Gyles,
insurance expert at the bank's International Finance Corp.

"We're looking at setting up a specialist reinsurance
company to promote and underwrite index-based weather and
catastrophe business," he said. "This has similarities to
weather derivatives, but within an insurance context."

U.S. weather derivatives came about a decade ago after the
power industry was deregulated. Energy trading firms set
the market up and were later joined by insurers as other
industries, such as agriculture, sought coverage for
weather losses.

"It's fair to say you are creating a market. There's
contract design, regulation, etc." Ibarra said. "The past
couple of years have been the piloting process. In the
past year, people's thinking changed to the feasibility of
scaling up." 

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From phipco at riseup.net  Tue May  2 08:08:32 2006
From: phipco at riseup.net (phipco@riseup.net)
Date: Tue May  2 08:11:20 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] A washingtonpost.com article from: phipco@riseup.net
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 Personal Message:
 This sounds pretty cool. I mean we don't hear much coming out of Gallaudet in the way of activism. 
 
 Gallaudet Students Continue Protests Against New President
 
 By Susan Kinzie and Debbi Wilgoren
 
 Several dozen Gallaudet University student have launched a second day of protests over the appointment yesterday of provost Jane K. Fernandes as the school's next president.
 
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Date: Tue May  2 10:12:32 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] A washingtonpost.com article from: phipco@riseup.net
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They actually have a proud history, as the story references but doesn't 
detail. They had something of a campus uprising during the last 
presidential selection process, changes the trustees' decision, got a 
deaf person appointed president in a major civil rights victory, and 
earned tons of media that delivered an important and empowering message.

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From olivetrii at gmail.com  Tue May  2 10:49:48 2006
From: olivetrii at gmail.com (Ethan X)
Date: Tue May  2 10:50:07 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] DC "Sustainable Post-Petroleum Living" MAY 6 schedule
	/ Last Call to Register!
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 FEATURING DC PREMIERE OF NEW DOCUMENTARY FILM:
"The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil

Organizers emphasize that everyone is invited to attend this conference
which will push the discussion about connections between peak oil, community
food security,  and grassroots sustainable economics to a deeper level,
regardless of ability to pay. Cost is "sliding scale, $ 10 - $100,"
scholarships are available (see details below), and organizers say "no one
will be turned away due to lack of funds."

*************************************************************
Last Call to Register for the May 6th Petrocollapse Conference
in Washington DC!!

http://petrocollapse.org/register.html

With Richard Heinberg, "Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon
World;" Joel Salatin, local Virginia organic farmer & featured on cover of
May/June 2006 Mother
Jones;<http://motherjones.com/news/feature/2006/05/no_bar_code.html>
speakers
from the Global Ecovillage Network, The Community Solution, Communities
Magazine and CultureChange.org;
music, films & more...
A conference all people are invited to attend!

   The DC Petrocollapse Conference <http://petrocollapse.org/>
 After Peak Oil:
Economic Doom or Transformation ?
Culture Change and Sustainable Post-Petroleum Living
    Conference * Saturday May 6 * 9 am - 7 pm
 All Souls Church, Unitarian <http://www.all-souls.org/> * 16th & Harvard
Streets, NW

Washington DC near Adams Morgan (Red) or
 Columbia Heights (Green) Metro Stations * 
Directions<http://www.all-souls.org/information/visitors.htm#directions>
  * Map
<http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?addr=16th+and+Harvard+Streets&csz=Washington+DC&country=us&new=1&name=&qty=>

 <http://petrocollapse.org/> Register now to attend! www.petrocollapse.org
<http://petrocollapse.org/>

 FEATURING DC PREMIERE OF NEW DOCUMENTARY FILM:
"The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil"

Schedule:
* Petrocollapse Conference from 9 am to 5 pm
* Feature Film from 11 am to noon
* Media Briefing from 1 to 1:45 pm
* Joel Salatin and Richard Heinberg speaking after 2 pm, followed by panel
discussion with all speakers
* "Party's Over" Concert with Live Music and Oil-Satire Songs by the
Peak Oilers
(Richard Heinberg, author of The Party's Over, playing violin; Jan Lundberg
on guitar) from 5 to 7 pm
* Registration begins 8:30 am - conference starts promptly at 9!

 Many independent oil experts agree that the world has hit or is fast
approaching Peak Oil, the point at which half of the earth's petroleum
reserves are exhausted, supply enters permanent decline, and prices begin to
skyrocket. The sudden effects of perpetual oil shortage could strike at any
time and would resonate throughout our economy and communities. Are we
prepared?

Sponsored by Culture Change, the DC " Post-Petroleum Sustainable
Living " Petrocollapse
Conference will present the facts behind the hype about Peak Oil, explore
the root factors of our present "oil-addicted" condition, and envision the
strategies that we need to bypass unhelpful institutional barriers and
achieve post-Peak Oil economic sustainability.

Experts on peak oil and the geological depletion of oil reserves, and
advocates for alternative energy, community agriculture and local
sustainable economics will discuss " petrocollapse," the imminent failure of
the petroleum infrastructure to continue to provide the myriad goods and
services that our consumer economy has grown accustomed to. Multimedia
presentations and multiple films will demonstrate solutions to the audience.

CONFERENCE SPEAKERS INCLUDE
Albert Bates, Global Ecovillage Network <http://gen.ecovillage.org/>
Diana Leafe Christian, Communities Magazine <http://communities.ic.org/>
Richard Heinberg, Powerdown: Options and
<http://www.museletter.com/Powerdown.html>
Actions for a Post-Carbon World <http://www.museletter.com/Powerdown.html>
Jan Lundberg, CultureChange.org & Auto-Free
Times<http://culturechange.org/cms/index.php>
Mark Robinowitz, Permatopia <http://permatopia.com/>&
OilEmpire.US<http://oilempire.us/>
Michael Kane, From the Wilderness <http://fromthewilderness.com/>publications
Joel Salatin, PolyFace Farms <http://polyfacefarms.com/>& You Can Farm
<http://www.goodearthpublications.com/TOCs/TOC-YCF.html>
Faith Morgan & Pat Murphy, Community Solution
<http://communitysolution.org/> <http://energypreparedness.org/>
John Darnell, PhD Energy Advisor<http://petrocollapse.org/resources/darnell.ppt>
Jenna Orkin, Moderator &
World Trade Center Environmental Organization <http://wtceo.org/>

YOU ARE INVITED TO ATTEND!


Register online via PayPal at http://petrocollapse.org
<http://petrocollapse.org/register.html>

 Cost is "sliding scale," $10 - $100. Scholarships and work exchange
arrangements are available for students, activists, and others. Everyone
will be accomodated, and no one turned away! Send us an email with details
of your situation, and/or what time or energy you may have for volunteer
activity for the conference. Send to
Ethan@CultureChange.org<http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login?/ym/Compose?To=conferences@culturechange.org>.


Contact conference coordinator Ethan Genauer if you have any problems
registering OR for more details at :
Ethan@CultureChange.org<http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login?/ym/Compose?To=ethan@culturechange.org>
AND
(202) 966 2202

**************************************

*
At The Petrocollapse Conference we will ask *
*
* What are we facing now as the economy prepares
to hit the wall **known as resource limits?
Will growth suddenly implode?*
** What will be the effects of Peak Oil (a geological
 phenomenon caused by depletion or exhaustion of oil reserves) and**
petrocollapse
(an economic and social phenomenon) on food supply** and other services we
depend on?*
** What mitigation strategies are possible? *
** What is the role of the market in determining
how severe the **effect of shortage
stemming from geological depletion will be ? *
** Upon upheaval, deprivation, and a restructuring of
social relations in a "new" **local economics system,
will we choose to create a sustainable culture?*
**
*
* *** contact conference coordinator Ethan in DC ***
* ethan@culturechange.org<http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login?/Compose?To=ethan@culturechange.org>(202)
966 2202

* For more info, see http://petrocollapse.org AND
DC PetroCollapse press release below


**************************************


MEDIA ALERT -- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

DC Petrocollapse Conference: May 6, 2006
All Souls Church, Unitarian 16th & Harvard,
Washington, D.C

A conference on the effects of peak oil and the growing global energy crisis
will take place in Washington, DC on May 6th at the All Souls Church,
Unitarian from 9 A.M. to 7 P.M. Speakers include peak-oil author Richard
Heinberg.

Conference organizer and speaker Jan Lundberg is a former oil industry
analyst who ran the market research firm Lundberg Survey. Lundberg, who quit
serving the oil industry so he could put his knowledge to use to protect the
environment, says "M. King Hubbert, who developed the theory of peak oil,
observed that we do not have an energy crisis but rather a culture crisis.
This fits with the theme of the Washington DC Petrocollapse Conference that
there is no technofix for our energy dilemma. Society will have to reclaim a
closer level of community and rediscover how local economics works."

The May 6th conference will feature Richard Heinberg, the most-read peak oil
author (The Party's Over, and Powerdown). Films and music will be also
offered as part of a varied program to stimulate discussion and action by
attendees. Heinberg and Lundberg and others will perform music including
oil-satire songs. Films will include premiers of "Our Synthetic Sea"
(plastics pollution in oceans) and "The Power of Community: How Cuba
Survived Peak Oil."

Lundberg says the Petrocollapse Conference asks, "What we can do in advance
of the social upheaval and chaos that may produce a 'national New Orleans,'
to prepare or mitigate? What will the future look like during and after a
transition to non-petroleum living?"

#######################
*Background briefing for:*
Petrocollapse Conference: May 6, 2006 9 A.M. - 7 P.M.
All Souls Unitarian Church - 16th & Harvard Streets, NW
Washington D.C.

*The New York Times calls Peak Oil "almost certainly correct." Fortune
Magazine says, "An economic tsunami is about to hit the global economy as
the world runs out of oil." As oil prices soar and supplies of crude oil and
refined petroleum products strain to keep up with demand, as global warming
fuels out-of-control hurricanes that wreak havoc on oil production
infrastructure as well as upon devastated populations, the critical issue of
Peak Oil is finally becoming acknowledged in the mainstream news.

*
*But the complete story is still suppressed, misunderstandings abound, and
the public remains in the dark about the vast array of consequences due to
hit from this looming "permanent energy crisis." The sudden effects of
perpetual oil shortage are likely to strike within the next three years. Are
we prepared? Sponsored by Culture Change, the DC PetroCollapse Conference
will present the facts behind the hype about Peak Oil, explore the root
factors of our present "oil-addicted" condition, and envision the strategies
that we need to bypass unhelpful institutional barriers and achieve
post-Peak Oil economic sustainability.

*
*The public is also not fully aware of the extent to which oil pervades our
lives not simply as fuel for transportation but also in the form of
pesticides, fertilizers and plastics. A decline in oil supplies will affect
our ability to grow enough food for the current global population of six and
a half billion people. Malnutrition and resulting illness can be expected to
spread far beyond the 3.7 billion who are currently affected into the
developed world.

*
*Our economy also depends on indefinite growth that will not be sustainable
once Peak Oil hits. Its arrival is likely to have a paralyzing affect on
certain sectors of the economy which will in turn spread both nationally and
globally.

*
*Most independent oil experts agree that the peak in global oil extraction
is occurring approximately now. The pressures of the market to distribute
the fuels and materials made from petroleum are already creating intense
competition for energy supplies around the world. As the gap between supply
and demand widens and prices skyrocket, supply will tighten as never before
due to hoarding. This will cause massive repercussions in daily living and
the global economy. Not only will people have to adapt to an energy-poor
world by concentrating on sustainably working with their regional ecosystems
for all their needs, but will also have to cope with climate change which is
rapidly accelerating. This scenario is referred to by oil expert and
conference organizer Jan Lundberg as Petrocollapse.

*
*As the conference brochure states, "the world's peak in oil extraction is
about now -- although there is uncertainty and debate. The pressures of the
Market to smoothly spread around the fuels and materials made from petroleum
promise to create intense competition for energy supplies, as seen already
today on the world stage. As the gap between supply and demand widens and
prices skyrocket, supply will tighten as never before due to hoarding. This
will cause massive repercussions in daily living and the global economy. Not
only will people have to adapt to an energy-poor world by concentrating on
sustainably working with their regional ecosystems for all their needs,
climate change is accelerating." *
*
* *** contact conference coordinator Ethan in DC ** *
* Ethan@CultureChange.org
<http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login?/Compose?To=Ethan@CultureChange.org>*
(202) 966 2202*
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From mgj at riseup.net  Tue May  2 18:22:19 2006
From: mgj at riseup.net (Mobilization for Global Justice)
Date: Tue May  2 18:27:30 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] MGJ General Meeting///Wed., May 3rd///St. Stephen's
Message-ID: <20060502182219.qln8f3sj4gis84kg@mail.riseup.net>

Mobilization for Global Justice General Meeting
Wednesday, May 3rd, 7-9pm
St. Stephens Church, 16th and Newton Sts. NW


Hey Folks--Come help us figure out how we can keep up the pressure on  
the IMF and World Bank and bring the neoliberal monster to its knees!!



Directions:
St. Stephens Church, upstairs in the auditorium
(16th and Newton St. NW, Washington DC)
  From the Columbia Heights metro walk north on 14th, turn left on Newton
and walk until you reach 16th. Enter on the side.  There is wheelchair
access at the back of the building.

-- 
MGJ General organizing meetings are every Wednesday, 7-9pm at St. Stephens
Church, 16th and Newton St. NW (Columbia Heights Metro stop, S2 and S4 Bus,
Street parking only, lots of bike parking)

On the Web: www.globalizethis.org

Join a listserve and get important announcements and updates from MGJ!

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http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/mgj-announce

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From olivetrii at gmail.com  Tue May  2 22:58:33 2006
From: olivetrii at gmail.com (Ethan X)
Date: Tue May  2 22:58:37 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] Domenici and Nine DOE Lab Directors Promote Global
	NuclearEnergy Partnership
Message-ID: <1e9e1b2a0605022258t1144f8a3o59022b389ec6af6c@mail.gmail.com>

Domenici and Nine DOE Lab Directors Promote Global NuclearEnergy Partnership
   >----------

>From: news@energy.senate.gov
<http://us.f365.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=news@energy.senate.gov&YY=18494&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b>
>Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 13:57:30 -0400 (EDT)
>To: <khelms@frontiernet.net
<http://us.f365.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=khelms@frontiernet.net&YY=18494&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b>>
>Subject: Domenici and Nine DOE Lab Directors Promote Global Nuclear Energy
>Partnership
>
>
>
>News  Notes May 2, 2006 For Immediate Release
>May 2, 2006 Contact:   Marnie Funk (202) 224-6977
>Angela Harper (202) 224-7875  Domenici and Nine DOE Lab Directors Promote
>Global Nuclear Energy Partnership
>
>Washington, D.C.  - Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee Chairman
>Pete V. Domenici today joined with the directors of Department of Energy
>national laboratories from around the nation to promote a program intended
>to accelerate the use of nuclear energy to ease global demand for fossil
>fuels.     Domenici welcomed the solid and united showing of lab directors,
>including Tom Hunter of Sandia National Laboratories and Robert Kuckuck of
>Los Alamos National Laboratory, for the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership
>(GNEP).     GNEP establishes reliable fuel services to provide reactor fuel
>for developing countries that forego indigenous enrichment and reprocessing
>facilities.  The goal behind the program is to provide nuclear power to
>developing nations without spreading sensitive fuel cycle technology or
>increasing proliferation threats.  GNEP is accelerating the work of the
>national laboratories to develop the technologies and engineering-scale
>facilities for eventual commercialization.       Nine national laboratories
>are working together to develop program and technology plans that will
>guide
>technology development efforts. Sandia is expected to provide lead-on
>reactors, and security and safeguards to prevent proliferation.  LANL is
>expected to play a major role in advanced reactor fuels, as well as
>reprocessing and reactor technology.
>
>  3DOE and its national laboratories exist to develop technology options
>for
>our most challenging national problems,2 Domenici said.  3U.S. energy
>security is one of our most significant challenges.  There is no single
>silver bullet that will solve all our energy needs.  Many are upset with
>high gas prices today but are unwilling to support measures that provide a
>mix of options for our future.2
>
>3I believe technology at our laboratories holds answers that must be
>pursued
>aggressively if we are to achieve greater energy independence at home and
>around the world,2 he said.  3We must move aggressively with new nuclear
>power today to assure sustainable electricity for the future as China,
>India, and many other countries are now doing.2
>
>Domenici said he is encouraged by 37 expressions of interest from
>communities, companies and partnerships that would consider being potential
>sites advanced recycling technologies demonstrations.
>
>3Some have argued that the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership does nothing
>in
>the near term to provide energy security.  But I believe, as our past has
>demonstrated, that we must start now so that 10 years from now the United
>States has options that it can now only dream of.  This initiative provides
>options for our energy future,2 Domenici said.
>
>The Bush administration requested $250 million in FY2007, a $90 million
>increase over FY2006, for GNEP and an advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative
>(ACFI).
>Domenici, as chairman of the Senate Energy and Water Development
>Appropriations Subcommittee, has addressed the GNEP issue in several
>hearings this year related to developing the FY2007 DOE budget and
>advancing
>nuclear energy initiatives included in the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
>
>Directors or deputy directors from the following labs attended Tuesday1s
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>Argonne National Laboratory, Savannah River National Laboratory, Oak Ridge
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>Livermore National Laboratory, and Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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From: beeton at cepr.net (Dan Beeton)
Date: Wed May  3 14:49:28 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] IMF Losing Grip On Developing Countries 
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From Catsambol at aol.com  Wed May  3 15:17:10 2006
From: Catsambol at aol.com (Catsambol@aol.com)
Date: Wed May  3 15:17:29 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] Emergency Protest Alert
Message-ID: <265.966bc19.318a85e6@aol.com>

 
As  of Tuesday, May 2, DC Central Kitchen suspended delivery of 2,300 daily 
meals to  eight city homeless shelters because the non-profit lacked financial 
support  from the community and city of DC.  The Community Partnership for the 
 Prevention of Homelessness (CPPH) is the agency responsible for allocation 
of  city funds for homeless services.  It failed to deliver a contract, and all 
the shelters were advised that  serving their residents without city funding 
had become an unsustainable  solution to an increasing problem. 
Please  flood Sue Marshall, executive director of the CPPH, with calls and 
emails.  Call her directly at 202.543.5298.  X102, send an email to 
_suemarshall@community-partnership.org_ (mailto:suemarshall@community-partnership.org) ,  
or fax her at 202.543.5653  
This  is not a surprise.  Over the course of Mayor William's tenure, he has 
been  successful in shutting down homeless shelters (Gale, Randall), reducing 
homeless  services, prioritizing a baseball stadium over public schools, using 
public  dollars to support an ongoing gentrification campaign under the guise 
of "urban  renewal", and the list goes on.

Given the recent developments in the  state of homeless affairs in the city, 
and Mayor William's ongoing failure to  address interests that do not come 
with large dollar signs, we are urging  EVERYONE to come out and protest the 
Mayor. We will be delivering a letter  of protest (see a copy of the letter 
below), demanding that he see to it that  food service is restored.   
Join  the DC Anti-War Network (DAWN) Weekly Action Group as we protest, yet 
again, at  his house, Thursday at 9:30pm.   
Meet  at:  
2475  Virginia Avenue NW  at the Potomac  Plaza  Apartments.

Come to the protest, but don't just stop with a  protest.  The DAWN Weekly 
action group will be serving meals at Franklin every Thursday  until the food 
gets up and running again.  We urge everyone to contribute  in whatever way they 
can to help end this public emergency.

Whether  that's writing letters to Sue Marshall, to the Mayor (2475 Virginia 
Ave. NW apartment  829, Washington DC), taking on a day to cook food for a  
shelter, or contributing money, food, or juice, everyone can play a  role. 
DAWN has set up a special paypal  account to fund this endeavor.  You can 
contribute directly at _http://www.dawndc.net/_ (http://www.dawndc.net/)  or try 
this direct link  (may not work in your browser): 
_https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&business=jsmacdonaldjr%40yahoo%2ecom&item_name=Adopt%20F
ranklin%20Shelter&item_number=AFS&no_shipping=0&no_note=1&tax=0&currency_code=
USD&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF&charset=UTF%2d8_ 
(https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&business=jsmacdonaldjr@yahoo.com&item_name=Adopt%20Franklin%20Sh
elter&item_number=AFS&no_shipping=0&no_note=1&tax=0&currency_code=USD&bn=PP-Do
nationsBF&charset=UTF-8)  
Just to give you an idea, $30.00  buys rice, beans, and tortillas for 100 
people. Any amount you can donate would  be appreciated.  Funds over and  above 
what we need for this specific effort will be applied to the costs of our  
ongoing service to DC residents who are homeless, for food, beverages, paper  
goods, toiletries, and metro cards.   
You can also get in touch with  DC's shelters directly and find out how you 
can help (see the listing  below).  Please, let us come  together as a 
community and do what we can to fight the effects of this assault  on human health and 
dignity. 
Our  needs: 
-         Existing groups (clubs,  faith-based organizations, neighborhood 
associations, groups of friends) to  organize help at one of the various shelt
ers or by contacting them as to their  needs (remember, we are only able to 
cover one meal on one day of the week at  Franklin Shelter, and that in and of 
itself is a daunting  task) 
-         Significant kitchen space (huge  need) with capacity to prepare 
large amounts of food 
-         Big  pots and pans 
-         In our  particular case, donations of volunteer time are always  
appreciated; 
-         and/or  money 
-         of  course, food donations (though, if you have particular food 
donations we should  strategize about the critical problem of distribution) 
-         demands  upon the city government that they get this crisis with DC 
Central Kitchen  Resolved (more on that to come). 
If you can help or need help  coordinating ways you can help, please call 
Becky Sambol at 703-463-0558 or by  email at _catsambol@aol.com_ 
(mailto:catsambol@aol.com)   . 
Men?s  Shelters 
Community for Creative  Non-Violence 
425 2nd St.  NW 
202.393.1909 
Emery  Shelter 
1725 Lincoln Rd.  NE 
202.655.1041 
Franklin  Shelter 
13th & K Streets,  NW 
202.638.7424 
La Casa  
1436 Irving St.  NW 
202.842.1731 
New York  Avenue Shelter 
1355-57 New York Avenue, NE 
202.832.2359 
St. Elizabeth?s  Hospital 
2700 A. St.  SE 
202.889.7634 
Women?s  Shelters 
John L. Young  Shelter 
119 D Street  NW 
202.772.4313 
Open Door Shelter   
2nd & D Streets,  NW 
202.639.8093 
Mayor  Anthony Williams
2475 Virginia  Avenue, NW
Apt. 829
Washington  DC, 20037 Mayor Anthony  Williams
2475 Virginia Avenue,  NW
Apt. 829
Washington  DC, 20037

Dear Mayor  Williams, 
As  you are well aware, on May 1 DC Central Kitchen suspended its daily 
delivery of  2,300 meals to eight homeless shelters in the district. DCCK cited as 
causes the  lack of leadership and the city's failure to deliver a contract or 
 funding. The Community Partnership for the Prevention of Homelessness had  
been repeatedly advised that providing ongoing services for the DC shelters  
without the city?s financial support was an unsustainable solution to an  
increasing problem.   
Even  before the suspension, because the funding was already substandard, 
these  shelters were unable to provide adequate nutritious food to their 
residents, a  disproportionate percentage of whom suffer from a variety of illnesses 
either  caused or aggravated by a diet high in fat, sugar and empty calories. 
We have  been in communication with shelter staff as well as residents; they 
all confirm  that these shelters are now experiencing a full scale crisis, 
scrambling to  figure out how to provide sustenance to over 2000 of DC's most 
vulnerable  residents.  

Mayor  Williams, we hold you personally responsible for this crisis and the 
suffering  it is causing to providers as well as recipients. Over the course of 
your  tenure, both the Gale and Randall Shelters have been shut down. The 
Franklin shelter came very  close to closing, and was kept open only through the 
hard work and advocacy of  local residents. Services to the homeless are 
continually besieged by funding  cutbacks. Public dollars that can best go to 
public services are instead  funneled into what you refer to as "urban renewal." To 
us that's just a  euphemism for gentrification; it's one of the root causes 
of our exploding  homeless population.  

Mayor  Williams, we feel that your track record shows you to be a servant of 
the  wealthy, not of all of the District's citizens and we see this latest 
crisis as  a crime. You lobbied successfully for the baseball stadium, the cost 
of which  will drain funds from public education. And how can it be that the 
Junior ROTC  program, which entices our young to fight and die in an illegal and 
immoral war,  commands a budget of $1.2 million annually while the city 
cannot come up with  funding to feed our residents or provide real training and 
jobs for our  youth? 

A group of outraged DC residents will be delivering this  letter to you at 
your home tomorrow evening, Thursday May 4, 2006 at 9:30 p.m.  We are working 
hard to fill the gap by cooking and serving food ourselves to  distribute to 
those fellow residents who could otherwise go hungry. You can make  a donation 
directly to our effort at _www.dawndc.net_ (http://www.dawndc.net/) . 

We  wish you cared a fraction as much as we do. You apparently do not and we 
demand  that you use your power and influence, if not your heart, to do the 
right thing  and see that food service is restored.  

Respectfully,

The DC Anti-War Network and other DC  residents 


Dear  Mayor Williams, 
As  you are well aware, on May 1 DC Central Kitchen suspended its daily 
delivery of  2,300 meals to eight homeless shelters in the district. DCCK cited as 
causes the  lack of leadership and the city's failure to deliver a contract or 
 funding. The Community Partnership for the Prevention of Homelessness had  
been repeatedly advised that providing ongoing services for the DC shelters  
without the city?s financial support was an unsustainable solution to an  
increasing problem.   
Even  before the suspension, because the funding was already substandard, 
these  shelters were unable to provide adequate nutritious food to their 
residents, a  disproportionate percentage of whom suffer from a variety of illnesses 
either  caused or aggravated by a diet high in fat, sugar and empty calories. 
We have  been in communication with shelter staff as well as residents; they 
all confirm  that these shelters are now experiencing a full scale crisis, 
scrambling to  figure out how to provide sustenance to over 2000 of DC's most 
vulnerable  residents.  

Mayor  Williams, we hold you personally responsible for this crisis and the 
suffering  it is causing to providers as well as recipients. Over the course of 
your  tenure, both the Gale and Randall Shelters have been shut down. The 
Franklin shelter came very  close to closing, and was kept open only through the 
hard work and advocacy of  local residents. Services to the homeless are 
continually besieged by funding  cutbacks. Public dollars that can best go to 
public services are instead  funneled into what you refer to as "urban renewal." To 
us that's just a  euphemism for gentrification; it's one of the root causes 
of our exploding  homeless population.  

Mayor  Williams, we feel that your track record shows you to be a servant of 
the  wealthy, not of all of the District's citizens and we see this latest 
crisis as  a crime. You lobbied successfully for the baseball stadium, the cost 
of which  will drain funds from public education. And how can it be that the 
Junior ROTC  program, which entices our young to fight and die in an illegal and 
immoral war,  commands a budget of $1.2 million annually while the city 
cannot come up with  funding to feed our residents or provide real training and 
jobs for our  youth? 

A group of outraged DC residents will be delivering this  letter to you at 
your home tomorrow evening, Thursday May 4, 2006 at 9:30 p.m.  We are working 
hard to fill the gap by cooking and serving food ourselves to  distribute to 
those fellow residents who could otherwise go hungry. You can make  a donation 
directly to our effort at _www.dawndc.net_ (http://www.dawndc.net/) . 

We  wish you cared a fraction as much as we do. You apparently do not and we 
demand  that you use your power and influence, if not your heart, to do the 
right thing  and see that food service is restored.  

Respectfully,

The DC Anti-War Network and other DC  residents 

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From basav at igc.org  Wed May  3 20:56:50 2006
From: basav at igc.org (basav@igc.org)
Date: Wed May  3 20:56:00 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] Talk by global justice activist from Egypt
Message-ID: <380-2200654435650609@M2W142.mail2web.com>

The Anti-Globalization Movement in Egypt
A talk by Mohamed Elagati

Mohamed is an activist with AGEG, an Egyptian global justice group which
resists the policies of mega-corporations and institutions such as the WTO
and the World Bank. He will address the impacts of the global economy and
peoples? resistance movements in Egypt and the wider Arab world.

This event will happen as part of the weekly meeting of the Mobilization
for Global Justice (MGJ).
When: Wednesday May 10, 6:45 pm.
Where: St. Stephen?s Church, 1525 Newton St. NW (near Columbia Heights
Metro)

Please join us for this event ? and stay for the remainder of our meeting,
from 8-9 pm. Help us plan exciting upcoming actions, including protesting
the U.S.-South Korea free trade agreement and the Group of Eight wealthy
nations (G8) meeting in Russia.

Mobilization for Global Justice
202-898-5953 :: mgj@riseup.net :: www.globalizethis.org


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From olivetrii at gmail.com  Thu May  4 07:49:38 2006
From: olivetrii at gmail.com (Ethan X)
Date: Thu May  4 07:55:03 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] MGJ literature for Petrocollapse conference?
Message-ID: <1e9e1b2a0605040749r4da1d50ar4bea1d8ba71af860@mail.gmail.com>

Hey all,

If someone sends me PDF versions of MGJ's literature, I'll print
and copy a bunch to table at the Petrocollapse conference. I especially want
the ones on climate change and extractive industries. Otherwise, if anyone
can bring MGJ literature to the
conference, please let me know!

Thanks ~ Ethan
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From phipco at riseup.net  Fri May  5 07:18:57 2006
From: phipco at riseup.net (Morrigan Phillips)
Date: Fri May  5 07:41:42 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] amazing f@#king pics from Mexico
Message-ID: <20060505101857.rzi0e6b2ncflwk08@mail.riseup.net>

Here is are some pics from the protest in Mexico.  
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/default.stm at the bottom click on  
"In Pictures: Police Chased out in Mexican Riots" there are some ok  
artricles on the web site about what happened but I would read some of  
the other info on Indymedia.org instead.

Peace out!
Morrigan
From phipco at riseup.net  Fri May  5 07:37:30 2006
From: phipco at riseup.net (Morrigan Phillips)
Date: Fri May  5 07:53:47 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] Zapatisat Red Alert and more info behinde the pics
Message-ID: <20060505103730.exyyr40fsr34g0kc@mail.riseup.net>

Ok, so to help everyone better understand the pictures I sent early of  
protests in Mexico here is an article from the Mexico Solidarity  
Network about what is happening and why the EZLN has called red alert.  
It is in English and Spanish.

RED ALERT

ZAPATISTA NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY

Comrades of the world.

Your comrade in the Struggle, Insurgente Lieutenant Colonel Mois?s  
speaks to you.

Today we entered Red Alert.

Our comrades from Texcoco near San Salvador Atenco, in DF were  
attacked. This is where our comrade

Insurgent Subcomandante Marcos has recently been.

We are calling on a national and International mobilization, to happen  
on May 4th at 8 in the morning at the

Mexican embassies against the government of Fox.

Be alert to further news.

SUMMARY

-The Zapatista National Liberation Army is on Red Alert as of 8AM May 4, 2006.
-In the same way all the activities of the Other Campaign from 8 A.M  
May 4, 2006 are suspended.
-The Other Campaign has transferred to San Salvador Atenco.

from the Center for Free Press D.F.
May 3, 2006, Ciudad Mexico.

Today at 17:55 p.m. local time during a meeting in the Plaza de  
lasTres Culturas in Tlatelolco, Insurgent Subcomandante Marcos of the  
EZLN sent a red alert that she will in effect as of 8 AM May 4, 2006.  
All the Caracoles and the Zapatista Juntas de Buen Gobierno will be  
closed. He indicated that his substitute in the chain of command of  
the EZLN has been designated in case something happens to him.

Also at of the same time all the activities of the Other Campaign, an  
initiative of the EZLN that from the 1st of January of 2006 that has  
made it way across the country on the First National Tour to Listen  
and to Organize, are suspended.

This as a result of the violent and bloody acts of repression today  
starting at 7 in the morning on the part of the state and federal  
governments of Mexico against a group of flower vendors, members of  
the Frente de Pueblos en Defensa de la Tierra, supporters to the Sixth  
Declaration of the Lacandona jungle and to the Other Campaign, known  
world-wide by the resistance that opposed the expropriation of their  
land and the construction on it of an airport.

The EZLN calls to all the participants of the Other Campaign to  
mobilize against these acts of repression and in solidarity with the  
Frente de Pueblos en Defensa de la Tierra and the community of San  
Salvador Atenco. They call on all supporters to coordinate actions in  
their region and sector.

The repression occurred today against a group of flower vendors in the  
municipal palace of the Texcoco. The municipal president was against  
them using that location because there are plans to build a Walmart  
store there, to which the people in the area are opposed. Nevertheless  
the previous day the same municipal president had given authorization  
to sell flowers there.

This time of year many flowers are sold, to celebrate the day of Holy  
Cross, Mothers Day and Teacher Day, which represents a strong and  
almost unique income throughout the year for these vendor of flowers
that usually depend on a limited rural economy.

The repression escalated when the vendor?s comrades, of the Frente de  
Pueblos en Defensa de la Tierra (FPDT) came to support by blocking the  
highway. After which the ?policia Federal Preventiva? (federal  
preventive police) and the State Police have been repressing them all  
afternoon.

There are reports of a dead boy of 14 years and several injuries. At  
the moment there are 43 members of the FPDT detained.

In the same act Am?rica Valle thanked the collectives and social  
organizations to support, no matter if they are supporters or not of  
the Other Campaign.

This and other acts of repression against the Other Campaign were made  
while the tour of Insurgent Subcomandante Marcos, Zero Delegate of the  
EZLN, had massive receptions in different areas in the city
of Mexico and the metropolitan area.


DECLARATION and DEMANDS

San Crist?bal de las Casas
May 4, 2006.

STOP The REPRESSION IN San Salvador ATENCO!
DECLARATIONS OF THE OTHER CAMPAIGN IN CHIAPAS

The members of the Other Campaign in Chiapas denounce the violent  
actions of the state and federal governments that took place yesterday  
against the town of San Salvador Atenco, and of which has caused  
confrontations and injuries, detentions and death. What has happened  
today is a consequence of systematic aggressions against the  
resistance of the town of San Salvador Atenco, at least from the
attempt on the part of the federal government, to impose the  
international airport in 2002.

We see how these violent answers on the part of the bad governments  
are systematic against the towns when we want to exert our right to  
decide and subsist. What happens in Atenco is not new, we see it in:
Pasta de Conchos, L?zaro C?rdenas, La Parota, the ecological farmers  
of the mountain range of la Sierra de Petatl?n, the Autonomous  
Municipality of Xochistlauaca, the zapatistas autonomous governments,  
the town of San Blas, in Oaxaca, among others.

Far from listening and meeting the demands of the people, the  
politicians resort once again to the use of public law enforcement  
officials to impose their own interests. This is not the democracy  
that we want and that those from above proclaim and presume that we  
have.

The repression against the town of San Salvador Atenco is the  
repression against the towns of Mexico, its struggle is our struggle,  
the struggle of the Other Campaign

WE DEMANDED:

-That the aggressions against the town of San Salvador Atenco stop,

-The immediate liberation of those detained and the total withdrawal  
of public law enforcement officials that are invading territories of  
our comrades.

-We demand that the corporative mass media stop manipulating us with  
their strategy of disinformation that only emits value judgments and  
should respect our right to contextualized and truthful information.

-We call on civil, national and international society, to express our  
solidarity with the town of San Salvador Atenco and to express our  
disgust by the repression, with civil actions and pacific.


LET US CONTINUE FIGHTING FOR ANOTHER WAY OF MAKING POLICY! THE OTHER  
CAMPAIGN CONTINUES!

THE MEMBERS OF THE OTHER CAMPAIGN OF CHIAPAS.
SUPPORTING CIVIL SOCIETY


ALERTA ROJA

EJERCITO ZAPATISTA DE LIBERACION NACIONAL

Compa?eros y compa?eras del mundo.
Les habla su compa?ero de lucha.
Teniente Coronel Insurgente Mois?s.
El d?a de hoy entramos en alerta roja.
Fueron atacados nuestros compa?eros y compa?eras del Texcoco cerca del  
San Salvador Atenco, en el

DF. Donde estos d?as estuvo el compa?ero Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos.

Estamos llamando a una movilizaci?n Nacional e Internacional, para el  
d?a de ma?ana 4 de Abril a las 8

de la ma?ana en las embajadas mexicanas en contra del gobierno de Fox.

Est?n pendientes en las noticias compa?eros y compa?eras.

RESUMEN

-El Ej?rcito Zapatista de Liberaci?n Nacional se declara en alerta  
roja a partir de las 800 horas del d?a de ma?ana.

-De la misma manera se suspenden todas las actividades de La Otra  
Campa?a a partir de las 8 AM de ma?ana por la ma?ana.
-La Otra Campa?a se traslada a San Salvador Atenco.

por Centro de Medios Libres D.F.
3 de mayo de 2006, ciudad de M?xico.

Hoy a las 17:55 PM hora local durante un mitin en la plaza de las tres
culturas en Tlatelolco, el Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos del EZLN  
lanz? la alerta roja que tendr? efecto a partir de ma?ana 4 de mayo a  
las 8 de la ma?ana. Se cerrar?n todos los caracoles y las juntas
de buen gobierno zapatistas. Se?al? que ya est? designado su ustituto  
en la cadena de mando del EZLN en caso de que le ocurriera algo.

Tambien a partir de la misma hora se suspenden todas las actividades  
de La Otra Campa?a, iniciativa del EZLN que a partir del 1 de enero de  
2006 realizaba por todo el pa?s el Primer Recorrido Nacional para  
Escuchar y Organizar Juntos La Indignaci?n.

Ello a ra?z de los violentos y sangrientos actos de represi?n  
ocurridos el d?a de hoy a partir de las 7 de la ma?ana por parte de  
los gobiernos federal y del estado de M?xico contra un grupo de  
vendedores de flores, miembros del Frente de Pueblos en Defensa de la  
Tierra, adherentes a la Sexta Declaraci?n de la Selva Lacandona y a la  
Otra Campa?a, conocidos mundialmente por la resistencia que opusieron  
a la expropiaci?n de sus tierras y a la construcci?n en ellas de un  
aeropuerto.

El EZLN llama a todos los participantes de La Otra Campa?a a  
movilizarse en todo el pa?s contra estos actos de represi?n y en  
solidaridad con el Frente de Pueblos en Defensa de la Tierra y la  
comunidad de San Salvador Atenco. Llama a todos los adherentes a  
coordinar en sus coordinadoras regionales y sectoriales estas acciones.

La represi?n se di? el d?a de hoy contra un grupo de vendedores de  
flores en el palacio municipal de Texcoco. El presidente municipal se  
opon?a a que se instalaran en ese lugar debido a que ah? ser?a

constru?da una tienda Walmart, a lo que se oponen los pobladores del  
lugar. Sin embargo el d?a anterior el mismo presidente municipal hab?a  
dado autorizaci?n para que expendieran ah? sus flores.

Esta ?poca del a?o se venden muchas flores, por celebrarse el d?a de  
la santa cruz, el d?a de las madres y el d?a del maestro, lo que  
representa un ingreso fuerte y casi ?nico a lo largo del a?o para  
estos vendedores de flores que dependen de una econom?a campesina.

La represi?n se escal? cuando sus compa?eros, del Frente de Pueblos en
Defensa de la Tierra (FPDT) asistieron a solidarizarse, bloqueando la
carretera. Tras cuyo acto la polic?a Federal Preventiva y la Polic?a
Estatal han estado reprimi?ndolos durante toda la tarde.

Se reporta un ni?o de 14 a?os muerto y m?s de una decena de  
lesionados. Al momento hay 43 miembros del FPDT detenidos.

En el mismo acto Am?rica Valle agradeci? a los colectivos y  
organizaciones sociales que se solidaricen, no importando si son  
adherentes o no a La Otra Campa?a.

Este y otros actos de represi?n contra La Otra Campa?a se realiz?  
mientras el recorrido del Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, Delegado  
Zero del EZLN, tuvo recibimientos masivos en distintas zonas de la  
ciudad de M?xico y el ?rea metropolitana.

DECLARACION

San Crist?bal de las Casas, a 4 de mayo del 2006.

??ALTO A LA REPRESI?N EN SAN SALVADOR ATENCO!!!
PRONUNCIAMIENTO DE LA OTRA CAMPA?A EN CHIAPAS
Las y los adherentes de la Otra Campa?a en Chiapas REPUDIAMOS las  
acciones violentas de los gobiernos estatal y federal que desde ayer  
ejercen en contra del pueblo de San Salvador Atenco, que han causado  
enfrentamientos y personas heridas, detenidas y muertas. Lo que ocurre  
hoy es consecuencia de agresiones sistem?ticas en contra de la  
resistencia del pueblo de San Salvador

Atenco, al menos desde el intento de imponer por parte del gobierno  
federal el aeropuerto internacional en el a?o 2002.

Vemos c?mo estas respuestas violentas por parte de los malos gobiernos  
son sistem?ticas en contra de los pueblos cuando queremos ejercer  
nuestro derecho a decidir y a subsistir. Lo que pasa en Atenco no es  
nuevo, lo vemos en: Pasta de Conchos, L?zaro C?rdenas, La Parota, los  
campesinos ecologistas de la Sierra de Petatl?n, el Municipio Aut?nomo  
de Xochistlauaca, los gobiernos aut?nomos zapatistas, el pueblo de San  
Blas, en Oaxaca, entre otros.

Lejos de escuchar y atender las demandas del pueblo, los pol?ticos  
recurren una vez m?s al uso de la fuerza p?blica para imponer sus  
propios intereses. Esta no es la democracia que nosotros y nosotras
queremos y que tanto proclaman y presumen los de arriba que tenemos.

La represi?n en contra del pueblo de San Salvador Atenco es la  
represi?n en contra de los pueblos de M?xico, su lucha es nuestra  
lucha, la lucha de la Otra Campa?a.

EXIGIMOS:

-Que se detengan las agresiones en contra del pueblo de San Salvador Atenco,

-La liberaci?n inmediata de los y las detenidas y el retiro total de  
la fuerza p?blica que est? invadiendo las tierras de nuestras y  
nuestros compa?eros,

-Demandamos de los medios de comunicaci?n corporativos que dejen de  
manipularnos con su estrategia de desinformaci?n que s?lo emite  
juicios de valor y respeten nuestro derecho a una informaci?n  
contextualizada y veraz,

-Llamamos a la sociedad civil, nacional e internacional, a que  
expresemos nuestra solidaridad con el pueblo de San Salvador Atenco y  
nuestro repudio por la represi?n, con acciones civiles y pac?ficas.
repultion.

??SIGAMOS LUCHANDO POR OTRA FORMA DE HACER POL?TICA!!

??LA OTRA CAMPA?A VA!!

LAS Y LOS ADHERENTES DE LA OTRA CAMPA?A DE CHIAPAS.

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From michele1917 at yahoo.com  Sun May  7 17:11:52 2006
From: michele1917 at yahoo.com (Michele Bollinger)
Date: Sun May  7 17:12:15 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] Tu 5/9: Protest at Egypt Emb. to demand release of
	protesters!
Message-ID: <20060508001152.14768.qmail@web51015.mail.yahoo.com>

**Please forward widely**

Solidarity pickets across the country to demand
release of jailed
Egyptian protesters! Actions will take place at the
same time on
Tuesday in DC, NYC, SF and Chicago.

IN DC:
Tuesday, May 9th at 12:30pm
Embassy of Egypt, 3521 International Ct., Washington,
DC
Off VanNess St, behind UDC (Metro: Red line, Van
Ness-UDC)
For more information in DC, contact Michele 202 276
1586
-----------------------------

For more information, view:
Information from the Committee to Protect Journalists:
http://www.cpj.org/news/2006/mideast/egypt27apr06na.html.

Background on the judges' anti-fraud campaign from 
Human Rights Watch:
http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2006/04/25/egypt13269.htm

Crackdown on protests in Egypt
http://www.socialistworker.org/2006-1/587/587_02_Egypt.shtml
Socialist Worker, May 5, 2006 | Page 2

DOZENS OF opponents of Egypt's authoritarian 
government were arrested
after riot police attacked a demonstration in support 
of reformist
judges who are challenging election fraud.

 The protests took place April 27 as two judges, 
Hesham al-Bastawissi
and Mahmoud Mekky, were due to be brought before a 
disciplinary panel
after they accused the government of fraud in 
parliamentary elections
late last year--and charged fellow judges with 
complicity.

 Despite a heavy police presence throughout downtown 
Cairo, hundreds
of demonstrators managed to gather in front of the 
Supreme Court
building. They were quickly sealed off and surrounded 
by cops in full
riot gear, carrying truncheons. The police moved in 
with a heavy show
of force, arresting and beating the protesters.

 But every time the police broke up groups of 
protesters,
demonstrators regrouped in other locations, according 
to one report.

 President Hosni Mubarak's government put a massive 
number of cops on
the street in Cairo--estimated at 10,000 by the New 
York Times, much
larger than the force deployed in the Sinai after 
three bombing
attacks earlier in the week.

 The government--appearing "overwhelmed," in the words

of the
Times--followed up the police attack with dozens of 
arrests. At least
50 activists were jailed and are expected to be held 
for 15 days,
according to reports.

 Among them are several members of the Center for 
Socialist Studies,
which was the target of the government three years ago

when five
people were put on trial simply for belonging to the 
organization.

 Mubarak's regime has continuously used repression 
against all signs
of dissent. With discontent over human rights abuses 
and a
crisis-prone economy continuing to grow, the 
government is trying to
intimidate the opposition. But its hard-line tactics 
aren't stopping
Egypt's protests from growing.

Protest the arrest of Egyptian activists with letters 
faxed to
prosecutor Maher Abd a-Wahid at 011-202-577-4716.



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From phipco at riseup.net  Sun May  7 18:37:55 2006
From: phipco at riseup.net (Morrigan)
Date: Sun May  7 18:38:27 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] Crackdown in Mexico; Death, Injuries and Jail.
Message-ID: <445EA0F3.5000509@riseup.net>

This is the best report I have found coming out of Mexico right now. The 
detail is both amazing and heart breaking. For those who may not know 
what has and is happening right now in Mexico this is a great way to get 
up to speed.
Peace,
Morrigan
===========
from:  johngibler@hotmail.com

Crackdown in Mexico; Death, Injuries and Jail.

Global Exchange
May 06, 2006
By John Gibler


San Salvador Atenco, Mexico-At 7 AM this past Wednesday, May 3rd,
state police blocked 60 flower vendors from setting up their stands at
the Texcoco local market in the State of Mexico, about 20 miles east
of Mexico City. The police beat and arrested those who resisted. The
flower vendors called to the residents of neighboring San Salvador
Atenco for help and the Atenco residents blocked the highway that
borders their town and leads to Texcoco.

The police response was overwhelming: hundreds of state and federal
police, most clad in riot gear, arrived to lift the blockade. Atenco
resisted, with machetes, clubs, Molotov cocktails and bottle rockets.
The police tried to lift the blockade five times throughout the day,
and five times they were repelled.

The violence was extreme. Photographs published in local papers show
Atenco protestors beating a fallen policemen, police beating tens of
fallen protestors. Severe beatings. Protesters kicking one fallen
police officer in the face, groups of police pulverizing tens of
protestors with rocks and batons.

Police also attacked photographers from both the national and the
international press. Photographers and television cameramen from
Associated Press, Reuters, Milenio, Jornada and Televisa all reported
beatings and attempts to confiscate cameras. Photographs and film
coverage of the beatings were published on the internet and shown on
national television. Local and international news articles however,
have not mentioned the systematic police violence against reporters.

All told on Wednesday, over 50 people were injured and 100 detained by
the police. Protestors took 11 police hostage, but released them to
the Red Cross later in the evening. A fourteen year-old boy was shot
in the chest and killed in the afternoon. Local media reported that
the boy was killed by projectiles from the protestors, but the death
certificate said otherwise: bullet wound to the chest.

Atenco is famous across Mexico for having resisted in 2002 the forced
displacement from their community to make way for a new Mexico City
Airport. Villagers, mostly small farmers, formed the People's Front in
Defense of Land (Frente del Pueblo en Defensa de La Tierra) and,
wielding their machetes, became a symbol of popular protest in Mexico.

Organizers from the People's Front have attended several meetings of
the Zapatista's Other Campaign, and hosted subcomandante Marcos'
arrival in Atenco. During his visit, Marcos promised to align the
Zapatista Army of National Liberation with Atenco's struggle. The
Atenco Front, with machetes in hand, was in charge of providing
security for Marcos during the May first Labor Day march to Mexico
City's main plaza where the Front's leader, Ignacio Del Valle, spoke
before tens of thousands gathered in the plaza.

Two days later riot police stormed the house where he had been hiding
since the attack in Texcoco. At that moment the Televisa cameraman was
outside the house filming the police operation when some five police
officers approached and repeatedly beat him with clubs. As a result
there is no film coverage of the police raid.

Several newspaper photographers, however, photographed Del Valle's
arrival to prison several hours later that night. He was carried in a
headlock by a masked police officer, who, in the photographs, is
pointing for the photographers to leave the area. Another masked
officer walked slightly behind, grabbing Del Valle's back. The two
masked officers walk Del Valle through a gauntlet of a hundred riot
police with helmets and shields. Del Valle's head is covered with a
towel in the pictures, but his face, swollen and bloody is partially
visible. Also visible is a blood stain the size of a fist on the groin
of his jeans, evidence of repeated strikes to his testicles.

Police Siege Town, Take over 200 prisoners

The following day, Thursday May 4th, Mexico woke to the bloody images
of violence from the day before. Atenco woke to a police siege that
led to hundreds more wounded and detained.

Around 6:30 AM, over three thousand police surrounded Atenco and
invaded, filling the streets, cutting down everyone in their way with
clubs and firing tear gas, both to disorient, and to kill. Several
protestors were shot in the head at close range with metal gas pellets
three inches long and an inch in diameter.

Within two hours the police had occupied Atenco.

Then the terror began. The police went house to house, breaking
windows and doors, pulling people into the street, beating them and
then piling them in police vans and trucks. The police had a masked
individual in civilian clothes who pointed out which houses to raid.
Several people who had participated as speakers in high-profile Other
Campaign events in Mexico City were singled out and beaten. One woman
who spoke in the Zocalo in Mexico City on May first was pulled into
the street and kicked repeatedly in the groin.

The police violence on Thursday was indiscriminate. Both mainstream
and alternative press reporters were attacked. Several members of the
caravan that accompanies the Other Campaign across the country were
beaten and arrested.

Samantha Dietmar, a young German photographer who has been covering
the Other Campaign since January was grabbed in the doorway of her
hotel, beaten in the face and thrown into a truck. A neighbor who
witnessed the attack said that she asked why the police were taking
her: "What did she do?" The police officer responded, the woman said:
"She did whatever I say she did."

Dietmar was taken to a women's prison on the outskirts of Mexico City.
A human rights lawyer who was able to interview her said that she had
serious pain in her eyes from the tear gas, and that she had been
beaten in the face and body. Dietmar will most likely be deported.

The same lawyer said that five women were raped in the police vans
when taken to jail.

Between two and three hundred people were detained, but only 109 have
been recognized by the police. A list is circulating on the internet,
compiled from witness accounts, of 275 people who have been detained.
At least 18 people are missing.

Hundreds of people sought hiding in houses across the town. In one
house, 23 people were packed into a 12-by-12 foot room. Just outside
the hiding room, Alexis Benhumea, a 20-year old economy student in
Mexico City, laid unconscious for 12 hours. Just after 6:30 AM he was
shot in the head, most likely with a gas pellet. The impact broke his
skull open in two places, exposing his brain.

Alexis was carried into a house by his father and two friends for
hiding. One of the protestors hiding out in the house made an
impromptu bandage for the wound to stop the bleeding. The thick
bandage was soaked in blood by the afternoon. Alexis's father and
those hiding out in the house so feared for their lives, and Alexis'
life, that they dared not leave their hiding place. Indeed, just
outside the house, state and federal police blocked both ends of the
street and constantly patrolled up and down the street.

"I was sure that they would kill him and dump him somewhere if I tried
to go out and seek medical help," said Angel Benhumea, Alexis' father.
"I didn't think he would make it."

After coordinating by cellular telephones with friends in Mexico City,
correspondents with Indymedia Chiapas were able to rent a taxi van
(which operate in Mexico like public buses rather than individual
taxis) and stage a rescue, taking Alexis and his father to a hospital
40 minutes away, on the eastern border of Mexico City. Alexis arrived
alive and survived four hours of intensive brain surgery: hemorrhaging
had filled 30 percent of his brain. At the time of writing, Alexis'
condition is still critical, and the extent of brain damage is
unknown.

Alexis Benhumea was attacked twice: first with the pellet that broke
his skull, and second with the police siege that made it impossible
for his family to seek medical attention.

By mid-afternoon Atenco was an occupied city. Burn marks and broken
glass, thousands of police standing guard, leaning in doorways, lying
in stairways, sprawled out sleeping in the shade of the central plaza.
Yet the climate was tense. When I took a picture from a car window of
a group of police, one whipped around and loaded a gas pellet in his
rifle, but not in time to fire.

Around 5:30 in the afternoon, the state and federal police lifted
their siege, piling into their trucks and driving off.

Zapatistas March to Atenco

Thursday in the evening the Zapatista Army of National Liberation and
local labor and student organizations convoked a march for Friday at
4PM from the University of Chapingo to Atenco.

At 4PM Marcos arrived at the university-leaving the house in Mexico
City where he had been surrounded by police and federal intelligence
officers since Wednesday evening. About a thousand people had already
gathered for the march by the time of his arrival.

The march left from Chapingo at around 5PM with some two thousand
people. But the march kept growing. Standing on overpasses, it was
impossible to see the end of the march as it occupied the highway that
leads to Atenco. Estimates among local reporters ranged from 4 to 10
thousand people by the time the march reached Atenco.

As the march crossed through the town of Texcoco, where the violence
began on Wednesday, locals closed the metal doors used to cover their
windows at night, making the fear in Texcoco visible and audible. In
the four months of the Other Campaign, nothing like this has happened
before. Yet the police were not waiting for the marchers. A few
motorcycle state police went ahead of the march, and several trucks
with federal police trailed behind.

The marchers arrived in Atenco without confrontations with the police.
In the central plaza, several local community leaders and parents
whose children had been beaten and detained spoke to the crowd that
filled the town plaza.

"My boy was on his way to work when they grabbed him," one woman said,
"is that justice?"

Subcomandante Marcos attacked the media manipulation of the violence
in Atenco, accusing the government of directing newspaper, television
and radio directors of holding back images of police brutality while
publishing and passing over and over the same images of protestors
beating police.

Marcos held in the air five empty shotgun shells, most likely slug
shells, that locals found on the ground after the siege. "Here is the
proof of who killed the boy," Marcos said.

He offered to hand one of the shells over to reporters from Televisa
and TV Azteca, the largest media corporations in Mexico, but the
reporters refused to identify themselves. Marcos said he would grant
interviews to any reporter who agrees to publish the interview
"without cuts or edits," signaling a major shift in the Zapatista's
media policy during the Other Campaign, which had been to refuse all
interview requests.

Marcos reinstated the Zapatista's support for Atenco and its political
prisoners.

"You are not alone," he said, "We will continue carrying out
mobilizations across the country until all the political prisoners are
freed."

He also accused the government of plotting the repression: why were
the police ready to attack here if the problem was in Texcoco, he
asked. "Because they want their airport once again, and they are
coming for your land."

Marcos said that he and participants in the Other Campaign would stay
in Mexico City indefinitely and called for a national public gathering
in Atenco over the next two days.


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From circleatuna at gmail.com  Sun May  7 18:52:40 2006
From: circleatuna at gmail.com (circle A tuna)
Date: Sun May  7 18:52:46 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] Meeting Notes 5.3.06
Message-ID: <59c018b60605071852v79070732m253538d387a85976@mail.gmail.com>

MGJ Meeting Notes 5.3.06

The notes are mostly in order of when each item was discussed.  For
clarifying questions, feel free to email back.  Have fun.

heart,
nicole


Proposal:
Mohammad from Egypt anti-globalization group will come to MGJ next
week and do a talk entitled: The Anti-globalization movement in Egypt.
 The talk will begin at 6:45 and run until 8pm.  Outreach by means of
flyers and email will take place.

Discussion:
We had a discussion regarding tactics and events for the US-Korea FTA
summit that will take place in DC June 5-10.  A Delegation of Korean
activists are coming to DC to protest the FTA.  Basav is in contact
with the group.  Some ideas we came up with for demonstrations are:
protests targeting delegates, Protests targeting the summit itself,
street theater, and other more vague ideas?

Discussion:
There was also a discussion about solidarity anti-G8 actions.  Further
discussion and possible proposals will take place next week.

Proposal:
The IFC will celebrate its 50th Birthday on July 24th.  We reached
consensus to bottom-line an event commemorating this most momentous
day by setting up a corporate welfare bank that mocks the IFC.

Proposal:
To further celebrate the IFC's 50th birthday, we agreed to put out an
announcement with a sample text for people to send sarcastic birthday
cards to IFC employees.

Proposal:
MGJ came to consensus to privatize the sidewalk in front of one of the
WB/IMF buildings and charge user-fees to all sidewalk users.    A
further planning meeting will take place Monday, May 8, 2006 at 7pm at
Oscar and nicole's  house.  For directions email:
circleatuna@gmail.com.


Next Week:
Presentation by Mohammad begins at 6:45 and goes until 8pm.
Discussion regarding US-Korea FTA
Discussion of anti-G8 actions

Facilitators: Edward and Oscar
From olivetrii at gmail.com  Mon May  8 03:36:15 2006
From: olivetrii at gmail.com (Ethan X)
Date: Mon May  8 03:37:00 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] Mountain Justice update from Virginia
Message-ID: <1e9e1b2a0605080336p45956adagf6520f6f3bfeb5a3@mail.gmail.com>

 mountainjusticesummer@lists.riseup.net, mjsnews@lists.riseup.net


[Mountain Justice Summer info] SW VA update

Hi All,

The house is Dungannon is now set up and running as a base
for anti-Mountain Top Removal (MTR) work in southwestern
Virginia. (Thanks to all the Asheville EF!ers who've helped
make this possible. Plumbing, kitchen, phone, and wireless
internet access are all fully functional now, and the communal
computer and other stuff survived the move here nicely.) Contact
info for the house (and for me) is below.

PLANS FOR THIS SUMMER, NEEDS FOR VOLUNTEERS
Volunteers are needed for several kinds of work here this
summer:
-- Listening Projects and other interaction with local
communities to connect with local people's specific concerns
and problems with MTR;
-- research into mining permits and regulations so we know
exactly what mining companies are permitted to do where, how
they're legally required to protect streams and neighboring
comnunities, and what their reclamation obligations are;
-- scouting and documenting of coal company violations, with
an eye to demanding enforcement or taking other action.

If you think you can come here to help, please get in touch
with me or go to www.mountainjusticesummer.org to fill out
an "intake" form and I'll get in touch with you.

VOLUNTEERS TO VISIT DUNGANNON HOUSE
Anyone interested in volunteering in SW VA this summer is
invited to come here weekend after next, May 12-14, to see
MTR sites and get to know the area, get to know each other,
and meet some of the local people we'll be working with. If
you're coming up from Asheville, please get in touch with
Joe (joe at democracyuprising.org, or 828-277-8729) for info
and to arrange car pooling. If you're coming from elsewhere,
please call me for info and directions.

HOW YOU CAN HELP IF YOU CAN'T BE HERE
We need help with fundraising and finding resources to
support anti-MTR work here in VA. Earth First! in Asheville
has held fundraisers from which money has been donated to
support the house and anti-MTR work here--you can do this
too, wherever you are. Although unrestricted donations are
most useful, you can specify what you'd prefer to fund, and
anyone who sends money will receive an accounting of exactly
how it's spent.

In addition to cash (for everything from maps to the
phone/internet bill), we very much need donations of: gas
cards (the communities we're working with here are spread
over a large area), long-distance phone cards, food
(especially nonperishable staples or foods that freeze
well), postage stamps, recycled 8 1/2 x 11 paper, 8-mm
digital videocamera cassettes, rechargeable Ni-MH AA and AAA
batteries, toner/ink cartridges for our recently donated
(thanks to Erin!) HP DeskJet 500C printer.

You can also help by asking other people to help. Please
pass this update along to anyone who might be interested in
and willing to help with anti-MTR work here.
(Over the next few days, I'll be writing up a flyer about
anti-MTR work specifically in SW VA. Please let me know if
you'd like me to email you that file for use in spreading
the word.)

LEGAL HELP ESPECIALLY NEEDED
We need VA lawyers and/or law students to discover and
develop possible legal challenges to MTR here in SW VA--from
demanding enforcement of laws regulating coal mining to
proposing changes in law and public policy to better protect
local communities and natural resources, from exploring
possible nuisance lawsuits against specific coal facilities
to seeking legal avenues to end MTR in VA altogether. Much
of this critical work can be done from afar--legal
volunteers don't need to come live here this summer
(although we'd love to have you) as they can rely for
research on volunteers who are living here. If you are or
know a VA lawyer or law student who might help, please get
in touch.

VA COALFIELD RESIDENTS TO GO TO RICHMOND
On May 16, several Virginia coalfield residents will join
MJS activists and coalfield residents from other states in
Richmond, VA, to bear witness against MTR outside Massey
Energy's annual stockholders' meeting and to ask Virginia's
governor to take action to protect the state's land and its
citizens against MTR. If you'd like to participate, please
visit www.mountainjusticesummer.org for more information.

MEANWHILE, CONSIDER THIS
On a recent visit to the Big Stone Gap office of Virginia's
Department of Mines, Minerals, and Energy, a local activist
learned that in Wise County alone 41,000 acres are currently
permitted for strip mining of coal--16 percent of the
county's total acreage. Considering that much of Wise County
is National Forest land unavailable for strip mining, the
concentration as well as the extent of current and proposed
MTR here is as shocking and calamitous as anything seen in
southern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky. Please help.

-------------------------------------
Tricia Shapiro
PO Box 422
Dungannon, VA 24245
276-467-1405
trishapiro at mounet.com
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From: olivetrii at gmail.com (Ethan X)
Date: Mon May  8 03:54:04 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] Mountain Justice Summer training camp in West
	Virginia, May 20-26
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Take action this summer!  Make history!  Bring King Coal to his knees!

You are invited to register for the Mountain Justice Summer camp.

Mountain Justice Summer 2006 will kick off with a week-long training camp at
a beautiful highlands camp in southern West Virginia from May 20-26
(register, we'll send directions).  Mountain Justice Summer is a
multi-state, coordinated, peaceful campaign to bring an end to mountaintop
removal, using door-to-door outreach in the coalfields, music and film
festivals, non-violent actions, mapping, water testing, etc.  No matter
where you are or what your skills are, you can participate in MJS.  Immediately
following the MJS 2006 training camp we will go to the Healing Mountains
event (see below), then split into working teams in four states (Tennessee,
West Virginia, Virginia, and Kentucky).

*For more information and to register for Mountain Justice Summer 2006, go
to:
*www.mountainjusticesummer.org

More on Healing Mountains:
The 16th annual Heartwood Forest Council and the 6th annual Summit for
the Mountains
Cedar Lakes Conference Center, Ripley, WV
(38 miles north of Charleston)
With programs on Forests, Mountains, and Coal: the connections between them;
their impact on air, water, and climate; their role in our history, economy,
and culture; with a special focus on ending the devastation of Mountaintop
Removal coal mining.
Confirmed speakers and workshop leaders include Granny D, Jack Spadaro, Ken
Hechler, Mari-Lynn Evans, Judy Bonds, Maria Gunnoe, Larry Gibson, Erik
Reece, Jeff Barrie, and John Blair.

 *For more information and to register for Healing Mountains, go to:*

www.heartwood.org/home.php

You can download the brochure from www.heartwood.org/summitbrochure.pdf.

If you are unable to come to these events but wish to make a financial
contribution to carry on the work of ending the community-destroying,
environment-devastating practice of mountaintop removal, you can contribute
by Paypal at www.crmw.net or www.mountainjusticesummer.org or see
www.crmw.net for an address to mail a contribution.

I hope to see you at camp!
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From olivetrii at gmail.com  Mon May  8 04:15:11 2006
From: olivetrii at gmail.com (Ethan X)
Date: Mon May  8 04:15:29 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] Network Against G8 -- "International support means a
	huge amount to us"
Message-ID: <1e9e1b2a0605080415m7a2bb22fueab4fd1cf29daa30@mail.gmail.com>

2 excellent essays from Russia below

 Websites of the mobilization: Set Protiv B8 - Network Against G8 -
http://spb8.net
Wiki - http://g8-2006.plentyfact.net

G8 meets in Russia July 15-17
 "International support means a huge amount to
us"<http://spb8.hardcore.lt/post28> $B'9'V'd'S'V'b'T(B
$B'!'a'b'V']'n(B 13th 2006, 6:57 pm
$B'0'a'e'R']'Z'\'`'S'Q'_'`(B $B'S(B: $B'T']'Q'S'_'Q'q(B <http://spb8.hardcore.lt/postcategory/main/>

In 2006, the G8 will meet in Russia for the first time. While for the
majority of apolitical Russians this is a totally uninteresting occurrence,
the Russian government and all shades of opposition consider it to be a
highly significant event. The Russian elite is eager to ensure it does not
end up with egg on its face and that all these high-powered meetings run
smoothly.

To that end the corrupt, but nonetheless powerful, apparatus of the Russian
special forces has been called into action. They have already started
calling people in for "chats" with the FSB, and began filming all activists
while in detention. Our "counterintelligence" has informed us of
infiltration into anarchist activist groups by two FSB officers. Any mention
of the G8 draws serious attention. When Food Not Bombs handed out pancakes
and G8 leaflets on pancake day, the event ended in arrests.

Another peculiarity of Russia is the high level of activity among a variety
of rightwing, nationalist and patriotic-oriented Stalinists, who consider
themselves to be the true anti-globalists. A variety of social demands from
these groups are combined with a chauvinistic anti-American mood, a desire
to re-establish the Russian empire, or the idea that all illegal immigrants
should be sent to forced labour camps.

In these conditions we consider international organisation against the G8 in
Russia absolutely vital, as the success of the movement must not be taken
over by the right-wing. One of the qualities of the antiglobalisation
movement is its truly global nature, and that's why it's important year
after year to repeat the phrase "We are everywhere".

The opposition

Amongst the opposition we can see two essential forces. The first is the
"alternative globalists"- which includes socialist reformers, Trotskyites,
trade unions, a whole range of civilian initiatives, the antiauthoritarian
left, and various kinds of academics who "research the problems of
globalisation". They are preparing the second social forum, to be held in St
Petersburg, and have already put the call out for action under the banner
"Citizens 8$B!m(B, created by the authorities to work with the NGOs (and be
controlled by them).

The first social forum took place in April 2005 and 1000 people gathered -
which is quite a lot for Russia. The majority of these anti-
gloablisationists are demonstrating for the protection of social guarantees
for Russian citizens - against the long-term privatisation of the public
sector, and neoliberal reform. The second force is the "near anarchist"
scene. It comprises several hundred people and includes various different
groups - anti-fascists, Food Not Bombs, the hardcore-punk scene, squatters,
feminists, radical ecologists, and so no. By no means do all participants
consider themselves anarchist, but the common basis of cooperation is an
anti-government stance and ideas of equality and social justice. In November
2005 a network against the G8 was set up which formulated five key
principles of its existence and resistance to the politics of the G8, you
can find these principles on the website mentioned below.

International solidarity In February 2006 there was an international meeting
of activists held in Kiev, Ukraine, where strategy decisions were taken as
to how the network should operate. Working groups were set up on street
action in St Petersburg, media, opposing repression, organising the "One Day
of Action" (solidarity actions around the world), and so on. It was decided
that on 2 June - 12 days before the beginning of the summit - training
sessions and discussion forums for activists would take place in Moscow.

Why Moscow? One reason is that we suggest that Moscow will be less the
target of government control than St Petersburg. Another is that there is a
group of activists in Moscow who are ready to take on the responsibility of
creating this space, and the training will be essential as there are so many
new activists. We are hoping that this space will attract lots of foreigners
too, who are keen to share their experience and who want to meet Russian
activists and find opportunities for future cooperation.

The three-day summit will happen in an environment of great stress and
hurry, so we are inviting all who have the opportunity, to come to Moscow or
St Petersburg earlier, so as to take part in the preparation for actions
around the summit and not just participate in the street actions.

Even if the actions in St Petersburg are blocked by the authorities, and one
must never exclude this possibility, then your journey to Russia will not be
completely in vain if you are able to take part in the Moscow training camp.

We really hope that we will get support from people from other countries. We
want to use this summit more than anything for the development of the
movement in Russia, and international support means a huge amount to us.

A couple of practical notes

* Visa: Start thinking about getting your visa well in advance as it tends
to take a very long time. Get a tourist visa through a tourist agency and
name the main town you intend to visit as any town other than St Petersburg.

* Safety: Foreigners from Western Europe or the USA in Russia can face
greater danger than others. Of course they can refuse to let you pass the
border, but if you're arrested the cops will try to get you out of their
hair as quickly as possible, even if you have committed a minor crime. They
panic lest foreign embassies get involved, which would mean media and an
international scandal. Fascists never target European looking foreigners,
and the crime level in Russia is no higher than in Italy.
********************************

Resistance against G8 in Russia. Is there any reason for
optimism?<http://spb8.hardcore.lt/post33> $B'3'b'V'U'Q(B
$B'!'a'b'V']'n(B 26th 2006, 7:11 pm
$B'0'a'e'R']'Z'\'`'S'Q'_'`(B $B'S(B: $B'T']'Q'S'_'Q'q(B <http://spb8.hardcore.lt/postcategory/main/>

Our friend Alexei has already explained in the article "Get your asses to
East" (ABB N19) all main reasons to travel to Russia for anti-G8 events. May
be Russia really is not similar to Western Europe but it's even more
interesting. When I get possibility to travel a long way off my house I get
cultural shock which make me to look another way to the events which happen
at home. I'm happy to be again in usual atmosphere and reflect on my
impressions for many months.

What's is going on in Russia (and ex-USSR area) now? I can tell mainly about
Moscow because live there. The international meeting in Kiev gathered record
number of people for last three years - about 60 people from at the least 6
countries. In spite of lack of culture of discussion we managed to talk over
a lot of topics and found some important solutions.

Preparing of counter-summit has brought up many acute questions more and
brought together people who didn't want to cooperate with each other for
many years. For example during three weeks we had a discussion (meeting and
in e-mail lists) on safety of participant of actions who are filmed by
video-activists. It can hardly be said that all differences were settled but
the process is going on.

5th March in Moscow we made the second attempt to have a street-action
against the politics of G8. The first one was made during the ministers of
finances' meeting in February and completely collapsed. People discussed
what they should do until the last moment, decision was made overnight and
sms- announcements were sent to journalists we know. But on the place of
meeting with journalists activists were waited by 2 busloads of OMON. 5th
March OMON also was on the place of meeting with journalists but activists
providently took away journalists and moved to another place to make action.

The idea of action was to combine old pagan holiday (Mardi Gras) with
protest against G8. People from Food Not Bombs distributed traditional
Russian pancakes for free and leaflets about G8 politics. They planed also
to burn a woman of straw ("Maslenitsa") but didn't have time for it. 30
minutes after beginning OMON found out action and started to arrest people.
Mardi Gras is a celebration in Russia, distribution of pancakes and leaflets
on the streets are not forbidden by law but nevertheless 12 people were
arrested. The rest (about 30 people) managed to escape. Fortunately the
detention passed without violence. This course of events is usual for
Russia, nobody was panic-stricken. In general all arrests end after 3-10
hours spent in the police station and with a subpoena to court which you can
ignore without any consequences. The next action is planed for 1st of April.

Two weeks ago we held the meeting of the Moscow for part for network Spb8.
We discussed the ideas of the Kiev's meeting and determined to organize in
Moscow a preparing week with actions and meetings from 2nd until 13th of
July. The idea of this week is to gather together activists from different
regions of Russian and other countries and giving them an opportunity to
communicate, participate in workshops, seminars, trainings and discussions.
Obviously we will not have time for this kind of activities during the
protests in St. Petersburg, so they should take place before. We are looking
for a place for this meeting and invite everybody to participate to events
of this week. Program is not ready yet but we have planned trainings and
discussions on topics of nonviolent actions, mass-media and tactical media,
how to use law to defend yourself, first aid, workshops about making posters
and banners, strategy of movement and other political discussions and
playing the drum on the actions.

Anti-repression group has been launched. In Moscow there was a seminar on
legal rights of protesters. Text with advice for foreigners and Russians is
in preparation. I think rumors on dangers of traveling to Russia are highly
exaggerated. Foreigner from Europe or USA is less in danger than any other
person in Russia. Of course people may be blocked in the border, but that is
the situation everywhere in prior to major protests.

If you are not going around in Armani dresses, it is unlikely that you will
be mugged - there are enough native yuppies in Moscow. Nazis do not attack
against foreigners with European outlooks (although alternatively looking
people may have trouble sometime). In case of arrest police tries to get rid
of you as quickly as possible, even if you committed a minor misdemeanor
(such as participation to an illegal action). They panic in case there is a
risk of lawyers, embassies, journalists and international community to get
involved and in this case try to do everything according to book of law. For
sure, nobody may guarantee full security, sometimes OMON beats up arrested
political activists, but with foreigners that is less likely. Try to make
yourself any kind of documents to be shown to police (such as DIY press card
of Abolishing the Borders from Below reporter), while engage with them to an
active argument with your native language. That is often already enough to
completely disorientate cops. All the information remaining concerning visas
and juridical information you will soon find in internet in sites connected
with the mobilization.

Some points other people wanted me to pass to ABB readers: 1. We do not
consider protests against G8-2006 to be business of Russian activists only.
Our task is to prepare infrastructure and make decisions on technical
questions - but demands of the protests we should formulate together. As we
have declared "we are everywhere", we should also live according to what we
have said. We plan to publish a booklet, in which we will include
information on which kind of political groups and movements exist in Russia,
how to deal with the police, how to move around in cities and so on. 2.
Russian authorities and Putin have many times declared, that they are
prepared for a dialogue with society, and there have already been several
meetings between them and NGO's. These will of course be very formal ones.
However, it seems authorities will worry about their image in front of West
before summit and attempts to escape use of force. Thus we hope that it is
possible to have some action in St. Petersburg also during very days of the
summit.

So which kind of help we need right now? In Russia, even big cities have no
much of any activist infrastructure, it is even difficult to find places for
meetings. During protests and build-up week we will have to create this
infrastructure almost from nothing. We need some funds for this. In Russia,
benefit concerts bring almost no any money. We also need articles on
influence of G8, World bank and other global capitalist institutions to
social and political situation in Russia. It is necessary to raise awareness
about G8 in Russia. We need translators from Russian and to Russian
language. And we would of course be very happy if you could organize any
kind of actions in your city (or village) during Global Day of Action, which
is planned to take place 14th of July.

ABB $B-b(B24

Sites of the mobilization: Set Protiv B8 - Network Against G8 - spb8.net

Wiki - g8-2006.plentyfact.net

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From olivetrii at gmail.com  Mon May  8 04:46:18 2006
From: olivetrii at gmail.com (Ethan X)
Date: Mon May  8 04:46:42 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] Th 5/11 - DC meeting against 2006 G8 summit
Message-ID: <1e9e1b2a0605080446v17d2b0acuc086c7be7401b4d7@mail.gmail.com>

This year the G8's annual Summit will be held from July 15th to 17th in St.
Petersburg, Russia.

Global protests against the G8 are mobilizing, and Russian activists call
for international solidarity against massive police repression that they
expect any street protests or direct action in St. Petersburg will face. In
Washington DC, the DC Anti-War Network (DAWN) and Mobilization for Global
Justice have endorsed calls for global action during the St. Petersburg G8
Summit.

Join us this Thursday to plan DC participation in global action against the
2006 G8 Summit!

Thursday, May 11th
6:30 pm
1830 Belmont Rd
(next to 18th St -- in Adams Morgan 'hood -- at friendly guerilla-poetic
house)

We call for protests all around the world during G8 summit in St.
Petersburg. We also call for a global convergence to St. Petersburg in time
of the summit - attention of the whole world will be directed to spectacle
of the G8, and we must show that they will be met with protest anywhere they
will go! We are everywhere!

Two Calls to Action against 2006 G8 Summit

****************************************
G8 2006 St. Petersburg
July 15-17 2006

A call out to protest against G8 summit of 2006
in St. Petersburg, Russia

In July 2006 G8 will hold its summit in St.Petersburg, Russia.


G7 was created in 1975, for informal discussions on economic and political
questions between heads of most powerful capitalist states. Russia joined in
1998 - it was accepted thanks to its nuclear arsenal and vast natural
resources (in 2004, Russia was only 16th largest economy of the world; e.g.
China was not invited to the club). G8 has no juridical status whatsoever,
so it exists outside any democratic framework. But it still has become an
important spectacle and platform, where top leaders of the world may look
for consensus among each other, before imposing their policies on their
populations.

We have no illusions about parliamentarian democracy, we are against any
governments. Current state of the world proves all too well, that with a
submissive mainstream media spreading anti-terrorist hysteria, powers are
yet able to submit their citizens to policy of war and destruction. Russia
has been one of the forerunners of these developments, with an endless war
in Northern Caucasus and suppression of independent media.

We are anticapitalists, and we do not have any illusions about national
capital as an alternative to global one. Small diplomatic skirmishes between
major powers in regards to North Caucasian and Iraq wars were quickly
settled, and essentially all G8 states give at least passive support to
policies of each other. Solidarity between elites passes any borders, so our
solidarity must do this as well.

Whatever labels media put on us, we are not "antiglobalists". We are for a
free flow of people, ideas and struggles - across any borders. When G8
leaders claim to fight for freedom, they are fighting for a freedom of
capital accumulation - according to which nuclear waste must have freedom to
cross borders into Russia, but people must not have this right. G8 leaders
also claim to fight against poverty, but in reality it is their policies
that cause poverty in the first place. Moscow has more billionaries than any
other city of the world, while vast majority of Russian population has
profited nothing from the politics, declared to be aimed at "economic
growth", which in any case will last just as long as there are natural
resources to be looted. In contrary, it is the very poorest who have been
targeted with the neoliberal reforms, such as revoking free social benefits
and rising prices of communal payments, which is connected to the plan of
Russia joining the WTO.

We call for protests all around the world during G8 summit in St.
Petersburg. We also call for a global convergence to St. Petersburg in time
of the summit - attention of the whole world will be directed to spectacle
of the G8, and we must show that they will be met with protest anywhere they
will go! We are everywhere!

*****************************

Network Against G8 (Russia / ex-USSR)
July 15th -- Direct Action for Climate Justice

Stand in Solidarity Against G8 Policies

 Target Fossil Fuel Industries in Your Town or Bioregion

 19 of the 20 hottest years on record have occurred
 since 1980. Islands in the South Pacific are already
 evacuating due to rising sea levels. Storms and
 hurricanes are growing more severe.  Polar bears are
 drowning as their icy habitat breaks apart and drifts
 out to sea.  Greenland is melting. Everyday we spew
 more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere; everyday we
 are one step closer to what scientists refer to as "the
 tipping point."

 On July 15th, the G8 will convene in St. Petersburg,
 Russia to plot their continued commodification and
 domination of the planet, this time under the
 euphemistic banner of "Energy Security." A leaked G8
 communique calls for trillions of dollars in new
 investments in oil, gas and coal production worldwide,
 as well as wide-scale development of nuclear energy.
 With the potential for runaway climate change looming
 on the not-so-distant horizon, such neoliberal
 business-as-usual poses a direct threat to the continuation
 of life on Earth as we know it.  Resistance is self
 defense.

 July 15th will be an International Day of Action
 Against Climate Change.  As government ministers
 promise more tax dollars to the industries destroying
 our planet and our future, we will take action to shut
 them down. This is a call for autonomous, decentralized
 actions appropriate for your town, city, or bioregion.
 Use this international day of action to support local
 struggles against oil refineries, gas pipelines, strip
 mines and coal-fired power plants. Host teach-ins to
 spread sustainable living skills. Find a weak point in
 the infrastructure of resource exploitation and throw a
 literal or symbolic wrench in the works. Visit your
 local polluters and give 'em hell!
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From: nbloch at igc.org (Nadine Bloch)
Date: Mon May  8 09:35:00 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] Puppet workshop SAT 13th..!!!!!
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****************/please forward, and please RSVP !!!/

/We are going ahead with a /
 *PUPPET & Prop & workshop set up Extravaganza
*(brought to you by WAG: washington action group)*
**SAT 13th*
@ The DOGHOUSE
in Takoma Park
*10:30 am -- 3:30 pm*
*Coordination of space, preparation of materials followed by an 
introduction to working with cardboard, cornstarch/paper mache and found 
objects!!!
*BRING:* snacks, drinks, your lunch and a willingness to work and think 
creatively.
*RSVP:* to nbloch(at) igc.org
**Directions to DOghouse will be sent out with RSVP!!

*** We can organize additional work days after this as needed!!
 >> MGJ folks: bring all the diapora puppets and we can do repairs as 
needed.. thanks

Peace OUt...
NB
301-891-3680

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Date: Mon May  8 20:34:31 2006
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From michele1917 at yahoo.com  Tue May  9 06:29:32 2006
From: michele1917 at yahoo.com (Michele Bollinger)
Date: Tue May  9 06:36:38 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] Today: Protest at Egypt Emb. to demand release of
	protesters!
Message-ID: <20060509132932.51000.qmail@web51006.mail.yahoo.com>

**Please forward widely**

Solidarity pickets across the country to demand 
release of jailed
Egyptian protesters! Actions will take place at the 
same time on
Tuesday in DC, NYC, SF and Chicago.

IN DC:
Tuesday, May 9th at 12:30pm
Embassy of Egypt, 3521 International Ct., Washington, 
DC
Off VanNess St, behind UDC (Metro: Red line, Van 
Ness-UDC)
For more information in DC, contact Michele 202 276 
1586
-----------------------------

For more information, view:
Information from the Committee to Protect Journalists:
http://www.cpj.org/news/2006/mideast/egypt27apr06na.html.

Background on the judges' anti-fraud campaign from 
Human Rights Watch:
http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2006/04/25/egypt13269.htm

Crackdown on protests in Egypt
http://www.socialistworker.org/2006-1/587/587_02_Egypt.shtml
Socialist Worker, May 5, 2006 | Page 2

DOZENS OF opponents of Egypt's authoritarian 
government were arrested
after riot police attacked a demonstration in support 
of reformist
judges who are challenging election fraud.

 The protests took place April 27 as two judges, 
Hesham al-Bastawissi
and Mahmoud Mekky, were due to be brought before a 
disciplinary panel
after they accused the government of fraud in 
parliamentary elections
late last year--and charged fellow judges with 
complicity.

 Despite a heavy police presence throughout downtown 
Cairo, hundreds
of demonstrators managed to gather in front of the 
Supreme Court
building. They were quickly sealed off and surrounded 
by cops in full
riot gear, carrying truncheons. The police moved in 
with a heavy show
of force, arresting and beating the protesters.

 But every time the police broke up groups of 
protesters,
demonstrators regrouped in other locations, according 
to one report.

 President Hosni Mubarak's government put a massive 
number of cops on
the street in Cairo--estimated at 10,000 by the New 
York Times, much
larger than the force deployed in the Sinai after 
three bombing
attacks earlier in the week.

 The government--appearing "overwhelmed," in the words

of the
Times--followed up the police attack with dozens of 
arrests. At least
50 activists were jailed and are expected to be held 
for 15 days,
according to reports.

 Among them are several members of the Center for 
Socialist Studies,
which was the target of the government three years ago

when five
people were put on trial simply for belonging to the 
organization.

 Mubarak's regime has continuously used repression 
against all signs
of dissent. With discontent over human rights abuses 
and a
crisis-prone economy continuing to grow, the 
government is trying to
intimidate the opposition. But its hard-line tactics 
aren't stopping
Egypt's protests from growing.

Protest the arrest of Egyptian activists with letters 
faxed to
prosecutor Maher Abd a-Wahid at 011-202-577-4716.



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From phipco at riseup.net  Tue May  9 06:54:17 2006
From: phipco at riseup.net (Morrigan Phillips)
Date: Tue May  9 06:58:36 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] Reminder:Talk by Egyptian Activists on the
	Anti-Globalization Movement in Egypt
Message-ID: <20060509095417.p8s4kfeozrgkoows@mail.riseup.net>

Please Forward!
The Anti-Globalization Movement in Egypt
A talk by Mohamed Elagati

Mohamed is an activist with AGEG, an Egyptian global justice group  
which resists the policies of mega-corporations and institutions such  
as the WTO and the World Bank. He will address the impacts of the  
global economy and peoples? resistance movements in Egypt and the  
wider Arab world.

This event will happen as part of the weekly meeting of the  
Mobilization for Global Justice (MGJ).
When: Wednesday May 10, 6:45 pm.
Where: St. Stephen?s Church, 1525 Newton St. NW (near Columbia Heights Metro)

Please join us for this event

Mobilization for Global Justice
202-898-5953 :: mgj (at) riseup.net :: www.globalizethis.org
From sameer at 50years.org  Tue May  9 09:02:45 2006
From: sameer at 50years.org (Sameer Dossani)
Date: Tue May  9 08:50:50 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] [Fwd: Discussion with Delhi-based activist tomorrow
	at Luna Books]
Message-ID: <4460BD25.4000507@50years.org>

THIS IS TONIGHT!

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Discussion with Delhi-based activist tomorrow at Luna Books
Date: 	Mon, 08 May 2006 14:49:51 -0400
From: 	Sameer Dossani <sameer@50years.org>
Reply-To: 	sameer@50years.org
To: 	Priya Ranjan <pranjan@gmail.com>, debi@riseup.net, "basav@igc.org" 
<basav@igc.org>, Darshana Patel <pateldar@yahoo.com>, Bhumika Muchhala 
<bhumika.muchhala@gmail.com>, Shirin and Sameer 
<shirin_sameer@yahoo.com>, aniket desai <aniket@umd.edu>



**Please Forward Widely*

What: A discussion with Smitu Kothari, a Delhi-based activist, about 
people's movements in India and what folks in Washington DC can do to 
support them. Smitu has been especially close to struggles such as the 
Narmada Bachao Movement and campaigns for the rights of adivasis.
When: Tomorrow, Tuesday, May 9th at 6:30pm
Where: Luna Books, 1633 P St NW
Cost: Free, but as it is a restaurant, one is usually expected to order 
something.

**All are invited, especially those working on economic and social 
justice issues related to South Asia. If you plan on attending, please 
RSVP to sameer@50years.org .
*
*
*


From ZapatistaBlock at riseup.net  Tue May  9 15:15:39 2006
From: ZapatistaBlock at riseup.net (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=A1Enough_is_Enough!_Project_/_Proyecto_=A1Ya_Basta!?=)
Date: Tue May  9 15:16:20 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] FBI Spying on SOA Watch
Message-ID: <4524.zapatistablock.1147212939.squirrel@mail.riseup.net>

DECLASSIFIED FBI FILES REVEAL YEARS OF SURVEILLANCE OF SOA WATCH BY FBI's
COUNTER-TERRORISM DIVISION

ACLU and School of the Americas Watch filed for documents; FBI blacks out
information, refuses to declassify some pages

The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Georgia last week
released new evidence that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is
conducting counterterrorism investigations into School of the Americas
Watch. As we?ve seen time and again when the FBI targets social change
organizations, the files demonstrate a clear attempt to stifle political
opposition.

In the released documents, the FBI noted that ?the [SOA Watch November
vigil] has grown dramatically over the past several years.? The FBI
elevated its concern to ?priority? level and subjected SOA Watch to
?counterterrorism? surveillance. The Bureau monitored the media attention
that the annual November vigil and the trials of people arrested for
nonviolent civil disobedience received, and agents noted which court
tactics had chilling effects on people?s decisions to participate in civil
disobedience.

Nothing in the FBI files justifies counterterrorism as a basis for the
spying. In fact, the FBI never identifies any criminal activity outside of
public civil disobedience, and they consistently describe the SOA Watch
Vigil as ?peaceful.?

These files unmask the political nature of the actions of the FBI, an
agency that has a long history of being used as ?political police,?
targeting groups in the United States who are working for social change.

When congressional investigations, political trials and other traditional
legal methods of repression failed to counter the growing movements of the
1950s, '60s and '70s, the FBI moved outside the law. They used secret and
systematic methods of fraud and force, far beyond mere surveillance, to
sabotage constitutionally-protected political activity. The purpose of
?COINTELPRO,? the FBI's domestic counterintelligence program, was, in FBI
Director J. Edgar Hoover's own words, to "expose, disrupt, misdirect,
discredit and otherwise neutralize" specific groups and individuals.

The FBI?s targets in this period included the American Indian Movement,
the Communist Party, Black Nationalist groups, and many social justice
activists, including Martin Luther King and Cesar Chavez.

According to Brian Glick, in ?War at Home?, COINTELPRO used a broad array
of methods, including infiltration; psychological warfare from the outside
(false media stories, forged correspondence); harassment through the legal
system; and extralegal force and violence (in the case of radical Black,
Puerto Rican and Native American activists, these attacks, including
political assassinations, were so extensive, vicious, and calculated that
they can only be accurately called a form of official "terrorism").

But COINTELPRO tactics are clearly not a thing of the past. In September
of 2005, 72-year-old Filiberto Ojeda Rios, a leading figure in the fight
for Puerto Rican independence, was killed by the FBI in a raid that
coincided with the Grito de Lares, the annual pro-independence celebration
of the 1868 anticolonial revolt in Puerto Rico. Ojeda Rios was wanted by
the FBI for his role in a 1983 bank heist. (See
http://www.soaw.org/new/article.php?id=1190 for more info).

The death of Ojeda Rios and the spying against SOA Watch ? and many
partner peace organizations like the American Friends Service Committee
and the Thomas Merton Center, as revealed by other ACLU filings ?
illustrate the dangerously vague, politicized and expanding definition of
"terrorism" employed by the Bush administration.

Instead of responding to political opposition with political means, the
U.S. government is responding to it as a threat. This same type of mindset
responds to Latin American protests against social inequalities with the
training of repressive militaries at the School of the Americas
(SOA/WHINSEC).

When military action is the default solution for any problem abroad and
the FBI is being employed against social justice activists in the United
States, it becomes vividly clear that none of us are safe. The actions and
values of the U.S. government are out of alignment with the majority of
the people of the Americas.

Now is the time when it?s more important than ever that we build
principled alliances with other social change organizations and build
stronger ties with fellow movements for justice. Together we can overcome
the racist system of violence and domination to work towards a culture of
justice and peace.

READ MORE:

Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive:
http://www.soaw.org/new/newswire_detail.php?id=1116

Democracy Now! interviews with SOA Watch and ACLU (read, listen or watch):
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/05/1432207

SOA Watch press release: http://www.soaw.org/new/pressrelease.php?id=109

More info from the ACLU:
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/spying/25437res20060504.html



From mgj at riseup.net  Tue May  9 17:34:47 2006
From: mgj at riseup.net (Mobilization for Global Justice)
Date: Tue May  9 17:35:52 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] MGJ General Meeting///Presentation on Egyptian Glob.
	Just. Movement!!!///Wed.,May 10
Message-ID: <20060509173447.6467tho7vo84k4sk@mail.riseup.net>

The Anti-Globalization Movement in Egypt
A talk by Mohamed Elagati

Mohamed is an activist with AGEG, an Egyptian global justice group which
resists the policies of mega-corporations and institutions such as the WTO
and the World Bank. He will address the impacts of the global economy and
peoples? resistance movements in Egypt and the wider Arab world.

This event will happen as part of the weekly meeting of the Mobilization
for Global Justice (MGJ).
When: Wednesday May 10, 6:45 pm.
Where: St. Stephen?s Church, 1525 Newton St. NW (near Columbia Heights
Metro)

Please join us for this event ? and stay for the remainder of our meeting,
from 8-9 pm. Help us plan exciting upcoming actions, including protesting
the U.S.-South Korea free trade agreement and the Group of Eight wealthy
nations (G8) meeting in Russia.

Mobilization for Global Justice
202-898-5953 :: mgj@riseup.net :: www.globalizethis.org

-- 
MGJ General organizing meetings are every Wednesday, 7-9pm at St. Stephens
Church, 16th and Newton St. NW (Columbia Heights Metro stop, S2 and S4 Bus,
Street parking only, lots of bike parking)

On the Web: www.globalizethis.org

Join a listserve and get important announcements and updates from MGJ!

MGJ Announce (moderated, announcements only)
http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/mgj-announce

MGJ Discuss (unmoderated, traffic varries)
http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/mgj-discuss
From laursene at earthlink.net  Wed May 10 06:45:27 2006
From: laursene at earthlink.net (Eric Laursen)
Date: Wed May 10 06:55:45 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] Sweatshops in Jordan
Message-ID: <4461EE77.10201@earthlink.net>

 From the "Beat the Press' Weekly Roundup

Wednesday, May 3

Sweatshops in Jordan

Steven Greenhouse had an excellent piece in today's New York Times about 
sweatshops in Jordan that manufacture apparel for export to the United 
States. This industry has been developed largely as a result of a trade 
agreement that Jordan signed with the United States in the late 
nineties. The article describes slave-like conditions, as foreign 
workers routinely have their passports confiscated by factory owners so 
that they cannot freely leave. According to the article, workers can be 
forced to work up to 48 hours straight, are routinely ripped off for 
their pay, and are beaten if they complain.

Two aspects of the article raise especially interesting questions. 
First, the article indicates that the apparel jobs have gone almost 
exclusively to foreign (largely Bangladeshi) workers. It is unlikely 
that the trade agreement was sold in Jordan based on the jobs that it 
would create for guest workers. The benefits to Jordan?s economy from 
this trade would be very limited.

Second, the Jordan trade pact actually included language on labor 
standards, unlike other trade deals of the last fifteen years. The 
conditions reported in this article suggest that this language has not 
had much impact on actual labor conditions.

posted by Dean Baker @ 7:16 AM   3 comments links to this post
From hope at 50years.org  Thu May 11 07:51:35 2006
From: hope at 50years.org (Hope Chu)
Date: Thu May 11 07:51:38 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] Fwd: Wal-Mart Day of Action June 2nd!
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From: catherinebenedict at earthlink.net (Catherine Benedict)
Date: Thu May 11 10:43:29 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] 5/15 School Privatization Teach-in
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Community Teach-In
Privatization of Our Public Schools
 

WHEN: Monday, May 15, 6-8 pm
WHERE: Washington Metropolitan Boys and Girls Club #10, 2500 14th Street, NW

The levees are breaking here in DC. The privatizers want us to believe that our only choice is between a decaying traditional public school system and unaccountable charter schools.

Join community members, teachers and trade unionists as they share their analysis of privatization and take steps to stop the creation of separate and unequal school systems. Your voices, talents, and ideas are needed to rebuild our levees and our democracy.

Sponsored by Save Our Schools and the Full Funding Coalition 

For information or to request childcare or translation, saveourschoolsdc@yahoo.com   202-521-0377

 

 



-- 
Louisiana, Louisiana
They're tryin to wash us away
They're tryin to wash us away

-Randy Newman, Louisiana 1927 

From basav at igc.org  Thu May 11 21:15:41 2006
From: basav at igc.org (basav@igc.org)
Date: Thu May 11 21:24:03 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] 2nd Teach In Against Privatization of Schools
Message-ID: <380-22006551241541436@M2W079.mail2web.com>

Community Teach-In
Privatization of Our Public Schools

WHEN: Monday, May 15, 6-8 pm

WHERE: Washington Metropolitan Boys and Girls Club #10, 2500 14th Street, NW

The levees are breaking here in DC. The privatizers want us to believe
that our only choice is between a decaying traditional public school
system and unaccountable charter schools.

Join community members, teachers and trade unionists as they share
their analysis of privatization and take steps to stop the creation of
separate and unequal school systems. Your voices, talents, and ideas
are needed to rebuild our levees and our democracy.

Sponsored by Save Our Schools and the Full Funding Coalition

For information or to request childcare or translation,
saveourschoolsdc@yahoo.com   202-521-0377


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From: beeton at cepr.net (Dan Beeton)
Date: Fri May 12 12:41:50 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] The IMF, trade, and The Conservative Nanny State
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Date: Fri May 12 13:13:52 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] "Empire's Workshop": Book event June 8 at BusBoys and
 Poets, D.C.
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From: lukekuhn at hotmail.com (Luke Kuhn)
Date: Sat May 13 13:26:37 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] DC IMC story on Naxelites in India stopping corporate
	mining
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From catherinebenedict at earthlink.net  Mon May 15 10:26:42 2006
From: catherinebenedict at earthlink.net (Catherine Benedict)
Date: Mon May 15 10:38:23 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] REMINDER: School Privatization Teach-in TONIGHT!
Message-ID: <4468B9D2.1020306@earthlink.net>

Community Teach-In
Privatization of Our Public Schools
*WHEN*: Monday, May 15, 6-8 pm
*WHERE*: Washington Metropolitan Boys and Girls Club #10, 2500 14^th 
Street, NW (at 14^th and Clifton Streets)
Although there are some very well intentioned advocates who want to help 
children, charter schools in DC are part of a national movement to 
privatize the public school system. Here are some of the problems with 
DC charter schools:
1) Charter schools are unaccountable and undemocratic- they have limited 
oversight and are not obligated to listen to the community.
2) Many charter schools have low retention rates. Students who enroll in 
a charter school and don?t fit in can be expelled or encouraged to leave 
(especially those with behavior problems).
3) Charter schools receive more money than public schools which gives 
them an unfair advantage.
4) Charter Schools are having a devastating effect on our public schools 
by taking away desperately needed money which means less teachers and 
resources for our public school students.
5) As a whole charter schools are not performing better than DC Public 
Schools. Only 26% met their AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress) last year.
6) Some charter schools use a controversial and racist approach to their 
teaching and disciplinary methods. This is unacceptable and needs to be 
exposed.
Join community members, teachers and trade unionists as they share their 
analysis of privatization and take steps to stop the creation of 
separate and unequal school systems. Your voices, talents, and ideas are 
needed to rebuild our levees and our democracy.
Sponsored by Save Our Schools and the Full Funding Coalition
/For information or to request childcare or translation, 
*saveourschoolsdc@yahoo.com* 
<http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login?/ym/Compose?To=saveourschoolsdc@yahoo.com> 
202-521-0377/

From phipco at riseup.net  Mon May 15 12:20:23 2006
From: phipco at riseup.net (Morrigan Phillips)
Date: Mon May 15 12:33:27 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] Help spread the word: Sir! No Sir! Opens this Friday
	in DC!
Message-ID: <20060515152023.mk0r32xjiyxwwkoc@mail.riseup.net>

**organizers are asking for help spreading the word. If you can flier  
e-mail Celia Alario at celia@riseup.net. They could really use the  
help!***

Sir! No Sir! Opens May 19th in Washington DC!!!

Sir! No Sir! is coming to Washington DC on May 19th!  This powerful
new documentary film reveals the suppressed history of the GI movement to
end the war in Vietnam.  The inspiring efforts by conscientious objectors,
active duty military and returning vets to work for peace is a potent piece
of history with incredible relevance for the present and the future!

OPENING NIGHT:  Meet the film's producer and representatives from Iraq
Vets Against the War and Veterans for Peace!!!

Landmark's E Street Cinema www.landmarktheatres.com
555 11th Street NW, Washington DC    (202) 452-7672

The film opened to sold out shows in New York, and got  great reviews,
including this front page story in the Arts Section of the NY Times and TWO
THUMBS UP!? from Ebert & Roeper.

If the film does well on opening weekend it can get extended! Help us
make sure DC has PLENTY of time to see this movie!

See it starting May 19th for at least a week at:

Check local listings or the theater's webiste for show times and
advanced ticket sales.

Sir! No Sir!  rolls out across the nation over the coming weeks, so
stay tuned to our website, and sign up on our homepage at
http://www.sirnosir.com/ for updates on the theatrical screenings and our
DVD release, planned for late summer.

See you there!



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       "Sir! No Sir!" combines exceptional artistry and insightful analysis
with great story telling. This is no facile agitprop piece, but a careful
dissection of a growing military rebellion that permanently altered American
society, but has largely been forgotten.       ~ International Documentary
Magazine

        TWO THUMBS UP!? Ebert & Roeper--Click HERE to hear their review!

        Nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary

        Audience Award Best Documentary--Los Angeles Film Festival

        Jury Award Best Documentary--Hamptons International Film Festival

        Seeds of War Award--Full Frame Documentary Film Festival

       Jury Award Best Film on War and Peace--Vermont International Film
Festival

        Nominated for a Gotham Award and International Documentary
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From nonviolence at igc.org  Mon May 15 14:17:08 2006
From: nonviolence at igc.org (nonviolence@igc.org)
Date: Mon May 15 14:22:06 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] ethiopian demo tuesday, 16th. 9:30 State Dept
Message-ID: <4468EFD4.1010103@igc.org>

Ethiopian pro-democracy demonstration
May 16
9:30am
State Dept, (22nd St. and C, NW DC)
Website www.kinijit.org

-- 
Michael Beer
Director
Nonviolence International
+1 202 244 0951
www.nonviolenceinternational.net

?Have you ever wondered why we (women) are not in armed combat against you? It?s not because there?s a shortage of kitchen knives?It is because we believe in your (men?s) humanity, against all the evidence.? Andrea Dworkin


From olivetrii at gmail.com  Mon May 15 19:42:50 2006
From: olivetrii at gmail.com (Ethan X)
Date: Mon May 15 19:48:15 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] Capitalist thinktank launches attack ads on "global
	warming alarmism" (Press Conf. Wednesday)
Message-ID: <1e9e1b2a0605151942i74744d20p94ddc6f2a840fe4d@mail.gmail.com>

thought y'all might like to see what the whacky rightwing is spewing:

Event Date: May 17, 2006 / Time:12:00 PM
Event Name: Global Warming
Event Type: News Conference
Sponsored by: CEI-Competitive Enterprise
Event Location: First Amendment Lounge

Details:
CEI TO LAUNCH NATIONAL GLOBAL WARMING AD CAMPAIGN
Ads Countering Global Warming Alarmism to be Unveiled at May 17 News Conference
The Competitive Enterprise Institute will unveil a national global warming
ad campaign at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, Wednesday,
May 17, 2006 at noon. CEI has produced two 60-second television ads
focusing on global warming alarmism and the call by some environmental
groups and politicians to reduce fossil fuel use and carbon dioxide
emissions. The ads will air in more than a dozen cities around the
country beginning May 18, 2006. "The campaign to limit carbon dioxide
emissions is the single most important regulatory issue today," says
Marlo Lewis, a CEI senior fellow in environmental policy. "It is
nothing short of an attempt to suppress energy use, which in turn would
be economically devastating?all to avert an alleged catastrophe whose
scientific basis is dubious." In CEI's view, claims of looming climate
disaster due to energy use are unfounded. One of the ads focuses on the
extent to which the public has received only one side of the glacial
melting issue. CEI's national ad campaign, produced with Washington,
DC-based Next Generation Advertising, is the first to counter the flood
of scare stories on global warming.
Contact: Jody Clarke @331-2259
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From sameer at 50years.org  Tue May 16 09:06:26 2006
From: sameer at 50years.org (Sameer Dossani)
Date: Tue May 16 09:02:56 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] 50 Years website down, blog up
Message-ID: <4469F882.8010400@50years.org>

Hey there, as many of you have noticed, our website is down. Our server 
is out in California and the volunteers who run it are out of the 
country, so it may take some time to fix. Sorry for the inconvenience 
this may cause.

Just before the server crashed, we started a blog to discuss economic 
justice issues. Please check it out at 
globaleconomicjustice.blogspot.com . Until we get the website back 
online, the blog will be the space to check out the latest 50 Years news 
and updates.

-Sameer.
From olivetrii at gmail.com  Tue May 16 12:13:15 2006
From: olivetrii at gmail.com (Ethan X)
Date: Tue May 16 12:16:35 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] Notes from 5/11 DC meeting against G8 / next meeting
	Thursday!
Message-ID: <1e9e1b2a0605161213q7e00dd0cx2a847579f230b91d@mail.gmail.com>

*next anti-G8 organizing meeting is this Thursday May 18, 6:30 pm at Dupont
Circle!

May 11 meeting notes follow below, after counter-G8 Day of Action summaries

This July 15-17, the world's 8 richest countries will gather in
St.Petersburg, Russia for their annual G8 Summit. "Energy Security" is at
the top of the G8 agenda during Russia's presidency of the Gang of 8--the
West's 7 biggest industrialized States plus
Japan<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G8>.
A leaked draft of the " G8 Summit Communique on Energy
Security<http://reclaimthecommons.net/downloads/2nd_draft_of_G8_Summit_Communique_on_Energy_Security_1.pdf>,"
scheduled to be released officially on July 16, calls for a huge global
expansion of nuclear power and trillions of dollars in new investment to
escalate oil, gas and coal production worldwide. *

*Friday, July 14th will be a Global Day of Action Against the G8 and for
free Health Care for Everyone, Education for All, an End to the Nuclear Age,
and an End to War. The day before the beginning of the G8 Summit in St.
Petersburg, Russia where the world's 8 richest countries will meet 15-17
July, 2006, join people everywhere in the streets! The 3 main themes of the
2006 G8 Summit are Energy Security, Education, and Aids/Health Care. This
year the Russian Network Against the G8 <http://g8-2006.plentyfact.net/> wants
to show that wherever they meet, the G8 will face protests against them. For
those who can't come to Russia, activists there appreciate your support by
joining this international Global Action day on the 14th of July in as many
cities as possible. The power of the elites crosses many lines, but our
solidarity goes beyond any borders! 14 JULY 2006: GLOBAL ACTION DAY! For
more info, see: http://nog8.ru http://g8-2006.plentyfact.net
http://www.spb8.hardcore.lt
 http://abb.hardcore.lt Called by the Russian Network Against the
G8<http://g8-2006.plentyfact.net/>
*
*Saturday, July 15th will be an International Day of Direct Action Against
Climate Change and the G8 <http://rtc.revolt.org>. As G8 energy ministers
promise trillions of dollars in new subsidies to the fossil fuel and nuclear
industries destroying our planet and our future, we will take action to shut
them down! This is a call for autonomous, decentralized actions appropriate
for your town, city, or bioregion. Use this international day of action to
support local struggles against oil refineries, gas pipelines, strip mines
and coal-fired power plants. Disrupt the financial backers of the fossil
fuel industry. Host teach-ins to spread sustainable post-petroleum living
skills. Find a weak point in the infrastructure of resource exploitation and
throw a literal or symbolic wrench in the works. Visit your local polluters
and give 'em hell! 15 JULY 2006: CLIMATE ACTION DAY! Mobilized by Earth
First! Climate Caucus and Rising Tide North America, visit
www.rtc.revolt.org for more information
<http://rtc.revolt.org>.<http://reclaimthecommons.net/article.php?id=318>
*

*+++++++################++++++++
*

*Meeting notes from 5/11 DC ad hoc working group against 2006 G8 Summit*

- Idea of protesting Russian embassy in DC, located @ 2650 Wisconsin Ave.,
conveniently nearby homes of US govt officials & "climate/war criminals" who
have ties to oil/nuclear industries. / Idea of picketing homes, etc. / Concern
about state repression & police violence that protesters in Russia are
likely to face. Stand in solidarity with them with presence at Russian
embassy? / Also concern that DC actions should focus on US government
involvement in G8, not on Russia (or other G8 countries: England, France,
Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan).

- Critical Mass on Friday, July 14th could support & feed into other protest
actions happening...

- Local issues: Congress has special power plant exempt from emission
regulations (Will Congress be in session in mid-July?) / Struggle against
Inter County Connector / DC has 3rd or 4th worst air pollution in USA /
Hydrogen plant in Anacostia is local case of environmental injustice

- Teach-on on climate change and globalization AND connections to local
issues? Could happen earlier in week or weekend of July 8-9 to build
momentum for actions.

- July 14th is Bastille Day! Throw yellow cake? (symbolizing uranium)

- Protest global warming with swim-out ! (Any worthy fountains in DC?)

- Earth First! Rondezvous is happening in Appalachia July 3 - 10. Major
issue in that bioregion is struggle against mountaintop removal (MTR)
coal-mining. Possibility of recruiting EF! activists to come to DC actions.
Any good coal industry targets in DC?

- Realization that more info is needed about G8 schedule of events, which US
officials will be there, US corporations with links to G8 (?) etc.

THEREFORE: Department of Energy press releases:
http://www.doe.gov/news/press_releases.htm

DOE Organization Chart and Structure:
http://www.energy.gov/organization/orgchart.htm

G8 ministerial meetings in Russia leading up to July 15-17 Summit:
http://en.g8russia.ru/page_work/

Lots of Russian G8 officials to contact for more info!
http://en.g8russia.ru/contacts/

June 1st application deadline for accredited media covering G8 Summit:
http://www.en.g8russia.ru/press/

Leaked G8 "Communique on Energy Security":
http://reclaimthecommons.net/downloads/2nd_draft_of_G8_Summit_Communique_on_Energy_Security_1.pdf

DOE Secretary Samuel Bodman's view on nuclear energy, from May 11th speech
at MIT: "We in this country need more nuclear energy," said Bodman. "I am
convinced we will see new nuclear plants in our country," he said. "We don't
need six new reactors, we need 16, we need 26, we need 46."
http://www-tech.mit.edu/V126/N25/25bodman.html
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From redscares at mindspring.com  Tue May 16 13:10:24 2006
From: redscares at mindspring.com (Todd Eaton)
Date: Tue May 16 13:12:40 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] "They try to make crime fun but are politically
	motivated."
Message-ID: <6.2.5.6.1.20060516161020.025f8af8@mindspring.com>

From: David Graeber    From: "William K. Dobbs" Subject: 'The fat 
years are over' -  Hamburg social engineers strike rarely and professionally

Regarding rich people, 'The fat years are over' says a crew in 
Hamburg, Germany whose social engineering capers have caught the 
attention of police. One cop commented, "They are very political yet 
one of their main motives is fun. The problem is that they strike so 
rarely and so professionally that they are a major job to catch."

There's much more information about the dastardly deeds in the material below.

1.  German 'Robin Hoods' give poor a taste of the high life - The 
Scotsman May 9, 2006 2.  Modern-Day Robin Hoods Have Hamburg Cops 
Baffled - Deutsche Welle  May 8, 2006 3.  'Robin Hood' gang rob 
gourmet stores in bid to feed Hamburg's poor - The Independent 
[London, UK] May 9, 2006 4.  Police hunt Robin Hood thieves - 
Ananova, May 9, 2006 5.  Editorial:  Spider Mum vs. Capitalism - Wall 
Street Journal Europe May 10, 2006 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Photos 
online at:  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/05/340318.html

The Scotsman [Edinburgh, UK] May 9, 2006 
<http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=692762006>

German 'Robin Hoods' give poor a taste of the high life By ALLAN HALL

Berlin - A GANG of anarchist Robin Hood-style thieves, who dress as 
superheroes and steal expensive food from exclusive restaurants and 
delicatessens to give to the poor, are being hunted by police in the 
German city of Hamburg.

The gang members seemingly take delight in injecting humour into 
their raids, which rely on sheer numbers and the confusion caused by 
their presence. After they plundered Kobe beef fillets, champagne and 
smoked salmon from a gourmet store on the exclusive Elbastrasse, they 
presented the cashier with a bouquet of flowers before making their getaway.

The latest robbery is part of a pattern over the past several months, 
suggesting that the thieves deliberately set out to highlight what 
they perceive as the inequality inherent in German society.

However, the authorities do not agree. Bodo Franz, a police 
spokesman, said: "They get off feeling they are just like Robin Hood. 
There are about 30 in the group. But whatever their motives, they are 
thieves, plain and simple."

Carsten Sievers, the manager of a luxury supermarket in the wealthy 
Blankenese area of Hamburg, recently watched the robbers run off with 
trolleys full of expensive foodstuffs, including Kobe beef which, at 
more than 100 a pound, is always on their illicit shopping list.

In another recent swoop, the gang emptied a groaning buffet table in 
a top restaurant into sacks, while one of their number held up a sign 
saying. "The fat years are over" - the title of a hit film currently 
doing the rounds in Germany.

In internet statements, the gang have made a point of saying their 
booty is distributed to Hartz IV recipients - the poorest of 
Germany's long-term unemployed. The benefit is named after the 
disgraced Volkswagen personnel director Peter Hartz who, before he 
lost his job with the car-maker in a prostitutes-and-bribes scandal, 
devised the new means-testing which is loathed and derided by 
society's most economically challenged.

When the gang robbed the gourmet store in April - triggering a 
massive police investigation that cost 20,000 in taxpayers' money 
without an arrest being made - they left a note behind saying: 
"Without the abilities of the superheroes to help them, it would be 
impossible for ordinary people to survive in the city of the millionaires."

Police say they are concentrating their investigation on a loose 
collective of anarchists and malcontents called "Hamburg in Vain", to 
which they believe the superheroes belong. But they admit there is a 
certain panache and skill about their robberies.

The gang are also behind black market cinema tickets which they 
distribute free to the poor, and they have printed leaflets telling 
passengers how to dodge ticket inspectors on the city's underground and buses.

Mr Franz said: "They try to make crime fun but are politically motivated."
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Deutsche Welle May 8, 2006
<http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,1997748,00.html>
NEWS
Modern-Day Robin Hoods Have Hamburg Cops Baffled

They steal from the rich and give to the poor. And just like Robin 
Hood and his men, a gang of Hamburg activists are proving difficult 
to catch despite the fact they dress as superheroes when they raid 
swanky stores.

A bunch of egalitarian criminals who go by such names as "Spider Mum" 
and "Santa Guevara" are being referred to as modern-day Germany's 
version of Robin Hood and his Merry Men. And just like the Sheriff of 
Nottingham in the legend of Sherwood Forest's most famous outlaw, the 
Hamburg police are at a loss when it comes to stopping them.

The group, which calls itself "Hamburg Umsonst" -- loosely translated 
as Hamburg Without Charge, has apparently graduated from handing out 
flyers with tips on how to forge cinema tickets and travel illegally 
on public transport to raiding the swankiest stores and delicatessens 
before distributing their swag to the city's poor.

Their most high profile job to date came last week. Dressed in an 
array of comic book hero costumes, the gang raided a well-to-do 
eatery in the north German port city last Friday during work hours 
and absconded with a large amount of fine food -- after posing for a 
publicity photograph with bemused staff. Hamburg cops called to the 
crime scene drew a blank despite deploying 14 patrol cars and a 
police helicopter.

According to eye witnesses, the "Hamburg Umsonst" raiding party 
consisted of around 30 people who apparently knew what they were 
doing when it came to fancy eats and drinks. The everyday shoplifter 
will probably not take the time to savor the array of produce on hand 
before sticking a box of Valrhona chocolates down their pants. It 
soon became obvious -- these guys were pros.

Cops can't catch connoisseur crooks in costumes

The Hamburg cops have little to go on except that the gang has a 
social conscience, know the difference between corned beef and Kobe 
veal and have a seemingly unlimited supply of fancy dress costumes.

But even the best laid plans of criminal masterminds have the odd 
weak spot. While carrying out their raids in order to support the 
one-euro jobbers, exploited employees and those on benefits, the gang 
have been unable to resist the sating of the ego.

In what could eventually be their undoing, the caped food raiders 
have shown a penchant for leaving notes at the scene of their crimes 
which carry statements such as: "Without the abilities of a 
superhero, survival is impossible in the town of the millionaires."

Until the police get a break, upmarket shopkeepers in Hamburg are 
advised to keep their doors closed to anyone wearing spandex tights 
and a Mexican wrestling mask.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The Independent [London, UK] May 9, 2006
'Robin Hood' gang rob gourmet stores in bid to feed Hamburg's poor
By Tony Paterson in Berlin

They dress up in pink catsuits, have names like "Spider Mum" and feel 
a social obligation to plunder the most expensive restaurants and 
gourmet delicatessens in town as part of a campaign to help the poor.

Last week the well-heeled citizens of Hamburg's Altona district got a 
taste of their antics when 30 of them marched into the city's luxury 
"Fresh Paradise Goedeken" supermarket and walked out five minutes 
later with EUR15,000 (pounds 10,000) worth of stolen goods.

The gang's booty included magnums of Champagne at EUR99 abottle, 
filets of Japanese Kobe beef at EUR108 a kilogram, legs of venison, a 
salmon and several boxes of Valrhona chocolate.

Before leaving, gang members thrust a bouquet of flowers into the 
hands of a shop assistant. Attached was a handwritten note which 
proclaimed: "Survival in the city of millionaires would be impossible 
without us!" It was signed by "Spider Mum", "Santa Guevara" and "Multiflex".

Another note later released by the gang insisted that the haul had 
been distributed to Hamburg's needy, to the "social workers, cleaning 
ladies and minimum-wage earners". It added: "The places of wealth in 
this town are as numerous as the opportunities to take it."

"It was a well-planned robbery," Carsten Sievers, the store's 
manager, said on Friday last week. "Somebody had obviously been in 
the shop before the main contingent arrived and had already filled up 
several shopping trolleys."

Fourteen squad cars and a police helicopter scoured the Altona 
district for more than an hour after the robbery, but failed to find 
the perpetrators.

"The gang covered its tracks completely. They act like 
professionals," Bodo Franz, the head of a Hamburg police unit 
investigating the robbery, said.

As they left the scene of the robbery, the gang, clad in masks, 
catsuits, dark glasses and rubber masks, posed for a group photo 
outside the supermarket and brandished their booty in front of the camera.

The incident was the latest attack perpetrated by this Robin 
Hood-style gang of so-called "Spontis", whose activities have alarmed 
and baffled the Hamburg police and the city's well-to-do. Yet the 
gang, which refers to itself as "Hamburg for Free", does not strike 
often. Its last attack took place almost exactly a year ago, when 40 
masked men and women stormed the Sllberg restaurant in the city's 
wealthy Blankenese district overlooking the river Elbe.

Diners were appalled as the gang snatched titbits from the plates in 
front of them and started stuffing the stolen food into their mouths. 
Other gang members brandished a huge knife and fork made out of 
silver foil and cardboard above the diners' heads. A placard 
declaring "The fat years are over" was strung between pillars in the 
restaurant.

Mr Franz, who has been trying to track down the "Hamburg for Free" 
gang since the incident a year ago, said that investigators had 
merely established that the group was probably made up of a mixture 
of students and anarchists.

"We don't know much about them. They are very political yet one of 
their main motives is fun," he said. "The problem is that they strike 
so rarely and so professionally that they are a major job to catch."
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Ananova May 9, 2006
<http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1835880.html>
Police hunt Robin Hood thieves

German police are hunting a gang of Robin Hoods who steal food from 
exclusive restaurants and delis to give to the poor.

The anarchist thieves, who wear superhero costumes during their 
raids, have struck repeatedly in recent months in Hamburg, reports 
the Scotsman.

After they plundered Kobe beef fillets, champagne and smoked salmon 
from a gourmet store on exclusive Elbastrasse, they presented the 
cashier with a bouquet of flowers.

And they left a note saying: "Without the abilities of the 
superheroes to help them, it would be impossible for ordinary people 
to survive in the city of the millionaires."

In another recent swoop, the gang emptied a groaning buffet table in 
a top restaurant into sacks, while one of their number held up a sign 
saying: "The fat years are over".

In internet statements, the gang say their booty is distributed to 
the poorest of Germany's long-term unemployed.

They are also behind black market cinema tickets which they 
distribute free to the poor, and they have printed leaflets telling 
passengers how to dodge ticket inspectors on the city's underground and buses.

But police spokesman Bodo Franz said: "They get off feeling they are 
just like Robin Hood. There are about 30 in the group. But whatever 
their motives, they are thieves, plain and simple."
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Wall Street Journal Europe May 10, 2006
EDITORIAL
Spider Mum vs. Capitalism

Disguised in pink cat suits, Venetian carnival costumes and rubber 
masks, the self-styled superheroes came to fight the world's biggest 
criminal -- capitalism. Or at least the inequitable distribution of 
capitalism's culinary spoils.

"Santa Guevara," "Spider Mum" and "Multiflex," as the crime fighters 
call themselves, robbed a gourmet store in Hamburg two weeks ago in 
broad daylight. The vigilante connoisseurs snatched delicacies worth 
1,500 euros, including Ruinart Champagne, Kobe beef and Valrhona 
chocolate. Before leaving the scene of the crime -- er, social 
revolution -- they had time to pose for a photo and hand the cashier 
a bouquet of flowers.

Just as in a Marvel comic, the police proved no match for the 
superheroes. Despite a chase involving 14 cop cars and a chopper, 
Spider Mum & Co. are still at large. In a note left behind, they 
boasted that "without the skills of superheroes, survival in the city 
of millionaires is impossible." Hamburg's Robin Hoods said they gave 
the perishable loot to the needy.

The gang's motto is Hamburg Umsonst or Hamburg for free. Last year, 
also just around the traditional left-wing May Day demonstrations, 
they robbed a Michelin one-star restaurant. Like copy-cat groups in 
Berlin, Dresden and Freiburg, the gang also offers tips on hard to 
trace Web sites on how to dodge public transport fares or sneak into 
movie theaters without paying. The Germans draw inspiration from the 
Barcelona group Yomango, Spanish slang for "I steal." Yomango's 
guerrilla tactics involve appropriating products from stores, 
exhibiting them as pieces of art, before "returning" them to different stores.

These shenanigans sound like the pranks of middle-class students with 
too much time on their hands, more interested in enjoying the fruits 
of capitalism for free than in abolishing it. Given the high 
unemployment in Germany and Spain, we offer the following free 
advice: Finish your studies and get a job before you are caught.


From basav at igc.org  Tue May 16 19:46:47 2006
From: basav at igc.org (basav@igc.org)
Date: Tue May 16 19:49:39 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] Protest US-Korea Free Trade Agreement - Sunday 6/4
Message-ID: <380-22006531724647728@M2W016.mail2web.com>

Friends, 
The Mobilization for Global Justice strongly encourages everyone to come
out to this very, very important protest! 

There is a strong likelihood that there will be a sizable delegation of
farmers and workers from Korea here in Washington DC to lead the protest.
That will make the protest doubly exciting and important. 

Also, there will be more actions through the week, and MGJ has committed to
help in whatever way we can with the week of action. Watch for more e-mails
on this once the details (such as place, time etc. for the June 4 rally and
march, and details of the week of action) are known. 

In solidarity, 
Mobilization for Global Justice
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Dear Friends, Companeros, and Dong-ji's,
Greetings!

>From June 4 through 9, 2006, a delegation of one hundred peasant, labor,
and community leaders from Korea will travel to Washington D.C. to protest
the U.S.-Korea free trade negotiations.

We respectfully invite you and your organization to join us at a MASS
ACTION on SUNDAY JUNE 4, in Washington D.C. 

WHEN: Sunday June 4, 2006, exact time TBA
WHERE: TBA

BACKGROUND 
On June 5, the U.S. will begin free trade talks with South Korea in
Washington D.C. Former U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman is calling the
US-Korea FTA ?the biggest deal since NAFTA,? as the U.S. considers lifting
trade barriers in key countries surrounding China - e.g. Korea, Malaysia,
Vietnam, Thailand - a strategic step in its aim for regional hegemony in
East Asia. The entire people?s movement in Korea has declared stopping the
FTA its number one priority, and from June 4 through 9, 2006, it is sending
a delegation of one hundred peasant, labor, and community leaders to
Washington D.C. to protest the negotiations. The delegation represents
diverse sectors of the people's movement and many organizations, including
the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions and the Korean Peasants League.

A coalition of Korean organizations in the U.S. has also formed to support
the delegation. The coalition includes groups that have struggled to end
U.S. military occupation of Korea and for national unification for decades,
as well as organizers of low-wage workers in LA's Koreatown.

As part of the week of protests in D.C., we aim to facilitate dialogue
between the delegation from Korea and leaders of oppressed communities in
the U.S. impacted by U.S. neoliberal policies and consciously struggling
against it. It would be an honor if your organization would join us in this
endeavor.

REQUEST 
On Sunday June 4, we will be organizing a mass action, and we would like to
extend a sincere invitation to your organization to join us. The aim of the
outdoor action is to bring together broad progressive forces in solidarity
with the delegation from Korea as it launches its week of protest.

And of course, we also invite you to join us in the week of protests.

Call Hyun Lee (718 335 0419 or 347 242 6801) for more information.

In unity and struggle,
Mobilize and Organize to Resist the US-Korea FTA and Neoliberal
Globalization Congress for Korean Reunification; Corean Action Network for
Unification; FTA Action Task Force LA; Korea Democratic Labor Party - US
East Coast Branch; Nodutdol for Korean Community Development 


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From basav at igc.org  Tue May 16 20:08:53 2006
From: basav at igc.org (basav@igc.org)
Date: Tue May 16 20:18:35 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] Online petition for human rights in Egypt
Message-ID: <380-2200653173853390@M2W094.mail2web.com>

Friends, 
This is a petition forwarded to us by Mohamed Elagati, who spoke at an MGJ
meeting recently. The petition iss about the ongoing struggle for
dmeocratization in Egypt, which Mohamed referred to in the context of the
struggle against neoliberalism in Egypt. 

Please sign the petition and forward it to any lists that you think are
appropriate!
-Basav

What is happening in Egypt is getting worse by the day, Egypt needs your
help, Please sign the petition
Petition on line:
http://www.petitiononline.com/eg06judg/petition.html

Text of petition:

Condemning the Egyptian Government's Attacks on Judges and Peaceful
Demonstrators

It is with great distress that we, the undersigned, have leaned about the
treatment of members of the Judges? Club and their supporters, at the hands
of Egyptian security forces.

Between April 24 and April 27, 2006, Egyptian activists taking part in a
solidarity camp downtown Cairo were attacked by thousands of riot police,
resulting in the almost fifty arrests of activists from different
opposition groups. The camp had been organized in solidarity with a sit-in
at the Judges? Club after two judges ? Hisham Bastawisi and Mahmoud Mekki ?
had been subjected to disciplinary measures by the government for raising
concerns about fraud in the 2005 legislative elections.

We view this as a severe escalation of scare tactics used by the state
security apparatus to silence criticism of the regime, and stifle the
growing demand for democratic change. Furthermore, we condemn all acts of
political imprisonment carried out to crush an opposition movement that is
growing in popularity.

We urge Egyptian state security to immediately release all those arrested
in relation to the Judges' Club between the 24th and the 27th of April, and
urge the government to take immediate and clear actions to guarantee the
independence of the judiciary.
As Egyptians and non Egyptians concerned with the repression of the
pro-democracy movement in Egypt, we will continue to monitor and expose
these abuses and stand in support of those who are struggling for a better
future for Egypt.


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From basav at igc.org  Tue May 16 21:08:50 2006
From: basav at igc.org (basav@igc.org)
Date: Tue May 16 21:06:10 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] Activist theater workshop on June 8
Message-ID: <380-2200653174850140@M2W122.mail2web.com>

Theater Workshop on June 8
6:45-8:45 PM at the Social Action and Leadership School for Activists
(SALSA) of the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), 1112 16th St NW, Suite
600, Washington DC, 20036. 

http://www.hotsalsa.org/

Title: Introduction to Theater for Education

Activists often do theater that is heavy on content but short on appealing
form. The result is a poster, mask and puppet display with lots of words,
rather than theater. Capturing people's interest with some cool theater to
convey socially relevant messages is an art that often works better than
speeches in educating and building alliances. It need not be expensive or
very time consuming and does not require a huge performance space. Come,
learn from some highly-skilled and experienced practitioners of educational
theater how to put together basic activist plays with the help of
time-tested techniques and fun exercises for voice, movement, presentation
and script development. It will be an invigorating and memorable SALSA
evening.

Led by: Shirin, Sameer and Basav from JiSA. They have been involved with
activist theater for years and have given workshops in several places
around the world.

Note: Please wear comfortable clothes that will give you the freedom of
physical movement needed for the exercises.


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From mgj at riseup.net  Wed May 17 01:56:12 2006
From: mgj at riseup.net (Mobilization for Global Justice)
Date: Wed May 17 01:57:22 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] MGJ General Meeting///Wed., May 17///St. Stephens
Message-ID: <20060517015612.elc20agk9e4wscc0@mail.riseup.net>

Mobilization for Global Justice General Meeting
Wednesday, May 17th, 7-9pm
St. Stephens Church, 16th and Newton Sts. NW


Hey Folks--Come help us figure out how we can keep up the pressure on  
the IMF and World Bank and bring the neoliberal monster to its knees!!



Directions:
St. Stephens Church, upstairs in the auditorium
(16th and Newton St. NW, Washington DC)
  From the Columbia Heights metro walk north on 14th, turn left on Newton
and walk until you reach 16th. Enter on the side.  There is wheelchair
access at the back of the building.

-- 
MGJ General organizing meetings are every Wednesday, 7-9pm at St. Stephens
Church, 16th and Newton St. NW (Columbia Heights Metro stop, S2 and S4 Bus,
Street parking only, lots of bike parking)

On the Web: www.globalizethis.org

Join a listserve and get important announcements and updates from MGJ!

MGJ Announce (moderated, announcements only)
http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/mgj-announce

MGJ Discuss (unmoderated, traffic varries)
http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/mgj-discuss
From phipco at riseup.net  Wed May 17 11:40:02 2006
From: phipco at riseup.net (Morrigan Phillips)
Date: Wed May 17 12:19:01 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] US Cancels free trade talks with Ecuador....
Message-ID: <20060517144002.bpho74obqaw0ogwc@mail.riseup.net>

Well, here's one way to kill a free trade agreement.....it will be  
interesting to see what happens next.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4988624.stm

Ecuador oil move prompts US ire
The US says it is cancelling free-trade negotiations with Ecuador,  
after the South American country seized the assets of a US oil company.

Ecuadorean oil officials cancelled Occidental Petroleum's operating  
contract after a long-running dispute.

The US administration said it was "disappointed" with the decision.

Bolivia recently declared it was nationalising foreign energy  
companies, but Ecuador says other foreign energy companies have  
nothing to fear.

It insists the dispute is specific to Occidental, which it says  
violated the terms of its operating contract by selling part of an  
Ecuadorean field to Canada's EnCana in 2000 without Ecuador's approval.

On Monday, the Quito government cancelled Occidental's contract, and  
the following day officials from Ecuador's state-owned oil company  
Petroecuador began to take over offices and installations run by the  
company.

Ecuadorean President Alfredo Palacio has sent troops to guard oil  
facilities seized from Occidental as they are transferred to state  
control, news agency AP quoted officials as saying.

Officials say they are considering teaming up with another South  
American state-owned company to operate the fields formerly run by  
Occidental, which produce a fifth of Ecuador's oil output.

Freeze on talks

"We are very disappointed at the decision of Ecuador, which appears to  
constitute a seizure of assets of a US company," said Neena Moorjani,  
a spokeswoman for the US Trade Representative's office, in a statement.

"At this time no further [free-trade agreement] discussions are scheduled."

She said countries must "obey the rule of law with respect to foreign  
investors" if they hoped to be a free-trade partner of the US, adding  
she expected Ecuador to pay Occidental compensation.

In response, Ecuador's government spokesman Enrique Proano, said his  
country "laments the declaration by the United States", and questioned  
the fact that "a sovereign decision by Ecuador" should affect trade  
negotiations.

Before the US announcement, Ecuador's interior minister said any US  
move to suspend the trade talks would amount to "blackmail".

Occidental had been pumping 100,000 barrels a day from wells in the  
Amazon jungle, which it said represented 7% of the company's worldwide  
production.

In a statement the company said it was "evaluating its legal options  
to defend its interests", but expressed hope that an "amicable  
settlement" could be reached.

It had previously offered the Ecuador government up to $1bn (?569m) in  
disputed taxes, investments and extra revenues to end the dispute,  
while denying wrongdoing.

Indigenous opposition

The takeover of Occidental was welcomed by indigenous groups in  
Ecuador, who had campaigned for the company to be expelled.

They were also at the heart of protests in March against free-trade  
negotiations with the US, which saw a state of emergency declared in  
five provinces.

The US has already reached such bilateral agreements with Peru and  
Colombia, but some Latin American campaigners say they do not benefit  
ordinary workers.

Separately, both Bolivia and Venezuela have this month announced  
measures to increase revenue from foreign energy companies operating  
within their borders.
From olivetrii at gmail.com  Wed May 17 17:03:04 2006
From: olivetrii at gmail.com (Ethan X)
Date: Wed May 17 17:08:29 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] Fwd: [colours] SOA Watch hiring Communications
	Coordinator
In-Reply-To: <00e501c679e7$6c2bbd90$100a0a0a@SOAWatch.org>
References: <00e501c679e7$6c2bbd90$100a0a0a@SOAWatch.org>
Message-ID: <1e9e1b2a0605171703i5c037e2fycef6021ef87576e4@mail.gmail.com>

From: Christy Pardew <cpardew@soaw.org>
Date: May 17, 2006 3:23 PM
Subject: [colours] SOA Watch hiring Communications Coordinator
To: colours@lists.mutualaid.org

 ** * * please forward widely * * **

http://www.soaw.org/new/article.php?id=1308


*SOA Watch Communications Coordinator Position***



School of the Americas Watch is hiring a Communications Coordinator to be
based in Washington, DC. The position is full-time with health benefits,
paid vacation and holiday time. Salary is negotiable, and there are
opportunities for skills development.**

* *

*COORDINATE MEDIA CAMPAIGN ? 40%*

?       Develop a proactive media campaign

?       Update and maintain a database of Spanish- and English-language
media outlets and reporters

?       Monitor news and respond to stories with an SOA/ WHINSEC connection

?       Send out news releases; host press conferences; develop messaging
strategies

?       Pitch stories to mainstream and alternative, national and
international, English and Spanish media

?       Field media inquiries and interview requests by either handling them
or directing them to others as appropriate (including photos, background
info, etc)

?       Provide media skills training sessions and resources for grassroots
activists and assist grassroots activists in developing local media plans

?       Coordinate a volunteer media working group to assist with events and
other ongoing media work

?       Facilitate the operations of a media office for each major event

?       Communicate relevant news info to research point person



*GRASSROOTS COMMUNICATION AND EDUCATION ? 30%*

?       Compose and send out mass emails to grassroots base

?       Maintain and update website

?       Coordinate production of newsletter

?       Update and create new flyers and educational materials



*COORDINATE TRANSLATION & INTERPRETATION ? 10%*

?       Coordinate volunteer translation and interpretation working group(s)

?       Coordinate translation of documents

?       Serve as staff point person for interpretation for each major event

?       (Re)Organize, maintain and update Spanish sections of website

?       Coordinate translation of website



*ADMINISTRATIVE TASKS ? 20%*

?       Provide staff support for major events throughout the year

?       Respond to ongoing telephone, mail and e-mail inquiries

?       Maintain listservs

?       Help to fill requests for speakers from grassroots organizers



*REQUIREMENTS: *

Ability to work independently and with a team in a collective organizational
model.

Strong oral and written communication skills.

Some experience working with the media.

Familiarity with HTML and web work.



People of color, women and LGBT folks are strongly encouraged to
apply.Strong preference for Spanish-speaking candidate. Knowledge of
the School of
the Americas issue and familiarity with layout design and Photoshop and
Pagemaker a plus.



*HOW TO APPLY:*

Please send a resume, a writing sample of no more than 600 words, three
references and a cover letter addressing why you're interested in working
for SOA Watch, what strengths you'd bring to the position and what motivates
you to participate in the struggle for social justice to Christy Pardew at
cpardew@soaw.org.



*SOA Watch is a nonviolent grassroots movement that works to stand in
solidarity with the people of Latin America, to close the SOA/WHINSEC and to
change oppressive **U.S.** foreign policy that the School of the **Americas*
* represents. We are grateful to our sisters and brothers throughout **Latin
America** for their inspiration and the invitation to join them in their
struggle for economic and social justice. Find out more about the
organization at http://www.SOAW.org <http://www.soaw.org/>.*
 ** <http://www.soaw.org/>
**



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From: basav at igc.org (basav@igc.org)
Date: Wed May 17 20:46:53 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] Puppet-making on Sunday May 28!
Message-ID: <380-2200654183454446@M2W009.mail2web.com>

Dear MGJers, 
Please come to a fun afternoon of MGJ puppet-work at Nadine's garage in
Takoma Park on Sunday May 28! 

Time: noon to 4 pm.

Directions: will send soon.

Agenda: we'll be doing the following.
-Do an inventory of our existing puppets and props.
-Repair any of them that need repair.
-Build a couple of props for upcoming actions, may be.
-Help Nadine clean out the garage.

What to bring: 
-snacks and drinks.
-art supplies; I'll send an updated e-mail soon with what exactly to bring
by way of supplies.

Please RSVP to me to let me know if you're coming!

-Basav

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From olivetrii at gmail.com  Thu May 18 04:34:16 2006
From: olivetrii at gmail.com (Ethan X)
Date: Thu May 18 04:39:05 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] International Finance Corp. events!
Message-ID: <1e9e1b2a0605180434o586d2319q36046447cdcc81a8@mail.gmail.com>

 Book Launch ("We Are Poor but So Many") and Panel Discussion (Human
Trafficking)

 Thu, May 18 12pm - 5pm (5 hrs)
 (Eastern Standard Time)
 Pangea Market and Cafe, 2121 Pennsylvania Ave. NW (IFC Building)
(map<http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Pangea+Market+and+Cafe%2C+2121+Pennsylvania+Ave.+NW+%28IFC+Building%29>)


Hi everyone,

Pangea Market and
Cafe<http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pangeamarket.com%2F>is
a new store that just opened TODAY in the International Finance
Corporation where I work.  The store is like 10,000 Villages, with a coffee
shop, and space for speakers and artisan demonstrations.

Check out their special events coming up (see below for more details on
these events):

   - *May 18, 12-2pm            Book Launch          *"We Are Poor but So
   Many" by Ela Bhatt, founder of SEWA (India)


   - *May 18, 5 pm               Panel Discussion*    "Human Trafficking"
   featuring Pierre Tami, founder of Hagar (Cambodia)


   - *May 22, 9 am- 5pm       Indonesia Day         *"Reconstructing
   Aceh" panel discussion, 12-2pm; Indonesian gamelan performance, 5:30-6:30pm



*Pangea ? Beautiful Crafts, Wonderful Stories*

Featuring elegant handcrafted products made by artisans from developing
countries, PANGEA is an educational retail store and caf? opening at the
headquarters of the International Finance Corporation on Pennsylvania Avenue
in Washington, DC, in May 2006.

PANGEA welcomes neighborhood residents and employees, tourists, World Bank
staff and visitors, and the wider Washington community to shop for
beautifully handcrafted items, enjoy gourmet coffee, and learn the stories
behind the products showcased.

Through interactive multimedia exhibits and special events, visitors will be
able to experience the story of artisan organizations around the world that
are playing an important role in the fight against poverty. The theme for
opening week is Women's Economic Empowerment, with events featuring special
guest speakers and items produced by women artisans from around the world.

For more information or to join the Friends of Pangea mailing list, please
contact Vanessa Ferragut at 202-458-5360 or e-mail vferragut@ifc.org.

*A Chance to Learn About Three Remarkable Organizations **       *

On the occasion of Pangea's opening, IFC's Grassroots Business Initiative
proudly welcomes three leading social entrepreneurs to Washington, DC:

*Hagar*, a Swiss NGO, works with disadvantaged women and their families in
Cambodia. The organization provides shelter, food, health services,
counseling and training to victims of violence, sexual abuse, poverty, and
abandonment. Hagar also seeks to provide employment opportunities for the
women served by its social programs, and have set up three income generating
initiatives: a handicraft workshop, a soy milk production unit, and a
catering service.

*SEWA* is a registered trade association bringing economic empowerment to
over 700,000 poor, self-employed women in India. The SEWA Trade Facilitation
Center is a company partly owned by embroidery workers themselves, and works
to enhance product quality, management and resources while linking the poor
rural workers to global markets. The organization currently provides a
sustainable livelihood to more than 7,500 rural artisans.

*Gone Rural*, based* *in Swaziland, provides an income generating
opportunity to more than 760 women artisans in the country's mountainous
areas. The organization brings traditional grass woven products to the world
market.  In addition to providing the artisans with self-dignity a steady
income, Gone Rural also arranges HIV/AIDS education workshops for employees
and supports the schooling of the children of AIDS victims who used to work
for them.


*IFC's approach to growing grassroots business*

Across the world, there are growing problems of unemployment and poverty. At
the same time, even in the poorest areas there is enormous creative capacity
and real progress toward establishing businesses with the potential to
stimulate employment and raise incomes for the poor and disadvantaged, and
in turn build strong communities and local economies.

Though artisans come from all corners of the world, they all share a need to
overcome challenges to strengthening their businesses and entering new
markets. IFC invests in grassroots business organizations like Hagar, SEWA,
and Gone Rural, and helps build local institutional capacity to provide
appropriate and affordable financing, business development services and
market linkages.  PANGEA seeks to connect these businesses to world markets
and raise awareness of the need to promote sustainable entrepreneurship in
the developing world.


 More event details ?
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From: olivetrii at gmail.com (Ethan X)
Date: Thu May 18 05:45:59 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] DC anti-G8 meeting tonight! / Network Against G8 info
	bulletin #1
Message-ID: <1e9e1b2a0605180539s751b5a5n4905316a3124ace7@mail.gmail.com>

*Come to the 2nd meeting of DC's Ad Hoc Working Group against the G8!*

When: Tonight, Thursday, May 18, 6:30 pm

Where: Dupont Circle (if rain happens, we'll move under the overhang on
Connecticut Ave, north side of Dupont Circle, next to the bus stop, where
the phones are)

Why: *JULY 15-17, RESIST THE G8! The G8, or Group of 8, is the seven
wealthiest industrialized nations in the world plus Russia. They officially
meet once a year to strategize policies and plan their joint domination of
the world, and in recent years have been confronted by intense popular
demonstrations. The policies of the G8, according to the UN, are responsible
for the deaths of 10,000 children every day. The political heads of these
countries -- the U.S., Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, Russia,
Japan -- are pushing the agenda of corporate globalization at the cost of
the welfare of the people they claim to represent. We take to the streets
when the G8 meets to reject their worldview of profit at any cost, and to
reclaim our commons of autonomous political space. Authentic democracy or
corporate oligarchy? The choice is ours...*This year the G8 meets July 15-17
in St. Petersburg, Russia, anti-G8 solidarity actions happen all over the
world July 14 and 15, and protesters converge in St. Petersburg...What will
we do here in DC? Come to the meeting!

check out new anti-G8 info-hub -- www.rtc.revolt.org

and great info below

*Network Against the G8 English info bulletin #1*
* This is Network Against the G8's first openly distributed English-language
information bulletin, the goal of which is to erase the international
information gap that currently exists about the state of preparations for
protests against the G8 Summit of July 14-17th 2006 in St. Petersburg,
Russia. This bulletin is prepared by some members of the Moscow group of
Network Against G8 (SPB8) and does not necessarily reflect opinions of all
members of the network. We will publish new issues as soon as there new
information to share. Please distribute it widely! *

*Contents:*

*1) Libertarian forum in Moscow 8-12 of July
2) Call to G8 Global Action day!
3) Next Russian coordination meeting
4) Russian Social Forum
5) Legal group
6) Publications against G8
7) Events abroad
8) Websites and contacts
9) Principles of Network Against G8*

********

*1) Libertarian forum in Moscow 8-12 of July*

*There will be a libertarian forum in Moscow 8-12 of July as a build up
event for protests in St. Petersburg. Main theme of the forum will be energy
issues, and plans of the G8 for a nuclear power renaissance. For the G8,
"energy security" means guaranteeing access of the leading industrial
countries to natural resources, and diversification of exploitation of
limited resources - thus nuclear energy is now an important topic for them.
Problems such as lack of any long-term solutions with nuclear waste are
ignored.*

*The libertarian forum will consist of discussion, trainings and seminars.
We invite anybody to propose themes for discussions, until May 25th (for
sure, content of the libertarian forum may be amended later on, perhaps even
on the spot, but we want to solidify the preliminary program). We would be
especially happy for speakers on the topic of energy. Actions,
press-conference, concert and movie screenings are also planned. Food Not
Bombs has promised to provide food for the liberatarian forum.*

*Current topics for discussions and workshops are
1) Oil, energy resources and power: Capitalism and State.
2) Nuclear energy in Eastern Europe. About the plans to build new nuclear
reactors, and about media complicity in changing attitudes about nuclear
safety. (i.e., recent press stories claiming that Chernobyl was not too
bad!)
3) Russian-Polish Energy Politics
4) Anarchists and energy - various examples of anarchist approaches towards
problem of control over energy resources and their distribution
5) Energy problem from point of view of Greenpeace Russia
6) Lessons from protest camps of Rainbow Keepers
7) Perspectives of ecological movement in Russia
8) Precarity, globalization and rights of workers
9) Globalization and reform of education in Russia
10) How to get the best out of Indymedia?
11) How to work with mainstream media?
12) Social forums as the sunset of the anti-globalist movement, and
alternatives to them
13) Work against homophobia in Eastern Europe
14) Solidarity with anarchist prisoners
15) Reproduction of authoritarian power-relations in "anti-authoritarian"
groups
16) Self-defense
17) FrontAIDS and movement for access to medicine in Russia
18) Animal rights movement in Russia
19) Information technologies and activism
20) History of anarchist movement in Russia
21) Formation of coordinatonary councils on wave of struggle against
monetization of social benefits in Russia - lessons and conclusions.
22) What to do if you get arrested in Russia?*

*Write to moscow_protiv_g8(at)riseup.net if you want to propose a workshop,
and for any questions about the libertarian forum.*

********

*2) Call to G8 Global Action Day!*

*July 14th, Friday, the day before
the beginning of the G8 Summit in St. Petersburg*

*This year's meeting of the leaders of the worlds 8 richest countries will
be 15-17 July, 2006, in Russia. The 3 main themes of the Summit are Energy
Security, Education, and Aids/Health Care. We want people around the world
in the streets in support of free Health Care for everyone, Education for
All, an end to the Atomic Age, and an end to War. This year the Russian
"Network Against the G8" wants to show that wherever they meet, the G8 will
face protests against them! For those who can't come to protests in Russia,
activists there appreciate your support by endorsing and joining the Global
Day of Action on July 14th in as many cities as possible.*

*The power of the elites crosses many lines, but our solidarity goes beyond
all borders!*

********

*3) Next Russian coordination meeting*

*Will take place 28th of May in St. Petersburg. Contact us if you would be
interested to participate.*

********

*4) Russian Social Forum*

*Will take place from July 13th to 15th in St. Petersburg (demonstration
15th of July). Currently organizers are attempting to gain green light from
the city administration. Currently there is a discussion going on in SPB8 on
question of what our relationship will be with the Social Forum. SPB8
principles basically ban us from cooperating with authoritarians, and
whereas no political parties were present in the Social Forum of 2005 in
Moscow, a number of them and even some outright nationalists are expected to
be present in the Social Forum of St. Petersburg. However, it has been
proposed that SPB8 could set up an info point at the Social Forum of St.
Petersburg to inform participants about alternative events.*

*******

*5) Legal group*

*The SPB8 Legal group has prepared two texts for Russians and foreigners,
which are available in English - "Legal advice for people coming to G8
protest actions in Russia" and "Practical advice for participants of protest
actions in Russia". Both of these texts also include some important
information on visas and registration, and they will be available on the
website of the mobilization. Upcoming articles will deal with practical
issues such as transport in major Russian cities. We have found a lawyer who
is willing to help people who are arrested and who may face deportation. A
number of human rights activists have also promised support in case of
trouble.*

*******

*6) Publications against G8*

*Libertarian communist journal Avtonom will publish a special issue on the
G8. The book "We are everywhere" is also almost translated to Russian; the
whole translation will be published online until 15th of June. Two posters
are currently being designed, but additional ideas are much welcome. A few
thousand posters will be printed, to be distributed in St. Petersburg and
other Russian cities. Recently also a brochure "They are eight - we are 6
billions" was published by a group in Moscow, it includes a number of basic
texts on capitalism and economic globalization by Crimethinc and others. As
for English, in Abolishing the Borders from Below #24 there was a section of
articles on 2006 G8 mobilization.*

*******

*7) Events abroad*

*Several seminars on G8 mobilization were organized around European Social
Forum in Greece. In May there will be more seminars in Berlin.*

*New website www.rtc.revolt.org is available as international
English-language info-point for global solidarity events against the G8.
Send action updates and contributions that you want listed or posted, to
olivetrii(AT)yahoo.com *

*******

*8) Websites and contacts*

*Currently the website of Network Against G8 is at spb8.hardcore.lt, but due
to technical problems we are looking for new hosting. Domain spb8.net will
hopefully work soon.*

*Contact of Legal group: piter.legal(AT)yahoo.com (English, German, Russian)
*

*Contact of Libertarian forum and other events in Moscow:
moscow_protiv_g8(AT) riseup.net (English, Russian)*

*Contact for events in St. Petersburg nag8spb(AT)mail.ru (English, French,
German, Russian)*

*******

*9) Principles of Network Against G8*

*1. The initiative is aimed against the states, current dominating economic
system and all forms of oppression.
2. For the participants of SPB8 any discrimination on basis of race,
nationality, gender, sexual orientation and age is intolerable.
3. We make decisions by consensus. In case of lack of consensus on some
questions groups of SPB8 participants may make their own statements and
actions not contradicting these basic principles.
4. During the preparation of protest actions we are not interested in
cooperating with organizations aiming at taking power.
5. We approve of any methods of resistance, if they are aimed against the
rulers but not against the people of G8 countries. Any member of the network
is free to choose his / her own tactics.*
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From olivetrii at gmail.com  Thu May 18 07:02:37 2006
From: olivetrii at gmail.com (Ethan X)
Date: Thu May 18 07:03:12 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] Ride to Mountain Justice Summer camp,
	leaving DC Saturday to West Virginai!
Message-ID: <1e9e1b2a0605180702mfd9d88br2f82e3eef84df427@mail.gmail.com>

please forward to interested students, activists, etc!

Mountain Justice Summer Training Camp 2006 is happening May 20-26 the
Appalachian South Folk Life Center in southern West Virginia. Yay! A ride to
the MJS training camp is leaving DC area this Saturday morning. (We're
meeting outside Whole Foods store in Silver Spring at 10 am but may be able
to also stop elsewhere in DC area to pick folks up.) We've got a big van to
fill and just a few passengers so far, so please forward this to any
activists, students or other folk you know who believe that mountains should
not be exploded and destroyed for the short-term profit of coal companies,
and who may want to come to the MJS training camp.  Contact Ethan from
Reclaim the Commons (www.reclaimthecommons.net) at olivetrii@gmail.com to
join the ride.

Details about Mountain Justice Summer and training camp schedule below
see also www.mountainjusticesummer.org
Why Mountain Justice?

Mountain Justice Summer is a call to action and a request for help from the
people of the Appalachia mountains for help in saving our mountains,
streams?and forest from greedy coal companies. But why are we asking for
help?

Over 1200 miles of stream have been buried and destroyed and countless
mountains and ridge tops have been blown up?gone for all eternity.
Additionally, under the Bush administration, laws have been altered to
encourage and accelerate the destruction. The price of coal has doubled and
the destruction of our watersheds is accelerating and spreading out like
cancer, not slowing down. Our state and federal agencies charged with
protecting our environment are liquidating our mountains.

We are losing. And our loss is not only for our own generation?but for
future generations as well. Where now there are barren scraped biologically
dead toxic wastelands there used to be water producing mountains. Water is
going to matter to the future generations more than coal. You cannot drink
coal. *The Pentagon has predicted than many of the future wars on our planet
will not be fought over coal or oil?but for water. *The lack of clean
drinking water is already a global problem for humanity, as our population
increases it will only get worse. A mainstay of supermarket shelves across
North America is water. The destruction of water producing mountains is not
only a crime of the present?but is a very real attack on the future
generations?you cannot drink coal.

We cannot afford to continue losing this struggle. A few already rich
executives in coal companies are getting wealthier at the expense of us all.
The acceleration of mountain top, side and ridge removal is a curse on the
future?and present generations. We need your help.

We can use anything you can offer. If you would like to come defend the
mountains with us, please join us <http://mountainjusticesummer.org/join/>!
To learn what we've been up to all summer, look at our previous
actions<http://mountainjusticesummer.org/actions/>.
To learn more about mountain top removal, just look at the
facts<http://mountainjusticesummer.org/facts/>
.
Goals of Mountain Justice Summer

   1. Raise world-wide awareness of Mountain Top Removal mining and its
   effects.
   2. Escalate resistance to Mountain Top Removal from a regional to a
   national level.
   3. Build our support base for the campaign.
   4. Unify and strengthen regional groups fighting Mountain Top Removal.
   5. Mobilize coordinated days of action using tactics ranging from
   public outreach to civil resistance.
   6. Maintain safety as a high priority throughout the summer.
   7. Debunk the myth of "clean coal" and "jobs versus the environment".
   8. Encourage conservation, efficiency, solar and wind energy as
   alternatives to Mountain Top Removal and all forms of surface mining.

Mountain Justice Summer Training Camp 2006: Kicking Off a Summer of
Resistance

Hello everybody! Yay! MJS Camp is finally here! We're so happy you can make
it to camp this year, we're sure we are going to have a great week. Below
find directions to the Appalachian South Folk Life Center. If you are coming
from a different direction than what is listed on here, please let us know
and we can help you get directions.



*Tentative Schedule:*

Sat May 20

Arrive and set up tents and kitchen

6:00 Dinner
7:00 MJS 2006 Welcome!  Welcome and hello from the Center and MJS Crew
9:00 Movie: "Black Diamonds" featuring MJS in action

Sun May 21

8:00 Breakfast
9:00 Opening Circle and announcements
10:30 "MTR 101" Bill Price and friends
12:00 Lunch
1:00 "Security Culture" Bill G. and/or "First Aid" repeat
3:00 "First Aid Health and Safety" Dave P. and Maria & "Security
Culture" Bill G.
5:00 Soccer game
6:00 Dinner
7:00 Regional & State Reports - WV, TN, KY, VA
9:00 Film "Harlan County USA"

Mon May 22

8:00 Breakfast
9:00 Opening Circle and announcements - "Consensus Process & Active
Listening" Paloma
10:30 "Cultural Sensitivity" Janice Nease and "Conflict Resolution and
Inter-Organizational Sensitivity" Tricia Shapiro and friends
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Repeat 10:30 workshops
3:00  "Media 101" Hill Hosta and "Listening Project"
Paloma
5:00 Frisbee
6:00 Dinner
7:00 "World Wide Mining Resistance" Randal & open forum
9:00 Film Appalshops "Stranger With a Camera" & "Dancing Outlaw"

Tues May 23

8:00 Breakfast
9:00 Opening Circle and announcements
10:00 "Legal Workshop" Chris Irwin and "Media 101" Hill Hosta
12:00 Lunch
1:00 "Mine Permitting and How to Intervene" Gena Lewis and
"Recon and Scouting" Bill G and friends
3:00 Breakout sessions - state by state
5:00 Kickball
6:00 Dinner
7:00 Coalfield Citizens Panel - Bill Price and Friends
9:00 Film Appalshops "To Save the Land and People" & "Fast Food Women"

Wed May 24

8:00 Breakfast
9:00 Opening Circle and announcements
10:30 "De-Escalation" Doc and "Water Testing" Chris I
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Repeat morning workshops
3:00 Jack Spadaro
5:00 5K Race
6:00 Dinner
7:00 "Sludge" w/ Jack Spadaro
9:00 Film Appalshops "Dreadful Memories" and "Kilowatt Ours"

Thurs May 25

8:00 Breakfast
9:00 Opening Circle and announcements
10:00 "Grassroots and Community Organizing" Abe and "Campus organizing"
Liz Veazey
12:00 LUNCH
1:00 "Non Violent Direct Action" Scott Parkin and Hill Hosta or "Arts and
Activism" Erin M, Winter, Amanda and friends
3:00 "Camping Skills" Bill G. or "Non Violent Direct Action" Scott Parkin
and Hill Hosta
5:00 Frolicking
6:00 Dinner
7:00 Free time - open mike - music n dancing
9:00 Film "Mucked"

Fri May 26

8:00 Breakfast
9:00 MJS 2006 Meeting and announcements
10:30 Closing Circle - Clean up and pack up
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Leave for Heartwood "Healing Mountains" event

**




Hey, and don't forget,  right after our camp will be another great gathering
and everyone is invited.  Healing Mountains
<http://www.mountainjusticesummer.org/events.php?id=24>the Heartwood Forest
Council and Summit for the Mountains gathering May 26-29th. will be a
weekend of key-note speakers, yet more workshops, a talent show and what is
usually a great party Saturday night. The gathering is reasonably priced
with "low income" options and there may be volunteer spots available.
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From olivetrii at gmail.com  Fri May 19 06:48:35 2006
From: olivetrii at gmail.com (Ethan X)
Date: Fri May 19 06:49:42 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] TONIGHT! (5/19) A Benefit for Darren Thurston, 7PM,
	w/ Requiem, others...
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References: <443.ef64f1.319ec082@aol.com>
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 A reminder about tonight's wonderful show, which is a benefit for current
political prisoner Darren Thurston. Please come out and help support Darren.
In addition to some awesome bands, a vegan meal (w/ drink) will be available
for $5 extra...

hope to see you there.


=====================================================
A benefit show for political prisoner Darren Thurston
Friday May 19, 2006 - Doors open at 7pm
=====================================================

Requiem - North Carolina, Ex-Catharsis, Crimethinc Records
Los Gatos Negros - East Coast Cat Attack!
Attentat - Washington, DC anarcho-punk

at Before It's Too Late
People's Media Center at Al-Fishawy internet Cafe
4132 Georgia Avenue NW Washington, D.C. 20011
(between Taylor and Upshur near Shell gas station, 3 blocks north of
the Petworth Metro on the green line, on the #70/71 bus line)

all ages show
$5 to benefit Darren Thurston's support fund
or $10 for show, VEGAN MEAL, and soda

SUPPORT DARREN THURSTON
www.freedarren.org

Darren Thurston is a well-known Canadian activist with a long history of
involvement in animal rights, social justice and environmental issues. He
is currently imprisoned in the US awaiting trial on charges of conspiracy
relating to Earth and Animal Liberation Front actions that took place
between 1999-2002. If Darren is convicted on all counts he faces a
sentence of 30 years to life in prison.

Beyond his activism, Darren is known to his friends and family as a fun
and loving person who enjoys outdoor activities, animals, technology
research, reading and socializing. Highly intelligent, sensitive and with
a gift for making the people around him feel cherished, Darren leaves an
imprint on everyone he meets and has a diverse network of friends and
acquaintances. He very much wishes to come home to the west coast of
Canada where he has a supportive and caring community awaiting his return.

-------------------------------
More on Darren Thurston's Case:
-------------------------------
On December 7th, 2005 Darren was arrested in Portland, Oregon in the
company of Chelsea Gerlach. Although he was initially told he would
receive a speedy deportation, he has since found himself indicted in a
case involving 16 individuals alleged to have been involved in 17 Earth
Liberation Front, Animal Liberation Front and unclaimed actions that took
place between 1997 and 2001. Since the initial arrests in December, there
have been a number of developments in the case including some of those
arrested agreeing to co-operate with the government and more indictments
as a result. The present status of all those arrested in the case follows
at the end of this document.

Despite the fact that Darren is alleged to have only been involved in one
Earth Liberation Front action he is currently facing 5 separate charges in
relation to that one incident. In Oregon he has been charged with
"Conspiracy to Commit Arson" and "Conspiracy to Commit Arson and the
Destruction of an Energy Facility". In California he has been charged with
"Conspiracy to Commit Arson", "Arson of a Government Facility" and "Use
and Carrying of a Destructive Device During and in Relation to a Crime of
Violence". He additionally faces two counts of carrying false
identification. If Darren is convicted on all counts he faces a sentence
of 30 years to life in prison.

Despite the "eco-terror" hype around the conspiracy charges (and the fact
the state has indicted Darren in part for owning books available through
Amazon.com), the actual accusation of criminal wrongdoing stems from an
allegation that Darren was involved in an incident at Lichtfield,
California in 2001 during which wild horses rounded up by the Bureau of
Land Management were freed and a corral burned to the ground. Darren has
plead not guilty to all counts levied against him.

Because Darren has been charged in two separate states, he will face two
trials. The Oregon conspiracy case has been scheduled for October 31, 2006
- however it is believed this trial will be delayed due to a lengthened
discovery phase. This trial is expected to last 5-10 weeks. A second trial
will take place in California, but has not yet been scheduled. Although
some or those involved in the case have been granted bail to date, an
Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS) hold on Darren (because of
his citizenship and prior convictions) makes a bond-release unlikely.

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From: sameer at 50years.org (Sameer Dossani)
Date: Fri May 19 11:25:12 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] [Fwd: Urgent- No to Pascua Lama]
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Subject: 	Urgent- No to Pascua Lama
Date: 	Fri, 19 May 2006 23:34:46 +0530
From: 	Meena Menon <meenamen@gmail.com>
To: 	pnadkar@yahoo.com, "Pankaj Joshi" <pjarch@vsnl.com>, "ragini sen" 
<raginisen@gmail.com>, "Ramaswamy R. Iyer" <ramaswam@vsnl.com>
CC: 	malak singh gill <malaksingh@yahoo.com>, 
shahnandita@rediffmail.com, Shweta Wagh <shweta.wagh@gmail.com>, 
saheliwomen@hotmail.com, Sameer Dossani <sameer@50years.org>



Subject: VERY URGENT URGENT URGENT




Dear friends who care about our earth. Judge for yourself if you want
to take action.


In the Valle de San Felix, the purest water in Chile runs from 2
rivers, fed by 2 glaciers.


Water is a most precious resource, and wars will be fought for it.


Indigenous farmers use the water, there is no unemployment, and they
provide the second largest source of income for the area.


Under the glaciers has been found a huge deposit of gold, silver and
other minerals. To get at these, it would be necessary to break, to
destroy the glaciers - something never conceived of in the history of
the world - and to make 2 huge holes, each as big as a whole mountain,
one for extraction and one for the mine's rubbish tip.


The project is called PASCUA LAMA. The company is called Barrick Gold.


The operation is planned by a multi-national company, one of whose
members is George Bush Senior.


The Chilean Government has approved the project to start this year, 2006.


The only reason it hasn't started yet is because the farmers have got
a temporary stay of execution.


If they destroy the glaciers, they will not just destroy the source of
especially pure water, but they will permanently contaminate the 2
rivers so they will never again be fit for human or animal consumption
because of the use of cyanide and sulphuric acid in the extraction
process.


Every last gram of gold will go abroad to the multinational company
and not one will be left with the people whose land it is. They will
only be left with the poisoned water and the resulting illnesses.


The farmers have been fighting a long time for their land, but have
been forbidden to make a TV appeal by a ban from the Ministry of the
Interior.


Their only hope now of putting brakes on this project is to get help
from international justice.


The world must know what is happening in Chile. The only place to
start changing the world is from here.


We ask you to circulate this message amongst your friends in the following
way.


Please copy this text, paste it into a new email adding your signature
and send it to everyone in your address book. Please, will every 100th
person to receive and sign the petition, send it to
noapascualama@yahoo.ca to be forwarded to the Chilean Government.

                      ************************************

No to Pascua Lama Open-cast mine in the Andean Cordillera on the
Chilean-Argentine frontier.


We ask the Chilean Government not to authorize the Pascua Lama project
to protect the whole of 3 glaciers, the purity of the water of the San
Felix Valley and El Transito, the quality of the agricultural land of
the region of Atacama, the quality of life of the Diaguita people and
of the whole population of the region.


1) Katharine Proudfoot, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK


2) Laura Cole, London, UK


3) David Platt, London, UK


4) Diane Platt, Manchester, UK


5) Tanya Corker, Manchester, UK


6) Nicola Hargreaves, UK


7) Nicholas Jones, UK


8) Johann Don-Daniel, Germany


9) Ashley Berger, Germany


10) Sarah Downie, Leeds, UK


11) Paula Delahunty, Bingley, UK


12) John O'Driscoll, Bingley, Uk


13) Jordan-Lee Delahunty, Bingley, UK


14) Claire Mulvey, Bradford, UK


15) Marie Malcolm Bradford, UK


16) Ann Clowes, Halifax UK


17) Jayne McGee, Brighouse UK


18) Jason Barratt Oldham UK


19) Lindsay Torrance, Rochdale UK


20) Maggie Ford, Rochdale, U.K.


21) Barry Cook, Todmorden, U.K.


22) Shelley Burgoyne, Todmorden, U.K.


23) Lisa Stuart, Potes, Spain.


24) Michael Stuart, Potes, Spain.


25) Renee Engl, Byron Bay, Australia


26) Adrian Begg, Brunswick Heads, Australia


27) Riana Begg, Brunswick Heads, Australia


28) Oriel Paterson, Brunswick Heads, Australia


29) Alicia Paterson, Brisbane, Australia


30) Lyneve Robinson, Sydney, Australia


31) Jennifer Moalem, Sydney, Australia


32) Alexandra Pope, Sydney Australia


33) Shushann Movsessian, Sydney Australia


34) Amanda Frost



35) Chris Liddell, AUS




36) Jade Deegan, AUS




37) Jo Satori, AUS




38) Jennie Gorman, Vic AUS


39) Angelique Queensley, Vic. Canada


40) Chrystyanna Queensley, Vic. Canada


41) Monica Robertson,  Canada


42) Sheryl Watson, Canada


43) Tor Fjelldal, Norway


44)  Geraldine Nolen, Norway


45) Kristi Nolen, Gothenburg Sweden


-- 
Focus On The Global South, India
A-201, Kailash Apartments
Juhu Church Road, Juhu
Mumbai ? 400 049. India
Tel: +91-22-5582 1141 / 51
Telefax: +91-22-2625 4347
Email: focusind@vsnl.net / focusind@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.focusweb.org


From levy-listsonly at cox.net  Sat May 20 19:30:51 2006
From: levy-listsonly at cox.net (David Levy)
Date: Sat May 20 19:31:11 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] NYT front page trash talks Chavez -- a new low in
 American journalism
Message-ID: <6.1.1.1.2.20060520223047.02c15a10@pop.groupsixzero.net>

this is supposedly a news article.

--d.

>1300 words, 7 sources, all hate Chavez, except for Lula, who is quoted criticizing Chavez.
>
>This is really inexcusable from a journalistic point of view, the most one-sided article I have seen on Venzuela in the NYT. Maybe people should write to the editors and ask whether this is a new policy at the Times, that only people who hate Chavez can be quoted in articles like this -- this is becoming a pattern. Note the headline, too.
>
>May 20, 2006
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>Seeking United Latin America, Venezuela's Ch?vez Is a Divider 
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>By <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/f/juan_forero/index.html?inline=nyt-per>JUAN FORERO
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>BOGOT?, Colombia, May 19 ? As <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/venezuela/index.html?inline=nyt-geo>Venezuela's president, <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/hugo_chavez/index.html?inline=nyt-per>Hugo Ch?vez, insinuates himself deeper in the politics of his region, something of a backlash is building among his neighbors. 
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>Mr. Ch?vez ? stridently anti-American, leftist and never short on words ? has cast himself as spokesman for a united Latin America free of Washington's influence. He has backed Bolivia's recent gas nationalization, set up his own Socialist trade bloc and jumped into the middle of disputes between his neighbors, even when no one has asked. 
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>Some nations are beginning to take umbrage. The mere association with Mr. Ch?vez has helped reverse the leads of presidential candidates in Mexico and Peru. Officials from Mexico to Nicaragua, Peru and Brazil have expressed rising impatience at what they see as Mr. Ch?vez's meddling and grandstanding, often at their expense. 
>
>Diplomatic sparring has broken into the open. Last month, after very public sniping between Mr. Ch?vez and Peru's president, <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t/alejandro_toledo/index.html?inline=nyt-per>Alejandro Toledo, the country withdrew its ambassador from Caracas, citing "flagrant interference" in its affairs.
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>"He goes around shooting from the hip and shooting his mouth off, and that has caused tensions," Jorge G. Casta?eda, a former Mexican foreign minister, said by phone from New York, where he is teaching at <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/n/new_york_university/index.html?inline=nyt-org>New York University. "The difference now is that he's picking fights with his friends, not just his adversaries."
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>Some of Mr. Ch?vez's gestures, like his tendency to tweak the Bush administration, or the aid projects he has bankrolled with Venezuela's oil money, still leave him popular, particularly among the poor. 
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>But increasingly, the very image of the Venezuelan leader has come to stand for a style of caustic nationalism that many in the region fear, as the divisions provoked by the man who professes to want to unify his region have widened. 
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>"He is beginning to overreach, wanting to be involved in everything," said Riordan Roett, director of Latin American studies at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. "It's a matter of egomania at work here."
>
>Mr. Ch?vez, for instance, has taken the uncompromising stand that governments must choose either his vision of continental unity or free trade with Washington, which Mr. Ch?vez blames for impoverishing the region. "You either have one or the other," he said. "Either we're a united community or we're not." 
>
>In late April, he exasperated Colombia, Ecuador and Peru by declaring that Venezuela would drop out of their trade group, the Andean Community of Nations, because the other three members were seeking free trade agreements with the United States. He has instead formed a trade bloc with Cuba and Bolivia's new Socialist government. 
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>While the move was filled with political symbolism, analysts say it offers few real prospects for trade and threatens badly needed integration among Andean countries, which still depend on United States markets.
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>"Ch?vez's idea of sovereignty seems pretty selective," said Michael Shifter, a senior policy analyst at the Inter-American Dialogue policy group in Washington. "Ch?vez has been saying, in effect, 'You're either with us or against us.' For most Latin Americans that hubristic message doesn't go over very well, whether it comes from Washington or Caracas."
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>The sparring with Peru's government erupted last month after President Toledo said it made no sense for Mr. Ch?vez to criticize his Andean partners for dealing with Washington when Venezuela sells most of its oil to the United States. 
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>But he saved his strongest words for Mr. Ch?vez's general involvement in Peruvian affairs.
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>"Mr. Ch?vez, learn to govern democratically," Mr. Toledo said. "Learn to work with us. Our arms are open to integrate Latin America, but not for you to destabilize us with your checkbook." 
>
>When Alan Garc?a, a candidate in Peru's June 4 presidential election, also took Mr. Ch?vez to task, the Venezuelan president responded with, among other things, an endorsement of his opponent.
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>"I hope that Ollanta Humala becomes president of Peru," Mr. Ch?vez declared, backing Mr. Garc?a's nationalist opponent, who has modeled himself on the Venezuelan leader. "Go, comrade! Long live Ollanta Humala! Long live Peru!" 
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>Mr. Ch?vez called Mr. Garc?a, a former president whose tenure was marred by corruption scandals, "shameless, a thief," and warned that if he were elected "by some work of the devil," Venezuela would withdraw its ambassador. 
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>But it was Peru that made the move first. Venezuela soon followed, and the Ch?vez government responded by calling Mr. Toledo an "office boy" for President Bush. Mr. Garc?a benefited handsomely, taking a long lead in the polls. 
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>Surveys showed Peruvians had little patience for Mr. Ch?vez's interference. Only 17 percent of Peruvians said they had a positive view of the Venezuelan leader, the Lima-based Apoyo polling firm found. 
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>In Nicaragua, Mr. Ch?vez has thrown his support behind Daniel Ortega, the former leader of the communist Sandinista revolution, who is running for president in November elections. 
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>"I shouldn't say I hope you win because they will accuse me of sticking my nose into Nicaraguan internal affairs," Mr. Ch?vez told Mr. Ortega, who was invited on his radio show in late April. "But I hope you win."
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>Mr. Ch?vez pledged to supply cheap fuel to a group of Sandinista-run towns. The gesture was interpreted by opponents as a naked ploy to influence the vote and criticized as a backhanded way to funnel money to the Ortega campaign. 
>
>Nicaragua's government called on Mr. Ch?vez to stay out. "We hope this partisan support comes to an end so that Nicaraguans can freely choose who we want to be the next leader of Nicaragua," Foreign Minister Norman Caldera told Nicaraguan television this month.
>
>The American ambassador to Nicaragua, Paul A. Trivelli, speaking to Nicaraguan media, accused Mr. Ch?vez of "direct intervention," but analysts said it was too soon to say what effect Mr. Ch?vez would have on the vote. 
>
>In Mexico, the leftist candidate in the July presidential election, Andr?s Manuel L?pez Obrador, has labored to distance himself from Mr. Ch?vez, to no avail. 
>
>When he made a slip of manners recently, calling President Vicente Fox a chattering bird and telling him to shut up, his conservative opponent, Felipe Calder?n, ran a series of attack advertisements intercutting the gaffe with images of Mr. Ch?vez, whose tendency to hurl insults is a trademark. (He has called Mr. Bush a drunkard and Mr. Fox a "puppy dog of the empire.")
>
>In recent weeks, Mr. L?pez Obrador's lead in the polls has evaporated, and he now trails his opponent. 
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>The disputes are not limited to politics, however, but also touch important national interests. 
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>Mr. Ch?vez, for instance, encouraged and quickly supported Bolivia's nationalization of its energy sector this month, a move that infuriated Argentina and Brazil, which depend on Bolivian natural gas. 
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>Though Venezuela was not a party to the dispute, Mr. Ch?vez joined a meeting of leaders from Brazil, Argentina and Bolivia aimed at calming the crisis, and dominated a news conference afterward, upstaging even his Bolivian prot?g?, President Evo Morales.
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>President <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/d/luiz_inacio_lula_da_silva/index.html?inline=nyt-per>Luiz In?cio Lula da Silva of Brazil, steward of South America's largest economy and nominally a left-wing ally of Mr. Ch?vez, was particularly humiliated. Celso Amorim, the foreign minister, was called before senators and quizzed about Brazil's weak response. He said Mr. da Silva had admonished the Venezuelan leader in a private phone call, telling him that the Bolivian move could jeopardize Mr. Ch?vez's dream of a 5,000-mile pipeline to carry Venezuela's gas to Argentina.
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>Mr. da Silva also rebuked Mr. Ch?vez, he said, for involving himself in a dispute that Brazil is having with Uruguay and Paraguay over their trade bloc, Mercosur, saying Mr. Ch?vez's role was "a stimulant to activities incompatible with the spirit of integration." 
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>The wounds have yet to heal. Jorge Viana, the governor of Acre state in Brazil, and a crucial ally of Mr. da Silva, told Brazilian radio last week that Mr. Ch?vez's meddling was "lamentable." He criticized Mr. Ch?vez's "precipitated decisions to interfere in the internal affairs of Bolivia, Peru and, by extension, those of Brazil." Mr. Ch?vez, he said, "needs to calm down."
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>James C. McKinley contributed reporting from Mexico City for this article, and Paulo Prada from Rio de Janeiro.
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From nbloch at igc.org  Sun May 21 20:44:06 2006
From: nbloch at igc.org (Nadine Bloch)
Date: Sun May 21 20:47:10 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] Puppet INventory& workshop SUN 28th
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****************/please forward, and please RSVP !!!/

 *PUPPET & Prop Inventory& workshop 
*(brought to you by WAG: washington action group)*
**Sun 28th*
@ The DOGHOUSE
in Takoma Park
*12-- 4pm*
*Coordination of space,Inventory of existing puppets,repairs of injured 
puppets,  preparation of materials followed by an introduction to 
working with cardboard, cornstarch/paper mache and found objects!!!
*BRING:* snacks, drinks, your lunch and a willingness to work and think 
creatively.
*RSVP:* to nbloch(at) igc.org
**Directions to DOghouse will be sent out with RSVP!!

*** We can organize additional work days after this as needed!!
 >> MGJ folks: bring all the diaspora puppets and we can do repairs as 
needed.. thanks

Peace OUt...
NB
301-891-3680

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From basav at igc.org  Mon May 22 04:57:48 2006
From: basav at igc.org (basav@igc.org)
Date: Mon May 22 05:46:54 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] Meeting minutes 5/17/2006
Message-ID: <380-220065122115748625@M2W006.mail2web.com>

MGJ Meeting Minutes
5/17/2006

Major upcoming activities:
Wednesday 5/24, 7 ? 9 pm: MGJ meeting, St. Stephen?s church, 16th and
Newton St. NW.
Sunday 5/28, noon ? 4 pm: Puppet day at Nadine?s house. To RSVP about
going: basav at igc dot org
Sunday 6/4, place TBA: Rally against U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement.

A. Reportbacks

1. G8 protest planning meeting: an ad-hoc collective is meeting to plan
protests, including direct actions, critical mass, a teachin, wheatpasting,
etc. For more info: Ethan, olivetrii at gmail dot com

2. Minutemen protest: was very successful, activists (including some
MGJers) disrupted the Minutemen press conference, read report on DC
indymedia.

3. Big pharma party crash: activists infiltrated a party with several big
pharmaceutical company head honchos in attendance, made noise, dumped
literature there, etc. 

4. Protest at Wolfowitz?s house Monday 5/15, was very successful.

5. Teach-in on school privatization on Monday 5/15 was very successful,
lots of parents in attendance.

6. Toll booth almost finished! Toll booth action will happen soon.

B. Community Coalition for Justice and Peace
MGJ consensed to join. There will be a CCJP meeting on Saturday 6/17 at MLK
Library. Annual membership dues of $10.

C. U.S.-Korea FTA
U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement negotiations will be launched in
Washington DC on June 5-8. A delegation of 100 Korean farmers and workers
is coming to DC to protest. 
The only thing definitely planned is a rally on Sunday June 4 (place, exact
time TBA). 
Other plans include:
-Direct action
-Media events
-Teach-ins/educational events.
We?re helping with research on direct action targets. Also, we hope to do a
teach-in with the visiting activists.
Tentative teach-in date proposed by Korean delegation is TUESDAY JUNE 6
evening. We?re workinjg details out with the New York-based Korean-American
group that is coordinating the visit on the U.S side.

D. Puppets
Puppet making/repair day: SUNDAY 5/28, noon ? 4 pm, Nadine?s house in
Takoma Park. 
Directions etc. will be announced later. 
Please bring some snacks/drinks, and any art supplies you might have.
We?ll do an inventory of our existing puppets and props, repair any of them
that might need repair, clean up the place, and maybe make some new stuff.
Please RSVP to Basav (basav at igc dot org, 202-997-0479) if you want to go.

E. Announcements

Theater Workshop on June 8, 6:45-8:45 PM at the Social Action and
Leadership School for Activists (SALSA) of the Institute for Policy Studies
(IPS), 1112 16th St NW, Suite 600, Washington DC, 20036. 
http://www.hotsalsa.org/
There is a $30 fee per person for this workshop.
Led by members of Justice in South Asia.
For more info: worklists at gmail dot com

Rally at Bolivian Embassy in support of nationalization of oil and gas.
Date, time TBA. Details soon.



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From basav at igc.org  Mon May 22 05:10:28 2006
From: basav at igc.org (basav@igc.org)
Date: Mon May 22 06:07:23 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] MGJ general meeting on Wednesday 5/24
Message-ID: <380-220065122121028609@M2W126.mail2web.com>

Come one, come all, to the MGJ general meeting on Wednesday! We are
planning to participate in the protest against the U.S.-Korea Free Trade
Agreement, and to organize a theatrical demonstration over the summer,
besides our ongoing work on Tax the Bank and popular education.

MGJ general meetings are a great place to plug in and get involved, give
insight, make suggestions, teach, and learn. 

Next General Meeting: Wednesday 5/24/2006
7:00pm ? 9:00pm 
St. Stephens Church
(16th and Newton St. NW)
>From the Columbia Heights Metro on the Green Line, walk north on 14th, turn
left on Newton and walk until you reach 16th. Enter from the parking lot

Loose agenda: 
Intros
roles (notes, time etc)
Report Backs:
Discussion
Proposals
Next working group meetings (if any)
Next general meeting/facilitator (s)
Announcements

If you wish to add or subtract from the agenda e-mail mgj (at) riseup.net

The Mobilization for Global Justice is a Washington DC based group that
works on issues of global economic and social justice and sustainability.
We believe another world is possible and necessary. We envision a world
free of corporate domination and crushing debt, particularly in communities
of color. We act to expose and change the institutionalized violence
wrought by international financial and trade institutions such as the World
Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organization.

The Mobilization is committed to nonviolence and recognizes militarism as a
tool used by the global corporate elite to keep money flowing to the
privileged few while restricting the rights of people worldwide. We oppose
corporate practice which places short-term profits ahead of human dignity,
sustainable development and a healthy earth. We stand for the globalization
of our rights to speech, thought, religion, assembly, a clean environment,
self-determination, freedom from fear and persecution and freedom from
poverty. 

We stand for the rights of women, children, elderly, affordable health
care, strong labor rights and social and economic policies that put people
and the environment before profits. Finally, we are committed to linking
the IMF and World Bank policies to similar ones that are being implemented
in Washington DC which are resulting in decreased access to vital human
services for DC's most needy residents. To that other globalization--the
globalization of greed and obscene concentrations of wealth--we say that
Another World Is Possible and Necessary. 

MGJ is a non-hierarchical nonviolent organization of individuals and
organizations that promotes the arts, conducts workshops, facilitates
nonviolent direct actions, educates, organizes, campaigns, empowers, and
aims to rip injustice from its roots.

The Mobilization for Global Justice is committed to making all events safe
spaces that are open, accessible, and accepting of all. We welcome everyone
to participate in making this happen. If you have any special needs, please
let us know.

OUR DEMANDS OF THE WORLD BANK AND IMF:
Open all World Bank and IMF meetings to the media and the public.

Cancel all impoverished country debt to the World Bank and IMF, using the
institutions' own resources. 

End all World Bank and IMF policies that hinder people's access to food,
clean water, shelter, health care, education, and right to organize. (Such
"structural adjustment" policies include user fees, privatization, and
so-called economic austerity programs).

Stop all World Bank support for socially and environmentally destructive
projects such as oil, gas, and mining activities, and all support for
projects such as dams that include forced relocation of people.


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From phipco at riseup.net  Mon May 22 13:35:33 2006
From: phipco at riseup.net (Morrigan Phillips)
Date: Mon May 22 15:01:30 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] Grand Jury Indicts Four in Vail ski resort fire
Message-ID: <20060522163533.zhslp20t8iio4so0@mail.riseup.net>

 From Grist Magazine (link to more at bottom)

"Kicked in the Arson
"Eco-terrorists" indicted in connection to Vail ski-resort arson
Four people -- dubbed "eco-terrorists" by the authorities, who aren't  
at all trying to scare you -- were indicted Thursday and face eight  
counts of arson in connection to fires set at a Vail, Colo., ski  
resort in 1998. A communiqu? apparently released by the arsonists said  
the fire, which caused $12 million in damage, had been set in the name  
of the Earth Liberation Front. Suspects Chelsea Gerlach and Stanislas  
Meyerhoff are already in custody awaiting trial on charges related to  
another case of arson in Oregon; suspects Josephine Overaker and  
Rebecca Rubin are on the lam. Reporting in Colorado's mainstream press  
hewed to strict standards of objectivity, as one reporter wrote that  
the Vail arson set "a destructive new standard for audaciousness in  
the shadowy world of eco-terrorism." Each count of arson brings a  
possible five to 20 years in prison and/or a fine of $250,000, though  
it would be no surprise if the feds, desperate for new enemies they  
can actually catch, just went ahead and lynched 'em."

 From the main stream (Vail Daily News)
http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20060520/NEWS/60519009
From mgj at riseup.net  Tue May 23 16:52:26 2006
From: mgj at riseup.net (Mobilization for Global Justice)
Date: Tue May 23 19:53:59 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] MGJ General Meeting///Wed, May 24th///St. Stephen's
Message-ID: <20060523165226.ik8obt3lci88kwsg@mail.riseup.net>

Mobilization for Global Justice General Meeting
Wednesday, May 24th, 7-9pm
St. Stephens Church, 16th and Newton Sts. NW


Calling all schemers, dreamers, and architects of justice!! --Come  
help us create new and exciting ways to build a better world and at  
the same time keep up the pressure on the IMF and World Bank and bring  
the neoliberal monster to its knees!!



Directions:
St. Stephens Church, upstairs in the auditorium
(16th and Newton St. NW, Washington DC)
  From the Columbia Heights metro walk north on 14th, turn left on Newton
and walk until you reach 16th. Enter on the side.  There is wheelchair
access at the back of the building.

-- 
MGJ General organizing meetings are every Wednesday, 7-9pm at St. Stephens
Church, 16th and Newton St. NW (Columbia Heights Metro stop, S2 and S4 Bus,
Street parking only, lots of bike parking)

On the Web: www.globalizethis.org

Join a listserve and get important announcements and updates from MGJ!

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From nbloch at igc.org  Wed May 24 07:07:57 2006
From: nbloch at igc.org (Nadine Bloch)
Date: Wed May 24 07:13:12 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] [Fwd: June 3: 1st BIG GAMES FEST!!!]
Message-ID: <447468BD.3080403@igc.org>



*******************************/
You are cordially invited to the first annual outdoor Big Games Fest!!!!/*
June 3rd,
1-6pm ( and maybe later..)
Potluck: snacks & drinks (we will provide some)
Opal Daniels Park, Takoma Park,
Website of Opal Daniels Park _  _ 
<http://www.cityoftakomapark.org/library/reference/parks/opal.html>:
http://www.cityoftakomapark.org/library/reference/parks/opal.html
(also see map attached to this email)

NEW GAMES, OLD GAMES, BIG GAMES, SMALL GAMES!!!!
 led by Michael Beer, Nadine Bloch, Ted Hodapp, Laura Delaney  and.....*
YOU::  *anyone else who wants to lead /or participate/ in a game.

/Come carouse with the best!
Run wild in the park!
Share a fab picnic, lounge on the grass, swing on the monkey bars.....!
Lead a game you've never played before with 74 of your newest best friends!
/ /Meet other trainers and facilitators!/

*BRING CHILDREN and PARENTS and FRIENDS. We hope to have 75--or more-- 
fun loving folks.... *

*brought to you by the /Ad-hoc Metro DC Facilitators Skillshare / and 
/Games Experts & Wanna-bees of All Stripes/!!
*In case of inclement weather: If there is a deluge, we will CANCEL. If 
you are not sure , call the WEATHER HOTLINE
202-244-0951 for a status of the games message.*

Questions and RSVP to nbloch@igc.org or michael@nvintl.net or _ 
hodapp@aps.org
_/**please let us know if you want to lead a game!!! bring ideas , 
balls, hoops, parachutes, and more.../_
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From hope at 50years.org  Wed May 24 15:10:59 2006
From: hope at 50years.org (Hope Chu)
Date: Wed May 24 15:16:09 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] Walden Bello/Soren Ambrose: Take the IMF off life
	support
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http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0524-22.htm

Published on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 by CommonDreams.org
Take the IMF Off Life Support
by Walden Bello and Soren Ambrose
  

As economists and politicians debate what to do about the 
latest challenges facing the IMF, civil society groups 
have a straightforward answer: take the IMF off life 
support.

For over 25 years the world has had one answer for 
countries that find themselves in a financial crisis: take 
the IMF policy medicine and get on the debt treadmill that 
comes with IMF and World Bank loans. This path has worked 
very well ? for big corporations in wealthy countries 
which walk into countries through the doors opened by the 
IMF?s policies and walk out with massive profits.

But for the people the IMF and World Bank say they are 
trying to help ? the poor ? the results have been very 
different ? in fact, downright disastrous. The IMF has 
tremendous power -- it can tell all other creditors to cut 
a country off if its orders are disobeyed -- so it is no 
surprise that governments comply with its demands.

Neither should it be surprising that when a government 
lays off workers, sells off companies to foreigners, cuts 
spending on nurses and teachers, cuts the subsidies poor 
farmers and consumers rely on, privatizes essential 
services like healthcare and water provision, and makes 
credit unavailable to small businesses ? in other words, 
following IMF instructions ? the result is deeper poverty, 
worsening health indicators, growing illiteracy, and an 
economy reduced to providing raw materials and cheap labor 
to multinational corporations.

The IMF?s commitment to market fundamentalism ? the 
conviction that the solution to every problem is to open 
up to the forces of supply and demand -- is so extreme 
that it ordered Malawi to ?commercialize? its grain 
reserve agency in 2001. If you are puzzled by why an 
agency devoted to preventing famine would submit itself to 
market forces, imagine how the families of the thousand 
people who died later that year feel. They were left 
without access to food after the agency was forced to sell 
its existing reserves in order to ?capitalize? itself; 
before it could replenish, shortages set in and prices 
shot up, leaving it, and poor Malawians, defenseless.

The governments that control the IMF ? the U.S., the 
European Union, Canada, and Japan ? met in Washington in 
April amid growing signs that the IMF?s borrowers have had 
enough of these one-sided, catastrophic policy demands. 
While the poorest countries, mostly in Africa, remain 
locked in the grip of the IMF, those countries that can 
afford to do so ? Brazil, Argentina, Indonesia, Uruguay, 
Turkey ? are either paying off their IMF debts ahead of 
schedule or seriously discussing the option. All of them 
say they will take no more IMF loans. That these are also 
some of the IMF?s biggest debtors has given its bosses 
serious pause, since it might mean shrinking or even 
closing the IMF.

The assembled finance ministers and central bank governors 
? several of whom had been making loud noises of concern 
in the weeks leading up to the IMF meeting ? pronounced 
themselves satisfied with the solution they had mapped 
out.

What is the new approach for the IMF? That?s not entirely 
clear ? mostly they talked about giving the institution 
more power to convene mini-summits of countries facing 
possible economic problems. But if the relieved 
expressions on the delegates? faces mean that they feel 
they have saved the IMF by increasing its role in the 
global economy, we could all be in trouble.

Since the end of the ?Bretton Woods? currency arrangements 
in the early 1970s, the IMF has had virtually no influence 
over wealthy governments that do not require its loans. If 
what emerges from the latest crisis of confidence about 
the institution?s role is an agency newly-emboldened to 
impose its constricted brand of economic orthodoxy ? the 
same one that exacerbated the Asian financial crisis by 
ordering layoffs and increased interest rates, moves the 
IMF itself now admits might not have been very wise ? then 
the notoriety that the IMF has earned in Latin America, 
Asia, and Africa could spread quickly in the richer parts 
of the world.

Global economic governance is not a bad idea. But the IMF 
is not the agency to carry it out. It is thoroughly 
discredited in developing countries and ?emerging 
economies? after 25 years of abuse. Its attempts to impose 
its solutions on governments and citizenries accustomed to 
making their own decisions is not likely to get very far. 
Indeed, the only solution to the continuing crises in 
Africa and other impoverished parts of the world is a 
restoration of policy sovereignty to people and 
governments.

The IMF?s obsolescence is showing; rather than trying to 
put it on life-support by supplying it with new power, it 
should be allowed to die a natural death.

Walden Bello is the executive director of Focus on the 
Global South, a Bangkok-based think tank on global 
economic trends and a visiting professor at the University 
of California at Irvine on global political economy.

Soren Ambrose is policy analyst at 50 Years Is Enough: US 
Network for Global Economic Justice, a Washington-based 
advocacy group dedicated to the fundamental reform of the 
IMF and World Bank.

###

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50 Years Is Enough Network
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Washington DC 20017
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From disillpow at riseup.net  Wed May 24 19:07:19 2006
From: disillpow at riseup.net (disillpow@riseup.net)
Date: Wed May 24 19:08:17 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] NYT front page trash talks Chavez -- a new low 
	in American journalism
In-Reply-To: <6.1.1.1.2.20060520223047.02c15a10@pop.groupsixzero.net>
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have ya'll read this: 
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=56&ItemID=10318

of much interest.  a small sample:

"Palast reports a US Energy Department expert believes Venezuela holds 90%
of the world's super-heavy tar oil reserves - an estimated total of
1,360,000,000,000 (1.36 trillion) barrels.  Let me repeat that - 1.36
trillion barrels. That alone is more oil than Hubbert believed 50 years
ago lay under the entire planet."

> this is supposedly a news article.
>
> --d.
>
>>1300 words, 7 sources, all hate Chavez, except for Lula, who is quoted
>> criticizing Chavez.
>>
>>This is really inexcusable from a journalistic point of view, the most
>> one-sided article I have seen on Venzuela in the NYT. Maybe people should
>> write to the editors and ask whether this is a new policy at the Times,
>> that only people who hate Chavez can be quoted in articles like this --
>> this is becoming a pattern. Note the headline, too.
>>
>>May 20, 2006
>>
>>
>>
>>Seeking United Latin America, Venezuela's Ch?vez Is a Divider
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>By
>> <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/f/juan_forero/index.html?inline=nyt-per>JUAN
>> FORERO
>>
>>BOGOT?, Colombia, May 19 ? As
>> <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/venezuela/index.html?inline=nyt-geo>Venezuela's
>> president,
>> <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/hugo_chavez/index.html?inline=nyt-per>Hugo
>> Ch?vez, insinuates himself deeper in the politics of his region,
>> something of a backlash is building among his neighbors.
>>
>>Mr. Ch?vez ? stridently anti-American, leftist and never short on words ?
>> has cast himself as spokesman for a united Latin America free of
>> Washington's influence. He has backed Bolivia's recent gas
>> nationalization, set up his own Socialist trade bloc and jumped into the
>> middle of disputes between his neighbors, even when no one has asked.
>>
>>Some nations are beginning to take umbrage. The mere association with Mr.
>> Ch?vez has helped reverse the leads of presidential candidates in Mexico
>> and Peru. Officials from Mexico to Nicaragua, Peru and Brazil have
>> expressed rising impatience at what they see as Mr. Ch?vez's meddling and
>> grandstanding, often at their expense.
>>
>>Diplomatic sparring has broken into the open. Last month, after very
>> public sniping between Mr. Ch?vez and Peru's president,
>> <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t/alejandro_toledo/index.html?inline=nyt-per>Alejandro
>> Toledo, the country withdrew its ambassador from Caracas, citing
>> "flagrant interference" in its affairs.
>>
>>"He goes around shooting from the hip and shooting his mouth off, and
>> that has caused tensions," Jorge G. Casta?eda, a former Mexican foreign
>> minister, said by phone from New York, where he is teaching at
>> <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/n/new_york_university/index.html?inline=nyt-org>New
>> York University. "The difference now is that he's picking fights with his
>> friends, not just his adversaries."
>>
>>Some of Mr. Ch?vez's gestures, like his tendency to tweak the Bush
>> administration, or the aid projects he has bankrolled with Venezuela's
>> oil money, still leave him popular, particularly among the poor.
>>
>>But increasingly, the very image of the Venezuelan leader has come to
>> stand for a style of caustic nationalism that many in the region fear, as
>> the divisions provoked by the man who professes to want to unify his
>> region have widened.
>>
>>"He is beginning to overreach, wanting to be involved in everything,"
>> said Riordan Roett, director of Latin American studies at Johns Hopkins
>> University's School of Advanced International Studies. "It's a matter of
>> egomania at work here."
>>
>>Mr. Ch?vez, for instance, has taken the uncompromising stand that
>> governments must choose either his vision of continental unity or free
>> trade with Washington, which Mr. Ch?vez blames for impoverishing the
>> region. "You either have one or the other," he said. "Either we're a
>> united community or we're not."
>>
>>In late April, he exasperated Colombia, Ecuador and Peru by declaring
>> that Venezuela would drop out of their trade group, the Andean Community
>> of Nations, because the other three members were seeking free trade
>> agreements with the United States. He has instead formed a trade bloc
>> with Cuba and Bolivia's new Socialist government.
>>
>>While the move was filled with political symbolism, analysts say it
>> offers few real prospects for trade and threatens badly needed
>> integration among Andean countries, which still depend on United States
>> markets.
>>
>>"Ch?vez's idea of sovereignty seems pretty selective," said Michael
>> Shifter, a senior policy analyst at the Inter-American Dialogue policy
>> group in Washington. "Ch?vez has been saying, in effect, 'You're either
>> with us or against us.' For most Latin Americans that hubristic message
>> doesn't go over very well, whether it comes from Washington or Caracas."
>>
>>The sparring with Peru's government erupted last month after President
>> Toledo said it made no sense for Mr. Ch?vez to criticize his Andean
>> partners for dealing with Washington when Venezuela sells most of its oil
>> to the United States.
>>
>>But he saved his strongest words for Mr. Ch?vez's general involvement in
>> Peruvian affairs.
>>
>>"Mr. Ch?vez, learn to govern democratically," Mr. Toledo said. "Learn to
>> work with us. Our arms are open to integrate Latin America, but not for
>> you to destabilize us with your checkbook."
>>
>>When Alan Garc?a, a candidate in Peru's June 4 presidential election,
>> also took Mr. Ch?vez to task, the Venezuelan president responded with,
>> among other things, an endorsement of his opponent.
>>
>>"I hope that Ollanta Humala becomes president of Peru," Mr. Ch?vez
>> declared, backing Mr. Garc?a's nationalist opponent, who has modeled
>> himself on the Venezuelan leader. "Go, comrade! Long live Ollanta Humala!
>> Long live Peru!"
>>
>>Mr. Ch?vez called Mr. Garc?a, a former president whose tenure was marred
>> by corruption scandals, "shameless, a thief," and warned that if he were
>> elected "by some work of the devil," Venezuela would withdraw its
>> ambassador.
>>
>>But it was Peru that made the move first. Venezuela soon followed, and
>> the Ch?vez government responded by calling Mr. Toledo an "office boy" for
>> President Bush. Mr. Garc?a benefited handsomely, taking a long lead in
>> the polls.
>>
>>Surveys showed Peruvians had little patience for Mr. Ch?vez's
>> interference. Only 17 percent of Peruvians said they had a positive view
>> of the Venezuelan leader, the Lima-based Apoyo polling firm found.
>>
>>In Nicaragua, Mr. Ch?vez has thrown his support behind Daniel Ortega, the
>> former leader of the communist Sandinista revolution, who is running for
>> president in November elections.
>>
>>"I shouldn't say I hope you win because they will accuse me of sticking
>> my nose into Nicaraguan internal affairs," Mr. Ch?vez told Mr. Ortega,
>> who was invited on his radio show in late April. "But I hope you win."
>>
>>Mr. Ch?vez pledged to supply cheap fuel to a group of Sandinista-run
>> towns. The gesture was interpreted by opponents as a naked ploy to
>> influence the vote and criticized as a backhanded way to funnel money to
>> the Ortega campaign.
>>
>>Nicaragua's government called on Mr. Ch?vez to stay out. "We hope this
>> partisan support comes to an end so that Nicaraguans can freely choose
>> who we want to be the next leader of Nicaragua," Foreign Minister Norman
>> Caldera told Nicaraguan television this month.
>>
>>The American ambassador to Nicaragua, Paul A. Trivelli, speaking to
>> Nicaraguan media, accused Mr. Ch?vez of "direct intervention," but
>> analysts said it was too soon to say what effect Mr. Ch?vez would have on
>> the vote.
>>
>>In Mexico, the leftist candidate in the July presidential election,
>> Andr?s Manuel L?pez Obrador, has labored to distance himself from Mr.
>> Ch?vez, to no avail.
>>
>>When he made a slip of manners recently, calling President Vicente Fox a
>> chattering bird and telling him to shut up, his conservative opponent,
>> Felipe Calder?n, ran a series of attack advertisements intercutting the
>> gaffe with images of Mr. Ch?vez, whose tendency to hurl insults is a
>> trademark. (He has called Mr. Bush a drunkard and Mr. Fox a "puppy dog of
>> the empire.")
>>
>>In recent weeks, Mr. L?pez Obrador's lead in the polls has evaporated,
>> and he now trails his opponent.
>>
>>The disputes are not limited to politics, however, but also touch
>> important national interests.
>>
>>Mr. Ch?vez, for instance, encouraged and quickly supported Bolivia's
>> nationalization of its energy sector this month, a move that infuriated
>> Argentina and Brazil, which depend on Bolivian natural gas.
>>
>>Though Venezuela was not a party to the dispute, Mr. Ch?vez joined a
>> meeting of leaders from Brazil, Argentina and Bolivia aimed at calming
>> the crisis, and dominated a news conference afterward, upstaging even his
>> Bolivian prot?g?, President Evo Morales.
>>
>>President
>> <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/d/luiz_inacio_lula_da_silva/index.html?inline=nyt-per>Luiz
>> In?cio Lula da Silva of Brazil, steward of South America's largest
>> economy and nominally a left-wing ally of Mr. Ch?vez, was particularly
>> humiliated. Celso Amorim, the foreign minister, was called before
>> senators and quizzed about Brazil's weak response. He said Mr. da Silva
>> had admonished the Venezuelan leader in a private phone call, telling him
>> that the Bolivian move could jeopardize Mr. Ch?vez's dream of a
>> 5,000-mile pipeline to carry Venezuela's gas to Argentina.
>>
>>Mr. da Silva also rebuked Mr. Ch?vez, he said, for involving himself in a
>> dispute that Brazil is having with Uruguay and Paraguay over their trade
>> bloc, Mercosur, saying Mr. Ch?vez's role was "a stimulant to activities
>> incompatible with the spirit of integration."
>>
>>The wounds have yet to heal. Jorge Viana, the governor of Acre state in
>> Brazil, and a crucial ally of Mr. da Silva, told Brazilian radio last
>> week that Mr. Ch?vez's meddling was "lamentable." He criticized Mr.
>> Ch?vez's "precipitated decisions to interfere in the internal affairs of
>> Bolivia, Peru and, by extension, those of Brazil." Mr. Ch?vez, he said,
>> "needs to calm down."
>>
>>James C. McKinley contributed reporting from Mexico City for this
>> article, and Paulo Prada from Rio de Janeiro.
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From disillpow at riseup.net  Wed May 24 19:56:23 2006
From: disillpow at riseup.net (disillpow@riseup.net)
Date: Wed May 24 19:59:23 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] [Fwd: June 3: 1st BIG GAMES FEST!!!]
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what's the nature of this big games fest?  apolitical socializing or
otherwise?  just curious.
>
> *******************************/
> You are cordially invited to the first annual outdoor Big Games Fest!!!!/*
> June 3rd,
> 1-6pm ( and maybe later..)
> Potluck: snacks & drinks (we will provide some)
> Opal Daniels Park, Takoma Park,
> Website of Opal Daniels Park _  _
> <http://www.cityoftakomapark.org/library/reference/parks/opal.html>:
> http://www.cityoftakomapark.org/library/reference/parks/opal.html
> (also see map attached to this email)
>
> NEW GAMES, OLD GAMES, BIG GAMES, SMALL GAMES!!!!
>  led by Michael Beer, Nadine Bloch, Ted Hodapp, Laura Delaney  and.....*
> YOU::  *anyone else who wants to lead /or participate/ in a game.
>
> /Come carouse with the best!
> Run wild in the park!
> Share a fab picnic, lounge on the grass, swing on the monkey bars.....!
> Lead a game you've never played before with 74 of your newest best
> friends!
> / /Meet other trainers and facilitators!/
>
> *BRING CHILDREN and PARENTS and FRIENDS. We hope to have 75--or more--
> fun loving folks.... *
>
> *brought to you by the /Ad-hoc Metro DC Facilitators Skillshare / and
> /Games Experts & Wanna-bees of All Stripes/!!
> *In case of inclement weather: If there is a deluge, we will CANCEL. If
> you are not sure , call the WEATHER HOTLINE
> 202-244-0951 for a status of the games message.*
>
> Questions and RSVP to nbloch@igc.org or michael@nvintl.net or _
> hodapp@aps.org
> _/**please let us know if you want to lead a game!!! bring ideas ,
> balls, hoops, parachutes, and more.../_
> _
>
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From michele1917 at yahoo.com  Sat May 27 17:24:42 2006
From: michele1917 at yahoo.com (Michele Bollinger)
Date: Sat May 27 17:24:47 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] Fri 6/2,
	Busboys- Subterranean Fire: A History of Working
	Class Radicalism in the US
Message-ID: <20060528002442.68530.qmail@web51003.mail.yahoo.com>

Join Haymarket Books in an evening with author and activist Sharon Smith  as she discusses her new book, Subterranean Fire -- A History of Working-class Radicalism in the United States on Friday, June 2nd, 6:30 PM at Busboys and Poets.     
  
  When:  Friday, June 2nd at 6:30 PM  Langston Room
  Where:  Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St. NW, Wash., DC, 202-387-7638  www.busboysandpoets.org
  For more info contact: haymarketdc@gmail.com or 202 667 0049     
  
  SUBTERRANEAN FIRE:  A History of Working-class Radicalism in the United States  by Sharon Smith  
  
  About the book
  This accessible, critical history of the U.S. labor movement examines  the hidden history of  workers' resistance from the nineteenth century to the  present. Workers in the United States have a rich tradition of fighting back and  achieving gains previously thought unthinkable, but that history remains largely  hidden. Subterranean Fire brings that history to light and reveals its lessons for  today.    
  
  "If you think that by hanging us you can stamp out the labor movement,  then hang us. Here you will tread upon a spark, but here, and there, and  behind you, and in front of you, the flames will blaze up. It is a subterranean  fire. You cannot put it out. The ground is on fire upon which  you stand."     --AUGUST SPIES, labor activist executed during the fight for the  eight-hour-day    
  
  What the critics have to say 
  "In urgent prose, Sharon Smith's Subterranean Fire reminds us that  the ruling class's grip on power is not absolute, but a tenuous toehold on  a shaky edifice that is ready to crumble when the right kind of popular  pressure is applied. Times of crisis are also opportunities for  revolutionary change. The time for action is now; Sharon Smith has  written a roadmap for how to achieve a more just future. The rest is up  to us."  --JEFFREY ST. CLAIR, coeditor CounterPunch, author, Grand Theft  Pentagon    
  
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From redscares at mindspring.com  Sun May 28 18:56:53 2006
From: redscares at mindspring.com (Todd Eaton)
Date: Sun May 28 19:02:21 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] sample Immigration News Briefs 
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From: "Jane G." <nicajg @ panix.com>
Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 21:47:57 -0400 (EDT)
To: Coalition for the Human Rights of Immigrants <chri @ itapnet.org>
Subject: [CHRI] INB 5/28/06: Senate Passes Bill; Hunger Strike, Raids Continue

Immigration News Briefs
Vol. 9, No. 20 - May 28, 2006

1. Senate Passes "Compromise" Bill
2. Hunger Strike, Protests Continue
3. Raids: 179 Arrested in Las Vegas
4. Raids: 35 Indonesians Held in NJ
5. Raids: 13 Seized on Alabama Base
6. Raids: 29 Arrested in San Diego

Immigration News Briefs is a weekly supplement to Weekly News Update 
on the Americas, published by Nicaragua Solidarity Network, 339 
Lafayette St, New York, NY 10012; tel 212-674-9499; fax 212-674-9139; 
wnu@igc.org. INB is also distributed free via email; see below or 
contact nicajg@panix.com for info. You may reprint or distribute 
items from INB, but please credit us and tell people how to subscribe.

*1. SENATE PASSES "COMPROMISE" BILL

On May 25, the US Senate voted 62 to 36 to pass the Hagel-
Martinez bill (S. 2611), which would provide limited legalization
for some out-of-status immigrants while stepping up enforcement
measures [see INB 5/21/06]. Republicans were divided on the bill:
23 voted for it and 32 voted against. Among Democrats, 38
supported it and four opposed it. One independent senator voted
for the bill. [Los Angeles Times 5/26/06] A day earlier, May 24,
the Senate had voted 73-25 to limit debate on the bill and take a
final vote on it by May 26. [Bloomberg News 5/24/06] The Senate
bill will next go to conference to be reconciled with HR 4437, a
harsh anti-immigrant measure passed by the House last December.
The House bill includes no legalization program.

The Senate bill calls for doubling the number of Border Patrol
agents over five years, adding 14,000 agents to the existing
force of 11,300; building more detention centers to hold
immigrants caught at the border; and putting up 370 miles of
fencing along the US-Mexico border. Within 18 months, all
employers would have to start using an electronic verification
system to check work authorization for new hires. Employers would
be fined up to $20,000 for each unauthorized employee, and repeat
offenders would face prison terms. [LAT 5/26/06] Another of the
bill's provisions would add carrying fraudulent documents to the
list of acts considered "aggravated felonies" under immigration
law. [Washington Post 5/26/06]

The legalization plan passed by the Senate would require
immigrants with less than two years in the US to leave, while
those present at least two years but less than five would have to
leave temporarily but could seek a work visa to come back.
Immigrants in the US longer than five years could stay and
eventually apply for permanent legal status if they paid back
taxes and fines of at least $3,250, continued working, and
learned English and US civics. [LAT 5/26/06] On May 23, the
Senate voted 61-37 against an amendment introduced by Sen. Dianne
Feinstein (D-CA) which would have replaced this three-tiered
system with a single plan to legalize undocumented immigrants who
have lived in this country since Jan. 1, 2006. [National
Immigration Forum Policy Update 5/24/06]

The Senate also approved a "guest worker" program which would
allow some 200,000 foreign workers per year to enter the country
and ultimately seek permanent legal status. (An amendment to bar
the "guest workers" from seeking permanent status was defeated.)
[LAT 5/26/06] The Senate bill includes provisions that would
reduce backlogs in family-based immigration, and two measures
advocates have fought for in recent years: "AgJobs," which
provides a path to citizenship for undocumented farmworkers; and
the "DREAM Act," which would do the same for students. [Immigrant
Legal Resource Center 5/25/06]

The Senate defeated several attempts to make the bill harsher,
including an amendment which would have delayed the legalization
and guest worker programs until the Secretary of Homeland
Security certified that the border had been secured, and one
which would have confiscated the Social Security benefits
immigrants earned before they were legally authorized to work.

Several amendments were added which softened the enforcement side
of the bill. One last-minute amendment requires local, state and
federal officials to consult with Mexican counterparts before
building a new border fence. [Washington Times 5/26/06] Another
amendment, which passed 52-45, struck the bill's controversial
section 227(c); that section would have allowed the immigration
service to deport anyone seeking asylum or protection under the
Convention Against Torture (CAT) before a federal court could
review their case. [Asylum Working Group 5/25/06] As passed,
however, the Senate bill would still limit the way federal courts
review such cases, and would make it easier for the government to
detain or deport immigrants, while making it more difficult for
people to prove they deserve asylum or naturalization. [WP
5/26/06]

Two amendments backed by advocates were shot down on May 23: one
proposed by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) which would have provided
protection for refugees deemed to have involuntarily provided
"material support" to an armed group; and one offered by Sen.
Edward Kennedy (D-MA) which would have enhanced enforcement of
federal labor laws to protect workers' rights. [National
Immigration Forum Policy Update 5/24/06]

Immigrant advocates criticized the Senate bill, while admitting
that it is a major improvement over the House bill, HR 4437. The
"We Are America" coalition called S. 2611 "a step forward, but
flawed and unworkable." [California Chronicle 5/26/06 from LA
County Federation of Labor] On May 24, a day before the bill was
passed, advocates convened by the National Network for Immigrant
and Refugee Rights said the measure "would create deep divisions
within the immigrant community and leave millions of undocumented
immigrants in the shadows."

"The current Senate bill does not reflect the immigration reform
called for by millions of immigrant communities marching the
streets," said Sheila Chung of the San Francisco Bay Area
Immigrant Rights Coalition. [Article by David Bacon via Pacific
News Service 5/25/06]

*2. HUNGER STRIKE, PROTESTS CONTINUE

As of May 25, two immigrant mothers who began a hunger strike in
Chicago on May 10 were still consuming only liquids as they
called for an end to all deportations until Congress finalizes a
legalization bill [see INB 5/14/06]. Elvira Arellano and Flor
Crisostomo, both of whom were arrested in immigration raids and
are fighting their own deportation, have been joined by three
other hunger strikers and are camping out in a plaza on Chicago's
south side. They plan to continue their fast until at least June
1, the day when 23 of 26 Chicago-area IFCO Systems employees
arrested in a nationwide sweep on Apr. 19 face hearings in
immigration court. Crisostomo is one of the "IFCO 26." [Chicago
Tribune 5/25/06]

Immigrant rights activists held new protests throughout the week
of May 15, though much smaller than the coordinated marches and
rallies that rocked the nation Apr. 9-10 and May 1 [see INB
4/16/06, 5/7/06]. About 1,000 people rallied in Washington in the
rain on May 17. [Washington Times 5/18/06] Some 200 people
marched in San Francisco on May 17, according to the San
Francisco Chronicle. [SFC 5/18/06] In New York City, a May 17
march in Queens drew more than 200 participants ("dozens,"
according to the local Spanish-language daily El Diario-La
Prensa), while a May 20 march in Manhattan drew close to 1,000
("several hundred," according to the New York Times). [Eyewitness
reports; ED-LP 5/18/06; NYT 5/21/06] Several dozen people also
rallied in Brentwood, Long Island, on May 20. [Newsday 5/21/06]

*3. RAIDS: 179 ARRESTED IN LAS VEGAS

Between May 20 and 25, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) arrested 179 out-of-status immigrants in Clark County,
Nevada in a sweep ostensibly aimed at people who had failed to
comply with outstanding deportation orders. Only 87 of those
arrested were found to be violating deportation orders; 92 merely
lacked legal status. "Fugitive operations teams" based in Los
Angeles and Phoenix were recruited to help local Las Vegas area
ICE agents carry out "Operation City Lights"; ICE said in a news
release that its agents also received "substantial assistance in
the operation from the Nevada Department of Public Safety Parole
and Probation Division."

The majority of those arrested were Mexican citizens; others came
from Peru, El Salvador, Guatemala, Egypt, the Philippines, Samoa
and Iraq. As of May 25, 134 of those arrested had already been
removed from the US, according to ICE. Officials said those who
had not yet been deported--including an Iraqi man--were awaiting
travel documents from their home countries. "Whether it's Iraq or
Peru, we will reach out to officials in that country to obtain
travel documents," said ICE spokesperson Virginia Kice.

"I find it hard to believe that this wasn't done to show Congress
and the American public that they can deport people," said
Jeremiah Wolf-Stuchiner, a Las Vegas-based immigration attorney
and the head of the local chapter of the American Immigration
Lawyers Association (AILA). "Although people say it's impossible
to deport 11 million people living here illegally, ICE is showing
they can do this." [AP 5/25/06; ICE News Release 5/25/06]

*4. RAIDS: 35 INDONESIANS HELD IN NJ

Before dawn on May 24, about 24 officers from the ICE field
offices in New York City and Newark arrested 35 Indonesian
immigrants in a sweep through the area of Edison, New Jersey. Of
the total arrested, 32 had been denied asylum or ordered
deported; the other three were out-of-status immigrants caught
fleeing the scene of the raids. Agents issued a notice for 15
other people who cooperated to appear at the ICE office for
processing. Most of the deportation orders for those arrested
were issued between two and five years ago, authorities said.
Some of them had been appealed to the Board of Immigration
Appeals (BIA), though the majority of those appeals were denied
within the last year, authorities said.

"When they receive their orders from the immigration judge, they
should have contacted our office to start the official removal
process," said Raymond Simonse, acting Newark ICE field office
director for detention and removal operations. Simonse said about
20 of those arrested lived at an apartment complex in Woodbridge.
The others were at different sites in Edison and Metuchen.
According to Simonse, ICE planned the raid after research teams
identified a large pool of people in the same area who had
ignored final removal orders. "We put together an operation to
gather them all at once, so that those we didn't get couldn't
abscond," Simonse said. Simonse said local police departments
were notified just prior to the operation, but did not
participate. Those arrested are being held at Hudson County Jail,
Middlesex County Adult Correction Center and Elizabeth Detention
Center, Simonse said. [Home News Tribune (central NJ) 5/25/06;
ICE News Release 5/24/06]

*5. RAIDS: 13 SEIZED ON ALABAMA BASE

On May 24, ICE agents questioned 50 people working at the US
Coast Guard's Aviation Training Center in Mobile, Alabama, and
ended up arresting 13 Mexican immigrants who were helping build
an airplane hangar there. Mickey Pledger, resident agent in
charge of the ICE office in Mobile, said six of the workers had
no legal documentation and will be deported; seven workers
employed by construction contractors working on the base were
charged with possessing fake resident alien cards or Social
Security numbers. Affidavits filed in federal court show Coast
Guard officials alerted ICE that some of the workers for the
contracting firms were presenting "questionable forms of
identification" when they came on the base. [AP 5/26/06]

*6. RAIDS: 29 ARRESTED IN SAN DIEGO

On May 23, ICE arrested 29 immigrants employed by the Standard
Drywall Company, a San Diego area business that provides contract
construction workers to perform services at Camp Pendleton Marine
Corps Base in Oceanside, California. None of the workers arrested
on May 23 were identified as having worked at Camp Pendleton. One
of the arrested workers is Honduran; the rest are Mexican. They
were arrested at their homes after being identified in an ICE
review of hiring records of more than 360 Standard Drywall
employees. Standard Drywall cooperated fully with the
investigation. The raid capped a four-month joint investigation
involving ICE and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service
(NCIS). Seven of the 29 arrested workers had prior criminal
convictions; two were lawful permanent residents whose criminal
convictions made them deportable, according to ICE. [ICE News
Release 5/23/06]

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From basav at igc.org  Mon May 29 15:21:25 2006
From: basav at igc.org (basav@igc.org)
Date: Mon May 29 16:21:17 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] Reminder - SALSA workshop on theater for popular
	education
Message-ID: <380-220065129222125415@M2W087.mail2web.com>

Theater Workshop on 
June 8, 6:45-8:45 PM 
at the Social Action and Leadership School for Activists (SALSA) of the
Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), 1112 16th St NW, Suite 600, Washington
DC, 20036. 
http://www.hotsalsa.org/
There is a $30 fee per person for this workshop, with a 40% discount for
students, interns, and seniors.

Title: Introduction to Theater for Education

Activists often do theater that is heavy on content but short on appealing
form. The result is a poster, mask and puppet display with lots of words,
rather than theater. Capturing people's interest with some cool theater to
convey socially relevant messages is an art that often works better than
speeches in educating and building alliances. It need not be expensive or
very time consuming and does not require a huge performance space. Come,
learn from some highly-skilled and experienced practitioners of educational
theater how to put together basic activist plays with the help of
time-tested techniques and fun exercises for voice, movement, presentation
and script development. It will be an invigorating and memorable SALSA
evening.

Led by: Shirin, Sameer and Basav from Justice in South Asia. They have been
involved with activist theater for years and have given workshops in
several places around the world.

Note: Please wear comfortable clothes that will give you the freedom of
physical movement needed for the exercises.


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From redscares at mindspring.com  Mon May 29 18:36:06 2006
From: redscares at mindspring.com (Todd Eaton)
Date: Mon May 29 19:31:21 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] Brewery Workers in Northern Haiti Call for Letters 
Message-ID: <6.2.5.6.1.20060529213553.02a47aa0@mindspring.com>

this below is being cross-posted to a listserv 
that I perceive to be multi-topic and widely used 
for article and opinion posts.  let me know if I made a mistake, thanks.  -t.

ACTION ALERT
[This alert was prepared by the Grassroots Haiti Solidarity
Committee based on information from the Haitian labor group Batay
Ouvriye ("Workers' Struggle"). Please circulate widely.]

May 29, 2006
Coca-Cola Haiti Violates Labor Rights
Brewery Workers in Northern Haiti Call for Letters

Workers at the Brasserie de La Couronne, S.A./Coca-Cola Bottling
Company of Haiti brewery in Cap-Ha?tien in northern Haiti report
that management is continuing a pattern of abuses that includes
wages below the legal minimum, violations of the overtime law and
the irregular firing of Philom? C?m?rant, the secretary of the
newly formed Batay Ouvriye May First Union Federation/Union of La
Couronne Brewery Northern Branch Workers.

The union says that talks with management have made no progress
over the last six months and that La Couronne CEO Raymond Jaar has
now broken off contact completely. Noting the troubled human rights
record of Coca-Cola affiliates around the world, the union is
calling for labor rights supporters internationally to write to Mr.
Jaar asking him to rectify the situation.


BELOW IS A SAMPLE LETTER TO SEND TO LA COURONNE CEO RAYMOND JAAR

Mr. Raymond Jaar
CEO Brasserie de La Couronne, S.A.
Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Ha?ti
P.O. Box 1477, Port-au-Prince, Ha?ti
Phones: (509) 250-4264 / 250-7215 / 250-7225
Fax: (509) 250-0212
E-mail:  raymondjaar @ bracour.com / cblanchett @ bracour.com

Dear Mr. Jaar,
I have been informed of your company's major abuses against
workers' rights, particularly the illegal 50 gourde/day salary and
anti-union abuses. You should know, Mr. Jaar, that these types of
illegal practices go against the essential human rights of all
individuals, and that they will not be able to continue in Haiti or
in the world. This is why I am asking you most urgently to adopt
the necessary measures to rectify the situation at the La Couronne
Brewery/Coca-Cola Haiti. The workers' base salary needs to
correctly adjusted, and Philom? C?m?rant should be rehired without
delay and with back pay, and a constructive dialogue needs to be
started with the workers' union.

In the hope that you will adopt these measures in the spirit of
social advancement within Haiti,

Respectfully,


___________________          (Signature)


Cc : Batay Ouvriye, BP 13326, Delmas, Ha?ti
batay @ batayouvriye.org

***************************************

BACKGROUND:

Brasserie de La Couronne, S.A./Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Haiti
has a long record of complaints from its employees both in Port-au-
Prince and in the northern city of Cap-Ha?tien.

"Drinking Couronne soft drinks is sweet, but they are made through
terrible exploitation, with outright illegal practices," a workers'
committee in Port-au-Prince charged as far back 2001.

Currently, workers say, management in Cap-Ha?tien does not pay the
mandatory time and a half for overtime. Even the security personnel
at the gate make just 100 gourdes a day (US $2.50) for twelve hours'
work. The employees lifting the soft drink cases make a base
wage of 50 gourdes per day ($1.25), which they are supposed to
supplement with "commissions" to reach the legal minimum of 70
gourdes a day. The days when the workers are unable to work--
if the trucks are out of order, or if their drivers are unable to
come to work due to illness--there are no commissions, and these
workers only receive the base pay. Even when they do receive the
commissions (3 cents of a gourde, $0.00075, for each case sold),
their daily income is about 110 gourdes ($2.75).

The Batay Ouvriye May First Union Federation-Union of La Couronne
Brewery Northern Branch Workers (Intersyndicale Premier Mai Batay
Ouvriye-Syndicat des Travailleurs de la Brasserie La Couronne
Branche Nord) was formed in late 2005. Soon afterwards, on November
5, 2005, management fired union secretary Philom? C?m?rant,
alleging that he had "refused to obey the indications, orders and
instructions of the North Distribution Center Director." Even the
generally pro-management Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor
questioned the firing, citing a report from its inspectors that
C?m?rant had been a good employee for most of his four years and
three months in the company, and asking for him to be rehired "if
possible."

Negotiations between the union and management have stalled. The
union says that CEO Raymond Jaar "promised to consider the workers'
demands and answer positively to several points they had laid down
last December, but at present, after several anti-union acts, Jaar
has categorically cut all contact with us and even refused to meet
with representatives of our union organization."

For a full report in English, go to:
http://www.batayouvriye.org/English/Dossiers1/Couronne3.html

##

================================================
Grassroots Haiti Solidarity Committee
PO Box 748 Village Station, New York, NY 10014
718-284-0889 * info @ grassrootshaiti.org
http://www.grassrootshaiti.org
================================================


From basav at igc.org  Mon May 29 19:26:24 2006
From: basav at igc.org (basav@igc.org)
Date: Mon May 29 20:32:03 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] June 4 - Stop U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement!
Message-ID: <380-22006523022624857@M2W094.mail2web.com>

Over 100 peasant, labor and community leaders from South Korea are coming
to Washington DC to build solidarity with US workers and to protest the
US-Korea Free Trade Negotiations and neoliberal globalization! 

Join Us!
SUNDAY JUNE 4
MASS March and Rally
March begins @ 2:30 pm, Murrow Park, 18th and H St, NW, D.C. 
Rally @ 4:30 pm, Lafayette Park, 16th and H St., NW, D.C.
(Metro: Farragut North on Red Line, Farragut West on Blue/Orange Lines.)

June 4 ? 9, 2006
Week of Protests!
Washington, D.C.

PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY
For more information, call MORFNG at (718) 335-0419 and check out
http://morfng.blogspot.com/

Mobilize and Organize to Resist the FTA and Neoliberal Globalization
(MORFNG)

ENDORSING ORGANIZATIONS
Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition)
Addicted to War
Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle, L.A.
American Friends Service Committee, Oakland, CA
Anakbayan, L.A.
Andolan Organizing South Asian WorkersAudre Lorde Project
BAYAN USA
BAYAN USA, L. A.
Boston Korea Friendship Association
CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities
Center for Constitutional Rights
Channing and Popai Liem Education Foundation
Chinese Progressive Association, San Francisco
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (Chirla)
Colombia Action Network
Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), L.A.
Community Organizing Collective, PA
Congress for Korea Reunification (CKR)
Corea Action Network for Unification (CAN-U)
Desis Rising Up and Moving 
Domestic Workers United (DMC)
El Instituto de Educacion Popular del Sur de California/ Institute of
Popular Education of Southern CA (IDEPSCA)
Enlace
Fabulous Independent Education Radicals for Community Empowerment (FIERCE)
Filipino Community Support (FOCUS), Santa Clara County, CA
Free Palestine Alliance
FTA Action Task Force ? L.A. 
Grassroots Global Justice Alliance
Habiarts, L.A.
Han Pan Korean American Cultural Group, Maryland
Ignacio Martin-Baro Fund for Mental Health and Human Rights
Immigrant Justice Solidarity Project
International Action Center (IAC)
Minjok-Tongshin
Korea Truth Commission- Joint Office
Korea Truth Commission- USA 
Korean American Cultural Center, Virginia
Korean American for Korean Democratic Labor Party
Korean American National Coordinating Council (KANCC)
Korean Cultural Center-Han Pan(Maryland)
Korean Democratic Labor Party ? U.S. East Coast Branch 
Koreatown Immigrant Workers Advocates(KIWA-LA)
Left Turn Magazine
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
Miami Workers Center
Mobilization for Global Justice (MGJ)
Multiethnic Immigrant Workers Organizing Network (MIWON)
National Association of Korean Americans (NAKA)
National Committee to Free the Cuban Five
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR)
National Network of Indochina Activists
Network in Solidarity with the People of Philippines (NISPOP)
Nodutdol for Korean Community Development 
One Korea L.A. Forum
Palestine Right to Return Coalition
Pan-Korean Alliance for Reunification in USA 
People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER)
Pilipino Workers Center of Southern California (PWC)
Prison Moratorium Project (PMP)
Project South
Puerto Rican Alliance of L.A.
South Asian Network
Southeast Regional Economic Justice Network
Southwest Workers Union
Sweatshop Watch
Tenants and Workers United
Troops Out Now Coalition
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE).
United Electrical Workers (UE) Local 1421
VietUnity, Bay Area, California
War Resisters League
Workers World Party



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From nbloch at igc.org  Tue May 30 07:21:58 2006
From: nbloch at igc.org (nbloch@igc.org)
Date: Tue May 30 07:50:41 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] Fw: MARYLAND FARMERS AND CONSUMERS NEED YOUR HELP
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From: beeton at cepr.net (Dan Beeton)
Date: Tue May 30 11:45:57 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] Venezuela: New Paper Explains Falling Poverty Rates,
 Corrects Misreporting
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From: olivetrii at gmail.com (Ethan X)
Date: Tue May 30 13:04:49 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] July 9-16, Gr8 Eight Days of Resistance in Wash.DC,
	against G8's Great Greed!
Message-ID: <1e9e1b2a0605301304t5b0e2bcehdb762f16039cf5d4@mail.gmail.com>

**forward widely!**
 July 9-16, Gr8 Eight Days of Resistance
 in Washington, DC, against G8's Great Greed!  CALL TO ACTION from the
Farragut Squares Collective (To The G8th Power!) *
*<http://rtc.revolt.org/node/210>

In Washington, DC, during the week of July 9-16 leading up to and during the
2006 G8 Summit, let's show the world that popular resistance to the G8's
neo-liberal "energy security" schemes is active and intense! There ARE
limits to capitalist consumption, and we're going to TEST the G8 government
energy-addicts and their corporate cronies with a detoxifying blast of
surprise direct action tactics. Although this year the G8 is meeting
thousands of miles away in Russia, there is so much that we can accomplish,
in solidarity with protests there and all over the world, here in
Washington, DC, the political and economic nerve center of G8 global
domination. Join us in DC for the Gr8 Eight Days of Resistance, and visit
www.rtc.revolt.org for updates!

*Washington, DC's
Gr8 Eight Days of Resistance against G8's Great
Greed!*<http://rtc.revolt.org/node/210>

*July 9-16 leading up to and during the July 15-17
2006 G8 Summit in St. Petersburg, Russia* <http://rtc.revolt.org/node/210>

*No energy security for war criminals,
No climate chaos leading to ecological crash,
Flat tires for their gas-guzzling limos,
We'll claw back at them fat cats!!!*

The 2006 G8 Summit that will bring together political heads from eight of
the world's largest consumer economies -- United States, Canada, the United
Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Russia -- is set to focus
on *"energy
security"* this year as its central theme. The leaked G8 "Communique on
Energy Security"<http://reclaimthecommons.net/downloads/2nd_draft_of_G8_Summit_Communique_on_Energy_Security_1.pdf>calls
for an unprecedented Global expansion of nuclear power and trillions
of dollars in new subsidies to coal, oil and gas corporations worldwide.

*What does "energy security" for the G8 mean for the world?* Naturally, it
encourages an even greater gulf between the Global North and Global South
because the G8 countries will have the upper hand in controlling the energy
resources at the expense of the rest of the world, especially if "energy
security" equates to more nuclear power. That amounts to an economic
apartheid system separated on the sheer basis of wealth and military might.
The G8 is already responsible for depleting the Earth's fossil fuels, often
at the expense of the polluting and impoverishment of the Global South, and
this has led to the global warming crisis that is facing us all. Ironically,
they'll make that move to nuclear power in order to claim that they'll
reduce the global warming that these same jerks are responsible for through
their unrestrained burning of coal, oil, and other fossil fuels -- and yet
who is most likely to profit from a move to nuclear? Here's a hint. It won't
be the Earth, and it won't be more than 6 billion people!

*In Washington, DC, during the week of July 9-16 leading up to and during
the 2006 G8 Summit, let's show the world that popular resistance to these
elite energy schemes is active and intense!* Our resistance is as abundant
as the G8's greed to devour the Earth's petroleum reserves, and it's as
creatively diverse as the countless cultures they invade, colonize and
destroy to get that next quick fix of resource extraction on their
never-enough road to ever-elusive "energy security." There ARE limits to
capitalist consumption, and we're gonna TEST the G8 government
energy-addicts and their corporate cronies with a detoxifying blast of
surprise direct action tactics...

That's right, we've got a multiple-choice quiz!

During the Gr8 Eight Days of Resistance in Washington DC, will we:

1) Snake march for mountain justice <http://mountainjusticesummer.org/>?
2) Drill for oil under Dick Cheney's lawn?
3) Crem8 King Coal <http://www.energybulletin.net/16220.html> on the steps
of US Congress?
4) Rugby riot for human rights and against repression of G8 protesters at
Russia's DC embassy?
("Punt out Putin, Kick down the Kremlin's war on
Chechnya!<http://www.hrvc.net/main.htm>
")
5) Throw yellow-cake all over Department of Energy headquarters?
6) Shut down city car traffic with a "Bikes Not Black Lungs" Critical
Mass<http://www.critical-mass.info/>
?
7) Swim out against global warming in Dupont Circle's fountain?
8) *Or ... something else totally unexpected and outrageously disruptive?*

We are the Farragut Squares Collective (To The G8th Power!) and we invite
YOU to join this historic July 9 - 16, 2006 week of in-your-face theater and
dynamic direct action in Washington, DC! Although this year the G8 is
meeting thousands of miles away in Russia, there is much that we can
accomplish, in solidarity with protests there and all over the world, here
in the political nerve center of G8 global domination. And in case y'all
haven't already guessed, we might just have some tricks up our collective
sleeves that you and your affinity groups won't want to miss (wink wink
nudge nudge)...

The Farragut Squares Collective (To The G8th Power!) is a local ad hoc group
of individuals that draws on members from the DC Anti War
Network<http://dawndc.net/>and Mobilization
for Global Justice <http://globalizethis.org/>, amongst many groups. We are
individuals fed up with G8 domination and capitalist globalization. We
support a collaborative, open, and non-hierarchical organizing relationship
with all who wish to join us in taking action. Send any inquiries or shows
of support to *farragutsquares@gmail.com* or join the listserv at: *
lists.activeresistance.org/mailman/listinfo/dc*

Keep your eye on *www.rtc.revolt.org* <http://rtc.revolt.org/> for updates
and details about the July 9-16 Week of Resistance against the G8 in
Washington DC, plus information and links about global resistance against
the 2006 G8 Summit.

See ya in the streets, eh?

===========
postscript! Farragut Squares Collective (To The G8th Power!) fully endorses:

Network Against G8 (Russia / ex-USSR) - basic
principles<http://g8-2006.plentyfact.net/index.php/Basic_Principles>

1. Our initiative is aimed against the G8 states, their current dominating
economic system, and all forms of oppression.

2. For the participants in NAG8 any discrimination on basis of race,
nationality, gender, sexual orientation and age is intolerable.

3. We make decisions by consensus. In case of lack of consensus on some
questions groups of NAG8 participants may make their own statements and
actions not contradicting these basic principles.

4. During the preparation of protest actions we are not interested in
cooperating with organisations aiming at taking power.

5. We approve of any methods of resistance, if they are aimed against the
rulers but not against the people of G8 countries. Any member of the network
is free to choose his / her own tactics.
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From: mgj at riseup.net (Mobilization for Global Justice)
Date: Wed May 31 02:02:17 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] MGJ General Meeting///Wed, May 31st///St. Stephens
Message-ID: <20060531020110.woz3fames4gk8o0s@mail.riseup.net>

Mobilization for Global Justice General Meeting
Wednesday, May 31st, 7-9pm
St. Stephens Church, 16th and Newton Sts. NW


Calling all schemers, dreamers, and architects of justice!! --Come  
help us create new and exciting ways to build a better world and at  
the same time keep up the pressure on the IMF and World Bank and bring  
the neoliberal monster to its knees!!

Come help us plan for protests this Sunday, June 4th against the  
US/South Korean FTA. Farmers are coming all the way from Korea for the  
protest, and we want to be out there in solidarity!!



Directions:
St. Stephens Church, upstairs in the auditorium
(16th and Newton St. NW, Washington DC)
  From the Columbia Heights metro walk north on 14th, turn left on Newton
and walk until you reach 16th. Enter on the side.  There is wheelchair
access at the back of the building.

-- 
MGJ General organizing meetings are every Wednesday, 7-9pm at St. Stephens
Church, 16th and Newton St. NW (Columbia Heights Metro stop, S2 and S4 Bus,
Street parking only, lots of bike parking)

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From olivetrii at gmail.com  Wed May 31 09:37:52 2006
From: olivetrii at gmail.com (Ethan X)
Date: Wed May 31 10:17:29 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] 37 hr protest! Volunteers needed! Protest at NOAA
	June 1
Message-ID: <1e9e1b2a0605310937u4d0cab0em626768a78f105917@mail.gmail.com>

protest at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
headquarters!!!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Joshua Tulkin <josh@sustainus.org>
Date: May 30, 2006 6:57 PM
Subject: [SustainUS-DC] Volunteers needed: Protest at NOAA Thursday June 1
To: "sustainus-dc@yahoogroups.com" <sustainus-dc@yahoogroups.com>

*** *

*Hey all,
*

* **
**I could really use some help. If anyone is "between jobs" right now, or
can get off a few hours to help, we'd greatly appreciate it. read on!
*

* **

**-Josh***
* *
* Hurricanes and Global Warming:*

*Katrina Survivors and Activists Protest Bush's "Category Five" Cover Up Now
Underway at NOAA***

* *

*WHAT: Protest and Vigil condemning the heads of NOAA for covering up the
growing scientific link between hurricanes and global warming*



*WHEN: Thursday, June 1, 2006, 10 AM to 6 PM, come for an hour or two and
lend your support! *

*This is a 37-hour protest and WE NEED PEOPLE ON THURSDAY!!!*



*WHERE: NOAA National Headquarters, 1325 East/West Hwy, Silver Spring, MD,
right at the silver spring metro station*



*CONTACT: Anne Havemann 202.997.2466 if you're interested*





SILVER SPRING, MD ? Hundreds of concerned citizens and leaders from across
the nation will join Hurricane Katrina survivors Wednesday and Thursday to
call for the resignation of the heads of the National Hurricane Center (NHC)
and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) at the NOAA
Headquarters just outside of Washington, D.C. Advocates will demand that
NOAA stop covering up the growing scientific link between severe hurricanes
and global warming while insisting on real solutions to the problem of
global warming.



The protest comes at the start of the 2006 Hurricane season, which officials
at the NHC predict will be "a hectic, above-normal tropical storm season."
Speeches begin at 11 a.m. EDT and protestors will carry dramatic props and
photographs of Hurricane Katrina. A 37-hour demonstration will follow,
lasting until midnight on June 1st, with picketing during the day and a
candlelight vigil by night.



If you or anyone you know is interested, please contact Anne Havemann at
anne@chesapeakeclimate.org or 202.997.2466


-- 
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From: olivetrii at gmail.com (Ethan X)
Date: Wed May 31 11:29:54 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] G8 invites Nigeria to June 1 finance ministers'
	conference
Message-ID: <1e9e1b2a0605311104v2e7ebbebhbb71d2a9a88fbbb0@mail.gmail.com>

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The Group of Eight industrialized countries (G8) has invited
Nigeria<http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/data/nigeria.html>to its
finance ministers' conference scheduled for June 1, 2006 in St
Petersburg, Russia <http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/data/russia.html>,
according to a statement issued by Nigeria's Finance Ministry on Tuesday.

The invitation, the first of its kind, is in recognition of the great
strides made by Nigeria in its economic reform program implementation, said
the statement, which was issued in the Nigerian capital Abuja by Paul
Nwabuikwu, special assistant (Media) to Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi
Okonjo-Iweala.

He said the invitation was contained in a letter addressed to Nigerian
Finance Minister Okonjo-Iweala by the Russian government, the current holder
of the G8 presidency.

Nwabuikwu said discussion at the summit would center on the issues of "good
governance in public finance" and "the role of emerging donors in the global
development community."

Apart from participating in the discussion on the role of donors in global
development, Okonjo-Iweala will also act as the lead discussant for the
session on good governance in public finance.

Okonjo-Iweala described the invitation as an additional proof that the
international community is taking note of the progress being made in
economic reform under President Olusegun Obasanjo.

"The invitation is good news for the country because it confirms that the
vision of president Obasanjo in leading far reaching reforms in various
sectors is appreciated by some of the most influential players in the
international community," Nwabuikwu said.

*Source: Xinhua*
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From cpardew at soaw.org  Wed May 31 11:09:25 2006
From: cpardew at soaw.org (Christy Pardew)
Date: Wed May 31 11:38:06 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] Join torture survivors tomorrow at City Council
	building
Message-ID: <5144.12.40.169.170.1149098965.squirrel@mail.mutualaid.org>


Tomorrow, Thursday, June 1, survivors of torture from around the world
will publicly thank and honor members of the DC City Council for making
the District a torture-free zone.

Please join us in saying yes to a world free of torture!

WHEN:   11:30 AM tomorrow, Thursday, June 1
WHERE:  Wilson Building, 1350 Pennsylvania Ave NW

The District of Columbia has been a ?torture free zone? for a full year
now, thanks to the courageous vote of the District of Columbia City
Council. On Thursday, June 1, 2006 survivors of torture from around the
world will conduct a public ?Honoring Ceremony? in front of the Wilson
Building to express their appreciation in many ways and in many different
languages. The survivors will thank each Councilmember with flowers, song,
and prayer.

The event is sponsored by the Torture Abolition and Survivor Support
Coalition International, TASSC, of Washington D.C., and is the opening
event for its ?Torture Awareness Month? campaign. TASSC is a non- profit
organization composed entirely of survivors of torture from many nations.

Sadly, torture is now practiced by more than 150 nations, including the
United States, despite numerous international and domestic laws and
treaties. In the end, such grim practices create an endless cycle of
hatred and escalating violence throughout the world. The suffering
inflicted on the survivors, their families and their communities is
permanent and devastating. As TASSC has long insisted, there can be zero
tolerance for torture.

The resolution was introduced by Councilmembers Sharon Ambrose and Kathy
Patterson and was passed one year ago, on June 21, 2005, by the Council.
TASSC thanks the Councilmembers for their wisdom, courage, and compassion
and urges city councils across the country to follow their outstanding
example.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Jennifer Harbury at 202-529-2991 or 512-751-5852.


-- 
Christy Pardew
School of the Americas Watch
cell - 202.903.7257
DC office - 202.234.3440
www.SOAW.org



From olivetrii at gmail.com  Wed May 31 14:30:18 2006
From: olivetrii at gmail.com (Ethan X)
Date: Wed May 31 15:11:46 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] more on june 1 climate protest
Message-ID: <1e9e1b2a0605311430x2d93ac25w93dfad8288de566a@mail.gmail.com>

Climate cover-up protest in Washington, DC May 31st and June 1st

The newly-formed U.S. Climate Emergency Council, together with the
Chesapeake Climate Action Network and the Climate Crisis Coalition, is
organizing an action next Wednesday and Thursday, May 31st and June 1st, at
the Washington, D.C. area headquarters of NOAA, the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration. NOAA is the parent agency for the National
Hurricane Center. They are located at 1305 East West Highway in Silver
Spring, Md., very close to the Silver Spring stop on the Metro.

Two days ago, NOAA and NHC had a press conference with their predictions for
this year's hurricane season, which begins next Thursday. During the press
conference, according to one of the members of the press who attended, the
head of NOAA, Vice Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr., "brushed off global
warming as a factor," as far as the increased destructiveness of major
storms.

Below is a statement that we will be releasing to the press at our 11 a.m.
press conference next Wednesday. If your organization or you personally
would like to endorse it please let us know ASAP.

And if you can participate in the action or reach out to others to urge them
to do so, please be in touch. The main time to be there is by 11 a.m.
Wednesday, but we will have a presence outside NOAA for 37 hours, until
midnight on June 1st, leafletting and talking to NOAA employees, drawing
attention to the dangerous cover-up of the truth by their bosses.

We hope to hear from you soon!

For the U.S. Climate Emergency Council,

Ted Glick

An Open Letter: It's Time for Truth Telling
About Hurricanes and Global Warming

We are here on the day before the beginning of the hurricane season to
denounce the Bush Administration's cover-up of the growing scientific link
between monstrous hurricanes and human-induced global warming.

Despite a flurry of peer-reviewed scientific studies linking planetary
warming to storms like Katrina, leaders at the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Hurricane Center (a
subset of NOAA) continue to claim ? with no supporting data -- that the
recent hurricane devastation is part of a "natural cycle" having nothing to
do with a buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. We condemn these
responses as an abdication of government responsibility when millions of
Americans are increasingly vulnerable to violent storms in a warmer world.

After a record four major hurricanes hit Florida in 2004, the 2005 hurricane
season was even more devastating. Of the six most powerful hurricanes ever
to hit the United States in the past 150 years, three occurred within 52
days in 2005. These were Katrina, Rita, and Wilma. The damage  from Katrina
alone was over 1,500 dead, two million Americans displaced, and at least
$200 billion in damages.

Meanwhile, just since August 2005, no fewer than four major scientific
studies ? one conducted by NOAA itself ? have shown that warmer sea-surface
temperatures created by atmospheric warming are increasing the frequency,
power, and lifespan of major, Category 4 and 5 hurricanes. Yet there is no
mention of these studies at the National Hurricane Center web site despite
the agency's official mission "to save lives, mitigate property loss, and
improve economic efficiency by issuing the best watches, warnings, forecasts
and analyses of hazardous tropical weather, and by increasing understanding
of these hazards." And NHC director Max Mayfield denied any substantive
connection between global warming and hurricanes before a US Senate panel
last fall.

Meanwhile at NOAA, The Washington Post and other media have documented the
ongoing campaign to cover up global warming data. Under the directorship of
Bush's friend and political appointee, Vice Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher
Jr., NOAA climate scientists are being intimidated from talking to the press
and their papers are being withheld from publication.

These actions at NOAA and the NHC are part of an obvious political campaign
orchestrated by the White House to avoid the serious cuts in fossil fuel use
scientists say are needed to fight global warming. But by ignoring the
science and denying the warming on behalf of Exxon Mobil and other major oil
corporations, the Bush Administration is putting millions more Americans
this year and for years to come at great risk for experiencing the kind of
suffering and loss seen throughout the Gulf Coast in 2005.

The cover-up must stop now!

Endorsed by (list in formation):

U.S. Climate Emergency Council

Chesapeake Climate Action Network

Climate Crisis Coalition

Alliance for Affordable Energy, New Orleans, La.

Climate Solutions

Global Exchange

Global Justice Ecology Project

Global Warming Solution.org <http://solution.org/>

GRACE Policy Institute

Green House Network

Greenwood Earth Alliance

Just Transition Alliance

Labor Community Strategy Center

Organic Consumers Association

Pax Christi, USA

Shalom Center

Jonah Blaustein

Rev. Laura J. Collins, National Capital Presbytery Environmental Team
Convenor

Rev. Charles Morris, Director, Michigan Interfaith Power and Light

Rabbi David Shneyer

Peter Stegehuis

Mike Tidwell, U.S. Climate Emergency Council
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From: cpardew at soaw.org (Christy Pardew)
Date: Wed May 31 15:21:13 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] Thurs. June 1: RAMOR RYAN,
	author of "Clandestines: The Pirate Journals of an Irish Exile"
Message-ID: <002401c684fb$694c3ea0$130a0a0a@SOAWatch.org>

The Brian MacKenzie Infoshop Presents: 

RAMOR RYAN, author of Clandestines: The Pirate Journals of an Irish
Exile

"As a long-term strategy, clandestinity is about protecting ourselves,
our rebel spaces and allowing the seed to germinate underground." -RR


On Thursday, June 1, 2006 at 7:30
Ramor will be in Washington, DC at the Flemming Center (1426 9th st.
NW.)
for a reading from his book Clandestines: The Pirate Journals of an
Irish Exile 

Ramor Ryan's pirate journals read like Che's Motorcycle Diaries infused
with Hunter S. Thompson's wit and flair for the impossible. From the
teeming squats of Berlin, to intrigue in the Zapatista Autonomous Zone,
a Croatian Rainbow Gathering on the heels of the G8 protests in Genoa,
mutiny on the high seas, the Quixotic ambitions of a Kurdish guerilla
camp, the contradictions of Cuba, and the neo-liberal nightmare of
post-war(s) Central America we see everywhere a world in flux,
struggling to be reborn.

Ramor Ryan is a rebellious rover and Irish exile who makes his home
between Dublin, New York City, and the Zapatista Autonomous Zone.

Download a flyer and spread the work:
http://www.dcinfoshop.org/ramorflier.pdf








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From: nbloch at igc.org (Nadine Bloch)
Date: Wed May 31 19:01:32 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] Reminder: NEw Games Day, Sat!!
Message-ID: <447E49BB.3080706@igc.org>


/please forward...
invite all your friends and families, we are looking for a crowd!!/

*******************************/
/**/You are cordially invited to the first annual outdoor/**/ Big/**/ 
/**/Games /**/Fest/**/!!!!/*
Saturday, June 3rd,
1-6pm ( and maybe later..)
BRING: snacks & drinks (we will provide some)
water, sunblock, hats, hoola hoops, frisbees, parachutes, balls, 
whistles, and more!!!
Opal Daniels Park, Takoma Park,
Website of Opal Daniels Park   
<http://www.cityoftakomapark.org/library/reference/parks/opal.html>:
http://www.cityoftakomapark.org/library/reference/parks/opal.html
(also see map attached to this email)

NEW GAMES, OLD GAMES, BIG GAMES, SMALL GAMES!!!!
 led by Michael Beer, Nadine Bloch, Ted Hodapp, Laura Delaney  and.....*
**YOU:: ** *anyone else who wants to lead /or participate/ in a game.

/Come carouse with the best!
//Run wild in the park!
//Share a fab picnic, lounge on the grass, swing on the monkey bars.....!//
//Lead a game you've never played before with 74 of your newest best 
friends!
//Meet other trainers and facilitators!/

*BRING CHILDREN and PARENTS and FRIENDS. We hope to have 75--or more-- 
fun loving folks.... *

*brought to you by the /Ad-hoc Metro DC Facilitators Skillshare / and 
/Games Experts & Wanna-bees of All Stripes/!!
*In case of inclement weather: If there is a deluge, we will CANCEL. If 
you are not sure , call the WEATHER HOTLINE
202-244-0951 for a status of the games message.*

Questions and RSVP to nbloch@igc.org <mailto:nbloch@igc.org> or 
michael@nvintl.net <mailto:michael@nvintl.net>or_ hodapp@aps.org 
<mailto:hodapp@aps.org>
_/**please let us know if you want to lead a game!!! bring ideas , 
balls, hoops, parachutes, and more.../_
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From: basav at igc.org (basav@igc.org)
Date: Wed May 31 20:50:48 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] MGJ contingent for Korean FTA demonstration
Message-ID: <380-2200664135031670@M2W103.mail2web.com>

Friends, 
Please join the MGJ CONTINGENT for Sunday's demonstration against the
U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement! (Details below)

We'll be carrying the MGJ banner and a very appropriate puppet. 

Meeting time and place for our contingent:
Sunday June 4, between 2 and 2:15 pm.
Lobby of 1712 I St. NW (Metro: Farragut West/Farragut North)

See you there!

============================================================================
===
Over 100 peasant, labor and community leaders from South Korea are coming
to Washington DC to build solidarity with US workers and to protest the
US-Korea Free Trade Negotiations and neoliberal globalization!

Join Us!
SUNDAY JUNE 4
MASS March and Rally
March begins @ 2:30 pm, Murrow Park, 18th and H St, NW, D.C. 
Rally @ 4:30 pm, Lafayette Park, 16th and H St., NW, D.C.
(Metro: Farragut North on Red Line, Farragut West on Blue/Orange Lines.)

June 4 ? 9, 2006
Week of Protests!
Washington, D.C.

PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY
For more information, call (718) 335-0419 and check out
http://morfng.blogspot.com/

Mobilize and Organize to Resist the FTA and Neoliberal Globalization
(MORFNG)

ENDORSING ORGANIZATIONS
Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition)
Addicted to War
Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle, L.A.
American Friends Service Committee, Oakland, CA
Anakbayan, L.A.
Andolan Organizing South Asian WorkersAudre Lorde Project
BAYAN USA
BAYAN USA, L. A.
Boston Korea Friendship Association
CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities
Center for Constitutional Rights
Channing and Popai Liem Education Foundation
Chinese Progressive Association, San Francisco
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (Chirla)
Colombia Action Network
Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), L.A.
Community Organizing Collective, PA
Congress for Korea Reunification (CKR)
Corea Action Network for Unification (CAN-U)
Desis Rising Up and Moving 
Domestic Workers United (DMC)
El Instituto de Educacion Popular del Sur de California/ Institute of
Popular Education of Southern CA (IDEPSCA)
Enlace
Fabulous Independent Education Radicals for Community Empowerment (FIERCE)
Filipino Community Support (FOCUS), Santa Clara County, CA
Free Palestine Alliance
FTA Action Task Force ? L.A. 
Grassroots Global Justice Alliance
Habiarts, L.A.
Han Pan Korean American Cultural Group, Maryland
Ignacio Martin-Baro Fund for Mental Health and Human Rights
Immigrant Justice Solidarity Project
International Action Center (IAC)
Minjok-Tongshin
Korea Truth Commission- Joint Office
Korea Truth Commission- USA 
Korean American Cultural Center, Virginia
Korean American for Korean Democratic Labor Party
Korean American National Coordinating Council (KANCC)
Korean Cultural Center-Han Pan(Maryland)
Korean Democratic Labor Party ? U.S. East Coast Branch 
Koreatown Immigrant Workers Advocates(KIWA-LA)
Left Turn Magazine
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
Miami Workers Center
Mobilization for Global Justice (MGJ)
Multiethnic Immigrant Workers Organizing Network (MIWON)
National Association of Korean Americans (NAKA)
National Committee to Free the Cuban Five
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR)
National Network of Indochina Activists
Network in Solidarity with the People of Philippines (NISPOP)
Nodutdol for Korean Community Development 
One Korea L.A. Forum
Palestine Right to Return Coalition
Pan-Korean Alliance for Reunification in USA 
People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER)
Pilipino Workers Center of Southern California (PWC)
Prison Moratorium Project (PMP)
Project South
Puerto Rican Alliance of L.A.
South Asian Network
Southeast Regional Economic Justice Network
Southwest Workers Union
Sweatshop Watch
Tenants and Workers United
Troops Out Now Coalition
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE).
United Electrical Workers (UE) Local 1421
VietUnity, Bay Area, California
War Resisters League
Workers World Party



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From djohnnyr at yahoo.com  Wed May 31 22:02:17 2006
From: djohnnyr at yahoo.com (John Derer)
Date: Wed May 31 22:05:02 2006
Subject: [mgj-discuss] Singapore,
	Host of 2006 IMF/WB Annual Meeting Gears Up for Summit
Message-ID: <20060601050217.20978.qmail@web37512.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

WITH less than four months to go before Singapore hosts the International Monetary Fund and World Bank summit, Deputy Prime Minister and Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng has called on the Republic's police force to ready itself for any potential security threats. As 16,000 luminaries are arriving from some 184 countries for the conferences in September, security is expected to be at an all-time high.

Speaking at the annual Police Workplan Seminar yesterday, which was attended by some 900 police officers, grassroots leaders and corporate partners, Mr Wong said: "The police must be well prepared to ensure the safety of the delegates attending the event and of our people. Apart from law and order problems, the police must also take into account the terrorist threat of such a high profile event."

While commending the security measures for the 117th International Olympic Committee Session held here last year, Mr Wong stressed that the police "cannot allow disorder and a chaotic situation to undermine security".

"The police must ensure that while legitimate and peaceful activity, whether by local or foreign groups, can proceed in accordance with our laws, those who choose to breach our laws must be dealt with firmly."

Meanwhile, the police are spending more than $18.4 million to boost its operational capabilities in dealing with public disorder. For one, customised, portable barricades are being developed. These "public order barricades" can be transformed into a 2.5metre-tall structure weighing 500kg to respond to different "threat levels". They are also built with razor mesh on top to prevent rioters from climbing over.

Over the last two years, the police have also been conceptualising purpose-built vehicles that it expects to roll out in September.

Its Neighbourhood Police Centre has developed a multi-functional van, which besides patrolling and transporting personnel in custody can also be deployed to maintain public order. The police are bringing in 33 units of the vehicle at $140,000 each. Equipped with an automated barricade fence, the windows of the 4.25-tonne vehicle are reinforced by security mesh and its undercarriage is protected against petrol bombs.

The Special Operations Command, which is primarily responsible for police tactical operations, maintenance of public order and security, is also building up its capabilities through the acquisition of three new types of vehicles to aid its operations.

Over the next three months, its Police Tactical Unit will bring in 47 vehicles at a cost of $13.79 million. Designed to withstand impact, these purpose-built vehicles also come with protective features such as an undercarriage fire extinguishing system and a ventilation system that prevents harmful gases from seeping in. They are also equipped with features such as detachable, front-mounted barricades, strobe lights, gun ports and 360-degree video recording systems.

But even though such hardware is important, Mr Wong yesterday also reiterated the importance of community involvement in Singapore's fight against terrorism and crimes. Pointing out that 42 per cent of arrests for major crimes last year were made with public assistance, as compared to 39 per cent and 37 per cent in 2004 and 2003 respectively, he said: "Engaging the community stakeholders will continue to be a key pillar in the police's strategy to fight crime and terrorism.

"The public confidence in the police and the public's willingness to come forward to help is encouraging. Police must treasure this public trust."
		
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