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Saturday April 26,
2008
Update: Reports on the situation at
Tyendinaga can be seen at Aboriginal
Peoples Television Network
Note: Please see
important message from Sophie Harkat in the Reader Comments
section, and if you are in Ottawa, please turn out for court support on
April 30 at 9:30 AM, Supreme Court.
Since time immemorial...
average Joes everywhere have had to
continually fight for basic freedoms and a half-way decent life
Who
are they fighting? Not
the "enemy" du jour created for the benefit of the war
merchants, but the
secretly self-serving institutions that speak in flowery language about
democracy and freedom and claim to have their best interests at heart.
Whenever they win and find a sympathetic leader, and start taking back
what was stolen from them - including their dignity - and can
actually
participate in how their country is run, and can eat better and have a
decent roof over their heads, schooling for their children and health
care, their way of doing so is immediately branded a threat to
democracy.
For the rest of us, democracy has been reduced to waiting in line at a
polling booth. Everything else happens at the whims of the major
corporations, which may even include rigging elections. That type
of
democracy is not "freedom".
Here's what Mohawk
protester Dan Doreen has to say about that kind of democracy:
"We're
sick and tired of having to come down to Deseronto every week and
protect our land. We're sick of it.''
CTV: Arrested Ont. Mohawk
protesters to appear in court
Be sure to keep
up to date on the fight to stop private "development" of native lands
by visiting the
Mohawk Nation News website.
And if you're in Ottawa, join the concerned
Canadians who will be gathering tomorrow - Sun. Apr.
27 - at 2 p.m. at Dalton McGuinty's constituency office, 1795
Kilborn Ave. in solidarity with the resistance.
Jorge
Martin of Venezuela, who
spoke in Ottawa last year, had quite a similar view:
"
...the elite
have had 200 years to prove their worth in Latin America, and the
result has been poverty, sickness and illiteracy for the majority. Now
it's the people's turn.
Want to know how
coups
get started in small countries that the multinational corporations seek
to dominate and suck the life out of? They're purchased.
And there's
always somebody ready to be
bought
and who will do the work of organizing. In Venezuela, you can be
reasonably sure that the student Yon Goicoechea who was paid half a
million dollars by the
Cato Institute's Milton Friedman foundation comes from a family
history of exploitation of working Venezuelans.
The Cato Institute openly champions American style democracy and one of its blog
entries
talks about "the diversity of the recipients " of the huge award
presented to Goicoechea - in one of the best examples of willful
blindness you're ever going to see.
The past recipients are Peter Bauer,
economist, Hernando
de Soto, economist, and Mart Laar
who pushed through in Estonia "lightning economic reforms that won
Western praise" - in other words he privatized the country - having
read a book by Milton Friedman on how to do so. And they call
that
"diversity".
It's all about money and the free market, of course, and the chances
that Goicoechea was acting on his own are awfully, awfully slim.
For
instance, his
profile
includes the fact that his father is in jail on criminal charges, but
does not give his father's first name nor what the charges are.
If
they thought his incarceration was unjust, you can be sure his full
name would have been given and he would be held up as another martyr in
the cause of the free market.
It may well be that Goicoechea's father is a corrupt lawyer, and most
of his relatives live in the United States.
Goicoechea "plans to use
some of the money for a foundation to train young leaders in Venezuela
and from across Latin America". No kidding, eh?
This is how America builds a coup.
Other important stuff:
There are a lot of people predicting these days that Zionism is on its
last legs, and there will be a powerful and ruthless resistance by
those whom Zionism has benefited financially. For instance,
YayaCanada
is probably not banned in certain places
just because I used a five-letter word that some people don't want
their children to learn. Greg Felton says: "Same
thing happened to me when I tried my website in Vancouver. Canada--all
zionist, all the time."
(Thanks to Ron)
Ha'aretz: Yes
it is apartheid.
...
apartheid
always has a reason, and it never has a justification. And what acts
like apartheid, is run like apartheid and harasses like apartheid, is
not a duck - it is apartheid. Nor does it even solve the problem of
fear: Today, everyone knows that all apartheid will inevitably reach
its sorry end.
Once again Hamas
has offered a truce.
Hamas is known for abiding by agreed upon truces. But so far
Israel
won't enter into a truce until Hamas acts as if there already is one!
Stop Israeli Apartheid
yayacanada
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