Dear Friends, This will be a slightly longer letter than common for the internet age—it’s serious stuff. The short version is we want you to consider doing something hard: coming to Washington in the hottest and stickiest weeks of the summer and engaging in civil disobedience that will likely get you arrested. The full version goes [...]

Three Strikes and You’re Hot In our globalized world, old-fashioned geography is not supposed to count for much: mountain ranges, deep-water ports, railroad grades — those seem so nineteenth century. The earth is flat, or so I remember somebody saying. But those nostalgic for an earlier day, take heart. The Obama administration is [...]

On the evening of Thursday, November 11, Naomi made a special appearance in Toronto with Juno award-winning recording artist Hawksley Workman at a fundraiser for the legal defence costs of G20 arrestees. Here is video and text of Naomi’s speech at the fundraiser. A correction from Naomi: “At one point in the speech I make reference [...]

Según documentos obtenidos por The Nation, en los últimos años, entidades estrechamente vinculadas a la empresa privada de seguridad Blackwater han dado servicio de inteligencia, entrenamiento y seguridad al gobierno estadounidense y a otros gobiernos, además de diversas corporaciones multinacionales, como Monsanto, Chevron, The Walt Disney Company, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines y los gigantes bancarios [...]

We won the battle of Toronto with empty hands and open hearts. But we are losing the war. We have seen the future. This is it. More troops, more brutality, more police pretending to be protestors and smashing whatever they want at $80/hour, more acceptance from a population that will submit to any limitation on its freedom as long as it can pay someone to make them feel temporarily safe.I remain absolutely committed to nonviolence (even this little formula will not, I assure you, stand the test of time) and, for strategic reasons, to not spending a lot of time smashing the machine. But I do not think future generations will be grateful for our nonviolence. Your platitudes about violence are your way of avoiding looking at the real violence your system is causing every day. You know you are doing wrong with your commerce, yet you carry on destroying the world. Stop it. Wake up.

Source: Real News Network TRNN’s Jesse Freeston, one of the members of media attacked or arrested at G20

Naomi Klein: "My city feels like a crime scene and the criminals are all melting into the night, fleeing the scene. No, I'm not talking about the kids in black who smashed windows and burned cop cars on Saturday. I'm talking about the heads of state who, on Sunday night, smashed social safety nets and burned good jobs in the middle of a recession. Faced with the effects of a crisis created by the world's wealthiest and most privileged strata, they decided to stick the poorest and most vulnerable people in their countries with the bill. How else can we interpret the G20's final communiqué, which includes not even a measly tax on banks or financial transactions, yet instructs governments to slash their deficits in half by 2013."

Not all of us who are fighting in the streets here in Toronto are despondent, but a great many of us are. I am. We are experiencing in our neighborhoods what brown people have experienced for centuries around the world at our hands. It has come home to roost. I woke this morning from a dream of Kanada, and I was weeping uncontrollably. Our children are attacked by troops openly in the streets, openly in so-called “free speech zones.” We chant, “the world is watching,” but as we are beaten back from the neighborhoods in which we have lived for two hundred years by troops who may not even be Canadian, we see football on the TV’s. Is anyone watching us? My ten-year-old was almost fucking killed when he was attacked by police in a free-speech zone. My fourteen-year-old and I were chased for two hours. Does anyone out there care?

Fuente: IPS por Danilo Valladares GUATEMALA, feb (IPS) – Un fallo de la Corte Suprema de Canadá, que ordenó a las empresas mineras de ese país presentar estudios de impacto ambiental exhaustivos, abrió expectativas de organizaciones ecologistas de Guatemala de auditar proyectos canadienses en operación y trámite. La sentencia concluyó que una evaluación ambiental del proyecto minero Red [...]

Source: Real News Network January 25, 2010 Mainstream news attributes Haitian poverty to the supernatural, avoiding history of foreign intervention Danny Glover, Peter Hallward, and Anthony Fenton contribute to breaking down the media avoidance of Haiti’s history of foreign intervention. According to Hallward, Haiti’s poverty can be explained as a series of foreign responses to the independence and [...]