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"The choice is not between violence and nonviolence, but between nonviolence and nonexistence."
Martin Luther King

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An American Nightmare: From Slavery to Mass Imprisonment in the United States

By Chauhan, Randeep Singh
Simon Fraser University

The enslavement of African Americans in the United States has not ended. Rather, legal slavery has taken on newer, modified and more subtle forms which are equally destructive to the African American community. This issue can only be properly addressed through the wide lens of history, for such a perspective is imperative to understanding the overarching mechanisms and processes that have kept African Americans perpetually enslaved since America's inception.

Tracing the early roots of modern slavery back to the Agricultural Revolution of 13,000 BCE, the Christian-based colonial slave trade (c. 1450-1900) will be examined as a peculiarly ideological institution which developed ideas and practices of race prejudice in the United States. Post-Emancipation, freed slaves were immediately warehoused into prisons and put to labour within the criminal justice system. This early mass imprisonment boom created the Southern Jim Crow segregation system and the Northern ghetto, both of which concentrated urban poverty and crime into segregated African American neighbourhoods and set the stage for the current dispro-portionate and strategic mass imprisonment of African Americans. Racially-biased policies such as the "three strikes" laws, the "war on drugs" and capital punishment all find themselves at the helm of America's current apparatus of racial control.
This thesis argues that only by abandoning models of crime control and "zero tolerance," dismantling the religiously-fundamental public sector, raising public awareness about the realities of neo-slavery and postcolonialism in the United States and accepting the consequences and re-sponsibilities of correcting the crimes of the past, will African American "crimes" in the present be properly understood and dealt with in a more socially-responsible and humane manner.
Read the complete 48 page document (requires Adobe Acrobat).

"The time has come to put our stones down. For hands clutching stones can't freely drum. And hearts fisting the past can't freely sing." -Mark Nepo

International Right to Know
New report on empowering communities through corporate transparency.

Monsanto's Bullying of Farmers Starting to Backfire

By Peter Shinkle

[Note that they now have a department with 75 staff and a $10M annual budget
just to sue farmers!]
Monsanto reaps some anger with hard line on reusing seed updated: 05/12/2003 02:04 AM Agriculture giant has won millions in suits against farmers
By Peter Shinkle
Of the Post-Dispatch

A farmer secretly gathers seed, glancing nervously over his shoulder and
wondering whether a neighbor might dial the anonymous tip hot line.
A corporation sends out spies and goes out of its way to make examples out
of growers it catches violating patents.
A defiant farm owner makes a stand and is sentenced to prison. Read

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Librarians Use Shredder to Show Opposition to New F.B.I. Powers

by Dean E. Murphy / New York Times

The humming noise from a back room of the Santa Cruz, California central library was the sound of Barbara Gail Snider, a librarian, at work. Her hands stuffed with wads of paper, Ms. Snider was feeding a small shredding machine mounted on a plastic wastebasket. The move was part of a campaign by the Santa Cruz libraries to demonstrate their opposition to the Patriot Act, the law passed in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks that broadened the federal authorities' powers in fighting terrorism. Among provisions that have angered librarians nationwide is one that allows the Federal Bureau of Investigation to review certain business records of people under suspicion, which has been interpreted to include the borrowing or purchase of books and the use of the Internet at libraries, bookstores and cafes. Last month, Santa Cruz became one of the first library systems in the country to post warning signs about the Patriot Act at all of its checkout counters. On Friday, April 4 (2003), the libraries went further and began distributing a handout to visitors that outlines objections to the enhanced F.B.I. powers and explains that the libraries were reviewing all records "to make sure that we really need every piece of data" about borrowers and Internet users.

The Privatisation of Water (this is a rerun from last month)

In 1996, the World Water Council, a private think-tank, was formed. The founding members were Egypt's Ministry of Public Works and Water Resources, the Canadian International Development Agency and the French transnational water corporation Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux. Other organisations supporting the start-up of the World Water Council were:
* International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID)
* International Water Resources Association (IWRA)
* Istituto Agronomico Mediterraneo (CIHEAM- Bari)
* International Water Association (IWA)
* United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
* United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
* United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
* United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)
* United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
* Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC)
* World Bank (WB)
* World Conservation Union (IUCN)
* World Health Organization (WHO)
* World Meteorological Association (WMA) To read the complete article click here.

We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility," he said in 1994. "It's easy to say 'It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.' "Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes." Mr. Rogers

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Don't Mess With Texas
Daniel Patrick Welch

Teach them a lesson they'll never forget. So goes the thinking in Texas-on-the-Potomac. And what a lesson it has been! They'll never mess with us again, nosirree Bob! As this childish thinking worms its way around the neocon braintrust, now giddy with "success" of their own definition (like toppling the Taliban?), it is instructive what lessons might be drawn by more rational--albeit scared to death--observers around the world. Read

What do you think?

The History the Government hopes you don't learn
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/letters.html

Depleated Uranium

From the murmur and subtlety of suspicion with which we vex one another, give us rest.
Make a new beginning, and mingle again the kindred of the nations in the alchemy of love;
and with some finer essence of forbearance temper our minds.
Aristophanes (400 B.C.E.)

Green Dove supports the move to Bring Democracy Now with Amy Goodman to the WFHB Bloomington's Community Radio daily schedule. Info at BPAC

The War Against Ourselves

An Interview with Major Doug Rokke
Doug Rokke has a PhD in health physics and was originally trained as a forensic scientist. When the Gulf War started, he was assigned to prepare soldiers to respond to nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare, and sent to the Gulf. What he experienced has made him a passionate voice for peace, traveling the country to speak out. The following interview was conducted by the director of the Traprock Peace Center, Sunny Miller, supplemented with questions from YES! editors. Read

The military's media

by Robert Jensen

ONE OF THE FIRST REPORTS of the Iraq War from an embedded journalist has turned out to be remarkably prescient about the level of independence viewers could expect from U.S. television journalists. CBS News reporter Jim Axelrod, traveling with the Third Infantry, told viewers that he had just come from a military intelligence briefing, where "we've been given orders." Axelrod quickly corrected himself--"soldiers have been given orders"--but it was difficult not to notice his slip. Read

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Police Attacks Against Activists, Indymedia in St. Louis

On May 16-17 in St. Louis police initiated a severe crackdown during the pro-biotech World Agricultural Forum and concurrent Biodevastation 7 conference. The conference went on despite the heavy police presence. On May 16, St. Louis police - backed by federal agents - raided the Community Arts and Media Project (CAMP), and the Bolozone, a collective housing project, in anticipation of the Biodevastation conference and expected protests at the WAF. CAMP is the home of the St. Louis IMC. Police arrested protesters and non-protersers alike, without any provocation. St. Louis IMC isssued this call for support for all of those unjustly arrested. At the same time that police were preparing the downtown area, on a public online forum called St. Louis Coptalk (SLC), police expressed a willful desire to harm peaceful protesters. One officer wrote, "Is it true we're going to be issued the new tazers before next weekend?" and another replied, "I want that 220 Volt model that blows the teeth out of their head, just before they crap their pants." The posts were soon removed from the web forum but Coptalk is still online. [read the whole story] In similar news, the Urbana-Champaign IMC show space has been shut down for alleged fire code violations, forcing the UC-IMC to seek a new location. Click here to find out how you can help the UC-IMC. Read

ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS

Tom Neltner is the founder of Improving Kids' Environment, an Indianapolis-based organization that promotes and tracks health and environment issues that affect children. Neltner was instrumental in the push to require that residents be informed when untreated wastewater from combined sewage and storm water pipes overflows during heavy rains in 105 Indiana communities. The requirement took effect this month. Read

Conservation debate looms on defense

Los Angeles Times

WASHINGTON - In a rebuff to the Bush administration, the Senate on Wednesday rejected a Pentagon request to ease laws protecting endangered species on military lands. With four Republicans breaking with the White House, the Senate voted, 51 to 48, to force the Pentagon to adhere to strict federal rules for conservation of endangered species. Read

Resistance is growing!, - Iidymedia.org

Not only GM crops, but mainly resistance and direct action against these plants, is growing. Anti-GM protesters destroyed the last GM-field in Scotland last week, in direct response to negotiations of the WTO to force GM crops into our food.
In Brazil landless farmers invaded a Monsanto Brazilian biotech test farm to replace it with organic farming. In the UK the headquarters of Bayer was blockaded coinciding with protests which took place at the company in Germany.
Despite consistant public criticism and concern of GM crops, the government has continued to ignore the wishes of the public, obeying instead the voices of economic pressure. READ

Paul Hawken Resigns from Green Business Network over McDonald's Issue

Open Letter from Paul Hawken to the Green Business Network Steering Committee, Posted May 14, 2003

Please let me take this moment to reflect on what a Green Business is and then submit my request to be taken off the Steering Committee.
Increasingly, corporations such as McDonald's have tried to direct the concept of a green business to recycled tray liners, reduced waste stream, and other molecular flows. Those are important issues and require our attention and diligence. But doing so does not make a business green. Green refers to the environment, to ecology. It is about the awareness that we are part of a complex living system, not simply trying to be part of a short term fix. Integral to that system are human beings-their lives, their bodies, their wages, and how they are treated and respected.
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You'd think everyone could understand that some things are precious and ireeplaceable. How much has been lost in the las generation, and how much more can we stand to loose? It shocks me to know that we have less than 80% of the food plants cataloged by the USDA at the end of the 1800's.

Police raid buildings, arrest and detain Biodev activists

St. Louis Police have raided the Community Arts and Media Project (CAMP) and the Bolozone, a St. Louis housing collective. The raids target participants of the Biodevastation7 conference and activists converging at the World Agricultural Forum. Observers at CAMP have reported that the St. Louis Police have handcuffed about 20 people, and City Inspectors accompanied by police are inspecting the building for violations. Ten people have been arrested at Bolozone. A post to the St. Louis IMC newswire encourages everyone to call Chief of Police Joe Mokwa at (314) 444-5624 to demand their immediate release and a stop to the harassment of the movement against genetic engineering and corporate agribusiness.

Bush Shows His Ignorance on GMOs and World Hunger

NEW LONDON, Connecticut, May 21, 2003 (ENS) - In a commencement address
today in front of the 2003 graduating class of the U.S. Coast Guard, President George W. Bush accused the European Union of contributing to starvation in Africa by rejecting U.S.genetically modified crops. Read

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Nuclear Weapons Development Tied to Hill Approval
Senate Democrats Fight Administration's Effort to Build 'Mini-Nukes' and 'Bunker-Busters'

By Helen Dewar
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, May 22, 2003; Page A05
The Senate agreed yesterday to require President Bush to win approval of Congress before ordering full-scale development of a new generation of battlefield nuclear weapons but turned back a Democratic drive to retain a decade-old statutory ban on such work. Read

Can We Create A Culture of Peace?

Some folks believe that it is possible to create a world culture of peace by embracing certain attitudes and ideas. Among them is CPNN USA, a website of the Culture of Peace News Network, a global network of interactive Internet sites in many languages for information exchange on events and media productions that promote one or more of the eight keys of a culture of peace. It is a project of the United Nations International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World. CPNN-USA joins a growing international network (Japan, Australia, Russia) of sites in different languages with articles translated from one to another as a contribution to the United Nations International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World (2001-2010).

Following the United Nations definition, a culture of peace is broader than the traditional concept of peace. It involves the following values, attitudes and behaviors:

· respect all life
· reject violence
· share with others
· listen to understand
· preserve the planet
· rediscover solidarity
· work for women's equality
· participate in democracy.

INTERSTATE 69

Market value to be basis of compensation for interstate
Kurt Van der Dussen, Bloomington Herald-Times

BLOOMINGTON - A recent statement in Greene County by a member of a pro-Interstate 69 group about the value that landowners on the highway route could get for their property was not correct. According to Indiana Commissioner of Transportation J. Bryan Nicol, the state compensates people only at appraised market value - not a 125 percent value suggested by the highway advocate, Paul Tedesco. Read

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Indigenous Activists Beaten by Police

It's reported that at approximately 4 pm police forces fired tear gas on the protestors and began to brutally beat women and children in an attempt to break up the protest.
On May 15, 2003, 300 people peacefully blocked the Pan American highway north of the town of Unión Hidalgo, in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. They were demanding the immediate release of political prisoner Carlos Manzo. It's reported that at approximately 4 pm police forces fired tear gas on the protestors and began to brutally beat women and children in an attempt to break up the protest. The protestors had closed down traffic on the highway from 10 am to 3 pm to denounce the actions of the Juchitán police forces.
On the previous day police had detained Manzo, member of the Consejo Ciuadadano de Unihidalguense (CCU). According to eye witness testimony, Carlos Manzo was approached by 8 police officers saying they had a warrant for his arrest charging him with robbery and deprivation of liberty. Two other indigenous activists have also been arrested, Luis Alberto Marin and Francisco de la Rosa also of the CCU. Manzo, Marin and De la Rosa are 3 of 37 local indigenous leaders and environmental activists who have outstanding warrants for their arrests issued by the Attorney General's office of the state of Oaxaca.
The CCU was formed in February 2003, after a conflict between Unión Hidalgo community members and the municipal government, over the suspected misuse of funds by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) mayor, Armando Sánchez Ruiz. On February 13, 2003, the mayor had ordered municipal police to fire into a crowd that was demonstrating in front of the municipal palace, killing one protestor and injuring nine. The CCU immediately demanded the mayor leave his post. The ongoing political struggle has led to the Oaxaca state government (known for both corruption and repression) stepping in to support the mayor
- issuing arrest warrants on trumped up charges for Unión Hidalgo residents who are active in the CCU.
Many of the indigenous leaders of the CCU have been active participants in a two-year battle to stop an environmentally devastating shrimp farm from being built in Unión Hidalgo. The community is an indigenous Zapotec fishing village. The proposed shrimp farm - heavily promoted by mayor Armando Sánchez Ruiz

- would be built on lands that are presently communal. The industrial shrimp farm would destroy the indigenous local economy as part of Plan Puebla Panama (PPP), being pushed in the region by the Interamerican Development Bank. The PPP is a multi-year billion dollar package of industrial development megaprojects connecting Puebla, Mexico to Panama.
More information on the situation in Unión Hidalgo (in Spanish) http://www.jornada.unam.mx/
Background on Plan Puebla Panamá In English http://www.asej.org/
In Spanish http://www.mesoamericaresiste.org/

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"Straw Bale Stomp" Benefit Concert to raise funds for the Habitat for Humanity Straw Bale House

May 11, 2003

For more information, contact:
Jeanne Leimkuhler: 876-0112 or 332-8796
Mike Englert: 336-0462

Come one, come all for the "Straw Bale Stomp," a benefit concert for the
Habitat for Humanity Straw Bale House. The evening will feature Tim Grimm
and friends, Merrie Sloan, a silent auction and informational speakers.

Three local organizations have joined forces with Habitat for Humanity to
create the straw bale house. The house will be the first of its kind
within the City of Bloomington corporate limits, and will be the first
Habitat for Humanity straw bale house in Indiana (and one of only 10
Habitat straw bale homes in the United States). Volunteers from Harmony
School, Bloomingfoods and the Center for Sustainable Living have been
designing the house and raising funds for many months, echoing the notion
that "many hands make light work." Together, they hope to combine Habitat
for Humanity's vision of creating simple, decent, affordable housing with
those in need and the technology and philosophy of natural eco-building.

The benefit concert will feature folk/Americana musician Tim Grimm and
friends. Tim will be celebrating the release of his new album, "Coyote's
Dream." The Courier, out of Tupelo, MS, calls the album, "a
masterpieceŠYou can almost hear the coyote calls, the crackle of the fire
and the smell of fresh brewed coffee on Coyote's DreamŠHe's a quiet master
following in the footsteps of Woody Guthrie and John Prine." Tim's
concerts at the Steppenwolf Theatre and Schubas earned him the label as
2000's "Best Discovery" on the roots/Americana scene in the Chicago
Sun-Times. Indianapolis Monthly listed him in their year-end "Best of
Indy" issue as their singer-songwriter of choice. "The way this talented
artist can paint pictures dripping of time-honored Americana images with
his words, can not help but evoke comparisons to everyone from Woody
Guthrie and Steve Goodman to Nebraska-era Bruce Springsteen", said Midwest
Beat Magazine. Recently, he has shared the stage with artists as diverse
as Richard Thompson, Lowen and Navarro, and Carrie Newcomer. Playing with
Tim at the Straw Bale Stomp will be Jason Wilber, Dan Lodge-Rigal, Todd
Smith and Jamey Reid.

Opening the show will be local favorite Merrie Sloan, with her well-loved
mix of country and folk. During the musical intermission, attendees will
have the opportunity to learn more about the straw bale house and the
organizations involved in the project from local speakers. In addition,
attendees will be able to make bids at a silent auction, the proceeds of
which will also benefit the straw bale house project. The featured items
for auction are his-and-hers Beach Cruiser bicycles, donated by the
Community Bike Project.

Benefit concert specifics are as follows:

DATE: Thursday, May 29
TIME: 7:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Buskirk-Chumley Theatre in Bloomington
TICKETS: Sunrise Box office and Bloomingfoods

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Big Fish Disappearing from Oceans

Thu, 15 May 2003
HALIFAX - The world's oceans have lost 90 per cent of prized tuna, swordfish and marlin since industrialized fishing began, Canadian scientists warned Wednesday.
Fisheries biologists Ransom Myers and Boris Worm of Dalhousie University in Halifax analyzed nearly 50 years of data on predatory fish catches worldwide.
Their findings debunk the notion that oceans are picture perfect blue frontiers teaming with life. "What we've done is sliced the head off of the world's marine ecosystem and we don't know the consequences," said Myers. Read

End Game? Removing Sanctions in Iraq

Kroc Institute/Fourth Freedom Forum Policy Brief F11 (May 2003)

by David Cortright, Linda Gerber, Alistair Millar, and George A. Lopez
pdf version for printing
IN BRIEF
The Anglo-American proposal now before the Security Council calls for an immediate end to UN sanctions. The lifting of sanctions is necessary to clarify procedures for the resumption of Iraqi oil exports and to remove trade and investment barriers that impede Iraq's economic recovery. Read

"Buy Local" Trend Growing in US

The Christian Science Monitor
from the May 14, 2003 edition -

In search of the ripe stuff Supermarkets today are stocked with choices galore. But some shoppers are questioning dependence on produce from far away.

By Jennifer Wolcott | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

Your grocer posts "locally grown" labels beside bins of potatoes. A city
bistro credits suburban farmers for the beets, radishes, and baby leeks on
its menu. And a farmers' market has set up shop in your neighborhood.
Welcome to the "buy local" movement, about which word is spreading faster
than a patch of mint in a kitchen garden.
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Vandana Shiva on War as an Extension of Corporate Globalization

From Agribusiness Examiner #247
May 13, 2003

Vandana Shiva is a world renowned author and activist based in India--best
know for her critiques of genetic engineering, industrial agriculture, and
globalization.
BECHTEL AND BLOOD FOR WATER
VANDANA SHIVA, ZMAGAZINE: Within a month of the start of the war against Iraq, the real victor is emerging. Bechtel has got a $680 million contract
for "rebuilding" Iraq. Read

"Water is life".

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