Derrick Jensen In Los Angeles: A review
Jeff Hendricks,

A review and analysis of Derrick Jensen's recent talk at Sandpaper books in Los Angeles.
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Why Lebanon? OIL, water, pipelines & profits
4peace,

Why a war on Lebanon? Why now? A new article by Professor Michel Chossudovsky suggests it's about oil, water and pipeline routes, and offers insight into the war's impending expansion. The U.S. and Israel aren't the only nations with interests in this game. Other players appear to include the U.K., France, and Italy.

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Society and Ecology: Murray Bookchin Dies
Murray Bookchin repost - Anarchist Archives,

The libertarian socialist, anti-capitalist thinker, activist and founder of the Social Ecology school Murray Bookchin died on Sunday. See an obituary at nyc indymedia here.

From the Anarchist Archives, Bookchin's essay Society and Ecology:

The problems which many people face today in "defining" themselves are by no means personal ones. These problems exist not only for private individuals; they exist for modern society as a whole. We suffer not only as individuals from alienation and confusion over our identities and goals; our entire society, conceived as a single entity, seems unclear about its own nature and sense of direction. If earlier societies tried to foster a belief in the virtues of cooperation and caring, thereby giving an ethical meaning to social life, modern society fosters a belief in the virtues of competition and egotism, thereby divesting human association of all meaning--except, perhaps, as an instrument for gain and mindless consumption.

We live under the constant threat that the world of life will be irrevocably undermined by a society gone mad in its need to grow--replacing the organic by the inorganic, soil by concrete, forest by barren earth, and the diversity of life-forms by simplified ecosystems; in short, a turning back of the evolutionary clock to an earlier, more inorganic, mineralized world that was incapable of supporting complex life-forms of any kind, including the human species.

Whatever has turned human beings into "aliens" in nature are social changes that have made many human beings "aliens" in their own social world. The domination of the young by the old, of women by men, and of men by men. Until society can be reclaimed by an undivided humanity that will use its collective wisdom, cultural achievements, technological innovations, scientific knowledge, and innate creativity for its own benefit and for that of the natural world, all ecological problems will have their roots in social problems.
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Lt. Governor Candidate: No Tunnel, No Quarry
Stewart A. Alexander,

Stewart Alexander, Candidate for California Lieutenant Governor, is opposing two projects being planned for west Riverside County; a ten mile tunnel that will move traffic beneath the Cleveland National Forest and the Santa Ana Mountains, and a quarry that is being planned near the boarder of Riverside and San Diego County. Alexander says these two projects are the results of irresponsible planning that will cause long term damage to our environment and will have a negative impact on the lives of millions of Californians.
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Critical Mass or Critical Mob -- July Report
lghtslpr,

A group of people calling themselves San Diego Critical Mass rode through the streets of San Diego on Friday, July 28. The ride was characterized by self-focused jubilation, sexism, racism, danger, agression, hostile confrontations, and a police crackdown.

Although this ride resembles Critical Mass, I believe that ultimately it has little in common with the original concept of Critical Mass. The route is dictated by the same few, loud, controlling individuals, who also take every opportunity to spread out thinly and block motorized traffic, create violent confrontations with motorists, and invite crackdown from the police. The rides have nearly no outreach activity.

I can see that many cyclists enjoy themselves on the ride, and there is a palpable buzz among the cyclists. But the energy is one of self-focused aggression. Aggression for the sake of aggression. In other words, it's a mob. Its political philosophy mirrors that of the dominant US culture: Us-vs.-them, You're-either-with-us-or-against-us, Might-makes-right. There is no sense of outreach, sympathy, advocacy or democracy; little concern for safety; nor respect for all human beings. The ride is a Critical Mob, not a Critical Mass.

But I don't think it has to be that way.
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Karmabanque
small WORLD Podcast,

Max and Stacy are Karmabanque/Karmabank Radio; where the tired and oppressed can hear some "jolly good rants" and extremely metaphorical financial entertainment about the neo-feudal corporate occupation and the suicide consumers they inspire.
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Resist the G8 in Mexico Oct 3-4th!
repost from Rising Tide North America,

CLIMATE JUSTICE NOW! Call for Organized Opposition to counter the G8 + 5 Climate Summit: October 3-4 in Mexico City!

¡Enfrente la G8 + 5 Cumbre del Clima! Octubre 3-4 en Ciudad de México: ¡Justicia Climatica Ya!

October 3-4, 2006, Mexico City
Oppose fraudulent G8 climate negotiations!
Stop carbon trading, stand up for climate justice!
A zero emissions world is possible! Make it real!


On Tuesday, October 3 in Mexico City, the Energy and Environment Ministers from the "Group of Eight" (G8) industrialized countries are scheduled to begin negotiating a climate change deal to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012.
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Enlightening GW Congressional Hearing on C-sp
messenger,

Enlightening GW Congressional Hearing on C-span Last Night

At midnight last night, C-span aired
a hearing that took place yesterday
in DC about global warming. They
had four experts and scientists and
one guy, Mr. Wegman (a government
hack), who has been refuting the
scientist's work for years.
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Lebanon, Iran, Syria, Sudan: premeditated war
FactsPlease,

Before emotions and disinformation gain the upper hand, consider what General Wesley Clark wrote in 2003--that by late 2001, the Neocon-led Pentagon was planning a five-year campaign of wars against seven countries: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia and Sudan. (And don't expect to hear about this from Lieberman, McCain, Pelosi, Feinstein, Howard Dean, or the Clintons.)

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water for new orleans poster and letter
repost from email,

...lets try not to be the short term memory society that the corporate media would like us to be...

From the Common Ground Releif Clinic in New Orleans: With the summer heat wave upon us we are in desperate need for water for both volunteers as well as our distribution centers for residents...


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Restoring indigenous ecological wisdom
fried green nopalitos,

Indigenous ecoknowledge can help in solving modern man-made problems with permaculture, decolonization, dismantling border fence, riparian floodplain restoration, etc..

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Counter the G8 + 5 Climate Summit! Oct. 3-4
Rising Tide North America,

On Tuesday, October 3 in Mexico City, the Energy and Environment Ministers from the "Group of Eight" (G8) industrialized countries are scheduled to begin negotiating a climate change deal to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. They will be joined by Energy and Environment Ministers from the five "emerging" countries of Brazil, India, China, South Africa and Mexico. All together, these "G8 + 5" countries represent 58% of the world's human population, 61% of oil consumption, 80% of coal consumption, and 73% of C02 emissions.
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Global Protests Slam G8 Pollution of Climate
Rising Tide North America,

The protests included large "banner drops" in multiple cities, protests of coal and oil companies, and rallies at the U.S. embassy in London and the Washington, DC home of U.S. Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman. On Friday, protestors showed up at Bodman's home, demanding that the United States and the G8 abandon the focus on nuclear, coal, and on oil wars as "energy security." They chanted "No Coal, No Nukes, G-8 shut it down!" No arrests took place.
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Hottest July Day Ever in England
reposted,

By Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor for The Independent -

Published: 20 July 2006
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Largest on-shore oilfield is hidden from view
Sharat G. Lin,

Whether viewed from the ground or the air, the vast landscape is blighted by a maze of dirt roads, myriad drilling pads, a web of crude oil and steam pipelines, tank farms, and a forest of electric power poles. Apparently, the oil companies make no secret of their dislike of people coming to photograph the oilfields for fear that public awareness of the sheer intensity of drilling and production will bring about increased regulatory scrutiny. Security guards in white pick-up trucks scurry after cars that stop on the shoulders of public roads to photograph the activity. On one occasion, the author was pursued up Mocal Road out of the Midway-Sunset oilfield and into the dead end of Crocker Springs Road.

The largest oilfield in the lower 48 states in not in Texas, but in California. And it's not off-shore. If fact, it straddles the California Aqueduct that supplies much of Los Angeles' drinking water. Guess what? The oil companies don't want you to know about it.
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Of Knighthoods and Commanders
Marcos Loures,

about the decoration made to Bob Petterson, a famous Brazilian politician


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Lebanon & Sudan: Premeditated neocon wars
FactsPlease,

Before emotions get the upper hand, let's catch our breath and consider what General Wesley Clark wrote in 2003--that as of late 2001, the Neocon-led Pentagon was planning a five-year campaign of wars against seven countries: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia and Sudan. (And let's not forget that Sudan has both oil and uranium.)

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Derrick Jensen Benefit for Green Scare at Che Cafe
John Bongo,

Question: Which one book would you give to every politician?

Answer: One that explodes.

Before you freak out, let’s change the question and see what you think: Which one book would you give to Hitler, Goering, Himmler, and Goebbels? Let’s ask this another way: Would a book have changed Hitler? I don’t think so. Unless it exploded.

And before you freak out at the comparison of modern politicians to Hitler and his gang, try to look at it from the perspective of wild salmon, grizzly bears, bluefin tuna, or any of the (fiscally) poor or indigenous human beings. Those in power now are more destructive than anyone has ever been. And they are for the most part psychologically unreachable. And if someone does reach some politician, that politician will no longer be in power.

I recently shared a stage with Ward Churchill. He said the primary difference between the U.S. and the Nazis is that the U.S. didn’t lose.

I responded with one word: “Yet.”

Fanning the Flames of Resistance. A benefit for those resisting the Green Scare ...featuring Derrick Jensen
Friday, July 28th 7-9:30PM
Che Café (Building 161)
UC San Diego
Off I-5 / La Jolla Village Dr. / Gilman Dr.
 http://checafe.ucsd.edu/

$10 sliding scale/No one turned away
All proceeds benefit non-cooperating victims of Green Scare
* Government agents subject to a $975 surcharge*

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Feral Visions anarchist gathering in Arizona
gila monster,

Feral Visions Against Civilization - Announcing the 4th Annual Green Anarchist Gathering! August 4th-13th, 2006 (full moon on the 9th), in the high elevation Sky Island Mountains of Southeastern Arizona.
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Solidarity Delegation to Venezuela
Edward Mercado,

LAST CALL
The objective of this delegation is to bring the revolutionary process taking place in Venezuela to light by facilitating the active participation of the delegates with several different community organizations and community-based social programs.


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Diabetes and Depleted Uranium - Italian Embas
Bob Nichols, Project Censored Award Winner,

Italian Embassy Cover up Continues
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Cop Crackdown On the Eve of G8 in Russia
repost from email,

Russia is on the verge of the G8 summit which is to be hosted in Saint Petersburg.

The activists belonging to different political and grass root organizations and groups scattered all over Russia are coming to Saint Petersburg to participate in the alternative "summit". These persons are being harassed and persecuted by the local police and security services agents on their way to Saint Petersburg.

Up to this date at least 100 people have been detained under various pretexts having no legal force. People are forcefully deprived of their documents, transportation tickets, stalked by unknown individuals and then once again arrested by police on the pretext of protecting their personal safety (!). On different occasions people have brutally been mishandled by police and secret service agents.

We are appealing to all people in the Western countries and asking them to voice their solidarity with the Russian political and social activists at this critical moment on the eve of the G-8 summit. We suggest that you picket the Russian embassies and consulates.

For more info about anti-g8 actions in russia, see
 http://int.ru.indymedia.org/

UPDATE:
Despite the fact that as many as 200 potential anti-G8 protesters have been already arrested just before the arrival of Bush in Russia, activists yesterday successfully organised a large carnival protest in Moscow without a single person being detained. "Russian citizens desperately need international help. The government, police and the justice system are only oppressing popular dissent. We urge people to put pressure on the Russian embassy wherever they live." The police have today cancelled the one previously permitted demonstration against the G8, making all public dissent now officially illegal.
 http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2006/07/116615.shtml




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Diabetes and Depleted Uranium ll
Bob Nichols,

Italian Embassy Cover up Continues
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Outlawing Genetic Engineering
Myron (Mike) Stagman, PhD,

Genetic Engineering is a nightmare technology that has ALREADY caused a number of deadly, crippling and injurious disease epidemics, documented but unpublicized. Outlawing GE (GM, GMOs) via grassroots education/activation techniques will help create a Grassroots Democracy -- making history of the Corporation-Government-corporate Mass Media axis.
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Global Warming Destroys Wine Industry
Amy Goodearth,

Global Warming spells disaster for much of the multibillion-dollar wine industry.

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Earth First! Blockades Coal Plant in Virginia
EF!,

- Early this morning, activists with Earth First! and Rising Tide North America set up a non-violent blockade of American Electric Power's (AEP) nearly 50 year old Clinch River coal fired electric facility. Emitting millions of pounds of pollutants yearly, the Clinch River coal plant threatens the health and lives of thousands of downwind residents and the surrounding environment. Burning coal is not only a primary factor behind global climate change, but also drives the expansion of large scale strip mining. Large scale surface mining destroys forests, streams and communities as it alters the Appalachian landscape forever.

UPDATE:
As activists crowded the bridge, they strung banners that read 'The beauty of the mountains runs deeper than a coal seam - abolish strip mining', and 'Clean energy can never come from coal', as well as 'Stop mountain top removal mining'. All coal and other vehicle traffic was blocked to the site for the remainder of the business day. Forming a human roadblock to reinforce the blockade, the assembled activists sang protest songs and engaged in dialogue with police, coal truck drivers, and plant employees. By the end of the day the state police had dispatched more than fifty cars, an armored vehicle, a helicopter, and at least sixty troopers. Having successfully delivered their message to AEP and the wider public, activists negotiated with police to secure the release of people physically locked to the blockade and incurred no arrests.
 http://www.mountainjusticemedia.org/test.php?obj_id=53&story_id=20

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Palast Skewers Democrats in New Book
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Journalist, economist and activist Greg Palast came to San Diego June 10 in defiance of his publishers to promote his new book, "Armed Madhouse." The book attacks American politicians of both major parties and celebrates independent figures like Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, former U.S. Presidential candidate H. Ross Perot and the late Louisiana governor Huey Long. It also offers a provocative explanation of what the war in Iraq is really about — not getting Iraq's oil, but quite the contrary: keeping it off the market in order to raise the price and increase the already swollen profits of Big Oil.
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Math Professor: Why "HIV/AIDS" Doesn't Add Up
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Rebecca Culshaw, Ph.D., a mathematics professor at the University of Texas in Tyler, won her Ph.D. by modeling the replication of HIV inside the human body — but her researches eventually led her to the conclusion that HIV, the so-called "AIDS virus," cannot possibly be the cause of the syndrome. In this interview, reprinted from the July 2006 Zenger's Newsmagazine, she explains how fundamentally illogical the HIV/AIDS hypothesis really is and how biologists in particular have broken the rules of science to maintain their false belief that HIV causes AIDS.
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BLACKFIRE, Fri 8PM da Blackdoor, North Park
repost from e-mail, durango indymedia,

BLACKFIRE, with Dias Tristes

"BLACKFIRE's style comprises traditional Native American, Punk-Rock and 'Alter-Native' with strong sociopolitical messages about government oppression, relocation of indigenous people, ecocide, genocide, domestic violence and human rights."

"i think we need to recognize that all our struggles are connected, whether they be sexism, heterosexism, destruction of the earth, exploitation of indigenous people and their land to the war- invasion in Iraq, all of these things are connected. There are some roots in a belief system and the value of "success" and the value is not in life but in money. All of these corporations, free trade agreements, all of these things are fueled by globalization that is connected to the colonization of our people. It's the same thing, the same force, the same form that we've been fighting for over 500 years on this continent, and it's on a larger scale now. It's something that is connected to all these struggles that we really need to recognize and build the bridges and build the solidarity. And solidarity means action." [durango indymedia, from interview with clayton dewey]

Friday, July 7th doors open at 8pm

da Blackdoor
3925 Ohio St. North Park, SD
[off University 1 blk E of 30th]

$8 at the door
proceeds benefit local organizations fighting the minutemen and supporting migrant families currently under attack

 http://www.blackfire.net
 http://www.savethepeaks.org
 http://colorado.indymedia.org/newswire/display/7836/index.php

...also playing Saturday night at the MultiKulti in TJ...

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THE TRUTH ABOUT SPAM (Self Protecting America
Spammers International,

Stop Spamming Me!
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