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(Reports by Month, Abstracts; Pls
See Below for each Month)
Report Archives (Overview, Present – 3.2002)
Trends in Brief (By Year, 2008–2003)
eClippings on Nonviolence in Apartheid Violence
NV 101 in
Context: Text Background
2009.7–9 Report on
Apartheid-Nonviolence 101*
_ U.S.
Considers Joining International Criminal Court as Urban Citizen Networks
Blockade against Foreclosure
_ International Day of Peace without Borders (2009) and
Global Warming Initiatives Reports
_ Provisional Table of Contents —
Nonviolence 101; An Experience-based Manual for Approaches, Methods,
and Outcomes in Academic and Activist Organization (Word version hyperlinked;
pdf);
Suggestions Welcome.
_ U.S.
Considers Joining International Criminal Court/ICC as Urban Citizen Networks
Blockade against Foreclosure. ICC since 2002 ratified by over 110 states; Not U.S., China,
Israel, and Russia;
Czechs, in turn, celebrate court-mediated end of destabilizing GWB-era “missile
shield” threats. As in 1930s,
network blockades resist foreclosure and homelessness, while monitoring
police-military intervention; But in Sept 2009,
U.S.
deploys first sonic LRAD urban-war-prison cannons, sound blasts loud enough to
fell people, disable eardrums, or, at times, force fatal aneurysms. Top 5% of U.S. population
now owns more than bottom 95%. See
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/06/pdf/foreclosure_mediation.pdf;
http://www.radioproject.org/archive/2009/3109.html;
http://www.acorn.org/fileadmin/ACORN_Reports/2009/Road_to_Rescue_Report.pdf.;
www.newbeginningscounselingcenter.org;
www.pinellashope.org;
www.cohsf.org;
www.nrchmi.samhsa.gov/Default.aspx;
www.kwru.org;
www.endhomelessness.org;
www.nhi.org/online/issues/135/organize.html;
www.nlchp.org; www.nlchp.org;
http://takebacktheland.blogspot.com;
www.picturethehomeless.org;
www.wraphome.org;
www.thenation.com/doc/20090209/ehrenreich?rel=hp_currently;
http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2008/12/17/a-gender-agenda-women-and-the-financial-crisis/;
www.nationalhomeless.org/publications/facts/How_Many.html;
www.responsiblelending.org/issues/mortgage/quick-references/new-foreclosures-by-state.html;
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/sex--and-the-stimulus/?scp=2&sq=economix%20stimulus&st=cse;
and
http://www.oaklandnet.com/government/citizens/homepage.html;
http://www.nacole.org/;
http://www.peopleunited.org/;
http://www.peopleunited.org/;
http://www.nacole.org/media/pdf/NACOLERosterAug07.pdf. Sound cannons aimed
at Pittsburgh G20 Resistance Project and Pittsburgh People’s Peace March (Thomas
Merton Center), http://resistg20.org/;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2009/sep/25/sonic-cannon-g20-pittsburgh;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/24/g20-pittsburgh-protest-police;
http://www.thomasmertoncenter.org/;
http://www.g20media.org/;
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_13420637;
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705332445/Thousands-opposed-to-G-20-march-in-Pittsburgh.html?linkTrack=rss-5;
and
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/9/24/after_20_years_of_filmmaking_on;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Range_Acoustic_Device;
http://www.capitalismalovestory.com/;
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0909/S00257.htm;
http://www.payvand.com/news/09/sep/1268.html; and
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/09/25/louder-than-bombs-lrad-sonic-cannon-debuts-in-u-s-at-g20-pro/.
See also Ewen MacAskill, “Clinton: It is a ‘Great Regret’ the US is Not in
International Criminal Court,” 6 Aug 2009,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/06/us-international-criminal-court;
Ewen MacAskill, “US May Join International War Crimes Court, Hillary Clinton
Hints,” 6 Aug 2009; and
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/06/us-may-join-warcrimes-court;
See also French-Farsi PhD dissertation,
Ramin Jahanbegloo, Gandhi: Aux sources de
la non-violence: Thoreau, Ruskin, Tolstoi (Le temps et les mots), in terms
of Martin Beck Matuštík, “Velvet Revolution in Iran?”
http://www.logosjournal.com/issue_5.3/matustik.htm.
_ International Day of Peace without Borders (Sept 2009) and
Global Warming Initiatives; Single largest event likely in Havana, with well over a million people.
State energy timelines, e.g., on phasing-out fossil-fuel incandescent
light-bulb world usage: Cuba, Venezuela (2005); Ireland (2009?); Argentina,
Australia,
Philippines (2010?); Canada,
European Union, (2012?); California (2018?); U.S. (2030?); Brazil & Japan “Edison Bulb” usage
has dropped 50%. See
http://features.csmonitor.com/globalnews/2009/09/21/when-doves-fly-world-celebrates-international-day-of-peace/;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8265177.stm;
http://baize.eu/electric_light_bulb_en.html;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_incandescent_light_bulbs;
http://www.environ.ie/en/Environment/Atmosphere/ClimateChange/LightBulbsPublicConsultation/LightBulbsFAQs/;
http://cleantech.com/news/4926/arms-against-eus-ban-indandescents;
http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/news/business/energy-environment/efficient-lighting/index.html;
http://directaction.org.au/issue10/cuban_energy_revolution_combating_global_warming;
http://www.yahoo-pazsinfronteras.com (w flickr pics);
http://pazsinfronteras.org/;http://www.tu.tv/videotag/luther-cubainformacion/cubava
(Liuba María Hevia);
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2008/10/how-many-politicians-does-it-t.html;
and
http://www.cubaminrex.cu/english/Actualidad/2009/September/TalkingBRUNO220909.html.
World Global Warming Initiatives Reports emphasize looming
planetary thresholds or tipping points from rising wind force, sea-level, and
sea–weather acidicity: 1) Undermining cellularity — e.g., more acidic seas
dissolving aragonite formation, a shell-making substance needed by corals,
shellfish; Mutating insect-borne disease vectors; 2) Flooding coasts — e.g.,
sea-levels overrunning low areas, from Florida and Bangladesh to the
Netherlands; Over next half-century, U.S. flooding likely over lower Manhattan
and North Carolina’s beaches; 2,400 miles of U.S. roads at risk, along SE and
Gulf coast oil-shipping infrastructures; 3) Collapsing systems — e.g.,
rain-oxygen, in Amazon rainforests or African & Indian monsoons; budding
dust-fire-hurricane clusters; and 4) Searing devolution — e.g., ice-melt water,
needed by over 25% of world population’s water for drinking, farming, and
hydro-power. Coalescent systemic
undermining, flooding, collapsing, and searing experience shifting demographics
away from equatorial-latitudes. Over next half-century — long-term heat–drought
waves forecast for Glasgow, London, Tokyo, Birmingham, Chicago, Manchester, Los
Angeles, New York City, and like “temperate” cities; New England winters down
toward 2 weeks. U.S. Mid-West, Asian Rim food production, diminishing; Salmon
and other bio-protein sources, perishing; Colorado and other ice-melt rivers’ water, dwindling; Alaska and NE-Asia
Airports over permafrost, sinking.
See
http://www.unep.org/compendium2009/;
http://www.unep.org/compendium2009/PDF/compendium2009.pdf (illus maps);
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/6228179/Climate-change-accelerating-UNEP.html;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jun/16/obama-climate-change-impacts;
Jonsson, “Big Tropical Storms in Atlantic Hit 1,000-Year High, Study Suggests
Hurricane Frequency Has Increased,”
Christian Science Monitor, 16 Aug 2009,
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/JustOneThing/story?id=8332131&page=1; Mann,
Woodruff, … “Atlantic Hurricanes and Climate over the Past 1,500 Years,” 460
Nature (13 August 2009), 880-883;
Goldenberg, “Manhattan Floods, Chicago Heatwaves and Withering Californian
Vines,” 16 June 2009,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jun/16/climate-change-sea-level;
and Jonathan Leake, “Cities to Sizzle as Islands of Heat,” 10 May 2009;
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6256520.ece.
_ Provisional Table of Contents —
Nonviolence 101; An Experience-based Manual for Approaches, Methods,
and Outcomes in Academic and Activist Organization (Word version hyperlinked; pdf);
Suggestions Welcome.
2009.3–6 Report on
Apartheid-Nonviolence 101
_ 2009 International Year of Astronomy &
International Year of of Reconciliation
_ Nonviolence in Colombia
& Iran
from “Irangate” (Noviolencia &
Bikhỏshoonat)
_ Nonviolence from (Islamic Mayor-led)
Rotterdam,
Europe’s Largest Seaport
_ 2009 International Year of Astronomy & International Year of
Reconciliation; 2009 International Year of Astronomy / IYA celebrates 400 years
of “Eyes on the Skies” telescope changes, 1609 to 2009.
Celebration marked by
RedShift 7 Software; (First public domain
RedShift NASA-U.S.-tax-funded Software, but from Germany);
RedShift compares how inside views
toward galaxies’ cores appear reddish or yellowish, but bluish-white, looking
inside out; A shift in “light” comparable to how approaching vehicle sirens
sound differently arriving than going away, but as to light waves or particles
of heat, radiation. Oriented around
RedShift, early on
nonviolence-oriented science fiction explored such light experience through
books like Star Maker.
IYA 2009 book with full movie,
Eyes on the Skies, 400 Years of Telescopic
Discovery, (free video downloads), traces astrophotography as framing
offworld views. By 1900 David Gill,
(Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope,
South Africa),
pioneered astrophotography published in the
Cape Photographic Durchmusterung
[Southern & Northern Sky]. Future
telescopes may measure gravitational space-time waves, (‘discovered’ at Arecibo
PR), and neutrino anomalies deep inside mines, below the ocean surface, or in
Antarctic ice. Largest land-based telescopes planned for northern Chile and
Argentina; Chile’s Cerro Pachon plans (2015) to use three-gigapixel camera;
Argentina’s Pierre Auger Observatory to use 1,600 detectors, spread virtually
over 3,000 square kilometres, to track particles from trans/galactic black
holes. Low Frequency LOFAR-SKA
(One-Million+) Global Array prototypes may bridge offworld views, virtually, via
the Netherlands, Australia, and South Africa, as well as U.S.–Japan interface,
extended offworld. On your “Desktop” Online Google’s LSST, if on schedule, could
produce 30 terabytes of graphics every “night” from virtual telescopes.
See Schilling & Christensen
Eyes on the Skies, 400 Years of Telescopic Discovery (Wiley, 2009),
(pp 67, 90, 73, 89, 123, 118, & 75, respectively); Notes that “Subaru” is the
Japanese name for the Pleiades (p 56);
www.allesoversterrenkunde.nl;
www.communicatingastronomy.org;
www.spacetelescope.org;
movetwo.de;
http://www.redshift-live.com/;
http://www.redshift-live.com/index.php/en/about-redshift.html;
http://www.mps.mpg.de/de/projekte/herschel/;
http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/area/index.cfm?fareaid=16;
http://www.mps.mpg.de/projects/herschel/HssO/;
http://www.skatelescope.org/PDF/Intl%20eng%20overview_colour.pdf;
http://web.up.ac.za/sitefiles//EMS.pdf; and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOFAR;
http://www.iras.ucalgary.ca/~volk/net-www.html;
as well as, original, with dated gender grammar, science fiction writings of
Olaf Stapledon (1886–1950),
http://feedbooks.com/book/2028, (free downloads), 1915-1919 War Friends
Ambulance Unit Driver, as well early nonviolent opponent of apartheid, from
Liverpool University;
http://www.adherents.com/lit/sf_quaker.html; in addition to Robert Bowman,
Star Wars: Defense or Death Star
(Institute for Space and Security Studies, 1985 —
Top Rockwell-Raytheon Star Wars engineer “turned” by Raymond Wilson,
FCNL, over first-strike Star Wars intent & method); Walter Cruttenden,
Lost Star (St Lynn’s, 2006, over
binary star dialogue); and Paul van Ward,
Gods, Genes, and Consciousness (Hampton Roads, 2004, over astro-archeology
linguistics).
Planet earth’s largest offworld public-domain telescope may
currently be Herschel-Planck / HPK (Not Hubble); May 2009 launch by 18 NASA &
ESA nations from Kourou, French Guinea, West Africa — HPK Dimensions: 25 feet
long; 11.5 feet or 3.5 meters wide Cassegrain mirror, (4 ft wider than Hubble);
3.4 tons; cooled to -441 degrees Fahrenheit, (enough Helium for 4 years).
HPK aims at outer planets and moons (like Titan & Enceladus), through
interstellar dust, toward water isotopologues in comet-planetary atmospheres and
galaxy & super-galaxy clusters; Remote sensing interfaced from
Spain and ESA, Darmstadt,
Germany. See
Alastair Jamieson, “Satellites to Explore Origins
of Universe,” 14 May 2009;
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/space/5322904/Satellites-to-explore-origins-of-universe.html;
http://www.unac.org/en/news_events/un_days/international_years.asp;
http://www.astronomy2009.org/;
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Herschel/index.html;
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/herschelplanck/SEMS87ZVNUF_mg_1.html; and
Stephen Clark, “Spaceflight Now, May
13, 2009,
http://spaceflightnow.com/ariane/v188/herschel.html. Hubble replacement,
James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, may also transcend human “visible” light by
2014.
Historically William and Caroline
Herschel “discovered” Uranus, Mars’ ice-cap, and binary stars,
organizing academic group efforts around garden-oriented Bath, England; Sister
Caroline defining roles for women astronomers, (e.g., the
British Catalogue of Stars [Northern
Sky]). Coining words like “asteroid,” the
Herschels explored solar system movement (indirectly “dark” matter) shaping
galaxies. Planck’s quantum physics
theory engendered a (pre-1940s) Euro-Continental academic group at the
University
of Berlin, with, among
others, Hahn, Einstein, Harnack, Meitner, and von Helmholtz.
For its part, U.S. may publish (40th
Anniversary) Moon Landings color video footage within 2009 International Year of
Astronomy. In effect NASA’s Chandra and Spitzer have tentatively explored beyond
the human-”visible” light spectrum; While HPK may probe beyond brown, neutron,
or quark binary “pole” star light.
See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Herschel;
http://www.bath-preservation-trust.org.uk/?id=8;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck;
http://www.max-planck.mpg.de/;
http://www.mpg.de/english/portal/index.html;
http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/archive/topic/eyesontheskies/;
www.eyesontheskies.org;
www.spacetelescope.org;
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/110442/WORLD-EXCLUSIVE-NASA-finds-missing-moon-landing-tapes.
2009 International Year of Reconciliation / IYR promoted by
Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, President UN General Assembly (sponsored by Argentina, Brazil,
El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras
and Nicaragua).
IYR sets world stage for years-end tolerance and reconciliation
conference in South Africa,
namely: “Beyond Reconciliation: Dealing with the Aftermath of Mass Trauma and
Political Violence,” 2-6 Dec 2009,
University
of Cape Town, Conference
on Reconciliation & Restorative Justice. See
http://www.un-ngls.org/IMG/pdf/GA_Statement_English_SM.pdf;
http://www.peaceoneday.org;
http://www.peacebuilding.it/highlights/highlights_2007/A-61-L.22.pdf;
http://www.beyondreconciliation.co.za;
http://www.humiliationstudies.org/news/2009/04/page/3/;
http://www.for.org.uk/files/FoR_PbP_spring2009_web.pdf; and
http://www.ifor.org/representation.htm
(FOR’s Kim & Ostrowski at U.N.).
_ Nonviolence in Colombia
& Iran from “Irangate” (Noviolencia
& Bikhỏshoonat)
“Irangate” (Iran-Contra arms & drugs phenomena) comprises
U.S.,
Israel,
Palestine,
Central America, the Islamic Republic of Iran,
and Colombian-Peruvian drug & energy wars.
Over the last 40 years, U.S.
foreign policy has projected analogous early 21st Century diplomacy
channels, still in play, gaming energy-access-oriented wars in the Eastern
Mediterranean and the Oil
Gulf.
To counter, Colombian (Latin) & Irani (Farsi) cultures of nonviolence
emerge to resolve these transnational issues, whatever nationalism overlay,
given privateering oil, drugs, and arms financial stakes; Ironically, Cuba,
Israel, Lebanon, and Palestine all-too-often caught in ensuing crossfire.
Obscured by weapons of mass destruction scenarios,
concurrent regime objectives denote deploying oil pipelines, via Mid-East
geopolitical circumstance, or preventing a competitive Asian transoceanic canal
across the Central American Isthmus.
The U.S. has been unwilling to negotiate a way back to peace with Iran, having
“burned” its diplomatic bridges, while also unable to overcome Iran militarily;
As during pre-1979 rule by a proxy Shah regime, imposed over Iran’s
democratically-elected leader, Mossadegh, the latter attempting to lightly tax
transnational Oil Gulf companies. See Khalid
Kishtainy, (English-Iraqi), Nakhwa al-La’unf
(Jerusalem, al-Markaz al-Filastini liDirasat, 1986, 228 pp), (Amman: Dar al-Karmil,
1984, 192 pp), on nonviolence history across Arab and Farsi world; Kishtainy’s
blog, from 2008 — http://kishtainiat.blogspot.com/
or
http://www.blogger.com/profile/02072097634857650229; Kishtainy, “Jihad:
Misunderstood and Abused,” 2/1 As-Salamu ‘Alaykum, Muslim Peace Fellowship, FOR, (NYC 1996), 1,
14-15. International Council for Press and Broadcasting awarded Kishtainy its
Lifetime Achievement International Media Award, 11 May 2009,
blogspot.com/2009/06/kishtainy-awarded.html.
See also
http://home.comcast.net/~apartheid101/search.htm as to how Noam Chomsky,
Khalid Kishtainy, Iraqi and Irani leaders (like Al-Sistani), assert that Irani-Iraqi
nonviolence and human needs-rights movement momentum are more ‘dangerous’ to
U.S. oil transnational corporate geopolitical aims in the Oil Gulf region than
so-called insurgent violence, per se;
as well as
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/28/iraq-holiday-us-withdrawal;
http://www.merip.org/mero/mero060906.html;
http://www.merip.org/mero/mero012804.html;
http://www.merip.org/mer/mer250/editorial.html;
http://www.merip.org/mer/mer212/212_editorial.html;
http://www.merip.org/mer/mer250/abrahamian75-76.html (1979);
http://www.minaret.org/alternatives%20to%20violence.pdf, (year-long Irani
nonviolence toward 1979 Revolution of Iran);
http://www.merip.org/mer/mer223/223_urbina.html;
(apartheid parallels); Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize, 2003,
http://www.merip.org/mero/mero102703.html;
http://www.merip.org/mer/mer219/219_ziba-mir-hosseini.html;
http://www.merip.org/mer/mer250/abrahamian.html;
http://www.scu.edu.au/research/cpsj/human_rights/AHRP2008_Proc_Final_v2.pdf;
http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/2501);
http://forusa.org/programs/iran/;
http://www.mondoinpace.it/download/bibliografia.pdf,
(Italian-sourced bibliography);
http://www.nonviolenceinternational.net/islambib_001.htm;
http://www.cdi.org/pdfs/IranSpaceTimeline09.pdf; and
http://cdi.org/program/document.cfm?DocumentID=4459&ProgramID=32&StartRow=1&ListRows=10&from_page=../whatsnew/index.cfm.
Sufi writers like Rabi’a, (or Rabi’at Al-’Adawiyyah, Qaddiyah
Al Qassiyah), from the Tigris-Euphrates Delta or Shatt Al-Arab area shared by
Iran and Iraq — and Rumi, (or Mawlana Jalal ad-Din) from Afghanistan, Iran, and
Turkey — forged what might be called nonviolent “love” as a spiritual source for
political-economic power, as a tool to peacefully transform nations.
Long-term travelers like Ibn Al ‘Arabi likewise ranged from Cordoba and
Cairo to Baghdad, synergizing schools to co-create community-based leadership, (madrasa
wa ulama), rather than Ottoman
domination by military conscription (devshirme)
— despite wide-ranging wars of the Berber, Abbasid, Ottomans, the Khans, and a
Holy Roman Empire, and near eradication of pacifist Albigensians.
Quranic ijtihad codes echo such
historic anti-war sentiments. Likely
born in Balkh, Khorasan, (now Afghanistan), and living in Iran and Turkey, Rumi wrote poetry underlying
classical Afghan, Iranian, and Turkish music; Rabi’a wrote poetry liberating
Sufis.
See Abdul Aziz Said & Paul Hubers, “The
Convergence of Global Nonviolence in the Middle-East,” 3
International Journal of Nonviolence (1998), 184-187;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi;
Hulya Kuçük, “Dervishes Make a City: The Sufi Culture in Konya,” 16/3
Critical Middle Eastern Studies
(2007), 241-253; Kiyayi, Mawlana Jalal
al-Din Muhammad Balkhi (Mawlavi) (Tihran: Daftar-i Pizhuhish’ha-yi Farhangi,
2007); and Whinfield, Masnavi i Manavi:
The Spiritual Couplets of Maulána Jalálu-d-Dín Muhammad i Rúmí (Tehran:
Yassavoli, 1996); as well as, e.g.,
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=4106190&c=FEA&s=COM; and much by
Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel / SERPAJ on nonviolence.
Colombian Nonviolence (Noviolencia)
Colombian nonviolence (noviolencia) may have emerged to counter a violent, global arms and
drug war business since the 1940s — with respect to higher long-term
demographic percentage losses of Colombian war-dead than Iran, Iraq, Israel, or
Palestine war-dead population percentage losses. Much of the world’s
arms & drug business stems from violent phenomena like “IranGate” — Entailing 3rd
World or “dirty”–“low-intensity” War inflicting consequent inner cities’
streets. In local-global response,
symbolically, nonviolently, despite over 180 related deaths (especially in 2005)
in their rural San José de Apartadó Community, Colombian farmers have organized
effectively. In turn, in May 2009,
the U.S. Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) awarded San José farmers their Annual Peace Award, at
the Santa Barbara CA Resource Center for Nonviolence and
Tres Americas — as supported through FOR interpositioning, or
live/work-in, visitors-witnesses-for-peace. Supporting
Colombian nonviolence against killings, despite surveillance intervention, and,
so, helping to cut U.S. military aid, over $1 million a day, for six months —
John Lindsay-Poland, (FOR Task Force on Latin America & the Caribbean), and
Chris Courtheyn, (a FOR representative for a year in Colombia), corroborate how
FOR challenges U.S. military aid to Colombia, (conditional on human rights
issues). Watching for soldiers or drug death squads, Courtheyn lived in a rural
village, La Union, farming organic banana and chocolate crops.
As a whole, correspondingly, Colombian
people support over 4 million internally-displaced war refugees, currently more
than Sudan or any
other country; Even as, in 2008, largely-”Irangate”-style armed and trained para/military
forces also killed more trade union leaders than the rest of the world combined.
See Chris
Watson, “Protecting the Peace Process,” 2 May 2009;
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_12278059?source=most_emailed;
http://www.lawg.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=446&Itemid=68;
http://www.lawg.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=443&Itemid=68;
http://www.lawg.org/storage/lawg/documents/un_eje_english.pdf,
(UN, June 2009);
http://www.lawg.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=411&Itemid=64;
http://www.peaceincolombia.org/;
http://www.forpeace.net/news/2008/12/24/colombia-peace-news-december-2008;
http://www.usleap.org/more-trade-unionists-murdered-colombia-2008-rest-world-combined-guatemala-number-two-latin-america-0;
http://www.ituc-csi.org/spip.php?article3800;
http://www.lawg.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=447;
http://www.forcolombia.org/actionalert/break-in;
http://www.aflcio.org/issues/jobseconomy/globaleconomy/upload/colombia_briefing.pdf;
http://www.connexions.org/CxLibrary/CX2523.htm;
http://www.wola.org/;
http://www.lawg.org/storage/lawg/documents/other%20half.pdf;
http://www.usleap.org/category/campaigns/violence-against-colombian-trade-unionists;
http://www.southernstudies.org/2009/06/key-leaders-of-honduras-military-coup-trained-in-us.html;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/29/manuel-zelaya-honduras-coup-protests;
LAWG may be concentrating on U.S. arms
or weapons and training (however financed, as well as drugs, Middle-East proxies
... ) transfers.
Marching by the thousands since Fall 2008, locally, and into
the Colombian capital, Bogota, Colombian-Jambalo
Mingas, or collective nonviolent tribal movements of 18 indigenous
communities, have also, for instance, shut down, at times, the Pan American
Highway, so as to lower violent military and anti-government tension, during
demonstrations for return of over 45,000 acres officially promised in 1991.
See
http://www.nasaacin.org/;
http://www.nasaacin.org/noticias.htm?x=8963;
http://www.nasaacin.org/noticias.htm?x=217
http://www.acrosstheamericas.org/node/154;
http://dallaspeacecenter.org/node/3881;
http://mamaradio.blogspot.com/2009/04/q-indigenous-people-in-colombia-become.html;
http://cpt.org/gallery/La-Minga%3A-Caminando-la-Palabra;
http://www.boston.com/news/world/latinamerica/articles/2009/01/18/colombian_indians_stand_up_to_violence/;
http://www.forcolombia.org/delegation;
http://www.forcolombia.org/monthlyupdate;
http://www.forcolombia.org/uspolicy;
http://www.forusa.org/programs/colombia/Buildingfromtheinside.pdf;
http://forusa.org/programs/colombia/;
http://wilderside.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/maria-murillo-of-wbai-reporting-from-columbia/.
See also La No-Violencia, Una
Revolucion Integral (Bogota, Colombia, Fundacion Horizontes para la Paz,
about 1980, 45 pp.);
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/Ning/archive/archive/072/parry_kornblub.PDF;
http://www.colectivodeabogados.org/IMG/pdf/dyncorp_acu_eng.pdf;
http://www.ices.lk/publications/esr/articles_jul99/ESR-Oliver.pdf;
http://www.fygeditores.com/sanford/doc/Learning%20to%20Kill%20by%20Proxy.pdf;
http://www.understandingpower.com/AllChaps.pdf;
and Refer to instances of nonviolence such as Evin Morales, Bolivian leader of
state, using a long hunger strike to avert civil war over oil and gas access
issues; or Paraguay-Uruguay refusal to allow U.S. Soldiers deployment over the
U.S. to participate in World Criminal Court, Hague NL; as well as to hemispheric
effects of U.S. Civil Rights-sourced lobbying through the U.S. Congressional
Black Caucus, leading to U.S. Cuba Trade being revived within the OAS,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/14/cuba-us-sanctions-obama; and
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6117242.ece;
Iranian Nonviolence (Bikhỏshoonat)
In the 1970s, Iran’s Khomeini
intuitively initiated one of the largest nuclear weapons “cuts” planet-wide
to-date, by cancelling $8 Billion USD in U.S.-NATO militarization contracts with
the Shah. One of the earliest
Iranian group resistance case-in-point examples may have grown from Greek
protest also against NATO, like Southern African movements opposing NATO in the
past. Given an “Irangate”-style
banking fall-back position as to wars in the Eastern Mediterranean, the “Z”
movie (and book) describes the life of a “Greek Gandhi” (Gregorio Lambrakis, a
medical MD), as a parliamentarian or member of congress, then kidnapped,
tortured, and killed by Greek equivalent of Iranian
Basij; killed for, e.g., networking
with Bertrand Russell Foundation (CND) against nuclear weapons.
Greeks in the late 1970s faced corrupt police and arms-&-drug-fueled
security forces over Eastern Mediterranean
issues. Mass movement led to eventual shut-down of a global heroin
transshipping point in one of the most “sacred” Orthodox monasteries, near
Thessaloniki and the U.S.-NATO Air Force Base in northern Greece.
In 2009 Irani Nonviolence (Bikhỏshoonat
in Farsi) has echoed the relatively-nonviolent “grass-roots” 1988
Palestinian intifada; Starting from massive solidarity expression, which then
forced even heavily-armed-U.S.-backed Israelis into “attacks” of conscience.
Like in Palestine,
the 2009 Iranian movement spread community-wide, rural and urban, with women and
children often leading, sometimes dying, in the spirt of Mohandas Gandhi or
Martin Luther King, Jr. Quoting Mubarak
Awad, a Palestinian-American, on such parallels: “Every part of society felt
that he/she was responsible in making the uprising part of their life today, in
ten days, and ten years down the road....
The welfare of the individual then becomes secondary to that of the many,
thus they become willing to be beaten, shot at, gassed, injured or killed,
facing violence of all kinds with a strong feeling that they are doing it for a
just cause.”
See Olivia Zetter (& Michael Beer) “Iranians Can
Prepare for Repression and Succeed, An Interview with Mubarak Awad,” 19 June
2009; http://nonviolentaction.net/;
See also http://www.youtube.com/bikhoshoonat;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsTmQH2grgs;
http://www.iranian.com/main/2009/jun/bikhoshoonat;
http://cssnd.com/content/view/49/31/lang,english/, (installments for online
manual on nonviolent direct action,
http://cssnd.com/content/view/37/42/lang,english/, …);
http://www.learndev.org/dl/SpaceAgeScienceStoneAgePolitics-Avery.pdf;;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/05/iranian-clerics-dismiss-election-result;
http://cssnd.com/content/blogcategory/14/36/lang,english/;
http://twitter.com/bikhoshoonat;
http://cssnd.com/PillarsOfSupportInIran.pdf;
http://cssnd.com/pdf/IranianRevolution.pdf,
1979, Farsi;
http://cssnd.com/Bikhoshoonat%20-%20Women%20and%20Nonviolent%20Movement%20in%20Iran(2).pdf,
2009, Farsi;
http://www.freegaza.org/uploads/media/english.pdf,
(on Irani attempts to ship food and medicine to Gaza, 2008-2009);
http://www.socialjusticejournal.org/SJEdits/27-8Edit.html, (pre-1959 Cuba
and post-1979 Irangate);
http://www.wri-irg.org/node/8085,
Iran 2009 video clips; and
http://www.wri-irg.org/node/3251, (prisoners of nonviolent conscience
database). See also Book
“Z” by Vassilis Vassilikos, put into movie by Costas Gavras, with
sound-score by exiled Mikis Theodorakis.
Theodorakis’ last critical book,
Where Can I Find My Soul, remains unavailable in NW European
languages; See also Online Apartheid 101 Archives ~ eClippings, as to how
“Greeks Inspire International Green Democracy Protests,”
http://home.comcast.net/~apartheid101/search.htm; and, for nature of the “Suuk”
or nonviolent street-level market struggle sparking the 1979 Revolution in Iran,
see Tell the American People
(with essays by, e.g., Ali Shariati (Phil: MNS, 1980),
http://www.newsociety.com/;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movement_for_a_New_Society;
http://swarthmore.edu/library/peace/DG151-175/DG154mns.htm; and
http://openlibrary.org/b/OL16276457M/Tell-the-American-people.
_ Nonviolence from (Islamic Mayor-led,)
Rotterdam,
Europe’s Largest Seaport; Ahmed Aboutaleb,
(Moroccan-Dutch) Mayor, leads Europoort; Global Initiative of Nonviolent
Resistance grows through community-rooted networks.
Initiative or movement forms around Rotterdam’s Erasmus University Chair
on Faith Reconciliation — co-led by, for example, Tariq Ramadan
(Palestinian-Dutch), within Rotterdam’s “Citizenship and Identity”
Academic-Activist Group — through organizational groups forming around the SPIOR
(Stichting Platform Islamistische Organisaties Rijnmond/Rhine River Watershed
Foundation Network); The Rhine River being perhaps the central river of
NW-Europe, while Amsterdam and Leiden universities may hold Europe’s largest
archival collection on Islam, focused on Indonesia.
See http://www.spior.nl;
ROC Zadkine http://www.zadkine.nl/;
http://www.tariqramadan.com/spip.php?lang=en;
http://www.tariqramadan.com/spip.php?article10497;
http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/tariq-ramadan-on-muslims-and-gaza/;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/02/israel-gaza-palestinians-islam;
http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/1336;
http://www.palestineglobalresistance.info/spip/;
http://www.library.leiden.edu/collections/special/oriental-collections/intro-se-asia.html;
http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/promoting_islamic_non_violent_solutions/0015593;
http://www.erasmushuisrotterdam.nl/;
http://www.nrc.nl/international/Features/article2031247.ece/First_Muslim_mayor_of_Rotterdam_will_need_to_find_allies;
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/248976,rotterdams-muslim-mayor-sworn-in.html;
http://citiesofmigration.ca/urban-citizenship-and-identity-tariq-ramadan/;
“The Global Ideology of Fear,”
http://www.tariqramadan.com/spip.php?article10537; ...php3?id_
article=523&var; and see also NY Times 6 Oct 2004 on U.S. visa refusal to allow Tariq Ramadan to
teach, though academically invited, at Notre Dame University,
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/06/international/europe/06ramadan.html?_r=1.
China has over half of the top ten tonnage world ports, principally
Shanghai, followed by Singapore, and Rotterdam; Houston TX places ahead of
Manhattan-NY-NJ, latter barely in world’s busiest twenty ports, no longer among
the world’s busiest port regions, that is, ranked even behind post-Katrina
regional New Orleans port traffic, See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world%27s_busiest_ports_by_cargo_tonnage;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_busiest_port; and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world%27s_busiest_port_regions.
Simultaneously, a (Bertrand) Russell War Crimes Tribunal forms
on issues in Israel & Palestine, like that gathering arms-bombing data to end
the U.S.- S.E. Asian Wars in latter-20th Century. Much of this
Russell Tribunal relies on so-called
Mizrahi (Asian or Oriental) Jews, a minority leading Jewish peace groups for
decades. Mizrahi calling themselves
Black Panthers organized the first
Israeli group to talk with the PLO, when direct dialogue was a capital offense,
while also convening Arab, Jewish, and Palestinian peace conferences in Madrid,
Cordoba, & Toledo, Spain — following tolerance scholarship from what was the
world’s largest 15th Century library, in Cordoba, Spain, home to
Maimonides and Ibn Al ‘Arabi.
Ancient Moorish or Platenesco Cordoba
dwelling walls still loosely embrace the world’s third largest-sized mosque
foundations, overlaid with an extra-judicial
Catholic Cathedral Court representing the Spanish
Inquisition; Powerful, courageous, nonviolent interreligious monotheists
experience risks in then overcoming war not unlike risks in overcoming current
apartheid NATO-Israel-Palestine extra-judicial war system).
See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%B3rdoba,_Spain;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezquita;
http://www.russelltribunalonpalestine.net/;
http://www.russelltribunalonpalestine.net/pages/The_Support_Commitee-1143887.html;
http://www.russfound.org/;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/28/inquiry-gaza-palestine-israel-war;
and “Ships Breaking Sea Blockade of Palestine,”
http://en.wordpress.com/tag/icahd/;
as well as
http://www.tikkun.org/fmd/files/slater_longversion3p.pdf; Khaled Diab,
“Israel’s other Arabs; Like the Palestinians, Middle Eastern Jews have Fallen
Victim to Political Forces Beyond their Control,” 2 April 2009;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/apr/01/middle-east-israel-mizrahi;
http://www.kedma.co.il/Panterim/PanterimTheMovie/EnglishArticles.htm; and
http://www.knesset.gov.il/faction/eng/FactionPage_eng.asp?PG=36.
Traditionally Dutch-language-oriented churches have also moved
to adopt an anti-apartheid stance. International Church Action Group for Peace
(against Apartheid) in Palestine and Israel has
energized first creedal supplement since 1619 AD or ACE, via Reformed
Protestants — affirming the South African
Belhar Confession. Reformed and
Presbyterian Synods confirm South African
Belhar testament barring political apartheid as heretical or anti-spiritual,
thus — if allowed to continue — undermining, holding-back likelihood planetary
momentum to demilitarize the world’s three monotheisms; Apartheid, though an
African-Bantu-Xhosa-Dutch-Afrikaans word, means much like its British English
pronunciation sounds, i.e., Apart-Hate. See
http://www.rca.org/Page.aspx?pid=2552;;
http://www.itisapartheid.org/;
http://isaacandishmael.blogspot.com/2008_12_01_archive.html (Afrikaans); and
http://www.werkgroepkeerpunt.nl/download/08-06-29_Keerpunt_Nieuwsbrief_67.doc,
(Dutch); For words meaning “nonviolence” in Farsi, Arabic, Hebrew, Russian, and
so forth, see Nonviolence 101 Online,
http://home.comcast.net/~nonviolence101/, bottom, and, for contextual
conflict,
http://home.comcast.net/~nonviolence101/docs/1992%20PhD%201-9%20+%20Hubers.pdf.
2009.1-3 Report on
Apartheid–Nonviolence 101
_ Peace Truck Caravans — Gaza-Palestine and Israel Import
_ Global Economic Crisis Protest Spin from Israeli–Gaza War
_ Soetoro-Ng-Obama on Nonviolent Conflict Resolution
Curriculum
_ Global French Street Protest Theatre
_ Peace Truck Caravans — Gaza-Palestine and Israel Import;
VivaPalestina Convoy revives 1980s methods of U.S. Veterans for Peace Truck
(18-wheeler) Caravans, who sent food & medicine to Central America, followed by
nonviolent interpositioning “peace” brigades to prevent U.S.–Central American
military intervention; Food and medicine (clothes, tools, car-truck parts, …)
caravans encounter U.S. State Department-inspired intransigence, blocking entry
into El Salvador, then; backing Israel for oil transit, now.
Knowing the difference between violence and nonviolence, such Veterans
for Peace energized a food & medicine truck caravan route, synchronized with
media-savvy vets like Kris Kristofferson, driving over 1,600 miles (Houston, TX
USA, to San Jose, Costa Rica); Aid frequently coordinated (politically, via
Managua, Nicaragua, and economically, via San Jose, Costa Rica), by 1940s or
WWII vets like the Baltimore Quaker psychiatrist, Robert Ganter, (when not
sidetracked by FBI Federal Court harassment suits).
In 1986, Brian
Willson — who had already sacrificed both legs to
a California Iran–Contra-bound Central American arms-and-business war munitions
train locomotive — and three other Vets for Peace launched a hunger
strike, lasting about 40 days on the U.S. Capital Hill steps, facing East,
mobilizing Vets throughout the U.S. Congress.
At about the same time as the first, nonviolent, Intifada, in Palestine,
well before the Cold War “Wall” fell in Berlin, high-ranking U.S. and
Soviet-Russian Veterans for Peace likewise met as colleagues, “knowing no
fear”–turned nonviolent, at the Washington, D.C., Vietnam Veterans Memorial
‘Mall’ Wall, respecting, remembering their common losses from SE Asian and
Afghanistan–Middle-East wars, (1940s-1990s).
Subsequent U.S. Convoys ferried food & medicine cargo to
Cuba,
Chiapas, and the Southern
Americas. See
http://www.envio.org.ni/articulo/2989;
http://www.vidyaonline.net/arvindgupta/addicted.pdf, (Comic Book);
www.lawg.org;
http://www.addictedtowar.com/docs/The.War.Against.the.Third.World.pdf,
Video Transcript;
http://www.brianwillson.com/evracnwstest.html;
Clare M. Weber,
Dissident Citizen Diplomacy: Rethinking
Transnational Activism in 1990s Nicaragua (Irvine CA: PhD UC-Irvine, 2001);
http://www.brianwillson.com/evrafast.html;
http://www.williamgbecker.com/veteransfast.html; and
http://www.ifconews.org/;
In early 2009, similarly, the VivaPalestina.org Convoy
mobilized 500+ people from NW Europe to Gaza, about 6,000 miles — driving about
3 times further than U.S.–Central America Convoys — 200+ trucks, a fire engine
truck, and
24 ambulances, carrying, e.g., medicine, tents,
tools, clothes,
blankets, shoes,
wheelchairs, dried food, a Bolton generator, a fishing boat, and
baby-children’s items. Leaving on Valentine’s
Day; Arriving on Mohammed’s Birthday; From Scotland through
England,
France, Spain, Morocco,
Algeria, Tunisia, Libya,
and Egypt, through Rafah, Palestine.
Organizers plan on sending convoys until Israeli–U.S. wars end in
Gaza; Much as did U.S. Veterans for Peace convoys, to end 1980s
U.S.
wars in Central America.
See
http://www.vivapalestina.org/; “A
Convoy of More than 110 Vehicles has Snaked its Way Out of London for Gaza,” 14
Feb 2009;
http://www.vivapalestina.org/news.htm;
http://beth.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=36378;
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1236764157868&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull;
http://gazaconvoy.com/?cat=1;
http://www.aljazeerah.info/News/2009/March/10%20n/European%20Lifeline%20Convoys%20to%20Continue%20Until%20Lifting%20Israeli%20Siege%20of%20Gaza.htm;
http://palestinevideo.wordpress.com/2009/02/15/viva-palestina-aid-convoy-sets-off-for-gaza-5-parts/;
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/02/22/67004.html;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7903953.stm;
http://www.mail-archive.com/peace-justice-news@enabled.com/msg02029.html;
http://www.vfp56.org/Newsletters/VFPNews_Sep05.pdf; and http://palestinevideo.blogspot.com/2009/02/viva-palestina-aid-convoy-in-morocco.html,
VivaPalestina Aid Convoy (YouTube).
The VivaPalestina Convoy gained much of its nonviolent
conflict-resolving momentum in Spain,
(thus its name), symbolically linking Europe and Africa,
through donations & encouragements along the way.
England
arbitrarily-arrested, released Convoy caravaners;
France
and Spain
welcomed them. Morocco & Algeria, despite wars closing their
borders for 15 years, opened their homes and borders to VivaPalestina.
Moroccans shared traditional Muslim desert fare; An Algerian businessman
paid the VivaPalestina fuel bill.
Tunisia
arbitrarily arrested three Northern Ireland
people, later reunited with the Convoy in Libya, where Libyans doubled the
Convoy size to over 200 vehicles.
Stretching almost two miles rolling into
Egypt, armed state agents forcibly split the
Convoy into subjective medical and non-medical groups.
Closer to Cairo, two power-cuts and satellite-cable sabotage events
choreographed the Egyptian state’s reception plans: Ignoring bricks, stones, and
bottles hurtled at the Convoy, and dismissing crude slogans scrawled over its
trucks, during the darkened attacks — Behind shields & visors, charging Egyptian state agents wielded bloody
batons on unarmed caravaners.
Diplomatically- vulnerable Egypt then cut the number of Convoy trucks in half,
as Israel forced the Red Crescent to repackage all deemed non-medical (likely
Arab or Libyan license plate) truck goods, into 120 cm or 47” maximum-wide,
(to-be-screened, separately-sent), wooden boxes. See Linda S. Heard, “Even Aid
Convoy is Not Let In,” Gulf News, 9
March 2009; Linda S. Heard, et al. Essays
for Truth Seekers: A Collection of Essays and Research on Regional and Global
Issues Affecting the Arab World (Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Al Habtoor, 2007), 405 pp.
http://www.gulfnews.com/opinion/columns/region/10293172.html;
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/03/09/68087.html,
http://www.yvonneridley.org/;
“Libyans
Prepare Big Welcome for Gaza Aid Convoy,” 20/2/2009,
http://tripolipost.com/articledetail.asp?c=1&i=2859;
http://www.theasiannews.co.uk/news/s/1097709_van_joins_convoy_with_vital_gaza_aid;
http://ramallahonline.com/component/content/article/79-viva-palestina/3080-vivapalestinaorg-gaza-village-is-born-in-misrata;
http://www.therespectparty.net/;
http://www.larepublicacultural.es/articulo.php3?id_article=1370;
http://gregtogaza.blogspot.com;
Yvonne Ridley, “Gaza Or Bust,” (Australia),
http://www.australia.to/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6899:gaza-or-bust&catid=95:overflow;
Yvonne Ridley, “A Valentine for Palestine,” 14 Feb 2009,
http://www.tehrantimes.com/Index_view.asp?code=189244;
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=88005§ionid=351020202; and
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/4961082/George-Galloway-convoy-stoned-by-irate-Egyptians.html;
See also Yvonne Ridley, In the Hands of
the Taliban: Her Extraordinary Story (London: Robson, 2001), 216 pp.
Egypt
eventually let 109 VivaPalestina trucks and about 500 people near the
Israeli-Palestine border into Rafah.
The Convoy entered Palestine as sixty
North American Code Pink women peace activists demonstrated against the Gaza blockade, opening the Rafah border
crossing, together, in celebration of International Women’s Day.
Code Pink’s Alice Walker, author of
The Color Purple, was one of the 60
women demonstrators. For the first time since the Dec 2008–Jan 2009 Israeli
blitzkrieg on Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas political
Party Prime Minister, appeared publicly, thanking the Convoy openly, and
presenting George Galloway, an English Member of Parliament expressing
solidarity with them, with a symbolic Palestinian Passport.
See Rebecca Santana, “‘The Color Purple’
Author Traveling to Gaza,”
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h4Q-SZui9Gw7fNMAH7Djx1FKObLQD96P8JUG0;
http://warincontext.org/2009/03/09/viva-palestina/;
http://www.protection-palestine.org/spip.php?article7097;
http://www.vivapalestina.org/local.htm, van & truck picks online;
http://www.vivapalestina.org/images/bolton-gaza_map_large.jpg, map online;
http://annies-letters.blogspot.com/2009_03_01_archive.html; and
Yvonne Ridley, “A Valentine for
Palestine,” 14 Feb 2009,
http://www.tehrantimes.com/Index_view.asp?code=189244.
Across the Atlantic,
Canada then bans George Galloway, UK Member of Parliament
and Convoy supporter, (not an Hamas
nor Hezbollah politico), to avert impending
Gaza–Convoy media coverage through the Toronto Coalition to Stop the War,
http://www.nowar.ca/, and suburban Mississauga Forum (Coalition
Against Israeli Apartheid,
http://www.caiaweb.org/).
So, from England, Galloway repeated his warnings against NATO military
intervention in Afghanistan, given its classic defeats of the Soviet Empire, the
British Empire, and Alexander the Great; That he had “never been to Afghanistan,
nor … met a Taliban” — and echoed Ottawa-banned Paul Robeson, one of the 20th
Century’s most well-known media icons, (who’s U.S. passport was seized,
counter-productively, by the U.S. State Department), and who would address a
large Canadian audience of miners and mill-hands in British Columbia, singing
the “Ballad of Joe Hill” to them, by telephone.
See
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/mar/20/george-galloway-banned-canada;
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/securityrisk-galloway-banned-from-canada-1650608.html;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/21/george-galloway-canada;
http://www.presstv.ir/gaza/detail.aspx?id=85763; http://www.democracynow.org/2009/4/1/canadian_judge_upholds_government_decision_to;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/23/gaza-protest-aid-convoy;
http://www.presstv.ir/gaza/news.aspx;
http://www.presstv.ir/gaza/news.aspx?sectionid=351021702;
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0904/S00054.htm; and “Palestine
Convoy is No Galloway Support Act,” 9 March 2009;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/mar/09/viva-palestina-galloway-convoy-gaza;
_ Global Economic Crisis Protest Spin from Israeli–Gaza War;
Global protests stem from outcry against U.S.-supplied Israeli-use of blistering
bone-and-tissue excoriant, Napalm, or White Phosphorus, banned by international
treaties, since the U.S.-SE Asia wars, and the International Criminal Law Court
in the Hague, the Netherlands; (After massive napalm ground deployment
originally documented by a Norwegian EMS Triage MD, Meds Gilbert);
See Rain
of Fire, Israel’s Unlawful Use of White Phosphorus in Gaza, Human Rights
Watch, 2009;
http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/iopt0309webwcover.pdf;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/25/israel-white-phosphorus-gaza;
http://answer.pephost.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ANS_homepage;
http://www.thestar.com/comment/columnists/article/568482;
http://www.countercurrents.org/hassan070109.htm;
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21654.htm;
http://mosquito-blog.blogspot.com/2009/01/doctor-mads-gilbert-reports-again-on.html#links;
http://mosquito-blog.blogspot.com/2009/01/reality-in-gaza-dr-mads-gilbert-of.html;
http://intressant.se/i/92g41/kemiska-stridsmedel-som-aer-vaerre-aen-napalm-anvaends;
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5447590.ece;
and
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7812136.stm (Maps).
Urban and national protests expanded, planetwide, as real
U.S.-Israeli oil–natural gas interests surfaced, politically, off the Gaza Coast.
Major urban areas experienced large demonstrations, such as
Istanbul, 700,000; Rabat, 40,000;
Montreal, 5,000; and Athens, with
4,000 hard-core demonstrators; 250,000 marched on
Spain’s streets, another 100,000 on
Algeria’s. Israeli state agents arrested about
700 Israelis in anti-Gaza War Protests.
A global digital media-savvy call for an International Day of Emergency
Action rallied marchers across Bern, Seoul, Amman, Athens, Berlin, Beirut,
Cairo, Delhi, Edinburgh, London, Lyon, Marseilles, Oslo, Nablus, Paris,
Stockholm, Jakarta, Karachi, Montreal, Ramallah, Tokyo, Barcelona, Sarajevo,
Kuala Lumpur, and Mexico City, the planet’s most populous urban area. Dedicated
Canadian Jewish women occupied Toronto’s Israeli Consulate; U.S. professors launched a Campaign
for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of war-profiteering Israeli-U.S.
corporations. See
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=29734;
http://www.oilandgasinvestingglossary.com/palestines_natural_gas_troubles.asp;
http://answer.pephost.org/site/News2?abbr=ANS_&page=NewsArticle&id=8933;
http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentID=2009011927076;
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/students-are-revolting-the-spirit-of-68-is-reawakening-1604043.html;
http://www.gazatoday.blogspot.com/;
http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?pid=2451289;
http://bostonstandswithgaza.blogspot.com/;
http://news.scotsman.com/world/World-unites-in-protests.4841673.jp;
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=81111§ionid=351020202;
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h9KysGfr_McbPBkSWsjXJzvto83A;
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=29700;
http://www.thestate.com/world/story/646230.html?RSS=untracked;
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0%2C1518%2C606721%2C00.html; Liam
Tarachansky, “We’ll Stop Ours [Occupation] if You Stop Yours,” 7 Jan 2009;
http://yayacanada.blogspot.com/2009/01/jewish-women-occupy-israeli-consulate.html;
http://roma.indymedia.org/node/7231;
http://rabble.ca/babble/activism/breaking-news-jewish-women-occupy-israeli-consulate-toronto;
http://www.hollow-hill.com/sabina/2009/01/opposing_a_terrorist_war_is_no.html;
http://www.nowtoronto.com/daily/story.cfm?content=166656;
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.europe/msg/b7021ce822fdfc29;
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0%2C7340%2CL-3650528%2C00.html;
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0%2C7340%2CL-3650528%2C00.html; and
http://usacbi.wordpress.com/
_ Soetoro-Ng-Obama on Nonviolent Conflict Resolution
Curriculum; Maya Soetoro-Ng, half-sister of Barack Obama, begins nonviolence
lectures in U.S-mainland universities in California, from the Peace Studies Program in
the University of Hawai’i at Manoa; based on her middle-school, grades 9-12, and
university teaching experience — as to “Peace Makers: On the Power of
Nonviolence” (from Manhattan to Oahu).
Her 4-year-old daughter, Suhaila, joins her on stage in the Sacramento State University
and linguist-oriented Monterey Institute of International
Studies. Soetoro-Ng, also conversant in Spanish and Indonesian,
emphasizes our nonkilling “need to be encouraging (peace) in ourselves and in
our students; … That nonviolence is not just a philosophy, but it is, in the
Gandhian sense, a way of life. It has to touch every part of us, it has to be in
the way that we communicate with one another.”
Echoing writers like Glenn Paige and Rollo May, she discusses how to
empathetically overcome shallow notions of foe, power, enemy, and innocence that
cloud mass judgement, while accentuating early-on education, such as that of her
daughter. Drawing on the nonviolence writings of Mohandas Gandhi, she explains
how working from classics like Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham
Jail” enables her students to see the intercultural-interrelatedness of people’s
lives, and why people need to participate wherever, whenever doable.
Jeanette Ndhlovu, South African Consulate-General in Los Angeles CA,
reinforces their viewpoint, which MLK, Jr., fundamentally highlighted in his
Oslo Nobel Peace Prize Speech — that nonviolence needs to ground the most basic
“101” course on international business, relations, and development, so as to
develop global leadership able to negotiate peaceful change with justice.
See “Monterey Institute of
International Studies
http://www.miis.edu/newsitem.html?id=461;
http://www.mauitime.com/Articles-i-2008-09-25-185191.112113_Sister_act.html;
http://www.statehornet.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=616f278a-2c42-4fad-a478-9e72c0c837dd;
http://www.sacbee.com/education/story/1708302.html?mi_rss=Education;
http://www.girlfesthawaii.org/speakers.htm;
http://globalmajority.org/gm/index.php?%20option=com_content&task=view&id=21&Itemid=40;
http://media.www.statehornet.com/media/storage/paper1146/news/2009/03/25/News/power.Of.Youth.A.Highlight.Of.Speech-3681580.shtml;
and Jeanette Ndhlovu, (No Time to Mourn,
[on anti-apartheid struggle], Kendall Hunt, 2009).
On NonKilling, see
http://www.nonkilling.org/node/23;
http://www.anis-online.de/1/rooms/glenn/index.htm;
http://www.nonkilling.org/pdf/JournalGS.pdf;
http://www.nonkilling.org/pdf/forum1.pdf;
http://www.globalnonviolence.org/docs/nonkilling/nonkilling_text.pdf;
and http://www.globalnonviolence.org/nonkilling.htm;
Breaking from tradition, bringing less (pesticide-disposed)
violence to a “green” organic kitchen table, as it were, Michelle Obama, with
some Washington, D.C., primary school students, has likewise started a White
House kitchen garden; A symbolic “slow”–food fennel, spinach, broccoli
counter-example to childhood “fast”–food obesity, the latter, along with
biofuels, predisposing planetary meat-oriented-eating, bio-accumulated–pollution
“global warming” habits; Cost, about $200 (£140).
See Nick Greene, “Michelle Obama Digs
Kitchen Garden at White House,”
http://www.cornucopia.org/who-owns-organic/;
http://www.wellfedworld.org/globalwarming.htm;
http://www.fao.org/ag/magazine/0612sp1.htm;
http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2006/1000448/index.html;
ftp://ftp.fao.org/paia/organicag/brochure_enita_en.pdf;
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/michelle-obama/5023654/Michelle-Obama-digs-kitchen-garden-at-White-House.html;
and Hillary Rodham Clinton, “Remarks on the 125th Birth Anniversary
Commemoration of Mahatma Gandhi,” International Journal of Nonviolence,
3 (1996-1997), 23-28.
Mother to Barack and Maya, Ann Dunham-Soetoro forged her
transcultural career through, e.g., a 1,000 pp PhD thesis on informal,
subsistence, innovative metal-working entrepreneurship.
In Indonesia, demographically the
world’s largest Muslim population, and, geophysically, the major source of its
best subsurface natural gas — a “bridge” from oil to nonfossil fuel economies —
she stressed family enterprise planning and co-founded rural microfinance
programs through Bank Rakyat Indonesia.
Current-day U.S.
Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner’s father, Peter Giethner, directed a Ford
Foundation’s Asian program funding her path-breaking work.
See
http://james4america.wordpress.com/2009/01/14/geithners-confirmation-marred-by-tax-problems-geithner-appointment-another-thank-you-to-obama-family-associate/;
http://theladyslegacy.blogspot.com/2008/08/barack-smiles-there-just-certain-ann.html;
http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2008/10/obama-government-and-military.html;
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jill-brooke/how-a-familys-divorce-imp_b_158528.html;
http://isteve.blogspot.com/2008/02/this-is-one-obama-related-thesis-im-not.html;
as well as
http://weblog.greenpeace.org/makingwaves/archives/2009/03/images_from_climate_action_on.html#more
(pics);
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/2/26/power_shift_youth_climate_activists_swarm;
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/3/2/power_shift_09_12_000_students; and
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/3/2/capitol_climate_action_thousands_converging_on.
_ Global French Street Theatre Protests; France, Tunisia,
Guadeloupe, Madagascar, Martinique;
http://rebellyon.info/;
http://www.europe-solidaire.org/;
http://greves-guadeloupe.forumserv.com/portal.php;
http://greves-guadeloupe.forumserv.com/t3-Lyanag-Kont-Profitasyon.htm;
http://www.initiative-communiste.fr/wordpress/2009/02/12/soutien-a-la-guadeloupe-en-lutte-greve-historique/;
http://www.rue89.com/2009/02/07/martinique-greve-generale-sur-fond-de-tension-raciale?page=4;
and
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/3/27/labor_victory_in_guadeloupe_after_six.
Guadeloupe
Strikes throughout first quarter of 2009, by over 50 national groups,
(CCI, CES, LKG, MEDEF, CTPME, CGPME), overwhelm government — from 30 Jan 2009
March, when about 60,000 people walk together through Pointe à Pitre; Forty-four-Day
general strike eventually closes roads, schools, gas stations, and public
transportation. Such
oceanic-trade-oriented strikes resonate with Durban
dockworkers in South Africa,
refusing Israeli cargo. See
UGTG, General Guadeloupian Trade Union, or
Confederation General du Travail de Guadeloupe,
http://ugtg.org/;
http://ugtg.org/?lang=en;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conf%C3%A9d%C3%A9ration_g%C3%A9n%C3%A9rale_du_travail_de_Guadeloupe;
http://www.zinfos974.com/La-verite-sur-ce-qui-se-passe-en-Guadeloupe_a3805.html;
http://eco.rue89.com/2009/03/08/la-reunion-vers-un-scenario-a-la-guadeloupeenne-temoignages;
http://blog.lefigaro.fr/rioufol/2008/06/blocnotes-la-france-confrontee.html;
Tunisian & Guadeloupe University Students Call General Strikes, (French-Arabic),
Feb 2009; and
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ar&u=http://hanzala86.blogspot.com/2009_02_01_archive.html&ei=Za_NScHsMt-LtgedvYXSCQ&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=95&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3D2009%2BMadagascar%2BGuadeloupe%2BParis%2BFrance%2BNonviolence%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN%26as_qdr%3Dall%26start%3D100%26num%3D100;
See also Mike Marqusee, “Level Playing Field, Intervention from Below,”
http://www.hindu.com/mag/2009/03/08/stories/2009030850140400.htm.
Madagascar
On Madagascar nonviolence background,
pls see Hildegard Goss-Mayr, Richard Deats, ed.,
Marked for Life (New City Press,
2009), 86-89, 132; Jean-Aimé A. Raveloson,
Demokratisierung und Perspektiven der
Bäuerlichen Partizipation in Madagaskar (Bonn: PhD, Rheinischen
Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, 2000); Jaona Ravaloson,
Transition Démocratique à Madagascar
(L’Harmattan, 1994); Antonio Fragoso & Domingos Barbé.
A Firmeza Permanente, São Paulo:
Loyola, 1977; & Klaus Drobisch, Wider den
Krieg - Dokumentarbericht über Leben und Sterben des katholischen Geistlichen
Dr. Max Josef Metzger, Berlin, Union Verlag 1970; and
http://hanzala86.blogspot.com/2009/02/neo-colonialism-driving-madagascar-to.html;
as to Conseil National des Forces Vives (CNFV); Conseil Chretien des Eglises de
Madagascar (FFKM); & Union Nationale pour la Democratie et le Developpement
(UNDD).
France
Since early 2009 about 3 million people focus national demonstrations in
a dozen French cities, organized by eight trade union federations.
About 300,000 people walk through “main-street”
Paris for
employment safeguards, rebuking an irresponsible government. Organizers chant in
English, “Yes, yes, yes, we can;” (Echoing Barack Obama).
Marchers at the head of the
Paris
March
Paris March portray
French leader, Zarkozy, critically, as a greenish
vampiric effigy, “Black Death” on back, and as a dunce donkey
for elite theives. Many marchers
disparagingly costume themselves in top-hats, “lighting” €500 or $1,000 USD
cigars. See
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/20/france-nicolas-sarkozy;
John Lichfield “French
Demonstration: Sarkozy vs the Street,” 30 Jan 2009; “Week of Mass Strikes Set to
Paralyse France in Protest against Sarkozy’s Reforms,”
Guardian 27 Jan 2009,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jan/30/oil-refinery-dispute;
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2009/0130/1232923375577.html;
Henry Samuel, “France
Hit by National Strike on ‘Black Thursday’,”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/4384543/France-hit-by-national-strike-on-Black-Thursday.html;
And
for Euro-Demonstrations radiating from France, Against
NATO, see
http://www.non-otan-strasbourg.eu/;
http://www.non-otan-strasbourg.eu/;
http://www.appelotanafghanistan.org/;
http://www.appelotanafghanistan.org/;
http://www.no-to-nato.org/;
http://www.no-to-nato.org/;
http://www.block-nato.org/index_en.htm;
and
http://www.block-nato.org/index_en.htm..
2008.9-12 Report on
Apartheid-Nonviolence 101
_
2008–2003
Report Trends in Brief on Apartheid–Nonviolence 101
_ Celebrating Nonviolence ~ Miguel d’Escoto (U.N.)
Satyagraha from Gandhi to Gaza
_ Chicago
Factory “Sit-Ins” & Mumbai “Human Chains” Overpower Apartheid Violence
_ Greeks Inspire International Green Democracy Protests,
Articulate Change
_ Afganis, Iraqis, Israelis, and Ecuadorans on Nonviolent
Civil Disobedience
_ Local-Global-Oriented Currencies Parallel National Monetary
Systems
_ Celebrating Nonviolence ~ Miguel d’Escoto (U.N.)
Satyagraha from Gandhi to Gaza, on
Mohandas Gandhi’s Birthday, 2 Oct 2008; “Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, President of
the 63rd Session of UN General Assembly,” Convenes UN Celebration Events with
Anti-Poverty Agenda to Democratize U.N. Voice, (esp re Japan, India, & South
Africa): “Today we celebrate the Second International Day of [Satyagraha
or Truth–Force]
Nonviolent Struggle, [outcomes which] led Gandhi to look for a better name than
“passive resistance” to describe his method of struggle, which was by no means
passive, and to explain, at the same time, the source of its power.... I would
like to suggest that today, in honor of Mahatma Gandhi, we resolve to adopt the
word Satyagraha in all of our
languages and thus begin a gradual and profound process of reflection into its
meaning. If we do so, we will have
entered into the process of liberating humankind from its dependence on violence
as a means to resolve differences.
Gandhi showed us the way to turn from the edge of self-destruction toward a
just, disarmed and sustainable global community, if we would only choose,
personally and collectively, step-by-step experiments in the infinite power of
truth. Truth is, in the final analysis, a synonym of love.
As another sign of hope in the nuclear age, Martin Luther King, Jr.,
followed Gandhi with further experiments in the truth of non-violent revolution.
King’s application of Gandhi’s methods to the struggle in the United States for civil rights,
economic justice, and an end to the Vietnam War revealed the power of a growing
nonviolent movement to begin to transform the course of even the most powerful
nation in history. Echoing Gandhi,
King proclaimed to that nation and the world that we must choose nonviolence or
nonexistence…. Gandhi’s and King’s
successors in the twenty-first century have carried out further experiments in
the power of nonviolent truth to achieve justice and peace in every corner of
the world-including, in the last two months, Gaza.
The Free Gaza Movement has
succeeded in breaking the siege of Gaza
by nonviolent direct action. After
sailing from Cypress, 44 activists from 17
countries landed their two small wooden boats at Gaza Port
on August 23, 2008,
where a beleaguered people welcomed them.
This nonviolent initiative allowed Palestinians to enter and leave their
own country freely for the first time in over 60 years….
From the groundbreaking work of Gandhi and King to the ongoing example of
the Free Gaza Movement, we can discern
the transforming power of nonviolence at a crossroads in our history.
Having developed the means of our own extinction by war, we are called by
Truth, at the very center of our being, to turn to a nonviolent way of
transformation into a just and peaceful future. In one of my several declaratins
during the General Debate of World Leaders in the General Assembly that has just
ended, I said something like “We either love one another or die.”
Today-my dear brothers and sisters — I say what amounts to the same
thing: nonviolence or nonexistence. May
Satyagraha occupy the central place it deserves in our lives!”
Please see
http://www.freegaza.org/;
http://www.freegaza.org/uploads/media/free_gaza_in_the_media.pdf;
http://un.org/ga/president/63/statements/idn21008.shtml;
http://www.un.org/events/nonviolence/2008/pgamessage.shtml;
http://www.citizen.co.za/index/article.aspx?pDesc=79232,1,22;
http://www.gandhitour.com/International-Day-of-Peace.html, podcast video;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fzV3i6pxDQ;
http://www.un.org/ga/president/63/presskit/president.shtml;
http://www.un-ngls.org/site/IMG/pdf/GA_BIO_English_SM.pdf;
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/210124,sandinista-diplomat-elected-un-general-assembly-president.html;
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-father16-2008sep16,0,1263714.story;
http://www.newkerala.com/fs/f/u-6026.htm;
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-28686.html;
http://internationaldayofpeace.org/;
http://www.pathwaystopeace.org/;
http://www.thespec.com/News/Local/article/445797;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/21/israel-gaza-strip-middle-east;
and CPI,
http://www.cultureofpeace.org/internationalday-peace.html.
See also Mairead Maguire, “Hope as
Palestinians Use Nonviolence in their Struggle for Human Rights and Freedom,”
2008.11.14: “The greatest tragedy to all this is that International Governments
and Western Media in particular remain silent to this slow destruction of the
Palestinian people, by policies of Israel which break the Geneva Convention and
Apartheid Convention;”
http://www.freegaza.org/?module=latest_news&id=8b23560cd8b6b8da5d6a8dbe279433ac;
http://www.freegaza.org/index.php?module=endorsers.
For violent Israeli Gaza “Operation Cast Lead” so
as to gain “Peace-Talk” traction before Obama Regime takes office, see
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/29/israel-attack-hamas-preparations-repercussions;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/28/israel-gaza-hamas;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/29/israel-gaza-attack-palestinian-reaction;
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=79741§ionid=351020101;
http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2008/12/28/not-all-israelis-are-out-for-blood;
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=29463;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/30/israel-gaza-aid-ship;
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/dekalb/stories/2008/12/29/cynthia_mckinney_gaza.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab&imw=Y;
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/12/29/israeli_attacks_kill_over_310_in; and
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/01/israel-gaza-bombings-hama.
_ Chicago Factory “Sit-Ins” & Mumbai “Human Chains” Overpower
Apartheid Violence; 260 Laid-off North Side Chicago factory workers, about 80%
Hispanic, “Sit-In” Republic Windows & Doors Corp, (vinyl windows, sliding doors)
Factory — seeking severance-vacation pay. Bank of America, one of the giant banks
bailed-out by Bush Regime, (with $25 billion tax dollars, no-strings attached),
cut the workers off without warning. The U.S. Jobs with Justice Coalition and
Local 1110 of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America
supported the workers, despite icy conditions outside, no utilities.
When U.S. House of Representatives, Jesse Jackson,
and President-elect Obama voiced
support, then JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, and Republic Windows & Doors
settled for $1.75 million USD, providing, as required by federal law, severance
pay, two more months of health coverage, and pay for accrued, unused vacation
days; Even as the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers Union dedicates
remaining support money to opening the factory under local-worker management.
See Mary Houlihan and Abdon M. Pallasch, “Chicago
Factory Layoffs are a ‘Wake-up Call to America,’”
http://www.suntimes.com/news/1319330,CST-NWS-republic08.article;
http://www.ueunion.org/ue_republic.html; Monica Davey, 7 Dec 2008;
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/08/us/08chicago.html?_r=2&hp;
http://paceebene.org/nvns/nonviolence-news-service-archive/factory-sit-anger-spread-wide;
http://mollymew.blogspot.com/2008/12/american-labour-its-official-victory.html;
http://labornotes.org/node/1994;
“Obama’s Most Progressive Act Yet; Solidarity with the Chicago Factory Worker
Sit-In,” 8 Dec 2008;
http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/print_friendly.php?p=Obama-s-Most-Progressive-A-by-Rob-Kall-081208-592.html;
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Obama-s-Most-Progressive-A-by-Rob-Kall-081208-592.html;
“Carwil without Borders,” 13 Dec 2008;
http://woborders.wordpress.com/tag/protest/; “Workers Occupying Chicago
Factory Need our Support,”
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/2011;
Mumbai “Human Chain” — 100 Kilometers Long, 2008.12.12;
Encircling Mumbai City, Southern Asia’s stock exchange center, about 100,000
people form a human chain of interlocked arms at noonday, against urban bombing
violence and U.S. Afghan-Pakistan-Iraq-Iran Wars.
Seniors, children, and office workers blend, with, e.g., Mumbai’s former
Mayor Shanti Patel, lyricist Javed Akhtar, actor Rahul Bose, and Mohandas
Gandhi’s great grandson Tushar Gandhi.
To wit Mumbai Citizens for Peace organizes over 100 groups, including
NGOs, students, retail traders, trade unions, and womens’ groups in their human
chain with Picket Slogans like:
No To War! — We don’t want to be like the USA
Peace is the Only Battle
Worth Waging
Violence is a Failure of the Imagination
United We Stand, Divided We Fall.
Don’t Just Change the Chair, Change the System
Accountability, Transparency, Efficiency!
See
www.mumbaicitizens.com;
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-12/12/content_10496900.htm (pics);
http://www.ptinews.com/pti%5Cptisite.nsf/0/41F0911B1FE122FD6525751D003E9591?OpenDocument;
“Mumbai Residents in Human Chain Protest over Attacks”,
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/12/12/2445493.htm.
_ Greeks Inspire International Green Democracy Protests,
Articulate Change; Nonviolent change and unrest radiates from Athens Polytechnic
or Polytechnion Atena to Patras,
Exarchia, and Thessaloniki in Greece, onto Bern, Venice, Madrid, Toledo,
Barcelona, Instanbul, Amsterdam, Leeds, Dublin, London, Edinburgh, Copenhagen,
Moscow, Seoul, Melbourne, Santiago, Buenos Aires, …. and some U.S.-Canadian
cities. Greek protests, stemming
from militarized–pollution-ridden energy policies, coalesce when police officers
unilaterally kill a 15-year-old student, Alexandros Grigoropoulos; Protests met
with so much tear gas that the Greek military asked the Israel–USA military for
more …; The more tear gas, the greater the street violence radiating throughout
urban European areas; Nonviolence organized digitally online and by PDA, from
bicycles to cars and buses, with real-time clash-site info.
Surrounded by local-state-wide strikes in schools, colleges, and
universities, 6,000 students march on their Parliament and State Police
Headquarters. Children and
adolescents, age 11-17, both genders, march in the thousands, across Greece, in
solidarity with older students, joined by teacher trade unions also on strike;
While Northern African, Iraqi, Afghanistani, Somalian, and Pakistani make-up
much of the poorest immigrants in Greek society.
Greek media roughly estimates protest support at about 80-90% of the
Greek working population, in opposing further privatization of national
industries, and in advocating live-able wages. Greek prisoners simultaneously
stage a broad hunger strike to compel the government to agree (in principle) to
release about half the political prisoner population.
Students and activists take over radio stations as well as the central
state-run television studios, while occupying public buildings and confronting
police stations and government ministries offices, in particular U.S.-trained
MAT “Riot Police”
Such student uprisings in the early 1970s, confronting U.S.
tanks in the streets, eventually overwhelmed the core Constitution Plaza of
Athens by immense demonstrations in the late 1970s, (with about a third of the
entire Greek population walking, arm-in-arm, directly into downtown Athens),
and, so, overthrew a previous conservative government also aligned with U.S.
(arms and drugs business) Middle-East oil war aims; then transfixing Lebanon and
Israel — Events presciently-chronicled in
Z, a Costas-Gavras Movie, from Vassilis Vassilikos’ book on the
Greek athlete and “Gandhi”-like physician, Gregoris Lambrakis, who, before
assassination, as a member of the Greek Parliament, then rallied international
groups associated with Bertrand Russell-sourced planetwide Campaign for Nuclear
Disarmament or CND. “Z”
etiologically: Abbreviated Greek for “He Lives!” i.e., a saying common at
Orthodox Easter, as to reborn liberation ideals.
(U.S.
“assets” in Greece as to
MidEast oil: Athens, as corp-mil-bank-intel
“fall-back” posturing; Thessaloniki,
as forward NATO-AFB posturing). See
http://www.theplaka.com/culture/film/z.htm;
http://www.theplaka.com/history/modern/hmbooks.htm;
http://www.theplaka.com/history/modern/hmbibleo.htm;
http://greeksolidaritymap.blogspot.com/; “Greek-inspired Protests Spread
Across Europe,”
http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml;
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2008/12/383503.shtml; “Anger Around the
World,”
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/12/414640.html;
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/12/2008_greek_riots.html;
http://news.surfwax.com/worldcities/files/Athens_Greece.html;
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5348574.ece,
(Acropolis Closure);
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=78348§ionid=351020606; Nick
Squires, “Greek Protests Spread with Arrests Across Europe,” 11 Dec 2008;
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greece/3706849/Greek-protest-spread-with-arrests-across-Europe.html;
http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=2008greece-update; “Fears of
Unrest Spreading Across Europe,”
http://mostlywater.org/more_uprisings_greece;
http://mostlywater.org/fears_unrest_spreading_across_europe; “Uprising in
Greece: Protests, Riots,”
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/12/11/greek_uprising_protests_riots_strikes_enter;
http://babylonmedia.wordpress.com/;
“Inside Account of Activism in Greece,”
Dollars and Sense, 2008.12.19;
http://mostlywater.org/inside_account_activism_greece;
http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/19985; Panos Petrou, “Rightwing
Government is Headed for Its Downfall,” 2008.12.18,
http://www.counterpunch.org/petrou12182008.html;
http://mostlywater.org/days_rage_greece;
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=el&u=http://www.babylonmedia.gr/&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dbablylonmedia.gr%26hl%3Den%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-us;
http://www.solidariosgrecia.org/;
http://nodo50.org/tortuga/15-de-Mayo-Dia-Internacional-de;
http://www.nodo50.org/tortuga/Erasmo-de-Rotterdam-pionero-de-la;
http://www.nodo50.org/fella/pub/varia/carles_cat_prensa_070201.pdf;
http://www.nodo50.org/csca/agenda08/palestina.html;
http://www.nodo50.org/csca/agenda08/palestina/pdf/sumarioviolaciones.pdf;
http://www.nodo50.org/forosocialjaen/no_a_la_guerra.htm;
http://www.nodo50.org/moc-carabanchel/noviolencia/noviolencia.htm;
http://nodo50.org/tortuga/;
http://www.nodo50.org/casc/IMG/pdf/pfdez.pdf (Nonviolent
Civil Disobedience Manual, Spanish…Greek);
http://athens.indymedia.org;
http://www.solidariosgrecia.org/IMG/pdf/periodico_final.pdf;
http://www.klinamen.org/;
http://www.newschoolinexile.com/,
(New School of Social Research, Manhattan);
http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/, (London);
www.stopwar.org.uk/;
http://g700.blogspot.com/;
http://livingingreece.gr/2007/06/18/have-you-heard-of-g700/; and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_of_the_Radical_Left;
_ Afganis, Iraqis, Israelis, and Ecuadorans on Nonviolence ~
Badshah Khan Movie; Afghani Abdul Ghaffar or Badshah Khan — Muslim
Satyagraha friend in nonviolent
struggle with the Indian, Mohandas Gandhi, against the British Empire — features
in film first aired in Manhattan.
Badshah or Baacha co-led a nonviolent
Pashtun-Urdu-speaking Afghani struggle to evict the British from high South
Asian mountain passes, like the Khyber Pass linking the Middle East and Southern
Asia; Passes pivotal for an arms & drug business then undergirding the British
Empire from Cairo to Calcutta, Singapore, and Shanghai, (or the current U.S.
Caucasus-to-Indian-Ocean oil + arms-&-drug-business pipelines).
Like Mohandas & Kasturbai Gandhi, Badshah saw practical nonviolence as
godly religion, as nonviolent spirituality that overcomes imperial oppression;
And, so, before his death, at 98, in 1988, in Peshawar, Badshah also
dialogued over nonviolence with a Palestinian-American visitor, Mubarak Awad,
later a Gandhian-style leader in the Palestinian resistance to Israeli
occupation. Badshah co-created the
Khudai Khidmatgar, or Servants of God, called the
Red (Khadi)
Shirts, numbering up to 300,000
satyagraphis, from many different tribes, whether Sikh, Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim,
or Christian. After 9/11, Teri
McLuhan, (daughter of Marshall McLuhan,
Media is the Message author), pioneered the movie, “The Frontier Gandhi:
Badshah Khan, a Torch for Peace,” with her on-site
India,
Pakistan, and Afghanistan
footage, deploying her Canadian citizenship to advantage.
McLuhan, for instance, found and filmed 82 elderly
Khudai Khidmatgars (5 women) — whose
Pashtun-Urdu word for nonviolence, sabr’,
stems from the Quranic word for patience, toward unrelenting resistance to
overwhelm injustice. Graphically,
McLuhan built her movie around old photos of tall Badshah, and not-so-tall
Mohandas, together, as friends, colleagues in ongoing struggle, in the first
major worldwide struggles overcoming imperial European colonialism after 1940s
Wars.
See Allan M. Jalon, “Abdul Ghaffar Khan is ‘The Frontier Gandhi’; The Devout
Muslim Leader Preached Passive Resistance and Opposed Violence,” LA Times (19
Oct 2008);
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-ca-pakidoc19-2008oct19,0,2665208.story;
www.awaminationalparty.org;
http://awaminationalparty.org/news/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=71&Itemid=55;
http://awaminationalparty.org/news/images/stories/documents/bacha_khan_broucher.pdf;
http://www.chowk.com/unplugged/t/59126;
http://www.apakistannews.com/film-on-frontier-gandhi-to-be-release-in-the-us-86345;
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/middleeast/la-ca-pakidoc19-2008oct19,0,5529233.story?track=rss;
http://www.paknycap.org/office/1st_Bacha_Khan_Peace_Conference_New_York.pdf;
and
http://www.peacefultomorrows.org/downloads/Afghanistan_Ending_Failed_Military_Strategy_3.pdf.
Iraqis on Nonviolence
Co-creators of Iraqi nonviolence — from Sufi writer-exemplars such as
Rabi’a al-Qaddiwiyah al-Qassiyah (Eastern Iraq), or Ibn al’Arabi (Cordoba to
Cairo & Baghdad) — like Ismaeel Dawood and Basil Albadri — note how both U.S.
occupation forces and the forces often weaponized through U.S.-backed regimes
need to see nonviolence as a more secure third way toward liberation. Iraqi
Nonviolence — in Arabic, La’Onf —
offers nonviolence as a “green” liberation tool to overcome both occupation and
terrorism.
See www.laonf.net;
http://www.peacefultomorrows.org/;
http://www.peacefultomorrows.org/article.php?id=902;
http://www.unponteper.it/documenti/progetti/Article%20iraqi%20week%20nv%202007.pdf;
http://www.bcn.es/cooperacio/BCNSolidaria/FCT-Ajuntament.pdf;
http://flickr.com/photos/laonfsolidarity/;
http://www.mediate.com/pdf/RESUM_ENG.pdf;
http://electroniciraq.net/news/iraqdiaries/Photo_Diary_Iraqis_advocating_nonviolence_hold_events_all_over_Iraq-3428.shtml.
Israeli on Nonviolence
Nonviolent civil disobedience as a third way opposing terrorism and occupation
surfaces through the “Conscience of the Israeli Spymaster’s Daughter,” 9 Oct
2008, with her friends — likewise women to be imprisoned for refusing to be
Israeli soldiers in the occupation of Palestine;
See
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/45588,features,conscience-of-the-israeli-spymasters-daughter-;
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article4925056.ece/;
http://www.abie-nathan.com/pages-eng/main.html;
http://www.offshore-radio.de/VOP.htm, (via W-Mediterranean Radio Pirate
“Ship of Peace”); and
http://www.newsanctuarymovement.org.
U.S. on Nonviolence
RNC-8 — U.S. Nonviolent Civil Disobedience group action in
Minneapolis-St. Paul Republican-Convention leads to police arrests, to a century
in prison, if cumulatively for all 8 resisters — Critically exposing bank
hegemony in militarized corporate aggregation, consequently profiting from
less-militarily-connected bankrupted U.S. banks.
See
http://www.nornc.org/2008/10/05/letter-from-the-rnc-8/;
http://rnc08arrestees.wordpress.com/;
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article6826.html.; and
http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/5-seizing-war-protesters-assets/.
Ecuadorans on Nonviolence
“Gangs for Peace” through, e.g., Nelsa Curbelo, SERPAZ–Ecuador,
co-creates nonviolent civil disobedience movements expanded through
demilitarizing gangs in Global South; See
http://www.mediate.com/pdf/RESUM_ENG.pdf;
http://www.odemagazine.com/doc/54/join-my-gang/;
http://www.globalonenessproject.org/interviewee/nelsa-libertad-curbelo;
http://www.serpaz.org/web/;
http://www.serpajamericalatina.org/home.htm;
http://www.barcelona2004.org/esp/banco_del_conocimiento/docs/PO_15_EN_CURBELO.pdf;
and
http://www.flacso.org.ec/docs/ecuaperu_curbelo.pdf.
_ Local-Global-Oriented Currencies Parallel National Monetary
Systems; Currently over 2,000 local currencies all over the world use their own
monetary script, exchanging goods and services in banks, shops, & markets; (Not
coins nor print bills that resemble federal dollars). For example, Argentine
“script” ($600 Million +/- USD) has kept people from starving over the last
decade, (according to Peter North, a Liverpool author, see below);
Ithaca NY’s Ithaca
Hours, equally well, over the last 15 years.
Addressing local-global community-oriented approaches to climate
change and energy issues, English “Transition Town Movements” have thus issued
Lewes and Totnes Pound currencies, so as to generate locally-mutually-beneficial
economic–recycled benefits; still taxed
excepting actuarial barter of services. In like
manner, Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s Riverwest and East Side neighborhood residents
print their own script for neighborhood stores and businesses — Sura Faraj, a
Milwaukee community organizer notes that their money works, for example, only in
one’s local hardware or grocery stores.
Green “money” works equally well from the Lettuce Patch Bank, Dancing
Rabbit Ecovillage, Missouri — on to over $2 Million USD equivalent, so far, via
12 branches of 5 local banks, in western Massachusetts’
BerkShares.
Across the planet, Community Exchange System (CES) Talents software tracks non-script
commerce ranging, e.g., from Khayelitsha, South Africa, to Argentina, Australia,
Canada, China, India, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Spain,
Sweden, the UK, the USA, Vanuatu, and Zimbabwe.
In turn, writers ranging from Benjamin Fulford to Bernard Lietaer, a
Belgian who co-developed the Euro, currently advocate the
Terra as one planetary currency, likely digitally-rated by national
commodities notes. Such currency
initiatives note how — like the Nobel Peace Prize awarding the Grameen Bank funding
illiterate womens’ informal business sector groups in Bangladesh — that people
who buy and sell in their own neighborhoods rely, to a great degree, on
neighbors that they know or trust as social collateral, (other factors like
world oil war entanglements notwithstanding).
See Judith D. Schwartz,
“Alternative Currencies Grow in Popularity,” 14 Dec 2008,
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0%2C8599%2C1865467%2C00.html?xid=feed-yahoo-biztech;
http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/ijccr/pdfs/IJCCRvol12(2008)Krohn.pdf;
http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/cc/NMfHC/;
http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/7945/,
http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/7945/1/MPRA_paper_7945.pdf;
http://www.baybucks.org/files/baybucks/72.pdf;
http://www.woodstockcent.com/pdf/Starr%20Article.pdf;
www.ces.org.za, (Community Exchange System/CES Talents Software, from Khayelitsha, South Africa out to Argentina,
Australia, Canada, China, India, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa,
Spain, Sweden, UK, USA, Vanuatu, &
Zimbabwe); http://www.gmlets.u-net.com/,
(Local Exchange Trading Systems (LETS)
or Green Dollars); and
http://www.openmoney.org/;
http://kashklash.dreamhosters.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/lets.pdf;
http://www.appropriate-economics.org/materials/overview_of_Parallel_Local_and_Community_Currencies.pdf;
http://www.appropriate-economics.org/asia/Asia_CCS_Report.pdf;
http://www.reinventingmoney.com/documents/MoneyEbook.pdf;
http://www.enterprise-impact.org.uk/pdf/LETS.pdf;
http://digitalcurrency-media.dreamhosters.com/sound_atoms/2008/10/09/lets_resume_pdf.pdf;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_Towns;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totnes_pound;
http://www.neweconomics.org/gen/uploads/wm1ldn45byfcr555ptyxzs2506042005123501.pdf;
http://www.pcdf.org/Living_Economies.htm;
http://esjp.wikispaces.com/file/view/EJSP-edit1.pdf (Sura Faraj, Milwaukee);
and for Peter North book, with last chapter on Argentina, pls see
http://books.google.com/books?id=PR2yBbD6LakC&pg=PA149&dq=peter+north+currency+argentina#PPA155,M1.
2008.7-9 Report on
Apartheid-Nonviolence 101
_ Mohandas Gandhi on Western Culture (Dejavú)
_ Renewable, Carbon-Free Energy or Global Air & Water Dead
Zones
_ U.S Party Politics — Green, Blue, or Red “Law” on
Nonviolence
_ Apartheid Veterans on Nonviolence & U.S.–Israeli Consumer
Boycott
Darrell
Randall Biography from 1940s “Columbia University-12” Conscientious Objector
Status
2008
University Course Outline or Syllabi Online, Updated
_ Mohandas Gandhi on Western Culture (Dejavú)
Recordings of Mohandas K. Gandhi recovered through the Washington, DC,
Press Club: “Of course I believe in one world; And how can I possibly do
otherwise? ... [Nonetheless]
Christianity became disfigured when it went to the West, … despairing of
multiplication of [WMD…] atom bombs, because a multiplication of atom bombs
means utter destruction, not merely of the West, but … of the world, as if the
prophecy of the Bible is going to be fulfilled, and there is to be a perfect
[WMD] deluge… What I want you to
understand [is] — if you can — that the message of the East, the message of
Asia, is not to be learned through European spectacles, through Western
spectacles, not by imitating the tension of the West, the gunpowder of the West,
the atom bomb of the West... [Our] message again to the West ... must be a
message of love; It must be a message of truth [Satyagraha — tough love/truth force].”
See
http://www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/magazine/12914/let-your-hearts-clap-unison,
online via New Zealand, 12
Jul 2008, from 2 April 1947 — Preserved for 60 years by John Cosgrove, in
personal archives, as a former president of the U.S. National Press Club, (via)
Alfred Wagg, a New Delhi
journalist. See also Mohammed Yasin Malik design for United Nations
Gandhi Postage Stamp,
http://ferdiepacheco.com,
http://www.yborfilmfestival.com/2004/artists/ferdie_pacheco.html,
http://www.braggingrightscorner.com/pacheco072908.html; and
http://www.indianmuslims.info/.
_ Renewable, Carbon-Free Energy or Global Air & Water Dead
Zones; 2008.10 BirdLife World Conservation Conference on Disappearing State
of the World’s Birds; Buenos Aires,
Argentina;
Disappearance percentages of birds “gone” or die-off in world’s “air space”
since world bird trend-pattern counts in 1930s:
–
80-90% of larger raptors & vultures have disappeared
across Africa;
–
80% of Australia’s
wading birds; 70% of birds migrating the Caribbean across the Americas, along with Asia water birds, and
species like the Turtle Dove across Europe; and
another
–
50% of migrating birds across the Mediterranean between
Europe, Asia, & Africa, as well as about half
the birds “gone” across the Northern American continent.
See
http://www.birdlife.org/worldconference/;
http://www.birdlife.org/worldconference/pdfs/PROCO_Programme_Full.pdf;
http://www.birdlife.org/worldconference/pdfs/Delegate_List_Web.pdf;
www.birdlife.org/sowb,
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/catastrophic-fall-in-numbers-reveals-bird-populations-in-crisis-throughout-the-world-937573.html;
http://www.biodiversityinfo.org/sowb/userfiles/docs/SOWB2008_en.pdf;
http://www.biodiversityinfo.org/sowb/userfiles/docs/SOWB2004_en.pdf;
http://www.avesargentinas.org.ar/cs/index.php; and BirdLife International
(Cambridge University, England),
http://www.birdlife.org/.
Massive bird die-offs correspond with ocean dead zones
expansion trends, linking pattern studies such as those after the Chernobyl
disaster which reveal bird birth defects to predictively-monitor pollution
plumes harmful to birth, i.e., births genetically-insulted by accelerating
global warming temperature flux. In effect rapidly-expanding ocean dead zones
choke sea wildlife with chlorine–nitrogen compounds. Without something like
nitrogen to fertilize crops, world crop production could falter; But
fertilizer–pesticides, if military bio-chem by-products, dumped into the oceans
will choke humans and oceans.
See
http://clamshell-tvs.blogspot.com/2007/04/twenty-years-after-chernobyl.html;
http://pottersweal.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/2008_02_14_science_oceans-impact.jpg;
and
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/05/15/nitrogendeposition.jpg&imgrefurl=http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/05/reactive-nitrog.html&h=356&w=800&sz=101&hl=en&start=57&tbnid=RSl0zYFk34duBM:&tbnh=64&tbnw=143&prev=/images%3Fq%3DAAAS%2B%2522Dead%2BZones%2522%2Bfiletype:jpg%26start%3D40%26imgc%3Dcolor%26imgsz%3Dsmall%257Cmedium%257Clarge%257Cxlarge%26as_st%3Dy%26ndsp%3D20%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DNl.
Solar energy free of carbon, chlorine, and nitrogen costs, on
the other hand, could evolve from sustainable plant energy, nutrient, and
photosynthesis processes. Inspired by plant photosynthesis and energy
storage–recycling, e.g., MIT’s Kanan and Nocera have deployed a cyclical solar
energy system to split water into hydrogen and oxygen gas — regenerated inside
fuel cells, day & night. Their
cyclic system mobilizes conducting glass, a catalyst of cobalt metal, phosphate
and an electrode, in water, to produce an oxygen and hydrogen gas cycle. When
electricity — whether from a photovoltaic cell, a wind turbine, or other source
— runs through the electrode, the oxidized cobalt and phosphate form a thin
darkish blue-black film on the electrode, to produce oxygen gas. Combination
with appropriate catalysts, like platinum, produces hydrogen gas from water; In
so doing, the system approximates the water–splitting–recycling characteristics
of photosynthesis. Unlocking
carbon-free solar energy so, through photovoltaic photosynthesis of water, is
one of the MIT’s (National Science Foundation and Chesonis Family
Foundation-funded) first Solar Revolution Projects.
See Matthew W. Kanan and Daniel G. Nocera, “In
Situ Formation of an Oxygen-Evolving Catalyst in Neutral Water Containing
Phosphate and Co2+,” Science 321 (22
Aug 2008), 1072-1075; and Alan F. Heyduk and Daniel G. Nocera, “Hydrogen
Produced from Hydrohalic Acid Solutions by a Two-Electron Mixed-Valence
Photocatalyst,” Science 293 (31 Aug
2001), 1639-1641; as well as Anne Trafton, “‘Major Discovery’ from MIT Primed to
Unleash Solar Revolution, Scientists Mimic [Photovoltaic Photosynthesis] Essence
of Plants’ Energy Storage System,” 31 July 2008;
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/oxygen-0731.html;
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080731143345.htm; and
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/audio/2008/jun/16/science.weekly.extra.dan.nocera.
_ U.S Party Politics — Green, Blue, or Red “Law” on
Nonviolence
California proposes the first U.S. green state-wide
residential and commercial, legally-binding contractor–building and
comparatively less-polluting e-transportation construction-related codes; Car
makers, internationally, currently sell only five electric car (plug-in?)
options online; See
http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/autos/0806/gallery.electric_cars_now/2.html;
http://www.green.ca.gov/NewsandEvents/NewsStories/080731.htm;
http://www.documents.dgs.ca.gov/bsc/prpsd_stds/2007/2007_cgbsc_9-23-08.pdf;
http://www.documents.dgs.ca.gov/bsc/prpsd_stds/combined_green_et_7_08.pdf;
http://gov.ca.gov/press-release/10217/;
http://www.documents.dgs.ca.gov/bsc/prpsd_stds/governors_press_release_cgbsc.pdf;
and
www.green-technology.org/green_technology_magazine/california_building_code.htm.
Politically, nonviolent civil disobedience anti-war groups,
pushing for green legal policy making, tend to pose a direct nonviolent change
model options — for example, quoting John Sellers, (who “drew” a multimillion
dollar bail for “misdemeanor” organizing in Philadelphia, after Seattle WA
confrontations): “Be as radical and non-violently confrontational as you want,
so long as you don’t scare people or endanger them…. Violence can only be done
to living beings.”John Sellers, “Raising a Ruckus,”
New Left Review 10 (Jul-Aug 2001), 82;
John Sellers, 2006, Interview,
http://www.yourcallradio.org/archive/archive.html — 013106.ram;
http://www.recreate68.com/; Sarah Ferguson, “Activists Weigh the Cost of
Confrontation; First Tear Gas, Now Bullets,” (18-24 July 2001)
Village Voice,
http://www.carolmoore.net/sfm/marginalization.html;
http://www.bapd.org/groups.dap;
http://www.recreate68.com/media_communique_7.pdf;
http://www.recreate68.com/ruckusscoutingmanual.pdf;
http://www.recreate68.com/direct_action.pdf;
http://www.recreate68.com/ruckusvideocammanual.pdf; and
http://www.circleoflife.org/resources.php?PHPSESSID=bc1bf22842455b343a5519b86fa4bd2c.
However, miles from a 2008 Twin Cities Palin–McCain
Republican Convention, the U.S. Republican Party (partially-?) funded MN State
and local municipal police arrests of a so-called “RNC Eight” — Arrested as
felony criminals under a U.S. Minnesota “Terrorism” Patriot Act — for nonviolent
protest — i.e., Monica Bicking, Eryn Trimmer, Luce Gullen-Givens, Erik Oseland,
Nathanael Secor, Robert Czernik, Garrett Fitzgerald and Max Specktor — all as
nonviolent civil disobedience representatives of the U.S. Poor People’s Economic
Human Rights Campaign and the Minnesota Glass Bead Collective.
Felony arrests included six officially-credentialed journalistic
bystanders — two British students, a Kentucky Kernel photographer, and three journalists from Indymedia’s
Democracy Now — all with proper media
credentials, not participating in direct protest, but arrested and released
without
cause–charge; the former, three days after
their arrest. On the RNC Convention
floor, inside, (under national TV coverage), a nonpartisan women’s peace group,
Code Pink, loudly protested Sarah Palin’s speech.
Code Pink women, nearing Palin’s stage, revealed pink slips reading
“Palin is not a woman’s choice” for a minute, and then yelled “Women say no to
war!” and “Women need a vice-president for peace!” before being ejected with
warnings not to re-enter. See
http://kykernel.com/2008/09/02/two-students-and-kernel-photo-adviser-arrested-at-rnc/;
http://i1.democracynow.org/2008/9/5/we_are_not_terrorists_members_of;
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/impeach-bush/message/34143;
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27078965@N00/2831505130/;
http://codepink4peace.org/blog/2008/09/codepink-activists-interrrupt-sarah-palins-rnc-speech-at-side-of-the-stage/;
Coldsnap Legal Collective,
http://coldsnaplegal.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/houses-spaces-raided-throughout-the-twin-cities/;
http://organizersfightback.wordpress.com/about; and
www.midwestacademy.com.
_ Apartheid Veterans on Nonviolence & U.S.–Israeli Consumer
Boycott
Distinguished South African anti-apartheid veterans critique
apartheid repression of Palestinians in Israeli-occupied territories, as worse
in critical respects than oppression of RSA’s black majority under South African
apartheid white rule. A prominent 23-strong human-needs-rights team of South Africans criticizes the Israeli
apartheid wall and ID passes, as like reviled South African apartheid ID travel
& service access passes. Andrew Feinstein, e.g., found Yad Vashem “extremely
moving” since his mother, a Holocaust survivor, lost many family members, but
subsequently, nevertheless, he then “found it very shocking to … see footage of
teenagers heaping abuse on Palestinian children as they come out of school, and
throwing stones at them, in the name of Judaism; … [as accordingly] totally
reprehensible.” Fatima Hassan describes “separate roads, [banded-tagged
licenses] of cars driven by different nationalities, the indignity of producing
a permit any time a soldier asks for it, and of waiting in long queues in the
boiling sun at checkpoints just to enter your own city, … [as] worse than what
we experienced during apartheid.”
Hassan believes a Parents’ Circle or Forum of Israeli and Palestinian families
over bereaved war dead, to be the most “depressing and inspiring” event of their
visit. Their delegation report urged support for “Palestinian-Israeli joint
non-violent struggle” — such as through Breaking the Silence, Combatants for
Peace, and the Bereaved Parents Families Forum. Other related
U.S.
initiatives, such as the Presbyterian Divestment Initiative, have had difficulty
specifying consumer target momentum; Yet rural Turkish women in Kica have
mobilized a (Lysistrata Strategy) boycott of their men, until their men start
making previously-accessible potable water available on a reasonable basis for
home needs.
See
http://www.humanrightsdelegation.org/; Donald Macintyre, “‘This is Like
Apartheid’: ANC Veterans Visit West Bank,” 11 July 2008;
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/this-is-like-apartheid-anc-veterans-visit-west-bank-865063.html;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/andrewfeinstein;
http://ia310109.us.archive.org/1/items/alt_focus_divesting_from_violence/;
and
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/Europe/Sept-Oct-08/Turkish-Village-Women-Say-No-Water--No-Sex.html;
http://mparent7777-1.livejournal.com/1085245.html;
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/49608;
www.theparentscircle.org;
http://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/index_e.asp;
and
http://www.combatantsforpeace.org/.
Or to quote a Jewish South African, Ronnie
Kasrils, historic anti-apartheid-“intelligence”
consciousness, (UN Conf., Pretoria, 30 Sept
2008): “The analogy between apartheid and Israel’s
occupation of Palestine
is often made. It is not the same thing. The occupation is absolutely worse;”
Kasrils has noted more than once that Israeli, not RSA, apartheid -era tanks &
gunships attack what is claimed to be their own people.
See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_Kasrils;
http://antiisgood.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/south-african-intelligence-minister-kasrils-israels-behaviour-worse-than-apartheid/;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_Mondlane;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_First; and
http://www.dur.ac.uk/ruthfirst.trust/ — See also below for fundamental labor
research research roles of Ruth First and Eduardo Mondlane, the latter as an
outstanding student of recently-deceased Darrell Randall.
2008.9 Randall,
Darrell Biography, (Nonviolence re
Apartheid), By Decade & Concern
2000s
Nonviolence International,
Fellowship of Reconciliation Concerns Support
(Died Sept 2008)
1990s
War Refugee Sanctuary Movement, American University
South African Apartheid Divestment
Co-creating American University, DC/A.U.–DC-MD-VA Peace &
Conflict Resolution Program
1980s
American
University
Divestment from South African Apartheid
(SCAR, DC Student Coalition Against
Racism, led by two of our teaching aide students)
Conference & Publications
Celebrating 200 Years of Methodist-sourced Higher Education
Co-creating A.U. Peace &
Conflict Resolution Program (before George Mason U version)
1970s
Socially-Responsible World Pax
Investment Fund (1971, Founding Economic Adviser)
Including repeat group
visits to, for example, Cuba,
Israel,
Palestine, & Southern Africa
A.U.
S.I.S. African Program and A.U. World Human Needs Institute (First
Professor)
A.U.
S.I.S. International Development Program (1975, Co-founding Professor)
1960s
USA-RSA intel–“book bombs” kill
Eduardo Mondlane, 1969, (Darrell’s student) & Ruth First
As co-researchers at heart
of revised labor history undermining NATO-projected Apartheid
First — pioneer
African anthropologist, married Joe Slovo, founding ANC military leader
Mondlane (PhD),
first President, Mozambique;
2d, Samora Machel, also killed in office/USA-RSA
1956s-1990s,
A.U. SIS Fundraiser (e.g., facilitating about
$6 m gift to A.U.-S.I.S. from a Jewish
neighbor, whose
children were ostracized by almost all his neighbors except Darrell)
Ongoing United Nations Association & International Family Planning
pedagogical leadership
1950s
Wilgespruit Fellowship Centre
(1947), Int’l (non-Christo-centric) Fellowship of Reconciliation;
Wilgespruit now a
hostel with retreat facilities and world sculpture park gardens honoring
South Africa’s
four Nobel Peace Prize Winners (World-class Los Angeles Sculptor)
1956 PhD University of
Chicago;
1940s
through Columbia University
“12” from Civilian Public Service Camps/Prison
U.N. and USA
NGO Centers
(opposite General Assembly NYC, & 110
MD Ave, DC)
Born 1916, Union, Nebraska /
NB; 1939 BA Nebraska Wesleyan University, NB; 1942 MA Nebraska Wesleyan
University, NB; Married Mildred, 15 July 1943; 1946 Columbia University, MA,
Law, NYC; (From On MLK, Jr.’s
… Letter to Darrell, …
Papers of MLK., Jr., p. 553, See
http://books.google.com/books?id=qW-NYdIefPgC&pg=RA1-PA533&lpg=RA1-PA533&dq=Columbia+%22darrell+randall%22&source=web&ots=65fUwBUz7Y&sig=a51nAjcktt8VAldDlbWLttnxfm0&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result.
Darrell’s last known time in
jail, after 50 years of academic struggle against DC & Southern Africa
apartheid was in DC Jail, overnight (at advanced age), with a TransAfrica-led
Congressional demonstration at the South African Embassy.
Hard to prove if–when Darrell was jailed under RSA apartheid, given
selectively-released RSA apartheid prison records; Like selectively-released
1940s USA conscientious-objection Civilian Peace Service Camps/CPS or prison
records in restricted–classified (until at least 2020) Swarthmore Peace 1940s
CPS Collection document boxes — Likely concerning prison-to-graduate-school
“Columbia University-12” including Darrell, Mulford Sibley, and Steve Cary; 3
Quakers, 3 Mennonites, 3 Brethren, 3 Methodist or … = 12.
Likewise unknown — how many FBI… “visits”
for ANC-PAC-UDF-Wilgespruit visitors, or for Janet Mondlane in DC, or for
students like Dessima William, A.U. SIS PhD, Grenadian–OAS Representative,
during USA invasion of Grenada;
State or federal court records of Darrell’s defense arguments before – against
imprisonment also likely hard-to-access.
Darrell’s MA in international
law, through Columbia U, came through being 1 of 12 young men shifted from CPS,
i.e., something like prison, with bars, barbed-wire, armed guards, &
militarily-trained attack dogs, to Columbia U Graduate School, via Eleanor
Roosevelt’s 12-scholarships plan.
Steve Cary, former CPS bunkmate, (also deceased), was “Best Man” at Darrell’s
Riverside Church Chapel Wedding; Cary let him use
his cottage in New Hampshire
for a honeymoon. Cary would chair the board of directors of the
U.S. American
Friends (Quaker) Service Cmte many years; Though Cary failed to mention his
prison-to-Columbia life story in his autobiography; Other “Columbia-12” —
Sibley, a University of Minnesota professor
publishing core nonviolence works;
and Core future “Historic Peace Church” leaders. Ironically, Eleanor Roosevelt’s
secretary, who, coincidentally, lived near Darrell’s NW
DC home, refused any further
financial-foundational help beyond those Columbia University
scholarships. Columbia University
granted Darrell a MA in Law/International Law, in 1946, a year before he
co-created the Wilgespruit Fellowship Center in Roodepoort, Johannesberg, RSA,
in 1947; Alan Paton, (author, Cry the
Beloved Country), being one of Wilgespruit’s founding board of directors’
members. Ten years later, in 1957, the University of Chicago granted Darrell a
PhD in International Economic Planning — Randall, Darrell,
Factors of Economic Development and the Okovango Delta; Some World
Relationships to and Problems of, Planning for Economic Development of an
Underdeveloped Area in Africa; 1957;
Greatest Places, IMAX Film, 2001, places Okavango on the same level as Amazonia for world resources meeting human needs,
(… Mal Wolfe & Avery Brooks).
Darrell’s closest African
concern may have been, e.g., co-creating the Wilgespruit Fellowship Centre,
Roodeport, Jo-berg, RSA, as perhaps one of the first groups to nonviolently
challenge apartheid, projected by NATO, in Southern Africa. When Darrell &
I visited the RSA Embassy in DC, both the first post-apartheid RSA Ambassador
(Sheila Sisulu ) to the USA, a daughter-in-law of Walter & Albertina Sisulu, and
her first secretary remembered starting their organized struggle against
apartheid, personally, as it were, through groups like Wilgespruit.
Walter, Robbin Island prison cellmate of Nelson Mandela, & Albertina
met, and later married, through classes like Darrell’s in social work, at the
Jan Hofmeyer School of Social Work, Witswatersrand University,
Jo-berg. Eduardo Mondlane, Janet (who married Eduardo), Walter, and
Albertina knew the Randall’s Jo-berg area residences. The Mondlane’s met as grad
students; She from Chicago-area, He, finishing his PhD, at Chicago’s
Northwestern Univerisity, though from Mozambique, where even few public
libraries existed with post-colonial NATO–Portuguese “scorched earth” apartheid;
when few African-Americans could pursue a graduate degree in the “north”.
The Mondlane’s became the “first couple” of Mozambique, as it were; Darrell
noted that he, they, and their minister were the only four people present at
Janet & Eduardo’s wedding, given family issues over their racially-mixed
marriage. One of Darrell’s most precious mementos was a personal letter from
Martin Luther King, Jr., listed in the Stanford University archives, over how
Darrell tried to fund MLK’s travel, via Methodist-funded United Nations-NGO
money, in NYC, not only to India but also through the then Soviet Union, but
groups like the SCLC would not let Martin & Coretta use that money.
Darrell also spent a few hours talking, during short travel visits to
Northern Africa, with two leaders not often associated with DC’s American
University — both Malcolm X, as he prepared to go to Mecca for the first time,
together transiting a Cairo hotel, and Libya’s Muammar Kaddafi over his “green”
outlook, in Tripoli. Darrell also
firmly supported state-hood for DC, along with integrating local schools; the
American University African Program being, along with its Russian studies,
difficult to introduce in Northwestern “white” DC.
DC Area Legacy — A.U. African
Student scholarship in his name, and Co-creating A.U.–DC-MD-VA Peace & Conflict
Resolution Program University — Currently over 600 grad-undergrad Peace &
Conflict Resolution program students in A.U. alone, from, e.g., East
Mediterranean, Oil Gulf, Colombia-Central Amera, Southern Africa, China, India,
Pacific Rim.
Washington Post
Obituary — “Darrell Randall;
Professor, Apartheid Foe;” Obituary written through Pat Sullivan, mostly by
Louis Goodman, Dean, A.U. SIS, and Kathy Randall, daughter-in-law, latter not
connected with A.U.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/11/;
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/11/AR2008091103502.html?nav=emailpage.
2008.5-6 Report on
Apartheid-Nonviolence 101
_ Methodology ~ Environmentally-Conscious Nonviolence
_ AntiWar Consumer–Corporate Divestment “Rule-of-Law” in
Seattle
WA
USA?
_
Urban
Gardens vs Epidemiology of
Nuclear Fallout–Contamination
_ Methodology ~ Environmentally-Conscious Nonviolence
Nonviolence methodologically-speaking may indicate means
toward ends — as pragmatic or positivist — and/or means consonant with ends,
contextually, irregardless of prevailing political economies.
Interpersonally, such interpretations seek to justify “open–hand”
conflict theories varying between judo or jiu jitsu notions
of balance–outcome and karate–akido–tae-kwon-do–tai chi
notions of striking-back. In other
words, balance-oriented judo may tend to use coercive gravity or momentum,
through counter-balance, to resolve differences; Whilst the latter tend to
prefer martial (strike–anti-strike, parry–anti-parry) striking techniques.
Even so, Martin Luther King, Jr., for example, likened judo method to a
common personal nonviolence model; (hermeneutically like Richard Gregg’s
benchmark 1930s book, The Power of
Nonviolence, written in India & England through
Druid–Gandhian–Ashram networks). In
Japanese, Judo, (an Olympic sport),
translates to
“give way” to a “way of [nonviolent]
‘gentleness’.” See Margaret Rose
Catt, Effects of an After School Judo
Program on Children’s Self Esteem; Ball State University, MA, USA, 2006;
http://millrace.uoregon.edu/kinpubs/elecprod/PSY2393Catt(19-1).pdf; Jimmy
Francoeur, Profils Psychologiques
Différentiels de Pratiquants de Deux Arts Martiaux, Le Judo et Karaté, et de non
Pratiquants; Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada, 2003;
http://bibvir.uqac.ca/theses/17629489/17629489.pdf; and Carol Portice
Harris, Personality Types of Experts in
Five Martial Arts: Aikido, Hapkido, Judo, Jujitsu, and Karate;
St. Mary’s College of California, MA, USA, 1999; As well as
http://www.wellnesscke.net/;
http://radicalcivility.org/wordpress/?p=259;
http://warhistorian.org/wordpress/?p=685;
http://www.wellnesscke.net/downloadables/Access-to-Somatics.pdf; and
http://www.olympic.org/uk/sports/programme/index_uk.asp?SportCode=JU.
Rather than viewing nonviolence as a strictly positivist
method or
pragmatic experiment, (only valid in
so-called non-”socialist” or non-“eco-feminist” contexts), nonviolence thus
environmentally-conscious may likewise be seen to resonate within planetary
survey findings of the BBC and the U.S National Geographic Society on
international war (as “terrorism”) and climate trends & patterns.
BBC’s GlobeScan
Survey of 25 countries finds that consumers in France, Spain,
Brazil, China, Italy,
Mexico, and the Netherlands feel very concerned about how to
resolve global warming, quite unlike U.S. consumers. Indeed BBC
GlobeScan notes that about ¾ of the
world’s people surveyed disapprove of the determinate U.S. role in Oil
Gulf & Eastern Mediterranean wars and, so, also sea–climate crisis pressure.
See
http://www.globescan.com/news_archives/bbcusop/;
www.nationalgeographic.com/greendex;
http://www.globescan.com/pdf/StateofCorporateCitizenship.pdf;
http://www.globescan.com/news_archives/csr06_climatechange.pdf;
http://www.globescan.com/news_archives/bbcusop/bbcusop.pdf; and
http://www.globescan.com/news_archives/bbc_climate/bbcclimate.pdf;
The first U.S. National
(International) Geographic Annual Survey
notes that U.S. citizens, are, likewise, comparatively, less-likely able to
enjoy greener options in housing, transportation, and consumer goods issues —
Geographic’s survey, also randomly-devised, compares 14 nation-states:
Brazil and India tied for the highest,
most conscientious “green” consumer scores, at 60% of 100 questions posed; but,
U.S. consumers, only 44.9%; Whereas China scored 56.1; Mexico, 54.2; Russia,
52.4; England, Germany, & Australia, 50.2; Spain, 50; Japan, 49.1; France, 48.7;
and Canada, 48.5%.
Leaders like Mckinney
and Rankin symbolize nonviolence-oriented politically and
environmentally-conscious U.S.
orientations on “Capital Hill”, historically. Mckinney voted, uniquely, perhaps, against
both Bush-Gulf Oil Wars I & II, as did Jeanette Rankin, against both World Wars
I and II, all waged over oil hegemony. As a Green Party leader, Cynthia Mckinney
would likely also rank rather higher on the so-called
GreenIndex than U.S.
Democratic–Republican party leaders — See Queenie
Wong, “U.S. Consumers Rank Last in World Survey of Green Habits,” McClatchy
Newspapers, 7 May 2008, (http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/36248.html;
http://www.globescan.com/news_archives/greendex/Greendex.pdf;
http://event.nationalgeographic.com/greendex/;
http://www.jrpc.org/; as well as ongoing
Agent Orange toxicology patterns dating from 1960s-1970s U.S. IndoChina wars
in South-East Asia, e.g.,
www.orangecarers.com or
www.geocities.com/bernie_doc/Vietnam.html.
But major sponsors for Washington, DC’s Memorial Veterans’ Day
Parade, in turn — Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and NRA & Pentagon — apparently
prevent the core, disability-oriented, DC-based, Veterans for Peace, (Delwin
Anderson Memorial Chapter), from walking in the Washington DC National (Military
“Honor” Dead) Memorial Day Parade. See “Vets for Peace Booted from National Memorial Day Parade,”
http://www.progressive.org/mag_mc052308;
http://foia.state.gov/documents/elsalvad/738d.PDF;
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/War_Peace/War_Immemorial.html;
http://www.army.mil/usapa/doctrine/31_Series_Collection_1.html;
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Middle_East/MiddleEastWatch.html;
and http://brokenlives.info/http://wikileaks.org/wiki/US_Special_Forces_counterinsurgency_manual_FM_31-20-3.
_ AntiWar Consumer–Corporate Divestment “Rule-of-Law” in
Seattle
WA
USA? Coalition-building Seattle Divest from War and Occupation organizes their “I-97” ballot
initiative, mandating that city pension funds divest from U.S. businesses that make war to grossly profit
in the Oil
Gulf
and Israel’s occupation of Palestine. A
Seattle Divest spokesperson, Judith
Kolokoff, (Jewish-American), describes the potential city law as restricting the
U.S. “companies that are directly involved in the wars and occupations in the
Middle East that have not been authorized by the United Nations.” Seattle’s proposed government measure also demands that Seattle withdraw any investment in Israeli bonds if Israel attacks Iran.
See Rebecca Spence, “Seattle Activists Aim to Put Israel Divestment on City’s
[Council Management] Agenda,” 21 May 2008,
http://divestfromwar.org/materials/signature-form-05-16-2008.pdf;
http://www.forward.com/articles/13402/. Divest–Apartheid
Books: MKG, Law and the Lawyers;
Anaida Pascual Morán,
Fuerza de Espíritu, Fuerza de Paz,
Arthur Dunham, Community Organization;
and Vassilis Vasilikos, Z
(documentary-novel of Greek “Gandhi”); Online:
http://gesellschaft.dada.at/2006/07/15l;
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Chomsky/WhatUncleSamWants.html;
http://www.muslimbridges.org/content/blogcategory/59/23/;
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Israel/The_Other_Israel.html;
http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/17776;
http://www.muslimbridges.org/images/stories/pdfs/Apartheid.pdf;
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Weapons/Making_Killing_page.html;
http://www.muslimbridges.org/images/stories/pdfs/Palestine.pdf;
http://www.nelsonmandela.org/; and
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Reordering_Priorities/Reordering_Priorities.html.
For international listserv backgrounds on Arab-American views
over divestment of U.S. corporations exploiting the Eastern Mediterranean and
Oil Gulf wars, see, for instance, the Michigan–Ontario-rooted
Palestinian-American-Canadian “Michigan Media Watch” Listserv —
www.mmwatch.org/,
(multimedia, great cartoons) —
michmediawatch@yahoogroups.com, (co-created by Sherri Muzher, LLD); See also
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Israel/Israel_ForeignPolicy.html;
http://annies-letters.blogspot.com/2007/09/sherri-muzher-my-unsung-palestinian.html;
http://annies-letters.blogspot.com/search?q=Mckinney&x=0&y=0; and
http://www.worldpress.org/Mideast/3174.cfm.
Recent Irish courts rulings have also found all
allegedly-accused members of the Derry, Ireland, Antiwar Coalition “not-guilty”
of organizing protests and occupations to “decommission” Raytheon in Ireland,
since July 2006;
http://www.46664.com/;
http://www.raytheon9.org/;
http://www.peaceontrial.com/;
http://www.counterpunch.org/harkin05302008.html; and
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Foreign_Policy/US_ForeignPolicy.html.
_
Urban
Gardens vs Epidemiology of
Nuclear Fallout–Contamination, Overhead, Downwind, & Downstream.
If writers like Stewart, Bertell, Ibuse, Graeub, Miller, and Fulton, (&
dBase Networks below), are correct, as to cytogenetic long-term,
radioactively-ionized cancer rate etiologies — then atomic reactors and blasts
in Nevada & the Pacific Rim may have significantly increased carcinogenic growth
rates in Northern American and planet-wide demographic trends; More severe
radiation dispersal patterns at times termed “red rain” or “hard rain”
(downwind), as opposed to “black rain” (overhead) fallout.
See
Alice Stewart — First epidemiologist (Oxford Quaker) to demonstrate x-rays
harm fetus cytogenetically; Leading
NGO scientist in public hearings as to, e.g., Hanford, Three-Mile Island
tragedies; Medically-critical articles likely to concern “classified”
triploid-helix data, post-1945 Japan, concerning age-0-5 – over-55
radioactively-influenced causes of death (Hiroshima & Nagasaki bombing) —
See “A-Bomb Survivors,”
International Jr of Epidemiology 29
(2000) & …, Medicine, Conflict, & Survival
15/1 (1999); Rf. Also
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/reprint/325/7355/106.pdf;
http://www.clarku.edu/departments/marsh/projects/community/perspectives.pdf
(2002);
http://www.press.umich.edu/pdf/0472111078-fm.pdf; and
http://www.sshm.org/gazette/gazette33.pdf; … from “Oxford Survey of
Childhood Cancer Cases,...” (died, 2002).
Rosalie Bertell,
No Immediate Danger: Prognosis for a Radioactive Earth (1990),
Planet Earth — The Latest Weapon of War
(2001); Grey Nun, worked with Linus Pauling on cross-sectioning baby teeth risk
records, corresponding cancer rates with U.S. thermonuclear atmospheric bomb
blasts and reactor contamination; Exiled to Toronto, Canada.
(Calls
Lake Superior
the “Red Rain” doorway to the Great Lakes rain system, from Nevada blasts downwind, curling under
Canadian Great Lakes cold fronts above. Her father patented car glare-’reducing’
backview-mirrors, Buffalo NY); Rf.
www.iicph.org,
http://www.ratical.org/radiation/NRBE/;
http://citizensagainstperkins.org/issues/pdf/EnvRadiationNuclearReactorsEffectsChildren.pdf;
http://www.ccnr.org/rosalie_testimony.html; http://www.jacdesign.com/eyeswideopen/eyeswideopen.pdf;
http://archive.greenpeace.org/toxics/reports/ptf/ptf.html;
http://www.radiation.org/reading/RadioactiveBabyTeethChapter.html;
http://www.ratical.org/radiation/inetSeries/RBcv.html;
http://www.mothersalert.org/moreinfo.html;
http://www.bandepleteduranium.org/en/a/12.html; and
http://www.organicconsumers.org/artman2/uploads/1/Ehrle_et_al_pedCT.pdf; See
also Lorraine Rekmans, et al, ed., This is
My Homeland: Stories of the Effects of Nuclear Industries by [Native
Ameri-Canadian] People of the Serpent River First Nation and the North Shore of
Lake Huron (2003) — as to
targeted Native Ameri-Cndn Indian land dumping areas, and Japanese–Kosovar–Gulf
War Desert “Hibak’usha experiences;
http://www.ccnr.org/;
http://www.nodu-hiroshima.org/en/files/program_icbuw.pdf;
http://www.amvets-ca.org/pdfs/RECA/INTERVIEW%20OF%20MELISSA%20STERRY.pdf;
http://www.acme-journal.org/vol4/ASt.pdf;
http://www.citizen.org/documents/radioactiveracism.pdf;
http://www.ienearth.org/;
http://www.honorearth.com/; and Joseph
Mangano, Low-Level Radiation and Immune
System Damage, An Atomic Era Legacy (1998).
Masuji Ibuse,
Black Rain (Top-Selling Book–Movie in Japanese, Movie dubbed in
English, 1988); Book available, VCR movie quite rare–some black-&-white
“classified” footage; Not the U.S. ganster movie released soon after book with
same title. Concerns family–personal
diary about living under the shadow of Black Rain (bloody-greasy-rain, overhead,
from 1940s Hiroshima & Nagasaki mushroom-like updraft blasts), as compared with
so-called ‘depleted’ “Red Rain” downwind; (like in Gabriel or Dylan’s “Red” or
“Hard” Rain songs); Rf.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnwG2Pg0X1o;
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/p/peter+gabriel/red+rain_20107512.html;
http://yawiki.org/proc/List_of_songs_about_nuclear_war;
http://news.q4music.com/2007/04/random_list_of_the_day.html);
http://ondix.com/pdf/docs/essays_quiz_1071113201.pdf;
http://faculty.ccp.edu/faculty/DFreedman/HCS/feleppa.pdf;
http://people.bu.edu/jschmidt/PO193.pdf (college syllabus);
http://ondix.com/pdf/docs/essays_quiz_1071113201.pdf; and
http://www.rachelsiewert.org.au/files/releases/let-the-facts-speak-3rd-edition.pdf.
Ralph Graeub,
The Petkau Effect: Nuclear Radiation, People and Trees (1992) — as
to scientifically-delineated no-safe-levels of ionized radiation dosages,
(including “du” — i.e., trash or
‘depleted’ uranium & weaponized delivery sub/systems);
Rf.
http://www.iicph.org/docs/future_for_our_children.pdf;
http://www.bandepleteduranium.org/en/a/181.html; Of about 500 nucleotides
released in an atomic bomb blast, only the National Cancer Institute–NCI
Iodine-131 –Thyroid Cancer Cluster Study appear to have been published,
selectively-edited, at county-levels, and then only under
USA Today pressure —
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/02/28/usat-nuke-sidebar.htm;
http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aa030602a.htm;
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/02/28/usat-nuke-sidebar.htm; and
http://www.cnn.com/US/9707/25/fallout.furor/. Also released in the 1990s, a
National Academicy of Science Report,
Toxicologic Assessment of the Army’s Zinc Cadmium Sulfide Dispersion Tests,
ostensibly on Zinc–Cadmium Sulfate (Z-CS) plumes, covers areas south & west of
the Lake Michigan & Gulf of Mexico;
http://books.nap.edu/nap-cgi/chaphits.cgi?term=flourescent&isbn=0309057833;
http://books.nap.edu/books/0309057833/html/100.html; and
http://books.nap.edu/html/zinc/;
Official Z-CS “Summary ... During the
1950s and 1960s, Stanford University and other contractors for the U.S. Army
Chemical Corps conducted dispersion tests using fluorescent particles of zinc
cadmium sulfide (ZnCdS) as part of the BW [Biological Weapons] program in
Minneapolis, MN; Corpus Christi, TX; Fort Wayne, IN; St. Louis, MO ....
ZnCdS [Atomic Fall-Out?] ... fluoresces under ultraviolet (UV) light and
therefore can be easily detected; its particle diameter ([being] 2-3 µm) ....”
[ZnCdS Study includes County-level Areas where the NCI I-131 Study
results frequently report “blank” data results.] See also J. Newell Stannard,
Radioactivity & Health, A History (DOE-Batelle, 1988); and Ernest
Sternglass, Secret Fallout (1981).
Richard Miller,
U.S. Atlas of Nuclear Fallout 1951-1970 (Rare, bulky, costly, 6
Vols), especially Vol 1, Total Fallout,
abridged version, and Vol 5, Calculations
— Rf.
www.downwinders.org; and
http://www.nd.edu/~nsl/Lectures/phys20061/pdf/Syllabus-2006.pdf (syllabus);
Miller’s much “lighter” book, Under the
Cloud: The Decades of Nuclear Testing, is much easier to find.
See also Atomic Veterans Radiation
News;
http://www.usvetinfo.com/atomic/index.htm, a newsletter discontinued after
editor Oscar Rosen’s death); in addition to William A. Fletcher, “Atomic Bomb
Testing and the Warner Amendment: A Violation of the Separation of Powers,”
Washington [State University] Law Review
65/281 (1990), 285-321 — Atomic Veteran, UC-Berkley–Boalt law professor, U.S.
Federal Judge, (San Francisco CA Federal District Court); as well as
http://members.tripod.com/auspcr/Documents/book_list.htm; Likewise, Rand,
Project Sunshine Report
(extremely-censored, worldwide human carcass-exhumation-bone marrow
biopsy-oriented);
http://www.mcb10koreaseabees.com/radiation.htm.
See also Jeannie Peterson, ed.,
AMBIO, Nuclear War: The Aftermath, The Human and Ecological Consequences of
Nuclear War (1983) — as to
Nature Journal and SIPRI-Stockholem,
Sweden-based scientists on atomic war global annihilation; (a rare updated book
from Noel-Baker League-UN “disarmament”-oriented approaches);
www.sipri.org/;
http://www.esci.at/eusipo/asp1.pdf;
http://www.wilpf.int.ch/PDF/EconomicJustice/Mil-corp%20connexion%20manual/SectionVIIIMil-Corp.pdf;
http://www.wilpf.int.ch/PDF/EconomicJustice/Mil-corp%20connexion%20manual/SectionVMap.pdf;
http://www.wilpf.int.ch/PDF/EconomicJustice/Mil-corp%20connexion%20manual/SectionVIMil-Corp.pdf;
http://www.wilpf.int.ch/PDF/EconomicJustice/Mil-corp%20connexion%20manual/SectionVIIMil-Corp.pdf;
http://www.dtra.mil/documents/rd/DNATR805512F.pdf;
http://www.antiatom.org/GSKY/en/hbksh/us.htm;
http://www.atomicveterans.org/atomic_experience.htm;
http://www.aracnet.com/~pdxavets/;
http://www.atomicvetkin.com/;
http://www.naav.com/;
http://www.aracnet.com/~pdxavets/index.shtml; and
http://www.pugwash.org/Quinquennial-NL.pdf, (Pugwash
Quinquennia 1997–2007).
John Fulton,
The Day We Bombed Utah (1985), narrative witness approach giving
voice to “Downwinders” (over “legal” dialogue) and John Fulton,
We Almost Lost Detroit (1976), as to
near-atomic reactor melt-down.
See also Charles Hyder,
Human Survival on a Plutonium-Contaminated Planet (1998) — as to
oceanic, subsurface, long-term plume effects,
www.downwinders.org;
http://www.amadorbooks.com/books/pluto.htm; as well as
Handbook on Nuclear Sites in the Great
Lakes Region (Booklet, 1999);
http://www.serve.com/gvaughn/nukewatch/summer99/f99nfglac.html;
http://dwmi.homestead.com/;
http://www.nawo.org/pic/index.html;
http://www.nawo.org/;
http://www.radwaste.org/; and
http://www.nirs.org/reactorwatch/licensing/caskdanglesummaryreport4406.pdf.
Searchable dBase
Networks
LAKA Documentation Centre,
Amsterdam Nls (Dutch-sourced, multi-lingual, journals in-depth); Wilmington
College (Hiroshima–Nagasaki
Memorial Collection & Peace Center Library, and Swarthmore Library Peace
Collection; See
www.laka.org; www.ratical.org;
www.nirs.org –
www.wise.org (reactor-oriented);
http://www.ecocenter.org/;
http://home.snafu.de/kdv/contentpages/initiativen.html;
http://www2.wilmington.edu/prc/,
http://cat.opal-libraries.org/search~S22/X,
http://www.watsonlibrary.org/pdf/reynoldsarchiveindex1.pdf),
http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/index.htm; and
http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/manuscriptcollections/mss_collections_A-M.htm.
See also merging, life-affirming urban gardening sources — for
instance, Olly Zanetti, Guerrilla
Gardening, Geographers and Gardeners, Actors and Networks: Reconsidering Urban
Public Space (MA/MSc Thesis, 2007);
http://www.guerrillagardening.org/books/ZanettiGG.pdf), book-format —
On Guerrilla Gardening: A Handbook for
Gardening Without Boundaries (Print Version)
—
http://guerrillagardening.org/;
http://www.homegrownevolution.com/;
http://www.carpediemdesign.co.uk/images/ethicalliving.pdf;
http://www.portlandfarmersmarket.org/pdfs/GardenResources.pdf;
http://www.chicagowilderness.org/wildchi/landscape/index.cfm;
http://artactivism.gn.apc.org/allpdfs/150-%5BDA%5DGuerrilla%20Gardening.pdf;
http://www.guerrillagardening.org/media/gg_baselapril06.pdf;
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/los_angeles_metro/la-hm-guerrilla29-2008may29%2C0%2C3470087.story?track=rss;
http://www.ruaf.org/node/101;
http://www.greenspacescotland.org.uk/;
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2008/05/26/2008-05-26_city_veggie_gardens_flourish.html;
and
http://www.newlondonarchitecture.org/media/exhibitions/catalogues/NLA_PublicCity.pdf.
In contrast urban gardening has mushroomed, critically,
perhaps, in Cuba, in the wake of a U.S. Boycott, (despite much of its food
imported from the U.S. since 2003), and a Russian–Soviet Collapse, (reinforced
by portable cyber-networks); All enabling Cuban agroecology farmers to pioneer
organic health & medical insurance opportunities in the Americas — Claiming, for
instance, that biomass, including sugar cane ethanol, may provide over 30% of
Cuban energy needs, with over half their vegetable production likely organic.
Much of this Cuban “green” growth stems from virtual outgrowths of
Havana’s incredible 1,500-acre or 600-hectare,
Jardín Botánico Nacional, or the Cuban
University of Havana–National Botanical Garden, including Arboretum, Herbarium,
Special Collections, (native to the Caribbean and oriental or japanese gardens),
and, historically-speaking, perhaps the city’s archetypal vegan–vegetarian or
eco-restaurants; Visited by web-editor, personally, for a day, on foot, by car,
& by truck, in the late 1980s; Libraries perhaps accessible in future, by
keyword, through La Universidad de la Habana, Biblioteca Central.
See
http://www.uh.cu/centros/jbn/;
http://www.uh.cu/centros/jbn/;
http://www.dict.uh.cu/rev_jbn.asp;
http://www.dict.uh.cu/rev_uh.asp;
http://www.uh.cu/centros/jbn/textos/5.html &
http://www.uh.cu/centros/jbn/imagenes/fotos/nuestrojardin/jardin.jpg; and,
as well,
http://www.foodfirst.org/pubs/devreps/dr12.pdf;
http://etd.uwaterloo.ca/etd/etnelson2006.pdf;
http://library.wur.nl/wda/dissertations/dis3752.pdf;
http://www.socialist-alliance.org/resources/idb/AV%20Vol%207%20No%201.pdf;
http://www.witnessforpeace.org/pdf/newsarch/spring_03.pdf;
http://www.vacc.bc.ca/who_we_are/documents/winter2002-3.pdf;
http://www.lifecyclesproject.ca/about_us/2002_annual_report.pdf;
http://www.cedem.uh.cu/docencia/poblacion_y_desarrollo/Poblacion_ambiente_desarrollo.pdf;
http://www.usal.es/~ehe/Papers/Microsoft%20Word%20-%20Towards%20sustainable%20agriculture%20in%20Cuba%201st%20August%5B1%5D.pdf;
http://www.greenkeys.org/media/files/conferencereader.pdf?PHPSESSID=ki601h3cc0tc55c25cvjtdhcm4;
&
http://www.eukn.org/binaries/eukn/news/2007/3/draft_integrating-environment-in-city-planning.pdf;
and, “Cuba’s Urban Agrarians Flourish,
City Gardens Abound on Island Nation, Where 70%
of Vegetables and Herbs are Organic;”
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/04/world/main4154650.shtml.
2008.3-4 Report on
Apartheid–Nonviolence 101 ~
Gandhian Liberation
_ Gandhian Liberation as
Reconciliation, Nonviolence, Social Moksha, and Unmasking Violence
_ Wind–Marine Energy as Liberation from Oil Energy Wars
_ Anti-War Port Strikes and Boycotts (Consumer & Tax-based
Sanctions)
_ Academic Security through Peace & Conflict Resolution
Training
_ Gandhian Liberation as
Reconciliation, Nonviolence, Social
Moksha, and Unmasking Violence
o
Gandhian Liberation as Reconciliation
In 1893, after passing the London bar for advocate–attorney credentials,
Mohandas K. Gandhi / MKG found his first legal work in the world’s heavy metal
bonanza mines (gold, diamonds, uranium), through Durban & Pretoria, South Africa
/ RSA — As legal counsel for an extended RSA Muslim family conflict, in one of
the largest export trade firms in Southern Africa, coastally, up around to
India–South Asia. (Active via
Durban’s business-demographic executive core — RSA’s three federal
branches govern from three cities: Pretoria being
a judicial-governance city;
Johannesburg, a military-governance city; and Capetown, a
legislative-governance hub.) MKG
realized that his legal style coalesced best as a family-style broker rendering
nonviolent conflict resolution; That the “whole duty of an advocate” was to
engage reconciliation balanced with compromise, not to exploit adversarial legal
advantages. (pp. v, 45, & 48, see book title below).
His primary legal Muslim family reconciliation case pertained to 40,000 ₤
or lbs sterling/English, mostly in promissory notes; Depending on contemporary
currency value exchange rates, nearer $40 million in English ₤/#/lb sterling, or
$100 million USD.
o Gandhian Liberation as
Nonviolence
When
ready to return to India (Bombay area), after resolving this RSA family business
conflict, the extended Muslim families concerned instead advanced their own
homes and community, to fund organizing “colored” Gandhian enfranchisement (1
person: 1 vote) campaigns. To quote
MKG’s main financial patron, then, Sheth Dada Abdulla:
“Allah is great and merciful. Money will come in. Men [& women like us]
there are, as many as you may need. You please consent to stay, and all [such
risky yet critical nonviolent struggle] will be well [endowed].” Along the way,
MKG personally pioneered also as an RSA attorney “of color” in the early 1900s
power struggle co-creating the English word
nonviolence itself (from Sanskrit and Arabic sources).
All of which may further explain empiric Gandhian emphasis on
ascertaining first one’s local facts, to then face-down and so overcome global
social injustice. After these
benchmark family and enfranchisement precedents, MKG commuted, brokering
long-range reconciliatory issues between India and RSA, legally, until losing
his “bar” status, as an often-imprisoned civilly-disobedient advocate–editor,
and, then, through liberation-oriented editing and conflict resolution foci,
traversed and organized along Southern Africa–Asia liberation–occupation
concerns, along the Indian Ocean’s North-West Rim.
See also Mohandas K. Gandhi/MKG,
Gandhi, Law and The Lawyers,
S.B. Kher, ed. (Navajivan Trust, 1962), iv, v, 34, 44, 45, 48, 51, 54, & 56;
ISBN 81-7229-051-9;
as well as
http://www.measuringworth.com/ukcompare/;
http://www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in/resources/english/etext-project/Biography/gandhi/part2.chapter14.html;
and
http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/chronology/special-chrono/people/gandhi.htm
o Gandhian Liberation as
Social Moksha
Quoting MKG — “‘Liberation’ is of two kinds. One form of liberation consists
in securing the freedom of the country from foreign rule. Such freedom may prove
short-lived. The other kind of liberation is for all time ['heaven' beyond
‘earth’ avatars]. In order to attain
moksha [liberation in Sanskrit], which we describe as our [nonviolent]
paramadharma [overcoming one’s karmic
‘earth’ recycling], we should have freedom in the worldly sense as well. He
[she] who is ridden with many fears cannot attain the ultimate
moksha;” (Vol. 21, 486-87).
Again, “Liberation means freedom from all manner of servitude, even in
the present life. Servitude is of two kinds: Slavery to [social] domination from
outside and to one’s own artificial [fears &] needs;” (Vol. 90, p. 30);
Gandhi’s Collected Works, (Delhi:
Navajivan, 1999; Vols. 1-100 on CD-Rom);
http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl1703/17030770.htm.
o Gandhian Liberation
Unmasking Violence Societal liberation
stems from recognition of social, structural violence; (John Swomley,
Politics of Liberation, Elgin, IL:
Brethren, 1984, 11). Liberation thus
unmasks and overcomes camouflaged occupation–domination; (Ibid, 13); From an old
English word freon — to love,
Prophetic words free
, friend, and freedom
presuppose”dear” or “loved” liberation. (Swomley,
Liberation Ethics, NY: MacMillan,
1972, 4).
_ Wind–Marine Energy as Liberation from Oil Energy Wars;
Leading Anglo-Euro countries in %/capita wind power use, practical
Spain’s wind–marine power enterprise accounts for as much as 40% of its
electricity usage; By 2007 its wind power generation levels outperformed
hydropower levels, via legislation for offshore, seaward wind turbines. In other
words, Spain
is turning its resources toward generating non-fossil/non-“oil” energy,
replacing its former right-wing-oriented anti-terrorism policies with that of
making business–power industry independent of so-called global warming.
While costlier at first than land-based wind farms, offshore wind
turbines turn to advantage more rhythmic and so more profitable coastal breeze
flow dynamics.
Spain, Denmark, and Germany lead the European Union’s 27
nation-state members in wind power production; Future wind energy generation may
synergize well beyond fossil fuels sources, through so-called QuietRevolution,
Micro-Wind, & Mag-Lev tech–orientations.
Despite global oil wars, like much of the state of
Michigan
in the USA, Spain & Denmark–the
Netherlands
are peninsular state regions with extreme hi-tech potential for co-creating and
coordinating global wind–marine energy power resources.
See “New Record: Wind Powers 40% of Spain,”
http://www.enn.com/energy/article/33594;
http://www.proteger.org.ar/doc759.html;
http://www.worldwatch.org/node/4217; http://www.gwec.net/uploads/media/chartes08_EN_UPD_01.pdf;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_Spain;
http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/11/26/super-powered-magnetic-wind-turbine-maglev/;
http://www.inhabitat.com/2006/11/15/quiet-revolution-wind-turbine/;
http://www.quietrevolution.co.uk/;
http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/03/21/micro-wind-turbines-small-size-big-impact/;
http://www.barcelonaenergia.cat/cas/actualidad/reportajes/repor0311.htm;
http://www.greenpeace.org/espana/
(energía eólica);
http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/espana/reports/viento-en-popa.pdf;
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/07/colossal_magnet.php;
http://www.gwec.net/index.php?id=30&no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=139&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=4&cHash=6691aa654e;
and
http://www.emerging-energy.com/user/EuropeanWindPowerMarketsandStrategies200620111663088982_pub/European%20Wind%20Power%20Markets%20and%20Strategies,%202006-2011.pdf.
_ Anti-War Port Strikes and Boycotts (Consumer & Tax-based
Sanctions);
Contextually, Consumer boycotts
counter specified corporate brand product sales, if breaking international
criminal court conventions on war, however global; in turn,
State sanctions discourage tax-funded militarist sales; while
Worker Strikes discourage trade
handling of goods sold to-or-from unethical states or corporations.
Deploying economic anti-militarist strike, boycott, and sanction may be
most precisely targeted through “Bank Holding Corporations” (BHCs) — likely war
profiteering’s nervous–intelligence system. One can search online, for instance,
as to how U.S. Corporations use–abuse Israel
militarily, like a massive aircraft carrier fronting Oil Gulf-Eastern
Mediterranean War springboards, tempered via Diego Garcia Island/Australia.
Unmasking BHCs war profiteering may start structurally with outlining
paper & online sources, like Hoover, Lexis-Nexis,
Dun and Bradstreet
(www.dnb.com),
or DNB–Israel, and
Standard & Poors or
S&P — for
discovery “into” corporate boardrooms, for seeing who “sits” how-&-where as
directors, for revealing authorization hierarchies within interlocking board
directorates, and for even locating & so demonstrating at a board member’s
listed home address. Conjointly, a
ruling board of directors member, linked to a pivotal “Bank Holding
Corporation,” may “sit” on 5–10 different corporate boards; with a old “war
horse” or two, as it were, manipulating 50-60 corporate boards, so as to rule
toxic vertically-integrated hi-tech prison-interfaced “WMD” industries. By
contrast a frail U.S. Congress has enabled “Bank Holding Corporations” to avoid
their tax share, egregiously breaching alleged free, accountable capitalist
enterprise, since 1930s U.S. Capitol Hill Nye–Munitions Investigations.
Once unmasked,
violent, warlike oppresion becomes vulnerable to concensual nonviolent
opposition, such as strikes to redirect corporate product shipping; For example,
after warning of an intended strike for 60 days beforehand, the 25,000 Day-shift
Pacific Maritime Association and International Longshore & Warehouse Union Dock
Workers, (plus periphereal trucking and other service workers), shut down
internationally-significant sea ports along the U.S. West Coast, (Asian–Pacific
Rim trade-oriented) — May Day 2008, no unloading or loading war shipments.
In effect, a two-month advance plan empowered the 2008 U.S. May Day Dock
Worker Anti-War Strike, and so powered-down well over half of all U.S. Sea Coast
Ports for about 10 hours.
See
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/03/01/18482849.php;
http://www.ilwu.org/press/2008/upload/ILWU_MayDayrls_FINAL.pdf; “Anti-war
Dockworkers Shut Down US West Coast Ports,” 1 May 2008; Jill Serjeant and
Bernard Woodall, “West Coast Ports Closed by Worker Protest,”
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN0144367220080501; &
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN0144367220080501?pageNumber=3&virtualBrandChannel=0;
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/202699,anti-war-dockworkers-shut-down-us-west-coast-ports.html;
Jill Serjeant and Marguerita Choy, “Work Stopped at All 29 U.S. West Coast
Ports,” 1 May 2008;
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080501/us_nm/usa_ports_dc_2; “Longshoremen
Close ALL West Coast Ports in Antiwar Protest ...Update: Cynthia McKinney
Congratulates Unions,” 1 May 2008;
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/05/antiwar-longshoremen-close-west-coast.html;
Francine Brevetti, “West Coast Ports Shut Down,” 1 May 2008,
http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_9120820?source=rss; “U.S. West Coast
Ports Shut Down With Worker Protest,” 1 May 2008,
http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20080409/OPINION/853591563; Jason Howd
“West-Coast Ports Shut Down as Part of May Day War Protest,” 1 May 2008,
http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20080409/OPINION/853591563;
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/04/26/18495140.php; and Jill Serjeant
and Bernard Woodall, “U.S. West Coast Ports Working after Day-Time Strike,”
http://www.reuters.com/article/featuredCrisis/idUSN01451100.
Other unmasking
liberation campaigns may enhance strategies for refusing to pay war taxes, or
organizing consumers nationally or internationally to boycott unethical war
corporations, such as the “Fifth Anniversary of Invasion, Blockade the IRS”
demonstrations across the USA, in March 2008 — highlighted with sit-down strikes
to jam or clog-up tax collection sites, mixing–networking signs, banners, and
flyers — including ART, Kairos, Code Pink, Jonah House, Critical Voice, War
Resisters League, Brooklyn for Peace, Park Slope Greens, Mouths Wide Open, Ya-Ya
Network, Witness Against Torture, Ground Zero for Peace, Socialist Party
USA/NYC, Artists against the War, Green Party of Brooklyn, Raging Grannies/NYC,
Granny Peace Brigade/NYC, United for Peace and Justice, National War Tax
Resistance Coordinating Committee, Movement for a Democratic Society, (MDS
Staten Island, Jacksonville MDS, MDS Austin, Central Florida MDS, SF Bay Area
chapters), and New York Collective of Radical Educators; Some groups, like
SW-Michigan ACTIVATE, released “how to”
guides or minimanuals, ranging from “banner drops”
to war tax diversion strategies; See
http://www.mediamouse.org/features/031708prote.php;
http://www.activategr.org/organizing/howto/
— on Advertising, Affinity Groups, Banner Drops,
Counter-Recruitment Flyering, Distributing Information, Know Your Rights:
Dealing With Police, Media, Organize a Counter-Recruitment Protest, Protest A
Government Official, Stencils, Street Theatre, & Wheatpaste action issues;
http://www.warresisters.org/IRSinDC.htm;
http://www.5yearstoomany.org/article.php?id=88; and
http://www.warresisters.org/piechart.htm.
_ Academic Security through Peace & Conflict Resolution
Training; Colleges and universities can likewise “arm” academics, (and so campus
security–paramility forces), with cultural skills absorbed through a peace and
conflict resolution program, as have Radford and Virginia Tech Universities —
despite VA Tech being a major militarily-oriented school or academy dating from
bitter 1860s wars. With a nonviolent
peace testimony, Friends or Quakers in that part of the world, likewise, early
on, introduced complementary nonviolent problem-solving with less violence,
despite being overrun by the “Blue” and “Gray” in the Applachian Mts of Virginia
and West Virginia — Predating Quakers’ peace testimony in the northern cities of
Philadelphia and New York — Co-creating the
Friends Journal, through editors like
Isaac Hopper, (the latter simultaneously ‘excommunicated’ then 3 times by slave-owner
Philly and NYC ‘Friends’). Over
time, such persistent efforts, in effect, have patiently revitalized two
centuries of Applachia’s “Underground Railroad” — And thus provided procedural
parallel or “third track” peace with justice options, through, e.g., the
5,000-acre Quaker Mountain in West Virginia’s “panhandle” which initially, in
the 1980s–1990s, facilitated hesitant U.S.–USSR
perestroika dialogue, informally, and,
in so doing, improved on nearby failed Mt. Weather subsurface nuclear doomsday
“control” vaults or wayward asymmetrical Camp David Mid-East “peacemaking”
efforts. See, pls,
http://www.friendswilderness.org/Home.asp;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Hopper;
http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/hopper/hopper.html; or Project Gutenberg eBook,
L. Maria Child, Isaac T. Hopper,
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/11859.
Academic Conflict Resolution Web sites
AU SIS — International and International Development, Peace &
Conflict Resolution (Washington DC)
& Washington Summer Semester Program,
http://www.american.edu/sis/academics/fieldofstudy/ipcr.htm;
Course-Syllabi & Theses-Dissertations
http://home.comcast.net/~nonviolence101/archive.htm;
http://home.comcast.net/~nonviolence101/phd-ma.htm;
U.S.-Cndn
Peace and Justice Studies,
http://www.peacejusticestudies.org/; and
U.S. Veterans for Peace,
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/;
http://traprockpeace.org/.
Online Corporate War Boycott List (Incl
Israel, Diego Garcia, and Iraq-Iran)
http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/boycotts/boycotts_list.htm;
http://www.villagevoice.com/search/?q=boycott;
http://stopthewall.org/worldwideactivism/1338.shtml;
http://www.inminds.co.uk/boycott-israel.html;
http://neconference.brickriver.com/files/oFiles_Library_XZXLCZ/NEUMC_Divestment_Report_-FINAL_060407-img_PM2YX4SR.pdf;
http://www.ariga.com/boycott-faq.shtml;
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-us&as_q=boycott+&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&num=10&lr=&as_filetype=&ft=i&as_sitesearch=multinationalmonitor.org&as_qdr=all&as_rights=&as_occt=any&cr=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&safe=images;
and
http://home.comcast.net/~apartheid101/archive.htm;
http://www.publicintegrity.org/WOWII/default.aspx;
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11350;
http://www.mmwatch.org; and
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/12/11/the_corporate_occupation_of_iraq.php.
2008.1–2 Report on
Apartheid-Nonviolence 101
U.S.–Mexico–Israel–Palestine Apartheid Border Walls (See also
Previous Reports Below)
_ Border Apartheid Wall Boycott, Protest, Demographics,
Environment
_ Border Apartheid Wall Body-Politic Corporate Trends or
Patterns
_ Border Apartheid Wall Arms, Drugs, Oil, and “Cheap” Labor
Business
_ Cesar Chavez ~ Long Walks vs Land Grabs (2008 & 1978)
_ Israeli–USA–Mexico–Palestine Apartheid Walls Historical
Background Notes
_ Border Apartheid Wall Boycott, Protest, Demographics,
Environment; Nonviolent resistance
opposes Mexico–USA Apartheid Border (prison-like) Wall, through such local
groups as Farm Bureaus, Farm Workers, the Texas Historical Commission,
Texan-Mexican Border Networks & Coalitions, and Texas
Southernmost
University
affiliated-organizations.
Local Texas residents oppose a proposed U.S.–Mexico Border
Apartheid Wall, ranging from judges to landowners — for instance, Juan D.
Salinas, a judge and chief administrator of the local Hidalgo County, TX,
government, believes his community opposes the wall on cultural, economic, and
environmental levels, stating that “The Farm Bureau, the United Farm Workers,
Democrats and Republicans, white, black, brown, everybody is against the border
fence.” Eloisa García Tamez,
landowner, and an elder of the Lipan Apache, likewise opposes the wall as the
director and a professor of the nursing department at the
University
of Texas at Brownsville & Texas
Southmost
College.
Lipan, Chiricahua, San Carlos, and San Pedro Apache (Tohono
O’odham), count as casualties the consequent vandalism of burial sites, and,
so far, two of their own killed over issues surrounding this proposed wall;
(shot, run-over). Nonviolent mass
action or hunger striking appear to be potential options, as yet to be tried on
local-global levels as exemplified in U.S. grape boycotts or Mexican teacher
strikes.
Tamez observes that “terrorism” arguments justifying that wall
may destroy her home and land, but will leave a nearby golf course & resort with
no such wall. The Tamez family, one
of the last of the Spanish land grant heirs in Cameron County
TX, dating back 3 or 4
centuries, once owned 12,000 acres along the border. Without payment, a 1930s U.S. government
declared “eminent domain” to seize over half her family’s land for flood levees.
Similarly 21st Century “Homeland Security” wishes to ram an
18-foot steel and concrete wall over what’s left, over her home — stopping at
the edge of a River Bend Resort & Golf Course, (developed in 1983).
Daniel Garza, 76, a neighbor of Tamez, also knows where the proposed
18-foot+ high border wall may end abruptly, at the Hunt Oil Family Ranch
property line, (close financial friends of both U.S. Bush Presidents), after
demolishing his home and that of his son. See
Brenda Norrell, “Apaches Rise to Defend Homelands
from “Homeland Security”,”8 Jan 2008;
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2007/11/indigenous-peoples-vow-to-bring-down.html;
“Margo Tamez: Lipan Apache Issue a Call for Help + Update,”
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=4240&blz=1; “Texas
Residents Resist Border Wall,”
http://www.ww4report.com/node/4789; and
http://www.borderaction.org/web/index.php.
Nevertheless, significantly large quantities of arms, drugs,
and people crossing the Mexico–USA border may instead concern transport by air,
water, or railroad, and corrupt border officials, not “illegal” walking or
bus-riding economic-refugees. Train
boxcars carry undocumented floods of people fleeing recurrent Mexican drought
and economic crises, despite serious travel threats of suffocation,
hyperthermia, or heat stroke inside boxcars — depending on desert seasons — from
over 100 degrees F. by day to freezing at night.
Boxcar use has ranged from temporary worker homes, historically, to
shipping drugs, people, and weapons back-and-forth by both drug dealers and
U.S.
border agents. Mexican officials
call the border a third country, or
tercer país, given such extremes; While, (as learned through personal
travel), Mexican people knowledgeable about border conditions may call it
el via al hambre, or the
death-by-hunger road.
See “Closely Observed Trains,”
Economist 335/7919 (17 June 1995),
31; Lourdes Gouveia , “Latinos in Rural America and U.S. Agriculture: From
Pioneers to New Arrivals,” Journal of
Latino-Latin American Studies 1/4 (Fall 2005); and
http://www.reliefweb.int/idp/docs/references/2005%20docs/IDPNoRefugePublication.pdf.
The University of Texas at Brownsville
and Texas
Southmost
College (UTB–TSC) filed a resolution
opposing the US Department of “Homeland Security” 700-mile long border wall,
because such a wall will splinter communities on both sides of the Rio Grande. “Homeland
Security” wall plans initially cut directly through the university, discarding
its International Technology, Education, and Commerce Campus on the Mexican wall
side. “Homeland Security” then amended its wall plans to “allow” that campus to
stay inside the USA, but still “puts” the University’s golf course in Mexico.
After “9-11” UTB–TSC language institute enrollments plunged to 300 in
2002 from 1,400; And, even though 12% of the University
of Texas at El
Paso student body with a Mexican residence have in-state
Texas Legislature tuition allowances, “Homeland Security” also severed them by a
chain-link fence. Together, Border
and
Mexico
universities have countered with a lengthy report on expected environmental
degradation and contamination projected from such an apartheid wall as well.
See Katherine Mangan, “Texas Colleges
Argue That a Border Fence Would Divide a Community,”
Chronicle of Higher Education 54/15
(7 Dec 2007), A24, and “Wall of Confusion; The Latest on that Controversial
Border Fence,” Texas Monthly (Austin)
35/ 3 (Mar 2007), 1; and Ana Cordova & Carlos de la Parra,
A
Barrier to our Shared Environment; The Border Fence between the United States
and Mexico (Federal Government of Mexico/UNAM, 2007),
http://www.ine.gob.mx/publicaciones/consultaPublicacion.html?id_pub=519; or
http://www.ine.gob.mx/publicaciones/descarga.html?cv_pub=519&tipo_file=pdf&filename=519.
_ Border Apartheid Wall Body-Politic Corporate Trends or
Patterns
On technical, demographical grounds — Given past wall scenario
failures, recent U.S. CRS &
GAO studies suggest that constructing
such border walls may not, as alleged, end illegal drug, weapons, and people
trafficking; However the wall could frame apartheid-like “cheap” walled-city
labor parameter schemes.
U.S. CRS &
GAO 2008 studies do note that
tax-funded, physical or infrastructural building outlay estimates range wildly,
from $3.1 to $21 million USD/mile; (Excluding double-wall sections, ongoing use
rates, or maintenance cost expenditures).
Resulting apartheid border wall construction diagram graphics ressemble
Israeli-Palestine Apartheid Walls, already-built.
The U.S. Oil-Regime Era Mexico–USA Apartheid Wall, if unchecked, could
demarcate city walls for bantustan-like labor pools or corrals, in sum
approximately the size of Manhattan — between
Washington,
D.C. and
Mexico City, (demographically the world’s largest city).
Such a walled city may stem from Dallas TX Hunt family utilities plans
undergirding both a residential “Sharyland Plantation” core (6,000 acres), and
an industrial interface, its “Grupo Rio San Juan” (16,000 acres).
Overall Mexican (CFE) & Texan (ERCOT) power utilities could amalgamate
demographic resources of Northeast Mexico, via, for instance, from
Matamoros & Monterrey to Rio Escondido, up into Southwest Texas,
encompassing
Laredo to
Brownsville, (approximately about 10-15% of Mexican and
5-10% of Texan shared border surface area, in square miles or square
kilometers.)
For Elbit and U.S. Control Data Inc. (Rockefeller
Venture Capital), see Sheila Ryan, “US Military Contractors in Israel,”
Journal of Palestine Studies 2/1
(Autumn 1972), 70-85. See also
http://www.secinfo.com/d14D5a.v19V7.htm;
http://www.house.gov/ryan/In_depth_issues/CRS/RL33659.pdf;
http://www.bestwhite.com/files/97_brochure.pdf;
http://www.riosanjuan.com.mx/p_villa.html;
http://www.rrc.state.tx.us/commissioners/carrillo/mexico/2006/PAUL_SCHULZE.pdf;
http://www.gulfcoastpower.org/default/5-05meeting-Goodlet-austin.pdf;
http://www.ilw.com/immigdaily/news/2007,0321-crs.pdf;
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08131t.pdf;
http://www.aep.com/about/codeofconduct/OASIS/AEPTransmission/TransmissionPlanning/AEP-ERCOT/Valley_Area_Study-12-04-02.pdf;
http://www.pserc.org/cgi-pserc/getbig/publicatio/specialepr/gridreliab/ercot2004reportonconstraintsandneeds10012004.pdf;
http://www.aep.com/about/codeofconduct/OASIS/AEPTransmission/TransmissionPlanning/AEP-ERCOT/Valley_Area_Study-12-04-02.pdf.
A Manhattan-sized “Homeland Security” Business-Housing Project
would partition USA-Mexico with an Apartheid-(Berlin-Israeli-Style)-Wall; A wall
supported by militarization of relevant prisons, and scorched-earth home
demolitions; ($50 Billion projected seed-money costs, but likely more, in lives
& money, given Israeli-Palestinian Apartheid Wall experience).
On political-economic levels — Haifa-based Elbit-Kollsman & Chicago-based
Boeing, with L-3/Raytheon–SkyWatch–E-Systems subcontractors, steer such
“Homeland Security” policy, claiming exclusive expertise.
Before the end of 2008, “Homeland
Security” wants to build 370 miles of prison-like walls, with at least 70 miles
of denser, thicker, double walls. Comparatively
speaking, a wall like that carving-up Palestine would intersect “virtual”
watchtowers, and satellite-interface “free”-fire & landmine zones — in the most
densely-populated Rio Grande Valley human resource areas.
Raytheon
itself literally means something like godlike death ray weapons;
See
http://www.raytheon.com/feature/stellent/groups/public/documents/content/cms04_021043.pdf,
Bill Weinberg, “Israeli Firm gets Mexico Border Wall Contract,” 8 Nov 2006,
http://www.ww4report.com/node/2743;
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2007/09/another-israeli-company-providing-us.html;
http://what-ails-you.com/index.php?id=M200801;
http://www.elbitsystems.com/data/ESLT_Kollsman_Boeing_SBI_Project.pdf;
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1157913683759;
http://www.l-3com.com/supportfiles/501073.pdf;
http://www.sharyland.com/grove.aspx;
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14552;
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14908;
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?list=type&type=13; “Attorney says
“Homeland Security” must Reconsider,”
Austin Statesman,,http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/01/08/0108fence.html.
Brenda Norrell, “UN Observer & International Report,”
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
(UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Adopted by the General
Assembly) 13 Sept 2007,
http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/en/declaration.html and
http://www.centerforhumanrights.org .
_ Border Apartheid Wall Arms, Drugs, Oil, and “Cheap” Labor
Business; Financial players “represented” by “Homeland Security” may include, as
noted above, the Hunt Family-Sharyland Plantation, (Ray L. Hunt), and those
corporations producing enabling technology — especially military management and
prison control systems, through Boeing/SBInet, Kollsman/Elbit, and/or
L-3/Raytheon. One could say that
the USA Oil–War Cartels, represented by government and private backers, plan to
erect a wall for guaranteeing “cheap”-relatively-educated labor, as in
Palestine, but, in this case, to justify such warfare due to alleged terrorism
from other, mostly Mexican drug, cartels, from Tijuana–San Diego to Juarez
(Arizona & New Mexico) and the Gulf of Mexico.
One private Texan cartel “backer” Ray L. Hunt, Hunt Oil scion, with
alleged Iran-Contra taproots, symbolizes Halliburton’s Board of Directors, and
may well be a major “backer” profiting from Iraq-Iran USA–Gulf oil wars over the
last three decades or so. Hunt
likewise gifted $35 million to cover GWB Presidential Library costs at the
Southern Methodist University of Texas, in addition to land for the Anzalduas International
Bridge interconnecting
“his” planned future Manhattan-size project.
Hunt Oil’s hometown, Dallas,
TX, also claims the world’s
highest, most complex metro highway interchange — the Dallas High Five.
See Nick Snow, “Lawmakers (Waxman, Kucinich) Seek
Data on Hunt Oil’s [Israeli–Kurdish Oil in] Iraq,”
The Oil and Gas Journal 105/40 (22
Oct 2007): 30;
http://www.huntrealty.com/investments.asp;
as well as Israeli-Kurdistan Oil War profiteering
claims, ,
http://www.newsweek.com/id/41737;
http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/tomdispatch/2007/10/endgame-for-iraqi-oil.html;
and
www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL34215.pdf; or
http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/1998-GLOBAL.pdf;
http://intellibriefs.blogspot.com/2007/10/ray-l-hunt-catalyst-for-cataclysm.html;
&
http://tvnewslies.org/tvnl/index.php/news/domestic-usa/10-domestic/208-sheriffs-protest-fed-drug-war-fund-cuts;
See also “Margo Tamez: Lipan Apache Issue a Call for Help,”
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=4240&blz=1; “Texas
Residents Resist Border Wall,”
http://www.ww4report.com/node/4789; Brenda Norrell, “Apaches Rise,” 10
Jan2008,
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/4884;
www.americaspolicy.org;
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/;
http://indigenousbordersummitamericas2007.blogspot.com/; &
http://indigenasinfronteras.org/news-and-events/; and Melissa del Bosque,
“Holes in the Wall, … Why the Border Wall is Bypassing the Wealthy and
Politically-connected,” 22 Feb 2008,
http://www.texasobserver.org/article.php?aid=2688.
For metro Dallas High Five, see
http://www.aaroads.com/blog/?p=70
&
ftp://ftp.wsdot.wa.gov/public/Bridge/WBES2007/assets/tuesday/7B/William_Neely_7B.pdf.
In the 1990s the U.S. FBI released limited information about
50 alleged convictions of border or law enforcement officials smuggling massive
amounts of hard drugs — including three INS border agents who took
million-dollar+ bribes to “wave” 20 tons of cocaine through Nogales, AZ, which
corresponded to $1.6 billion in street drug profits. As such, Tucson AZ FBI
Chief Steve McCraw described border corruption as “a national disgrace;” In
turn, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Chief, Thomas Constantine,
caustically retorted that Mexican cartels corrupt
U.S.
police agencies systematically. In effect California Southern, Arizona,
New Mexico, Texas Western, and Texas Southern federal judicial circuit court
districts account for about one-third of all federal criminal suit filings, but
only 5 of the 89 (or 6% of) such U.S. district courts, nationwide. On the other
hand, regulating guns and sustainable economic development, along with
residentially-based substance abuse programs, (for all cross-border economic
income levels), might better stem violence escalating in the wake of “9-11”
world policy-making than more prison or apartheid walls.
See, respectively, Dan McGraw, “The
Corrupting Allure of Dirty Drug Money,”
U.S. News & World Report 126/9 (8 Mr 8 1999), 28; “Blood Money on the
Border,” New American 21/13 (27 Jun
2005), 6; Gabriela Gallegos, “Border Matters: Redefining the National
Interest in U.S.-Mexico Immigration and Trade Policy,”
California Law Review 92/6 (Dec
2004), 1749; and George Anderson, “Mexico’s
Drug Violence,”
America
197/18 (3 Dec 2007), 22. See also
Zoe Hammer-Tomizuka, Criminal Alienation:
Prison Expansion, White Supremacy, and Neoliberal Capital on the Arizona/Sonora
Border (Tuczon AZ:
University of Arizona, 2004); as well as
http://osdir.com/ml/culture.discuss.cia-drugs/2005-11/msg00203.html and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raytheon.
Elbit (Kollsman Inc.–U.S. Control Data) Systems produces
leading Border & Battlefield Management Systems hardware & software, like its
Long Range Reconnaissance-Observation System (LORROS), or its Advanced
Turnkey-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Systems (or UAV’s), demonstrated during Lebanon,
Palestine, and Gulf- Iraq bombing.
Elbit, founded by Uzia Galil, (via Elron & Control Data), is Israel’s
largest private military corporation. See Bill
Weinberg, “Israeli Firm gets
Mexico
Border Wall Contract,” 8 Nov 2006,
http://www.ww4report.com/node/2743;
http://what-ails-you.com/index.php?id=M200801;
http://www.elbitsystems.com/data/ESLT_Kollsman_Boeing_SBI_Project.pdf; Elbit
is known for its “Battlefield Management Systems; (C4I)” See also
http://www.birdf.com/_Uploads/165BIRD30v18-web.pdf; and Elbit-Kollsman SEC
record, e.g.,
http://sec.edgar-online.com/2004/06/14/0000910680-04-000611/Section5.asp;
http://google.brand.edgar-online.com/EFX_dll/EDGARpro.dll?FetchFilingHTML1?SessionID=P15OW0RaIQA0p9d&ID=5246268;
and
http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/8/02/20020901bn_gpe_of_israel.pdf.
Representative Product Trends of Elbit (including Boston “9-11” Airport
Security?)
o Reach over 400 privatized
U.S.
prisons, Buckingham
Palace, Chicago O’Hare
Airport; Emily Benedek, “Antiterror, Inc.”
Newsweek;
http://www.mafhoum.com/press2/71T41.htm;
http://www.mafhoum.com/press2/71T41.htm; &
http://kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2007/09/26/8910.shtml.
o Direct
cyber-weaponized-fighter jets and laser-guided bombs for rogue governments like
the Myanmar Junta;
http://www.innworldreport.net/archives/fromthestudio/index.html &
http://peoplesgeography.com/2007/10/01/israeli-arming-of-burma-myanmar-junta/.
o Triangulate espionage
drones, planes, and satellites over the Koreas, Iraq, Afghanistan, and so forth;
http://forums.digitalmedianet.com/cgi-bin/displaywwugpost.fcgi?forum=dmn_news&post=071117103308.htm;
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/03/20/news/nation/15_20_143_19_07.txt;
&
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000185131&fid=942;
and
o NATO Battlefield Management
Systems “Vision” —
http://www.el-op.com/category/Organization_chart.
_ Cesar Chavez ~ Long Walks vs Land Grabs (2008 & 1978)
“We live in the midst
of people who hate and fear us. They have worked hard to keep us in our
place.... But we do not have to make ourselves small by hating and fearing them
in return. There is enough love and good will in our movement to give energy to
our struggle and still have plenty left over to break down and change the
climate of hate and fear around us. (p 74, see below)….
Nonviolence has one big demand, the need to be creative, and the ideas
come from the people. . . . If someone commits violence against us, it is much
better — if we can — not to react against the violence, but to react in such a
way as to get closer to our goal.... To us the boycott of grapes was [is] the
most near-perfect of nonviolent struggles, because nonviolence also requires
mass involvement; ... [It] demonstrated to the whole country, the whole world,
what people can do by nonviolent action. (p 65) … Once people understand
the strength of nonviolence — the force it generates, the love it creates, the
response that it brings from the total community — they will not be willing to
abandon it easily.” (p 81)
See Mario T. Garcia,
Gospel of Cesar Chavez (NY: Sheed &
Ward, 2007), pp 74, 65, and 81.
Long Walk One, 1978, honoring “Mother Earth” despite weapons
of mass war and industrial destruction, covered the
USA
and Japan, lengthwise, from
Alcatraz & Tokyo to Washington,
DC, & Hiroshima–Nagasaki.
Long Walk Two is traversing the
USA, again, thirty years later. In early
Feb. 2008, about 80 walkers thus left Alcatraz for a 3,600-mile walk to
Washington,
D.C., arriving again possibly by
early August. (Experienced personally in 1978 in south-central Japan, with Long
Walkers walking from Tokyo to Hiroshima & Nagasaki.)
See “American Indian Walkers Trek across
America” Alcatraz to
Washington, DC;
http://www.earthcycles.net/;
http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20080219/NEWS/640026653;
http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080219/NEWS15/802190352/1016/NEWS;
See also
U.S.-Iraqi Veterans against the
War, http://www.ivaw.org/node/230,
http://www.ivaw.org/node/1007.
_ Israeli–USA–Mexico–Palestine Apartheid Walls Historical
Background Notes
Apartheid Wall Corporate Boycott Articles-Lists Noting
Elbit–Boeing (U.S.–Israel)
http://www.interfaithpeaceinitiative.com/ProfitingFromOccupation.htm;
http://stopthewall.org/worldwideactivism/1338.shtml;
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6027.shtml;
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/77829;
http://dimension.ucsd.edu/CEIMSA-IN-EXILE/archives/bull-340.html; and
http://neconference.brickriver.com/files/oFiles_Library_XZXLCZ/NEUMC_Divestment_Report_-FINAL_060407-img_PM2YX4SR.pdf.
“U. N. Security Council Mandatory Arms Embargo on Apartheid
South Africa” notes Elbit,
et al; Nov 1977:
Elbit specified as to tritium and
electronic space-border-military deals.
See
http://www.pacbi.org/boycott_news_more.php?id=A455_0_1_0_M; and
http://www.ameu.org/printer.asp?iid=271&aid=584; “Hypocrisy is Hypocrisy,”
Ha’aretz, 9 Nov 1977, cited in
Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, “The Israeli Connection: Who Israel Arms and Why,” (http://books.google.com/books?id=7v-g21ksdVsC&pg=PR3&ots=VZ5wo4QvQR&dq=The+Israeli+Connection:+Who+Israel+Arms+and+Why&sig=_IybyF3re27nAGbjVk_pyOHOIB0,
or
http://books.google.com/books?id=_edpSrtACq0C&pg=PP1&ots=gVgU2cYMzm&dq=Israeli+Foreign+Policy:+South+Africa+and+Central+America&sig=aweGcbEdYodZLPRq4vw7DPCxLO4#PPA1,M1;
or book form, Boston: South End, 1987), 117-118.
Stanford Univeristy I–&–P Apartheid
Wall Notation (Israel-&-Palestine),
ogovercedars,
31 Jan 2007; http://daily.stanford.edu/comments/2007/1/31/opedFreedomAndRightToProtestNoNationShouldBeImmuneFromCriticism;
“Most of the barrier (over 95% of total length)
consists of a “multi-layered fence system” ideally 50 m in width. The IDF’s
preferred design has three fences, with pyramid-shaped stacks of barbed wire for
the two outer fences and a lighter-weight fence with intrusion detection
equipment (controlled by a command and control system built by Elbit) in the
middle. Patrol roads are provided on both sides of the middle fence, an
anti-vehicle ditch is provided on the West Bank side of the fence, and a smooth
[‘trace’] dirt strip on the Israeli side for ‘intrusion tracking’ is provided.
Some sections (less than 5% of total length) are constructed as a wall
made up of concrete slabs up to 8 m in height and 3 m in width. Occasionally,
due to topographic conditions other sections of the barrier will reach up to 100
m in width. Wall construction (5%) is more common in urban settings, such as
areas near Qalqilyah and Jerusalem, because it is
narrower, requires less land, and provides more protection against snipers. In
all cases there are regular observation posts, automated sensing devices and
other [militarization] apparatus.”
See also
Joe Stork, Martha Wenger, “US Aid to Israel: The Censored GAO Report,”
MERIP 144 (Jan-Feb 1987), 17-22;
Jane Hunter, “Israel,
South Africa
and the Bomb,” MERIP 143 (Nov 1986),
13;
Jane Hunter, “Israel
and the Bantustans,” Journal of Palestine Studies 15/3
(Spring 1986), 53-89; and
Lewis Young, “American Blacks & the Arab-Israeli Conflict,”
Journal of Palestine Studies (Winter 1982), 113 ff.
2007.11–12 Report on
Apartheid–Nonviolence 101
_
2008
Nonviolence University Syllabi−Course Outlines
Online
_
2007–2003
Global Trends in Brief
(By Year)
_ 2007–2006 Arab–International Nonviolence Training
_ War Resisters 2008
Peace Calendar Middle-East Websites
_ AIDS Vaccine Claimed on Horizon (Cuba–South Africa)
_ Conferences (U.N.–National) on Flood, Desertification Trends
_ 2007–2006 Arab–International Nonviolence Training hosted by
NoVa–Gandiji Cultural (Centre per a la Innovació
Social, Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain,
http://www.nova.cat/, (Catalan);
and Centro Gandhi, (Associazione per la
Nonviolenza, ONLUS, Pisa, Italy,
http://pdpace.interfree.it);
Organized with Al-Mesalla, Center for Human Resources Development, Bagdad, and
Studies Center of Human Rights & Democracy, Fallujah; Trainers include Mubarak
Awad,
www.nonviolenceinternational.net, (USA–Palestine), Kai Frithjof Brand
Jacobsen,
www.patrir.ro/training,
(Sweden, Romania), Jean Daoud,
http://abhas.net/pb/wp_6c40310a.html, (Lebanon); Ziad Medoukh (Peace
Center, Al-Aqsa University, Gaza, Palestine); and Saif Abukeshek, ISM–Nablus.
See
http://www.laonf.net/;
http://www.laonf.net/Default.aspx;
http://www.reteccp.org/documenti/nova/nova4.html;
http://nonviolence.ourproject.org/tikiwiki/tiki-download_file.php?fileId=2;
http://www.nova.cat/files/QuadernNoVA01.pdf;
http://www.nova.cat/files/QuadernNoVA04.pdf;
www.achrs.org;
http://achrs.org/arabic/default.asp;
http://www.achrs.org/english/;
http://www.ncciraq.org/IMG/pdf_Al_Mesalla_Center_-_Statement_-_International_Non-violence_Day_-_2Oct07.pdf;
and
http://www.laonf.org/english/Report_Iraqi_Week.pdf;
http://www.osmdpn.it/;
http://www.unponteper.it/documenti/progetti/LAONF%20workshop%20Erbil_feb%2006.pdf;
and
http://www.brusselstribunal.org/about.htm.
Nonviolence trainings in Amman — In late 2007 gather 65
organizers and NGOs, to
encourage nonviolent Iraqi & Palestinian group strategies
& tactics, and, so, encompass a nonviolent network in five Arab Nations — Iraq,
Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine. Iraqi
participants presume that Iraqi occupation resistance parallels Palestine experience.
Strategies co-create a mission statement for a common bioregional
network, process, and vision, as well as a common syntax (dictionary), in
Arabic, for Arab & global nonviolence theory, methodology, and practical
movement actions. Tactics involve hiring a coordinator to organize
Arabic-language information, books, and journal articles, and to coordinate a
week in 2008 for nonviolent struggle within their bioregional network, a network
committed to executively meet every two years — In sum to develop & enhance
interrelationships and augment program campaigns, as needed, incorporating
blogs, email, websites, computers, video editing, coalition-building, and so on.
See
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwt.nsf/db900SID/OCHA-79CEJA/$File/Winter%20Peacebuilding%20Academy%20broshure.pdf?OpenElement;
http://www.patrir.ro/doc/from%20conflicts%20to%20peace%20processes.pdfp;
http://www.forumzfd.de/fileadmin/PDF/Download-Dokumente/zfd_cluj.pdf (2005);
and Personal e-Mail, Mubarak Awad, Amman, 15 Dec 2007;
http://www.bilin-village.org/english/articles/press-and-independent-media/Conference-in-Bethlehem-in-support-of-Nonviolent-Resistance;
http://www.zeek.net/801awad/. See also
Journalist Sources on Human Rights,
http://www.privacyinternational.org/foi/silencingsources.pdf;
http://www.privacyinternational.org/survey/rankings2007/phrcomp_sort.pdf;
and Nora Ligorano & Marshall Reese, GWB “Line-Up”
Mugshots
— GWB, Rice, Rove, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Gonzales;
http://www.esoterically.net/weblog/?m=20071201; and
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/print/exhibits/multiple/multiple3.html.
_ War Resisters 2008
Peace Calendar Middle-East Websites
http://www.warresisters.org/cal2008.htm;
http://www.warresisters.org/2008Calendar_ad_sheet.pdf;
www.nova.cat;
www.bustan.org;
www.foeme.org,
www.ifcongress.com;
http://malalaijoya.com;
www.arabinfomall.org;
http://rawa.org;
www.rozan.org; http://we-change.org;
http://www.we-change.org/english/;
www.abfiran.org/english/memorial.php;
www.jerusalempeacemakers.org;
www.j-c-w.org;
www.iwps-pal.org;
www.mcc.ofg/news/news/200B/2006-09-01_peacemaker.html;
http://dev.epic-usa.org/files/EPIC/the_Ground_Truth_Zaydan.pdf;
http://iraktribunal.de/hearing290105/report_american crimes_schrd.htm;
and
www.lebanonsolidarity.org/2006/08/12/civil-resistance-convoy-for-lebanon,
www.newprofile.org.
_ AIDS Vaccine Claimed on Horizon (Cuba–South Africa); Eduardo
Martinez, Director of Havana’s Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Centre,
announces that Cuban scientists are preparing clinical trials for an encouraging
AIDS vaccine; Significant results presented at
Havana 2007 Biotechnology Congress,
results likely based on 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry of Kary Mullis, as to
polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in cytogenetic bio-engineering. Clinical
Havana trials often go through Cuba’s research-teaching equivalent version of
the U.S. National Institutes of Health, Clinical Center,
namely, the Hospital Nacional Enrique Cabrera. If clinical research protocol
subject trials likewise do well, for instance, via the Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México (UNAM), then low-cost Herber Biotec may provide Cuban AIDs
vaccine, as it also exports pertussis, tetanus, diphtheria, & Hepatitis B
vaccines, and human placenta immuno-derivatives.
Cuba’s HIV/AIDS parameters may already characterize the lowest prevalence
rate in the Caribbean; Local organizing likely through leaders like Raul Suarez,
director of Cuba’s Martin Luther King Memorial Center, (so far personally barred
from entering the USA). Cuba’s extensive African volunteer physician
network, by way of South
Africa, has already made a significant
difference, as noted by Nelson Mandela, among others.
Please see
http://www.ebiologynews.com/3705.html;
http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7B600504A9-8B0A-46CA-A731-8CE6AA342BB5%7D)&language=EN;
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1993/press.html;
http://www.indiaenews.com/pdf/79000.pdf; de Arazoza H, “The HIV/AIDS
Epidemic in Cuba: Description and Tentative Explanation of its Low HIV
Prevalence,” BMC Infectious Diseases
7/1 (9 Nov 2007) 130,
http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2334-7-130.pdf; energetic AIDS
doctor. Sheri Fink, Am J Public Health
93/5 (May 2003), 712-26,
http://www.ajph.org/cgi/reprint/93/5/712.pdf (2003); Chitambo, BR,
“Strategies for Community Participation in Developing Countries,”
Curationis (South
Africa
Nursing Journal. SA Verplegingstydskrif) 25/3 (Aug 2002), 76-83; Cano CA,
“The Multi-Epitope Polypeptide Approach in HIV-1 Vaccine Development,”
Genet Anal. 15/3-5 (15 Nov 1999),
149-53; as well as
http://www.medicc.org/publications/medicc_review/pdf-files/0805.pdf;
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/dept/bildn/publications/CITBook.pdf;
http://www.emro.who.int/aiecf/web24.pdf;
http://www.uwc.ac.za/portal/faculty_department/statistics/downloads/16_trojan.2006.03.28.pdf;
and
http://saludthefilm.net/ns/articles/011.pdf (diagnostic unit in basement,
formerly CIA-Mafia Vault, pre-1959). On
history of Cuba (& India) producing AIDs drugs for South Africa for a reasonable
price, see Anne-Christine D'Adesky,
Moving Mountains: The Race to Treat Global AIDS
(Verso, 2004), 23 et passim;
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=nB62yb6ZPr0C&oi=fnd&pg=PA2-IA3&dq=%22d+adesky%22+am+2003+brazil%27s+aids+model+a-d-adesky&ots=96fESPr0A3&sig=uFU8Fi2S-aEbmNVUswbwEd7qAsU#PPP1,M1;
and D’Adesky’s film,
Pills Profits Protest: Chronicle of the
Global Aids Movement,http://www.outcast-films.com/films/ppp/index.html,
along with
http://www.amfar.org/cgi-bin/iowa/td/feature/record.html?record=80; and for
inside Cuba, social & medical options exist
http://www.kingiannonviolence.info/cmmlk.html;
http://www.uri.edu/mcc/LectureMulticulturalism/2004/index.html —
i.e., like the centers for Kingian
nonviolence also in Johannesburg, Detroit, Selma, and so on;
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4081/is_200701/ai_n18621960;
http://www.wilpf.int.ch/events/IWPC/DelegationReport.pdf;
Pastors for Peace and Castañer Hospital provide other clinical iniatives from
USA viewpoint, such as in Puerto Rico;
www.ifconews.org. See also
Carmen Mercedes Báez, The Cuban Health
Programme in Gauteng Province:
an Analysis and Assessment of the Programme, MS Public Health Thesis,
University of the Western Cape, South Africa, 2004;
http://ww3.uwc.ac.za/docs/%20Library/Theses/Theses%202005%201st%20Grad/Baez_c_m.pdf.
_ Conferences (U.N.–National) on Flood, Desertification Trends
— Beppu, Japan,
and Bali, Indonesia–UN
global climate trend meetings; Environmental scientists identify 46
nation-states — or 2.7 billion people — at high risk from climate–water-induced
crises, and so, more violent conflict; A further 56 nation-states, (another 1.2
billion people), face intermediate-to-high risk.
In turn the Beppu Summit and UN Bali Conference coincide with an
international study directed by David Zhang, Hong Kong University, analyzing 500 years of
conflict — over 8,000 wars — as to how climate change and so water
shortage–desertification do influence war after war, and so also multiply wars
around-about, e.g., Israel–Palestine.
In other words, given past trends, especially in the
Eastern Mediterranean, about 4 in every 6 humans may face high or
intermediate war risk, due to polarizing climate “warming”–drought–sea-level and
storm-strength-associated risk. All
of which represent global momentum prompting a Nobel Peace Prize to scientists
and policy makers, such as the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) and Al Gore; Please see
http://www.un.org/climatechange/,
http://www.foeme.org/docs/IPCCAsia.pdf;
http://www.foeme.org/docs/IPCCAfrica.pdf;
http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc%5Ftar/;
http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc/index.htm; Leo Lewis, “Water Shortages are
Likely to be Trigger for Wars,” 4 Dec 2007;
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2994650.ece; as well
as David D. Zhang, “Global Climate Change, War, and Population Decline in Recent
Human History,” PNAS 2007 104:
19214-19219; http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/104/49/19214?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=David+Zhang&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&volume=104&issue=49&resourcetype=HWCIT,
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/6525; and http://www.brethren.org/pjournal/2007/AsiaPeaceConference&IndiaVisit/;
as well as http://www.ipcc.ch/ and
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2007/ for the 2007 Nobel
Peace Prize.
2007.8–10 Report on
Apartheid-Nonviolence 101
_ Nonviolence in Burma
(Implications for Palestine?)
_ Nonviolence against Apartheid (USA,
Israel–Palestine, & South Africa)
_ Global Warming in Coral Reefs Die-Offs (Major World Protein
Source)
_ First International Celebration of World Global Day of
Nonviolence
_ Nonviolence in Burma;
Massive civil disobedience against tyranny in
Burma, from small villages like Cheuk or Bago to cities of
Yangon and Mandalay. Street actions range from linking
arms around jails, to marching several body-lengths distant so as to avoid state
charges of ‘seditious’ ‘terrorist’ “gathering,” and to vigiling in solidarity
around the home of democratically-elected national leader of Burma, Aung San Suu
Kyi, (Nobel Peace Prize Winner, under “house arrest” since nonviolent civil
disobedience in 1988). Struggle
context, historically, includes 10 years or more and torture in prison for
alleged disobedience and hunger strikes.
Major economic issues at stake — oil (e.g., U.S. Chevron–UNOCAL), and
opium–heroin traffic (hegemonic U.S. and China
arms & drug business) interests analogous to that of Laos, Vietnam,
Colombia, and Afghanistan; Global sanctions of China’s
Olympics debated.
o On Burmese civil
disobedience structure and direction, please see
Richard Deats, “Upheaval in Burma” (1 Oct 2007),
http://blog.beliefnet.com/godspolitics/2007/10/upheaval-in-burma-by-richard-d.html;
http://www.institute-for-nonviolence.com.au/downloads/pdf/Phil1B2.pdf;
http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/media/CyberGuerilla.pdf (German);
http://www.ifor.org/WPP/article_May_05.pdf;
http://www.unpo.org/downloads/nonviolencereport97.pdf;
http://www.slought.org/files/downloads/events/SF_1331-Arquilla.pdf
(129-171);
http://www.ibiblio.org/obl/docs3/POC-1989-11-ocr.pdf
(Amnesty Int’l, 1988);
http://tortureontrial.org/;
http://www.altsean.org/Docs/PDF%20Format/Thematic%20Briefers/The%20Spirit%20Of%20888%20Lives%20On%20-%20Non-Violent%20Actions%20For%20Change%20In%20Burma.pdf
(NLD);
http://www.nonviolenceinternational.net/seasia/; Nonviolence International,
SE Asia, Bangkok, SIAM;
seasia@nonviolenceinternational.net. For overview by year and
bibliographies, see (2007)
http://www.nonviolenceinternational.net/seasia/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1&limit=5&limitstart=5;
(2006)
http://www.nonviolenceinternational.net/seasia/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=38&Itemid=46;
(2005) Burma NV Manual,
http://nonviolenceinternational.net/images/stories/Speaking_Truth_to_Power.pdf;
and Annotated Bibliography of Nonviolent
Action Training;
http://www.nonviolenceinternational.net/biblio.htm.
o For historical
struggle context, please see
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=8908;
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=8905;
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=8904; and Byles, Marie B. Paths
To Inner Calm (London: George Allen Unwin, 1965) and Ahimsa Center,
www.nsw.nationaltrust.org.au/ahim.html;
http://203.147.135.214/forms/factfiles/marie.pdf;
A Singular Woman 1985, Dir. Gillian
Coote, 48 min. The Life of Marie Byles,
Australian Mountaineer, Author, Pacifist, Conservationist and Buddhist —
SouthEast Asian-Australian Buddhism.
See also,
http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE2745b.htm; and on Burmese
environmental conditions,
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.amisdelaterre.org/Birmanie-un-desastre-ecologique-en.html&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=2&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2Bburma%2B%2522Itto%2BEn%2B%2522%26num%3D100%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26hs%3DpEd%26sa%3DG%26as_qdr%3Dall;
and Jonathan Power, Non-violent Resistance in Burma has History - But Not All of
It - On Its Side,”
http://www.transnational.org/Columns_Power/2007/38.Burma.html &
http://resistancestudies.org/?p=219.
o For Additional
Publications, please see
Burmese Committee Representing the People’s
Parliament,
http://www.ncgub.net/CRPP_NLD/index%20of%20CRPP.htm; Democratic Voice of
Burma, http://www.dvb.no; Federation of Trade
Unions,
http://www.tradeunions-burma.org; Shan Women’s Action Network,
http://shanwomen.org/; Irrawaddy News,
http://www.irrawaddy.org;
http://www.avaaz.org/en/stand_with_burma/; US Campaign for Burma,
http://www.uscampaignforburma.org;
ALTSEAN Burma,
http://www.altsean.org/Links.htm; as well as (2007 Call to U.N.)
http://www.patrir.ro/burma/nonviolent.shtml;
http://www.patrir.ro/burma/;
(2005 Call to U.N.);
http://www.unscburma.org/Docs/Threat%20to%20the%20Peace.pdf;
http://nonviolenceinternational.net/seasia/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=48;
and
http://www.burmalibrary.org/reg.burma/archives/199804/msg00328.html;
http://apppb.blogspot.com/;
http://www.ko-htike.blogspot.com/
(via democracynow.org);
http://h1.ripway.com/APPPB/APPPB.pdf (Blog Links);
http://dimension.ucsd.edu/CEIMSA-IN-http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/218254.pdf;
EXILE/publications/Students/Mako.pdf;
http://www.cfob.org/Resources/info/looted%20land.pdf;
http://www.altsean.org/Docs/PDF%20Format/Special%20Reports/Failing%20Grade.pdf;
http://www.readingfoe.org.uk/Documents/Newsletter/readingfoe_news_sep_07.pdf;
http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/CEF/Quarterly/February_2006/Pierre-Arnaud_Chouvy.pdf;
(opium-heroin inertia issues);
http://atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/IK01Ae01.html (Death of Khun Sa);
http://altsean.org/Docs/PDF%20Format/Issues%20and%20Concerns/Issues%20and%20Concerns%20Vol%201.pdf;
_ Nonviolence against Apartheid (USA,
Israel–Palestine, & South Africa)
o USA — Desmond Tutu
urges boycott against Israeli-U.S. apartheid from Boston and Pittsburgh;
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/10/26/realizing_gods_dream_for_the_holy_land/;
http://www.ikonrtv.nl/kerknieuws/nieuws.asp?oId=11943; and
http://palestineblogs.org/Annie_s_letters/2007/10/26/Desmond_Tutu_in_the_Boston_Globe_Realizing_God_s_dream_for_the_Holy_Land;
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07299/828628-85.stm;
District of Columbia
and related police & military governmental groups agree to pay $1 million to
about 120 protesters hurt by police during 2002 protests against the World Bank
and the International Monetary Fund, following another $640,000 in lawsuits
awarded to 14 other demonstrators for similar reasons. A larger class-action
lawsuit is pending, for over 400 people claiming to have been illegally arrested
at Pershing Park near the White House.
See “D.C.
Pays $1million to Demonstrators,” 2 Aug 2007;
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Protest-Arrests.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin;
and Howard Zinn, “History is a Weapon,”
http://howardzinn.org/default/;
http://www.historyisaweapon.org/indexsmall.html.
For Nonviolence Course
Video Online (UC-Berkeley) (28 lectures, 450 mg download); Michael Nagler,
Nonviolence, Fall 2006. Gandhian & Kingian philosophy applied to social and
justice; Vedas; Satyagraha; Amritsar;
Judeo-Christian & Islamic Views. See
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details.php?seriesid=1906978360;
http://youtube.com/watch?v=H4F8kJchX4I&feature=PlayList&p=D9592FA7CAC67331&index=0&playnext=1;
http://www.transnational.org/Resources_Nonviolence/2007/Nagel_Gandhi_911.pdf.
See also,
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses.php;
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/events.php http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu.
.
On epistemological U.S.–Israeli and Arab Religious Fascism
presumptions undergirding religious apartheid —
Danny Davis, Al-Qaeda and the Phinehas
Priesthood Terrorist Groups, With a Common Enemy and Similar Justifications for
Terror Tactics (Texas A&M University, PhD Diss, 2003); PhD diss on parallels
of Al-Queda and Christian (Phineas Priesthood) Identity Threat;
https://txspace.tamu.edu/bitstream/1969.1/574/1/etd-tamu-2003C-EHRD-Davis-1.pdf.
o Israel–Palestine —
Israeli Supreme Court orders Israeli police and military to move back
walls sequestering Palestinian land around village of Bil’in, after prolonged nonviolent
protests over 2½ years every Friday, facing down, e.g., hundreds of tear gas
grenades. When police and soldiers
ignored nonviolent protestors, public opinion tended to undermine the apartheid
occupation wall. When police and
soldiers then attacked nonviolent protestors defending their land, as in the
case of Bil’in, (destroying over 1,800 forest, olive, and fruit trees), Bil’in
people thus nonviolently overcame that occupation of their land.
As in Gandhi noted, when they counter-attack you in desperation, “… then
you win.” Please see Sami Awad, “…Then They Fight
You, Then You Win,…” 19 Aug 2007,
http://samiawad.wordpress.com/2007/08/19/%e2%80%a6then-they-fight-you-then-you-win%e2%80%a6/;
and
http://samiawad.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/victory-for-the-residents-of-bilin-village/;
http://www.awalls.org/victory_in_bilin_the_struggle_continues; and “Court
Orders Israel to Move Part of Security Fence,”
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/09/04/israel-court.html;
http://www.bilin-village.org.
o South Africa —
“Truth in Translation” Drama; Torturer, victim, & community articulate apartheid
experience through personal–stage perspective of individual translators — unpaid
part of Truth & Reconciliation Commission after political apartheid in South
Africa, via 11 African languages; See
http://www.truthintranslation.org/educational_materials.pdf;
http://www.mott.org/recentnews/news/2007/aboraine.aspx;
http://fromourlips.blogspot.com/2007_08_01_archive.html;
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=5E3&as_qdr=all&q=%22truth+in+translation%22+apartheid+nonviolence&btnG=Search.
_ Global Warming in Coral Reefs Die-Offs (Major World Protein
Source); Combined research dbase
(1968–2004) of over 2,600 Indo-Pacific coral reefs, (75 % of the world’s coral
reefs) — from India, SE Asia, Japan & Australia to Hawai’i — through more than
6,000 quantitative surveys, yields exigent data.
Decades earlier than forecast, at twice the rate of rainforest loss,
scientists believe coral reefs are dying even more rapidly — after the first
half died in the 20th Century — perishing at over 1%/year. At the
same time, since the 1950s, a Great Pacific Garbage Patch or dead plastic reef,
swells to twice the surface size of Texas, 80% plastics, at 3.5 million tons, mushrooms
between
San Francisco and Hawaii. And
in the meantime, now–annually, failing access to toilets, 2.6 billion people or
one-third of world’s population, generate over 200 million tonnes (220 million
U.S. tons) of untreated excrement. So one-half to over two-thirds of world’s
hospital inpatients, depending on location, have “easily-preventable
water-related diseases.” Inside
nation-states, such as Georgia
in USA,
drought threatens national security issues, while farming for ethanol and
militarized industrial corporate waste threaten many states over clean water
access.
See
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0000711;
Paul Eccleston, “Coral Reef Loss at Unprecedented Levels,”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/08/08/eacoral108.xml;
Justin Berton, “Continent-size Toxic Stew of Plastic Trash Fouling Swath of
Pacific Ocean,” 19 Oct 2007;
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/10/19/SS6JS8RH0.DTL&type=politics;
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-10-30-plastics-cover_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip;
http://www.unep.org/regionalseas/marinelitter/publications/docs/plastic_ocean_report.pdf;
http://www.readingfoe.org.uk/Documents/Newsletter/readingfoe_news_sep_07.pdf;
See Sophie Mongalvy, Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI);
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/environmentwaterclimatewarmingswedenhealth;
http://www.wbcsd.org/Plugins/DocSearch/details.asp?ObjectId=MjU3MjM;
http://www.ecodefense.ru/index.php4?lang=eng&div=1; and
http://www.globalclimatecampaign.org/;
http://www.projectcensored.org/censored_2008/;
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/mar2006/2006-03-24-05.asp;
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/31/us_military_cyber_warfare_base_brouhaha/;
and
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/39723/.
_ First International Celebration of World Global Day of
Nonviolence; UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon (Burma) marks the first International
Day of Nonviolence, calling for “true tolerance and nonviolence.” U.S. Member of
Congress, Jim McDermott, also calls for “peace, for an end to world hunger and
poverty, and for a world in which peace and justice for all is not a dream, but
a reality.” McDermott, an M.D.,
notes that 143 nation-states now affirm this World Day of Nonviolence.
See “UN Chief Marks First International Day
of Nonviolence,” Xinhua News, 3 Oct 2007,
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/6276181.html;
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/monsoonmasala/archives/124497.asp; Aziz
Haniffa, “Sonia Inspired UN Resolution on Non-Violence: US Lawmaker,”
http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/oct/05hanif.htm; Arnie Passman, “Commentary:
An International Day of Peace,” Berkeley
Daily Planet, 2 Oct 2007; and
http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/article.cfm?issue=10-02-07&storyID=28138.
2007.6–7 Report on
Apartheid-Nonviolence 101
_ U.N. General Assembly Endorses Annual World Nonviolence Day
_ Nonviolence on U.S. Capitol Hill as Aussies
Obstruct Pivotal NSA Nerve Center
_ U.S. Bio-Chem-Nuclear Weapons Dumping off U.S. Coastal
Shelves Conceded
_ Europe Struggles with
Record Heat–Drought and Rainfall–Floods
_ U.N. General Assembly Endorses Annual World Nonviolence Day;
61st UN General Assembly votes to celebrate October 2, annually, as the World or
International Day of Nonviolence on the birth anniversary of Mohandas Gandhi.
Concept originates from
International Conference on Peace,
Nonviolence and Empowerment — Gandhian Philosophy in the 21st Century,
marking a centenary of satyagraha, or
nonviolent civil disobedience; A world conference with delegates from 90
nation-states & 122 organisations, including Nobel Laureates and heads of
states; See
http://www.satyagrahaconference.com/satyagrahaConference_declaration_english.pdf;
http://www.satyagrahaconference.com/brochure.pdf;
http://www.satyagrahaconference.com/participantslist.asp; and
http://www.hindustantimes.com/storypage/storypage.aspx?id=875f075b-a780-43df-aae3-54a558f36abd&&Headline=PM+welcomes+UN+decision+to+declare+Oct+2+as+non+violence+day;
_ Nonviolence on U.S. Capitol Hill as Aussies Obstruct Pivotal
NSA Nerve Center; Over 300 organizations in the form of 5,000 marchers converge
on Washington DC, 11 June, to urge their government to stop financing US support
of Iraqi and Israeli occupation. Desiree Fairooz, (CodePink from Dallas-Arlington TX,
co-founder of Camp Pelosi), notes “I’m doing this to redeem
my soul;... I have to do it. I can’t live
with myself otherwise.” CodePink
Hunger Strikes emphasize need for immediate end of two wars highly-valued by U.S.
Simultaneously Australian nonviolent civil disobedience activists again
challenge core U.S. Pacific intelligence base its Tri-Continental (Africa, Asia,
Africa) nerve center, Pine Gap Base, near Alice Springs, reaching the base computer core, 14 June
2007. Bryan Law, one of the four main
activist defendants, notes that continuing “… nonviolence training will focus on
foundation work for the formation and operation of small, autonomous affinity
groups…. In December 2005 we forced
Pine Gap [likely thus also Diego
Garcia Island,
Indian Ocean, pipeline to
U.S.] to lock down for four hours…. To promote
further actions of this nature we’ll be working hard at diversity, mutual
respect, cooperation, fun, spirit, miracles, and a relaxed but determined
revolutionary zeal to manifest Peace on Earth in the ways that are
[nonviolently] available.” Crown or
Federal Prosecutor Hilton Dembo benchmarks this June 2007 event as the first
world level incident in which nonviolent civil disobedience impedes Pine Gap
base techno core. See
http://stopthewall.org/worldwideactivism/1475.shtml;
http://www.kevgillett.net/?p=1246;
http://www.coxwashington.com/hp/content/reporters/stories/2007/03/29/BC_PINK_PROTESTERS29_COX.html;
http://dk2008.us/news/camp_pelosi_continues;
http://codepinkalert.org/article.php?list=class&class=20&all=1; and
http://www.codepinkalert.org/article.php?id=1025; as well as shift in action
from activists like Cindy Sheehan, as Bree Walker bought Sheehan’s Farm near GWB
Ranch, TX, Sheehan shifts to “run” against Nancy Pelosi over stopping oil gulf
wars; http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3728;
http://2005.progressivetalk1150.com/pages/On_Air_Hosts.html?feed=119597&article=360523;
_ U.S. Bio-Chem-Nuclear Weapons Dumping off U.S. Coastal
Shelves Conceded, from the Hudson River & Chesapeake watersheds and eastern sea
coasts to bases stretching across California
and the U.S.
western coast. U.S. Naval
Radiological Defense Laboratory/NRDL at Hunters Point Shipyard, from 1946 on,
“surfaces” as major U.S. Pacific Ocean nuclear blast waste dumping coordination
site. U.S. Army admits dumping 64
million pounds of nerve and mustard agents into the sea, and 400,000
chemical-filled bombs, rockets, & land mines.
NRDL & Navy sunk much of their Pacific Ocean blast nuclear waste in their
triangular Farallon Islands Nuclear Waste Site, about 30 miles west of San
Francisco, which includes the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, with some of
the nation’s most fertile commercial fishing waters.
Apparently the U.S. Navy also radioactively-packed and then sank at least
one nuclear–target laboratory ship, its 10,000-ton aircraft carrier USS
Independence, near Farallones.
Analogous damage likely to “surface” from such bases as Seattle-Puget Sound,
Bangor Sub–Warship Base & Drydocks, Washington State, U.S.; Fort
Detrick/Edgewood-Aberdeen, MD, U.S.; and Porton Downs, Britain/UK.
See
http://www.sfweekly.com/2001-05-09/news/fallout/;
http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/deepeast01/background/dumping/dumping.html;
http://deepseanews.blogspot.com/2005/11/massive-ocean-dumping-program-finally.html;
http://www.pgs.ca/updir/militarism_environment_web.pdf. For Seattle-Puget
Sound, Bangor Sub Base Drydocks —
http://www.gzcenter.org/newsletters/GZ_July_2007.pdf;
www.gzcenter.org/articles/january_2005.pdf;
http://www.plrc.org/docs/011117D.pdf. For Fort Detrick/Edgewood-Aberdeen,
MD, and Porton Downs,
Britain/UK —
http://www.wibfrederick.org/pastactions2005.html;
http://www.mupj.org/pdfdocs/flyerconf2005.pdf; and
http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:kjhpiemluP4J:www.ccc.nps.navy.mil/research/theses/bernett06.pdf+nonviolence+%22Fort+Detrick%22+filetype:pdf&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=43&gl=us;
For trash uranium overview —
www.news-journalonline.com/special/uranium/index.htm.
U.S.
counters this concession, worldwide, with both unparallelled U.S. bioweapon buildup and grudging
participation in the first scientific global conference on such devastating
weapons of mass destruction, or WMD, in coastal, riverine, or estuarial
nuke-toxic-biochem weapons dumping. For U.S. bioweapon buildup due to
“terrorism” — Project BioShield, National Biodefence Analysis and
Countermeasures Centre/NBACC, (2008), may produce and stockpile bioweapons
forbidden by the U.N. 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention
— See
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1833723,00.html and above
references on Seattle-Puget Sound, Bangor Sub Base Drydocks and Fort
Detrick/Edgewood-Aberdeen, MD, and Porton Downs, Britain/UK.
For first such planetwide scientific conference, in World
Trade & Convention Center, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 9-11 Oct 2007 —
including World Oceans and North & Baltic Seas, (latter about 1/2 cubic unit
size of Chesapeake Bay Watershed/U.S. East Coast), as well as Unexploded
Ordance/UXO Dumping Handbooks Online, as to environmental impact, long-term —
See
http://www.seadumpedmunitions.com/;
http://www.stfx.ca/research/polgov/UnseenThreat.htm/;
http://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/77CEDBCA-813A-4A6C-8E59-16B9E260E27A/0/ic_munitions_seabed_rep.pdf;
http://www.fws.gov/refuges/habitats/pdfs/UXO_Handbook_8-9-06.pdf;
http://www.acq.osd.mil/dsb/reports/uxo.pdf;
http://aec.army.mil/usaec/cleanup/popup/library/index.html;
http://www.helcom.fi/environment2/hazsubs/en_GB/chemu/;
http://www.helcom.fi/stc/files/Publications/OtherPublications/CHEMUFinalReport1995.pdf;
http://www.helcom.fi/stc/files/Publications/OtherPublications/1994Report-ChemicalMunitionsDumpedInTheBalticSea.pdf;
http://www.oar.noaa.gov/spotlite/archive/spot_oceandumping.html;
http://scienceblogs.com/deepseanews/upload/2007/06/screenshot_01.jpg;
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-11-01-weapons-ocean_x.htm;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4032629.stm;
http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-chemdumping-stories,1,534800.storygallery?ctrack=1&cset=true;
http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-02761sy0oct30,1,7737455.story?ctrack=2&cset=true;
and
http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-chemdumping-stories,1,534800.storygallery;
As well as limits in National Reconnaince Office/U.S. NRO Declassification of
Documents, Post-1945,
http://www.fas.org/irp/nro/declass.pdf.
_ Europe Struggles with Record Heat–Drought and
Rainfall–Floods; Record drought–heatwave fires strike southeast Europe; Frog and toad populations drop; Bird eggs overheat
and die when uncovered. Greece undergos
its worst heatwave in 110 years, with temperatures over many days reaching 46
Celsius (115 Fahrenheit +). Southern Italy, after the hottest spring in nearly two
centuries, also expects severe shortfall in fruit crops. Sicilian farmers claim
that heatwave literally cooks lemons on trees, as fires destroy thousands of
hectares of grain and wheat crops. Crop production may drop 50% during 2007 in
countries like Turkey, Bulgaria, and Romania.
Death rates rise in Hungary, (over 500),
Bosnia,
Romania, and Macedonia, with cascading power failures in Macedonia and forest fires from Greece to Serbia.
Meanwhile floods plague Northern and Southern England, the latter experiencing up to two months
of rain, or 1/6th of annual rainfall, in a day.
See
http://environment.independent.co.uk/climate_change/article2793067.ece;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weather/Story/0%2C%2C2131580%2C00.html;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weather/Story/0%2C%2C2134034%2C00.html; and
http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/international/ticker/detail/Death_toll_rises_from_heatwave_in_Europe.html?siteSect=143&sid=7970337&cKey=1182965876000;
as to “tipping point” reverberations in locations like that of the Amazonian
rainforest, see
http://www.theturtleislandnews.com/newspaper/2007/april/18/page13.htm/.
2007.4–5 Report on
Apartheid-Nonviolence 101
_ (Un)Packing the Jails, Prisons with Restorative Justice
_ Apartheid Economic Patterns from Israel–Palestine Wall &
U.S. Prisons
_ Global Warming-induced Drought Forecast Models (Coalescing
around USA)
_ (Un)Packing the Jails, Prisons with Restorative Justice;
From 1 May 2007, planetwide peace movements co-initiate momentum toward “packing
the jails” so as to less-violently resolve wars over energy access issues.
State police respond tactically, with violence, in the context of about
10 million people worldwide incarcerated long-term; However, a “lion’s share” of
the world’s imprisoned find themselves in
U.S.
jails. Whether breaking state laws
or following a higher law for a better planet, jailed people often return to
their communities, to resolve challenges within nationalist contexts.
Internationally, the (16th) World Commission on Crime Prevention and
Criminal Justice provides judgments incorporating conflict resolution in a
global context, with China hosting the 2007 Symposium on the World or
International Criminal Court (ICC); (Russia and the U.S., over oil wars, still
shun the ICC).
See
http://www.iccnow.org/;
http://www.icclr.law.ubc.ca/Site%20Map/ICC/INDEX.htm;
http://www.icclr.law.ubc.ca;
http://fp.enter.net/restorativepractices/beth06_mccold.pdf;
http://www.sonoma.edu/cja/info/leuven.html;
http://afrimap.org/english/images/report/Law%20report.pdf;
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/crime_cicp_commission_session_16_drafts.html;
http://www.unodc.org/newsletter/index.html;
http://www.prisonsociety.org/index.shtml;
http://avpinternational.org/;
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/rel/icps/projects/restorative_prison.html;
http://www.iirp.org/library.php;
http://www.emu.edu/ctp/ctp.html;
http://http-server.carleton.ca/~cmckie/restore.htm;
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/publications/infores/restorative_justice/welcome.html;
www.chinalaborunion.org;
www.chinalaborunion.org;
http://tamarackcommunity.ca/g2s12.html;
http://www.unesco.org/education/uie/online/prifr/prifr.pdf;
http://www.msd.govt.nz/publications/statement-of-intent/2003/social-development-approach.htmt http://www2.publicationsduquebec.gouv. qc.ca/dynamicSearch/telecharge.php?type=2&file=/L_7/L7_A.html,
2002, c.61, s.6;
http://www.hrle.gov.nl.ca/hrle/poverty/poverty-reduction-strategy.pdf;
http://fls-ntf.gc.ca/en/fin-rpt.asp;
http://www.isracast.com/Articles/Article.aspx?ID=578;
http://www.unodc.org/pdf/criminal_justice/06-56290_Ebook.pdf, (Handbook
on Restorative Justice Programmes, 2006); Canadian, et al, Strategies for
Resolving Poverty, www.GrowingGap.ca;
such as Sweden’s Strategy Report for
Social Protection and Social Inclusion 2006-2008,
http://ec.europa.eu/emptoyment_social/social_inclusion/naps_en.htm;
http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/social_inclusion/naps_en.htm; http://www.dwp.gov.uk/aboutus/2006/19-06-06.asp;
http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/social_inclusion/naps_en.htm; and
http://vcnv.org/category/civil-disobedience;
http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/;
www.ifor.org/wpp; www.kirkridge.org,
(Nonviolence Training Centers).
_ Apartheid Economic Patterns from Israel–Palestine Wall &
U.S. Prisons; Since the late 1960s, groups symbolized by the World Bank have
directly and indirectly funded such projects as the apartheid Israel-Palestine
Wall — from the militarized matrix of an unparelleled Texas–California Prison
Complex Population Upsurge. The World Bank, and similar institutions, in
defining the Israel–Palestine Wall as a mere “fence” — although a much larger
and longer wall than the Berlin “Cold War” Wall— legitimize confiscation and
occupation of Palestine, and, so, displace a two-state resolution with
intractable conflict. Rather than undercutting paths to war or alleviating
prison density, such plans contain and expedite massive industrial zones, or
bantustans, with well-educated human resources — zones financed by corporate
consumers taxed to manage foreign occupation.
Minorities, however educated, in Wales,
England, Canada, Israel,
Australia, and the U.S.
indeed all face relatively high percentages of imprisonment.
As much as 75% of Washington,
D.C. men “of color” may go to jail during a
lifetime, even though U.S.
citizens face a rather lower percentage risk (than Canadian or European
counterparts) for other than white-collar crime.
The U.S. imprisons its citizens at a
rate 5 to 8 times more that of other the more industrialized nations planetwide.
Starting in the 1980s, for instance, California launched
perhaps the largest prison construction project in world history, building 21
prisons in 15 years, with radical psycho-social engineering implications.
Prisons in China, Texas,
California, and the U.S. (excepting TX & CA) outrank all other penal
systems, worldwide, demographically, in such draconian mental–social engineering
deals. U.S.–NATO military bases (& prisons) reach from the Oil Gulf
— in Iraq (6 bases & Baghdad Airport); Camp Anaconda (north of Baghdad, 25-sq.
km.); Tallil Air Base (Nasariyah, near Syria), and Bashur Air Field (Kurdish
area) — to a projected network occupying a quarter of Kuwaiti land area, a
network analogous to that already militarizing the Caribbean.
Other U.S. bases in-process could rule,
to various ways, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Nepal, Poland, Qatar, Georgia, India,
Kyrgiztan, Morocco, Senegal, Singapore, Vietnam, Algeria, Australia, Afghanistan
Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Malaysia, Romania, Tunisia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Sierra
Leone, the Philippines, and Pakistan (four U.S. bases), with rather classified
options relative to climatic crises in the last continent to be so colonized,
namely, Antarctica. (Note: Previous Report 2007.3 outlined how military
pollution dangers outrank all others, planetwide, with U. S. Pentagon spending
outpacing the top five largest
U.S.
chemical companies, by a factor again five times greater.
In addition militaries produce two-thirds of the planet’s worst
ozone-depleting CFC-113.)
See, e.g.,
https://www.nationalfilmnetwork.com/store/DiscussionGuides/978-0-8026-0351-7.pdf;
http://www.soros.org/initiatives/justice/articles_publications/publications/intl_incarceration_20030620/intl_rates.pdf;
See Jamal Juma, “Cementing Israeli Apartheid: The Role of World Bank (1969),”
http://www.leftturn.org/?q=node/190; World Bank, “Movement and Access
Restrictions in the West Bank: Uncertainty and
Inefficiency in the Palestinian Economy,” May 2007.
Esp West Bank Segmented Map, Annex 1;
http://www.palestinecampaign.org/archives.asp?xid=1947;
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWESTBANKGAZA/Resources/WestBankrestrictions9Mayfinal.pdf;
http://www.rupe-india.org/41/central.html;
http://www.bulatlat.com/news/3-49/3-49-bases.html;
http://wsws.org/articles/2002/jan2002/base-j11.shtml;
http://www.ippnw.org/Events/Past/17th/Speakers/RonaldMcCoy.pdf;
http://www.ippnw.org/; http://csprissler.spaces.live.com/_c11_BlogPart_FullView=1&_c11_BlogPart_blogpart=blogview&_c=BlogPart&partqs=amonth%3D1%26ayear%3D2006;
and
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/iran_major_oilfields78.jpg,
(Irani Oilfield Map). See also Alice
Stewart and George Kneale, A-Bomb Survivors: Reassessment of the Radiation
Hazard,” Medicine, Conflict, and Survival 15 (1999), 47-57; and Alice Stewart
and George Kneale, “A-Bomb Survivors: Factors that May Lead to a Re-Assessment
of the Radiation Hazard,” Int’l Jrl of
Epidemiology 29 (2000), 708-714 or
www.iicph.org;
http://www.ratical.org/radiation/NAvictims.html;
rosaliebertell@greynun.org.
_ Global Warming-induced Drought Forecast Models (Coalescing
around the U.S.);
Changing oceanic current patterns, with rising pollution threats, randomize
arctic and tropical weather conditions planetwide, erratically, at all latitudes
and longitudes. Warm ocean currents
that brought mild weather from the tropics to northwest
Europe
have declined by 30%. Currents
formerly conducting cold deep North Atlantic waters upward have reduced in flow
by 50%, while waters circulating within the tropics have increased by 50% —
disrupting, in effect, conventional weather equilibrium.
For 95% of humanly-recorded history, planet weather has been relatively
tropical, but conditions could shift toward desertification, over a relatively
short period in geological time replete with interglacial phases.
Meta-theoretical models explaining randomized weather and rainfall range
from changing carbon dioxide-induced oceanic patterns to binary star-induced
etymologies. In practical terms, unless met and overcome by popular urban
pressure, recent NASA trend model studies suggest that greenhouse-gas climate
warming will, before the 2080s, raise average summer temperatures in Chicago,
Atlanta, and Washington, D.C. [as well as Athens, Beijing, Cairo, Delhi, Moscow,
Mumbai, Osaka, Paris, Shanghai, Tokyo, Instanbul, Nairobi, and Jerusalem (?), at
analogous latitudes] to between100 and 110 degrees Fahrenheit.
Co-author One of the NASA study leaders, Richard Healy, (Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institute), notes that: “Less frequent storms result in higher
surface and atmospheric temperatures that then feedback on the atmospheric
circulation, to further reduce storm frequency [yet intensify wind violence] and
raise surface temperatures even more.”
Simultaneous climate change models also indicate that semi-arid areas in
southern Africa, eastern Australia,
the Mediterranean, the so-called Middle-East, and the U.S.
South-West & Northern Mexico, will likewise undergo relatively severe
desertification. Failing vegetation
patterns will recharacterize ebbing rainfall patterns, as plants so stressed
diminish moisture exchange with the atmosphere, in a “positive feedback loop”
advancing desertification. Thus the U.S. Southwest may return to “black
[dustbowl] blizzard” conditions, as in the 1930s, but lasting for decades, given
reduced access to groundwater tables that delayed such desertifaction before —
in the grainbelt, as it were, of the planet. In
sum drought-desertification research trend models indicate that sea surface
temperatures will continue to rise, if below 40 degrees north latitude and south
of the equator, if unchecked. Storm trends which follow warming waters into
higher latitudes — with the “North Atlantic Oscillation” as referenced by Heidi
Cullen on the U.S. “Weather Channel,” (notes below) — may drag behind them dry
air from over the planet’s deserts, and vice versa; Watery trends subtly
and-not-subtly influencing past, present, and future flood, drought, and
glacier, from the Akkadians, (recorded in written history, Turkish tree rings,
and Tigris & Euphrates River flow rates) — accelerated forward in time.
Please See Barry Lynn,
“Summers will Become Extremely Hot in the Future, NASA Prediction,”
Climate (American Meteorological
Society, April 2007)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070509210100.htm; as well as
Richard Seager…, “Model Projections of an Imminent Transition to a More Arid
Climate in Southwestern North America,” as well as Michael Reilly, “Serious
Drought May Strike Western U.S.,” Science
Science, 5 April 2007 [DOI:
10.1126/science.1139601]; and
http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn11552-serious-drought-may-strike-western-us.html;
Compare also on Global Warming —
www.climatehotmap.org;
www.gcrio.org/NationalAssessment;
www.healthylawns.net;
www.hotgardens.net;
http://invader.dbs.umt.edu/ noxious_weeds/;
www.umassdroughtinfo.org;
www.wmo.ch/indexflash.html;
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/environmental_law/2006/week35/index.html;
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/edu/dees/V1003/lectures/global_warming/index.html;
http://www.geo.arizona.edu/dgesl/about/people/jonathanoverpeck/publications.htm;
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~biasutti/papers/giannini_GEC28Jul2006.pdf (Africa);
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/edu/dees/V1003/readings/IPCC%202001%20TAR/TAR-APPENDICES.pdf
(glossary).
http://ncta.com/ContentView.aspx?hidenavlink=true&type=CableProgram&contentId=3513;
http://press.weather.com/index.php/meteorologists/10.html);
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/98/23/12876.pdf;
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~peter/Resources/Publications/Cullen_Kaplan.pdf,(Middle-East);
and Heidi Cullen, “Climate Code” Weather Channel, 5:30-6:00 EST, (Sundays),
random early AMs, (http://climate.weather.com/onair.html;
http://www.weather.com/blog/weather/8_11392.html; as well as Heidi Cullen,
PhD diss, The North Atlantic and the
Middle East: Investigating Climate Dynamics & Variability in a Water Scarce
Region (Columbia University, 2000); Heidi Cullen, et al, "The North Atlantic
Oscillation: Past, Present, and Future," PNAS 98/23 (6 Nov 2001),
12876–12877; and Heidi Cullen, …,
“Modulation of Daily Precipitation over Southwest Asia by the Madden-Julian
Oscillation,” Monthly Weather Review
133/12 (Dec 2005), 3579 inter alia. See
also, e.g., “Binary Companion: The Coming of the Invisible Sun [“Dog Star …”],”
http://www.binaryresearchinstitute.org/ as well as
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CLA410A.html; and
http://home.aubg.bg/faculty/kpetrov/Books/Clark%20-%20Petrodollar%20Warfare.pdf
on militarization;
2007.3 Report on Apartheid–Nonviolence 101
_ Israeli–U.S. Computers Generate Record Planet Cybercrime
Growth Rates
_ Base, Lawn, & Lobbyist–Parliamentary Office “Occupations”
Dispute “Surge” Funding
_ Israeli–U.S.
Computers Generate Record Planet Computer or Cybercrime Growth Rates; USA
accelerates the highest computer crime rates financially, internationally, in
over half the planet’s so-called “underground” or informal sector servers.
Individually, male computer criminals also outnumber females, 4 to 1.
Israeli internet users rank higher, planetwide, than all other computer crime
users, followed by Taiwan. Collectively, if ranked as
to “master-slave” or “command and control” cyber crime, behind the USA, South Korea
ranks near Israel and Taiwan, each
with about a 10% world share of such cybercrime or assault. Increasing
cybercrime trends anticipate far more phishing or “bait-&-switch” attacks during
business workdays than weekends, as cybercrime’s escalating spam-spy
cutting-business-edge, as it were. Concomitantly, cybercrime groups pinch &
redesign a credit card number for a $1 USD, with 1,000%+ mark-up, for identity
theft scenarios. In sum, in overall economic damage terms, the USA leads other nations with a third
of world cybercrime — above all in remote networking or “bot” assaults. On the
other hand, worldwide cybercrime assaults appear to target China, assailed
by over a fourth of the world’s bot business assaults.
In short, about 5% of the planet population, i.e.,
Taiwan, Israel, South Korea,
and the USA, may lead in such crime
statistics, accounting for between 50–80% of the world’s cyber theft–corruption
events. Bottom line: Such Norton–Symantec “crime” reports do not categorize Iran, Iraq,
Palestine, Syria,
or Venezuela
as elite cyber criminals. See
http://eval.symantec.com/mktginfo/enterprise/white_papers/ent-whitepaper_internet_security_threat_report_xi_03_2007.en-us.pdf;
http://www.physorg.com/news93495379.html; and Asher Meir, “Ethics @ Work:
The Institutionalization of Internet Crime,”
Jerusalem Post, 22 March 2007,
et al,
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1173879153649.
_ Base, Lawn, & Lobbyist–Parliamentary Office “Occupations”
Dispute “Surge” Funding; Across the planet, around a million people demonstrate
against Oil Gulf Wars, while Grandmothers for Peace International, among others,
occupy U.S. military bases, confronting militarism and trash uranium issues —
Stemming from U.S.–Israeli incursions into Lebanon, contested U.S. military
bases concern
Cuba, Kenya, Taiwan, Ecuador, Israel, Italy,
Korea, Paraguay, Colombia, Somalia, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, and the
Amazons, …. Largest reported
demonstrations range from Madrid, (400,000),
and other cities across Spain, Greece, and Turkey,
to Manta Base (Ecuador), and the para-military “School of the
Americas” (USA).
USA’s Voices for Creative Nonviolence, along with Codepink, (including
nuns and grandmothers), organize lawn and office occupations to roll back
“surge” funding of U.S.–Iraq–Iran Wars — Many, of hundreds, jailed for the first
time in their lives; Camping before homes & offices, from those like Nancy
Pelosi and Hillary Rodham Clinton to John McCain, 24 x 7.
Such “occupations” likewise prompt first U.S. State Department criminal
investigation “promise” into campaign
deaths of, e.g., Rachel Corrie, an International Solidarity Movement or
ISM activist, protecting the home of a local physician, killed
by a U.S.–Israeli–Caterpillar military
house–dozer in Rafah,
Palestine.
See
http://www.focusweb.org/pdf/Beirut-Communique-en.pdf;
http://respectsacredland.org/no-us-bases/draft3.pdf;
http://www.monthlyreview.org/0302map1.pdf;
http://www.focusweb.org/declaration-international-conference-for-the-abolition-of-foreign-military.html?Itemid=1;
http://www.focusweb.org/llamamiento-a-representantes-de-movimientos-asamblea-internacional-de-beirut-de-los-movimiento.html?Itemid=93;
http://www.focusweb.org/the-jakarta-peace-consensus.html?Itemid=93;
http://www.focusweb.org/an-anti-bases-network-finds-its-base.html?Itemid=1;
http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_3301.shtml;
http://dusteye.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/network-forms-to-oppose-us-overseas-military-bases/;
http://www.grandmothersforpeace.org/links/;
http://www.1000grandmothers.net/;
http://vcnv.org/occupation-project-in-washington-d-c-march-26-to-29;
http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/142019.html;
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-03/18/content_5862349.htm;
http://www.bolivarianresistance.blogspot.com/;
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/03/21/18380826.php;
http://www.saukvalley.com/articles/2007/03/10/news/state/314071152774346.txt;
http://www.uraniumweaponsconference.de/gaaa.htm;
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1173695009381&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout;
and Florangela Davila, “Israel [U.S. State Department] to Probe State Activist’s
Bulldozer Death,”
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=rachel18m&date=20030318&;
as well as www.cpeo.org;
https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/nousbases-info;
www.no-bases.net; and
Fellowship of Reconciliation (USA),
Winter 2007 issue.
2007.2 Report on
Apartheid–Nonviolence 101
_ Child Soldier, Disappearance, & Cluster Bomb Ban Issues
Sidelined Worldwide by USA
_ Disappearance of Bees — Potential Genome Bio-Diversity Risk
to World’s Food Crops
_ Child Soldier, Disappearance, & Cluster Bomb Ban Issues
Sidelined Worldwide by USA;
Historic “Paris Principles” Conference against Child
Soldiers/UNICEF (Paris) and Forced Disappearances (Paris, Argentina)
— derived from 1997 Cape Town Principles — signed by almost 60 nations. Burma and the
Philippines
did not attend the Paris
meeting. These principles stem from
another charter document also not readily supported by the USA, namely, the
World Convention on the Rights of the Child, General Assembly of the United
Nations, 20 Nov 1989. By 2001
fifteen countries had voted against Child Soldiers, yet apparently not the USA.
See
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/k2crc.htm;
http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/france-priorities_1/democracy-human-rights_1101/children-rights_3265/paris-commitments_8658.html;
http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/IMG/pdf/Paris_Conference_Principles_English_31_January.pdf
(44 pp);
http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/IMG/pdf/Dossier_complet_ang.pdf (14 pp);
http://ue.eu.int/uedocs/cmsUpload/GuidelinesChildren.pdf#search=%22european%20union%20guidelines
(12 pp);
http://www.un.org/children/conflict/english/5feb2007internat162.html;
http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N07/241/85/PDF/N0724185.pdf?OpenElement;
http://www.un.org/children/conflict/english/home6.html;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6335537.stm;
http://www.child-soldiers.org/;
http://www.redhandday.org/;
http://ochaonline.un.org/webpage.asp?Site=sexex;
http://www.unicef.org/media/media_pr_childsoldiers.html;
http://www.essex.ac.uk/armedcon/story_id/000433.html;
http://www.tdh.de/content/materialien/download/index.htm; and
http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/france-priorities_1/democracy-human-rights_1101/children-rights_3265/international-conference-on-children-involved-in-armed-forces-and-armed-groups-paris-5-6.02.07_8638.html;
http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/pdf/crc.pdf;
http://www.child-abuse.com/childhouse/childwatch/cwi/convention.html;
http://www.unhchr.ch/huridocda/huridoca.nsf/(Symbol)/A.53.281.En?Opendocument;
http://www.hrw.org/press/1999/nov/children.htm;
http://www.unicef.org/crc/; and
http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/crc/index.htm.
In February 2007 as well, almost 60 nation-states likewise
oppose forced Disappearance of Persons; A treaty again not signed by USA or wealthier
Western European Nations;
See
http://www.oas.org/juridico/english/Treaties/a-60.html;
http://www.unhchr.ch/huridocda/huridoca.nsf/(Symbol)/A.RES.47.133.En?OpenDocument;
http://www.amnesty.org/resources/pdf/combating_torture/combating_torture.pdf;
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/02/06/europe/EU-GEN-France-UN-Disappeared.php;
http://www.hri.ca/ftrMexico/documentation/commission/e-cn4-2002-79.htm;
http://www.unhchr.ch/huridocda/huridoca.nsf/0/56441bfd3db11a3e8025663200558b0c?OpenDocument;
http://www.hri.ca/fortherecord1998/documentation/commission/e-cn4-1998-43.htm;
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-02-06-un-disappeared_x.htm;
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2007/02/06/us_doesnt_sign_ban_on_disappearances/;
http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/france-priorities_1/democracy-human-rights_1101/events_2128/preparation-of-legally-binding-international-instrument-on-forced-disappearances-26-09-05_2009.html;
and
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1103AP_France_UN_Disappeared.html?source=rss.
Relevant
Conflict Resolution and Negotiating Manuals:
http://ochaonline.un.org/humanitariannegotiations/index.html;
http://ochaonline.un.org/humanitariannegotiations/Documents/Guidelines.pdf
(23 pp); and
http://ochaonline.un.org/humanitariannegotiations/Documents/Manual.pdf (97
pp).
Again, in February 2007, despite the USA and wealthier nation-states,
another forty nation-states convene a Cluster Bomb (or Aerial Landmine) Ban
Conference. Somalia
and USA
may be the only two countries in the world that have not ratified any such
convention. Cluster bomb dialogue
often leads to debate about the World Genocide Convention — again, historically,
not readily ratified by U.S.
over “possession” of weapons of mass destruction.
The Genocide” concept stems from Raphael Lemkin, a student of Lev
Tolstoi, whose family disappeared in 1940s Euro–War Death Camps.
Relevant voting records, by nation-state, which should be available
online, do not readily appear, nor via in-process U.N. International Criminal
Justice Search Engine; See
http://unbisnet.un.org;
http://www.icj-cij.org/icjwww/isearch/default.asp;
http://unbisnet.un.org:8080/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=D17284456R2S5.3033&menu=search&aspect=power&npp=50&ipp=20&spp=20&profile=voting&ri=&index=.VW&term=child+soldiers&matchopt=2%7C0&oper=and&x=13&y=4&aspect=power&index=.VW&term=&matchopt=0%7C0&oper=and&index=.AD&term=&matchopt=0%7C0&oper=and&index=BIB&term=&matchopt=0%7C0&ultype=&uloper=%3D&ullimit=&ultype=&uloper=%3D&ullimit=&sort=;
and
http://www.preventgenocide.org/lemkin/index.htm;
http://hrw.org/backgrounder/arms/cluster0207/cluster0207web.pdf;
http://www.globalissues.org/HumanRights/Abuses/Child.asp;
http://www.preventgenocide.org/lemkin/madrid1933-english.htm, (as to
“Genocide” term coined by Lemkin over 1930s Fascist Repression in Spain).
Nonviolence-oriented groups concerning child soldier,
disappearance of persons, & cluster bomb (aerial landmine) ban issues —
o As to Child Soldier use, training, & recruiting (via, e.g.,
the Amman Declaration on the Use of Children as Soldiers, 8-10 April 2001, and
Maputo Declaration on the Use of Children as Soldiers, 22 April 1999);
See
http://www.child-soldiers.org/;
http://hrw.org/campaigns/crp/voices.htm;
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2001/02/14/global291.htm)
o As to Disappearance of Persons (via, e.g., War Resisters
International) See
http://www.arabhumanrights.org/cbased/ga/cat-a-59-44-03e.pdf;
http://www.icj.org/news.php3?id_article=3250&lang=en;
http://www.amnesty.org/resources/pdf/combating_torture/combating_torture.pdf;
and
http://www.wri-irg.org/pubs/br60-en.htm;
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=36707;
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=25133.
o As to Cluster Bombs (via various human rights groups);
See
http://www.icbl.org/;
http://www.icbl.org/news/osloadvisory;
http://hrw.org/backgrounder/arms/cluster0207/; and
http://larc.sdsu.edu/humanrights/rr/PLAarticles/mcsherry.html.
_ Disappearance of Bees — Potential Genome Bio-Diversity Risk
to World’s Food Crops; Tens of millions of honey bees missing in 24 critical
U.S. states, Spain, and Poland, threatening pollination of over one-third U.S.
food crops; scientifically-termed “Colony Collapse Disorder” or CCD.
U.S.
beekeepers report honey bee disappearances ranging from 30–60% (West Coast), to
70% (Texas),
to 100% in localized clusters. France and Italy,
with the largest honey bee populations in Europe
— after banning those pesticides which their beekeepers believe kill honey bees
— report no analogous bee colony collapse, as yet.
See
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6400179.stm?ls;
http://www.ento.psu.edu/MAAREC/pressReleases/CCDSummaryWG0207.pdf;
http://saltspringnews.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=15811&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0;
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7006587883; and Linda Moulton Howe,
“Earth Life Threats – Alarming Disappearance of Honey Bees,”
http://www.earthfiles.com/news/news.cfm?ID=1214&category=Environment.
Climatically and environmentally-oriented groups like
Greenpeace thus check how global warming severely shrinks glaciers, from
Svalbard to Patagonia — a glacial “diminuendo”
retreat since 1900. Some intend to
avert subsequent food–seed genome collapse, by, e.g., burrowing seed vaults on
Svalbard,
Norway, (over 600 kilometers
or 400 miles north of Norway).
Svalbard seed vault tunnels, channelling 120 meters (or about 100 yards) into a
mountain, may accommodate two vaults, each about 15 x 20 meters (or about 4 x 5
in yards), for 3 million seed exemplars; (February–Oct 2007 timeframe).
Each boxed Svalbard seed foil package may include about 500 samples of
agricultural or heritage crop seeds storable as such; Not unlike historic
efforts in Leningrad or St. Petersburg, Russia,
or alleged Ahnenerbe Nazi–Tibetan seed genome attempts, all of which
“disappeared” by the 1950s.
See
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/glaciers-melt-before-our-eyes;
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/patagonia-revisited;
http://ff.org/centers/csspp/library/co2weekly/20060920/20060920_17.html;
http://archive.greenpeace.org/climate/docs/crew.pdf;
http://archive.greenpeace.org/earthsummit/news_aug7.htm;
http://www.svalbard-images.com/spitsbergen.php, (images);
http://www.ratical.com/co-globalize/WtWW/what14.html;
http://www.natexaminer.com/warming/glacier.html;
http://www.unep-wcmc.org/species/plants/overview.htm; Linda Moulton Howe,
“Part 2: Earth Life Threats,” 23 Feb
2007;
http://www.earthfiles.com/news/news.cfm?ID=1215&category=Environment; and
“Saving of Seeds of the World,”
http://www.earthisland.org/eijournal/new_articles.cfm?articleID=262&journalID=48.
2007.1 Report on
Apartheid-Nonviolence 101
_ “Missing” U.S.–Israeli Exiles, Soldiers, Deserters, and
Resisters vs Oil Gulf Wars
_ Europe and
U.S.
Blizzards Cripple Major World Heat–Power–Transport Systems
_ “Missing” U.S.–Israeli Exiles, Soldiers, Deserters, and
Resisters vs Oil Gulf Wars; Over a decade of oil gulf wars, the Pentagon
estimates that 40,000 U.S. “deserters” and another 30,000 Israeli “soldiers”
(according to Israeli sources) have left for countries like Canada, Mexico, and
India, so as to dodge what world criminal court-compliant nations may term U.S.
international war crimes against humanity.
About 1,200 active-duty U.S. military personnel, along with 50-some
active-duty officers, also signed a redress petition for a full U.S. withdrawal
from Iraq — a symbolic prelude, perhaps, to U.S. war heros hurtling their
military medals back over the rear fence of the White House, as in 1960s?
Preceding Pentagon “Vietnam (or SE Asian) War” exiled and deserter
estimates claimed 12,000 moved to Canada, though U.S. nonprofits put those
numbers at over 50,000, and the Canadian government, at well over a million,
(including related family members).
Could actual internal U.S. “missing” ― over more than a decade of Oil Gulf wars
― again number over a million exiles, deserters, KIA, and those in hiding,
underground, as it were ― in addition to millions more residential civilian or
refugee battlefield casualties from U.S. “foreign” wars? Internal returning U.S. oil gulf war soldiers homeless
rates are also climbing again, up from a ratio of 1 in 3; Returnee vets, e.g.,
face a 70% divorce rate and climbing suicide rates. One in four returning vets
suffer Post-Traumatic-Stress-Syndrome/PTSD, as well as an average two-to-three
month wait to see a physician; physician to patient ratio, 1 : 500; Number
veteran war dead over 3,000, not counting immune system-failures from, e.g.,
trash-uranium-tipped munitions and collateral environmental damage.
Current 2007–2012 Republican Party Regime plans may slash another $65
billion in veteran returnee benefits.
Please see
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2099-2318643,00.html;
http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20070116-112140-6061r;
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=41810&archive=true;
http://www.nonviolence.org/iraq/;
http://www.appealforredress.org/php/sponsoring.organizations.php;
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2007/01/15/grumbling-in-the-ranks/;
http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=2970;
http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=3455;
www.girights.objector.org;
www.couragetoresist.org;
www.centeronconscience.org;
www.resisters.ca;
http://www.vaiw.org/vet/index.php;
http://www.angelstaff.org/; As well as
Dikla Kadosh, “Israelis Invade India,” concerning Israeli Exile Hare Rama and
Pahar Ganj communities, not far from main New Delhi railway station;
http://www.coveringreligion.org/names/;
http://www.pinv.org/article-print.php3?id_article=5; and
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=91566&d=30&m=1&y=2007,
http://maaber.50megs.com/seventh_issue/awad_e.htm.
See also statement of Susan Sarandon, Jan 2007 D.C. Mall Peace Movement
Addresses,
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/29/1453235;
http://www.yourcallradio.org/archive/013007.ram;
http://www.sirnosir.com/;
http://www.sirnosir.com/library/articles/search.html;
http://www.sirnosir.com/the_film/resistor_79.html;
http://www.sirnosir.com/the_film/reviews_current_gi_resistors.html;
http://www.refuseandresist.org/war/idx.php;
and http://www.criticalconcern.com/editorials-of-interest.htm.
_ Europe and U.S. Blizzards Cripple Major World
Heat–Power–Transport Systems; Millions in Michigan, Missouri, Washington,
California, Massachusetts, New York, and New Hampshire endure numbing storms,
with tornado-like winds peppering U.S. from Texas, Washington, & California, to
Florida & New England — Storms sap power, induce secondary hyperthermia
clustering, and stunt the U.S. citrus crop. Millions analogously vulnerable in
Dutch, Danish, English, German, Polish, and Austrian airports and rail systems
from near hurricane-force winds;
Related deaths reported in France, the Czech Republic (112 mph winds), and the
Netherlands. Recently-opened Central Berlin Rail Station closed for a time by
130-ft fall of two-ton girder over staircase outside. Meanwhile Euro-led United
Nations Crises Panel warns of increasing global warming threat trends — Crises
seeded by world’s hegemonic fossil fuel transnational corporations like Shell,
Exxon, or Halliburton. U.N. Panel findings point toward more such anomalous
whirlwind weather outbreak conditions, with still “classified” intra-coastal
storm and flooding trends — via planet’s ice sheets, up to two miles–deep in
Arctic, Greenland, and Antarctic, apparently dissolving more and more rapidly.
Currently, for instance, U.S. “U-2” or
“ER2” spy planes are more likely to be using Pretoria’s airport, at Pietersburg,
South Africa, or less well-known Australian-New Zealand airports, to monitor
global warming-led Antarctic ice melt level conditions; In contrast with
espionage over China or “Cold War” posturing. UN Global Warming findings also
document warnings to major world cities like Sydney —
Australia’s demographic core — as to
unsustainable drought scenarios over next two decades.
See
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070117/D8MMSQGG0.html;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6274377.stm;
http://www.irishexaminer.com/irishexaminer/pages/story.aspx-qqqg%3Dworld-qqqm%3Dworld-qqqa%3Dworld-qqqid%3D23405-qqqx%3D1.asp;
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/;
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=ct20000808104016639N200988;
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn11049-major-climate-change-report-looks-set-to-alarm.html;
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn6615;
http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn11083-sea-level-rise-outpacing-key-predictions.html;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6315885.stm.
2006.12 Report on
Apartheid–Nonviolence 101
_ Google Ann Arbor
MI–Planetwide Print–Lookup
_ Beirut
Marchers Strike for Peace with Justice
_ Great Lakes Coalition demilitarizes U.S. Coast Guard Core
_ 2006 Year in Brief
(http://home.comcast.net/~apartheid101/trends_in_brief.htm)
_ Beirut Marchers Strike for Peace with Justice;
Largely-nonviolent, extra-parliamentary, poor–refugee civil disobedience gathers
in a growing Riad Solh Square tent city, with a stage, huge TV screen, and rows
of loudspeakers. Groups synchronize
participants by bus, distributing free gas or benzine coupons as needed.
Thousands rally as night falls, demanding the U.S.-bolstered regime of
Lebanon resign or endorse representative government, as advocated by the Muslim
Hezbollah and Christian Free Patriotic Movements — disrupting public services,
and, potentially, redirecting even more insider parliamentary resignations —
daunting a regime in its own palace.
Hassan Nasrallah, a Hezbollah leader, calls for peaceful street action on
Al-Manar TV: “We appeal to all
Lebanese, from every region and political movement, to take part in a peaceful
and civilised demonstration…, to rid us of an incapable government that has
failed in its mission.” Well-marshalled
demonstrators pull together veiled Muslim women and “western”-dressed Christian
students, intermingled with bright caps and scarves denoting sundry Druze,
Jewish, Muslim, and Christian groups, a coordinated movement accelerating after
current regime jailed Lebanese and Syrian officials for killing oil broker Rafik
Hariri, (a November killing that could stem instead from Israeli MOSSAD & U.S.
CIA). Turning Points:
10 Dec 2006
1,000,000 marchers (1/4 Lebanese population) overwhelm downtown
Beirut;
2 Dec 2006
800,000 marchers (1/5 Lebanese population) overwhelm downtown Beirut;
7 Aug 2006
Arab League pushes Israeli–U.S. bombing-invasion onto world media agenda;
3 Aug 3006
Israeli–U.S. bombing-invasion strikes Southern Lebanon again, as in 1982
& 1976; Israelis cripple Lebanese infrastructure again, displace a million
people, blockade ports, roads, & airports, and kill over 1,200 Lebanese
citizens, mostly civilians; Armed Lebanese opposition kills 155 Israelis, 118 of
them soldiers.
(Trash-Uranium-tipped, satellite-guided legions of landmines, and alleged
bone–skin–tissue “melting” weapons used, experimentally.)
See
http://mparent7777.blogspot.com/search/label/Hizbullah;
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070108/bazzi;
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=82955&d=30&m=5&y=2006;
http://tadamon.resist.ca/index.php/?p=393;
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1221-22.htm;
http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/stories/ny-woleba024999361dec02,0,7035480.story;
http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=5623651);
http://www.pacifica.org/programs/dn/061204.html;
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/13546;
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/04/1418253;
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/politics/ny-woleba115011605dec11,0,2175443.story;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1968997,00.html;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldnewsguide/middleeast/page/0,11376,623024,00.html;
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/3CA55E35-0FFE-4CBC-A6DC-9DF76ECA00C5.htm?FRAMELESS=true&NRNODEGUID=%7b3CA55E35-0FFE-4CBC-A6DC-9DF76ECA00C5%7d;
and
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/8F0A41D6-900E-4BA7-81B0-D6A74CAFD47D.htm?FRAMELESS=true&NRNODEGUID=%7b8F0A41D6-900E-4BA7-81B0-D6A74CAFD47D%7d.
For analogous U.S. Veterans’ mutinous viewpoints, see also
http://www.appealforredress.org/;
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/;
and http://www.mfso.org/.)
_ Great Lakes Coalition demilitarizes U.S. Coast Guard; Great Lakes groups, (concerning 18% of the world’s fresh
water), overcome U.S. Govt militarization attempt to dump–fire millions of
lead-copper machine-gun bullets. Coast Guard demands 34 massive dump–fire
ranges, 14 (or 40%) on Lake Michigan, only Great
Lake solely within U.S.
governance. Canadian government and
international groups, like a mayoral group representing 80 Great Lakes cities,
as well as various environmental groups, coalesce in opposition to U.S.
militarization through Great Lakes Water Quality Agreements. Two U.S.
environmental groups intend to sue Coast Guard to stop, after 24 live-fire
“tests” already executed, as breaking U.S. EPA and international laws or
treaties. U.S. Coast Guard put the issue on hold, before Canada and U.S. nongovernmental groups take
issue toward the World Court,
18 Dec 2006.
Such militarization could endanger boaters and cross-lake
ferries, while poisoning fish, wildlife, and humans living near the lakes.
In effect, U.S. militarization of the Lakes could re-introduce first such
significant gunboat “diplomacy” since English burned Washington, D.C., and U.S.
White House in the 1812 War, a war shifting the Great Lakes and its peoples away
from European “power” politics to U.S. control, (after 1770s wars).
U.S.
militarization incorporates machine gunning 3½ tons (7,000 pounds) of lead — not
counting copper and other munitions by-products — annually into the region’s
drinking water watershed; And, periodically, arbitrarily, sequestering 2,500
international square miles without shared Canadian input. The thirty-four (34)
claimed, proposed militarization zones overlie essential shipping lanes and
ferry routes, and, as to long-term data not yet accessible, (publicly), may
inevitably disperse intense bio-chemical hazards downstream, further
marginalizing poorer or “not voting” populations. (See
http://wfrv.com/topstories/local_story_352152104.html;
http://www.startribune.com/462/story/883558.html;
http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/16268039.htm;
http://gazetteextra.com/greatlakesgunfire121906.asp;
http://www.chestertontribune.com/Environment/coast_guard_withdraws_great_lake.htm;
http://wcco.com/topstories/local_story_352152748.htm;
http://www.env-enforcement.org;
http://www.ecoesq.com; and
http://www.mlive.com/search/index.ssf?/base/news-10/116561070327620.xml?muchronicle?NEM&coll=8;
http://www.ecoesq.com/CoastGuardLiveFire.html;
http://pacificlifecommunity.wordpress.com;
http://wrl-smod.blogspot.com/;
http://www.mlive.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news-10/116561070327620.xml;
http://www.greatlakestownhall.org/bulletin/reports.php?forumid=1&topicid=513#starttopic;
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/newssun/news/121655,5_1_WA02_COASTGUARD_S1.article;
http://www.landfill7.com/fortweb/FortNews.htm;
http://www.pioneerlocal.com/evanston/news/129236,ev-pp-firezones-110906-s1.article;
and http://www.afsc.org/youthmil/resources/Default.htm;
and http://www.grysen.com/about.htm.
_ 2006 Year in Brief
(http://home.comcast.net/~apartheid101/trends_in_brief.htm)
2006.11 Report on Apartheid–Nonviolence 101
_
Nonviolence Guides, Manuals, or Handbook Sources Online (Updated)
2006 Nonviolence University Syllabi/Course Outlines Online (Updated)
_
Sidestepping Torture and Censorship Online — Psiphon and Torpark
_ UN
Report on Global Warming-Sparked Economic Disasters
_
Intercontinental Spiritual Roots of Tolerance (Historical Force)
_
Nonviolence Guides, Manuals, or Handbook Sources Online (Updated)
(http://home.comcast.net/~nonviolence101/nv_texts.htm)
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2006 Manual ~ Iraq, Liz Walz |
| 2006 Manual ~ Oak Ridge TN Campaign |
2006 ListServ ~ WRI |
| 2005 Nonviolence ~ Mubarak Awad-1984
Article |
2005 Nonviolence ~ Lucy Nusseibeh.pdf |
| 2005 Peace Brigades Int’l, Hamburg (German)
|
2005 Manual ~ Training, Australia |
| 2005 Divest ~ Campus Guide.pdf |
2005 Divest ~ Presbyterian Criteria |
| 2005 Nonviolence & Empowerment, WRI |
2005 Divest ~ Sabeel Statement.pdf |
| 2005 Manual ~ DC Justice and Solidarity |
2005 Divest ~ Palestine Churches.pdf |
| 2005 Divest ~ alHaq Statement.pdf |
2005 Doumani on “911” Civil Freedom.pdf |
| 2005 Palestine PaxChristi.pdf |
2004 Nonviolent Street Medics (Boston) |
| 2004 Herngren, Civil Disobedience Practice |
2004 Cyberguerrila (German) |
| 2004 PhD, Colombia (Barcelona), Molina
Valencia |
2003 Ickevåld & Konflikthantering |
| 2003 Manual ~ TFC, Opening for Democracy |
2003 Manual ~ Ruckus, Green Media |
| 2002 Manual ~ Student Change, Canada |
2002 Manual ~ CCO Campus Organizing |
| 2002 Manual ~ Anderson, IFOR, Gender |
2002 Nonviolence in Education, UNESCO |
| 2002 Noviolencia/Não Violência (Span/Port) |
2002 Nonviolence féministe, Kruzynski |
| 2001 Nonviolence vs Capitalism, WRI, Martin |
2001 Nonviolence SERPAJ (Spanish) |
| 2001 Manual ~ CCW, Draft Resistance |
2001 Manual ~ MCC, Teachers Gathering |
| 2000 Manual ~ Beck |
2000 Manual ~ Weapons Inspection |
| 2000 Manual ~ NY ActUp |
2000 Manual ~ Diablo Canyon |
| 1999 Manual ~ School of Americas |
1997 Apartheid ~ AJIL Dugard.pdf |
| 1996 WCC, Women & Nonviolence, Case Studies |
1996 Manual ~ EcoTraining, Australia |
| 1995 TFC GrassRoots |
1992 PhD Diss, Hubers.pdf |
| 1988 Palestinian Democracy (14) Demands.pdf |
|
2006 Nonviolence University Syllabi/Course Outlines Online (Updated)
(http://home.comcast.net/~nonviolence101/archive.htm)
|
Georgia Christensen, Viterbo (La Crosse, WI) |
Peter Francia, Protest, E Carolina |
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Johnny Hill, MLK, Louisville Presbyt Seminary |
Anthony Nocella, Change, Syracuse |
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Chantal Maillé, Women~Peace, Concordia CA |
Marco Palma, Chicano, UCLA |
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William O’Neill, Ethics, Berkeley-Jesuit |
Frederick Harris, Civil Rights, Rochester |
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Mark Oppenheimer, Protest (Hartford Semin CT) |
Brown & McElwee, Literature (Manchester) |
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Clare Ronzani, Spiritual-Liberation, Berkeley-Jesuit |
Lowell Ewert, Negotiation, Conrad Grebel |
_
Sidestepping Torture and Censorship Online — Psiphon and Torpark
“Global Protect the Net” Conference in Toronto inaugurates free, open-source,
Psiphon, 1 Dec 2006 — released through Citizen Lab, University of Toronto,
Canada, Munk Centre for International Studies. Theoretically, Psiphon turns
individual pcs into “psiphonodes” or personal, encrypted servers, whatever
nation-state, so as to hide and shield Psiphon user or “psiphonite” web
connections online in, initially, over 40 countries, in local languages,
especially as to phenomena like demonstrations and other political protest
campaigns. Developers plan to distribute the software through social
networks, (https
or banking level), allowing network coordinators to co-create networks
based on personal trust,
including journalist and ethnic diaspora interests. Developers urge
verification through manual key certificate fingerprint identification to
prevent in-the-middle attacks. Primarily for Web browsing (Windows and Linux) —
not yet for chat
(like “Off-the-Record”), email (like PGP) Mac, or VoIP.
See K.C. Jones, “Software Will Let Users Dodge Government Internet
Censorship,” 11-2006;
http://mediacast.ic.utoronto.ca/20061201CitLab/rnh.htm (including set-up
demo wizard),
http://www.threadwatch.org/node/10380,
http://www.techweb.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196513593&cid=RSSfeed_TechWeb,
http://www.citizenlab.org/index.php,
http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/default.aspx,
http://psiphon.civisec.org/,
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/28/psiphon_bypass_censors/,
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/?p=4046,
http://www.chinasnippets.com/,
http://www.protect-the.net/, and
http://www.chinadigitaltimes.net/.
Torpark (Denmark & Texas, released by Hacktivismo, for broadband, not
dialup) parallels Psiphon —
as a more
technically-advanced, free, portable, modifiable or open-source, Firefox
Browser-oriented option, for personal, individual anonymous access; Can
also be run, (but more slowly, with some freezing, though more securely), from
memory stick or portable drive. Encrypts anonymous pc web access tunnel
indirectly to a Tor exit computer network; Language packs for French, German,
Arabic, and Simplified Chinese. Dedicated in Sept 2006 to the Panchen Lama in
Occupied Tibet, Torpark is meant to be used against nationalist terror and
torture. See
http://www.torrify.com/,
http://www.hacktivismo.com/,
http://www.savetibet.org/news/positionpapers/panchenlama.php,
http://www.prweb.com//releases/2006/9/prweb438978.htm#,
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,20456822%5e15306,00.html,
http://tech.msn.com/security/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1232261
and
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2025106,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594.
Options like Psiphon and Torpark may operate in the context of a planetary
censorship index, ranking and indexing nationalistic attempts to cripple the net
online. The planetary censorship index is to surface through group reports like
that forthcoming from OpenNet Initiative meetings at the UC-Berkeley Berkman
Center for Internet and the Legal Society at Harvard Law School, as to internet
censorship status: ranging from, for instance, blocking Google access (Bahrain)
or blocking email Yahoo ListServs (Egypt, Syria, & Israel–Palestine[?]), to
denial of service (or DoS) attacks (Belarus and Kyrgyzstan); and restricting
hardware access (China, Egypt, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia), on to “patriot” and
“homeland security” legal and police infringements on democracy in Europe and
the USA; See Mark Anderson, “A Sneak Peek at a
Fractured Web,” 13 Nov 2006;
http://opennetinitiative.net/,
http://censorware.net/,
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72104-0.html?tw=wn_index_2,
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72104-1.html?tw=wn_story_page_next1,
and
http://www.peacefire.org/. For overview of more practical Parental Content
Filter Options:
http://www.internet-filters.net/. For related background of the Bush Family
in control and censorship, please see Bush Dynasty;
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bush_Dynasty.
_ UN
Report on Global Warming-Sparked Economic Disasters; Forecast that, if
unchecked, Global Warming will lead to massive social upheaval, as competing
energy demands from agricultural and warfare enterprise in effect cannibalize
each other, while temperature and sea-level rise respectively increase
insect-driven disease vectors and encroach on all coastal life near significant
seas and oceans. See
http://unfccc.int/2860.php,
http://www.unep.org/,
http://www.climnet.org/signals/index.htm,
http://www.greenpeace.eu/issues/climate.html,
http://www.unep.org/geo/geo3/english/pdf.htm,
http://www.unep.org/themes/climatechange/Maps_And_Graphics/UNEP_GRID/Climate_Change/index.asp,
andhttp://www.unep.org/geo/geo3/english/pdfs/chapter4_outlook.pdf.
For a cross-cutting English- language academic
summary of the UN report, see the Nicholas Stern “Review on the Economics of
Climate Change,”
http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/independent_reviews/stern_review_economics_climate_change/stern_review_report.cfm.
_
Intercontinental Spiritual Roots of Tolerance (Historical Force)
As to
world sources of knowledge unifying Africa, Asia, and Europe, global art,
science, and literature owe much to the world’s first major library in Cordoba,
Spain, a combination of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic academia (Andalusian
Platonesco) roots, after key law and repository libraries destroyed in Beirut
and Alexandria, respectively. For instance, an international conference
promoting “A Dialogue between Three Communities and Science,” (Pari Center,
2002), noted that Cordoba was the key city for birthing the Renaissance
experiment, serving, e.g., Averroes, Maimonides, Ibn bin Arabi, and Judah ha
Levi, so as to revive ancient scholarship undergirding the world’s contemporary
arts and sciences after the so-called Dark Ages. In the late 1400s,
however, European warlords like Ferdinand and Isabella, when expelling Jews and
Arabs, also redirected the Renaissance experiment from Spain toward a war-driven
Inquisition and Conquistador spiritual model — a redeployment also advancing
what is now known as global Anglo-American Empire. Catholic Inquisition in
Cordoba vainly concealed this planetary heritage of tolerance by cramming its
dim, draconian, sharply-rectangular Cathedral literally inside the otherwise
sun-drenched Cordoba Mosque, architecturally crunching the planet’s third
largest mosque, historically, (along with Mecca and Damascus).
See likewise proposed Alliance of Civilizations
(Spanish and Turkish Initiative),
http://www.unaoc.org/repository/HLG_Report.pdf,
http://www.paricenter.com/conferences/upcoming/threecultures.php, and
http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/APO_ARN/ARABIAN_PHILOSOPHY.html.
2006.10 Report
on Apartheid–Nonviolence 101
_ Gallaudet
University Students Hunger Strike for Peace with Justice, Hundreds Arrested
_ Alaskan Storms
Grind–Down Giant Antarctic Iceberg, (to 10% of size, 2005–2000)
_ Nov 2006 National
U.S. Peace & Environmental Political Candidates
_ Gallaudet
University Students Hunger Strike for Peace with Justice, Hundreds Arrested;
From a student body under 2,000 in all, about 8 deaf hunger strikers begin a
hunger strike campaign, 12 October, a campaign ending in the firing of an
ill-suited presidential appointee to head Gallaudet, 30 October; Firing
effective 1 Jan 2007. Human chains and tent cities begin 14 October; Eventually
about 85 tent cities form in solidarity across Europe and the Americas;
(http://www.deafeye.com/?page_id=5).
About 2,000 march in solidarity to U.S. Capitol Hill, 22 October, in a
demonstration replacing their University Football “Homecoming” in NE Washington,
DC. (May–October 2006 nonviolent campaign prefaced by shorter 1988 nonviolent
civil rights-disability campaign to “elect” the university’s first deaf GU
President, i.e., Jordan.)
See
http://elainemeinelsupkis.typepad.com/daily_news/2006/10/elaine_meinel_s_1.html;
http://feministblogs.org/tag/gallaudet-university/;
http://mishkazena.wordpress.com/2006/10/24/gallaudet-hunger-strikers-take-lead/;
http://gallyparentsunited.blogspot.com/;
http://www.nad.org/site/pp.asp?c=foINKQMBF&b=2148785;
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3561-2406796,00.html;
http://mishkazena.wordpress.com/2006/10/24/five-hunger-strike-protesters-ready-to-die/;
http://www.ridorlive.com/?p=1969;
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/21/AR2006102100929_pf.html;
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/14/AR2006101400053.html;
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/search.php?query=gallaudet&type=all&mode=search;
http://www.examiner.com/a-343541~Gallaudet_classes_to_resume_Monday_as_protests_continue.html;
http://prorev.com/2006/10/deaf-activists-revive-issue-of-student.htm;
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15413980/;
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15503368/site/newsweek/;
http://washingtontimes.com/metro/20061024-122722-8214r_page2.htm; and
http://www.elisawrites.com/ ongoing....
_ Alaskan Storms
Grind–Down Giant Antarctic Iceberg, (to 10% of size, 2005–2000); University
Science Teams discover how storms cross Northern–Southern Hemispheres, initially
correlated via 38 seismological events, 2005.3 to 2004.12 .... Correlation with
Alaska Storms to Antarctic Iceberg, 13,500 kilometers (8,370 miles) away,
indicates about six-day seiche slosh or ricochet traveling effect.
Alaska and Hawai’i wave-buoy accounts, e.g., exemplify how 35’ Alaska waves,
(15’ passing Hawai’i), erode Antarctic bergs about 3 days later — in effect,
about 60 miles per hour climate change-generated waves, as opposed to 500 mi/hr
tsunami waves. See
http://www.physorg.com/news79026480.html;
http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/06/061002.iceberg.shtml;
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/alaska-storm-hits-antarctic-iceberg/2006/10/03/1159641328360.html;
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/uoc-asc_1100206.php; and
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Alaskan_Storm_Cracks_Giant_Iceberg_To_Pieces_In_Faraway_Antarctica_999.html.
_ Nov 2006 National
U.S. Peace & Environmental Political Candidates;
http://migreens.org/candidates.php;
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/antiwarcandidates.php;
http://www.globalgreens.info/;
http://www.greens.org/na.html;
http://www.globalgreens.info/ggc/ggc_foundingresolution.html;
http://greens.org/elections/;
http://www.greens.org/s-r/;
http://www.sierraclub.org/politics/;
http://members.greenpeace.org/hotseat/; and
http://worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2418&Itemid=232&_event=14.
2006.9 Report on
Apartheid–Nonviolence 101
_ Century of
Gandhian Nonviolence ~ World Nonviolence Day (Movie & Videos)
_ Satellite-Driven
Rebuilding of Detroit ~ Destabilizing of Iraq-Lebanon
_ Webpages Added
— Nonviolence 101 in Context: Texts & Outline (by year & issue)
http://home.comcast.net/~nonviolence101/nv_texts.htm;
http://home.comcast.net/~nonviolence101/phd-ma.htm.
_ Century of
Gandhian Nonviolence; Movie & Videos —
http://www.campus-adr.net/search/index.php
9-11 2006
Century of Nonviolence Video (126 mb),
http://www.campus-adr.net/weblog.php?id=P657;
9-11 1906
George Houser, “Remembering a Sept. 11 That Occurred 100 Years Ago.”
(http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2006/September/10/edit/stories/03edit.htm);
“Encounter Point” Israel & Palestine Movie on Reconciliation through
Nonviolence; (See
http://www.encounterpoint.com/who/index.php;
http://www.justvision.org/about_the_film.php;
http://fest06.sffs.org/films/film_details.php?id=26;
http://www.topix.net/content/ap/2243204934185149278024002852453143889275;
http://www.theolympian.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060911/NEWS01/609110330;
http://www.sabawoon.com/newsnew/miniheadlines.asp?dismode=article&artid=32319;
and
http://www.kstatecollegian.com/media/storage/paper1022/news/2006/09/07/News/Rally.Honors.Nonviolent.Protests-2261053.shtml?norewrite200609261549&sourcedomain=www.kstatecollegian.com.)
World
Nonviolence Day
22-11 2006
World Nonviolence Day – Peace Week,
http://www.un.org/events/peaceday/2006/index.shtml;
Nonviolent Demonstrations Against Mid-East Wars and Domestic Violence across
U.S., from Concord, Baltimore, and Los Angeles, to House and Senate Chambers in
Washington, DC,
http://declarationofpeace.org/take-action;
http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061001/NEWS/610010406/1003/NEWS02;
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0927-11.htm;
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0929-02.htm;
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0928-33.htm;
http://www.topix.net/content/trb/3650461722173660664522491732304117271949;
Bethlehem Muslim and Christian Nonviolent Demonstrations
(http://www.aljazeerah.info/News%20archives/2006%20News%20Archives/September/22%20n/Muslim%20and%20Christian%20nonviolent%20Palestinian%20resistance%20against%20occupation.htm
nd
http://www.jmcc.org/) See also Statements against State Terrorism in Nobel
Laureates on How Poverty Breeds Terrorism,
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0924-20.htm; and from 14th NonAligned
Movement Summit:
http://www.namnewsnetwork.org/ and
http://www.cubanoal.cu/ingles/index.html.
_ Satellite-Driven
Rebuilding of Detroit ~ Destabilizing of Iraq-Lebanon; War and poverty
share a central, critical biochemical element, that of incremental damage to
one’s internal defense or immune system, increasing vulnerability to disease and
environmental contamination. Within this whole
toxic human damage matrix,
damaged immune systems undercut abilities to sleep and to clean or repair
damaged organs and tissue. Microcellular, DNA–mitochondrial wounds not only
batter hormonal–enzymatic functionality into chronic illness, but spread nano–mycoplasmal
infections, allowing further disease or neurotoxic vectors to penetrate human
defenses, full spectrum. Increasingly experiencing chronic fatigue and
insomnia, along with cramps, rashes, headaches, heart & kidney pain, and
auto-immune neuropathy, that is to say, genomic instability, U.S. Oil Gulf War Veterans become
two (men) to three (women) times more likely to claim children born with birth
defects. As ionized–aerosolized Trash (DU) Uranium overloads circulatory and
respiratory systems, its uranium–ceramic oxides sap vital organs, and so,
eviscerates the same military weaponizing it,
or all populations remotely
exposed. See Rosalie Bertell, “Depleted
Uranium: All the Questions about DU and Gulf War Syndrome are Not Yet Answered,”
International Journal of Health Services 36/3 (2006), 504-7, 511, &
514-517; See also Alice Stewart and George Kneale, A-Bomb Survivors:
Reassessment of the Radiation Hazard,” Medicine, Conflict, and Survival
15 (1999), 47-57; and Alice Stewart and George Kneale, “A-Bomb Survivors:
Factors that May Lead to a Re-Assessment of the Radiation Hazard,”
International Journal of Epidemiology 29 (2000), 708-714; along with
www.iicph.org,
rosaliebertell@greynun.org.
Youth Advocates
Rebuilding Detroit, Targeting Ghetto Trash, Rebuilding by GIS/GPS
Initiatives;
http://maps.culma.wayne.edu/;
http://gis.culma.wayne.edu/;
http://gis.esri.com/uc2004/sag/list/index.cfm?fa=detail&SID=2; http://www.detroitcommunity.org/;
and
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