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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&sectionid=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&sectionid=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 “Maya Soetoro-Ng Addresses MIIS (Monterey Institute of International Studies) Students & Faculty,” 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&sectionid=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&sectionid=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 karateakidotae-kwon-dotai 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, CalculationsRf. 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 SyllabiCourse 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.htmhttp://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&section=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)

 

_ Google Ann Arbor MI–Planetwide Print–Lookup; Google Print–Lookup to initially put Ann Arbor MI University libraries’ 7 million volumes online, almost 40% of which are non-English.  Ann Arbor also hosts Osiris (SAS–SPSS–IDAMS), dbase computer backup of the U.S. demographic census data dbase, (backing-up Suitland–Washington, DC, dbase computer system).  Successive Google library partners likewise include Harvard, Oxford, & Stanford university libraries, and the New York Public Library. Google Print–Lookup will provide cross-cutting search, access, and storage processing, whatever language or media format — relatively without paper; Bottom line: enabling incipient writers to reach potential consumers; Cf http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-FAQ/0103.xml;  http://www.vnunet.com/information-world-review/news/2156621/ann-arbor-goes-aall-google, http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6330767.html,  http://books.google.com/googlebooks/library.html; http://books.google.com/intl/en/googlebooks/about.html, http://books.google.com/support/; https://books.google.com/partner/?hl=en_US.— http://abclocal.go.com/wtvg/story?section=nation_world&id=4355016; http://www.annarborspark.org/about-us/newsroom/google-opens-in-ann-arbor/; http://www.umich.edu/news/index.html?BG/google/index;  http://www.lib.umich.edu/mdp/; http://www.themsj.com/media/storage/paper207/news/2006/09/25/News/Google.Sets.Up.Shop.In.Ann.Arbor-2306549.shtml?norewrite200612290957&sourcedomain=www.themsj.com;  http://www.michigandaily.com/media/storage/paper851/news/2006/09/18/AnnArbor/Google.Opens.Shop.On.Main-2282215.shtml?norewrite200612290958&sourcedomain=www.michigandaily.com; and http://www.themsj.com/media/storage/paper207/news/2006/09/25/News/Google.Sets.Up.Shop.In.Ann.Arbor-2306549.shtml?norewrite200612290957&sourcedomain=www.themsj.com.

 

_ 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&section=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)

 

2006 Washington DC Peace Activist Guide  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
Johnny Hill, MLK, Louisville Presbyt Seminary Anthony Nocella, Change, Syracuse
Chantal Maillé, Women~Peace, Concordia CA  Marco Palma, Chicano, UCLA
William O’Neill, Ethics, Berkeley-Jesuit   Frederick Harris, Civil Rights, Rochester
Mark Oppenheimer, Protest (Hartford Semin CT) Brown & McElwee, Literature (Manchester)
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