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Apartheid 101 ~ eClippings Overview (Reports by Month, Abstracts; Pls See Below for each Month)
Report Archives (Overview, Present – 3.2002) Trends in Brief (By Year, 2008–2003)
eClippings on Nonviolence in Apartheid Violence NV 101 in Context: Text Background
2009.3–6 Report on Apartheid-Nonviolence 101 _ Nonviolence in _ Nonviolence from (Islamic Mayor-led) _ 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, 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
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 2009 International Year of Reconciliation / IYR promoted by
Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, President UN General Assembly (sponsored by _ Nonviolence in 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
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 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 _ Nonviolence from (Islamic Mayor-led,) 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 Traditionally Dutch-language-oriented churches have also moved
to adopt an anti-apartheid stance. International Church Action Group for Peace
(against Apartheid) in
2009.1-3 Report on Apartheid–Nonviolence 101 _ Peace Truck Caravans — Gaza-Palestine and _ 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 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 The VivaPalestina Convoy gained much of its nonviolent
conflict-resolving momentum in Across the Atlantic, _ 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 Urban and national protests expanded, planetwide, as real
U.S.-Israeli oil–natural gas interests surfaced, politically, off the _ 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 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.
_ 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.
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. 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”
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 _ _ 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
_ 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 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
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! _ 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.
( _ 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 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);
See Judith D. Schwartz,
“Alternative Currencies Grow in Popularity,”
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
_ Mohandas Gandhi on Western Culture (Dejavú) Recordings of Mohandas K. Gandhi recovered through the _ Renewable, Carbon-Free Energy or Global Air & Water Dead
Zones; 2008.10 BirdLife World Conservation Conference on –
80-90% of larger raptors & vultures have disappeared
across –
80% of –
50% of migrating birds across the Mediterranean between
Europe, Asia, & 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 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 Or to quote a Jewish South African, Ronnie
Kasrils, historic anti-apartheid-“intelligence”
consciousness, (UN Conf.,
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,
Co-creating
1980s
(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,
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,
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
1956
1940s
through
U.N. and 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; 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, 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
_ _ Methodology ~ Environmentally-Conscious Nonviolence Nonviolence methodologically-speaking may indicate means
toward ends — as pragmatic or positivist — and/or means consonant with ends,
contextually, irregardless of prevailing political economies.
Interpersonally, such interpretations seek to justify “open–hand”
conflict theories varying between judo or jiu jitsu notions
of balance–outcome and karate–akido–tae-kwon-do–tai chi
notions of striking-back. In other
words, balance-oriented judo may tend to use coercive gravity or momentum,
through counter-balance, to resolve differences; Whilst the latter tend to
prefer martial (strike–anti-strike, parry–anti-parry) striking techniques.
Even so, Martin Luther King, Jr., for example, likened judo method to a
common personal nonviolence model; (hermeneutically like Richard Gregg’s
benchmark 1930s book, The Power of
Nonviolence, written in 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 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 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
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.
_ 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.
( Masuji Ibuse, Black Rain (Top-Selling Book–Movie in Japanese, Movie dubbed in English, 1988); Book available, VCR movie quite rare–some black-&-white “classified” footage; Not the U.S. ganster movie released soon after book with same title. Concerns family–personal diary about living under the shadow of Black Rain (bloody-greasy-rain, overhead, from 1940s Hiroshima & Nagasaki mushroom-like updraft blasts), as compared with so-called ‘depleted’ “Red Rain” downwind; (like in Gabriel or Dylan’s “Red” or “Hard” Rain songs); Rf. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnwG2Pg0X1o; http://www.lyricsfreak.com/p/peter+gabriel/red+rain_20107512.html; http://yawiki.org/proc/List_of_songs_about_nuclear_war; http://news.q4music.com/2007/04/random_list_of_the_day.html); http://ondix.com/pdf/docs/essays_quiz_1071113201.pdf; http://faculty.ccp.edu/faculty/DFreedman/HCS/feleppa.pdf; http://people.bu.edu/jschmidt/PO193.pdf (college syllabus); http://ondix.com/pdf/docs/essays_quiz_1071113201.pdf; and http://www.rachelsiewert.org.au/files/releases/let-the-facts-speak-3rd-edition.pdf. Ralph Graeub, The Petkau Effect: Nuclear Radiation, People and Trees (1992) — as to scientifically-delineated no-safe-levels of ionized radiation dosages, (including “du” — i.e., trash or ‘depleted’ uranium & weaponized delivery sub/systems); Rf. http://www.iicph.org/docs/future_for_our_children.pdf; http://www.bandepleteduranium.org/en/a/181.html; Of about 500 nucleotides released in an atomic bomb blast, only the National Cancer Institute–NCI Iodine-131 –Thyroid Cancer Cluster Study appear to have been published, selectively-edited, at county-levels, and then only under USA Today pressure — http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/02/28/usat-nuke-sidebar.htm; http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aa030602a.htm; http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/02/28/usat-nuke-sidebar.htm; and http://www.cnn.com/US/9707/25/fallout.furor/. Also released in the 1990s, a National Academicy of Science Report, Toxicologic Assessment of the Army’s Zinc Cadmium Sulfide Dispersion Tests, ostensibly on Zinc–Cadmium Sulfate (Z-CS) plumes, covers areas south & west of the Lake Michigan & Gulf of Mexico; http://books.nap.edu/nap-cgi/chaphits.cgi?term=flourescent&isbn=0309057833; http://books.nap.edu/books/0309057833/html/100.html; and http://books.nap.edu/html/zinc/; Official Z-CS “Summary ... During the 1950s and 1960s, Stanford University and other contractors for the U.S. Army Chemical Corps conducted dispersion tests using fluorescent particles of zinc cadmium sulfide (ZnCdS) as part of the BW [Biological Weapons] program in Minneapolis, MN; Corpus Christi, TX; Fort Wayne, IN; St. Louis, MO .... ZnCdS [Atomic Fall-Out?] ... fluoresces under ultraviolet (UV) light and therefore can be easily detected; its particle diameter ([being] 2-3 µm) ....” [ZnCdS Study includes County-level Areas where the NCI I-131 Study results frequently report “blank” data results.] See also J. Newell Stannard, Radioactivity & Health, A History (DOE-Batelle, 1988); and Ernest Sternglass, Secret Fallout (1981). Richard Miller,
U.S. Atlas of Nuclear Fallout 1951-1970 (Rare, bulky, costly, 6
Vols), especially Vol 1, Total Fallout,
abridged version, and Vol 5, Calculations
— Rf.
www.downwinders.org; and
http://www.nd.edu/~nsl/Lectures/phys20061/pdf/Syllabus-2006.pdf (syllabus);
Miller’s much “lighter” book, Under the
Cloud: The Decades of Nuclear Testing, is much easier to find.
See also Atomic Veterans Radiation
News;
http://www.usvetinfo.com/atomic/index.htm, a newsletter discontinued after
editor Oscar Rosen’s death); in addition to William A. Fletcher, “Atomic Bomb
Testing and the Warner Amendment: A Violation of the Separation of Powers,”
Washington [State University] Law Review
65/281 (1990), 285-321 — Atomic Veteran, UC-Berkley–Boalt law professor, U.S.
Federal Judge, (San Francisco CA Federal District Court); as well as
http://members.tripod.com/auspcr/Documents/book_list.htm; Likewise, Rand,
Project Sunshine Report
(extremely-censored, worldwide human carcass-exhumation-bone marrow
biopsy-oriented);
http://www.mcb10koreaseabees.com/radiation.htm.
See also Jeannie Peterson, ed.,
AMBIO, Nuclear War: The Aftermath, The Human and Ecological Consequences of
Nuclear War (1983) — as to
Nature Journal and SIPRI-Stockholem,
Sweden-based scientists on atomic war global annihilation; (a rare updated book
from Noel-Baker League-UN “disarmament”-oriented approaches);
www.sipri.org/;
http://www.esci.at/eusipo/asp1.pdf;
http://www.wilpf.int.ch/PDF/EconomicJustice/Mil-corp%20connexion%20manual/SectionVIIIMil-Corp.pdf;
http://www.wilpf.int.ch/PDF/EconomicJustice/Mil-corp%20connexion%20manual/SectionVMap.pdf;
http://www.wilpf.int.ch/PDF/EconomicJustice/Mil-corp%20connexion%20manual/SectionVIMil-Corp.pdf;
http://www.wilpf.int.ch/PDF/EconomicJustice/Mil-corp%20connexion%20manual/SectionVIIMil-Corp.pdf;
http://www.dtra.mil/documents/rd/DNATR805512F.pdf;
http://www.antiatom.org/GSKY/en/hbksh/us.htm;
http://www.atomicveterans.org/atomic_experience.htm;
http://www.aracnet.com/~pdxavets/;
http://www.atomicvetkin.com/;
http://www.naav.com/;
http://www.aracnet.com/~pdxavets/index.shtml; and
http://www.pugwash.org/Quinquennial-NL.pdf, (Pugwash
Quinquennia 1997–2007).
John Fulton, The Day We Bombed Utah (1985), narrative witness approach giving voice to “Downwinders” (over “legal” dialogue) and John Fulton, We Almost Lost Detroit (1976), as to near-atomic reactor melt-down. See also Charles Hyder, Human Survival on a Plutonium-Contaminated Planet (1998) — as to oceanic, subsurface, long-term plume effects, www.downwinders.org; http://www.amadorbooks.com/books/pluto.htm; as well as Handbook on Nuclear Sites in the Great Lakes Region (Booklet, 1999); http://www.serve.com/gvaughn/nukewatch/summer99/f99nfglac.html; http://dwmi.homestead.com/; http://www.nawo.org/pic/index.html; http://www.nawo.org/; http://www.radwaste.org/; and http://www.nirs.org/reactorwatch/licensing/caskdanglesummaryreport4406.pdf. Searchable dBase
Networks
LAKA Documentation Centre,
Amsterdam Nls (Dutch-sourced, multi-lingual, journals in-depth); Wilmington
College (Hiroshima–Nagasaki
Memorial Collection & Peace Center Library, and Swarthmore Library Peace
Collection; See
www.laka.org; www.ratical.org;
www.nirs.org –
www.wise.org (reactor-oriented);
http://www.ecocenter.org/;
http://home.snafu.de/kdv/contentpages/initiativen.html;
http://www2.wilmington.edu/prc/,
http://cat.opal-libraries.org/search~S22/X,
http://www.watsonlibrary.org/pdf/reynoldsarchiveindex1.pdf),
http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/index.htm; and
http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/manuscriptcollections/mss_collections_A-M.htm.
See also merging, life-affirming urban gardening sources — for
instance, Olly Zanetti, Guerrilla
Gardening, Geographers and Gardeners, Actors and Networks: Reconsidering Urban
Public Space (MA/MSc Thesis, 2007);
http://www.guerrillagardening.org/books/ZanettiGG.pdf), book-format —
On Guerrilla Gardening: A Handbook for
Gardening Without Boundaries (Print Version)
—
http://guerrillagardening.org/;
http://www.homegrownevolution.com/;
http://www.carpediemdesign.co.uk/images/ethicalliving.pdf;
http://www.portlandfarmersmarket.org/pdfs/GardenResources.pdf;
http://www.chicagowilderness.org/wildchi/landscape/index.cfm;
http://artactivism.gn.apc.org/allpdfs/150-%5BDA%5DGuerrilla%20Gardening.pdf;
http://www.guerrillagardening.org/media/gg_baselapril06.pdf;
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/los_angeles_metro/la-hm-guerrilla29-2008may29%2C0%2C3470087.story?track=rss;
http://www.ruaf.org/node/101;
http://www.greenspacescotland.org.uk/;
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2008/05/26/2008-05-26_city_veggie_gardens_flourish.html;
and
http://www.newlondonarchitecture.org/media/exhibitions/catalogues/NLA_PublicCity.pdf.
In contrast urban gardening has mushroomed, critically,
perhaps, in Cuba, in the wake of a U.S. Boycott, (despite much of its food
imported from the U.S. since 2003), and a Russian–Soviet Collapse, (reinforced
by portable cyber-networks); All enabling Cuban agroecology farmers to pioneer
organic health & medical insurance opportunities in the Americas — Claiming, for
instance, that biomass, including sugar cane ethanol, may provide over 30% of
Cuban energy needs, with over half their vegetable production likely organic.
Much of this Cuban “green” growth stems from virtual outgrowths of
Havana’s incredible 1,500-acre or 600-hectare,
Jardín Botánico Nacional, or the Cuban
University of Havana–National Botanical Garden, including Arboretum, Herbarium,
Special Collections, (native to the Caribbean and oriental or japanese gardens),
and, historically-speaking, perhaps the city’s archetypal vegan–vegetarian or
eco-restaurants; Visited by web-editor, personally, for a day, on foot, by car,
& by truck, in the late 1980s; Libraries perhaps accessible in future, by
keyword, through La Universidad de la Habana, Biblioteca Central.
See
http://www.uh.cu/centros/jbn/;
http://www.uh.cu/centros/jbn/;
http://www.dict.uh.cu/rev_jbn.asp;
http://www.dict.uh.cu/rev_uh.asp;
http://www.uh.cu/centros/jbn/textos/5.html &
http://www.uh.cu/centros/jbn/imagenes/fotos/nuestrojardin/jardin.jpg; and,
as well,
http://www.foodfirst.org/pubs/devreps/dr12.pdf;
http://etd.uwaterloo.ca/etd/etnelson2006.pdf;
http://library.wur.nl/wda/dissertations/dis3752.pdf;
http://www.socialist-alliance.org/resources/idb/AV%20Vol%207%20No%201.pdf;
http://www.witnessforpeace.org/pdf/newsarch/spring_03.pdf;
http://www.vacc.bc.ca/who_we_are/documents/winter2002-3.pdf;
http://www.lifecyclesproject.ca/about_us/2002_annual_report.pdf;
http://www.cedem.uh.cu/docencia/poblacion_y_desarrollo/Poblacion_ambiente_desarrollo.pdf;
http://www.usal.es/~ehe/Papers/Microsoft%20Word%20-%20Towards%20sustainable%20agriculture%20in%20Cuba%201st%20August%5B1%5D.pdf;
http://www.greenkeys.org/media/files/conferencereader.pdf?PHPSESSID=ki601h3cc0tc55c25cvjtdhcm4;
&
http://www.eukn.org/binaries/eukn/news/2007/3/draft_integrating-environment-in-city-planning.pdf;
and, “Cuba’s Urban Agrarians Flourish,
City Gardens Abound on Island Nation, Where 70%
of Vegetables and Herbs are Organic;”
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/04/world/main4154650.shtml.
2008.3-4 Report on Apartheid–Nonviolence 101 ~ Gandhian Liberation _ Gandhian Liberation as Reconciliation, Nonviolence, Social Moksha, and Unmasking Violence _ Wind–Marine Energy as Liberation from Oil Energy Wars _ Anti-War Port Strikes and Boycotts (Consumer & Tax-based Sanctions) _ Academic Security through Peace & Conflict Resolution Training _ Gandhian Liberation as Reconciliation, Nonviolence, Social Moksha, and Unmasking Violence o
Gandhian Liberation as Reconciliation
In 1893, after passing the London bar for advocate–attorney credentials,
Mohandas K. Gandhi / MKG found his first legal work in the world’s heavy metal
bonanza mines (gold, diamonds, uranium), through Durban & Pretoria, South Africa
/ RSA — As legal counsel for an extended RSA Muslim family conflict, in one of
the largest export trade firms in Southern Africa, coastally, up around to
India–South Asia. (Active via 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, _ 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 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.
AU SIS — International and International Development, Peace &
Conflict Resolution (
& 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
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 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 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 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 The _ 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 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 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 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
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 o Reach over 400 privatized 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 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
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 See also
2007.11–12 Report on Apartheid–Nonviolence 101
_ 2007–2006 Arab–International Nonviolence Training _ War Resisters 2008 Peace Calendar Middle-East Websites _ AIDS Vaccine Claimed on Horizon (Cuba–South _ 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 _ 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 _ Conferences (U.N.–National) on Flood, Desertification Trends
—
2007.8–10 Report on Apartheid-Nonviolence 101 _ Nonviolence in _ Nonviolence against Apartheid ( _ Global Warming in Coral Reefs Die-Offs (Major World Protein Source) _ First International Celebration of World Global Day of Nonviolence _ Nonviolence in 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 ( 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; 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; 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 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 _ First International Celebration of World Global Day of
Nonviolence; UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon (
2007.6–7 Report on Apartheid-Nonviolence 101 _ U.N. General Assembly Endorses Annual World Nonviolence Day _ Nonviolence on _ U.S. Bio-Chem-Nuclear Weapons Dumping off U.S. Coastal Shelves Conceded _ _ 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 _ 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 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
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 _ (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
http://www.hrle.gov.nl.ca/hrle/poverty/poverty-reduction-strategy.pdf;
http://fls-ntf.gc.ca/en/fin-rpt.asp;
http://www.isracast.com/Articles/Article.aspx?ID=578;
http://www.unodc.org/pdf/criminal_justice/06-56290_Ebook.pdf, (Handbook
on Restorative Justice Programmes, 2006); Canadian, et al, Strategies for
Resolving Poverty, www.GrowingGap.ca;
such as Sweden’s Strategy Report for
Social Protection and Social Inclusion 2006-2008,
http://ec.europa.eu/emptoyment_social/social_inclusion/naps_en.htm;
http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/social_inclusion/naps_en.htm; http://www.dwp.gov.uk/aboutus/2006/19-06-06.asp;
http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/social_inclusion/naps_en.htm; and
http://vcnv.org/category/civil-disobedience;
http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/;
www.ifor.org/wpp; www.kirkridge.org,
(Nonviolence Training Centers). _ Apartheid Economic Patterns from Israel–Palestine Wall &
U.S. Prisons; Since the late 1960s, groups symbolized by the World Bank have
directly and indirectly funded such projects as the apartheid Israel-Palestine
Wall — from the militarized matrix of an unparelleled Texas–California Prison
Complex Population Upsurge. The World Bank, and similar institutions, in
defining the Israel–Palestine Wall as a mere “fence” — although a much larger
and longer wall than the Berlin “Cold War” Wall— legitimize confiscation and
occupation of Palestine, and, so, displace a two-state resolution with
intractable conflict. Rather than undercutting paths to war or alleviating
prison density, such plans contain and expedite massive industrial zones, or
bantustans, with well-educated human resources — zones financed by corporate
consumers taxed to manage foreign occupation.
Minorities, however educated, in _ Global Warming-induced Drought Forecast Models (Coalescing
around the
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 _ 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
2007.2 Report on Apartheid–Nonviolence 101 _ Child Soldier, Disappearance, & Cluster Bomb Ban Issues
Sidelined Worldwide by _ Disappearance of Bees — Potential Genome Bio-Diversity Risk to World’s Food Crops _ Child Soldier, Disappearance, & Cluster Bomb Ban Issues
Sidelined Worldwide by Historic “Paris Principles” Conference against Child
Soldiers/UNICEF (Paris) and Forced Disappearances ( In February 2007 as well, almost 60 nation-states likewise
oppose forced Disappearance of Persons; A treaty again not signed by 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 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.
Climatically and environmentally-oriented groups like
Greenpeace thus check how global warming severely shrinks glaciers, from
Svalbard to
2007.1 Report on Apartheid-Nonviolence 101 _ “Missing” U.S.–Israeli Exiles, Soldiers, Deserters, and Resisters vs Oil Gulf Wars _ Europe and _ “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 _ 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
2006.12 Report on Apartheid–Nonviolence 101 _ Google _ _ 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.
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| 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)
_ 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 http://www.detroitcommunity.org/documents/FinalDCI2004Report.pdf.
Destabilizing of Iraq — Satellite-Guided Trash (DU) Uranium-Tipped Weapons Eclipse Iraq Future; Iraq Cancer Rate Increases Documented in Contaminated Areas (1990s on)
Congenital Birth Defects, up 300%; Thyroid Cancer, up 143%;
Uterine Cancer, up 160%; All Malignant Cancer, up 120%;
Breast Cancer, up 102%; Lymphomas, up 82%; and
Acute Leukemia, up 60%, especially among teens–children,
Under Age Five, for example — up 41%.
U.S. hegemony prohibits WHO, UNEP, Iraq Health Ministry, and international health agencies from projecting analyzed cancer data. Iraqi University research indicates Trash DU Uranium-ionized radioactive contamination over most of Iraq, near oil lines —except northern Kurdistan. Please see Souad N. Al-Azzawi, “Depleted Uranium Radioactive Contamination In Iraq: An Overview,” ICBUW Russell Tribunal-International Conference Hiroshima, 3-6 August 2006; http://www.brusselstribunal.org/DU-Azzawi.htm; Along with, e.g., Yaqoub, ... “Depleted Uranium and Health of People in Basrah: An Epidemiological Evidence ... 1990-1998”, 17/1-2 Medical Journal of Basrah University (MJBU), (1999), Basrah, Iraq. 2-3 Dec 1998 Proceeding of the Conference on Health and Environmental Consequences of DU [Trash Uranium] used by U.S. and British Forces in the 1991 Gulf War — Yaqoub, ... “Incidence and Pattern of Malignant Diseases Among Children in Basrah with Specific Reference to Leukemia during the Period of 1990-1998”; Yaqoub,... “Incidence and Pattern of Congenital Anomalies Among Birth[s] in Basrah during the Period 1990-1998” and Yaqoub, ... “Incidence and Pattern of Malignant Diseases (Excluding Leukemia) during 1990-1997.”
Destabilizing of Lebanon — Satellite-Guided Trash (DU) Uranium-Tipped Weapons Harshen Lebanon Future; http://www.xs4all.nl/~stgvisie/PentagonPoison.html#Deadly; http://gulfwarvets.com/du_unacceptable.htm; http://www.envirosagainstwar.org/know/read.php?itemid=4534; http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/printer_22599.shtml; http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2006/09/21/69074; http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/677/677p18h.htm; and http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/STE203A.html.
_ Webpages Added — Nonviolence 101 in Context: Texts & Outline (by year & issue)
NV 101 in Context: Text Background
2005 Mubarak Awad on Nonviolence.pdf (47k); & Awad’s 1984 IPS Article
2005 Lucy Nusseibeh on Nonviolence.pdf (1.3 mb)
2005 Divest ~ Sabeel Statement.pdf (0.6 kb)
2005 Divest ~ Palestine Churches.pdf (0.2 kb)
2005 Divest ~ Presbyterian Statement.pdf (0.5 kb)
2005 Divest ~ al-Haq Statement.pdf (0.1 kb)
2005 Divest ~ Campus Guide.pdf (0.9 kb)
2005 Doumani on “911” Civil Freedom.pdf (0.1 kb)
2005 Palestine PaxChristi.pdf (0.1 kb)
1997 Apartheid ~ AJIL Dugard.pdf (0.2 kb)
1992 PhD Diss Intro, Nonviolence in Violence, Hubers.pdf (1.5 mb)
1992 PhD Diss Chap 1-9 + Nonviolence in Violence, Hubers.pdf (2.9 kb)
1988 Palestinian Democracy (14) Demands.pdf (0.3 kb)
NV 101 in Context: PhD-MA Dissertations–Theses (Outline, by year & issue)
2006.7–8 Report on Apartheid–Nonviolence 101
_ Climate Heat ~ Hyperthermia & Hyperexia (Drought & Fever)
_ Climate Heat ~ Economic Power & Transportation Slowdown
_ Beirut/Mexico City ~ Air–War Pollution / General Strikes
_ Climate Heat ~ Hyperthermia & Hyperexia^ metastasize locally in rising drought & feverish plagues, wounding a global “soul” — in the Northern Hemisphere, as greenhouse gas escalates, and in the Southern Hemisphere, tropospheric sulphate (oil-based) aerosols co-magnify heat and wind strength exponentially. Human hyperthermia victims die when central and peripheral nervous systems impairment overwhelms. Local events impact globally, through, in effect, planetary hyperthermia & hyperexia — individually expressed as fresh water loss, stressful heat overload, and disease vector expansion; To wit, accelerating number of heat-related deaths since industrialization, over the last 250 years, from China and the USA to the Saudi Hajj and Third World Smog. (^Hyperthermia defined as death induced by too much heat, or heat stroke; Hyperexia, fever-induced death.) See http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v359/n6397/abs/359712a0.html; http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/~mnew/teaching/Online_Articles/Ch09_FOD_Text_TSU_FINAL.pdf#search=%22pollution%20Tropospheric-Sulphate%20%22global%20warming%20%22%22; See also John Vidal, “Cities in Peril … Ice Sheets Expected to Last Centuries Could Disappear in 25 Years, Threatening Water Supplies,” 29 Aug 2006, http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1860206,00.html, on Arctic, Alpian, Himalayan Americas Andes–Rockies Mountain nations; and http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=34453 on Africa.
In this way, e.g., in August 2003, European air pollution–amplified heat waves took 50,000 lives. At the same time thousands of Chicago’s cars broke down, roads buckled. City workers watered Chicago River bridges to prevent locking. Hundreds of children in school buses suffered heat exhaustion, stuck in mid-day traffic. As lights, radios, television sets, and air conditioners stop, news–weather updates and health–access–treatment plunge. Halted elevators oblige fire, police, and emergency personnel to hand-carry seniors and disabled down stifling high-rise stairwells. Annually in the USA, many more die from excessive heat than from earthquakes, lightning, hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods altogether. Eric Klinenberg, Chicago Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago (University of Chicago, 2003). Gilles Brücker, “Vulnerable Populations: Lessons Learnt from the Summer 2003 Heat Waves in Europe,” Eurosurveillance 10/7–9 (July-Sept 2005), 147; Marc Weisskopf, “Heat Wave Morbidity and Mortality. Milwaukee. Wis. 1999 vs 1995: An Improved Response?” American Journal of Public Health 92/5 (May 2002), 830; http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/92/5/830; http://www.eurosurveillance.org/em/v10n07/1007-221.asp; http://www.emergency.com/heatwave.htm; http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/07/060718180340.htm; and http://www.emergency.com/emspage.htm; and http://travel.greatholidaysandhotels.com/heatandbigcities.html.
_ Climate Heat ~ Economic Power & Transportation Slowdown; Not seen in U.S. Dakotas since the 1930s, Dustbowl conditions surge over 60% of the USA since late 1990s — from Montana to Arizona and Wisconsin to Georgia, and points in-between. U.S. grasslands blackened by fires sparked by lightning and farm equipment. In the U.S. Pacific, Ioke, a super typhoon or hurricane slams Johnston Atoll (Joint Forces/CDC–NCEH Bio–Chem–Nuke Blast–Disposal Site), 23 Aug 2006, at 105 mph, gusting around 125 mph — at Category 4 for a week; Bio–Chem–Nuke plume–spread threat of vast incineration of bio-chem-nuclear weapons not in “public” domain; Simultaneously, U.S. military proclaims a “first” Star Wars counter-missile intercept. See James Macpherson, “More Than 60 Percent of U.S. in Drought,” Seattle Post Intelligencer, 30 July 2006; U.S. Map, http://standeyo.com/NEWS/06_Earth_Changes/06
Apartheid 101
