SQ riot squad arrest 5 Algonquins, including Acting Chief Benjamin Nottaway

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SQ riot squad arrest 5 Algonquins, including Acting Chief Benjamin Nottaway

Kitiganik/Rapid Lake, Algonquin Territory / - SQ officers and a Riot Squad arrested five Barriere Lake Algonquins, including a targeted arrest of Acting Chief Benjamin Nottaway, after forcing community members off highway 117, during their fourth in a series of blockades over a period of seven hours.

"Chief Nottaway sent a letter to Premier Charest on Monday requesting that the government resolve political issues through negotiations rather than police violence," said community spokesperson Norman Matchewan."Blockades are a tactic of last resort. For two decades now all we've asked is that Quebec and Canada honour signed agreements but they prefer to play with our lives."

As the community was pushed off the highway for the last time at 2:30 pm, riot police broke out of formation to chase and arrest Acting Chief Nottaway. His was the second targeted arrest of the day. Community youth spokesperson Marylynn Poucachiche, mother of five and organizer of the community school, was arrested at one of the morning blockades after being reassured by police that no arrests would be made since protesters had agreed to leave peacefully.

One community member was pushed to the ground and kicked by several SQ officers before being arrested.

"The police dragged him with his head on the ground all the way to the police car," said one community member.

Another woman from the community fell while being pushed back onto the access road leading to the Barriere Lake reserve, and hit her head. She was subsequently arrested.

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Media Contacts:

Norman Matchewan, Barriere Lake spokesperson: 819 – 435 – 2171, 514 - 831 - 6902

Marylynn Poucachiche, Barriere Lake spokesperson: 514 - 893 - 8283, 819 - 860 - 3860

Norman Young, Grand Chief of the Algonquin Nation Secretariat: 819 - 627 - 6869

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Kitiganik/Rapid Lake, Algonquin Territory / - The Barriere Lake Algonquins have blocked highway 117 by gathering in the middle of the road, after Quebec police dismantled their log blockades earlier in the day, and have now been put on notice that the Riot Police will arrive momentarily.

Community spokesperson Marylynn Poucachiche has been arrested for obstruction and mischief and is currently detained.

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Media Contacts:

Norman Matchewan, Barriere Lake spokesperson: 819 – 435 – 2171, 514 - 831 - 6902,

Marylynn Poucachiche, Barriere Lake spokesperson:514 - 893 - 8283, 819 - 860 - 3860

Norman Young, Grand Chief of the Algonquin Nation Secretariat: 819 - 627 - 6869

Rich countries launch great land grab to safeguard food supply

Rich governments and corporations are triggering alarm for the poor as they buy up the rights to millions of hectares of agricultural land in developing countries in an effort to secure their own long-term food supplies.

The head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, Jacques Diouf, has warned that the controversial rise in land deals could create a form of "neo-colonialism", with poor states producing food for the rich at the expense of their own hungry people.

Rising food prices have already set off a second "scramble for Africa". This week, the South Korean firm Daewoo Logistics announced plans to buy a 99-year lease on a million hectares in Madagascar. Its aim is to grow 5m tonnes of corn a year by 2023, and produce palm oil from a further lease of 120,000 hectares (296,000 acres), relying on a largely South African workforce. Production would be mainly earmarked for South Korea, which wants to lessen dependence on imports.

"These deals can be purely commercial ventures on one level, but sitting behind it is often a food security imperative backed by a government," said Carl Atkin, a consultant at Bidwells Agribusiness, a Cambridge firm helping to arrange some of the big international land deals.

Madagascar's government said that an environmental impact assessment would have to be carried out before the Daewoo deal could be approved, but it welcomed the investment. The massive lease is the largest so far in an accelerating number of land deals that have been arranged since the surge in food prices late last year.

"In the context of arable land sales, this is unprecedented," Atkin said. "We're used to seeing 100,000-hectare sales. This is more than 10 times as much."

At a food security summit in Rome, in June, there was agreement to channel more investment and development aid to African farmers to help them respond to higher prices by producing more. But governments and corporations in some cash-rich but land-poor states, mostly in the Middle East, have opted not to wait for world markets to respond and are trying to guarantee their own long-term access to food by buying up land in poorer countries.

According to diplomats, the Saudi Binladin Group is planning an investment in Indonesia to grow basmati rice, while tens of thousands of hectares in Pakistan have been sold to Abu Dhabi investors.

Arab investors, including the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development, have also bought direct stakes in Sudanese agriculture. The president of the UEA, Khalifa bin Zayed, has said his country was considering large-scale agricultural projects in Kazakhstan to ensure a stable food supply.

Even China, which has plenty of land but is now getting short of water as it pursues breakneck industrialisation, has begun to explore land deals in south-east Asia. Laos, meanwhile, has signed away between 2m-3m hectares, or 15% of its viable farmland. Libya has secured 250,000 hectares of Ukrainian farmland, and Egypt is believed to want similar access. Kuwait and Qatar have been chasing deals for prime tracts of Cambodia rice fields.

Eager buyers generally have been welcomed by sellers in developing world governments desperate for capital in a recession. Madagascar's land reform minister said revenue would go to infrastructure and development in flood-prone areas.

Sudan is trying to attract investors for almost 900,000 hectares of its land, and the Ethiopian prime minister, Meles Zenawi, has been courting would-be Saudi investors.

"If this was a negotiation between equals, it could be a good thing. It could bring investment, stable prices and predictability to the market," said Duncan Green, Oxfam's head of research. "But the problem is, [in] this scramble for soil I don't see any place for the small farmers."

Alex Evans, at the Centre on International Cooperation, at New York University, said: "The small farmers are losing out already. People without solid title are likely to be turfed off the land."

Details of land deals have been kept secret so it is unknown whether they have built-in safeguards for local populations.

Steve Wiggins, a rural development expert at the Overseas Development Institute, said: "There are very few economies of scale in most agriculture above the level of family farm because managing [the] labour is extremely difficult." Investors might also have to contend with hostility. "If I was a political-risk adviser to [investors] I'd say 'you are taking a very big risk'. Land is an extremely sensitive thing. This could go horribly wrong if you don't learn the lessons of history."

Appel du COBP

Après Montréal-Nord, c'est à la Ville de Montréal qu'il faut aller crier notre soif de justice!

Tremblay est-il le maire-poule des policiers ou le maire de touTEs les montréalaiSEs?

Venez dire au maire Tremblay et aux élus de la Ville de Montréal que

NOUS NE TOLÉRERONS PLUS JAMAIS LA VIOLENCE POLICIÈRE!

Lundi le 24 novembre 2008 à 18h

à l'Hôtel de Ville de Montréal (275 Notre-Dame E., métro Champs-de-mars)

Quand l'agent Jean-Loup Lapointe du poste 39 du Service de police de la Ville de Montréal a abattu Fredy Villanueva et blessé deux autres jeunes qui jouaient aux dés à Montréal-Nord, le maire Gérald Tremblay n'a pas réagi. Le jour suivant, après qu'une manifestation soit organisée par des résidentEs du quartier et qu'ensuite une émeute a éclaté, le maire s'est tout d'un coup réveillé. Alors qu'il n'a pas dit un mot sur le meurtre de Fredy par un policier, Tremblay déclara le lendemain aux médias: « Je ne tolérerai pas que des individus commettent des gestes de violence de la sorte. Je ne tolérerai pas que des policiers soient victimes d'atteintes physiques ».

Le maire de Montréal a ainsi pris parti pour les policiers et contre les montréalaisES qu'il prétend représenter. Tremblay a clairement dit qu'il tolèrera que les policiers nous tirent dessus sans raison, mais pas que nous nous défendions ou que nous exprimions notre rage face aux injustices sociales. Il ne mérite donc aucune confiance.

De son côté, le maire de Montréal-Nord Marcel Parent avait affirmé: « Tout va bien à Montréal-Nord. Il n'y a pas de problèmes. Je n'ai rien vu venir. » Le 20 août 2008, deux cent personnes ont répondu à l'appel du groupe Montréal-Nord Républik et se sont réunies devant la mairie de Montréal-Nord pour réclamer la démission du maire Parent.

Ces policitiens nous prouvent qu'ils ne nous représentent pas, mais qu'ils servent en fait les investisseurs et les propriétaires, qu'ils tentent de rassurer en niant l'existence de problèmes sociaux comme le racisme, les abus de pouvoir et leur impunité. Nous pourrions demander la démission du maire Tremblay, mais nous savons qu'on ne peut pas plus faire confiance à d'autres politiciens comme Benoît Labonté, qui rêve d'être maire de Montréal et fait du capital politique sur la criminalisation des itinérantEs et des jeunes de la rue au centre-ville.

Les seules « solutions » envisagées par les politiciens face à cette crise sont d'envoyer plus de policiers dans le quartier (alors qu'ils sont une grande partie du problème) et de faire des cadeaux empoisonnés à certains groupes communautaires pour acheter leur silence, au lieu de régler les problèmes sociaux qui sont la racine du problème.

Ce n'est pas normal que les mères aient peur quand leurs jeunes sortent de ne pas les voir revenir, victimes de bavures policières. Si ceux qui sont supposés de nous protéger nous blessent et nous tuent, nous ne pouvons compter que sur nous-mêmes et la solidarité de nos pairs pour assurer notre sécurité. Si ceux qui prétendent nous représenter défendent les personnes qui nous blessent et nous tuent, il ne nous reste qu'à nous organiser collectivement pour tenter de régler ensemble les problèmes qui nous affectent au quotidien.

Nous ne tolérons pas que les gens du quartier soient accusés pour s’être révoltés ni qu’on ne sache toujours pas, trois mois après, si les policiers seront accusés. Et nous dénonçons le climat de peur instauré dans le quartier par la police suite à la révolte légitime du 10 août 2008.

Rappelons aux politiciens qui prétendent que jusqu'ici « Tout va bien », que l'important ce n'est pas la chute, mais l'atterrissage!

Jamais par la répression vous n'obtiendrez la paix!

Vérité et Justice pour Fredy Villanueva!

La Coalition contre la Répression et les Abus Policiers (CRAP)

coalitioncrap@hotmail.fr

Nous exigeons:

1) Une enquête publique et indépendante sur la mort de Fredy Villanueva;

2) La fin du profilage racial, des pratiques abusives de la police et l'impunité;

3) La reconnaissance du principe selon lequel tant qu'il y aura des inégalités économiques, il y aura de l'insécurité sociale.

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Collectif Opposé à la Brutalité Policière
Collective Opposed to Police Brutality
(514) 395-9691
cobp@hotmail.com
http://cobp-mtl.ath.cx/
Montréal, Québec, Canada

Liberté pour les emprisonnéEs du Black Riders Liberation Party!

Ce clip de Public Enemy aide à comprendre le contexte de la lutte organisée par les communautés noirs contre le racisme aux États-Unis. Pendant que les gang de rues entredéchireraient les communautés noirs, le racisme continue toujours ses attaques. C'est à ce moment qu'intervienent les organsiations révolutionnaires de libération noir soit le New Black Panther Party et le Black Riders Liberation Party né en 2006 afin d'unir ces communautés dans un projet de libération collective clairement anti-capitaliste où la libération du style hip-hop fait entre autre parti du programme. Comme il est possible de le lire ci-dessous le groupe BRLP est la cible de répression et appel les personnes qui adhèrent à l'anarchisme, au communisme, à l'anti-autoritarisme, à l'anti-fascisme, l'anti-imperialisme ("and all the others -isms") à supporter la libération des prisonniers du BRLP.



Qu'est-ce que le Black Riders Liberation Party?


Qu'est-ce que le Black Panther Party?



Three leading members of the Black Riders Liberation Party, General T.A.C.O. (Taking All Capitalists Out), Comrades Stress and Aryana Shakur, have been indicted and arrested on charges of a conspiracy to possess automatic weapons and attempted possession of a machine gun in a b.s. set-up and entrapment case.

They are being held on bail of half a million for Aryana to a million dollars apiece for T.A.C.O. and Stress. Despite the heavy bail and serious charges - the DA is alleging the Riders were going to enter and shoot up various LAPD stations but has brought no such charges, using only the unsubstantiated allegation as the basis for justifying the raids, undercover cops and surveillance directed at the BRLP - neither the DA nor the LAPD has made any public statements about the case.

This reflects the weak and baseless nature of their case, but also their attempt to disrupt the party by locking up its leaders, attempting to bury them in prison without arousing a public clamor or base of support for the BRLP. It is vital that we present a strong, community-based opposition to these nefarious efforts by the LAPD and District Attorney's office to criminalize Black youth and revolutionary politics.
The DA sought and obtained a gang enhancement on the charges, even though the undercover officer testified under cross-examination that the BRLP in fact claimed no territory, bore no identifying gang-style tattoos, and in fact resembled the Black Panther Party!

The cop acknowledged under oath that the Black Riders were proud Africans, advocates for Black unity and avowed communists! This testimony makes clear the political nature of the charges and the whole case.

Although the BRLP have been the targets of police harassment and set-ups for their entire 10-year history, the recent series of busts and high-power raids have taken place in the context of the BRLP popularizing the case of the San Francisco 8 - Black Panther Party members and associates - at a street level in Los Angeles, as well as leading Black resistance and building Black-Brown unity against the racist Minutemen.

Combined with the effectiveness of their "Watch-a-Pig" programs and their peace-making efforts and political education with Bloods and Crips street organization members, these successes brought the BRLP under the cross hairs of the highly political repressive apparatus of the LAPD.

As T.A.C.O. said when the Black Riders organized a demonstration for the SF 8 in Leimert Park in LA last summer, the attack on the SF 8 is an attack not only on the elders and the legacy of the Black Panther Party, but on the current forces struggling for Black liberation and self-defense, such as the BRLP.

The BRLP has recently been building chapters and making contacts in San Diego, Sacramento and the Bay Area. As their recognition and support in the Black community of south L.A., Crenshaw, Watts and the Inland Empire has grown, the police have grown more intent on disrupting their activities. These latest raids and high bails are further proof that the system hates and wants to destroy organized resistance among Black and other colonized and resisting people.

Based on a LAPD affidavit and warrant, LA and San Bernardino sheriffs raided a home in August out in Highland, Calif. The raid, which involved a huge number of deputies as well as federal agents, armored personnel carriers and battering rams, now appears to have been based on the same unsubstantiated allegations of a BRLP "plot" to shoot up LA police stations.

We cannot allow the repressive forces of the state to carry out their plan to lock up the leaders of the BRLP and roll up the party! The Black Riders are being targeted because they are a revolutionary Black organization fighting against the system.

This is just the beginning. The police state is trying to set precedents with the Black Riders as they are doing with the San Francisco 8, so that they can go after anybody who chooses to resist and rebel against this oppressive way of life. "If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you at night."

The Black Riders urge other communities and social justice organizations to support them. The system is trying to isolate them and crush them.

At this point, they need to raise money for their defense. The Black Riders Liberation Party can be contacted and donations can be sent to: Black Riders, P.O. Box 8297, Los Angeles, CA 90008.

Text From: http://www.sfbayview.com/News/Africa_The_World/Black_Riders_Liberation_Party_leaders_locked_up.html

BRLP on Mayday 2008 - "Organize our youth and educate them against police brutality"


A call to the ones who stand against imperialism, racism and fascism - Liberate the prisoners


Black riders Liberation Party (General TACO in the middle)

La Patagonie Rebelle (VOE)

La Patagonia Rebelde est un film qui relate l’histoire syndicale anarchiste de ces régions du Sud de l'Argentine dans les années 20. Santa Cruz en première ligne.

Le film "La Patagonie rebelle" (La Patagonia Rebelde) de Héctor Olivera sortit en 1974 est basé sur une investigation réalisée par Osvaldo Bayer, qui entre 1972 et 1976 publia les quatre volumes de "Les vengeurs de la Patagonie tragique" (Los vengadores de la Patagonia trágica).

Il s'agit de la répression qui frappa les ouvriers agricoles de l'extrême Sud argentin, entre 1920 et 1921.

A cette époque, la baisse des prix internationaux de la laine et la perte des débouchés pour la viande bovine affectèrent la rentabilité des affaires pour les grands propriétaires terriens et commerçants du sud de la Patagonie. Les conséquences logiques en furent le chômage et la détérioration des conditions de vie des travailleurs ruraux. Les sections locales de la FORA (Federación Obrera Regional Argentina), dominée par les anarchistes et influente dans les villes de San Julián et Río Gallegos, profitèrent de ces circonstances pour impulser une campagne de syndicalisation parmi les péons, bûcherons et autres travailleurs salariés. Mais la riposte des fermiers fut extrêmement dure: licenciements, violence, menaces. La simple élaboration de cahiers de revendications de la part des travailleurs pouvait déclencher des représailles.

Devant l'absence d'accord entre les parties, le gouvernement national décida d'envoyer le 10ème régiment de cavalerie, sous le commandement du lieutenant-colonel Héctor Varela, dont l'action répressive ne connut pas de limites: il ordonna des exécutions en masse, obligea les victimes à creuser leurs propres tombes avant, enferma des grévistes dans des granges pour y mettre le feu ensuite. Les anarchistes dénoncèrent l'assassinat de 1500 personnes; il n'y eut jamais de chiffres officiels à ce sujet. Certes, Varela resta sans promotion par la suite, mais aucune investigation ne fut entamée pour sanctionner sa conduite, et le président Yrigoyen opta pour le silence. Toutefois, des années plus tard, Varela fut tué dans un attentat, en représailles pour la cruauté avec laquelle il avait mis en oeuvre la mission ordonnée par le ministre de l'Intérieur.

La batalla de Euskalduna 1984 (VOE) - Lutte de classe par la base

En el año 84, durante el primer Gobierno de Felipe González, la llamada reconversión industrial llegó a los vizcainos astilleros públicos “Euskalduna”, amenazando con dejar a miles de familias en la calle.

Los trabajadores plantaron cara enérgicamente en defensa de sus puestos de trabajo y los planes del INI (predecesor de la SEPI) estaban en el aire, entonces la policía impuso la política desindustrializadora de Solchaga y Gonzalez disparando a los trabajadores con fuego real.

Además de decenas de heridos, murió por el criminal ataque policial el compañero Pablo González.

A tiros, así fue como cerraron los astilleros, empobreciendo la margen izquierda de la ría de Bilbao.

Oregon: Anarchists Burn Ballots

While millions of Americans were casting their ballots in polls across the United States on Tuesday, a group of five self-proclaimed anarchists burned theirs in front of the U.S. Post Office on 5th Avenue and Willamette Street in downtown Eugene.

While millions of Americans were casting their ballots in polls across the United States on Tuesday, a group of five self-proclaimed anarchists burned theirs in front of the U.S. Post Office on 5th Avenue and Willamette Street in downtown Eugene.

The group was protesting the act of voting in the United States, saying that voting does not give people real power to make a difference. Each person had a unique perspective on what should replace the current system in the United States and the world. However, they shared the belief that in addition to voting, the current systems of government and states is fundamentally flawed.

They huddled together around a portable barbecue as they lit ballots on fire. As the ballots burned, many of them said the ballots were highly effective in warming their hands.

"The best use of my ballot was for kindling," activist Ian Roger said.

When the ballots finished burning, they were careful to not spill any ash onto the sidewalk. Then they unfurled a sign that said, "Whoever they vote for we are ungovernable." As they walked down Willamette Street to the federal courthouse displaying the sign, a woman stopped them and asked if they knew where a ballot drop box was.

They laughed and collectively pointed at the barbecue.

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