tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538052970804176066Sun, 08 Sep 2024 03:19:13 +0000US HomeImmigrant/Refugee/NonstatusCanadaUS AbroadSecurityIncarcerationRacismIndigenousIraqImperialismCorporate GlobalizationGenderPalestineLatin AmericaLabourMiddle EastEnvironment and HealthAfricaEuropeSouth AsiaAfghanistanPovertyAnti-OppressionEast AsiaHaitiAustraliaGLBTQSomaliaPolice BrutalityMediaSPPVancouver - Occupied Coast Salish Territories noii-van@resist.ca / 604-682-3269 ext.7149 www.nooneisillegal.orghttp://noiivan.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (No One is Illegal-Vancouver)Blogger510125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538052970804176066.post-1459271323328041158Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:13:00 +00002007-07-24T08:15:05.418-07:00AustraliaImmigrant/Refugee/NonstatusIncarcerationJustice, The Australian Way By Ghali HassanCan you imagine what would happen if Dr Haneef is a white Anglo-Australian detained in India, accused of trafficking in narcotic drugs? Actually, you don’t have to imagine. The entire Indian justice system will be on trial in Australia, accused of corruption and injustice. In Australia, a Guantanamo Bay justice applied to Dr Haneef even with the http://noiivan.blogspot.com/2007/07/australian-anti-terror-detentions.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (No One is Illegal-Vancouver)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538052970804176066.post-2463861476414134914Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:11:00 +00002007-07-24T08:13:13.935-07:00South AsiaUS AbroadBush Administration Threatens Military Intervention In Pakistan By Peter SymondsThe Bush administration this week signalled a tough new stance on Pakistan, demanding that military strongman General Pervez Musharraf takes action against Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters in areas bordering Afghanistan, and threatening US strikes if he failed to do so. White House spokesman Tony Snow told the US media http://noiivan.blogspot.com/2007/07/bush-administration-threatens-military.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (No One is Illegal-Vancouver)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538052970804176066.post-1139479656390969899Sat, 21 Jul 2007 06:23:00 +00002007-07-20T23:24:49.575-07:00EuropeImmigrant/Refugee/NonstatusLabourWorkers Urge Air France Chiefs to Stop Expelling Immigrants July 12, 2007 - The Associated PressPARIS: Airline unions urged Air France on Thursday to stop expelling illegal immigrants on its flights, saying the practice upsets flight attendants and passengers and may hurt business at France's flagship carrier. Workers for five unions were presenting their demands at the Air France-KLM annual http://noiivan.blogspot.com/2007/07/workers-urge-airlines-to-stop.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (No One is Illegal-Vancouver)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538052970804176066.post-3125085572888465802Sat, 21 Jul 2007 06:21:00 +00002007-07-20T23:23:20.821-07:00PalestineOvercoming the conspiracy against Palestine Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 18 July 2007"Be certain that Yasser Arafat's final days are numbered, but allow us to finish him off our way, not yours. And be sure as well that ... the promises I made in front of President Bush, I will give my life to keep." Those words were written by the Fatah warlord Mohammed Dahlan, whose US- and http://noiivan.blogspot.com/2007/07/overcoming-conspiracy-against-palestine.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (No One is Illegal-Vancouver)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538052970804176066.post-632160533086434321Sat, 21 Jul 2007 06:19:00 +00002007-07-20T23:21:02.027-07:00AfghanistanCanadaImperialismLatin AmericaHarper’s foreign policy of American convenience.Stephen Harper has been making much of himself lately, promoting his version of how to achieve global peace and prosperity, with talks and presentations on Afghanistan and Columbia. The central tenet of his global approach is apparently to support those ideas and governments that are of convenience to American foreign policy. He visited Columbia, ahttp://noiivan.blogspot.com/2007/07/harpers-foreign-policy-of-american.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (No One is Illegal-Vancouver)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538052970804176066.post-4791994636810008262Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:58:00 +00002007-07-19T12:59:49.476-07:00AfricaA Tale Of Two Genocides,Congo And Darfur By Glen Ford 18 July, 2007Possibly a quarter million people have lost their lives in Darfur, western Sudan, in ethnic conflict. The U.S. government screams its head off in denunciation of genocide, in this case. In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as many as five million have died since 1994 in overlapping convulsions of ethnic and state-sponsored http://noiivan.blogspot.com/2007/07/tale-of-two-genocidescongo-and-darfur.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (No One is Illegal-Vancouver)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538052970804176066.post-5862633254940864409Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:56:00 +00002007-07-19T12:58:11.927-07:00SPPThe Militarization And Annexation Of North America By Stephen LendmanBesides the Bush administration's imperial aims and permanent war on the world, add the one at home below the radar. Its weapons include the WTO, NAFTA, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), FBI, CIA, NSA, NORTHCOM, militarized state and local police, National Guard forces, paramilitary mercenaries like Blackwater USA, and all http://noiivan.blogspot.com/2007/07/spp-militarization-and-annexation-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (No One is Illegal-Vancouver)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538052970804176066.post-4116925521021084997Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:54:00 +00002007-07-19T12:55:26.950-07:00PalestineIsraeli Apartheid by Bruce Dixon in Black Commentator July 16, 2007 Imagine, if you will, a modern apartheid state with first, second and eleventh class citizens, all required to carry identification specifying their ethnic origin. First class citizens are obliged to serve in the armed forces, kept on ready reserve status until in their forties, and accorded an impressive array of housing, http://noiivan.blogspot.com/2007/07/israeli-apartheid.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (No One is Illegal-Vancouver)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538052970804176066.post-1890447877365321059Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:51:00 +00002007-07-19T12:52:54.090-07:00Corporate GlobalizationImmigrant/Refugee/NonstatusLatin AmericaUS AbroadUS HomeFencing the Border: Boeing's High-Tech Plan Falters by Joseph Richey, Special to Corp WatchJuly 9th, 2007A 28-mile stretch of the Sonoran desert that straddles the U.S.-Mexico border west of the city of Nogales, Arizona, is a sun-baked battleground. Pronghorn antelope, javelina, rattlers, a few pigmy owls, and even jaguars compete for scarce resources amidst the saguaro, mesquite, and prickly http://noiivan.blogspot.com/2007/07/fencing-us-mexico-border-boeings-high.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (No One is Illegal-Vancouver)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538052970804176066.post-8659280745965786488Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:20:00 +00002007-07-19T12:50:49.464-07:00AfghanistanCanadaThe “Canadian Ministers” of Hamid Karzai’s Afghan government By Guy Charron4 July 2007The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) has deployed a Strategic Advisory Team (SAT) composed of some 15 people to Kabul with the mandate of working “directly with the Afghan government” to impose the neo-colonial agenda of the western powers. Canada is a key participant in the US-NATO military occupation of Afghanistanhttp://noiivan.blogspot.com/2007/07/canadian-ministers-of-hamid-karzais.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (No One is Illegal-Vancouver)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538052970804176066.post-7663479868365445193Wed, 04 Jul 2007 04:46:00 +00002007-07-03T21:57:15.346-07:00US HomeBy ALICIA A. CALDWELL. The Associated Press. June 29, 2007COLUMBUS, N.M. -- The 1.5-mile barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border was designed to keep cars from illegally crossing into the United States. There's just one problem: It was accidentally built on Mexican soil. Now embarrassed border officials say the mistake could cost the federal government more than $3 million to fix.(Click here to readhttp://noiivan.blogspot.com/2007/07/us-border-fence-protrudes-into-mexico.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (No One is Illegal-Vancouver)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538052970804176066.post-258300580469143704Wed, 04 Jul 2007 04:41:00 +00002007-07-03T21:45:23.693-07:00RacismUS HomeBy Abdus Sattar Ghazali. 17 June 2007Stepping into the foot prints of Daniel Pipes, Islamophobist and founder of anti-Islam and anti-Muslim forums such as Middle East Forumand Campus Watch, another pro-Israeli Islamophobist, David Yerushalmi, has established an anti-Islam group known with the acronym SANE: the Society of Americans for National Existence. The sole objective of the group is http://noiivan.blogspot.com/2007/07/sane-islamophobic-group-attempts-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (No One is Illegal-Vancouver)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538052970804176066.post-5382928353959930945Wed, 04 Jul 2007 04:38:00 +00002007-07-03T21:40:01.025-07:00CanadaIndigenousMNN. June 17, 2007. The following question came to MNN from an Indigenous law grad, “...do you feel comfortable passing yourself off as a legal authority?” Yeah! On our law! Obviously this law graduate has been totally indoctrinated. He assumes that law is the exclusive preserve of “experts”. Law is based on prior and informed consent of the people concerned, not on the power to conquer, oppress http://noiivan.blogspot.com/2007/07/commencement-message-to-indigenous-law.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (No One is Illegal-Vancouver)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538052970804176066.post-4613830779620463418Wed, 04 Jul 2007 04:34:00 +00002007-07-03T21:37:30.765-07:00GenderLatin AmericaRacismBy Diego Cevallos. MEXICO CITY, Jun 19 (IPS) There are at least 75 million black women in Latin America and the Caribbean, but those who occupy high-level political or public administration posts number less than 50. As activists pointed out to IPS this week, black women are at the very bottom of the social ladder in this region. "The inequality suffered by Afro-descendants is plain to see. Therehttp://noiivan.blogspot.com/2007/07/latin-america-black-women-on-bottom.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (No One is Illegal-Vancouver)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538052970804176066.post-1233970730946448845Wed, 04 Jul 2007 04:26:00 +00002007-07-03T21:32:42.691-07:00CanadaPovertyRacismby EMIR OLIVARES ALONSO; 26/06/2007 - La Jornada. [NOII note: this is a rough translation, click here for original article]Under the criteria of appearance, Canadian immigration authorities denied entry to three Mexicans who were trying to enter the country as tourists, because "they didn't appear to have money and looked very poor".The co-nationals suffered humiliation during more than 24 hours,http://noiivan.blogspot.com/2007/07/vancouver-mexicans-denied-entry-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (No One is Illegal-Vancouver)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538052970804176066.post-8679371693692140475Wed, 04 Jul 2007 03:57:00 +00002007-07-03T21:33:46.646-07:00Immigrant/Refugee/NonstatusIncarcerationUS HomeNew Scrutiny as Immigrants Die in CustodyBy NINA BERNSTEIN. June 26, 2007Sandra M. Kenley was returning home from her native Barbados in 2005 when she was swept into the United States’ fastest-growing form of incarceration, immigration detention.Seven weeks later, Ms. Kenley died in a rural Virginia jail, where she had complained of not receiving medicine for high blood pressure. She was one of http://noiivan.blogspot.com/2007/07/62-migrant-death-in-us-detention-since.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (No One is Illegal-Vancouver)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538052970804176066.post-2377718763175614073Sat, 30 Jun 2007 00:18:00 +00002007-06-29T17:20:07.188-07:00CanadaIndigenousBlockades up as aboriginal day of action beginsArmed Mohawk protesters got an early start to the Canada-wide aboriginal day of action on Friday, barricading a major rail line and a highway in eastern Ontario. The protesters' swift action caused police to shut down a one kilometre stretch of Highway 401, the major road link between Toronto and Montreal, at midnight, fearing protesters would move http://noiivan.blogspot.com/2007/06/blockades-up-as-aboriginal-day-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (No One is Illegal-Vancouver)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538052970804176066.post-1500875845744129843Sat, 30 Jun 2007 00:03:00 +00002007-06-29T17:06:24.889-07:00ImperialismMiddle EastUS AbroadImminent Crises: Threats and Opportunities by Noam Chomsky; Monthly Review; June 27, 2007Regrettably, there are all too many candidates that qualify as imminent and very serious crises. Several should be high on everyone’s agenda of concern, because they pose literal threats to human survival: the increasing likelihood of a terminal nuclear war, and environmental disaster, which may not be too http://noiivan.blogspot.com/2007/06/threats-and-opportunities-by-noam.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (No One is Illegal-Vancouver)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538052970804176066.post-8357910670312275821Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:33:00 +00002007-06-28T19:38:23.783-07:00EuropePalestineWhy Boycott Israel? Because It’s Good for You by Gabriel AshThe boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel’s Apartheid scored an important victory recently when the British University and College Union (UCU) decided to circulate “the full text of the Palestinian boycott call to all branches for information and discussion” and “encourage members to consider the moral http://noiivan.blogspot.com/2007/06/why-boycott-israel-because-its-good-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (No One is Illegal-Vancouver)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538052970804176066.post-2195515239252255357Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:19:00 +00002007-06-28T19:28:05.847-07:00Anti-OppressionImmigrant/Refugee/NonstatusUS HomeConfrontation kept under control. Police keep things calm as two groups of marchers on opposite sides of the immigration debate parry in South Los Angeles.A group of 100 marchers waving American flags headed south on Crenshaw Boulevard on Saturday to protest illegal immigration and what they called its damaging effects on the black community.But they never reached the park that was their http://noiivan.blogspot.com/2007/06/black-americans-on-opposite-sides-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (No One is Illegal-Vancouver)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538052970804176066.post-6205690245612148726Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:44:00 +00002007-06-24T08:47:18.077-07:00PalestineEverything is possible Yigal Bronner, The Electronic Intifada, 22 June 2007It feels strange to discuss possible solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Do we prefer a one-state formula or two states, one next to the other? Which of the two solutions is more possible? These questions sound so remote from the harsh reality on the ground, where a resolution of the conflict never seemed so http://noiivan.blogspot.com/2007/06/displacement-in-palestine-everything-is.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (No One is Illegal-Vancouver)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538052970804176066.post-8958752718175753433Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:58:00 +00002007-06-23T12:02:54.164-07:00Corporate GlobalizationLatin AmericaThe Life and Death of a Border Town by David Martinez, Special to CorpWatch June 12th, 2007In the town of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, close to the U.S. border, two streets intersect: one is called Progreso (Progress) and the other is Fabrica (Factory). They are aptly named streets because they are thoroughfares that only house manufacturing plants called maquiladoras - giant mall sized buildings ringedhttp://noiivan.blogspot.com/2007/06/life-and-death-of-border-town.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (No One is Illegal-Vancouver)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538052970804176066.post-2031338309328169316Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:55:00 +00002007-06-23T11:57:33.625-07:00PalestineThe Crisis in Gaza: Made in Israel, Not a Civil War IV Online magazine : IV390 - June 2007 Michel Warschawski The old dream of Ariel Sharon is becoming a reality: Palestinians are killing Palestinians, and Israel is counting the number of victims with great satisfaction. The tears of Israeli leaders are crocodile tears, and their claims that they are sorry for the tragic developments in Gaza are http://noiivan.blogspot.com/2007/06/crisis-in-gaza-made-in-israel-not-civil.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (No One is Illegal-Vancouver)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538052970804176066.post-1359354821141002437Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:52:00 +00002007-06-23T11:55:07.180-07:00LabourUS HomeChoices for Black labor by Bill Fletcher; Black Commentator; June 23, 2007 I came of age politically in the middle of the Black Power movement. Within the ranks of organized labor, both the Black Power movement and the Anti-Vietnam War movement had a significant impact through the mid1970s. Caucuses were being formed to challenge the bureaucratic leaderships of many unions. Wild-cat strikes http://noiivan.blogspot.com/2007/06/choices-for-black-labor.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (No One is Illegal-Vancouver)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538052970804176066.post-6783936381774745923Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:50:00 +00002007-06-23T12:03:23.102-07:00Corporate GlobalizationSouth AsiaDisplacing farmers: India Will Have 400 million Agricultural Refugees by Devinder SharmaIt was on the cards. With Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announcing the formation of a new rehabilitation policy for farmers displaced from land acquisitions, it is now official -- farmers have to quit agriculture. Ever since the Congress-led UPA Coalition assumed power after an angry rural protest vote threw http://noiivan.blogspot.com/2007/06/india-will-have-400-million.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (No One is Illegal-Vancouver)