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VIDEO: 9.70 Documentary About Colombia Free Trade And Privatization Of Seeds

October 26, 2013 Victoria Solano & Marco Cartolano, www.clementinafilms.com.ar Educate! Food and Agriculture, Monsanto, Video

9.70 documentary, tells the story of a group of farmers from which the Colombian Government seized and destroyed 70 tons of rice. In a very short amount of time, the Colombian government approved a series of laws and resolutions in order to sign a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States as quickly as possible. One of the conditions set by the US was to create a legislation for the 'privatization' of seeds. The documentary examines the impact caused by these decisions, exemplifying them by using the case of Campoalegre, a southern Colombian town where the resolution was set in motion. In 2011, the Agency responsible for monitoring agricultural activities in Colombia (ICA) came to the town and seized 70 tons of rice, then returned with the police, and finally destroyed the seeds by burying them in a landfill for considering them illegal.

Direct Rule By Wall Street Begins With Detroit

October 24, 2013 Glen Ford, www.blackagendareport.com Resist! Democracy, Finance and the Economy, Government, Video

Two items in the news this week put in graphic relief the overarching reality of our times: Wall Street is every day tightening its dictatorial grip on the political and economic life of the United States. The American state and economy are being relentlessly restructured in order to further consolidate the rule of finance capital. In the largely Black urban centers of the nation, the oligarchy intends to rule directly, without the inconvenience of meaningful elections and the other trappings of democracy. Detroit proves the point. This week, a judge begins a bankruptcy court trial that will decide if local corporate dictator Kevyn Orr, the emergency financial manager imposed by the state to protect the interests of Wall Street, will essentially be allowed to sell Detroit’s assets to a British bank in order to pay off the city’s debts to American banks. The pensions of city workers may also be gutted in the process. The city council of Detroit this week voted unanimously against the deal, but that is probably irrelevant.

VIDEO: Where Bikes Are Like Water To A Fish

October 23, 2013 Michael Graham Richard, www.treehugger.com Create! Climate Change, Environment, Transportation, Video

Here's another great short film by our friend Clarence Eckerson. He already blew my mind with his recent film on Groningen in the Netherlands, and now he's doing it again with one of the best videos on Amsterdam's past and present bike culture that I've ever seen (and the others were probably made by Clarence too, so that says something). Amsterdam is widely considered to be one of the very best cities for cyclists in the world. That didn't happen by accident, and seeing images from a few decades ago when the city was choked with cars really brings the point home. The locals took some very specific steps to get to where they are today, something that many other cities around the world could learn from.

Last Scheduled Brooklyn Bridge Case, Like Most Others, Is Dismissed

October 21, 2013 Colin Moynihan, www.nytimes.com Resist! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Occupy, Police abuse, Video

There were two incidents that helped to spark the early days of the Occupy Movement. One was the pepper spraying to two women who were already under arrest without cause, the other was the arrest of more than 700 people on the Brooklyn Bridge. From the videos it looked like the police were leading the protesters onto the bridge, then they trapped them with police on both sides and made 700 arrests. Now, two years later of the 732 arrests that day, 690 have been dismissed. There is a civil suit pending against the NY police for these mass arrests. Two years after more than 700 people were arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge roadway for participating in an Occupy Wall Street march, the last scheduled criminal case found its way to a courtroom in Manhattan this month. Of the 732 arrests made on the Brooklyn Bridge, 680 cases were dismissed, 195 at the request of prosecutors, 40 by the court and 445 contingent on defendants’ not being arrested again within six months.

Video: Andrés Thomas Conteris Undergoes Nasal Tube Feeding in Solidarity With Guantanamo Hunger Strikers

October 19, 2013 Witness Against Torture, www.youtube.com Resist! Guantanamo Bay, Torture, Video, Wars and Militarism

Andrés Thomas Conteris — on day 103 of a water-only fast — will undergoed a nasal tube feeding in solidarity with the men at Guantánamo and to dramatize the cruelty of force-feeding. Conteris, who has lost 57 pounds, has undergone nasogastric feedings at the White House, in Oakland, California, and at US embassies in Uruguay and Argentina. Conteris, age 52, began his fast at the height of the Guantánamo hunger strike July 8, when thousands of US prisoners began hunger striking to protest the use of extended solitary confinement at Pelican Bay and other prisons.

Video: Journalists Find 12 Year Old Girls Making Old Navy Jeans for Gap in Bangladeshi Factory

October 19, 2013 Democracy Now!, www.youtube.com Educate! Bangladesh, Video

Al Jazeera's Anjali Kamat discusses her recent investigation into the state of Bangladeshi sweatshops following the November 2012 fire at the Tazreen factory that killed at least 112 people. Al Jazeera uncovered factories where Old Navy pants are being worked on by children as young as 12. Video by Democracy Now!

An Insiders View On The RCMP Raid On Mi’kmaq Encampment

October 18, 2013 Miles Howe, halifax.mediacoop.ca Resist! Energy, Environment, Fracking, Indigenous Rights, Video

One must wonder at the RCMP's pre-sunrise, decidedly violent, means of attempting to enforce an injunction against blocking SWN's equipment. Again, one must reiterate that neither members or the Mi'kmaq Warrior Society or anyone else was anywhere near the newly-unblocked compound gate. Nor were they at all capable of reforming any blockade style formation. Again, it must be reiterated that Lorraine Clair's van the main impediment to accessing the equipment had been removed the night before. Instead, with guns drawn, the RCMP appeared intent on provoking a violent climax on the near three-week blockade. I say in no uncertain terms that it is miraculous that no one was seriously injured yesterday, indeed killed. The RCMP arrived with pistols drawn, dogs snapping, assault rifles trained on various targets, and bus loads of RCMP waiting from across the province and beyond.

Protesters Rally For Higher Wages In Northeast D.C.

October 18, 2013 Zachary Lester, www.afro.com Resist! Video, Worker Rights and Jobs

“The vast majority of the District’s low-income households have heads of household who are working full time, but too many cannot afford to live in the city on their minimum wage salaries of $8.25 an hour and they are forced to supplement their lives with federal and local taxpayer subsidies,” said Our DC spokesman James Adams. “A disproportionate number of these bread winners work in the fast food sector.” Adams said a worker with two children who works full time earns $17,160 a year, well below the federal poverty line. Skyrocketing housing costs and stagnate incomes for many people lead to them being “chained to food stamps, Medicaid and other federal subsidies because fast-food corporations care more about stockholders than the families who work to generate these enormous profit margins.”

(Photos) Major Police Attack On Elsipogtog Blockade

October 17, 2013 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Energy, Environment, Fracking, Indigenous Rights, Video

A tense stand off is ongoing between 200 RCMP, Mi’kmaq blockaders, and about 200 supporters. According to the Stimulator, the chief and tribal council personally blockaded gas company trucks behind barricades. Protesters have hurled rocks and a corporate news tripod at the RCMP. At the moment, RCMP are making mass arrests, SWN vehicles appear to be rolling out of the compound, and six RCMP vehicles have been set ablaze. Molotov cocktails were thrown from the woods earlier this morning in defense of the land and peoples. The RCMP, some with long rifles, entered the woods. Shots were fired, and screaming was heard.

Blockade Against Monsanto In Malvinas, Argentina

October 16, 2013 Staff, www.revolution-news.com Resist! Environment, Food and Agriculture, Health Care, Monsanto, Video

Today is day 28th of the blockade against Monsanto in Malvinas, Argentina and around 50 protestors camping there have no intentions of going home any time soon. Citizens are making themselves at home near the main entrance of the new Monsanto plant currently under construction. They are camping out indefinitely to protest the new GMO seed processing plant which is scheduled to open for business in 2014. Revolution News spoke with activist Celina Molina from Asamblea Malvinas Lucha por Vida who said simply, “We do not want Monsanto to install the 2nd largest GMO seed processing plant of Latin America in our city.”

The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident: Ongoing Lessons

October 14, 2013 Arnie Gundersen, fairewinds.org Educate! Energy, Environment, Nuclear Energy, Video

History shows us that there have been five meltdowns during the last 35 years: TMI, Chernobyl, and Fukushima Daiichi 1, 2, and 3 (apologies for not including Windscale, Santa Susana, and about a dozen more reactors). The real numbers show that there is a seven-year frequency between meltdowns. Policy makers and business interests are ignoring history as they attempt to force the relicensure of Indian Point. While demanding that taxpayers cover the risk of a nuclear accident by paying for the Price-Anderson nuclear insurance, it seems that the NRC and every major politician and nuclear fabricator actually believes that A Nuclear Accident Can’t Happen at Indian Point or Pilgrim. When someone’s brain reasons in a way to justify support for what it wants to be true, psychologists call it “Motivated Reasoning”.

VIDEO: Mi’kmaq Call For Oct 18th Solidarity Actions

October 13, 2013 Suzanne Patles, www.reclaimturtleisland.com Resist! Energy, Environment, Indigenous Rights, Video

The compound, where SWN has over hundreds of thousands of dollars in equipment, has been shut down and their equipment seized by local Indigenous peoples. Patles is among many Wabanaki Confederacy peoples asserting their inherent and treaty rights and titles over their territories at an active road blockade since Sept 28th. The HWY 134 blockade is preventing SWN equipment from illegally excavating Mi’kmaq territory and conducting seismic testing in order to begin the process of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, on unceded native lands. The road blockade has been estimated to cost SWN over $60, 000 a day. Due to the recognition of Indigenous inherent and treaty rights and title, the RCMP have been hesitant to interfere with the blockade though not without conflict. The blockade site has the support of Wabanaki Confederacy traditional governance, and widespread community support amongst Indigenous and settler groups.

VIDEO: Millions WorldWide March Against Monsanto

October 12, 2013 Dennis Trainor, Jr., www.acronymtv.wordpress.com Resistance Report Drones, Finance and the Economy, Food and Agriculture, Monsanto, Video, Wars and Militarism

Millions March Worldwide Against Monsanto: Resistance Report O10: Saturday October 12- People in over 400 cities and 57 countries march against Monsanto. The worldwide action comes days ahead of Monsanto receiving the Nobel Prize for Agriculture- the prestigious World Prize of Food for creating GMO’s. Also in this episode of the Resistance Report. Is the Department of Homeland Security Preparing for Another Wall Street Collapse? (5:37) The Plunder of Africa (9:22 ) Veterans Arrested at Their Own Memorial (16:51 ) It’s the Drones, Stupid(19:21 )

Arizona Immigration Protesters Block Court Proceedings

October 12, 2013 Ben Gittleson, www.abcnews.com Resist! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Immigration, Video

Immigration activists chained themselves to buses and blocked an entrance to a federal courthouse in Tucson, Ariz., today, halting immigration proceedings that could have resulted in deportations. Protesters forced two buses carrying detainees on their way to court for immigration cases to stop for over four hours beginning about 8 a.m., after they locked themselves to the vehicles five minutes from the Evo A. DeConcini U.S. Courthouse. Another six protesters chained themselves to gates at a vehicle entrance at the court. About 70 detainees remained in the buses throughout the demonstration, before police removed the protesters, a U.S. Marshals official told ABC News. Authorities in both locations tried to negotiate with protest leaders and give them a chance to voice their message, but ultimately decided to remove them forcibly, the official said.

Video: Snowden Speaks When Receiving Sam Adams Award

October 12, 2013 Staff, wikileaks.org Organize! Edward Snowden, NSA, Video

The videos show Mr Snowden as he was given the award by Ray McGovern (ex-CIA) who said "Sam Adams Associates are proud to honor Mr. Snowden’s decision to heed his conscience and give priority to the Common Good over concerns about his own personal future. We are confident that others with similar moral fiber will follow his example in illuminating dark corners and exposing crimes that put our civil rights as free citizens in jeopardy.... Just as Private Manning and Julian Assange exposed criminality with documentary evidence, Mr. Snowden’s beacon of light has pierced a thick cloud of deception. And, again like them, he has been denied some of the freedoms that whistleblowers have every right to enjoy." Also present at the ceremony was WikiLeaks journalist Sarah Harrison who took Mr Snowden from Hong Kong to Moscow and obtained his asylum.

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