Dear peaceables,
How embarrassing that Canada voted against the UN declaration on indigenous peoples’ rights. It helps me empathize with the shame that many – perhaps now most – Americans are feeling about their government’s actions in the world.
My apologies to Ottawans who got their hopes up about Noam Chomsky – they were just showing a DVD of an interview with him. I’ll have to read more carefully.
Peace,Chris
Amnesty International is campaigning on behalf of imprisoned Singaporean human rights leader, Dr. Chee Soon Juan.
The Karen Human Rights Group is a small NGO working with rural Burma by working directly with rural villagers in Burma who are subject to a range of abuses from forced labour to torture, sexual assault and summary executions.
The Council of Canadians is urging people to write politicians objecting to placing “Support Our Troops” decals on public vehicles.
Support the campaign to ban Terminator technology.The theme of the World Congress of NGOs meetin in Toronto, Nov. 8 - 11, is Ethics and Global Peace: NGO Perspectives.
The Ardoch Algonquin and the Shabot Obaadjiwan Nations are trying to stop a proposed uranium mine on their land.
Cindy Sheehan was arrested on Monday for going to the defence of a minister being beaten by Capitol Hill cops outside the hearing room where Petraeus and Crocker were testifying about Iraq.
Belarussian police raided a performance of the Free Theatre and arrested 50 people, including actors and audience.
A “vicious media-led witchhunt” in Uganda is inciting anti-gay violence.- Chief Drowning Bear [said about the Bible]
The journal, Foreign Policy, asked 21 leading thinkers what one solution they would suggest to make the world a better place. Read 21 Solutions to Save the World at
See especially Howard Gardner’s proposal for limits on the accumulation of wealth.
Jim Schultz on current events in Bolivia.
A review by Jane Smiley of Naomi Klein’s, The Shock Doctrine. You can read an excerpt here
Aidan Delgado enlisted just before the World Trade Center attacks, ended up in Iraq and was transformed into a conscientious objector. Read a review of his book, The Sutras at Abu Ghraib: Notes from a Conscientious Objector in Iraq. There is also a link to an interview with him.