Greenspiration News: Undercover Police Infiltrators and the G20

Mon Jun 20 22:05:33 EDT 2011

Greenspiration News

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Investigative Story on Undercover Police Infiltrators and the G20 Summit

Living among us - Activists speak out on police infiltration

http://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/living-among-us

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Vancouver's hockey riot: How to understand it

The riots were a fundamentalist defense of a type of nationalism, most evident in the beatings of Bruins fans in Vancouver last night. NHL hockey is not simply a game, it is representative of obedience to consumerism and is part of the state's attempt to forge a false identity -- despite vast differences and inequalities across race, class, and gender, through the spectacle of sport."  The state does reap what the state sows.

http://rabble.ca/news/2011/06/vancouvers-hockey-riot-how-understand-it

Preston Manning, neo-liberalism and the Vancouver riots

But in trying to determine what is at the root of this mindless violence -- and the almost equally mindless spectator sport of watching the violence and doing nothing -- we need to examine just how it could be that so many young men's lives are so meaningless. I think it comes down to community -- or rather its dramatic decline -- a deliberate by-product of neo-liberalism and consumerism.

http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/murray-dobbin/2011/06/preston-manning-neo-liberalism-and-vancouver-riots

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Could the Net be killing the planet one web search at a time?

If the Internet was a country, it would be the planet's fifth-biggest consumer of power, ahead of India and Germany. The Internet's power needs now rival those of the aviation industry and are expected to nearly double by 2020.

http://www.montrealgazette.com/life/green-guide/Could+killing+planet+search+time/4891395/story.html

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The Truth About The Economy In Two Minutes

Watch this 2 minute video – excellent.

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-truth-about-the-economy-in-two-minutes-2011-6

- The economy doubles since 1980, but wages flat.  Where did the money go…
- All (or most) of the gains went to the super rich.  And…
- With money comes political power.  Taxes on super rich slashed, revenues evaporate.  This leads to…
- Huge budget deficits.  Middle class agitated, fights for scraps…
- Middle class divided.  Buying and borrowing slow.  Resulting in:
- Anemic recovery/economy.

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A fossil hat trick for Canada at UN climate talks in Bonn - if only the 'other' Canucks had such luck!

The United Nations hosts various 'intersessional' climate talks throughout the year, with one currently happening in Bonn, Germany. UN climate talks would not be the same without Fossil of the Day awards, and indeed Canada has managed to keep up its abysmal record by sweeping first, second, and third place in today's awards.  Read the full press release here.

For more on what Canada is up to, and not up to in Bonn, check out Keith Stewart's blog as we watch how this story develops!

Canada Spurns Kyoto in Favour of Tar Sands

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=56048

When breaking the law is justified

http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/1005635--when-breaking-the-law-is-justified

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Postal Strikes and Myths – Part 1

http://www.cupw.ca/index.cfm/ci_id/13119/la_id/1.htm

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Canada Causes Cancer

On June 20th, the United Nations will vote to place an international ban on asbestos. Asbestos causes cancer and other deadly lung diseases. Prime Minister Harper stands as an obstacle to this global agreement. Act Now. Sign the Petition.    http://www.canadacausescancer.ca/

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Reasons people were arrested at the Toronto G20

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/11/reasons-people-were.html?dlvrit=36761

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Danger of Plastic Bags

Watch this 8 min. video. http://www.nextworldtv.com/videos/reducing-waste/danger-of-plastic-bags.html

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Stop the Mega Quarry

Please take a few seconds to add your name to the I-petition to Stop the Mega Quarry that is proposed by a USA Hedge Fund for Central Ontario.

The mere size is boggling; a parcel of land covering 2,300 acres and dug 50 feet deeper than Niagara Falls will make this the second largest quarry in North America.

With 300 trucks hourly plus 20 tons of explosives daily, the potential for disaster on transportation corridors, water and the environment is enormous.

This destruction of our prime agricultural land and natural resources for foreign profit must be stopped.

We need your help - please sign the petition: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/megaquarry/

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Blocked Bike Lanes
It's nice to see that the cops are cracking down on the real threats to society, bikers.

3 min. video worth a laugh:  http://devour.com/video/blocked-bike-lanes/

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The International Campaign to Stop Ecocide - A game-changer

London barrister Polly Higgins has proposed to the UN Law Commission that Ecocide become a fifth Crime Against Peace under the mandate of the International Criminal Court. For years criminals in business suits have escaped personal responsibility by hiding behind an impenetrable corporate shell; but this law closes that legal loophole, exposing those with superior responsibility for acts of ecocide, and holding them accountable in a court of law.

Website: http://www.thisisecocide.com/
Video: For the first of 6 short videos systematically describing the proposed law, start here.
Book: Eradicating Ecocide by Polly Higgins
Contact: http://www.thisisecocide.com/contact/
Set up your own Eradicate Ecocide campaign:
• Guidance for campaigners
• Yes Lab

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The Green Revolution Backfires: Sweden’s Lesson for Real Sustainability

What if electric cars made pollution worse, not better? What if they increased greenhouse gas emissions instead of decreasing them? Preposterous you say? Well, consider what’s happened in Sweden.

Through generous subsidies, Sweden aggressively pushed its citizens to trade in their cars for energy efficient replacements (hybrids, clean diesel vehicles, cars that run on ethanol). Sweden has been so successful in this initiative that it leads the world in per capita sales of ‘green cars.’ To everyone’s surprise, however, greenhouse gas emissions from Sweden’s transportation sector are up.

Or perhaps we should not be so surprised after all. What do you expect when you put people in cars they feel good about driving (or at least less guilty), which are also cheap to buy and run? Naturally, they drive them more. So much more, in fact, that they obliterate energy gains made by increased fuel efficiency.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/10-3

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Survivor of rape at a Canadian mine shares her story.  

Watch at Rosa's testimony at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSGuDk4cnz4

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The True Price of Gas

5 min. video: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/617138/video%3A_the_true_price_of_gas/#paragraph4
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Stop Signs: Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay

For more information about the book: stopsigns.fairtrademedia.com

Watch the videos of the public forum / book launch in Toronto: http://www.socialistproject.ca/leftstreamed/ls107.php 

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People Power

From Cairo, Egypt, to Madison, Wisconsin, civil society is fighting back through massive nonviolent resistance. But what makes for a successful campaign? The data is in. Among 323 major violent insurgencies and nonviolent mass movements that occurred from 1900 to 2006, nonviolent campaigns were twice as effective as violent insurgencies, succeeding more than 55 percent of the time.

http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.article&issue=soj1105&article=people-power

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