Conference

By MICHAEL CASEY, AP Environmental Writer Thu Dec 6, 2007

BALI, Indonesia - The impact of climate change plus deforestation could wipe out or severely damage nearly 60 percent of the Amazon forest by 2030 — making it impossible to keep global temperatures from reaching catastrophic levels, an environmental group said Thursday.  read more »

"Many of the women who contracted cancer were the mothers, the aunties, and the sisters. They cleaned the clothes for their sons, brothers, and husbands who went to work in the mines. A lot of the time people were doing double shifts at the mine sites, so people would come home after 16 hours of work and literally take their coats off and fall asleep, not change their clothing or anything."
– Deb Abrahamson

Deb Abrahamson, SHAWL Society
(Sovereignty, Health, Air, Water and Land)  read more »

by Brenda Norrell
Saturday, November 10, 2007  read more »

By Jared Jacang Maher
Published: October 25, 2007
http://www.westword.com/2007-10-25/news/anarchists-arise

The group that may be the most prepared for the 2008 Democratic National Convention is also the least likely to be prepared. It doesn't represent labor unions or mainstream progressives, but anarchists. A loose coalition of anti-authoritarian factions from across the nation have formed an outfit called Unconventional Action, with the express goal of disrupting and shutting down the DNC and RNC. Activists say that anarchists in this country have never planned such a large-scale action so far in advance of a specific event, and certainly not with such openness and strategy.  read more »

A Dispatch from the First Ever Encuentro for Dignity and Against Gentrification

By Michael Gould-Wartofsky via Infoshop News  read more »

Thomas Riggins

Some reflections on the current Turkey/PKK standoff in Northern Iraq. If Turkey wants to end PKK attacks it might try, as a first measure, extending full citizen and human rights to the Kurdish population of Turkey. The Kurds are not allowed to freely use their language. A people's culture and traditions can not be preserved and respected if the state persecutes them with regard to the use of their national language.

Turkey should end efforts at forced assimilation of Kurdish children to "Turkishness" and other efforts at cultural genocide. Turkey should also end policies of violent repression of peaceful manifestations of Kurdish nationalism.  read more »

Join Collectives, Affinity Groups, Organizations and individuals coming
together to discuss the No Border Camp taking place this November in
Calexico/Mexicali, and to begin organizing regionally to support folks
going down and build with the folks who aren't!

OCT. 5TH & 6TH
TACOMA WASHINGTON

For information on Housing and Logistics in Tacoma contact:
Pitchpipe Infoshop * 617 S 17th St (at G St) * Tacoma, WA 98405
NWEncuentro@riseup.net

AGENDA Items for Encuentro:
TO BEGIN BUILDING A NORTHWEST NETWORK AGAINST BORDERS/I.C.E./
TO ORGANIZE NORTHWEST REGIONAL ACTIONS

No Borders Camp November 2007 Calexico/Mexicali
Schedule of Days:
Monday and Tuesday 11.5 & 11.6 Convergence  read more »