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glparramatta | 1 Apr 2009 06:25
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What's new at Links: Socialism conference, Nepal, Malaysia, John Bellamy Foster, Venezuela, Thailand, Hadash, France, economics, India, Darwin

What's new at Links: Socialism conference, Nepal, Malaysia, John Bellamy 
Foster, Venezuela, Thailand, Hadash, France, economics, India, Darwin

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at http://www.feedblitz.com/f/?Sub=343373

Visit and bookmark http://links.org.au and add it to your RSS feed 
(http://links.org.au/rss.xml). If you would like us to
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    Sydney, April 10-12, 2009: `World at a Crossroads' 21st century
    socialism conference day-by-day agenda <http://links.org.au/node/974>

World at a Crossroads: Fighting for socialism in the 21st Century
Easter 2009, April 10-12, Sydney
Venue: Sydney Girls High School
World At A Crossroads is a conference that brings together hundreds of 
socialists, progressive activists and Marxist thinkers from around 
Australia, Latin America, Asia-Pacific and North America in dozens of 
panel presentations and workshops dealing with the urgent questions that 
confront us all: war, imperialism, food security, racism, workers' 
rights, sexism, the media and culture.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/974>
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FreetheCuban5 LibertadparalosCinco | 2 Apr 2009 16:20
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SUPPORT THE CUBAN 5 VISA CAMPAIGN

The Popular Education Project to Free the Cuban 5 
www.freethecuban5.com 
Free the Cuban 5 hotline: 718-601-4751 
FreeTheCuban5 <at> gmail.com 
  
  
WE ONLY HAVE 326 SIGNSTURES! WE CAN DO BETTER! SIGN THIS PETITION AND FORWARD OUT THIS MESSAGE WORLDWIDE! 
  
The Popular Education Project to Free the Cuban 5 has drafted a petition asking President Obama to grant
Visas to the families of the Cuban 5. 
  
With his recent decision to close Guantanamo Prison and his public statements in support of changing
travel restrictions on Cuban Americans, we feel now is a good time to bring up the US government’s
continual denial of visas for the Cuban 5 families; which has kept both Rene Gonzalez and Gerardo
Hernandez from seeing their wives for the past ten years. 
  
If President Obama is really pro-family and wants to improve the reputation of the United States, as a
"beacon of justice and democracy", then then we need to demand he end this horrible separation of families
and this psychological torture. 
  
Please sign this petition and forward this link to all your friend and families. We will be emailing this
petition and mailing it in hard copies to President Obama every time we reach a 100th milestone. 
  
SIGN IT AND FORWARD IT OUT FOR THE CUBAN 5: 
http://www.petitiononline.com/ObamaC5V/petition.html 
____________________________________________________________________________ 
  
Due to the U.S. government’s denial to approve visas, Gerardo Hernandez Nordelo and Rene Gonzalez
Sehwerert have not seen their wives, Adriana Perez and Olga Salanueva, since their incarceration!!
Others in the Cuban 5 have not seen their parents, wives and children with regularity. The U.S. government
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Steve Cooke | 2 Apr 2009 19:21
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Weekly Worker #763 now available - G20, Egypt, Russia, torture

Weekly Worker 763 - Thursday April 2 2009

The latest edition of the Weekly Worker is now available on the CPGB
website at www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/763

In this week’s issue:

PROTESTERS GREET G20 PRIME MINISTERS AND PRESIDENTS
Communists must do their utmost to overcome illusions in the potential
for capitalism’s top representatives to deliver, writes John Sidwell

EGYPT: DAY OF RAGE
We ask for solidarity from our brothers and sisters around the world,
writes Ahmed Younis

ECONOMIC CRISIS FUELS RANK AND FILE ANGER
Anne McShane identifies an urgent need for the left to fill the vacuum

SEVEN YEARS OF TORTURE
Abolish MI5 and the whole secret state, writes James Turley

STUDYING THE PAST TO GRASP THE FUTURE
Mike Macnair reviews Boris Kagarlitsky's Empire of the periphery:
Russia and the world system London 2007, 384pp, £35

MINES: 'OUR' INDUSTRY?
This article by Frank Grafton, from The Leninist of July 1984, was our
first extensive intervention against the class-collaborationist
politics that ostensibly underpinned the miners' Great Strike. It was
one of the themes we were to return to time and time again - despite
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Hunter Gray | 6 Apr 2009 23:29

Update on Native northern border crossings from Canada [Jay Treaty]

Among the great many pages in our Hunterbear website are a considerable number relating to Native American
issues. Some of those have fairly recent material on the current status of the Jay Treaty of 1794 which is
supposed to provide for free travel of Native persons back and forth re the border between Canada and the
United States.  Here is an update I've done for one of our older pages, a well visited one.  [It contains
helpful background information.] http://www.hunterbear.org/border_crossings.htm

NOTE BY HUNTER BEAR:

Spring 2009:  This is a brief update note on the functional status of the Jay Treaty [1794] as things now stand
-- with respect to Native people. Essentially, the Treaty remains quite intact and, as a ratified treaty,
cannot be formally amended nor modified without the consent of the  national signatories. [That would be,
to say the least, cumbersome.]  What has changed, however, is the increasingly prejudiced and
discriminatory interpretative views of many U.S. Immigration officials -- often quite un-educated as
to Native Americans and the Jay Treaty -- when it comes to "permitting" the free passage of Native people to
and fro re the United States.  This back and forth free passage is guaranteed by the Jay Treaty and these
negatively arbitrary judgments, by U.S. officials especially, constitute functional treaty
violations.  

As decades and generations passed following Jay and the subsequent Treaty of Ghent, the U.S. began to seek
"identification/verification" of Native status via tribal agency or Federal governmental "Indian
cards" , or sometimes baptismal certificates.  Again, as time passed, immigration officials came to try
to insist on at least one-half "blood" status. All of this constituted a departure from, at the least, the
spirit of the Jay Treaty. 
But following the September 11, 2001, tragedy in New York City, the resultant atmosphere in the 'States
obviously became more and more and more security conscious -- sometimes taking on the characteristics of
outright fear and hysteria.  Under the Bush administration, a wide variety of repressive policies -- some
initiated via statute but others simply administrative -- flourished.  On the Canadian border, this led
to U.S. immigration and related officials often becoming increasingly restrictive and negative in
their interpretations of "who is an Indian?" in the matter of the promise of the Jay Treaty.  This
frequently paranoid perception and practice led to U.S. efforts to block entrance by some Natives who, in
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glparramatta | 7 Apr 2009 02:46
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What's new at Links: economic crisis; G20; Nepal; World at a Crossroads; Sudan & ICC; apartheid Israel; El Salvador; photo essay; EU election

What's new at Links: economic crisis; G20; Nepal; World at a Crossroads; 
Sudan & ICC; apartheid Israel; El Salvador; photo essay; EU election

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Subscribe free to Links - International Journal of Socialist Renewal - 
at http://www.feedblitz.com/f/?Sub=343373

Visit and bookmark http://links.org.au and add it to your RSS feed 
(http://links.org.au/rss.xml). If you would like us to
consider an article, please send it to links <at> dsp.org.au

*Please pass on to anybody you think will be interested in /Links/.

You can now follow Links on Twitter at http://twitter.com/LinksSocialism

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    Atilio Borón: From infinite war to infinite crisis
    <http://links.org.au/node/983>

By Atilio Borón[*], translated by Machetera, Scott Campbell, Christine 
Lewis Carroll and Manuel Talens

March 25, 2009 -- Some thoughts on the current capitalist crisis, its 
probable "solutions" and the role that a socialist option might play in 
the present juncture.

    * Read more <http://links.org.au/node/983>

    Eric Toussaint on G20: `Putting a fresh coat of paint on a world
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FreetheCuban5 LibertadparalosCinco | 7 Apr 2009 18:42
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NEWLY UPDATED: SUPPORT THE CUBAN 5 VISA CAMPAIGN

 
The Popular Education Project to Free the Cuban 5 
www.freethecuban5.com 
Free the Cuban 5 hotline: 718-601-4751 
FreeTheCuban5 <at> gmail.com 
  
  
WE ONLY HAVE 383 SIGNATURES! WE CAN DO BETTER! SIGN THIS PETITION AND FORWARD OUT THIS MESSAGE WORLDWIDE! 
  
The Popular Education Project to Free the Cuban 5 has drafted a petition asking President Obama to grant
Visas to the families of the Cuban 5. 
  
With his recent decision to close Guantanamo Prison and his public statements in support of changing
travel restrictions on Cuban Americans, we feel now is a good time to bring up the US government’s
continual denial of visas for the Cuban 5 families; which has kept both Rene Gonzalez and Gerardo
Hernandez from seeing their wives for the past ten years. 
  
If President Obama is really pro-family and wants to improve the reputation of the United States, as a
"beacon of justice and democracy", then then we need to demand he end this horrible separation of families
and this psychological torture. 
  
Please sign this petition and forward this link to all your friend and families. We will be emailing this
petition and mailing it in hard copies to President Obama every time we reach a 100th milestone. 
  
SIGN IT AND FORWARD IT OUT FOR THE CUBAN 5: 
http://www.petitiononline.com/ObamaC5V/petition.html 
____________________________________________________________________________ 
  
Due to the U.S. government’s denial to approve visas, Gerardo Hernandez Nordelo and Rene Gonzalez
Sehwerert have not seen their wives, Adriana Perez and Olga Salanueva, since their incarceration!!
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Hunter Gray | 8 Apr 2009 22:24

Obama wire-tap protection efforts now exceed that of Bush


This, from Raw Story of yesterday evening, is a further feathering-out of the Redbadbear "continuations
thread" -- but I don't think the now Obama-added defense dimension of "sovereign immunity" has appeared
this fully on RBB. It's clearly a wake up call -- all of this. Significantly, Keith Olbermann of MSNBC last
night devoted the initial part of his wide-ranging political program to a strong denunciation of the
Obama administration's position on this -- and was joined by, among others, Law Prof. Jon Turley of George
Washington University [of whose opinions on these matters i'm inclined to listen closely.] One of the
critical persons on Keith's program opined that Obama is trying hard to avoid antagonizing CIA and other
intelligence agencies. 
[Hunter Bear.]

Obama Administration quietly expands Bush's legal defense of wiretapping program 04/07/2009  <at>  10:01 am
Filed by John Byrne. 

In a stunning defense of President George W. Bush's warrantless wiretapping program, President Barack
Obama has broadened the government's legal argument for immunizing his Administration and government
agencies from lawsuits surrounding the National Security Agency's eavesdropping efforts.

In fact, a close read of a government filing last Friday reveals that the Obama Administration has gone
beyond any previous legal claims put forth by former President Bush. 

Responding to a lawsuit filed by a civil liberties group, the Justice Department argued that the
government was protected by "sovereign immunity" from lawsuits because of a little-noticed clause in
the Patriot Act. The government's legal filing can be read here (PDF).

For the first time, the Obama Administration's brief contends that government agencies cannot be sued for
wiretapping American citizens even if there was intentional violation of US law. They maintain that the
government can only be sued if the wiretaps involve "willful disclosure" -- a higher legal bar.

"A 'willful violation' in Section 223(c(1) refers to the 'willful disclosure' of intelligence
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Hunter Gray | 9 Apr 2009 00:06

Re: [Redbadbear] Obama wire-tap protection efforts now exceed that of Bush

I appreciate John's salty sentiments -- attached, following my message herewith. 

I see AG Eric Holder's tracks all over this wire-tap coverup swamp. But on the other hand, it's impossible to
presume that Obama himself was not explicitly aware of this -- and gave it his imprimatur. I posted Nat
Hentoff's scathing critique of Holder in late February -- adding comments from our own experiences here,
in Idaho, when Clinton was president and Holder was his deputy AG. In those days, our postal mail was
consistently delayed, sometimes blatantly opened and damaged, and occasionally water-soaked. [We
were also surveilled frequently and followed around Pocatello. And our phones were obviously monitored.]

As one of many postal examples indeed, a Priority shipment of literature from the Committees of
Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism was so soaked with water as to be totally unusable [this
during our long season of no-rain drought.] We made, during this epoch, three detailed formal written
protests to US Postal inspectors to no avail and with no response. At one point I conveyed about 100 pieces
of mail -- many of them Priority envelopes -- all of it indicating delays and some of it with rips and tears,
to the then local postmaster. His response, pretending ignorance, was purely pathetic. 

We had heard rumors about secretive, Federally-sponsored Task Forces [set up via Clinton's
Anti-Terrorism Act] and made up of specially selected local and state lawmen.

It was often difficult to convince even politically-savvy friends in those days that this was going on.

As I indicated earlier, the existence of a unique city statute at Portland, Oregon, requiring open city
council deliberation on anything involving city approval of such a task force at Portland, led to public
exposure in the closing period of the Clinton era. The Federally-sponsored entity covering the Portland
region was spying on the ILWU, Lawyers Guild, NAACP, and much more. And then it was revealed that the
Clinton Task Force network involved at least three dozen of such around the U.S.

We, ourselves, continued to have problems here all during the Bush period, not so much with our postal mail
-- but much, much indeed involving our e-mail communication and related dimensions [to which we had
shifted in 1999.] Our e-mail and these collateral dimensions had also been displaying "problems" during
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Steve Cooke | 9 Apr 2009 19:37
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Weekly Worker #764 out now - G20, Iran, South Africa, Turkey

Weekly Worker 764 – Thursday April 9 2009

The latest edition of the Weekly Worker is now available on the web at
www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/764

In this week’s issue:

G20: DESPERATE EXERCISE IN SPIN
The optimistic notes sounded by world leaders after the G20 summit
ring hollow, says James Turley

KETTLING AND THE RIGHT TO FREELY DEMONSTRATE
Police thugs randomly searched and brutalised G20 protesters. Chris
Strafford reports

SOUTH AFRICAN COMMUNIST PARTY LOOKS TO NEW ZUMA ERA
With the April 22 election looming and Jacob Zuma finally free of
criminal charges, things seem to be going to plan for the South
African Communist Party leadership, writes Peter Manson

AUSTERITY AND CORRUPTION
Yassamine Mather calls on the left to boycott the presidential and
parliamentary elections

TURKEY AT THE CROSSROADS
After the Obama visit Esen Uslu examines the various pressures on the
AKP government

MARXISM AND THE INEQUALITY OF NATIONS
Mike Macnair analyses 'world-system' theory and looks at Boris
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juan De La Cruz | 11 Apr 2009 01:12
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Fw: International Proposition...


--- On Fri, 4/10/09, juan De La Cruz <ballistanc <at> yahoo.com> wrote:


From: juan De La Cruz <ballistanc <at> yahoo.com>
Subject: Fw: International Proposition...
To: glparramatta <at> greenleft.org.au, gramscitoday <at> iire.org, "historical materialism" <sebastien.budgen <at> wanadoo.fr>, historicalmaterialism-owner <at> yahoogroups.com, historicalmaterialism <at> soas.ac.uk, "Forum for the discussion of theoretical issues raised by Karl Marx and the thinkers he inspired" <marxism-thaxis <at> lists.econ.utah.edu>
Date: Friday, April 10, 2009, 7:07 PM








--- On Fri, 4/10/09, juan De La Cruz <ballistanc <at> yahoo.com> wrote:


From: juan De La Cruz <ballistanc <at> yahoo.com>
Subject: International Proposition...
To: hunterbadbear <at> hunterbear.org
Date: Friday, April 10, 2009, 10:51 AM
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