Walk to Russia?

Images Show Arctic Ice Shrinking to Record Low
By Jamey Keaten, Sunday, September 16, 2007 Associated Press

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/15/AR2007091501618.html

IMF and WB are Too Close for Comfort

It's not too soon to start planning actions for October. Here’s an ambitious event for the strong of heart (and body), via the North East Anarchist Network (NEAN):

Call to Action: Dignity, Autonomy, and Solidarity over Greed and Corporate Power!

Disrupt the IMF and the World Bank meetings: Washington DC, October 19-21, 2007

Our demands are simple:

• Cancel all impoverished country debt to the World Bank and IMF, using the institutions' own resources.
• End neoliberal structural adjustment policies, which prioritize profit for the few over the lives of the many.
• End the social and environmental devastation caused by oil, gas, mining and big dam projects.

October Rebellion http://octoberrebellion.org/

Labor's failure

James Carroll has written very insightful books about Vietnam and our current imperial quagmire. Check out “Prince of Peace” for a heartbreaking indictment of the Catholic Church in Vietnam. Meanwhile, here’s his Boston Globe essay for Labor Day:

Labor's failure

By James Carroll, Globe Columnist | September 3, 2007

Goodbye borders. Goodbye regulation. Welcome to the free market, a free-for-all that destroys freedom. The very conditions of transcendent inequality that gave rise to the labor movement in the first place are now being rapidly re-created on a global scale, with unions reduced to the role of sputtering kibitzers.

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/09/03/labors_failure/