[am*dam] raadsadres wildewesten
Wilde Westen Collectief - 05.03.2006 20:27 - promoted
Open brief aan de gemeenteraad van Amsterdam en het dagelijks bestuur/ stadsdeelraad van stadsdeel Oud-West m.b.t. Politiek Cultureel Info Centrum “Het Wilde Westen”.
Read on... | Radio Wanklank: alleen internet vanavond
Radio Wanklank - 05.03.2006 18:58
Helaas wil de zender niet aan.
Dus vanavond alleen internet radio.
Jammer voor de luisteraars/sters in Wageningen, maar misschien kan je ergens een computer opzoeken?!
Volgende week hopelijk weer in de ether Read on... | LIVE NU: Gaan Islam en Emancipatie samen?
De Balie, Amsterdam 14.15 en 17.00 uur (h) - 05.03.2006 15:37
 In het boek Moslima's Emancipatie achter de dijken beschrijft Ceylan Pektas-Weber de emancipatie van moslima’s in Nederland en de manier waarop zij omgaan met de Islam. Op deze middag wordt dit boek gepresenteerd en besproken. Met live internet uitzending. Read on... | Ma. 6 mrt: G8-infoavond A'dam
dissent-nl - 05.03.2006 14:57
Informatie, filmpjes en plannen maken voor de komende G8-toppen (in St Petersburg, Rusland in 200d en Heigendamm, Duitsland in 2007) Read on... | West Sahara : plunderen visgronden
fjderman - 05.03.2006 14:40
Nederland en de Europese Unie mogen geen misgebruik maken van de illegale bezetting van West Sahara. Protesteer tegen het plunderen van West Sahara!
Read on... | stralende zondagmorgenKRAAK Damrak A*DAM
maag - 05.03.2006 14:14
 A*DAM
geslaagde kraak om half negen op het Damrak
met veel wakkere krakerstertjes.
De smeris was snel weer weg, en er waren zelfs 'kraakclowns'.
(van de clowns jammergenoeg geen beelden)
Read on... | Morgen bij Radio Wanklank
Radio Wanklank - 04.03.2006 23:22
Morgen is weer van 18 tot 21 uur Radio Wanklank te beluisteren op www.wanklank.nl en in Wageningen in de ether op 90.9 FM.
Read on... | NVU wandelt voor gesloten gordijnen...
AFA-Nijmegen - 04.03.2006 22:39 - promoted
 Nadat AFA-Nijmegen had aangekondigd om vandaag een manifestatie in Ysselsteyn te organiseren, durfde de NVU het aan om voor het eerst in haar geschiedenis in Nijmegen te demonstreren. Ruim twee uur na aanvang liepen er zo’n zestig neo-nazi’s door een uitgestorven woonwijk. Read on... | Demonstranten eisen onderdak vluchtelingen
lov - 04.03.2006 21:59 - promoted
 Demonstranten eisen onderdak voor alle vluchtelingen
Op initiatief van Our Future, een organisatie van schoolgaande jongeren van gedumpte vluchtelingengezinnen werd samen met SP Leiden, Kraakgroep Leiden, Pastoraal Buurtwerk Leiden-Noord en de Fabel van de illegaal op zaterdag 4 maart een demonstratie georganiseerd. De eisen waren "stop het op straat dumpen van vluchtelingen" en "gemeentelijke opvang voor dakloze vluchtelingen". Read on... | AFA kijkt terug op een geslaagde manifestatie
AFA - 04.03.2006 21:05 - promoted
 Ongeveer een maand geleden kondigde Blood & Honour Nederland met veel tamtam een zgn "heldenherdenking" aan op de Duitse Militaire Begraafplaats bij Ysselsteyn (Venray). Op de Begraafplaats wilden zij kransen leggen. De herdenking moest in het teken staan van "respect, loyaliteit en trouw' aan de daar begraven SS'ers. Read on... | Geen ontruiming voor de SBS!
SM - 04.03.2006 18:57
De SBS 124, Arnhemsch kraakkroeg, heeft afgelopen woensdag 1 maart kort geding gehad.
De eigenaar, volkshuisvesting, eist de ontruiming vanwege 'een sloop vergunning die elk moment kan worden afgegegeven' Read on... |  | PROTEST: GREY SEAL SLAUGHTER BEGINS
Peter Watson - 04.03.2006 17:54
 PROTEST: GREY SEAL SLAUGHTER BEGINS OFF OF NOVA SCOTIA
The Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) quietly authorized the slaughter of grey seals today on Canada's Eastern coast.
Captain Paul Watson, President and Founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, received a telephone call from a resident of Port Hood, Nova Scotia, reporting that seal pelts were being landed on the dock, supervised by DFO officers.
There was no announcement of this slaughter. Fishermen are lobbying the government to exterminate half of the estimated population of 300,000 grey seals. The government has authorized a kill of 10,000 seals.
The DFO has not yet announced an opening date for the harp seal hunt nor has it announced a kill quota for 2006.
PROTEST
Canadian Tourism Commission
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Tel: (613) 946 1000. Fax: (613) 952 2320 (general).
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Australia
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UK
Telephone: (44-20) 7258-6600 / (44-20) 7258-6600
Fax: (44-20) 7258-6333 / (44-20) 7258-6506
Email: london-im-enquiry@international.gc.ca
Germany
Mission Tel.: (49-30)-20-312-0
Immigration Tel.: (49-30) 20-312-447
Mission Fax: (49-30) 20-312-590
Immigration Fax: (49-30) 20-312-134
E-mail Address: berlin-im-enquiry@international.gc.ca
USA
501 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001
Tel: (202) 682 1740. Fax: (202) 682 7726.
E-mail: webmaster@canadianembassy.org
Canadian Consulate General
1251 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020, USA
Tel: (212) 596 1628. Fax: (212) 596 1793.
E-mail: cngny-td@international.gc.ca
More consulates: Website: Website: www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/can-am/
More email contacts (to send copies to as bcc):
Buffalo-im-enquiry@international.gc.ca, enquiry@international.gc.ca, vienn-visa@international.gc.ca, berut.immigration@international.gc.ca, NewYork-im-enquiry@international.gc.ca, caracas-im-enquiry@international.gc.ca, damascus-im-enquiry@international.gc.ca, pretoria-im-enquiry@international.gc.ca, singapore-im-enquiry@international.gc.ca, belgrade-im-enquiry@international.gc.ca, riyadh.visa@international.gc.ca, buenos-aires-im-inquiry@international.gc.ca, crcas.immigration@dfait-maeci.gc.ca, sydney.immigration@dfait-maeci.gc.ca, paris-immigration@dfait-maeci.gc.ca, saopaulo-im-enquiry@international.gc.ca
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SEAL HUNT FACTS
The Canadian commercial seal hunt is the largest mass slaughter of marine mammals in the world. Canada intends to kill more seals in 2006.
The Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) announced a kill quota of 975,000 baby and adult harp seals and 30,000 adult hood seals over a 3-year period (from 2003-2005).
In 2004, 365,971 seals were slaughtered, and during the 2003 season 283,497 harp seals were killed. In 2002, the sealers slaughtered over 312,000 although the kill quota was set at 275,000. There were no legal consequences for the quota overkill. Instead, the Canadian government rewarded the kill quota violations with an incredible increase of 75,000 seals!
There is no scientific justification for these quotas as the seal counting techniques used amount to little more than guesswork. Further, Canadian author and naturalist (and Sea Shepherd International Chairman),
Farley Mowat, estimates that for every seal landed, another is shot and lost under the ice, not to be included in
the count. According to the Canadian government, the hunt will not harm seal populations, however, the facts dispute their unfounded claim. When the first European explorers landed on the East coast of Canada, there were an estimated 30 million harp, hood, and gray seals (harp seals made-up 80%, or 24M, of that number). Because of the reckless management of the hunt in the past, Canada allowed the number of harp seals to drop to 1.8 million in the early 1970s. Now they claim that a "healthy" population of 5.2 million exists but in the same breath admit that they have not had a peer-reviewed population survey since 1999. They predict that the anticipated survey's population number will be lower than their current claim, and further, their "management" plan still allows for the numbers to drop far below the 1970s level.
Scientists and environmentalists dispute the Canadian government's population claims, and believe the hunt is a threat to the survival of the species. In the last four years alone, over a million harp seals have been killed. While the world waits for a new population survey, seals are wantonly slaughtered.
Clearly, the government of Canada is willing to sacrifice everything (from their national reputation, to the wrath of the taxpayers, to economic hardship from boycotts) to continue their seal hunt which is nothing more than a make-work project for out-of-work fishermen.
After decades of this mismanagement and the resulting collapse of the East coast cod industry, the Canadian DFO has declared war on the seals in hopes that massive seal kills will bring back the cod and keep their disgruntled fishermen working. In fact, cod is not a major food source of the harp and hood seal diet. Further, recent evidence suggests that killing seals contributes to bacterial infestation on the ocean floor which leads to hypoxia, a condition in which patches of ocean lose all the dissolved oxygen and are unable to sustain cod or fish or marine life of any kind. However, these facts seem to have been brushed aside by the DFO in their efforts to justify and continue the slaughter.
The Canadian government looks for as many avenues as possible to profit from their annual, government-subsidized slaughter. Currently, Canada exports the following seal products: sealskins (furskins/pelts and leather), seal oil, and seal meat. Unfortunately, due to a revived fashion trend, the demand for seal pelts has sky-rocketed, especially in Europe. Harpseals.org reports that high fashion designers such as Prada and Dolce & Gabbana are selling sealskin apparel. Other companies selling seal fur products include Odette Leblanc Collection, Petit Nordand, and Pajar. Canada sold pelts to 11 countries in 2004 with Norway, Germany, Greenland, and China purchasing the largest quantities. Other buying countries were Finland, Denmark, France, Hong Kong, Greece, South Korea, and Russia.
On the other hand, seal meat sales are not going as well for Canada. Seal meat is generally considered to be inedible and unfit for human consumption. While there is a small market in Newfoundland for the seal flippers (for seal flipper pie), most of the rest of the very small amount of meat found in the slaughtered seal, if utilized at all, would be purchased by pet food and fur farm industries. In 2004, only Taiwan and South Korea purchased seal meat.
Clearly Canada is not satisfied with the underperformance of seal meat sales as according to their own website, they continue to spend tax-payers money to try to peddle seal meat and are still seeking more places to sell the seal meat:
Finding a market for seal meat outside of Newfoundland continues to present a major challenge for the sealing industry. The amount of seal meat landed in 2002 was extremely low, in part because the hunt was mainly directed at younger animals (beaters), which have very little recoverable meat. [Note: "beaters" are seal pups who are approximately 4 weeks old]
Canada, however, is optimistic about the prospects of sales of seal oil and is looking to increase their sales in this area. The way they are doing that is by falsely promoting seal oil capsules as a healthy source of Omega-3 (an essential fatty acid). As they report on their website:
The market for seal oil remains positive. Presently, a good percentage of seal oil is finding its way into areas other than the traditional marine and industrial oils. The industry is positive about this new development but is aware that more R&D is required to expand the range of products derived from seal oil.
"R&D" (Research and Development) means more Canadian tax dollars going to the cause of killing seals.
Sea Shepherd has a different take on the selling of seal oil. It is Sea Shepherd's opinion that Canada is misleading consumers by marketing seal oil in the health food industry as a "health" alternative. Seal oil contains bioaccumulative PCBs. A known animal carcinogen, PCBs produce health affects such as skin ailments called chloracne, reproductive disorders, liver disease, and other problems. PCBs are stored in body fat and are also dangerously bioaccumulated in the foodchain. Resistant to degradation, PCBs persist for many years in the environment. What Canada markets as benefits of seal oil is the Omega-3 and essential fatty acids - Sea Shepherd recommends these health supplements should be taken in plant form, such as hemp and flaxseed oils. Last year, Costco Wholesale Corporation pulled seal oil capsules from their store shelves in St. John's, Newfoundland, when a Sea Shepherd representative provided them with information about the sealing industry, and in particular, the killing methods of sealers. To learn more please visit our page on the Canadian government.
Many are under the impression that this cruel and inhumane slaughter was stopped for good. Anti-seal hunt campaigns by Sea Shepherd and other organizations together with pressure from Europe to boycott Canadian products brought the industry to a halt. In 1984, after the European Parliament banned the import of baby harp seal pelts, the Canadian seal hunt was reduced to a limited landsmen hunt.
FINALLY GOOD NEWS
13 February 2006 Italy Enacts Temporary Ban on Seal Products
Demonstrating the growing momentum in Europe to shut down the markets for seal products, Italy has temporarily suspended the import of seal skins and seal derived products. According to the Italian Vice-Minister for Trade and Industrial Affairs, no new import licences will be granted in the coming months. This is a critical step towards putting an end to the cruel and unjustifiable massacre of seals in Canada's commercial seal hunt.
• Update on national seal bans:
• January 2006:
o Mexico bans the import and export of all marine mammals (i.e. including seals) and their derived products (similar to the US Marine Mammal Protection Act from 1972).
o Greenland instructs its public state company not to trade in seal pelts originating from the Canadian seal hunt.
• December 2005: The Dutch Parliament initiated a legislative proposal to ban the import/export and marketing of harp and hooded seals and their derived products. The proposal is expected to be debated in the Parliament in the coming months.
• May 2004: The Belgian Government adopts a legislative proposal to ban the import/export and marketing of all seal products. After notification with the European Commission and WTO, the proposal is due to be presented to the Belgian Parliament.
• The European Union introduced in 1983 a ban on seal products derived from whitecoats (newborn harp seals, less than 12 days old) and bluebacks (young hooded seals, less than one year old). Unfortunately, this ban is not effective in order to stop the current trade of harp and hooded seal pelts in Europe. Today, seals are hunted when they are just a few days older and their pelts can therefore be legally traded in the EU.
• The United States introduced in 1972 the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), which prohibits the import/export and marketing of marine mammal products (i.e. including seal derived products). The law also applies to live marine mammals.
• The Council of Europe adopted in 2004 a Motion for a Resolution (initiated by the Italian MP Azzolini) to stop the commercial hunt of seals and called on its Member States to introduce national bans on seal derived products. The Assembly also debated a report produced by the Italian MP Nessa, which criticised the cruelty of the hunt. The report will be voted on in April 2006.
Read on... | | Nieuwe eisen voor Scapino
Schone Kleren Kampagne - 04.03.2006 15:22
 Op 11 april 2005 stortte Spectrum-Shahriyar in. Er vielen 64 doden en 74 (zwaar)gewonden. Honderden mensen zaten van de één op andere dag zonder werk. Overlevenden vechten voor hun bestaan. Naast bekende kledingbedrijven als Inditex, Carrefour en Karstad Quelle, kocht ook Scapino kleding in bij deze fabriek.
Read on... | SEBASTIAAN SCHLICHER - ZEICHNUNGEN/TEKENINGEN
www.cultofsebastiaan.com - 04.03.2006 15:05
 "Nachdem ich Sebastiaan Schlichers großformatige Filzstiftzeichnungen im
Herbst vorigen Jahres zum ersten mal erleben durfte, war mir klar, dass man
dieses Abenteuer den Berliner Kunstfreundinnen und -freunden nicht
vorenthalten darf."
Read on... | Slachtoffer werklozenproject kreeg baan
Dirk - 04.03.2006 14:10
Een werkzoekende die vorig jaar het topje van zijn duim verloor bij een ongeluk met een zaagmachine bij een werklozenproject, heeft inmiddels een baan gekregen bij het re-integratiebedrijf dat verantwoordelijk was voor het ongeluk. Dit bleek gisteravond tijdens een rumoerige bijeenkomst van de Bijstandsbond. Read on... | newsflash: NVU in nijmegen
x - 04.03.2006 13:53 - promoted
Op dit moment vindt er in nijmegen een betoging plaats van leden van de NVU. 12 fasco's, onder leiding van de scheldende Constant Kusters zijn door 60 tegenbetogers in een hoek gedreven en getrakteerd op een sneeuwballengevecht.
Er is inmiddels een politieverordening uitgegeven: iedereen die niet weg gaat wordt gearresteerd.
Read on... | Reactie GroenLinks op mogelijk kraakverbod
Pepijn Zwanenberg - 04.03.2006 13:40
UTRECHT KAN NIET ZONDER KRAKEN
Minister Dekker van VROM koerst, geruggesteund door haar eigen VVD en de fracties van het CDA en de LPF af op een kraakverbod. GroenLinks vindt dat kraken niet verboden moet worden omdat kraken voor, bijvoorbeeld een stad als Utrecht, juist van grote betekenis is geweest en dat nog steeds is.
Read on... | Artikel tav de omstreden Deense cartoons
Astrid Essed - 04.03.2006 06:29
In tegenstelling tot de door de Deense krant Jylands Posten en de andere publicerende Europese nieuwsmedia gedane bewering is er bij de publicatie cq herpublicatie van de omstreden Deense cartoons geen sprake van vrijheid van meningsuiting, maar van het op racistische wijze ventileren van vrijheid van belediging
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