The West is no friend of Libya’s revolt
http://www.iso.org.nz/news/23/644-the-west-is-no-friend-of-libyas-revolt.html
Wednesday, 23 March 2011 05:22
by Simon Assaf
Western military intervention in Libya is being sold to us as “humanitarian intervention” to defend the revolution.
The uprising against Muammar Gaddafi’s brutal regime that began on 17 February remains an inspiration.
Gaddafi responded with attacks on civilians, the aerial bombardment of demonstrations, mass round-ups and executions.
This left many people in despair, and feeling that Western intervention was the only solution to save their lives.
But the West’s interests are not those of the Libyan revolution.
Western governments are not innocent or impartial. They are using this opportunity to reassert their influence in the region.
The ruling class has been rocked by the mass popular revolutions which brought down their allies—Ben Ali in Tunisia and Mubarak in Egypt.
If the West’s support for popular revolutions against violent dictators is genuine, then why are they not supporting all the revolutions?
Where is the challenge to the repression of protests in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Yemen?
Aroha
Welcome to the very small web page for aroha.net
www.aroha.net provides email addresses for those who serve in the spirit of aroha
Aroha is a Maori (and now New Zealand English) word with many layers of meaning. The light translation is love.Teacher and tohuna Ruth Makuini Tai explains:
“The word Aroha holds a premier position within the Maori language of Aotearoa New Zealand. Maori language and practise holds the memory of a time when the force of Aroha was understood and respected by all. Aroha is the creative force behind all dreams. Aroha defines great leadership, ensures personal success, inspires us to go the extra mile. Aroha means Love. However when we explore its roots Aroha yields a profound message about love that is not widely understood.
ARO is thought, life principle, to pay attention, to focus, to concentrate
RO is inner, within, introspection
HA is life force, breath, energy
OHA is generosity, prosperity, abundance, wealth“Aroha may be described as the binding force of all that is.
Nothing humanitarian about U.S. intervention
I can never really understand what is happening in the world till I read what the socialists say. I am not sure I really have a handle on it, but this is worth a read:
Nothing humanitarian about U.S. intervention | SocialistWorker.org:
WORLD LEADERS and their defenders in the mainstream press are praising the West’s “decisive” military action against Libya’s Muammar el-Qaddafi, but as the long record of “humanitarian” intervention demonstrates, the governments with the ability to use force in Libya have aims and strategies that will not serve the Libyans they are supposedly there to help.
Helen LaKelly Hunt
Radio New Zealand National : Programmes A-Z : Saturday Morning with Kim Hill : 2011 03 12:
Helen LaKelly Hunt Author and activist, and founder of Women Moving Millions, an initiative for the advancement of women’s lives through a massive change in giving to girls and women. She also co-founded the Institute for Imago Relationship Therapy and has co-authored several bestsellers with her husband, Harville Hendrix. (duration: 34′59″) Download: Ogg Vorbis MP3
Interesting, and interesting how well she puts the idea in my previous post on relationships being the healing force. (Of course I learnt it via Imago… but it is not just an idea, we have expereiice in common about this stuff)
Clarissa Pinkola Estes – Trauma Recovery
An excellent resource. Its all over Christchurch
I’ve saved it twice!
Greetings to all Save the Mokihinui supporteMokihinui
I just got this email from Debs Martin.
This is a cause worth getting in behind!!
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Greetings to all Save the Mokihinui supporters
(and apologies if you receive this email more than once),
Thanks for your efforts over the past few weeks to pass on the message to Meridian that damming the Mokihinui is unacceptable. Over 2600 emails have been sent and numbers are still rising. March 31st is the last date for sending an ecard – so let your family and friends know!
How else can you help us win the battle?
To assist with the Environment Court case, we have
just launched our Save the Mokihinui shareholding
campaign.
You can purchase one of 140 limited edition shareholding
certificates (featured left) of $100 each – securing your
part in the battle to save the Mokihinui River.
Beautifully illustrated, the certificate encapsulates all that is valuable in the Mokihinui – from its enigmatic great spotted kiwi to its earthquake-shattered limestone gorges.
We hope this certificate will be an important piece of Mokihinui memorabilia in years to come as a reminder of battles won!
To buy your certificate and virtual plot click here.
Warm regards,
Debs Martin
Regional Field Officer
Top of the South
Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of NZ Inc
03-989-3355
14/03/19
Manifestos
This websites is full of manifestos punk cyber anachist.
Collecting manifestos, better than stamps!
A bit from Hakim Bey
Manifesto of Poetic Terrorism:
Poetic Terrorism is an act in a Theater of Cruelty which has no stage, no rows of seats, no tickets & no walls. In order to work at all, Poetic Terrorism must categorically be divorced from all conventional structures for art consumption (galleries, publications, media). Even the guerrilla Situationist tactics of street theater are perhaps too well-known & expected now.
Seizing the moment or seizing the media
I looked again at a post from 2002, on the Immediast approach.
https://psyberspace.walterlogeman.com/2002/immediast/
It must be an obscure thing, there is not much on it that I can find, yet it is alive and well! In the search I came across Hakim Bey again, who was on the horizon in the Psyber-l days. I quoted him in my research on the archetypes of cyberspace.
He comes in with the word Immediatism. Related?
I think the first is about the media and the second about the here & now, but they are both political arty philosophies. I am making the note because I might want to get back to it.
I came across them again because the protests in the middle East are on my mind, and also how people power is needed to recover from this earthquake.
Port Huron Statement
At the heart of the SDS was the Port Huron Statement. See more on Wikipedia, and the text follows. Or maybe this is the full text here.
Psyche & World – Resources
Politics and psychological explorations, climate and psychodrama, politilal dialogues; links to items of that nature.
Resource post.
Cognitive and Behavioral Challenges in Responding to climate Change.pdf