Student activists lead the way in building cross-campus, cross-movement coalitions

Canadian Dimension magazine, September/October 2008 issue (Keep reading…)

Rabble.ca March 3, 2008

The increasing militarization of education, lack of democracy, accountability and transparency in the university governance structure, and the gentrification of campus galvanized University of British Columbia (UBC) students in the summer of 2007 to form their very own Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) – a consensus-based, open and inclusive collective that is unafraid to use direct-action to enact radical social change. (Keep reading…)

Globe and Mail February 21, 2008

The war in Afghanistan is one of ideas and ideologies. Ideologies, in that the Pashtun extremist worldview is far from our own. Ideas, in that our society is likely to prevail only if it makes wiser and cleverer decisions than theirs. That is why, when one adds up Canada’s advantages in this war, there is none greater than our values of inquiry and debate. (Keep reading…)

The Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA) calls on all supporters of Palestinian rights to defend the right to organize at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. Last week, the McMaster Provost office, second in authority to that of the President’s office, announced that student clubs were banned from using the term ‘Israeli Apartheid’. This is an unprecedented attack on the right to free speech, academic freedom, and the right to organize. (Keep reading…)