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2011: Reflecting on Social Movement Successes in Canada
Working through and across differences—while maintaining the diversity of an inter-generational anti-oppression and radical politics—has strengthened the terrain for inclusive, participatory, and revolutionary struggle in Canada for the upcoming year.
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Finding a place for politics in the new Parliament?
The emboldening of Harper’s government should be a moment to take stock of Canada’s political landscape, to remember the recent weakness of parliamentary opposition and the Tories’ virtual free reign through a minority government. It is a time to remember the shortcomings of the social democratic promise.
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Oh Canada Our home and Wire-tapped Land
For more than three decades the RCMP ran PROFUNC (PROminent FUNCtionaries of the Communist Party), a highly secretive espionage operation and internment plan. In case of a “national security” threat up to 16,000 suspected communists and 50,000 sympathizers were to be apprehended and interned in one of eightcamps across the country. Initiated by RCMP Commissioner Stuart Taylor Wood in 1950, the plan continued until 1983.
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Web Exclusive: Media Guilty In G-20
The way the main stream media has covered and promoted the lies surrounding the G-20 in Toronto this summer makes one believe that the nightly news has become nothing less than one more commercial.
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Sexism and Assault in “Torontonamo” Jails Brings More Shame to G20
In light of the massive human rights violations we saw in Toronto in the midst of the G20 summit, the RebELLEs movement is putting out a mass call to action, to denounce this unprecedented repression of political dissent in Canada and to stand in solidarity with those victimized by the state.
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Once more around the Bloc
Our democratic freedoms hang by a narrow thread, and a police state is always near at hand — that is one of the lessons of the G20 debacle that unfolded in Toronto on June 26 and 27.
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The Fence
The Fence was almost as high as my house. It might have been made by Frost, but not by Robert, who once spent a day with his neighbour mending the wall between them. Frost’s neighbour had but one thought: “good fences make good neighbours.” But Frost wondered what they were walling in, or who out, and to whom their fence might be giving offence. And so did I. “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall.” That’s for sure. In Toronto in June 2010 it was about 3 million people.
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Now is the Hour: Say Goodbye to Stephen Harper
Stephen Harper assured Canadians that the G8 and G20 summit meetings brought the opportunity to demonstrate Canadian hospitality and leadership, with a hint that it might all lead to securing a seat at the table in the UN Security Council, among the big players, and perhaps with Stephen Harper in a starring role as World Leader. Instead, Stephen Harper blew it. Harper and his team must go. More and more Canadians are moved to gather the evidence, and I offer a sample in this article.
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A Public Pedagogy of Fear and Apathy: Educators Condemn the G20 Attack on Civic Education
As educators, we charge the federal and Ontario governments, RCMP, OPP and Toronto Police responsible for G20 security for violating the institution of civic education.
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Analyzing the politics of the Black Bloc
Despite the media hype there was nothing new about the events in Toronto. The question for militants is: what are the lessons? How do we interpret events and what do they mean for the left?
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