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Student movement victory? The Québec Strike
Should the repeal of the tuition hike in Quebec be regarded as a victory for the student movement?
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Corporate Propaganda and the Student Strike
A reply to a column about the role of social media in the strike. Given its vastly superior access to power and financial resources, it is worth asking whether corporate media is also capable of exciting “ideological extremism and polarization.”
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Canadian press lies on Middle East
Canadian Dimension weblog editor Matthew Brett details three recent examples of how the Globe & Mail and the National Post manipulate details or outright lie about the Middle East.
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Canadian freedoms are being eroded
In denying British MP George Galloway and U.S. policy critic Bill Ayers from Canada, Mark Spooner argues that the Harper government is denying Canadians their democratic freedoms.
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RCMP: Demonizing & Tasering
The Dziekanski case reveals a consistent trend of police demonization of the victim and of violence against innocents, argues Don Weitz.
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Rancourt fired for Israeli stance
Denis Rancourt was recently fired from the University of Ottawa for granting all of his advanced students an A+.
In a recent turn of events, Rancourt posted a statement on April 10 arguing that his forceful dismissal from tenure was caused by his critical stance against Israeli’s suppression of the Palestinians.
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Democrats and War Escalation by Norman Solomon
(From ZNet. Apr 8) Top Democrats and many prominent supporters - with vocal agreement, tactical quibbles or total silence - are assisting the escalation of the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The predictable results will include much more killing and destruction. Back home, on the political front, the escalation will drive deep wedges into the Democratic Party.
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Dying for the cause in Durban
(ZNet. Patrick Bond. Apr 7) There are special places dedicated to the memories of Mahatma Gandhi in New Delhi, Martin Luther King in Memphis, Malcolm X at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem and South Africa’s own Hector Pieterson in Soweto. These and many other activists striving for social justice have been commemorated at the sites where they were felled.
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Women Who Bathe Together
(ZNet. Apr 5. By Cynthia Peters) At a public bath in Morocco, I watched a young adolescent bathe her grandmother. She picked up each limb, moved her breasts this way and that, and shifted her belly about to reach every crevice. She stood over her, squatted next to her, and sat alongside her as she put a fair amount of muscle into scrubbing her grandmother clean. The black soap made from olive oil oozed from the coarse cloth she used to slough off the dead skin and dirt. The grandmother lolled on the tiled floor in a reverie.
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Arundhati Roy: This is not a war on terror. It is a racist war on all Tamils
(From The Guardian. Apr 1) The horror that is unfolding in Sri Lanka becomes possible because of the silence that surrounds it. There is almost no reporting in the mainstream Indian media - or indeed in the international press - about what is happening there. Why this should be so is a matter of serious concern.
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