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Naomi Klein speaks on Israeli Apartheid
Naomi Klein first marched against the South African Apartheid when she was just a student at the University of Toronto. Almost 20 years later, the activist and international best selling author of No Logo and the Shock Doctrine joins a new student-led protest against racial segregation. Klein kicked off Israeli Apartheid Week Monday, March 3 at Ryerson University. Here’s the video: Naomi Klein speaks on Israeli Apartheid Week from NOW Magazine on Vimeo.
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U.S. queries Israel’s toilet-paper rules for Gaza
(Reuters. By Adam Entous. Mar 11) The United States is protesting to Israel over seemingly random restrictions on deliveries to the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip of harmless goods such as soap and toilet paper, diplomats said Wednesday. Diplomats fear day-to-day crisis management on Gaza was diverting the United States and other Western governments from bigger issues like the goal of restarting peace negotiations for a Palestinian state. In one case, Israel blocked for weeks a World Food Program (WFP) shipment of chickpeas,…
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French boycott Israeli produce
(Europalestine) This is a pretty remarkable video. It’s the first I’ve seen something of this nature. To briefly describe the video, a well-organized group of activists enter a supermarket and collect all of the goods and produce made in Israel. ALL OF IT! They then stage a demonstration/sit-in near the checkout counters, and place the responsibility of the purchases squarely on the shoulders of the grocery store chain and the consumers themselves:
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Obama must not back down on aid promise
(By Robert Naiman. ZNet. Mar 10) On February 12, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair told Congress that the global economic crisis was the most serious security challenge facing the United States and that it could topple governments and trigger waves of refugees, the Los Angeles Times reported. A week later, the French government was sending police reinforcements to the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe after a month of strikes and protests over low pay and high prices followed by clashes between…
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Canada must bar or prosecute George W. Bush
(Thanks for the link, John) We the undersigned citizens and / or legal residents of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to abide by it’s own laws and to live up to agreements it is has signed pertaining to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity: To read the full petition visit: Bar Bush from Canada.
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Israel-Palestine: A Land in Fragments
Excellent short video that gives a good visual representation of the dissection of Palestine, although I’m unsure of its factual representation:
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Conservatives turn back clock on women’s rights
(By Susan Riley. Ottawa Citizen, March 8) For all the bluster and political play-acting - last week it was over a $3-billion emergency infrastructure fund - passage of the federal budget has been a foregone conclusion since the Liberals decided in January to support it. As it heads toward final approval in the Senate, expected this month, many MPs have already turned the page. Not Judy Wasylycia-Leis, though. For the veteran New Democrat from Winnipeg, the Commons vote in favour of…
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Amy Goodman: Afghanistan and coalition of the unwilling
(By Amy Goodman. Truthdig, March 3) President Barack Obama met recently with the prime ministers of Canada and Britain. This week’s meeting with Britain’s Gordon Brown, who was pitching a “global New Deal,” created a minor flap when the White House downsized a full news conference to an Oval Office question-and-answer session, viewed by some in Britain as a snub. The change was attributed to the weather, with the Rose Garden covered with snow. It might have actually related not to…
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The Shift in Canadian Immigration Policy
(By Salimah Valiani from MRZine) This paper posits there has been a significant shift in Canadian immigration policy over the past two years — a shift which has passed under the radar screens of most Canadians. Formerly based on the precepts of permanent residency and family reunification, from 2006, Canada’s immigration system began shifting to a model of temporary migration as the path to permanent residency. Based on figures estimating the retention rates of the Live-in Caregiver Program for the period…
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George Bush is coming to Calgary! Send shoes to give Bush the boot.
George Bush’s first international speech after finishing his presidency will be to the Calgary Rotary Club on March 17th, the sixth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, and the Calgary’s activist community would like to give him the welcome he deserves. There will events throughout the week leading to Bush’s visit but for those outside Calgary we wanted to give you a chance to give him his due welcome. To that end the local activist community in Calgary is asking people…
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