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The Eviction of Occupy Toronto: An amazing, inspiring and sad day
It’s hard to create a community based on love and compassion in the middle of a society based on greed and fear. The Occupy camps are the closest I’ve seen to that beloved community that has so escaped our grasp. It was never clearer to me than yesterday when Occupy Toronto was taken down by the City, the courts and the police for the terrible crime of camping in a city park.
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The morning after: Where are we and where do we go from here?
It was an extraordinary election. Both Stephen Harper and Jack Layton got the results they were aiming for. Stephen Harper got his majority and Jack Layton replaced the Liberal Party not only as the Official Opposition but quite possibly as the only federal alternatives to the Harperites. Canada now looks like so many other countries with one party on the Right and one on the Left. So why do I feel so bad?
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Vote for the Canada You Want
The polls for this election are astonishing. The latest Harris-Décima poll in Quebec puts the NDP 20 points in advance of the Bloc Quebecois, 42% vs 22%. In the national polls the NDP is climbing closer to the Tories by the day as the Liberals fall. I am not a big believer in polls and I hate the horse race coverage of elections but it is hard to believe that all these polls are wrong. If everyone votes, the NDP will certainly be at least the official opposition for the first time in Canadian history.
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IWD: 100 years of struggle for women’s liberation
We have achieved a revolution in the status of women in the hundred years since IWD began. But we have not yet fully transformed the ancient system of patriarchy that continues to promote male domination, militarism and the objectification and oppression of women.
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First Mourn Then Organize: 21 years since the Montreal Massacre
Last year I spent December 6 in Montreal to attend a conference on the 20th Anniversary of what in Quebec they call Polytechique. Below are my reflections following the conference and picking up on some of the extraordinary discussion that took place there.
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Love in the Time of Climate Change: Become part of the Evolve Love Team
Now in a struggle for survival of the planet a new film is in development that I think can open our minds and hearts to the kind of change we need and you can be part of helping it along.
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Voice of Women: Working for feminism and peace for 50 years
Today the Voice of Women For Peace celebrates its 50th Anniversary. In celebration here is an excerpt from Ten Thousand Roses of pioneer feminist Ursula Franklin talking about the early days of the Voice of Women.
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Bringing Cochabamba to Cancun
The global battle on climate change is heating up in the build up to Cancun including here in Canada. The statement below was written by a group of activists who met with Bolivian President Evo Morales at the end of September in New York City.
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My heart aches for Omar Khadr
My heart was breaking this morning reading the report on Omar Khadr’s decision to fire his lawyers in protest over the horrors he is being subject to in what he considers to be a rigged trial.
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Toronto is Burning! Or is it?
For people sitting at home and watching TV news last night, Toronto was burning. The same police car on Queen St W. burned and blew up over and over again.The same image of a young man very violently smashing Starbucks windows appeared over and over again. Windows smashed all along Yonge St. None of us had ever seen Toronto like this. It was shocking.
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