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The banality of evil or how they turned Toronto into a police state
Last Friday I walked along the security fence and felt like I was in a concentration camp and that was before thousands of police officers occupied our city. That’s how it feels now, a city under occupation
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It’s not the first time feminists have been told to “shut the fuck up.”
It’s not the first time feminists have been told to “shut the fuck up.” If we had listened women would still be in the kitchen.
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“Mother Earth can live without us but we can’t live without her”
Indigneous People’s Declaration from Cochabamba
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A powerful global movement for climate justice and the rights of Mother Earth
It’s Earth Day and I wish I was in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
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Historic World People’s Summit on Climate Change begins in Cochabamba
I believe the Indigenous government of Bolivia holds tremendous hope for humanity and in showing that we don’t have to wait for the short sighted corporate dominated governments of the global North to save the planet, they have stepped into a role of global leadership. As an introduction to this historic occasion, I reproduce below an open letter from famed writer Eduardo Galleano to the People’s Summit.
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India’s Indigenous People hold a People’s Tribunal to defend natural wealth against corporate greed
The heartlands of India are the lungs of the country. However, with the opening up of the global market, the pressure on the State to hand over most of these areas to global corporations for mining and other ‘industrial’ purposes has increased.
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40 years later people at Grassy Narrows are still suffering mercury poisoning
Between 1962 and 1970 the Dryden mill dumped 20,000 pounds of mercury into the Wabigoon River, with the Province’s permission. According to a report prepared for the UN, less than 1/50th of a teaspoon of mercury per 8 hectare lake surface is enough to make fish unfit for human consumption. The people of Grassy Narrows, Wabaseemoong, and Wabauskang First Nations were downstream and hurt by the health, social, and economic impacts of this poison.
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Happy International Women’s Day: Where are we 40 years after Royal Commission on the Status of Women
It is International Women¹s Day 2010, forty years after the Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women. A generation has passed, my generation. In some ways, there has been a revolution in the status of women since that time.
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Israel is an apartheid state and that is why they are losing legitimacy
Before Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) even began members of the Ontario Legislature and the Canadian Parliament are falling all over each other to denounce it. I can’t remember another time when elected legislators formally denounced a student activity like this. Perhaps during the 1950’s when McCarthyism was rampant but that was before my time.
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Breaking Windows is not a Revolutionary Act
The first time I ran into people who believed that breaking windows was are volitionally act was in 1972. We had just had 21 people arrested for occupying the campus at University of Toronto to set up a tent city for transient youth. We called it Wachea, a place where everyone was welcome, or so we thought. A radical new left group called Red Morning tried to convince the assembled masses that going back to the University and “trashing it,” in the parlance of the day, was the best way to protest the arrests. It was the moment I stepped into leadership, debating them for hours, saying that more violence was counter productive and would give more strength to the arguments against us.
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