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A new opening for feminists
Yesterday when I heard that Stephen Harper was suddenly taken with a desire to promote maternal health as the key issue for the G8, I have to admit to being perplexed. I don’t think I’ve ever heard Harper talk about women’s issues. Behind the scenes his government, which of course means him, has not only cut funding to most women’s groups and the most progressive NGOs like Alternatives and Kairos but have eliminated the word “equality” from their women’s bureau. Harper is no doubt that most anti-feminist PM we have ever had.
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A great day for democracy in Canada
It was magnificent. After three weeks of online and off line organizing, tens of thousands of people across generations and political persuasions took to the streets in 65 cities and towns across the country and around the world to stop the erosion of democracy in Canada.
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Obama and Harper: Two book ends of a broken democracy
On Saturday, January 23 at 1 pm in 61 cities and towns, Canadians will hit the street to demand a real democracy in this country. What started as a protest against the prorogation of Parliament is starting to look like a democracy movement.
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Evo Morales to be inaugurated spiritual and political leader of Bolivia this week
With the horror in Haiti, we could all use some good news that we will not hear about from the mainstream media.
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A powerful grassroots movement for democracy is building in Canada
Am I the only one who saw Stephen Harper’s nose grow on the National last night? As he responded to Peter Mansbridge’s question about how he had changed, he said that partisanship was now really the terrain of the Opposition.
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Twenty years later: Remember them and then organize
Like almost every woman and many men I know, December 6 1989 was a day I will never forget. I heard it on the radio in my car. I guess I was driving home from work. It was that time of day. At first the news was confusing, a gunman shooting at University of Montreal. In Canada? Couldn’t be. But very soon it became clear that it was women he was shooting, women at an Engineering School. I could hardly breathe with the instant knowledge that a man was targeting women in a school where the vast majority were male. Shock first, then grief and then a chilling recognition.
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We are trying dear George but our government is not listening.
Today famed British journalist and environmentalist George Monbiot wrote an open letter to the people of Canada pleading with us to clean up our act on the environment.
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Gil Levine: The ultimate mensch
Last week I received an e-mail from Gil Levine, a legendary union leader, founding member of CUPE and a wonderful man. He was writing to say that he was fatally ill. He died a few days later on Nov. 16 at the age of 85, still vigorous and politically active.
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Remembering the Waffle
Yesterday I did something I rarely do. I participated in an academic seminar. It was to mark the 40th anniversity of The Waffle, a radical youth movement inside the NDP. Hardly anyone under 50 knows what The Waffle was, unless you have ever tried to organize an opposition in the NDP where it remains a scary ghost. But it was a significant and almost unique formation of the 1960’s in Canada. Apparently scholarship on the 1960’s is the hottest thing in academe these days. Who knew?
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Protesting TIFF’s spotlight on Tel Aviv
Every once in a while the act of an individual can make a big difference to a struggle. On August 28, Toronto film maker and long-time gay activist John Greyson wrote an open letter to the directors of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) pulling his short film Covered out of TIFF, which is one of the world’s top film festivals and opens in Toronto on September 10. His decision was to protest of TIFF’s spotlight on Tel Aviv. This is the first time that TIFF has held a City to City spotlight and the spotlight is on Tel Aviv, a city that is symbolic to Zionist Jews of Israel’s success and to Palestinians of the ethnic cleansing that took place to found that state of Israel.
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