Volume 45, Issue 6: November/December 2011
The momentous rebellion, Occupy Wall Street, was in its earliest stage when this issue of Dimension was in its final planning stage. We had one article, “The Assault on Public Services,” by Sam Gindin and Mike Hurley, that clearly relate to the cause of the rebellion, but as the rebellion turned into a movement, we managed to pull together an early CD take on what looks like the most promising development for radical politics in many decades. We call it “The Ballerina_and the Bull.”
The focus of this Dimension, “Stepping up for the Planet,” is a joint production of CD and the South African journal,Amandla. It arose from discussions between CD collective member David Hugill and Patrick Bond, the Irish born political writer who resides in Durban, South Africa. Patrick put us in touch with Amandla’s Brian Ashley and together we collaborated on this issue.
While it focuses on the Durban COP 17 United Nation’s meeting on Climate Change it also gathers reports on grassroots opposition to some of the worst contributors to Green house Gas (GHG) emissions in both Canada and South Africa including Alberta’s tar sands, shale gas (fracking) and uranium mining. Interestingly, this is the first in its nearly nearly 50 years history, that Canadian Dimension has jointly produced an issue with another publication.
Why is Stephen Harper so keen on a Free Trade agreement with Morocco? In answer is uncovered in Josh Campbell’s article, regarding the sale of phosphate to the Potash Corp of Saskatchewan in Morrocan-occupied Western Sahara.
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