Guantanamo Show Trial Begins
Submitted on May 10, 20129/11 suspects are already judged guilty by accusation.
Israel: Profile of a Police State
Submitted on May 10, 2012Palestinians suffer from daily Israeli state terror.
Moments of Excess: Essential Reading for Occupy and Quebec Student Activists (Review)
Submitted on May 10, 2012By Stefan Christoff - May 10, 2012
As a collective project, Moments of Excess is a meaningful read for readers in Quebec and across Canada, as students' sustain a collective uprising to fight for accessible education, a movement clearly inspired by anarchist models of horizontal activism deeply explored in the book...Moments of Excess also offers important reflections for participants in the grassroots Occupy movement for economic justice across North America, sparked by Occupy Wall Street this past fall.
Challenging Convictions: Survivors of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Writing in Solidarity with Prison Abolition
Submitted on May 10, 2012Like much prison abolition work, the call for this anthology comes from frustration and hope: frustration with organizers against sexual assault and domestic violence who treat the police as a universally available and good solution [and] frustration with prison abolitionists who only use “domestic violence” and “rape” as provocative examples...But, this project also shares the hope and worth of working toward building communities without prisons and without sexual violence. Most importantly, it is anchored in the belief that resisting prisons, domestic violence, and sexual assault are inseparable.
Canadian Anti-Masking Law Imminent
Submitted on May 10, 2012By Zig Zag - Vancouver Media Co-op
A new bill aimed at making the wearing of masks illegal during riots or “unlawful assemblies” is now closer to becoming law in Canada. Bill C-309, known as the Concealment of Identity Act, was introduced by Conservative MP Blake Richards in November 2011 in the wake of the Toronto G20 protests and the Vancouver Stanley Cup Riot...In effect, it will dramatically increase potential penalties for rioting and unlawful assembly while wearing a mask.
On Industry: Musings on the twentieth anniversary of the Westray Mine Disaster
Submitted on May 10, 2012By Heidi Mitton
Quebec Government Defends Police Assault on Striking Students, Plans Further Repression
Submitted on May 10, 2012By Eric Marquis - WSWS
Quebec’s Liberal government has fiercely defended the Quebec Provincial Police’s savage attack on a demonstration of striking students and their supporters last Friday...[T]he Quebec Provincial Police (QPP) brutally attacked the crowd with tear gas, truncheons and rubber bullets. Two young men suffered serious head trauma after being struck in the face by rubber bullets shot at close-range. One has lost an eye and the other remains in hospital in critical condition.
Thomas Friedman: Imperial Messenger (Review)
Submitted on May 10, 2012By David Wearing - Znet
Few single voices play a greater role in propagating the dogmas of neo-liberalism than Thomas Friedman, three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and leading columnist on international affairs for the world’s leading English-language newspaper, the New York Times...In engaging with Friedman’s body of work, and subjecting it to forensic critical analysis, Belén Fernández has produced a book that is sometimes entertaining, sometimes horrifying in what it exposes, always readable, always thought-provoking, and of clear political importance.
Strange Media Consensus on the Student Strike
Submitted on May 10, 2012Pundits, especially pundits in the rest of Canada (ROC), were already having a hard time making heads or tails of the Québec student strike, which had lasted 12 weeks by the time a “deal” had been struck between protesters and the government.
Why I Voted Against the Québec Government "Offer" and Continue to Strike
Submitted on May 10, 2012Since Saturday, some people have come up to me expressing their delight a strike that is finally over, now that a negotiated agreement has been made between the government of Québec and striking students. My reply is that “nothing can be further from the truth.” Here’s why.